1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,240 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: Jetta and he. 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 2: Arms We're from Studio C Say Senor. 5 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,239 Speaker 3: We're in a dim lit room deeput them the bowels 6 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 3: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. 7 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 4: And today midweek Wednesday, we're under the Tidlage Bauer General Manager. 8 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:46,160 Speaker 1: The mighty Doge. 9 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:53,519 Speaker 4: Wow, how do you I almost work with the constitution 10 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:57,280 Speaker 4: which is in a crisis. I'm told I want to 11 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 4: talk about that, but uh yeah, the whole the whole 12 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 4: Doage thing continues to. 13 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: Well, it seems to be the hottest. 14 00:01:06,120 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 3: Story in politics, and it's one of the more interesting 15 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:15,200 Speaker 3: things in we've seen happen in any administration. I agree, 16 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:17,840 Speaker 3: it's super interesting on a number of levels. I Mean, 17 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 3: the obvious is everybody knows the everybody with the New 18 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 3: York Times we'll get to that later, knows that the 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 3: federal government is incredibly bloated and complex and wasteful and 20 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 3: the rest of it. So it's fun to see it 21 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,120 Speaker 3: cut down the whole question of whether this is a 22 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 3: constitutional crisis. It's not whether Jade Evan said, we will 23 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:34,679 Speaker 3: defy the courts. 24 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 1: He didn't. How all of that works, how spending works. 25 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 3: It's all been very interesting for me doing a deep 26 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:43,680 Speaker 3: dive into it. I used that expression yesterday and it 27 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:45,440 Speaker 3: occurred to me. Nobody ever does a shallow dive. 28 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: Why not? Or a medium dive. It's always deep. 29 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: I often do shallow dives into many things. I'm a 30 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 3: first paragraph guy. That's enough for me. 31 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,240 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. 32 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 3: The constitutional crisis is getting thrown around a lot. It 33 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 3: seems that when most people talk about a constitutional crisis, 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 3: they mean if one branch does something and then the 35 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:10,880 Speaker 3: other branch, using the levers and powers given to them 36 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 3: by the constitution, corrects that like the Trump's I mean 37 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 3: the court with the president, like happened with Biden, and 38 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: it's happened with Trump or Congress or whatever. 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:24,520 Speaker 1: They call that a constitutional crisis. It's the opposite. 40 00:02:24,600 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 3: It's a constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do. 41 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 3: The branches, you know, fighting against each other and working out. 42 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 3: That's not a constitutional crisis, right. And as I heard 43 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 3: the brilliant Charlie Cook at National Reviews say the other day, 44 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,119 Speaker 3: when their guy does what our guy just did, that's 45 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 3: a constitutional crisis now and must be dealt with and 46 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 3: rained as power must be rained in right. A constitutional 47 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:53,400 Speaker 3: crisis would be if one of the branches refused to 48 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 3: go along with whatever the decision ends up being, and 49 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 3: then what do you do that things could get difficult. 50 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: And we haven't had that happen yet. 51 00:03:04,639 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 3: No, and I mean it would have to be a 52 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,959 Speaker 3: Supreme Court ruling that's issued probably that is just openly defied. No, 53 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 3: we're not going along with that and force it if 54 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,239 Speaker 3: you can, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson back in the day. 55 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:22,800 Speaker 3: But I firmly, firmly believe there would be an enormous 56 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 3: ground swell of this can't happen. This is an actual 57 00:03:27,639 --> 00:03:30,920 Speaker 3: constitutional crisis that would cross party lines, and it would 58 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 3: be dealt with fairly swiftly, I believe. I think a 59 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:37,640 Speaker 3: president who did that would be impeached. So I keep 60 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,440 Speaker 3: saying it should say something to you. The way these 61 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,360 Speaker 3: people are digging in over the idea of anybody cutting 62 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 3: any jobs or any budget. I mean, they're like hair 63 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,840 Speaker 3: on fire for alarm fire. This is the worst thing 64 00:03:50,840 --> 00:03:53,520 Speaker 3: that has ever happened, the idea of shrinking government. And 65 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: it continues, and we got more clips from one of 66 00:03:55,800 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 3: their shouting rallies yesterday. But I heard one politician, now 67 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:07,160 Speaker 3: remember who it was, standing there and screaming, I am 68 00:04:07,200 --> 00:04:11,520 Speaker 3: counting on the American to have our backs, we civil servants, 69 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 3: to have our backs and protect us. 70 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 1: And I thought, that's. 71 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,040 Speaker 3: The weird relationships some people have with the government, or 72 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,799 Speaker 3: you think we should have with the government. Why would 73 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,719 Speaker 3: America have your back if you might lose your job 74 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:29,840 Speaker 3: anymore than when ten thousand people are fired from Facebook 75 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 3: or people get laid off a GM or anywhere else. 76 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: Why no, we shouldn't. 77 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,800 Speaker 3: But you half the country and all the people in 78 00:04:37,839 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 3: government think it's a different thing, that it's some sort 79 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 3: of I don't even know how to describe it, like 80 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 3: holy should never be messed with job for some reason, right, right, 81 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 3: just so valuable and sacred it must not be molested 82 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:54,200 Speaker 3: in any way. 83 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: I tell you what, and what a weird view, though 84 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: I don't have it at all. Where does it come from? 85 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 3: Do you end up thinking that, oh, I got to 86 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:05,480 Speaker 3: tell my story about Oh I got I'm on some 87 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:07,200 Speaker 3: sort of watch list for something I said in a 88 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,520 Speaker 3: bank yesterday about the government. 89 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: I have to tell that story later. 90 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 3: Well, I'd say you pretend that that's the case, that 91 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,919 Speaker 3: it's sacred and untouchable, because that is your constituency, that 92 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:20,480 Speaker 3: keeps you in power, that contributes to your wealth, that's 93 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 3: your peeps. 94 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:22,480 Speaker 1: And that's fine. That's how politics. 95 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 3: But I know plenty of people who aren't politicians who 96 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 3: think that, well, I know, oh oh yeah, well, journey 97 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 3: of voters who feel the same way. Well, government people 98 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 3: shouldn't lose their jobs. They have an incredibly naive and 99 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:41,680 Speaker 3: dopey view of the people and the government and the 100 00:05:41,720 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 3: relationship between them, which I cannot comprehend. I don't know 101 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:48,279 Speaker 3: where it comes from, this never ending faith that government 102 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 3: does what's true and right as efficiently as possible at 103 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,599 Speaker 3: all times. And my god, we're lucky to have every 104 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 3: single quote unquote civil service on the job. It helps 105 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,560 Speaker 3: me sleep at night. I mean, seriously, what color is 106 00:05:58,560 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 3: the sky in your world? And one more point I 107 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 3: was going to make. It struck me as a very 108 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 3: worth making, which is flit it out of it. I'll 109 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,159 Speaker 3: talk while you're thinking. A long press conference Elon had 110 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 3: in the Oval office yesterday with his you know, dark 111 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 3: maga hat on, his Doughe hat on and a cute 112 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:19,080 Speaker 3: little kid in tow and answering questions and everything like that. 113 00:06:19,560 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 3: It's interesting. I mean, I'm not frightened that Elon's some 114 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,160 Speaker 3: sort of code dictator or something like that, but it's unique. 115 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:32,440 Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Yeah, so I do too 116 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:33,760 Speaker 1: completely Excuse me. 117 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:35,200 Speaker 3: It occurred to me what I was going to say, 118 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,320 Speaker 3: and it factors into some great audio we're going to 119 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,600 Speaker 3: play for you later on in the show. 120 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: But two things. 121 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:50,679 Speaker 3: Number one, the extent to which Democrats will will sacrifice anything, 122 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 3: including America's children, on the altar of being anti Trump, 123 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,360 Speaker 3: Trump's arrangement syndrome, it's just amazing. I mean, if they 124 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 3: damaged the little kids, you know, by not letting them 125 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 3: go to school for a year plus, that's evidence enough. 126 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 3: But to be saying we need huge, voted, wasteful government 127 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 3: in effect, who's with us? Don't you understand there's a 128 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 3: very very little constituency for that. And they're you know, 129 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:22,280 Speaker 3: some of the stunts they're pulling and screeching constitutional crisis 130 00:07:22,320 --> 00:07:27,320 Speaker 3: and and and there's a new chant that they're engaging 131 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 3: in that's not arable. We've had to bleep it. It's 132 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: just it's increasingly desperate. It's like the jilted lover who's 133 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 3: gone past a stalker and has killed a cat, and 134 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:43,040 Speaker 3: he's just just desperate for some sort of attention and 135 00:07:43,080 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 3: none of it's working, and it's increasingly just. 136 00:07:45,960 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 1: Flailing and foolish. 137 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 3: Look, if you want to opposet Trump, that's fine, that's 138 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 3: how our system works. 139 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: Go right ahead. But it's it's getting increasingly frantic. 140 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 3: So what's the body chant that we can't play or 141 00:07:58,320 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 3: say in the area have to work? 142 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:03,120 Speaker 1: We can play? What do they say? Well, we can 143 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,320 Speaker 1: just play it? Okay? 144 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:07,880 Speaker 3: Well I well, I guess it's bleeped. Oh yes, where 145 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 3: should I sit down? 146 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: Should I sit down? It's up to you. I'm standing sixteen. 147 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: There we go. Here it comes everybody. This is going 148 00:08:18,360 --> 00:08:18,920 Speaker 1: to be exciting. 149 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 5: I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so 150 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,280 Speaker 5: I am going to tell you that we do have to. 151 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 5: I don't swear in public very well. 152 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:34,200 Speaker 1: But this is the w Yes, yes, we have to. 153 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: I'll tell you we still do. 154 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:42,600 Speaker 3: We stop playing clips, Michael, Let's just not play any 155 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 3: clips unless we. 156 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:44,360 Speaker 1: Can play the Carol. 157 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 3: Let's do this next segment. We got to start to 158 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 3: show officially where we're getting all off track here but. 159 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,280 Speaker 1: I want to know what. Can you tell me what 160 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,439 Speaker 1: the body chant is? Is it Trump? I just flat 161 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:54,200 Speaker 1: out truck Trump Wow? Yeah. 162 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,600 Speaker 3: I got a collection of Democrats people say quite a chance, 163 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,320 Speaker 3: Trump Wow, and it's it's it's more than that chance. 164 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 1: It's a foul. That's their new slogan. I mean, that's 165 00:09:04,440 --> 00:09:05,000 Speaker 1: the new. 166 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,680 Speaker 3: Whip inflation now or make America great again. 167 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,439 Speaker 1: So it's Trump. 168 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 3: We had the whole let's go Brandon thing, but it 169 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't people in government chanting. It be f Joe 170 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:18,760 Speaker 3: Biden that I remember. It was football stadiums and stuff 171 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:19,240 Speaker 3: like that. 172 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,720 Speaker 1: But well, and they had the decency to change it 173 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:24,640 Speaker 1: to let's go Brandon. 174 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 3: Right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's 175 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,560 Speaker 3: Joe Getty on this It's Wednesday, jan ho February twelfth, 176 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: the year twenty twenty five. 177 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:34,679 Speaker 1: More Armstrong and getting we approved of this program. 178 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:37,679 Speaker 3: Let's begin then, officially according the FCC rules and regulations, 179 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:40,280 Speaker 3: here we go, leaping forward at mark now. 180 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,480 Speaker 6: The disruptor in chief Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted 181 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:47,400 Speaker 6: the alias, at least he changed his social media handle 182 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 6: to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning democracy in America is 183 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:56,480 Speaker 6: being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not 184 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:57,960 Speaker 6: a real judge. 185 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 1: All right, So is it so Elon Musk. 186 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 3: When he's only the world richest man and the guy 187 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:11,400 Speaker 3: who owns Twitter and him doing the childish jokes is 188 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 3: I find him fascinating and hilarious, But I don't know 189 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 3: if he's going to take this high role in the government, 190 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:23,920 Speaker 3: be the focal point, have the media talking about him 191 00:10:23,960 --> 00:10:26,080 Speaker 3: being co president and all this sort of stuff. He 192 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:34,000 Speaker 3: should change his Twitter handle to Harry Balls. There's a 193 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:38,080 Speaker 3: great deal to be set on this topic. Certainly, I'm 194 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,760 Speaker 3: sure he well, he actually tweeted out how much he 195 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:42,360 Speaker 3: enjoyed the mainstream media. 196 00:10:42,160 --> 00:10:42,880 Speaker 1: Having to say that. 197 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: Well, that sort of trolling is absolutely delightful. But this 198 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:51,440 Speaker 3: is unprecedented, or at least very rare in our republic. 199 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,160 Speaker 3: You have to go back to an Alexander Hamilton Kristen 200 00:10:54,440 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 3: himself hughe azz. 201 00:10:56,400 --> 00:10:59,640 Speaker 1: During the Constitutional convention. I guess he was he dead 202 00:10:59,679 --> 00:10:59,920 Speaker 1: by then. 203 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,800 Speaker 3: Anyway, Oh god, uh, I do have to tell my 204 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 3: story about what I said about the government at the bank. 205 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: That's a good one, Okay. 206 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:13,440 Speaker 3: I know I'm on some sort of list now, I 207 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 3: mean seriously, honest to god, he contacted someone and I'll 208 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 3: be other news of the day, huge press conference going 209 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 3: on with Elon explaining what they're doing at DOGE. And 210 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:26,560 Speaker 3: I think a lot of you are gonna really really 211 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:29,480 Speaker 3: love it. I know I do. It's fantastic. How about 212 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:30,880 Speaker 3: we take a look at how we spend money? 213 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 1: Huh? And we're not. 214 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 3: Elected a plutocrat billionaires and him saying, yeah, we'll get 215 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,800 Speaker 3: things wrong, we'll go too far, and then we'll let 216 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 3: it back in. We'll do we're going fast. We're gonna 217 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:42,360 Speaker 3: go fast when we try to fix things too. Just 218 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 3: the way we're gonna do it, is he president? Anyway, 219 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:47,679 Speaker 3: We've got lots on the way. 220 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,599 Speaker 1: Stay with us, a strong. 221 00:11:51,880 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 5: I am gonna tell you we do have to. I 222 00:11:57,160 --> 00:11:58,880 Speaker 5: don't swear in public. 223 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:01,160 Speaker 1: Very well, but camp. 224 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,640 Speaker 5: Please tell my children that I just said that, and 225 00:12:08,679 --> 00:12:09,679 Speaker 5: I'll tell you I'm. 226 00:12:09,480 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 1: From Jersey, so I'll get a little different. Donald Trump and. 227 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 3: Well, we've been talking about this for years, the coarsening 228 00:12:23,320 --> 00:12:26,440 Speaker 3: over language and the race to the bottom. Were almost 229 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 3: at the bottom. I think once we're to the you 230 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:32,560 Speaker 3: come out on the Capitol steps and you just say, 231 00:12:32,559 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 3: oh yeah, right, I mean, what is there a step 232 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:39,280 Speaker 3: beyond that? You just squat and poop on the stage? 233 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:45,760 Speaker 3: Point at it. This is I think we are at 234 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:48,720 Speaker 3: the lowest common denominator in American politics. We may have 235 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:52,920 Speaker 3: reached the end. Yes, I don't know what you other 236 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 3: than bodily functions. I don't think we can go any lower. Well, 237 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,079 Speaker 3: and then play just the first part of the Dana 238 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 3: Bash clip we opened with Michael eighteen. 239 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: I believe. 240 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 6: Now the instructor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has 241 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:11,480 Speaker 6: adopted the alias at least he changed his social media 242 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 6: handle to Harry Balls, created this morning. 243 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 3: I truly an idiotra saying when I was an eighth grader, 244 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:22,160 Speaker 3: I would have really enjoyed all this. He spells it 245 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:25,560 Speaker 3: be oh with like a line over it, like it's 246 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:31,360 Speaker 3: some different language. L Z. I think if I was 247 00:13:31,559 --> 00:13:34,080 Speaker 3: on CNN, I would have said, Harry Bowles. I'm not 248 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 3: exactly sure how he wants you to pronounce it, but 249 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 3: I get what he's going for. Yeah, But I while 250 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:43,439 Speaker 3: I'm laughing. 251 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 1: On the inside, I'm crying. I just I just I 252 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:49,240 Speaker 1: know what you mean. 253 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 3: It's not this is not way to accomplish thing on 254 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:55,760 Speaker 3: either side. 255 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:58,880 Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was. 256 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:03,840 Speaker 3: Just looking at the video of it was like last 257 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 3: week on CNN when the guy who went by the 258 00:14:07,440 --> 00:14:11,400 Speaker 3: moniker Big Balls was I don't know, the guy that 259 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 3: everybody was talking about for a cup of coffee, and 260 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 3: how the lady on CNN was saying he went by 261 00:14:18,679 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 3: the online moniker big Balls with a perfectly straight you know, 262 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:27,320 Speaker 3: very concerned. 263 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:28,920 Speaker 1: And I loved one of that. 264 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 3: I think may been Clay Travis, fellow radio guy podcaster 265 00:14:33,320 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 3: dude credit where its due, who said I think CNN 266 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 3: just exists to be mocked at this point. That's really 267 00:14:41,480 --> 00:14:49,200 Speaker 3: their only useful purpose, right. We got to mention this news. 268 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:52,960 Speaker 3: The inflation numbers are out and they're not good or 269 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:55,240 Speaker 3: well depends on how you look at it. But inflation 270 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 3: picked up speed, rising to three percent in January. 271 00:14:58,080 --> 00:14:58,800 Speaker 1: It ticked up. 272 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 3: Now you got our Remember these are the numbers of 273 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:04,480 Speaker 3: what happened in January Trump took over the twentieth This 274 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 3: is being credited to the lasting policies of the Inflation 275 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 3: Reduction Act, which, as Byron York and The Washington Examiner 276 00:15:13,760 --> 00:15:16,160 Speaker 3: reminds us, in case you didn't know, the Inflation Reduction 277 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 3: Act was not intended to reduce inflation. It was originally 278 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 3: called Build Back Better Act. It was two point two 279 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 3: trillion dollars. The name change was only pr It was 280 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:27,880 Speaker 3: really the Green New Deal and it got shoved through 281 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 3: and we're still living with it. But yeah, so starting 282 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,800 Speaker 3: at three percent inflation, Yeah, I'm concerned about Trump's some 283 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:38,560 Speaker 3: of Trump's terrify ideas if he actually goes through with them, 284 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:42,760 Speaker 3: and we actually have a really good, helpful checklist of 285 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:46,280 Speaker 3: where all these things are at this point. 286 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 1: The blizzard of. 287 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 3: Activity out of the Trump administration because tough to keep track, 288 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,720 Speaker 3: especially with various legal actions and suits and rulings and 289 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 3: the rest of it. But I'm concerned that if he 290 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 3: does impose tariffs on stealing aluminum, that's going to be 291 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 3: super inflationary and that's going to be bad. 292 00:16:05,680 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: And I just I don't see any particular need for it. 293 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 3: And we can talk about protection as policies later, but 294 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 3: I'm just I'm so concerned that the not necessary stuff 295 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 3: is going to screw up the effort to do the 296 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 3: good stuff, the really, really good stuff, because you have 297 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:24,840 Speaker 3: to remember, stealing aluminum goes into like every single product 298 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 3: manufactured in America, from cars to dishwashers to everything else, 299 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:30,520 Speaker 3: and so I'm a little concerned about that. So the 300 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 3: Wall Street Journalist a couple paragraphs on the inflation news 301 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 3: out today, which is getting a lot of attention. Obviously, 302 00:16:36,240 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 3: inflation has now been around to these rates for some time. 303 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,800 Speaker 3: Might not be coming down, says one of their economists 304 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:44,360 Speaker 3: say quote. The bigger than expected increase in prices last 305 00:16:44,360 --> 00:16:48,680 Speaker 3: month reflected higher prices for used cars and auto insurance, 306 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,920 Speaker 3: according to the Wall Street Journal. And overall, the price 307 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 3: increases were more than economists at expected. 308 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: So there you go. We have mail bag on the way. 309 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 1: How does that look? Oh it's outstanding. 310 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 3: Great freedom loving quotes of the day from birthday Boy 311 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln as well if you want to comment on 312 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:06,160 Speaker 3: any of the news of day or anything text line 313 00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:08,640 Speaker 3: four one kftc. 314 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 6: Armstrong and getty. 315 00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln would be two hundred and sixteen today had 316 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:18,680 Speaker 3: he not been murdered by John Wilkes booth. 317 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 1: That's great. That's what is that? 318 00:17:25,160 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 3: A conundrum of paradox is that that which is true 319 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 3: and yet false or something nonsense. 320 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:34,000 Speaker 1: Here's your freedom. 321 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:38,520 Speaker 3: Loving quote of today from birthday Boy Abraham Lincoln, whose 322 00:17:38,560 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 3: birthday I missed sharing by one day because my sainted 323 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:48,800 Speaker 3: mother was impatient. Apparently there are so many to choose from. Sir, 324 00:17:48,960 --> 00:17:51,760 Speaker 3: my concern is not whether God is on our side. 325 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,879 Speaker 3: My greatest concern is to be on God's side, for 326 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 3: God is always right. He also said, you cannot escape 327 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 3: the responsibility of tomorrow evading it today. I've tried it 328 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:05,560 Speaker 3: doesn't work. He's right, tried it repeatedly. Yeah, I love 329 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:08,680 Speaker 3: this one. Give me six hours to chop down a tree, 330 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,640 Speaker 3: and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. 331 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: That was an interesting what does that provoking one? Okay, 332 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:19,560 Speaker 1: you're provoking my thoughts. What is that? What is that? 333 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 1: What's the point of that? Uh? 334 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:21,239 Speaker 5: Uh? 335 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:26,120 Speaker 3: Do not blunder ahead blindly, think about what you're doing, 336 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:35,880 Speaker 3: have a plan, be smart. Jack is looking sure thought provoked? 337 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:37,359 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think so. 338 00:18:37,640 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, because that will make the job go much more 339 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 3: quickly and efficiently. I just wondered, if do you what 340 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:47,359 Speaker 3: do you do six hours sharpening? Six hours seems like 341 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:49,000 Speaker 3: an awful long time to cut down a tree. 342 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:49,680 Speaker 1: If you told me. 343 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:52,920 Speaker 3: I've got tree in this scenario, huge, I'm gonna give 344 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:55,560 Speaker 3: you three days to clean this studio, and I'm gonna 345 00:18:55,560 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 3: think it's gonna take me like a half an hour, 346 00:18:57,880 --> 00:18:59,320 Speaker 3: so I guess I'll spend the first two and a 347 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 3: half days I don't know, killing time. Label this part 348 00:19:03,520 --> 00:19:09,080 Speaker 3: of the segment, Jack argues with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, 349 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:13,120 Speaker 3: and perhaps is best known other than the House Divided 350 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:15,159 Speaker 3: speech is you can fool all of the people some 351 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 3: of the time, and some of the people all of 352 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 3: the time, but you cannot fool all of the people 353 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 3: all of the time. 354 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Mailbag. 355 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 3: Feel free to correspond if you'd like. Mailbag and Armstrong 356 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 3: and Getty dot Com. Thanks everybody who sent along birthday wishes. 357 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 3: I will reply to all of you as soon as 358 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 3: I can. My life has been madness the last couple 359 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:40,199 Speaker 3: of days. A note from se Busy really enjoyed the 360 00:19:40,320 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 3: One More Thing podcast yesterday about my birthday and related topics. 361 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,960 Speaker 3: It's not as dopey and self indulgent as it sounds. 362 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 1: That's Armstrong and Getty One More Thing. 363 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:54,120 Speaker 3: You might as well subscribe, but thank you very much 364 00:19:54,119 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 3: for the kind words. Barry from Thailand weighing in not 365 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 3: his most eloquent or persuasive email, but I like that 366 00:20:00,880 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 3: it points out well, he asked, please answer me a question. First, 367 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 3: he says, a lot of expats in Thailand or big 368 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,000 Speaker 3: musk fans, we call ourselves musketeers. 369 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:10,919 Speaker 1: Please answer me a question. 370 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,879 Speaker 3: If crazy Maxine Waters and her fellow Democrats had been 371 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,399 Speaker 3: allowed in the Department of Education building, what would they 372 00:20:16,440 --> 00:20:20,720 Speaker 3: have done inside? What would be accomplished? And the answer, 373 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:23,080 Speaker 3: obviously is they wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't have 374 00:20:23,119 --> 00:20:27,639 Speaker 3: accomplished anything. It was a flailing, frantic publicity stunt to 375 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 3: try to look like they're the brave resistance. 376 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:33,160 Speaker 2: Again. Well, so much of what. 377 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 3: We do, as we've been saying for years, is performative. 378 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:40,440 Speaker 3: And whether it's that that or Elon. I think Elon's 379 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 3: just getting his jolly's but Elon renaming himself on Twitter 380 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,639 Speaker 3: Harry Balls for a day or whatever, it just so 381 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,240 Speaker 3: much is just like to fire people up and get 382 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 3: attention and aw yeah yeah, and it's all so quickly 383 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,960 Speaker 3: and readily reported to the entire globe via the Internet, 384 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 3: every one of these idiotic I mean that Maxine Waters, 385 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 3: who is a halfwooted best bellowing outside the Department of Education, 386 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 3: didn't deserve three sentences of ink in any decent newspaper 387 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,359 Speaker 3: back in the day. You know, it's pretty good video, 388 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 3: so we also want moving along. Note from Miles, a 389 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,080 Speaker 3: longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, a former 390 00:21:18,119 --> 00:21:22,680 Speaker 3: colleague of ours. He's pointing out that yesterday Supervisor Jim 391 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:27,760 Speaker 3: Desmond in the San Diego County Board of Supervisors introduced 392 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:30,159 Speaker 3: a Letter in support of the Protection of Women and 393 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,679 Speaker 3: Girls in Sports Act. Couldn't even get a second. It 394 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:39,240 Speaker 3: was defeated two to one. Jim being the one san Diego, 395 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 3: California standing or San Diego County anyway, standing tall to 396 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,960 Speaker 3: allow men to compete and beat the crap out. 397 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:49,080 Speaker 1: Of women in women's sports. What a brave stance that. Wow, 398 00:21:49,119 --> 00:21:50,879 Speaker 1: that's interesting. I just saw some polling. 399 00:21:50,920 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 3: Now this was up on Fox, but polling around this 400 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:56,080 Speaker 3: broken down by party. 401 00:21:56,119 --> 00:22:00,280 Speaker 1: We'll have to get that later. But it's well what 402 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 1: you think it would be. Most people think it's ridiculous. 403 00:22:03,640 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anybody saying does speaking of men's and women's 404 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,640 Speaker 3: Note from John, who talks about his sons enjoying hunting 405 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 3: and he says, I don't really give a crap about it. 406 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 3: It's fun, but it's more about hanging out with dudes. 407 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,920 Speaker 3: That aren't the p word. Guys that work with their hands, farmers, mechanics, welders. 408 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 3: I don't disparage anyone's path unless you're a comedy. You 409 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,680 Speaker 3: don't have to be able to work with your hands 410 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 3: as a mechanic to get my praise. Just be a 411 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:35,359 Speaker 3: dude and know how to use a screwdriver. Oh man, Yeah, yeah, 412 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 3: a lot of that's upbringing. But if you do not 413 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:43,920 Speaker 3: know righty tidy, lefty lucy, that's why you're a man 414 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,840 Speaker 3: in training. So my kids we got new furniture for 415 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:48,760 Speaker 3: their bedrooms and we went to Ikea. And if you 416 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:50,560 Speaker 3: know anything about Ikea, you know you have to put 417 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:52,959 Speaker 3: this stuff together. And I helped them move the boxes 418 00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:54,639 Speaker 3: in the room and I said, you're gonna put it together, 419 00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 3: and Henry put it all for a long time. 420 00:22:56,560 --> 00:22:58,639 Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna learn to do this. 421 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,439 Speaker 3: You cannot have a girlfriend someday who asks you to 422 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,639 Speaker 3: assemble an end table and you say, I don't know 423 00:23:05,680 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 3: how that's not an option. No, No, indeed, that's some 424 00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:13,160 Speaker 3: good dad right there. Well done. Speak of Elon Musk 425 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 3: once again. I love this note from Jess and Wiley, Texas. 426 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 3: New York Times reports that Elon Musk is operating in 427 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 3: deep secrecy quote unquote end quote, descending upon agencies like 428 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:29,680 Speaker 3: a spooky vampire, she writes, and basically making crap out 429 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 3: up about everyone. And it goes into some details. You 430 00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 3: gotta be real precious. Well, it has to do with 431 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 3: the us AID and that he'd said people have been 432 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 3: taking kickbacks and a lot of people in the bureaucracy 433 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,879 Speaker 3: somehow had managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars 434 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,880 Speaker 3: in net worthwhile they're in that position, without explaining how 435 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:47,800 Speaker 3: he'd made that assessment. 436 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,200 Speaker 1: I have more examples of that sort of thing in 437 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: a bit. 438 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 3: But you gotta be real precious to think there's nobody 439 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:56,160 Speaker 3: taking kickbacks at USAID, the very least getting lavish stipends. 440 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: I'm pretty jealous of Elon right now. Calling Vacas out 441 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 3: is one of the ultimate joys in life. I'm also 442 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:08,840 Speaker 3: the the the the reaction by so many that Elon. 443 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 3: You know, there are gonna be examples out there. He's 444 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:13,080 Speaker 3: gonna there are people that are gonna need their food 445 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 3: that they're not gonna get there. There are all kinds 446 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:19,639 Speaker 3: of examples of people getting screwed by the government on 447 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 3: a regular basis, remember the VA scandal. I mean it 448 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:26,360 Speaker 3: happens all the time when these agencies are supposedly doing 449 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:30,520 Speaker 3: their best. So if a guy's cutting waste and uh 450 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 3: or attempting to cut waste, or Trump's attempting to cut waste, 451 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 3: and you get some occasions where somebody who deserve to 452 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 3: get their meal or wheelchair or whatever doesn't get it. 453 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,280 Speaker 1: It's not like that never happens anyway, right, Yeah. 454 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:47,439 Speaker 3: And in a broader sense, what they're claiming those who 455 00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:50,480 Speaker 3: are yelling about this most of it's performatives we've been discussing. 456 00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:53,400 Speaker 3: But those who are shouting about, well, this program does 457 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:57,240 Speaker 3: some good, as both the President and Elon Musk have 458 00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 3: made it clear, well that stuff will get funding, just 459 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,440 Speaker 3: give us a minute. So they are in effect making 460 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 3: the argument that we must rein in the grotesque, horrifying 461 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:11,520 Speaker 3: year responsible over spending of the federal government with zero 462 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,880 Speaker 3: inconvenience or disruption to anyone, which is, when you say 463 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:15,720 Speaker 3: it out loud, just a. 464 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: Ridiculous point of view. 465 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,600 Speaker 3: So I think I can tell this story shortly, okay, 466 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:24,720 Speaker 3: and then I think our frequent correspondent Pallo has absolutely 467 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:29,440 Speaker 3: nailed the drop in fertility and reproduction. Oh really nailed it? 468 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,800 Speaker 3: Have we had to do that at a kickoff next 469 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,080 Speaker 3: hour because that's a good topic. 470 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,520 Speaker 1: That's fine with me. That's a good topic. Sure. 471 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his 472 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:43,960 Speaker 3: age is, apparently wanted to open a checking account at 473 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 3: the bank or an account at the bank because he's 474 00:25:45,840 --> 00:25:50,639 Speaker 3: got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases. 475 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 3: And he doesn't spend his money like his brother does. 476 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,399 Speaker 3: He saves it because he wants to be able to 477 00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,640 Speaker 3: put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing. 478 00:25:57,920 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: So he's got a decent sized chunk of. 479 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:02,640 Speaker 3: Money it up over the years, and he'd been keeping 480 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,920 Speaker 3: it in a shoe box. And so he's going to open 481 00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:06,679 Speaker 3: an account. And I remember when I opened an account 482 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:09,080 Speaker 3: when I was probably about his age. I started mowing 483 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 3: lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and 484 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,880 Speaker 3: opening a bank account on the passage. 485 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:15,879 Speaker 1: I remember it myself. 486 00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:17,760 Speaker 3: On the way to the bank, I did say to him, 487 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,440 Speaker 3: I said, you know, I haven't I haven't been around 488 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,679 Speaker 3: the idea of opening an account for a bank in 489 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 3: forty years something like that, So I don't know if 490 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,440 Speaker 3: the rules have changed, but so in case something happens, 491 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,400 Speaker 3: but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough. 492 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:33,639 Speaker 3: And so we're trying to open this account and everything 493 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 3: like that. And first of all, many banks everything is 494 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,000 Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because the government comes down 495 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,480 Speaker 3: on them so hard or something like that. They treat 496 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,640 Speaker 3: everybody like you're a want to be terrorist, Like everything 497 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:49,159 Speaker 3: you do it's like jeez, lighting up. But anyway, he 498 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,240 Speaker 3: needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we 499 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:52,240 Speaker 3: ran into the roadblock. 500 00:26:52,320 --> 00:26:55,080 Speaker 1: I said, what is a form of ID for a 501 00:26:55,119 --> 00:26:55,960 Speaker 1: thirteen year old? 502 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,359 Speaker 3: He said, and they said, well, your Social State Security 503 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:01,919 Speaker 3: card is birth certificate? 504 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 1: Okay, great? 505 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,359 Speaker 3: So uh, I said, the fact that I'm his dad 506 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:09,000 Speaker 3: isn't good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that 507 00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,199 Speaker 3: he's my son and I have an account here and 508 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 3: have had for twenty five years and open an account 509 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:13,879 Speaker 3: for him. 510 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:14,879 Speaker 1: I can't do that. And no, we need to. 511 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,280 Speaker 3: And I said, is that a bank policy or the 512 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,320 Speaker 3: state law or what is that? Because I was thinking, 513 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 3: if it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank. 514 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:26,160 Speaker 3: But it's a federal law. It's part of the patriotarch. 515 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 3: I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's 516 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 3: a federal I said, you don't need to explain the 517 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,200 Speaker 3: federal government to me. And I hate the federal government, 518 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:36,919 Speaker 3: I said. And then the guy looked at me like 519 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,080 Speaker 3: I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're 520 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 3: one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh, you're you're you're 521 00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:43,280 Speaker 3: one of those people. 522 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly I've heard about them. 523 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,200 Speaker 3: I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous. 524 00:27:48,240 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a 525 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,960 Speaker 3: bank account for a thirteen year old. 526 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,320 Speaker 1: And as his parent, I got it. 527 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,080 Speaker 3: I got to prove who he is because you can't 528 00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,200 Speaker 3: take my word for the fact that he's my child, 529 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,840 Speaker 3: makes me a child money laundering, little mule for your militia, 530 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,439 Speaker 3: whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was 531 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,120 Speaker 3: so much I was trying to explain it to her. 532 00:28:10,119 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 3: He was so much crap that they jammed through. It's 533 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,520 Speaker 3: all because of nine to eleven. 534 00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:15,600 Speaker 1: So you're gonna stop. 535 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:18,040 Speaker 3: The next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year 536 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 3: olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even 537 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,640 Speaker 3: though their parrot, who you know, is sitting right there. 538 00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: I hate stuff like that. And the and the but 539 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: they were there. 540 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:30,720 Speaker 3: Their eyes got so wide when I hate the said 541 00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,520 Speaker 3: I hate the federal government. And I was thinking if 542 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 3: I was doing this same thing in my and my 543 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 3: where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and I 544 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:40,040 Speaker 3: said I hate the federal government, the teller would have said, yeah, 545 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,280 Speaker 3: me too, don't you high five Joe came end of 546 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 3: that brother, but that just being oh my god, you 547 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:52,040 Speaker 3: shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The woman gasped, and 548 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,760 Speaker 3: her boss just looked at me white. I'd like, oh, 549 00:28:53,800 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 3: we about to have a fight. Oh man, I have 550 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,560 Speaker 3: the two pieces of ID even though he's my kid. 551 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 1: I just found that amazing. 552 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes. 553 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 3: Get ready to jot this one down and get it right, 554 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 3: would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there 555 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 3: are two emergencies. 556 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:20,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, but actually exactly. 557 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,320 Speaker 3: And I actually told my son because he was one, 558 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 3: and he was really like, is that something you can't 559 00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:25,920 Speaker 3: say out loud? 560 00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: I said, I told him. 561 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 3: The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century, 562 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English 563 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:38,120 Speaker 3: language are I'm here from the I'm from the government, 564 00:29:38,120 --> 00:29:39,000 Speaker 3: and I'm here to help you. 565 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: I mean, he ran on I hate the government, or. 566 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 3: I just saw a clip this morning. The government isn't 567 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,600 Speaker 3: the solution. Government is the problem. And the woman who 568 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 3: was typing furiously after I said that, because she was 569 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,400 Speaker 3: so horrified that anybody would say that, I said, you know, 570 00:29:52,640 --> 00:29:54,720 Speaker 3: all the money in my account. I made that by 571 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,680 Speaker 3: going on the radio every day and saying I hate 572 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 3: the government and. 573 00:29:58,520 --> 00:29:59,320 Speaker 1: I make my living. 574 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,840 Speaker 3: By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or 575 00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:10,920 Speaker 3: the FDIC or right the c i A, the NSA, 576 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:13,960 Speaker 3: if I'm happy to testify against this monster. 577 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,840 Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list. 578 00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,160 Speaker 3: Now, yes, Michael, So wonder they didn't hit the silent 579 00:30:18,240 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 3: alarm on you and then you know, cops show up 580 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 3: or something. I would have been I would have loved 581 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,480 Speaker 3: to talk to people and explain why it's okay for 582 00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,600 Speaker 3: me to say I hate the government. No, no, no, 583 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,440 Speaker 3: We've got to surveill him for a while and go 584 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 3: through his mail and monitor his phone calls. We've got 585 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,479 Speaker 3: the NSA working on it already. What I hate is 586 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:38,440 Speaker 3: the manager guy acting like it makes sense that we 587 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 3: have a law that I can't vouch for my kid 588 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 3: being my kid. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Two 589 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 3: forms of ID for a child right when their parent 590 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:52,560 Speaker 3: is there. How about he says his name, then I 591 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,720 Speaker 3: say his name? Is that two forms of ID? 592 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: And if not, what the hell has the world becaught? 593 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,240 Speaker 3: I know? Anyway, We've got Katie's headlines coming up next. 594 00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:07,520 Speaker 3: I guess in brief to my saying to the manager 595 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:11,400 Speaker 3: at the bank that I hate the federal government. My 596 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,560 Speaker 3: feeling comes from I don't know about everybody else's life, 597 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,720 Speaker 3: but I feel like my interaction with the government is 598 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 3: either me giving them money or them stopping me from 599 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:21,480 Speaker 3: doing something I want to done. 600 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: Of the time. 601 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,800 Speaker 3: Sure, I appreciate maintaining a standing army, but yeah, I'm 602 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 3: not day to day interactions. Obviously, you're you know you're 603 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,800 Speaker 3: you're going out of your way to be didactic if 604 00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 3: you don't understand that we all need roads in an 605 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,560 Speaker 3: army and that sort of stuff. But almost of my 606 00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 3: interactions are me giving you money and I see around 607 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,200 Speaker 3: me it being wasted, or you stopping me from doing 608 00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,040 Speaker 3: something I want to do. 609 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,800 Speaker 1: That's mostly didact. 610 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,680 Speaker 3: I moving along, we have breaking news. Jd Vance has 611 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,160 Speaker 3: renamed himself Amanda Hugging Kiss. Stay with us for details. 612 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,000 Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's leads story. What's 613 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 3: a discouraged Katie Katie from CNN. 614 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:07,760 Speaker 7: Wrongfully detained American teacher Mark Fogel meets with Trump after 615 00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 7: being released from Russia in a quote exchange. 616 00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,080 Speaker 3: We got a bunch of clips about that. What Trump said, 617 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 3: what the released teacher said, Hey, don't smoke marijuana and 618 00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,520 Speaker 3: Moscow or whatever he was accused of doing. 619 00:32:19,040 --> 00:32:24,600 Speaker 7: Yep, NBC isis has an army in waiting, and Trump's 620 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,280 Speaker 7: next move could decide whether. 621 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: It rises again. Where's that from? I don't know that 622 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,120 Speaker 1: strung NBC. I'll have to look at that. I'll add 623 00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:34,520 Speaker 1: it to the hotlinks from Breitbart dot com. 624 00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 7: Department of Education calls on NCAA and NFHS to revoke 625 00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 7: the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes. 626 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:48,320 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't have dudes women who were winning women's titles. 627 00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 1: It's a very short ruling. In fact, that's it. Thanks 628 00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:54,720 Speaker 1: for coming from NewsNation. 629 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 7: Christy nom fires four FEMA workers for paying New York 630 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,120 Speaker 7: City for hotel to house. 631 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:06,520 Speaker 3: Migrants in definance of orders as I understand it, right, right, Yeah, 632 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,040 Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars from the. 633 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:10,800 Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. 634 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:13,760 Speaker 7: Inflation picks up speed, rising. 635 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:15,440 Speaker 1: To three percent in January. 636 00:33:16,320 --> 00:33:23,320 Speaker 7: Were Yeah, Daily Mail, one in five Democrats say Trump 637 00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000 Speaker 7: is doing a good job as his whirldwinds starting off. 638 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:27,280 Speaker 1: This attracts new fans. 639 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:30,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I meant to break down his high fifty three 640 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 3: percent approval rating. You break it down by various groups. 641 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:36,840 Speaker 3: It's pretty damned impressive, it is. And I would think, 642 00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,120 Speaker 3: you know, in any other era of American politics, the 643 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,360 Speaker 3: Democrats would lay low, see how they could work with them, 644 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:43,680 Speaker 3: say to their constituents, Hey, we're working with them when 645 00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:45,680 Speaker 3: it makes sense, We're looking at for you and wait 646 00:33:45,720 --> 00:33:48,680 Speaker 3: for an opportunity. Is it just that the fever pitch 647 00:33:48,680 --> 00:33:51,280 Speaker 3: of day to day internet fundraising they're. 648 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 1: So behind this fiscal year. 649 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 3: Is that why they're making these frantic gestures of where 650 00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:58,880 Speaker 3: the resistance in f Trump and the rest of it. 651 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: Why don't they just come to hell down for a 652 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:01,120 Speaker 1: few months. 653 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,560 Speaker 7: From the athletic, Kevin Durant becomes eighth player in NBA 654 00:34:06,920 --> 00:34:10,200 Speaker 7: history to hit thirty thousand career points. 655 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,840 Speaker 3: There was talk of him coming to the Warriors up 656 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:15,839 Speaker 3: until the trade deadline just a couple of weeks ago, 657 00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 3: and that fell apart the last minute. 658 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:20,759 Speaker 1: And because he hates somebody on. 659 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:22,840 Speaker 3: The Warriors and wouldn't come play with him, they're gonna 660 00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:26,520 Speaker 3: take one last chance at winning a title with him. 661 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:29,080 Speaker 7: From the New York Post quote, I'm lucky to be 662 00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:33,920 Speaker 7: alive after sustaining car crash injuries after tripping over my cat. 663 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 7: This guy has a hairless cat. It bit him in 664 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 7: the leg. 665 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: He tripped. 666 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 7: He ended up fracturing his skull, breaking a bone in 667 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,480 Speaker 7: his neck, two fractures in his spine, nine broken ribs, 668 00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:45,879 Speaker 7: and blood in his lungs. 669 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,439 Speaker 3: Good, my kiddy, don't have hairless cats as the lead 670 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:50,400 Speaker 3: there exactly. 671 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 7: Finally, the Babylon Bee, exhausted media begs Trump to take 672 00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:55,560 Speaker 7: a day off. 673 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: God, I believe that. Do you see the assault? 674 00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 3: More breaking news, Marco Rubio has changed wh's his name 675 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 3: to Jack Cass Oh gosh. Trump says he's not going 676 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,120 Speaker 3: to allow the Associated Press into the press pool because 677 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,400 Speaker 3: they won't refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the 678 00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,839 Speaker 3: Gulf of America. Fair enough, I say, if you miss 679 00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 3: a second, we get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 680 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,320 Speaker 3: demand Armstrong and Getty