Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetta and he.
Speaker 2: Arms We're from Studio C Say Senor.
Speaker 3: We're in a dim lit room deeput them the bowels
Speaker 3: of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 4: And today midweek Wednesday, we're under the Tidlage Bauer General Manager.
Speaker 1: The mighty Doge.
Speaker 4: Wow, how do you I almost work with the constitution
Speaker 4: which is in a crisis. I'm told I want to
Speaker 4: talk about that, but uh yeah, the whole the whole
Speaker 4: Doage thing continues to.
Speaker 1: Well, it seems to be the hottest.
Speaker 3: Story in politics, and it's one of the more interesting
Speaker 3: things in we've seen happen in any administration. I agree,
Speaker 3: it's super interesting on a number of levels. I Mean,
Speaker 3: the obvious is everybody knows the everybody with the New
Speaker 3: York Times we'll get to that later, knows that the
Speaker 3: federal government is incredibly bloated and complex and wasteful and
Speaker 3: the rest of it. So it's fun to see it
Speaker 3: cut down the whole question of whether this is a
Speaker 3: constitutional crisis. It's not whether Jade Evan said, we will
Speaker 3: defy the courts.
Speaker 1: He didn't. How all of that works, how spending works.
Speaker 3: It's all been very interesting for me doing a deep
Speaker 3: dive into it. I used that expression yesterday and it
Speaker 3: occurred to me. Nobody ever does a shallow dive.
Speaker 1: Why not? Or a medium dive. It's always deep.
Speaker 3: I often do shallow dives into many things. I'm a
Speaker 3: first paragraph guy. That's enough for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The constitutional crisis is getting thrown around a lot. It
Speaker 3: seems that when most people talk about a constitutional crisis,
Speaker 3: they mean if one branch does something and then the
Speaker 3: other branch, using the levers and powers given to them
Speaker 3: by the constitution, corrects that like the Trump's I mean
Speaker 3: the court with the president, like happened with Biden, and
Speaker 3: it's happened with Trump or Congress or whatever.
Speaker 1: They call that a constitutional crisis. It's the opposite.
Speaker 3: It's a constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Speaker 3: The branches, you know, fighting against each other and working out.
Speaker 3: That's not a constitutional crisis, right. And as I heard
Speaker 3: the brilliant Charlie Cook at National Reviews say the other day,
Speaker 3: when their guy does what our guy just did, that's
Speaker 3: a constitutional crisis now and must be dealt with and
Speaker 3: rained as power must be rained in right. A constitutional
Speaker 3: crisis would be if one of the branches refused to
Speaker 3: go along with whatever the decision ends up being, and
Speaker 3: then what do you do that things could get difficult.
Speaker 1: And we haven't had that happen yet.
Speaker 3: No, and I mean it would have to be a
Speaker 3: Supreme Court ruling that's issued probably that is just openly defied. No,
Speaker 3: we're not going along with that and force it if
Speaker 3: you can, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson back in the day.
Speaker 3: But I firmly, firmly believe there would be an enormous
Speaker 3: ground swell of this can't happen. This is an actual
Speaker 3: constitutional crisis that would cross party lines, and it would
Speaker 3: be dealt with fairly swiftly, I believe. I think a
Speaker 3: president who did that would be impeached. So I keep
Speaker 3: saying it should say something to you. The way these
Speaker 3: people are digging in over the idea of anybody cutting
Speaker 3: any jobs or any budget. I mean, they're like hair
Speaker 3: on fire for alarm fire. This is the worst thing
Speaker 3: that has ever happened, the idea of shrinking government. And
Speaker 3: it continues, and we got more clips from one of
Speaker 3: their shouting rallies yesterday. But I heard one politician, now
Speaker 3: remember who it was, standing there and screaming, I am
Speaker 3: counting on the American to have our backs, we civil servants,
Speaker 3: to have our backs and protect us.
Speaker 1: And I thought, that's.
Speaker 3: The weird relationships some people have with the government, or
Speaker 3: you think we should have with the government. Why would
Speaker 3: America have your back if you might lose your job
Speaker 3: anymore than when ten thousand people are fired from Facebook
Speaker 3: or people get laid off a GM or anywhere else.
Speaker 1: Why no, we shouldn't.
Speaker 3: But you half the country and all the people in
Speaker 3: government think it's a different thing, that it's some sort
Speaker 3: of I don't even know how to describe it, like
Speaker 3: holy should never be messed with job for some reason, right, right,
Speaker 3: just so valuable and sacred it must not be molested
Speaker 3: in any way.
Speaker 1: I tell you what, and what a weird view, though
Speaker 1: I don't have it at all. Where does it come from?
Speaker 3: Do you end up thinking that, oh, I got to
Speaker 3: tell my story about Oh I got I'm on some
Speaker 3: sort of watch list for something I said in a
Speaker 3: bank yesterday about the government.
Speaker 1: I have to tell that story later.
Speaker 3: Well, I'd say you pretend that that's the case, that
Speaker 3: it's sacred and untouchable, because that is your constituency, that
Speaker 3: keeps you in power, that contributes to your wealth, that's
Speaker 3: your peeps.
Speaker 1: And that's fine. That's how politics.
Speaker 3: But I know plenty of people who aren't politicians who
Speaker 3: think that, well, I know, oh oh yeah, well, journey
Speaker 3: of voters who feel the same way. Well, government people
Speaker 3: shouldn't lose their jobs. They have an incredibly naive and
Speaker 3: dopey view of the people and the government and the
Speaker 3: relationship between them, which I cannot comprehend. I don't know
Speaker 3: where it comes from, this never ending faith that government
Speaker 3: does what's true and right as efficiently as possible at
Speaker 3: all times. And my god, we're lucky to have every
Speaker 3: single quote unquote civil service on the job. It helps
Speaker 3: me sleep at night. I mean, seriously, what color is
Speaker 3: the sky in your world? And one more point I
Speaker 3: was going to make. It struck me as a very
Speaker 3: worth making, which is flit it out of it. I'll
Speaker 3: talk while you're thinking. A long press conference Elon had
Speaker 3: in the Oval office yesterday with his you know, dark
Speaker 3: maga hat on, his Doughe hat on and a cute
Speaker 3: little kid in tow and answering questions and everything like that.
Speaker 3: It's interesting. I mean, I'm not frightened that Elon's some
Speaker 3: sort of code dictator or something like that, but it's unique.
Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. Yeah, so I do too
Speaker 1: completely Excuse me.
Speaker 3: It occurred to me what I was going to say,
Speaker 3: and it factors into some great audio we're going to
Speaker 3: play for you later on in the show.
Speaker 1: But two things.
Speaker 3: Number one, the extent to which Democrats will will sacrifice anything,
Speaker 3: including America's children, on the altar of being anti Trump,
Speaker 3: Trump's arrangement syndrome, it's just amazing. I mean, if they
Speaker 3: damaged the little kids, you know, by not letting them
Speaker 3: go to school for a year plus, that's evidence enough.
Speaker 3: But to be saying we need huge, voted, wasteful government
Speaker 3: in effect, who's with us? Don't you understand there's a
Speaker 3: very very little constituency for that. And they're you know,
Speaker 3: some of the stunts they're pulling and screeching constitutional crisis
Speaker 3: and and and there's a new chant that they're engaging
Speaker 3: in that's not arable. We've had to bleep it. It's
Speaker 3: just it's increasingly desperate. It's like the jilted lover who's
Speaker 3: gone past a stalker and has killed a cat, and
Speaker 3: he's just just desperate for some sort of attention and
Speaker 3: none of it's working, and it's increasingly just.
Speaker 1: Flailing and foolish.
Speaker 3: Look, if you want to opposet Trump, that's fine, that's
Speaker 3: how our system works.
Speaker 1: Go right ahead. But it's it's getting increasingly frantic.
Speaker 3: So what's the body chant that we can't play or
Speaker 3: say in the area have to work?
Speaker 1: We can play? What do they say? Well, we can
Speaker 1: just play it? Okay?
Speaker 3: Well I well, I guess it's bleeped. Oh yes, where
Speaker 3: should I sit down?
Speaker 1: Should I sit down? It's up to you. I'm standing sixteen.
Speaker 1: There we go. Here it comes everybody. This is going
Speaker 1: to be exciting.
Speaker 5: I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so
Speaker 5: I am going to tell you that we do have to.
Speaker 5: I don't swear in public very well.
Speaker 1: But this is the w Yes, yes, we have to.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you we still do.
Speaker 3: We stop playing clips, Michael, Let's just not play any
Speaker 3: clips unless we.
Speaker 1: Can play the Carol.
Speaker 3: Let's do this next segment. We got to start to
Speaker 3: show officially where we're getting all off track here but.
Speaker 1: I want to know what. Can you tell me what
Speaker 1: the body chant is? Is it Trump? I just flat
Speaker 1: out truck Trump Wow? Yeah.
Speaker 3: I got a collection of Democrats people say quite a chance,
Speaker 3: Trump Wow, and it's it's it's more than that chance.
Speaker 1: It's a foul. That's their new slogan. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: the new.
Speaker 3: Whip inflation now or make America great again.
Speaker 1: So it's Trump.
Speaker 3: We had the whole let's go Brandon thing, but it
Speaker 3: wasn't wasn't people in government chanting. It be f Joe
Speaker 3: Biden that I remember. It was football stadiums and stuff
Speaker 3: like that.
Speaker 1: But well, and they had the decency to change it
Speaker 1: to let's go Brandon.
Speaker 3: Right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 3: Joe Getty on this It's Wednesday, jan ho February twelfth,
Speaker 3: the year twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 3: Let's begin then, officially according the FCC rules and regulations,
Speaker 3: here we go, leaping forward at mark now.
Speaker 6: The disruptor in chief Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted
Speaker 6: the alias, at least he changed his social media handle
Speaker 6: to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning democracy in America is
Speaker 6: being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not
Speaker 6: a real judge.
Speaker 1: All right, So is it so Elon Musk.
Speaker 3: When he's only the world richest man and the guy
Speaker 3: who owns Twitter and him doing the childish jokes is
Speaker 3: I find him fascinating and hilarious, But I don't know
Speaker 3: if he's going to take this high role in the government,
Speaker 3: be the focal point, have the media talking about him
Speaker 3: being co president and all this sort of stuff. He
Speaker 3: should change his Twitter handle to Harry Balls. There's a
Speaker 3: great deal to be set on this topic. Certainly, I'm
Speaker 3: sure he well, he actually tweeted out how much he
Speaker 3: enjoyed the mainstream media.
Speaker 1: Having to say that.
Speaker 3: Well, that sort of trolling is absolutely delightful. But this
Speaker 3: is unprecedented, or at least very rare in our republic.
Speaker 3: You have to go back to an Alexander Hamilton Kristen
Speaker 3: himself hughe azz.
Speaker 1: During the Constitutional convention. I guess he was he dead
Speaker 1: by then.
Speaker 3: Anyway, Oh god, uh, I do have to tell my
Speaker 3: story about what I said about the government at the bank.
Speaker 1: That's a good one, Okay.
Speaker 3: I know I'm on some sort of list now, I
Speaker 3: mean seriously, honest to god, he contacted someone and I'll
Speaker 3: be other news of the day, huge press conference going
Speaker 3: on with Elon explaining what they're doing at DOGE. And
Speaker 3: I think a lot of you are gonna really really
Speaker 3: love it. I know I do. It's fantastic. How about
Speaker 3: we take a look at how we spend money?
Speaker 1: Huh? And we're not.
Speaker 3: Elected a plutocrat billionaires and him saying, yeah, we'll get
Speaker 3: things wrong, we'll go too far, and then we'll let
Speaker 3: it back in. We'll do we're going fast. We're gonna
Speaker 3: go fast when we try to fix things too. Just
Speaker 3: the way we're gonna do it, is he president? Anyway,
Speaker 3: We've got lots on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay with us, a strong.
Speaker 5: I am gonna tell you we do have to. I
Speaker 5: don't swear in public.
Speaker 1: Very well, but camp.
Speaker 5: Please tell my children that I just said that, and
Speaker 5: I'll tell you I'm.
Speaker 1: From Jersey, so I'll get a little different. Donald Trump and.
Speaker 3: Well, we've been talking about this for years, the coarsening
Speaker 3: over language and the race to the bottom. Were almost
Speaker 3: at the bottom. I think once we're to the you
Speaker 3: come out on the Capitol steps and you just say,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, right, I mean, what is there a step
Speaker 3: beyond that? You just squat and poop on the stage?
Speaker 3: Point at it. This is I think we are at
Speaker 3: the lowest common denominator in American politics. We may have
Speaker 3: reached the end. Yes, I don't know what you other
Speaker 3: than bodily functions. I don't think we can go any lower. Well,
Speaker 3: and then play just the first part of the Dana
Speaker 3: Bash clip we opened with Michael eighteen.
Speaker 1: I believe.
Speaker 6: Now the instructor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has
Speaker 6: adopted the alias at least he changed his social media
Speaker 6: handle to Harry Balls, created this morning.
Speaker 3: I truly an idiotra saying when I was an eighth grader,
Speaker 3: I would have really enjoyed all this. He spells it
Speaker 3: be oh with like a line over it, like it's
Speaker 3: some different language. L Z. I think if I was
Speaker 3: on CNN, I would have said, Harry Bowles. I'm not
Speaker 3: exactly sure how he wants you to pronounce it, but
Speaker 3: I get what he's going for. Yeah, But I while
Speaker 3: I'm laughing.
Speaker 1: On the inside, I'm crying. I just I just I
Speaker 1: know what you mean.
Speaker 3: It's not this is not way to accomplish thing on
Speaker 3: either side.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I was.
Speaker 3: Just looking at the video of it was like last
Speaker 3: week on CNN when the guy who went by the
Speaker 3: moniker Big Balls was I don't know, the guy that
Speaker 3: everybody was talking about for a cup of coffee, and
Speaker 3: how the lady on CNN was saying he went by
Speaker 3: the online moniker big Balls with a perfectly straight you know,
Speaker 3: very concerned.
Speaker 1: And I loved one of that.
Speaker 3: I think may been Clay Travis, fellow radio guy podcaster
Speaker 3: dude credit where its due, who said I think CNN
Speaker 3: just exists to be mocked at this point. That's really
Speaker 3: their only useful purpose, right. We got to mention this news.
Speaker 3: The inflation numbers are out and they're not good or
Speaker 3: well depends on how you look at it. But inflation
Speaker 3: picked up speed, rising to three percent in January.
Speaker 1: It ticked up.
Speaker 3: Now you got our Remember these are the numbers of
Speaker 3: what happened in January Trump took over the twentieth This
Speaker 3: is being credited to the lasting policies of the Inflation
Speaker 3: Reduction Act, which, as Byron York and The Washington Examiner
Speaker 3: reminds us, in case you didn't know, the Inflation Reduction
Speaker 3: Act was not intended to reduce inflation. It was originally
Speaker 3: called Build Back Better Act. It was two point two
Speaker 3: trillion dollars. The name change was only pr It was
Speaker 3: really the Green New Deal and it got shoved through
Speaker 3: and we're still living with it. But yeah, so starting
Speaker 3: at three percent inflation, Yeah, I'm concerned about Trump's some
Speaker 3: of Trump's terrify ideas if he actually goes through with them,
Speaker 3: and we actually have a really good, helpful checklist of
Speaker 3: where all these things are at this point.
Speaker 1: The blizzard of.
Speaker 3: Activity out of the Trump administration because tough to keep track,
Speaker 3: especially with various legal actions and suits and rulings and
Speaker 3: the rest of it. But I'm concerned that if he
Speaker 3: does impose tariffs on stealing aluminum, that's going to be
Speaker 3: super inflationary and that's going to be bad.
Speaker 1: And I just I don't see any particular need for it.
Speaker 3: And we can talk about protection as policies later, but
Speaker 3: I'm just I'm so concerned that the not necessary stuff
Speaker 3: is going to screw up the effort to do the
Speaker 3: good stuff, the really, really good stuff, because you have
Speaker 3: to remember, stealing aluminum goes into like every single product
Speaker 3: manufactured in America, from cars to dishwashers to everything else,
Speaker 3: and so I'm a little concerned about that. So the
Speaker 3: Wall Street Journalist a couple paragraphs on the inflation news
Speaker 3: out today, which is getting a lot of attention. Obviously,
Speaker 3: inflation has now been around to these rates for some time.
Speaker 3: Might not be coming down, says one of their economists
Speaker 3: say quote. The bigger than expected increase in prices last
Speaker 3: month reflected higher prices for used cars and auto insurance,
Speaker 3: according to the Wall Street Journal. And overall, the price
Speaker 3: increases were more than economists at expected.
Speaker 1: So there you go. We have mail bag on the way.
Speaker 1: How does that look? Oh it's outstanding.
Speaker 3: Great freedom loving quotes of the day from birthday Boy
Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln as well if you want to comment on
Speaker 3: any of the news of day or anything text line
Speaker 3: four one kftc.
Speaker 6: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 3: Abraham Lincoln would be two hundred and sixteen today had
Speaker 3: he not been murdered by John Wilkes booth.
Speaker 1: That's great. That's what is that?
Speaker 3: A conundrum of paradox is that that which is true
Speaker 3: and yet false or something nonsense.
Speaker 1: Here's your freedom.
Speaker 3: Loving quote of today from birthday Boy Abraham Lincoln, whose
Speaker 3: birthday I missed sharing by one day because my sainted
Speaker 3: mother was impatient. Apparently there are so many to choose from. Sir,
Speaker 3: my concern is not whether God is on our side.
Speaker 3: My greatest concern is to be on God's side, for
Speaker 3: God is always right. He also said, you cannot escape
Speaker 3: the responsibility of tomorrow evading it today. I've tried it
Speaker 3: doesn't work. He's right, tried it repeatedly. Yeah, I love
Speaker 3: this one. Give me six hours to chop down a tree,
Speaker 3: and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Speaker 1: That was an interesting what does that provoking one? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're provoking my thoughts. What is that? What is that?
Speaker 1: What's the point of that? Uh?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 3: Do not blunder ahead blindly, think about what you're doing,
Speaker 3: have a plan, be smart. Jack is looking sure thought provoked?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that will make the job go much more
Speaker 3: quickly and efficiently. I just wondered, if do you what
Speaker 3: do you do six hours sharpening? Six hours seems like
Speaker 3: an awful long time to cut down a tree.
Speaker 1: If you told me.
Speaker 3: I've got tree in this scenario, huge, I'm gonna give
Speaker 3: you three days to clean this studio, and I'm gonna
Speaker 3: think it's gonna take me like a half an hour,
Speaker 3: so I guess I'll spend the first two and a
Speaker 3: half days I don't know, killing time. Label this part
Speaker 3: of the segment, Jack argues with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln,
Speaker 3: and perhaps is best known other than the House Divided
Speaker 3: speech is you can fool all of the people some
Speaker 3: of the time, and some of the people all of
Speaker 3: the time, but you cannot fool all of the people
Speaker 3: all of the time.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good. Mailbag.
Speaker 3: Feel free to correspond if you'd like. Mailbag and Armstrong
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Speaker 3: I will reply to all of you as soon as
Speaker 3: I can. My life has been madness the last couple
Speaker 3: of days. A note from se Busy really enjoyed the
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Speaker 3: It's not as dopey and self indulgent as it sounds.
Speaker 1: That's Armstrong and Getty One More Thing.
Speaker 3: You might as well subscribe, but thank you very much
Speaker 3: for the kind words. Barry from Thailand weighing in not
Speaker 3: his most eloquent or persuasive email, but I like that
Speaker 3: it points out well, he asked, please answer me a question. First,
Speaker 3: he says, a lot of expats in Thailand or big
Speaker 3: musk fans, we call ourselves musketeers.
Speaker 1: Please answer me a question.
Speaker 3: If crazy Maxine Waters and her fellow Democrats had been
Speaker 3: allowed in the Department of Education building, what would they
Speaker 3: have done inside? What would be accomplished? And the answer,
Speaker 3: obviously is they wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't have
Speaker 3: accomplished anything. It was a flailing, frantic publicity stunt to
Speaker 3: try to look like they're the brave resistance.
Speaker 2: Again. Well, so much of what.
Speaker 3: We do, as we've been saying for years, is performative.
Speaker 3: And whether it's that that or Elon. I think Elon's
Speaker 3: just getting his jolly's but Elon renaming himself on Twitter
Speaker 3: Harry Balls for a day or whatever, it just so
Speaker 3: much is just like to fire people up and get
Speaker 3: attention and aw yeah yeah, and it's all so quickly
Speaker 3: and readily reported to the entire globe via the Internet,
Speaker 3: every one of these idiotic I mean that Maxine Waters,
Speaker 3: who is a halfwooted best bellowing outside the Department of Education,
Speaker 3: didn't deserve three sentences of ink in any decent newspaper
Speaker 3: back in the day. You know, it's pretty good video,
Speaker 3: so we also want moving along. Note from Miles, a
Speaker 3: longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, a former
Speaker 3: colleague of ours. He's pointing out that yesterday Supervisor Jim
Speaker 3: Desmond in the San Diego County Board of Supervisors introduced
Speaker 3: a Letter in support of the Protection of Women and
Speaker 3: Girls in Sports Act. Couldn't even get a second. It
Speaker 3: was defeated two to one. Jim being the one san Diego,
Speaker 3: California standing or San Diego County anyway, standing tall to
Speaker 3: allow men to compete and beat the crap out.
Speaker 1: Of women in women's sports. What a brave stance that. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. I just saw some polling.
Speaker 3: Now this was up on Fox, but polling around this
Speaker 3: broken down by party.
Speaker 1: We'll have to get that later. But it's well what
Speaker 1: you think it would be. Most people think it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, anybody saying does speaking of men's and women's
Speaker 3: Note from John, who talks about his sons enjoying hunting
Speaker 3: and he says, I don't really give a crap about it.
Speaker 3: It's fun, but it's more about hanging out with dudes.
Speaker 3: That aren't the p word. Guys that work with their hands, farmers, mechanics, welders.
Speaker 3: I don't disparage anyone's path unless you're a comedy. You
Speaker 3: don't have to be able to work with your hands
Speaker 3: as a mechanic to get my praise. Just be a
Speaker 3: dude and know how to use a screwdriver. Oh man, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: a lot of that's upbringing. But if you do not
Speaker 3: know righty tidy, lefty lucy, that's why you're a man
Speaker 3: in training. So my kids we got new furniture for
Speaker 3: their bedrooms and we went to Ikea. And if you
Speaker 3: know anything about Ikea, you know you have to put
Speaker 3: this stuff together. And I helped them move the boxes
Speaker 3: in the room and I said, you're gonna put it together,
Speaker 3: and Henry put it all for a long time.
Speaker 1: I said, you're gonna learn to do this.
Speaker 3: You cannot have a girlfriend someday who asks you to
Speaker 3: assemble an end table and you say, I don't know
Speaker 3: how that's not an option. No, No, indeed, that's some
Speaker 3: good dad right there. Well done. Speak of Elon Musk
Speaker 3: once again. I love this note from Jess and Wiley, Texas.
Speaker 3: New York Times reports that Elon Musk is operating in
Speaker 3: deep secrecy quote unquote end quote, descending upon agencies like
Speaker 3: a spooky vampire, she writes, and basically making crap out
Speaker 3: up about everyone. And it goes into some details. You
Speaker 3: gotta be real precious. Well, it has to do with
Speaker 3: the us AID and that he'd said people have been
Speaker 3: taking kickbacks and a lot of people in the bureaucracy
Speaker 3: somehow had managed to accrue tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 3: in net worthwhile they're in that position, without explaining how
Speaker 3: he'd made that assessment.
Speaker 1: I have more examples of that sort of thing in
Speaker 1: a bit.
Speaker 3: But you gotta be real precious to think there's nobody
Speaker 3: taking kickbacks at USAID, the very least getting lavish stipends.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty jealous of Elon right now. Calling Vacas out
Speaker 3: is one of the ultimate joys in life. I'm also
Speaker 3: the the the the reaction by so many that Elon.
Speaker 3: You know, there are gonna be examples out there. He's
Speaker 3: gonna there are people that are gonna need their food
Speaker 3: that they're not gonna get there. There are all kinds
Speaker 3: of examples of people getting screwed by the government on
Speaker 3: a regular basis, remember the VA scandal. I mean it
Speaker 3: happens all the time when these agencies are supposedly doing
Speaker 3: their best. So if a guy's cutting waste and uh
Speaker 3: or attempting to cut waste, or Trump's attempting to cut waste,
Speaker 3: and you get some occasions where somebody who deserve to
Speaker 3: get their meal or wheelchair or whatever doesn't get it.
Speaker 1: It's not like that never happens anyway, right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: And in a broader sense, what they're claiming those who
Speaker 3: are yelling about this most of it's performatives we've been discussing.
Speaker 3: But those who are shouting about, well, this program does
Speaker 3: some good, as both the President and Elon Musk have
Speaker 3: made it clear, well that stuff will get funding, just
Speaker 3: give us a minute. So they are in effect making
Speaker 3: the argument that we must rein in the grotesque, horrifying
Speaker 3: year responsible over spending of the federal government with zero
Speaker 3: inconvenience or disruption to anyone, which is, when you say
Speaker 3: it out loud, just a.
Speaker 1: Ridiculous point of view.
Speaker 3: So I think I can tell this story shortly, okay,
Speaker 3: and then I think our frequent correspondent Pallo has absolutely
Speaker 3: nailed the drop in fertility and reproduction. Oh really nailed it?
Speaker 3: Have we had to do that at a kickoff next
Speaker 3: hour because that's a good topic.
Speaker 1: That's fine with me. That's a good topic. Sure.
Speaker 3: So my thirteen year old, and it matters what his
Speaker 3: age is, apparently wanted to open a checking account at
Speaker 3: the bank or an account at the bank because he's
Speaker 3: got enough money built up from allowances and birthdays and Christmases.
Speaker 3: And he doesn't spend his money like his brother does.
Speaker 3: He saves it because he wants to be able to
Speaker 3: put it toward a car someday and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: So he's got a decent sized chunk of.
Speaker 3: Money it up over the years, and he'd been keeping
Speaker 3: it in a shoe box. And so he's going to open
Speaker 3: an account. And I remember when I opened an account
Speaker 3: when I was probably about his age. I started mowing
Speaker 3: lawns when I was twelve thirteen and accumulating money and
Speaker 3: opening a bank account on the passage.
Speaker 1: I remember it myself.
Speaker 3: On the way to the bank, I did say to him,
Speaker 3: I said, you know, I haven't I haven't been around
Speaker 3: the idea of opening an account for a bank in
Speaker 3: forty years something like that, So I don't know if
Speaker 3: the rules have changed, but so in case something happens,
Speaker 3: but anyway, we should we get it there sure enough.
Speaker 3: And so we're trying to open this account and everything
Speaker 3: like that. And first of all, many banks everything is
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's because the government comes down
Speaker 3: on them so hard or something like that. They treat
Speaker 3: everybody like you're a want to be terrorist, Like everything
Speaker 3: you do it's like jeez, lighting up. But anyway, he
Speaker 3: needs to have two forms of ID. Is where we
Speaker 3: ran into the roadblock.
Speaker 1: I said, what is a form of ID for a
Speaker 1: thirteen year old?
Speaker 3: He said, and they said, well, your Social State Security
Speaker 3: card is birth certificate?
Speaker 1: Okay, great?
Speaker 3: So uh, I said, the fact that I'm his dad
Speaker 3: isn't good enough. I can't vouch for the fact that
Speaker 3: he's my son and I have an account here and
Speaker 3: have had for twenty five years and open an account
Speaker 3: for him.
Speaker 1: I can't do that. And no, we need to.
Speaker 3: And I said, is that a bank policy or the
Speaker 3: state law or what is that? Because I was thinking,
Speaker 3: if it's a bank policy, I'll go to a different bank.
Speaker 3: But it's a federal law. It's part of the patriotarch.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, of course, and he said, well, it's
Speaker 3: a federal I said, you don't need to explain the
Speaker 3: federal government to me. And I hate the federal government,
Speaker 3: I said. And then the guy looked at me like
Speaker 3: I was Oh. He got wide eyed, like, oh, you're
Speaker 3: one of those people. You're Timothy McVeigh, you're you're you're
Speaker 3: one of those people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, clearly I've heard about them.
Speaker 3: I said, I hate the federal government. The Patriot Act's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: This is ridiculous. The fact that I can't open a
Speaker 3: bank account for a thirteen year old.
Speaker 1: And as his parent, I got it.
Speaker 3: I got to prove who he is because you can't
Speaker 3: take my word for the fact that he's my child,
Speaker 3: makes me a child money laundering, little mule for your militia,
Speaker 3: whatever you want to call him. The Patriot Act was
Speaker 3: so much I was trying to explain it to her.
Speaker 3: He was so much crap that they jammed through. It's
Speaker 3: all because of nine to eleven.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna stop.
Speaker 3: The next nine to eleven by making sure thirteen year
Speaker 3: olds don't open illegal bank accounts. I guess whatever, even
Speaker 3: though their parrot, who you know, is sitting right there.
Speaker 1: I hate stuff like that. And the and the but
Speaker 1: they were there.
Speaker 3: Their eyes got so wide when I hate the said
Speaker 3: I hate the federal government. And I was thinking if
Speaker 3: I was doing this same thing in my and my
Speaker 3: where I went to college in Hayes, Kansas, and I
Speaker 3: said I hate the federal government, the teller would have said, yeah,
Speaker 3: me too, don't you high five Joe came end of
Speaker 3: that brother, but that just being oh my god, you
Speaker 3: shouldn't she said. Oh she gasped. The woman gasped, and
Speaker 3: her boss just looked at me white. I'd like, oh,
Speaker 3: we about to have a fight. Oh man, I have
Speaker 3: the two pieces of ID even though he's my kid.
Speaker 1: I just found that amazing.
Speaker 3: All right, here's here's the guy who retweets my quotes.
Speaker 3: Get ready to jot this one down and get it right,
Speaker 3: would you? Anytime the government says there's an emergency, there
Speaker 3: are two emergencies.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but actually exactly.
Speaker 3: And I actually told my son because he was one,
Speaker 3: and he was really like, is that something you can't
Speaker 3: say out loud?
Speaker 1: I said, I told him.
Speaker 3: The most revered Republican president of the last maybe century,
Speaker 3: Ronald Reagan, ran on the scariest words in the English
Speaker 3: language are I'm here from the I'm from the government,
Speaker 3: and I'm here to help you.
Speaker 1: I mean, he ran on I hate the government, or.
Speaker 3: I just saw a clip this morning. The government isn't
Speaker 3: the solution. Government is the problem. And the woman who
Speaker 3: was typing furiously after I said that, because she was
Speaker 3: so horrified that anybody would say that, I said, you know,
Speaker 3: all the money in my account. I made that by
Speaker 3: going on the radio every day and saying I hate
Speaker 3: the government and.
Speaker 1: I make my living.
Speaker 3: By the way, if the Justice Department is listening, or
Speaker 3: the FDIC or right the c i A, the NSA,
Speaker 3: if I'm happy to testify against this monster.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm on some sort of terrorist watch list.
Speaker 3: Now, yes, Michael, So wonder they didn't hit the silent
Speaker 3: alarm on you and then you know, cops show up
Speaker 3: or something. I would have been I would have loved
Speaker 3: to talk to people and explain why it's okay for
Speaker 3: me to say I hate the government. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: We've got to surveill him for a while and go
Speaker 3: through his mail and monitor his phone calls. We've got
Speaker 3: the NSA working on it already. What I hate is
Speaker 3: the manager guy acting like it makes sense that we
Speaker 3: have a law that I can't vouch for my kid
Speaker 3: being my kid. That seems perfectly reasonable to me. Two
Speaker 3: forms of ID for a child right when their parent
Speaker 3: is there. How about he says his name, then I
Speaker 3: say his name? Is that two forms of ID?
Speaker 1: And if not, what the hell has the world becaught?
Speaker 3: I know? Anyway, We've got Katie's headlines coming up next.
Speaker 3: I guess in brief to my saying to the manager
Speaker 3: at the bank that I hate the federal government. My
Speaker 3: feeling comes from I don't know about everybody else's life,
Speaker 3: but I feel like my interaction with the government is
Speaker 3: either me giving them money or them stopping me from
Speaker 3: doing something I want to done.
Speaker 1: Of the time.
Speaker 3: Sure, I appreciate maintaining a standing army, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: not day to day interactions. Obviously, you're you know you're
Speaker 3: you're going out of your way to be didactic if
Speaker 3: you don't understand that we all need roads in an
Speaker 3: army and that sort of stuff. But almost of my
Speaker 3: interactions are me giving you money and I see around
Speaker 3: me it being wasted, or you stopping me from doing
Speaker 3: something I want to do.
Speaker 1: That's mostly didact.
Speaker 3: I moving along, we have breaking news. Jd Vance has
Speaker 3: renamed himself Amanda Hugging Kiss. Stay with us for details.
Speaker 3: Let's figure out who's reporting what it's leads story. What's
Speaker 3: a discouraged Katie Katie from CNN.
Speaker 7: Wrongfully detained American teacher Mark Fogel meets with Trump after
Speaker 7: being released from Russia in a quote exchange.
Speaker 3: We got a bunch of clips about that. What Trump said,
Speaker 3: what the released teacher said, Hey, don't smoke marijuana and
Speaker 3: Moscow or whatever he was accused of doing.
Speaker 7: Yep, NBC isis has an army in waiting, and Trump's
Speaker 7: next move could decide whether.
Speaker 1: It rises again. Where's that from? I don't know that
Speaker 1: strung NBC. I'll have to look at that. I'll add
Speaker 1: it to the hotlinks from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 7: Department of Education calls on NCAA and NFHS to revoke
Speaker 7: the titles and championships awarded to transgender athletes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't have dudes women who were winning women's titles.
Speaker 1: It's a very short ruling. In fact, that's it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for coming from NewsNation.
Speaker 7: Christy nom fires four FEMA workers for paying New York
Speaker 7: City for hotel to house.
Speaker 3: Migrants in definance of orders as I understand it, right, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars from the.
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 7: Inflation picks up speed, rising.
Speaker 1: To three percent in January.
Speaker 7: Were Yeah, Daily Mail, one in five Democrats say Trump
Speaker 7: is doing a good job as his whirldwinds starting off.
Speaker 1: This attracts new fans.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I meant to break down his high fifty three
Speaker 3: percent approval rating. You break it down by various groups.
Speaker 3: It's pretty damned impressive, it is. And I would think,
Speaker 3: you know, in any other era of American politics, the
Speaker 3: Democrats would lay low, see how they could work with them,
Speaker 3: say to their constituents, Hey, we're working with them when
Speaker 3: it makes sense, We're looking at for you and wait
Speaker 3: for an opportunity. Is it just that the fever pitch
Speaker 3: of day to day internet fundraising they're.
Speaker 1: So behind this fiscal year.
Speaker 3: Is that why they're making these frantic gestures of where
Speaker 3: the resistance in f Trump and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: Why don't they just come to hell down for a
Speaker 1: few months.
Speaker 7: From the athletic, Kevin Durant becomes eighth player in NBA
Speaker 7: history to hit thirty thousand career points.
Speaker 3: There was talk of him coming to the Warriors up
Speaker 3: until the trade deadline just a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and that fell apart the last minute.
Speaker 1: And because he hates somebody on.
Speaker 3: The Warriors and wouldn't come play with him, they're gonna
Speaker 3: take one last chance at winning a title with him.
Speaker 7: From the New York Post quote, I'm lucky to be
Speaker 7: alive after sustaining car crash injuries after tripping over my cat.
Speaker 7: This guy has a hairless cat. It bit him in
Speaker 7: the leg.
Speaker 1: He tripped.
Speaker 7: He ended up fracturing his skull, breaking a bone in
Speaker 7: his neck, two fractures in his spine, nine broken ribs,
Speaker 7: and blood in his lungs.
Speaker 3: Good, my kiddy, don't have hairless cats as the lead
Speaker 3: there exactly.
Speaker 7: Finally, the Babylon Bee, exhausted media begs Trump to take
Speaker 7: a day off.
Speaker 1: God, I believe that. Do you see the assault?
Speaker 3: More breaking news, Marco Rubio has changed wh's his name
Speaker 3: to Jack Cass Oh gosh. Trump says he's not going
Speaker 3: to allow the Associated Press into the press pool because
Speaker 3: they won't refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the
Speaker 3: Gulf of America. Fair enough, I say, if you miss
Speaker 3: a second, we get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
Speaker 3: demand Armstrong and Getty