WEBVTT - Other Than Bodily Functions, We Can't Go Any Lower 0:00:10.960 --> 0:00:15.240 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.960 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:21.599 Jetta and he. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:35.800 Arms We're from Studio C Say Senor. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.239 We're in a dim lit room deeput them the bowels 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:40.360 of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.680 And today midweek Wednesday, we're under the Tidlage Bauer General Manager. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:46.160 The mighty Doge. 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:53.519 Wow, how do you I almost work with the constitution 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:57.280 which is in a crisis. I'm told I want to 0:00:57.320 --> 0:01:00.000 talk about that, but uh yeah, the whole the whole 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:02.400 Doage thing continues to. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.520 Well, it seems to be the hottest. 0:01:06.120 --> 0:01:08.480 Story in politics, and it's one of the more interesting 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:15.200 things in we've seen happen in any administration. I agree, 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:17.840 it's super interesting on a number of levels. I Mean, 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.640 the obvious is everybody knows the everybody with the New 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.280 York Times we'll get to that later, knows that the 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.280 federal government is incredibly bloated and complex and wasteful and 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:27.760 the rest of it. So it's fun to see it 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.120 cut down the whole question of whether this is a 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.720 constitutional crisis. It's not whether Jade Evan said, we will 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:34.679 defy the courts. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.880 He didn't. How all of that works, how spending works. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:41.480 It's all been very interesting for me doing a deep 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.680 dive into it. I used that expression yesterday and it 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:45.440 occurred to me. Nobody ever does a shallow dive. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.600 Why not? Or a medium dive. It's always deep. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.760 I often do shallow dives into many things. I'm a 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.520 first paragraph guy. That's enough for me. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.240 Yeah. Yeah. 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.480 The constitutional crisis is getting thrown around a lot. It 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.960 seems that when most people talk about a constitutional crisis, 0:02:04.000 --> 0:02:07.080 they mean if one branch does something and then the 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.880 other branch, using the levers and powers given to them 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.280 by the constitution, corrects that like the Trump's I mean 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.440 the court with the president, like happened with Biden, and 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.000 it's happened with Trump or Congress or whatever. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:24.520 They call that a constitutional crisis. It's the opposite. 0:02:24.600 --> 0:02:27.120 It's a constitution doing exactly what it was designed to do. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:31.959 The branches, you know, fighting against each other and working out. 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:35.120 That's not a constitutional crisis, right. And as I heard 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.919 the brilliant Charlie Cook at National Reviews say the other day, 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:42.119 when their guy does what our guy just did, that's 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.520 a constitutional crisis now and must be dealt with and 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.600 rained as power must be rained in right. A constitutional 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:53.400 crisis would be if one of the branches refused to 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:57.440 go along with whatever the decision ends up being, and 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.840 then what do you do that things could get difficult. 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:03.400 And we haven't had that happen yet. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.800 No, and I mean it would have to be a 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:11.959 Supreme Court ruling that's issued probably that is just openly defied. No, 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:13.640 we're not going along with that and force it if 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:16.239 you can, to paraphrase Andrew Jackson back in the day. 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:22.800 But I firmly, firmly believe there would be an enormous 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.600 ground swell of this can't happen. This is an actual 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.920 constitutional crisis that would cross party lines, and it would 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:35.120 be dealt with fairly swiftly, I believe. I think a 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.640 president who did that would be impeached. So I keep 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.440 saying it should say something to you. The way these 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.360 people are digging in over the idea of anybody cutting 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.160 any jobs or any budget. I mean, they're like hair 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.840 on fire for alarm fire. This is the worst thing 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.520 that has ever happened, the idea of shrinking government. And 0:03:53.560 --> 0:03:55.800 it continues, and we got more clips from one of 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:01.440 their shouting rallies yesterday. But I heard one politician, now 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:07.160 remember who it was, standing there and screaming, I am 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.520 counting on the American to have our backs, we civil servants, 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.440 to have our backs and protect us. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.080 And I thought, that's. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.040 The weird relationships some people have with the government, or 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:21.799 you think we should have with the government. Why would 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:25.719 America have your back if you might lose your job 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.840 anymore than when ten thousand people are fired from Facebook 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:32.359 or people get laid off a GM or anywhere else. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:33.880 Why no, we shouldn't. 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.800 But you half the country and all the people in 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:41.920 government think it's a different thing, that it's some sort 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.880 of I don't even know how to describe it, like 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:50.560 holy should never be messed with job for some reason, right, right, 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.400 just so valuable and sacred it must not be molested 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.200 in any way. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.320 I tell you what, and what a weird view, though 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.400 I don't have it at all. Where does it come from? 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.960 Do you end up thinking that, oh, I got to 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:05.480 tell my story about Oh I got I'm on some 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:07.200 sort of watch list for something I said in a 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:08.520 bank yesterday about the government. 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.000 I have to tell that story later. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.760 Well, I'd say you pretend that that's the case, that 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.919 it's sacred and untouchable, because that is your constituency, that 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:20.480 keeps you in power, that contributes to your wealth, that's 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:21.440 your peeps. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.480 And that's fine. That's how politics. 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:24.640 But I know plenty of people who aren't politicians who 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:29.120 think that, well, I know, oh oh yeah, well, journey 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:32.040 of voters who feel the same way. Well, government people 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:37.960 shouldn't lose their jobs. They have an incredibly naive and 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.680 dopey view of the people and the government and the 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.479 relationship between them, which I cannot comprehend. I don't know 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:48.279 where it comes from, this never ending faith that government 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.000 does what's true and right as efficiently as possible at 0:05:51.000 --> 0:05:53.599 all times. And my god, we're lucky to have every 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:56.560 single quote unquote civil service on the job. It helps 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:58.560 me sleep at night. I mean, seriously, what color is 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:02.200 the sky in your world? And one more point I 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:03.960 was going to make. It struck me as a very 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:05.920 worth making, which is flit it out of it. I'll 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:09.159 talk while you're thinking. A long press conference Elon had 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.600 in the Oval office yesterday with his you know, dark 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.920 maga hat on, his Doughe hat on and a cute 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.080 little kid in tow and answering questions and everything like that. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:24.720 It's interesting. I mean, I'm not frightened that Elon's some 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:28.160 sort of code dictator or something like that, but it's unique. 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:32.440 There's no doubt about that. Yeah, so I do too 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:33.760 completely Excuse me. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:35.200 It occurred to me what I was going to say, 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:37.320 and it factors into some great audio we're going to 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.600 play for you later on in the show. 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.240 But two things. 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:50.679 Number one, the extent to which Democrats will will sacrifice anything, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.920 including America's children, on the altar of being anti Trump, 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.360 Trump's arrangement syndrome, it's just amazing. I mean, if they 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:01.800 damaged the little kids, you know, by not letting them 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.200 go to school for a year plus, that's evidence enough. 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:09.000 But to be saying we need huge, voted, wasteful government 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:14.080 in effect, who's with us? Don't you understand there's a 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.440 very very little constituency for that. And they're you know, 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:22.280 some of the stunts they're pulling and screeching constitutional crisis 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:27.320 and and and there's a new chant that they're engaging 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:29.960 in that's not arable. We've had to bleep it. It's 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:34.360 just it's increasingly desperate. It's like the jilted lover who's 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.320 gone past a stalker and has killed a cat, and 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:43.040 he's just just desperate for some sort of attention and 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.880 none of it's working, and it's increasingly just. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.880 Flailing and foolish. 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:50.240 Look, if you want to opposet Trump, that's fine, that's 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.160 how our system works. 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.120 Go right ahead. But it's it's getting increasingly frantic. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:58.280 So what's the body chant that we can't play or 0:07:58.320 --> 0:07:59.280 say in the area have to work? 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.120 We can play? What do they say? Well, we can 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:04.320 just play it? Okay? 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.880 Well I well, I guess it's bleeped. Oh yes, where 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:08.680 should I sit down? 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:15.320 Should I sit down? It's up to you. I'm standing sixteen. 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.320 There we go. Here it comes everybody. This is going 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:18.920 to be exciting. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.800 I just I've been told I have thirty seconds, so 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:26.280 I am going to tell you that we do have to. 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.520 I don't swear in public very well. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:34.200 But this is the w Yes, yes, we have to. 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.439 I'll tell you we still do. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.600 We stop playing clips, Michael, Let's just not play any 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:43.520 clips unless we. 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:44.360 Can play the Carol. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.000 Let's do this next segment. We got to start to 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:47.880 show officially where we're getting all off track here but. 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.280 I want to know what. Can you tell me what 0:08:49.320 --> 0:08:52.439 the body chant is? Is it Trump? I just flat 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.200 out truck Trump Wow? Yeah. 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.600 I got a collection of Democrats people say quite a chance, 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:00.320 Trump Wow, and it's it's it's more than that chance. 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:04.400 It's a foul. That's their new slogan. I mean, that's 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:05.000 the new. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:07.680 Whip inflation now or make America great again. 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:08.439 So it's Trump. 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.400 We had the whole let's go Brandon thing, but it 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:14.640 wasn't wasn't people in government chanting. It be f Joe 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:18.760 Biden that I remember. It was football stadiums and stuff 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:19.240 like that. 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:23.720 But well, and they had the decency to change it 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:24.640 to let's go Brandon. 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.760 Right, let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.560 Joe Getty on this It's Wednesday, jan ho February twelfth, 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:32.600 the year twenty twenty five. 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.679 More Armstrong and getting we approved of this program. 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.679 Let's begin then, officially according the FCC rules and regulations, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.280 here we go, leaping forward at mark now. 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:44.480 The disruptor in chief Elon Musk, who apparently has adopted 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.400 the alias, at least he changed his social media handle 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.160 to Harry Balls, tweeted this morning democracy in America is 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:56.480 being destroyed by judicial coup. An activist judge is not 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:57.960 a real judge. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:03.400 All right, So is it so Elon Musk. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.720 When he's only the world richest man and the guy 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.400 who owns Twitter and him doing the childish jokes is 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.760 I find him fascinating and hilarious, But I don't know 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.800 if he's going to take this high role in the government, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:23.920 be the focal point, have the media talking about him 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.080 being co president and all this sort of stuff. He 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:34.000 should change his Twitter handle to Harry Balls. There's a 0:10:34.040 --> 0:10:38.080 great deal to be set on this topic. Certainly, I'm 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.760 sure he well, he actually tweeted out how much he 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:42.360 enjoyed the mainstream media. 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:42.880 Having to say that. 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.280 Well, that sort of trolling is absolutely delightful. But this 0:10:48.440 --> 0:10:51.440 is unprecedented, or at least very rare in our republic. 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.160 You have to go back to an Alexander Hamilton Kristen 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.280 himself hughe azz. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.640 During the Constitutional convention. I guess he was he dead 0:10:59.679 --> 0:10:59.920 by then. 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:05.800 Anyway, Oh god, uh, I do have to tell my 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.520 story about what I said about the government at the bank. 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:10.920 That's a good one, Okay. 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:13.440 I know I'm on some sort of list now, I 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:19.400 mean seriously, honest to god, he contacted someone and I'll 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.160 be other news of the day, huge press conference going 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.560 on with Elon explaining what they're doing at DOGE. And 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:26.560 I think a lot of you are gonna really really 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.480 love it. I know I do. It's fantastic. How about 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.880 we take a look at how we spend money? 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:31.679 Huh? And we're not. 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.000 Elected a plutocrat billionaires and him saying, yeah, we'll get 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:37.800 things wrong, we'll go too far, and then we'll let 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.000 it back in. We'll do we're going fast. We're gonna 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.360 go fast when we try to fix things too. Just 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:46.840 the way we're gonna do it, is he president? Anyway, 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:47.679 We've got lots on the way. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.599 Stay with us, a strong. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:57.040 I am gonna tell you we do have to. I 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:58.880 don't swear in public. 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.160 Very well, but camp. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.640 Please tell my children that I just said that, and 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:09.679 I'll tell you I'm. 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:16.000 From Jersey, so I'll get a little different. Donald Trump and. 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:23.280 Well, we've been talking about this for years, the coarsening 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.440 over language and the race to the bottom. Were almost 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.120 at the bottom. I think once we're to the you 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.560 come out on the Capitol steps and you just say, 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:36.839 oh yeah, right, I mean, what is there a step 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.280 beyond that? You just squat and poop on the stage? 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:45.760 Point at it. This is I think we are at 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.720 the lowest common denominator in American politics. We may have 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.920 reached the end. Yes, I don't know what you other 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:56.680 than bodily functions. I don't think we can go any lower. Well, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:59.079 and then play just the first part of the Dana 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.480 Bash clip we opened with Michael eighteen. 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:02.400 I believe. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:08.360 Now the instructor in chief, Elon Musk, who apparently has 0:13:08.400 --> 0:13:11.480 adopted the alias at least he changed his social media 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.600 handle to Harry Balls, created this morning. 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.319 I truly an idiotra saying when I was an eighth grader, 0:13:18.360 --> 0:13:22.160 I would have really enjoyed all this. He spells it 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.560 be oh with like a line over it, like it's 0:13:26.080 --> 0:13:31.360 some different language. L Z. I think if I was 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.080 on CNN, I would have said, Harry Bowles. I'm not 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:35.920 exactly sure how he wants you to pronounce it, but 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:42.360 I get what he's going for. Yeah, But I while 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:43.439 I'm laughing. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.520 On the inside, I'm crying. I just I just I 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.240 know what you mean. 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:54.240 It's not this is not way to accomplish thing on 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:55.760 either side. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:58.880 Oh my god, I was. 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:03.840 Just looking at the video of it was like last 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.920 week on CNN when the guy who went by the 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:11.400 moniker Big Balls was I don't know, the guy that 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.480 everybody was talking about for a cup of coffee, and 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.640 how the lady on CNN was saying he went by 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:24.880 the online moniker big Balls with a perfectly straight you know, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:27.320 very concerned. 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:28.920 And I loved one of that. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:33.200 I think may been Clay Travis, fellow radio guy podcaster 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.400 dude credit where its due, who said I think CNN 0:14:36.800 --> 0:14:41.440 just exists to be mocked at this point. That's really 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:49.200 their only useful purpose, right. We got to mention this news. 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.960 The inflation numbers are out and they're not good or 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.240 well depends on how you look at it. But inflation 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.040 picked up speed, rising to three percent in January. 0:14:58.080 --> 0:14:58.800 It ticked up. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.600 Now you got our Remember these are the numbers of 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.480 what happened in January Trump took over the twentieth This 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:08.880 is being credited to the lasting policies of the Inflation 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.240 Reduction Act, which, as Byron York and The Washington Examiner 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.160 reminds us, in case you didn't know, the Inflation Reduction 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.280 Act was not intended to reduce inflation. It was originally 0:15:19.320 --> 0:15:22.680 called Build Back Better Act. It was two point two 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.560 trillion dollars. The name change was only pr It was 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:27.880 really the Green New Deal and it got shoved through 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:32.080 and we're still living with it. But yeah, so starting 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.800 at three percent inflation, Yeah, I'm concerned about Trump's some 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.560 of Trump's terrify ideas if he actually goes through with them, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:42.760 and we actually have a really good, helpful checklist of 0:15:43.000 --> 0:15:46.280 where all these things are at this point. 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:47.600 The blizzard of. 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:50.520 Activity out of the Trump administration because tough to keep track, 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:53.720 especially with various legal actions and suits and rulings and 0:15:54.280 --> 0:15:59.280 the rest of it. But I'm concerned that if he 0:15:59.360 --> 0:16:02.000 does impose tariffs on stealing aluminum, that's going to be 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.560 super inflationary and that's going to be bad. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.720 And I just I don't see any particular need for it. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.840 And we can talk about protection as policies later, but 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:16.000 I'm just I'm so concerned that the not necessary stuff 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.320 is going to screw up the effort to do the 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.920 good stuff, the really, really good stuff, because you have 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.840 to remember, stealing aluminum goes into like every single product 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:28.640 manufactured in America, from cars to dishwashers to everything else, 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:30.520 and so I'm a little concerned about that. So the 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.080 Wall Street Journalist a couple paragraphs on the inflation news 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:35.200 out today, which is getting a lot of attention. Obviously, 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.840 inflation has now been around to these rates for some time. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.800 Might not be coming down, says one of their economists 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.360 say quote. The bigger than expected increase in prices last 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:48.680 month reflected higher prices for used cars and auto insurance, 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.920 according to the Wall Street Journal. And overall, the price 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:53.320 increases were more than economists at expected. 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:57.280 So there you go. We have mail bag on the way. 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.680 How does that look? Oh it's outstanding. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.760 Great freedom loving quotes of the day from birthday Boy 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.600 Abraham Lincoln as well if you want to comment on 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.160 any of the news of day or anything text line 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.640 four one kftc. 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:11.399 Armstrong and getty. 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.920 Abraham Lincoln would be two hundred and sixteen today had 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:18.680 he not been murdered by John Wilkes booth. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.119 That's great. That's what is that? 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:28.639 A conundrum of paradox is that that which is true 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:30.600 and yet false or something nonsense. 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.000 Here's your freedom. 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:38.520 Loving quote of today from birthday Boy Abraham Lincoln, whose 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.159 birthday I missed sharing by one day because my sainted 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:48.800 mother was impatient. Apparently there are so many to choose from. Sir, 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.760 my concern is not whether God is on our side. 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.879 My greatest concern is to be on God's side, for 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.480 God is always right. He also said, you cannot escape 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.119 the responsibility of tomorrow evading it today. I've tried it 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.560 doesn't work. He's right, tried it repeatedly. Yeah, I love 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.680 this one. Give me six hours to chop down a tree, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.640 and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.520 That was an interesting what does that provoking one? Okay, 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.560 you're provoking my thoughts. What is that? What is that? 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:21.080 What's the point of that? Uh? 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:21.239 Uh? 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:26.120 Do not blunder ahead blindly, think about what you're doing, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:35.880 have a plan, be smart. Jack is looking sure thought provoked? 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:37.359 Uh yeah, I think so. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.000 Yeah, because that will make the job go much more 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.080 quickly and efficiently. I just wondered, if do you what 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.359 do you do six hours sharpening? Six hours seems like 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:49.000 an awful long time to cut down a tree. 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:49.680 If you told me. 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.920 I've got tree in this scenario, huge, I'm gonna give 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.560 you three days to clean this studio, and I'm gonna 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:57.200 think it's gonna take me like a half an hour, 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.320 so I guess I'll spend the first two and a 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:03.520 half days I don't know, killing time. Label this part 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:09.080 of the segment, Jack argues with the wisdom of Abraham Lincoln, 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.120 and perhaps is best known other than the House Divided 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.159 speech is you can fool all of the people some 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.080 of the time, and some of the people all of 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:19.560 the time, but you cannot fool all of the people 0:19:19.680 --> 0:19:20.280 all of the time. 0:19:20.320 --> 0:19:21.920 It's pretty good. Mailbag. 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:27.200 Feel free to correspond if you'd like. Mailbag and Armstrong 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.879 and Getty dot Com. Thanks everybody who sent along birthday wishes. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.280 I will reply to all of you as soon as 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.520 I can. My life has been madness the last couple 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:40.199 of days. A note from se Busy really enjoyed the 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:46.720 One More Thing podcast yesterday about my birthday and related topics. 0:19:46.119 --> 0:19:48.960 It's not as dopey and self indulgent as it sounds. 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.280 That's Armstrong and Getty One More Thing. 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.120 You might as well subscribe, but thank you very much 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:58.240 for the kind words. Barry from Thailand weighing in not 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:00.800 his most eloquent or persuasive email, but I like that 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:05.040 it points out well, he asked, please answer me a question. First, 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.040 he says, a lot of expats in Thailand or big 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:09.000 musk fans, we call ourselves musketeers. 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:10.919 Please answer me a question. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.879 If crazy Maxine Waters and her fellow Democrats had been 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:16.399 allowed in the Department of Education building, what would they 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:20.720 have done inside? What would be accomplished? And the answer, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:23.080 obviously is they wouldn't have done anything. They wouldn't have 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:27.639 accomplished anything. It was a flailing, frantic publicity stunt to 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.399 try to look like they're the brave resistance. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.160 Again. Well, so much of what. 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:35.640 We do, as we've been saying for years, is performative. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:40.440 And whether it's that that or Elon. I think Elon's 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:44.320 just getting his jolly's but Elon renaming himself on Twitter 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:46.639 Harry Balls for a day or whatever, it just so 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.240 much is just like to fire people up and get 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.920 attention and aw yeah yeah, and it's all so quickly 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:56.960 and readily reported to the entire globe via the Internet, 0:20:57.320 --> 0:21:01.280 every one of these idiotic I mean that Maxine Waters, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.919 who is a halfwooted best bellowing outside the Department of Education, 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:08.840 didn't deserve three sentences of ink in any decent newspaper 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:11.359 back in the day. You know, it's pretty good video, 0:21:11.400 --> 0:21:15.760 so we also want moving along. Note from Miles, a 0:21:15.760 --> 0:21:18.080 longtime friend of the Armstrong and Getty Show, a former 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.680 colleague of ours. He's pointing out that yesterday Supervisor Jim 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:27.760 Desmond in the San Diego County Board of Supervisors introduced 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:30.159 a Letter in support of the Protection of Women and 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:33.679 Girls in Sports Act. Couldn't even get a second. It 0:21:33.760 --> 0:21:39.240 was defeated two to one. Jim being the one san Diego, 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:43.080 California standing or San Diego County anyway, standing tall to 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.960 allow men to compete and beat the crap out. 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:49.080 Of women in women's sports. What a brave stance that. Wow, 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:50.879 that's interesting. I just saw some polling. 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:53.639 Now this was up on Fox, but polling around this 0:21:54.440 --> 0:21:56.080 broken down by party. 0:21:56.119 --> 0:22:00.280