November 13, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Jack forgot to take the trash out again & the "bro-vernment"
- Mailbag!
- Is Hegseth the real deal?
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and arms Wrong. I went to ari I and
(00:32):
I bought a bunch of mountain climbing gear, and I'm
gonna wear into where it from now on to see
if that'll help me survive in this cold environment, the
everest like environment. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I've got these big snow boots in a giant hood
with the furry thing around the face.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One must stay for three days at the Armstrong, a
Getty based camp to become accustomed to the elements in
the sin air, the gold. Certainly why I'm from Studio
C say, a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey y'all, midweek,
we're under the tulage. I forgot to put my trash out.
(01:11):
I forgot to put my trash out again. Wednesday's crisis.
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Anyway, today we're under the tuelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Elon Muskin. For vek Rama Swami wah. It's the Federal Provernment.
Oh wow, No, the Federal The pros are in charge.
Now it's a major pro vibe. We're not gonna listen
to your silly well federal workforce, the whole skillelea. We're
(01:44):
gonna cut to the bone. It's exciting. I didn't take
my trash out last week, so this should be two
weeks in a row. Boy, Well, right, I was mistaken
about the number one issue over time. Now it takes
you a while, that surge of oh no, oh, crap, oh,
and the can is full. It you'll have to get
over it. There's a period of adjustment. Well, I moved
(02:06):
fairly recently, so I always think on Monday night it's
trash night because that's my old house.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But that's not Yeah, I don't What do you can
to do?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm sure you'll get used to the smell. What's the
freaking recyclables? I live in a town where the law
is you have to put your plastics in everything in
the recycle bin, and it gets full really fast because
it's tiny and flipping ridiculously expensive per month, but you
have to use it or you get a fine. So
that's what I need to get emptied out, which by
the way, goes to the same place as the rest
(02:34):
of the garbage. Yes, it does like ninety percent of
the time, which is hilarious. God, where was I was
in Vegas over the weekend? Every place had all those
trash can setups with the nine different choices compost, recycling, regular, garbage, plastics.
I never have any idea what's supposed to go anywhere,
and plus it all goes to the same place. AnyWho. Yep,
(02:55):
why does that continue? How does that? How does the
momentum of that content? Given the fact that most people
have caught on too, and there's been plenty of reporting
about that, the whole recycling thing just isn't really happening
the term uh and this purchase signaling is not as
hot as it used to be. But man, it is
so big on the left you can't even talk to
(03:18):
those people about You need to make a return trip
to your city council meeting. It went great the last time. Yeah,
but this kind of fits in with your brovernmant, the
whole elon vi vague doge thing that they got going
Department of Government efficiency. This is not exactly that, but
similar vein of things just continuing that don't work anymore,
(03:40):
never did, but we still do it for some reason.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's what I want Elon to root out. Yeah, yeah, agreed,
and listen.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
While I chose the term federal brovernmant mostly to annoy people,
including my co host, and I appear to have succeeded.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A federal broverer meant you got to send that to somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've sent it out into the cosmos, as we do
every day. I was thinking about this. I was assuming,
I just assume nobody's actually listening, but every people are
man or a company squandering a lot of money anyway,
So I was actually thinking about it after I came
up with the incredibly annoying term. And you've led perfectly
(04:23):
to my point, which is, you have had kind of
the psychic energy of a particular subset of people have outsized,
I mean, like wildly, insanely, dangerously, oppressively outsized influence. And
that would be the over educated twenty nine year old
(04:44):
white woman with her her gender studies major and her
militant belief in radical gender theory and critical race theory.
In her we believe lawn sign and the rest of it.
That is, I mean, that has had influen. It's far, far,
far in excess of the actual numbers involved. As the
(05:06):
recent election illustrated fairly clearly, it is time for the
opposite energy. I'm hearing a lot of whining. But the
government has bloated and we need to cut it. So
we're gonna cut it. We need that. Yeah. The Washington
Post article that Elon Musk will bring his slash and
burn private policies to the government. Good was that a threat?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Fantastic? Remember when he took over Twitter and he said,
I look around and I see thousands of people I
don't even know what they do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wait, do you get to the federal government?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah? Yeah, indeed, slash and burn. How about seeking efficiency?
Oh man, no, wonder the legacy media is dying. How
do you look at something as wasteful, bloated and spending
our grandchildren's money. Well, yeah, as a federal government, and
when somebody wants to trim it, look at him. It's
gonna slash and burn. In all of media, radio, television,
(05:58):
and newspaper, all of traditional media. There have been such
huge cutbacks in the last couple of years because of
the changing revenue environment, and you got less money, so
you got to do things differently. The federal government is
the opposite I'll dig back up the numbers of how
many more thousands of federal employees we have now than
we had in two thoy nineteen before the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Thousands and thousands and thousands of.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
More federal employees while we're broke, I mean we're broke,
wet broke her every single day. It's insane to add
employees while you're broke instead of pairing down the size.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So that is as upside down as anything could get.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's almost as if the public employee unions who profit
mightily from what Jack just said, have a direct line
to the people who make those decisions, and that they
scratch each other back and write each other's checks. It
almost makes you think that's the case. Huh. The way
we feel like the laws of gravity or economics, if
you will, don't apply to government money. Is weird? A
(07:02):
periodic if you're lies self destructive, suicidal, Yes, if you're
spending more than you take in, you got to change
those dynamics at some point. Of course, the government has
the advantage that a like, for instance, a restaurant doesn't have,
where you could just start charging people more they're forced
to eat there, and charging people more to eat to
bring in more money. You can send men with guns
(07:24):
to their homes and tell them, yes, you're going to
go out for burgers tonight. You're going to pay this,
or you're going to go.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
To jail exactly. So that is a slightly different situation.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Never mind, if you're like harboring squirrels as those poor
people in New York were.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Peanut, never forget. There's an update on Peanut.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We'll have to get to.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It. Seems uh the officials were lying to us about
some of their intentions around Peanut who met ale untimely? End? Correct?
I swell? Can I have a second take on that punchline?
Michael Ahead, I smell not a squirrel but a rat. Wow,
(08:06):
you just edit that end of the show when it airs.
There's something working in my head. But with a peanut
allergy and allergy to government overreachers, I don't know. It's
a promising vein. Just keep exploring it, keep working on it. Well,
we got to start to show officially, don't we. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Wednesday,
(08:28):
November thirteenth, or twenty twenty four or Armstrong in getting
and we approve of this program. All right, I can't
wait to get to work. Here we go according to
the FCC rules and regulations, which I'm sure will be
paired down when Elon and Vive get their way. Here
we go at Mark. You guys see this. Following the election, bookings.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Have spiked for rage rooms, where people pay to.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go break stuff. And if you think the people in
rage rooms are mad, imagine that people who couldn't get
a booking.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Out of rage rooms, Like.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You gotta be kidding if you've never heard of a
rage room. It's a place where people go to smash plates, cuffs,
and bottle It's waffle house. It's uh, that's a good
old style humor that Johnny Carson could have made those
jokes exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The rage rooms. I didn't see one of those. Was
it in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Some place?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I saw a sign for one of those?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hmm, that's my daughter's man got her that for her birthday? Oh?
Really a rage room session? Yeah? And she what was
she smashing? Mostly? Oh? Let's see, he paid the uh,
the electronics upgrade, so I think there was a car involved,
and like because they'd paid the upgrade, there was a
TV all I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
From what I know of her, she's not a person
with a lot of rage.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So we're all more complex than we see the surface, right,
like to like to humble doc, you mean we all
humans paddling furiously below the surface that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Did you mean we all Getty's or we all people?
We all humans?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All humans?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Humans are more.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, and I do not hold my family apart from that.
More we are clearly a human perhaps more rage under
the surface than we some So I like to keep
mine up top so everybody knows it's there. But so
you like you're doing a fine job. Why height it?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It seems like it's misleading people.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh hey, this is apropos now and it would require
a long reset later. But a certain anonymous a friend
of the Armstrong and Getty show, says of the the
painstaking multi bin recycling programs, at least in some parts
of the country, that was the result of union teamsters.
They can send three or more garbage trucks on the
(10:36):
same route instead of one. Yeah, I have two gudl
two garbage trucks come to my house with all the
garbage going to the same place. Ah, hello, there you go.
Government union that makes sense and their allied unions. Sure right,
Wow all Scranton, Joe's out of the job now, Wow,
(10:59):
welcome change.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Wow that is so, that is so emblematic of the
big picture.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah. Well well, and it's the worst of cliches to say,
follow the money. But if you're talking about government bloat
and spending, you must always remember a lot of the
stated intentions and principles. The grand high falutint principles that
people shout about in politics are just a smoke screen
for handing out money from the treasury. That's what the
(11:29):
game is, and that's what the new Secretary of Defense
is going to run into at the Pentagon. We'll have
to talk about that more later because that's the biggest
of that maybe in the world. How does mailbag look
very fine? Yes, indeed cool. It's on the way and
here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
(11:50):
Joe Rogan out with more information on why the Kamala
Harris interview never came together, which.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Was on the road to dooming her in the last
week of her flailing. Also, Trump meeting with Biden in
the White House today, I feel like something entertaining is
going to come out of that one way or another.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about the various miscalculations of the Harris campaign,
it might be shorter, more concise to list the non miscalculations.
What's that calculations? I guess right. What were the good
moves anyway? Uh? Yeah, Oh, it was just absolutely hapless.
(12:31):
Although I have never managed a campaign, especially one for
the highest office in the world, that featured a moron,
that can't be easy, right, Imagine, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day. Jeff and Hoggs Nipple, Tennessee sent
this along. It's an unincorporated area. It's not on the mask.
(12:52):
From the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. The purpose of life
is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be on, to be compassionate, to have it make
some difference that you have lived and lived well well.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The Dalai Lama would point out in his book The
Art of the The Art of Joy.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Is that is how you do end up happy. So
that's the that's the that's the funny part. That is
unquestionably Yeah. The next thought, yeah, Lama, long hitter, flowing robes,
mailbag never gets old. Wow, they've degenerated into clips from Caddyshack,
Patty Shack quotes, that's right, yeah, yeah, and you're not
(13:32):
even a golfer. It never ends. It's like the movie
came out last month in the world of golf. Really well,
it's well not maybe not that bad, but close. Tramas
mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Like Thomas did, boys,
your show has gotten so stale. What the hell happened? Thomas?
We've been trying to drive you away. We're tired of you.
(13:54):
We find you stale. Wow, somebody assessed whether Thomas is
still listening. If he is, we're gonna have to be
stale again today, folks. Sorry, business from Ross from Beautiful Portland,
Creating Jensen, Katie f you China, that's all God bless America.
There you go, yea in China. Good If that's your feeling.
(14:16):
Marco Rubio is your guy for Secretary of State. Apparently
the Chinese are somewhat relieved that Pompeo wasn't the choice
because he's I mean, he's beyond you know, anti China
or a hardliner. Poor Pompeo, he lost all that weight. Yeah,
looks good to make it on the big stage. Maybe
(14:37):
run for president maybe be man. No, he's done, but
I'll bet next time you see him big as a house.
He that is entirely possible. He leveled a few gentle
criticisms at the most easily butt hurt leader in the
history of mankind, Donald J. Trump, and it's cost him.
Maybe we'll see what the future brings. Let's see history
(14:57):
repeats itself? Yes, but does it rinse first? Loyal listener
Robert writes, guys really confused. I know that you two
can help me through this. So well, Trump invade Austria
before Poland. I honestly can't remember which comes worst. And well,
since Trump is literally hitler, I'd like to know what
to expect. I believe the old saying is Austria before
Poland and your invasion is golden. Wow. That's a stretch, Robert,
(15:23):
but it made me chuckle. Let's see John Wrights still
waiting for my frequent correspondence status. The PaperWorks in progress there, John,
you graciuently read my email a week or so ago.
We need to produce oil in an epic way right now.
The country needs to build up our oil reserves yesterday.
Why are we waiting? Drill now? The only way my
(15:45):
beautiful country can win in the crazy nut job world
is to have the energy. We win if we have
the energy, drill Biatcha's and if big war should start,
that'd be very important. Well, and it's practically unopposed that
we need the notion that we need to develop green
energy sources and efficient ways to power the planet that
(16:08):
don't involve burning oils and stuff like that. Everybody agrees
with that. But when the automobile was making its great
growth during the whatever it was, the nineteen tens nineteen twenties,
they didn't go around and shoot all the horses preemptively. No,
they let the technology grow until it was mature enough
to do the replacing.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's a good analogy.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Thank you. They're all weak. Oh, we don't have much time,
do we, None of us do. No ow boy. A
note from a high school student in California here about
he didn't believe in the existence of these insanely progressive students,
hadn't run into one, But then he tells the tale
(16:48):
of running into one, and it is quite striking. We
just have thirty seconds left. Here are a couple of
the highlights. Terrified about the election, fearful for all women. Yeah,
Trump's going to ban all abortions, implement Project twenty twenty five,
and sent gave people to concentration camps.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You've got to be kidding, now, come on. Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
All the mainstream media are grossly biased to conservatives.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hi, yeah, I know I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, which is hilarious. Yeah, fantasyland. Trump named a guy
to be Secretary of Defense. We can go through a
little his background.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's controversial Armstrong and Getty overnight, Trump announcing that Pete Hegsett,
the best selling author, the combat veteran, and co host
at Fox and Friends Weekend, will lead the Department of Defense,
Trump writing, nobody fights harder for the troops, and Pete
will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our peace
through strength policy.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All of mainstream media wanting to emphasize the fact that
he's a Fox and Friends host, like that's his main credential,
which might be how he ended up on Trump's radar.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
In fact, it probably is. But there's more of a.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Guy than that. Whether or not he has the tools
to be the Secretary of Defense. I don't have the
slightest idea. It's the most difficult bureaucracy in the world
to run, and he doesn't have experience in running giant,
giant bureaucracies, which is probably not probably is more important
than the military part, which he could get other people
(18:17):
to know that who work underneath you. So I don't know.
If I'm hiring a CEO for a giant cookie company,
I'm not hiring a baker. I'm hiring an administrator. I
don't know Pete though, other than that he's extremely bright
and dedicated. That the troops sounds more like a va
(18:38):
head to me than a Secretary of Defense. He was
said to be on the shortlist for that. Yes, he
is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He's got a number of honors and medals from that duty.
He is also highly educated. I mean, he's an Ivy
League guy, which I would think the left would like.
He went to Princeton and then he got his whatever
international policy degree at the Harvard John F.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Kennedy School of Government. I mean, so he's won before.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That was a negative.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So he's one of those people. He's no dummy by
any means.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, but man running that giant bureaucracy like McNamara, one
of the most famous sect deafs in history, kind of
became a villain for running the Pentagon during the Vietnam War,
but he ran Ford. He was the CEO of Ford
Motor Company when Kennedy tabbed him for running the Pentagon.
That's the sort of thing you might need, is yeah,
(19:30):
being running giant, giant bureaucracies. But I don't know. He's
very outspoken about MSNBC, for instance, was hammering last night
and today, a number of interviews he's done over the
years where he doesn't like the idea of women in
combat and making that the focal point of his appointment,
that he would like to try to end women in
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combat for a variety of reasons. I don't know if
that's going to become the fight or not. And let's
face it, part of Trump's appeal is that he does
the non traditional and sometimes it doesn't go great, but
sometimes it works brilliantly. I'm skeptical of this, and that's
not a knockout, mister hegseeth in any way whatsoever. But
we'll wait and say, and I don't claim to know.
Maybe you do it the other way around, Maybe you
(20:12):
hire a guy who's got all that combat experience and
has views you agree with on the military. And then
you get the bureaucracy guys that work one level beneath
you and they report to you. Right, I remember so vividly.
For some reason, it was such an interesting conversation with
the guy who wrote Dutch the Great Biography of Ronald
(20:34):
Reagan that was semi fictional, kind of controversial, but very
well received. I don't remember the gens name. Maybe somebody
can look it up for us, but he made that
very point about Reagan, that he was the absolutely decisive
beacon of this is what we believe, and these are
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our priorities. And then the nuts and bolts guys went
with those principles and got it done. But if they
ever ran a foul of him and the principles, well
then that was no good. Reagan wasn't necessarily a technocrat.
There have been some sect deaths, like Mad Dog Mattis
for instance, who came in, and some of the knock was, well,
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the Pentagon doesn't run like it did when you were
commanding troops.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You don't just order people around and they have to
do what you say.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's a giant, giant bureaucracy where people can't be fired,
and that's a different thing, so you know, it's not
the first time. Yeah, I would suggest that the Pentagon
is not only not immune from the criticisms of government
bloat and inefficiency, it might lead the way in a
way because it's so important. I don't know if this
(21:47):
women in combat thing is going to burble up being
the story. You know, it could be the focal point
of a confirmation battle or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That's the sort of thing the left wood focus on
a billion when they're much bigger issues at stake. Yeah.
I just was thinking one of these is going to
turn into a battle. One of these confirmation hearings is
going to turn into a battle because the Democrats have
to make some sort of show a pushing back.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They can't just go along with all of these and say, yeah,
it's a pretty good choice.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Actually, I'm kind of happy he's gone with that, like
they have with Marco Rubio or some of these other choices,
and that won't please their voters to just kind of
roll over and say, oh cool, Yeah, I kind of
like these picks. They'll have to pick somebody to make
a confirmation battle over. I think they're holding their fire
for the a G pick the Attorney general, because there's
(22:39):
that narrative out there that Trump's going to try to
go after everybody who wronged him and used the power
of the Justice Department to bring them down. So who
knows who he's going to pick for that one. That
one could be controversial. I was going to get too
with my long winded sentence. I hope Trump doesn't spend
a whole bunch of his political capital and current surprising
good will on a crazy pick that he has to
(23:03):
back and then there's a big, this big fight, and
it's in the news for like a couple of weeks
because right now he is getting he's getting a honeymoon
like I didn't think Trump could ever get from the
mainstream media. I mean, the way they're talking about him
like the legitimate president and like he's making legitimately good
choices is something shocking to me. Yeah, I know the
(23:28):
political class is really chastened. They don't know quite what
to say on what issue because they got such a
thorough spanking the media. I don't know, that's an interesting point.
I've noticed the same thing. I'm just I'm thinking the
epa choice and an education because as the education person
been named yet I don't think so. But yeah, because
(23:52):
the left is going to flog for the empteenth time,
what about their kids. They're trying to take money away
from education as if education ought to be a federal issue,
you know, so that could be a grand standing moment.
But I just they have no momentum. They have no
juice now in this first jeez, what is it eighteen
(24:18):
hours of Trump naming this guy who is well known
on Fox as the possible secretary of Defense. The left
crowd is trying to make a noise, like I said,
about women in combat or these kind of issues. I'm
hearing a lot of talk about he's going to come
in and politicize the Department of Defense, which reminds me
(24:40):
of reminds me of how the left put you know,
porn in our schools and then when you go to
take it out, you're accused of banning books.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
This is the same exact thing with the Department of Defense.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You put in all this transcrap or a variety of
other social programs, identity politics, and then if you come
along and say, now, we ain't doing that you're politicizing
the Department Defense. Okay, yeah, so that's pretty clever. My
stance on it has always been have people craft the
(25:13):
best fighting force, period and if more gay people or women,
or short people or blue eyed bed or whatever would
make it better, do that, right, do that. I tell
you what, if you want the entire department of the
Interior section that deals with national parks to be nothing
but gay and transgender people, go ahead. It's millions of jobs,
(25:34):
I think. I mean, it's an enormous department. Go ahead.
I mean that's unconstitutional and illegal. But you see my point.
The one place we can't afford some sort of social
experiment catering to like the leftist twenty percent of America
is our armed forces. That I'm hoping, as you're you know,
(25:55):
suggesting that that idiot, indefensible peer of American political history
is drawing to a close. How did it ever get
Neil momentum? Well, it's certainly going to come up with
the confirmation hearing. So heg Zeth again is pretty hardcore.
No women in combat, and that's a decision we made
quite a while back in this country. And I saw
the pushback from a couple of different circles about how
(26:18):
women have to perform the same duties as men together.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I know for a fact that ain't true.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I know dudes who have told me they fudge those
rules all the time because if they don't have a
certain number of women pass, their boss gets in trouble,
and his boss gets in bigger trouble, and his next
boss doesn't get to another star on his shoulder. So
there's a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure a
certain number of women get through. I have it on
excellent authority that yes. And during those discussions where that
(26:48):
has pointed out, the people in Congress who exert that
sort of pressure say, we don't care. You're going to
do the social experiment that will hurt readiness. I mean, seriously,
we don't care. And again, it's not If women, for
whatever reason ended up better at combat, then let's have
an all women combat for us. Whatever is the best,
(27:11):
let's do that, because China isn't worried about it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
They're just putting together the best military they can.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
If it turns out that winning award depends on being
mad at your enemies for a really long time and
not telling them why, well then I say, more women
in combat. But it's all about effectiveness. It's all about victory.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That got laughs and groans, oh no, oh stations all
across America.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I am somewhat troubled though, by Trump's tendency to gravitate
toward people he sees on television. Je it's quirky. Oh
you know who's gotta be uh ah, Judge Janine, a
TV judge. All know she was an actual John, that's true,
(28:08):
but you know we know her name because she's a
TV judge. Judge Judy is probably a little long and
too for Attorney General. Couldn't handle a pay cut, that's
for certain. Judge Joe, Now have you seen Judge Joe.
He's the blackfellow that would really help encourage the right
word migration of African Americans who, God bless you are
(28:30):
thinking and acting and voting for yourselves instead of what
old Scranton Joe told you to do. Sure, we need
a cabinet that looks like America's. So we get former
TV hosts of all different colors and genders. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way, stay here. I know Katie's
got headlines coming up. But a a couple of quick
(28:51):
post election headlines that I've just come across. First of all,
Sonny Houston, is that her name on the view. I
don't watch the view. I'm not gonna know the view.
Me knowing how to pronounce her names would make me
feel less about myself. So hosting or hostin or something
it ought to be sunny hostile. She is sharp tongued
witch if there ever was one.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sonny Hoston says.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She was surprised when Kamala Harris flubbed her layup question
about differing from Joe Biden, because Kamala had missed it
like a day before, and so she was trying to
help her clean it up the next day, and she
still had annoyance, which is hilarious, and she was surprised
by that. And also Joe rogan out saying Kamala Harris
wanted to make a condition for the interview that there
(29:35):
was no marijuana legalization talk, which fits in with her
whole not talking about anything or being honest about anything.
Trump went into venues where I guarantee you there were
no guidelines whatsoever about what you could or couldn't talk
about right all the time. Yeah, Well, as we criticized
(29:56):
her many missteps and inexplicable you know maneuverson and her
utter cowardice. Turns out the American people saw it the
same way. M hm. And how let's figure out who's
reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Katie, thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Starting with ABC.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Trump returns to the White House for the first time
in all of branch meeting with Biden.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Malanie has said no thanks to doctor Jill, not aur
Ill doctor.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Is it actually because of the raid on their home?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I don't know. I keep it because Malanie is just
I don't want to be the kind I don't want.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
To be a celebrity like that.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I just in I didn't sign on to be a
political wife, and doctor Jill strikes me as a crack pot,
So no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
He could have her look at your elbow and say
it hurts when I do this?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh useless.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
From The New York Times, Jack Smith plans to step
down as special counsel before.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Trump takes office.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yep, that's over.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Fox Santase State volleyball team quote distraught over coaches firing
following lawsuit to protect women's sports.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I'm sure they are. I've been reading about how miserable
the poor young women are on that team. They got
their dream of a college scholarship. Now they're expected to
swallow the utterly unacceptable, threatened and badgered that if they
dare speak out about what is obviously a terrible situation,
they will lose their scholarships. The fun has gone out
(31:29):
of it. They're still working like crazy, but they live
to compete, and now the fun is just gone. I
want to talk about that more later. I've had a
number of Division I college athlete women as sitters over
the years, so I want to talk about that later.
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Right before the election, inflation rose to two point six
percent annual rate prices went up by two percent in
September and October inflation is down.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Why to con Over still say the economy is bad?
What was oh, yesterday? So I go into the convenience
store and I get my son wanted an energy drink
because he had a term paper he had been putting
off and he had to stay up late anyway. So yeah,
an energy drink and one other, oh, a packet gum.
And it was nine dollars a tiny energy drink in
a package that was nine dollars, So inflation is still
(32:22):
like what And the person who worked there, I said,
I know, she said. Every customer says that, I'd say it,
so no, no, she needs to explain to them that
inflation is down, right, Scott Pelley on sixty minutes. The
rate of inflation is down, but people seem to not
be feeling that. No, because the prices didn't go down,
You numb nut USA.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Today, Dutch police arrested three people after a police vehicle
in Amsterdam was set on fire and a city bus
was vandalized.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I want to talk about that story more too. We
are so ignoring one of the most important dynamics on
planet Earth, and it's born out there in Amsterdam right now.
And that is I'll give away the punchline Islam versus
the West. That ain't over From NBC News.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
More women seek testosterone therapy prompted by internet influencers.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I read that yesterday. So there are so many
men like myself doing testosterone therapy and I love it.
But a bunch of women are doing it now based
on things they're here on the internet. There may or
not be true, mayor may or may not be true.
And I don't know anything about it. I was looking
into the trends in nose jobs and found that very
(33:41):
very troubling among women again influencers and Instagram and looking
for the Whoville knows, which is like a tiny little
upturned nose very popular. Now the Barbie nose was very
hot for a while. Hey, get a job or have
some kids or something. Quit carbon on face. But looking
at the Internet and trying to figure out if you're
(34:03):
beautiful enough you are, go find a dude. Dudes, put
down the porn, go find a woman. Good lord, this
is easy. It's simple.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
From Breitbart dot com Yale University to offer Beyonce course
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I know, I would think that these colleges realize that
they have become a punchline and are now seen as
a negative, that they would stop going with that crap
and thinking that makes them sort of cool and edgy. Yeah,
you got to picture the most delusional person you've ever known,
and then think about how long it takes for the
truth to seep into their consciousness, if it gets there
(34:41):
at all. And then you picture the Ivy League with
their incredible self regard and pride. Please, it'll be the
end of time before they realize they're a laughing stock.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
And finally, the Babylon b White House chef excited.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
To work with solid foods again.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Knock on oh, because Biden's so old, he is just
mashing up his meat and serving. That's right, Put the
steak in the blender, Jim. The President's ready for his dinner.
I can't wait for the big photo op Trump Biden
in the Oval Office today. Something good's gonna happen. I
just feel it.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I wonder Trump putting his hand in front of Biden's face.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
Hello, you there possible? I suppose anybody in there if
you miss an hour. Get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Jetty and arms Wrong. I went to ari I and
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I bought a bunch of mountain climbing gear, and I'm
gonna wear into where it from now on to see
if that'll help me survive in this cold environment, the
everest like environment. Exactly.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I've got these big snow boots in a giant hood
with the furry thing around the face.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
One must stay for three days at the Armstrong, a
Getty based camp to become accustomed to the elements in
the sin air, the gold. Certainly why I'm from Studio
C say, a dimly lit room deeper in the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compounding. Hey y'all, midweek,
we're under the tulage. I forgot to put my trash out.
(01:11):
I forgot to put my trash out again. Wednesday's crisis.
Dang it.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Anyway, today we're under the tuelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Elon Muskin. For vek Rama Swami wah. It's the Federal Provernment.
Oh wow, No, the Federal The pros are in charge.
Now it's a major pro vibe. We're not gonna listen
to your silly well federal workforce, the whole skillelea. We're
(01:44):
gonna cut to the bone. It's exciting. I didn't take
my trash out last week, so this should be two
weeks in a row. Boy, Well, right, I was mistaken
about the number one issue over time. Now it takes
you a while, that surge of oh no, oh, crap, oh,
and the can is full. It you'll have to get
over it. There's a period of adjustment. Well, I moved
(02:06):
fairly recently, so I always think on Monday night it's
trash night because that's my old house.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
But that's not Yeah, I don't What do you can
to do?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
I'm sure you'll get used to the smell. What's the
freaking recyclables? I live in a town where the law
is you have to put your plastics in everything in
the recycle bin, and it gets full really fast because
it's tiny and flipping ridiculously expensive per month, but you
have to use it or you get a fine. So
that's what I need to get emptied out, which by
the way, goes to the same place as the rest
(02:34):
of the garbage. Yes, it does like ninety percent of
the time, which is hilarious. God, where was I was
in Vegas over the weekend? Every place had all those
trash can setups with the nine different choices compost, recycling, regular, garbage, plastics.
I never have any idea what's supposed to go anywhere,
and plus it all goes to the same place. AnyWho. Yep,
(02:55):
why does that continue? How does that? How does the
momentum of that content? Given the fact that most people
have caught on too, and there's been plenty of reporting
about that, the whole recycling thing just isn't really happening
the term uh and this purchase signaling is not as
hot as it used to be. But man, it is
so big on the left you can't even talk to
(03:18):
those people about You need to make a return trip
to your city council meeting. It went great the last time. Yeah,
but this kind of fits in with your brovernmant, the
whole elon vi vague doge thing that they got going
Department of Government efficiency. This is not exactly that, but
similar vein of things just continuing that don't work anymore,
(03:40):
never did, but we still do it for some reason.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
That's what I want Elon to root out. Yeah, yeah, agreed,
and listen.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
While I chose the term federal brovernmant mostly to annoy people,
including my co host, and I appear to have succeeded.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
A federal broverer meant you got to send that to somebody.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
I've sent it out into the cosmos, as we do
every day. I was thinking about this. I was assuming,
I just assume nobody's actually listening, but every people are
man or a company squandering a lot of money anyway,
So I was actually thinking about it after I came
up with the incredibly annoying term. And you've led perfectly
(04:23):
to my point, which is, you have had kind of
the psychic energy of a particular subset of people have outsized,
I mean, like wildly, insanely, dangerously, oppressively outsized influence. And
that would be the over educated twenty nine year old
(04:44):
white woman with her her gender studies major and her
militant belief in radical gender theory and critical race theory.
In her we believe lawn sign and the rest of it.
That is, I mean, that has had influen. It's far, far,
far in excess of the actual numbers involved. As the
(05:06):
recent election illustrated fairly clearly, it is time for the
opposite energy. I'm hearing a lot of whining. But the
government has bloated and we need to cut it. So
we're gonna cut it. We need that. Yeah. The Washington
Post article that Elon Musk will bring his slash and
burn private policies to the government. Good was that a threat?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Good?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Fantastic? Remember when he took over Twitter and he said,
I look around and I see thousands of people I
don't even know what they do. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Wait, do you get to the federal government?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Yeah? Yeah, indeed, slash and burn. How about seeking efficiency?
Oh man, no, wonder the legacy media is dying. How
do you look at something as wasteful, bloated and spending
our grandchildren's money. Well, yeah, as a federal government, and
when somebody wants to trim it, look at him. It's
gonna slash and burn. In all of media, radio, television,
(05:58):
and newspaper, all of traditional media. There have been such
huge cutbacks in the last couple of years because of
the changing revenue environment, and you got less money, so
you got to do things differently. The federal government is
the opposite I'll dig back up the numbers of how
many more thousands of federal employees we have now than
we had in two thoy nineteen before the pandemic.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Thousands and thousands and thousands of.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
More federal employees while we're broke, I mean we're broke,
wet broke her every single day. It's insane to add
employees while you're broke instead of pairing down the size.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
So that is as upside down as anything could get.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's almost as if the public employee unions who profit
mightily from what Jack just said, have a direct line
to the people who make those decisions, and that they
scratch each other back and write each other's checks. It
almost makes you think that's the case. Huh. The way
we feel like the laws of gravity or economics, if
you will, don't apply to government money. Is weird? A
(07:02):
periodic if you're lies self destructive, suicidal, Yes, if you're
spending more than you take in, you got to change
those dynamics at some point. Of course, the government has
the advantage that a like, for instance, a restaurant doesn't have,
where you could just start charging people more they're forced
to eat there, and charging people more to eat to
bring in more money. You can send men with guns
(07:24):
to their homes and tell them, yes, you're going to
go out for burgers tonight. You're going to pay this,
or you're going to go.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
To jail exactly. So that is a slightly different situation.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Never mind, if you're like harboring squirrels as those poor
people in New York were.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Peanut, never forget. There's an update on Peanut.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I saw.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
We'll have to get to.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It. Seems uh the officials were lying to us about
some of their intentions around Peanut who met ale untimely? End? Correct?
I swell? Can I have a second take on that punchline?
Michael Ahead, I smell not a squirrel but a rat. Wow,
(08:06):
you just edit that end of the show when it airs.
There's something working in my head. But with a peanut
allergy and allergy to government overreachers, I don't know. It's
a promising vein. Just keep exploring it, keep working on it. Well,
we got to start to show officially, don't we. I'm
Jack Armstrong, He's Joe getting on this. It is Wednesday,
(08:28):
November thirteenth, or twenty twenty four or Armstrong in getting
and we approve of this program. All right, I can't
wait to get to work. Here we go according to
the FCC rules and regulations, which I'm sure will be
paired down when Elon and Vive get their way. Here
we go at Mark. You guys see this. Following the election, bookings.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Have spiked for rage rooms, where people pay to.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
Go break stuff. And if you think the people in
rage rooms are mad, imagine that people who couldn't get
a booking.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Out of rage rooms, Like.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
You gotta be kidding if you've never heard of a
rage room. It's a place where people go to smash plates, cuffs,
and bottle It's waffle house. It's uh, that's a good
old style humor that Johnny Carson could have made those
jokes exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
The rage rooms. I didn't see one of those. Was
it in Vegas?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Some place?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
I saw a sign for one of those?
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Hmm, that's my daughter's man got her that for her birthday? Oh?
Really a rage room session? Yeah? And she what was
she smashing? Mostly? Oh? Let's see, he paid the uh,
the electronics upgrade, so I think there was a car involved,
and like because they'd paid the upgrade, there was a
TV all I can't remember.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
From what I know of her, she's not a person
with a lot of rage.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
So we're all more complex than we see the surface, right,
like to like to humble doc, you mean we all
humans paddling furiously below the surface that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Did you mean we all Getty's or we all people?
We all humans?
Speaker 1 (09:58):
All humans?
Speaker 2 (09:59):
Humans are more.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Oh, and I do not hold my family apart from that.
More we are clearly a human perhaps more rage under
the surface than we some So I like to keep
mine up top so everybody knows it's there. But so
you like you're doing a fine job. Why height it?
Speaker 2 (10:14):
It seems like it's misleading people.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Oh hey, this is apropos now and it would require
a long reset later. But a certain anonymous a friend
of the Armstrong and Getty show, says of the the
painstaking multi bin recycling programs, at least in some parts
of the country, that was the result of union teamsters.
They can send three or more garbage trucks on the
(10:36):
same route instead of one. Yeah, I have two gudl
two garbage trucks come to my house with all the
garbage going to the same place. Ah, hello, there you go.
Government union that makes sense and their allied unions. Sure right,
Wow all Scranton, Joe's out of the job now, Wow,
(10:59):
welcome change.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Wow that is so, that is so emblematic of the
big picture.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah. Well well, and it's the worst of cliches to say,
follow the money. But if you're talking about government bloat
and spending, you must always remember a lot of the
stated intentions and principles. The grand high falutint principles that
people shout about in politics are just a smoke screen
for handing out money from the treasury. That's what the
(11:29):
game is, and that's what the new Secretary of Defense
is going to run into at the Pentagon. We'll have
to talk about that more later because that's the biggest
of that maybe in the world. How does mailbag look
very fine? Yes, indeed cool. It's on the way and
here's our text line four one, five, two nine five KFTC.
(11:50):
Joe Rogan out with more information on why the Kamala
Harris interview never came together, which.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Was on the road to dooming her in the last
week of her flailing. Also, Trump meeting with Biden in
the White House today, I feel like something entertaining is
going to come out of that one way or another.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yeah. Yeah. Thinking about the various miscalculations of the Harris campaign,
it might be shorter, more concise to list the non miscalculations.
What's that calculations? I guess right. What were the good
moves anyway? Uh? Yeah, Oh, it was just absolutely hapless.
(12:31):
Although I have never managed a campaign, especially one for
the highest office in the world, that featured a moron,
that can't be easy, right, Imagine, here's your freedom loving
quote of the day. Jeff and Hoggs Nipple, Tennessee sent
this along. It's an unincorporated area. It's not on the mask.
(12:52):
From the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. The purpose of life
is not to be happy. It is to be useful,
to be on, to be compassionate, to have it make
some difference that you have lived and lived well well.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
The Dalai Lama would point out in his book The
Art of the The Art of Joy.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Is that is how you do end up happy. So
that's the that's the that's the funny part. That is
unquestionably Yeah. The next thought, yeah, Lama, long hitter, flowing robes,
mailbag never gets old. Wow, they've degenerated into clips from Caddyshack,
Patty Shack quotes, that's right, yeah, yeah, and you're not
(13:32):
even a golfer. It never ends. It's like the movie
came out last month in the world of golf. Really well,
it's well not maybe not that bad, but close. Tramas
mail bag at Armstrong and Getty dot Com. Like Thomas did, boys,
your show has gotten so stale. What the hell happened? Thomas?
We've been trying to drive you away. We're tired of you.
(13:54):
We find you stale. Wow, somebody assessed whether Thomas is
still listening. If he is, we're gonna have to be
stale again today, folks. Sorry, business from Ross from Beautiful Portland,
Creating Jensen, Katie f you China, that's all God bless America.
There you go, yea in China. Good If that's your feeling.
(14:16):
Marco Rubio is your guy for Secretary of State. Apparently
the Chinese are somewhat relieved that Pompeo wasn't the choice
because he's I mean, he's beyond you know, anti China
or a hardliner. Poor Pompeo, he lost all that weight. Yeah,
looks good to make it on the big stage. Maybe
(14:37):
run for president maybe be man. No, he's done, but
I'll bet next time you see him big as a house.
He that is entirely possible. He leveled a few gentle
criticisms at the most easily butt hurt leader in the
history of mankind, Donald J. Trump, and it's cost him.
Maybe we'll see what the future brings. Let's see history
(14:57):
repeats itself? Yes, but does it rinse first? Loyal listener
Robert writes, guys really confused. I know that you two
can help me through this. So well, Trump invade Austria
before Poland. I honestly can't remember which comes worst. And well,
since Trump is literally hitler, I'd like to know what
to expect. I believe the old saying is Austria before
Poland and your invasion is golden. Wow. That's a stretch, Robert,
(15:23):
but it made me chuckle. Let's see John Wrights still
waiting for my frequent correspondence status. The PaperWorks in progress there, John,
you graciuently read my email a week or so ago.
We need to produce oil in an epic way right now.
The country needs to build up our oil reserves yesterday.
Why are we waiting? Drill now? The only way my
(15:45):
beautiful country can win in the crazy nut job world
is to have the energy. We win if we have
the energy, drill Biatcha's and if big war should start,
that'd be very important. Well, and it's practically unopposed that
we need the notion that we need to develop green
energy sources and efficient ways to power the planet that
(16:08):
don't involve burning oils and stuff like that. Everybody agrees
with that. But when the automobile was making its great
growth during the whatever it was, the nineteen tens nineteen twenties,
they didn't go around and shoot all the horses preemptively. No,
they let the technology grow until it was mature enough
to do the replacing.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
That's a good analogy.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Thank you. They're all weak. Oh, we don't have much time,
do we, None of us do. No ow boy. A
note from a high school student in California here about
he didn't believe in the existence of these insanely progressive students,
hadn't run into one, But then he tells the tale
(16:48):
of running into one, and it is quite striking. We
just have thirty seconds left. Here are a couple of
the highlights. Terrified about the election, fearful for all women. Yeah,
Trump's going to ban all abortions, implement Project twenty twenty five,
and sent gave people to concentration camps.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
You've got to be kidding, now, come on. Nobody believes that.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
All the mainstream media are grossly biased to conservatives.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Hi, yeah, I know I've heard that.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Yeah, which is hilarious. Yeah, fantasyland. Trump named a guy
to be Secretary of Defense. We can go through a
little his background.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
It's controversial Armstrong and Getty overnight, Trump announcing that Pete Hegsett,
the best selling author, the combat veteran, and co host
at Fox and Friends Weekend, will lead the Department of Defense,
Trump writing, nobody fights harder for the troops, and Pete
will be a courageous and patriotic champion of our peace
through strength policy.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
All of mainstream media wanting to emphasize the fact that
he's a Fox and Friends host, like that's his main credential,
which might be how he ended up on Trump's radar.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
In fact, it probably is. But there's more of a.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Guy than that. Whether or not he has the tools
to be the Secretary of Defense. I don't have the
slightest idea. It's the most difficult bureaucracy in the world
to run, and he doesn't have experience in running giant,
giant bureaucracies, which is probably not probably is more important
than the military part, which he could get other people
(18:17):
to know that who work underneath you. So I don't know.
If I'm hiring a CEO for a giant cookie company,
I'm not hiring a baker. I'm hiring an administrator. I
don't know Pete though, other than that he's extremely bright
and dedicated. That the troops sounds more like a va
(18:38):
head to me than a Secretary of Defense. He was
said to be on the shortlist for that. Yes, he
is a veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
He's got a number of honors and medals from that duty.
He is also highly educated. I mean, he's an Ivy
League guy, which I would think the left would like.
He went to Princeton and then he got his whatever
international policy degree at the Harvard John F.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Kennedy School of Government. I mean, so he's won before.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
That was a negative.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
So he's one of those people. He's no dummy by
any means.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Yeah, but man running that giant bureaucracy like McNamara, one
of the most famous sect deafs in history, kind of
became a villain for running the Pentagon during the Vietnam War,
but he ran Ford. He was the CEO of Ford
Motor Company when Kennedy tabbed him for running the Pentagon.
That's the sort of thing you might need, is yeah,
(19:30):
being running giant, giant bureaucracies. But I don't know. He's
very outspoken about MSNBC, for instance, was hammering last night
and today, a number of interviews he's done over the
years where he doesn't like the idea of women in
combat and making that the focal point of his appointment,
that he would like to try to end women in
(19:50):
combat for a variety of reasons. I don't know if
that's going to become the fight or not. And let's
face it, part of Trump's appeal is that he does
the non traditional and sometimes it doesn't go great, but
sometimes it works brilliantly. I'm skeptical of this, and that's
not a knockout, mister hegseeth in any way whatsoever. But
we'll wait and say, and I don't claim to know.
Maybe you do it the other way around, Maybe you
(20:12):
hire a guy who's got all that combat experience and
has views you agree with on the military. And then
you get the bureaucracy guys that work one level beneath
you and they report to you. Right, I remember so vividly.
For some reason, it was such an interesting conversation with
the guy who wrote Dutch the Great Biography of Ronald
(20:34):
Reagan that was semi fictional, kind of controversial, but very
well received. I don't remember the gens name. Maybe somebody
can look it up for us, but he made that
very point about Reagan, that he was the absolutely decisive
beacon of this is what we believe, and these are
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our priorities. And then the nuts and bolts guys went
with those principles and got it done. But if they
ever ran a foul of him and the principles, well
then that was no good. Reagan wasn't necessarily a technocrat.
There have been some sect deaths, like Mad Dog Mattis
for instance, who came in, and some of the knock was, well,
(21:17):
the Pentagon doesn't run like it did when you were
commanding troops.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You don't just order people around and they have to
do what you say.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
It's a giant, giant bureaucracy where people can't be fired,
and that's a different thing, so you know, it's not
the first time. Yeah, I would suggest that the Pentagon
is not only not immune from the criticisms of government
bloat and inefficiency, it might lead the way in a
way because it's so important. I don't know if this
(21:47):
women in combat thing is going to burble up being
the story. You know, it could be the focal point
of a confirmation battle or maybe not.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't know, but.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
That's the sort of thing the left wood focus on
a billion when they're much bigger issues at stake. Yeah.
I just was thinking one of these is going to
turn into a battle. One of these confirmation hearings is
going to turn into a battle because the Democrats have
to make some sort of show a pushing back.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
They can't just go along with all of these and say, yeah,
it's a pretty good choice.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Actually, I'm kind of happy he's gone with that, like
they have with Marco Rubio or some of these other choices,
and that won't please their voters to just kind of
roll over and say, oh cool, Yeah, I kind of
like these picks. They'll have to pick somebody to make
a confirmation battle over. I think they're holding their fire
for the a G pick the Attorney general, because there's
(22:39):
that narrative out there that Trump's going to try to
go after everybody who wronged him and used the power
of the Justice Department to bring them down. So who
knows who he's going to pick for that one. That
one could be controversial. I was going to get too
with my long winded sentence. I hope Trump doesn't spend
a whole bunch of his political capital and current surprising
good will on a crazy pick that he has to
(23:03):
back and then there's a big, this big fight, and
it's in the news for like a couple of weeks
because right now he is getting he's getting a honeymoon
like I didn't think Trump could ever get from the
mainstream media. I mean, the way they're talking about him
like the legitimate president and like he's making legitimately good
choices is something shocking to me. Yeah, I know the
(23:28):
political class is really chastened. They don't know quite what
to say on what issue because they got such a
thorough spanking the media. I don't know, that's an interesting point.
I've noticed the same thing. I'm just I'm thinking the
epa choice and an education because as the education person
been named yet I don't think so. But yeah, because
(23:52):
the left is going to flog for the empteenth time,
what about their kids. They're trying to take money away
from education as if education ought to be a federal issue,
you know, so that could be a grand standing moment.
But I just they have no momentum. They have no
juice now in this first jeez, what is it eighteen
(24:18):
hours of Trump naming this guy who is well known
on Fox as the possible secretary of Defense. The left
crowd is trying to make a noise, like I said,
about women in combat or these kind of issues. I'm
hearing a lot of talk about he's going to come
in and politicize the Department of Defense, which reminds me
(24:40):
of reminds me of how the left put you know,
porn in our schools and then when you go to
take it out, you're accused of banning books.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
This is the same exact thing with the Department of Defense.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
You put in all this transcrap or a variety of
other social programs, identity politics, and then if you come
along and say, now, we ain't doing that you're politicizing
the Department Defense. Okay, yeah, so that's pretty clever. My
stance on it has always been have people craft the
(25:13):
best fighting force, period and if more gay people or women,
or short people or blue eyed bed or whatever would
make it better, do that, right, do that. I tell
you what, if you want the entire department of the
Interior section that deals with national parks to be nothing
but gay and transgender people, go ahead. It's millions of jobs,
(25:34):
I think. I mean, it's an enormous department. Go ahead.
I mean that's unconstitutional and illegal. But you see my point.
The one place we can't afford some sort of social
experiment catering to like the leftist twenty percent of America
is our armed forces. That I'm hoping, as you're you know,
(25:55):
suggesting that that idiot, indefensible peer of American political history
is drawing to a close. How did it ever get
Neil momentum? Well, it's certainly going to come up with
the confirmation hearing. So heg Zeth again is pretty hardcore.
No women in combat, and that's a decision we made
quite a while back in this country. And I saw
the pushback from a couple of different circles about how
(26:18):
women have to perform the same duties as men together.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I know for a fact that ain't true.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I know dudes who have told me they fudge those
rules all the time because if they don't have a
certain number of women pass, their boss gets in trouble,
and his boss gets in bigger trouble, and his next
boss doesn't get to another star on his shoulder. So
there's a tremendous amount of pressure to make sure a
certain number of women get through. I have it on
excellent authority that yes. And during those discussions where that
(26:48):
has pointed out, the people in Congress who exert that
sort of pressure say, we don't care. You're going to
do the social experiment that will hurt readiness. I mean, seriously,
we don't care. And again, it's not If women, for
whatever reason ended up better at combat, then let's have
an all women combat for us. Whatever is the best,
(27:11):
let's do that, because China isn't worried about it.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
They're just putting together the best military they can.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
If it turns out that winning award depends on being
mad at your enemies for a really long time and
not telling them why, well then I say, more women
in combat. But it's all about effectiveness. It's all about victory.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
That got laughs and groans, oh no, oh stations all
across America.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I am somewhat troubled though, by Trump's tendency to gravitate
toward people he sees on television. Je it's quirky. Oh
you know who's gotta be uh ah, Judge Janine, a
TV judge. All know she was an actual John, that's true,
(28:08):
but you know we know her name because she's a
TV judge. Judge Judy is probably a little long and
too for Attorney General. Couldn't handle a pay cut, that's
for certain. Judge Joe, Now have you seen Judge Joe.
He's the blackfellow that would really help encourage the right
word migration of African Americans who, God bless you are
(28:30):
thinking and acting and voting for yourselves instead of what
old Scranton Joe told you to do. Sure, we need
a cabinet that looks like America's. So we get former
TV hosts of all different colors and genders. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way, stay here. I know Katie's
got headlines coming up. But a a couple of quick
(28:51):
post election headlines that I've just come across. First of all,
Sonny Houston, is that her name on the view. I
don't watch the view. I'm not gonna know the view.
Me knowing how to pronounce her names would make me
feel less about myself. So hosting or hostin or something
it ought to be sunny hostile. She is sharp tongued
witch if there ever was one.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Sonny Hoston says.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
She was surprised when Kamala Harris flubbed her layup question
about differing from Joe Biden, because Kamala had missed it
like a day before, and so she was trying to
help her clean it up the next day, and she
still had annoyance, which is hilarious, and she was surprised
by that. And also Joe rogan out saying Kamala Harris
wanted to make a condition for the interview that there
(29:35):
was no marijuana legalization talk, which fits in with her
whole not talking about anything or being honest about anything.
Trump went into venues where I guarantee you there were
no guidelines whatsoever about what you could or couldn't talk
about right all the time. Yeah, Well, as we criticized
(29:56):
her many missteps and inexplicable you know maneuverson and her
utter cowardice. Turns out the American people saw it the
same way. M hm. And how let's figure out who's
reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Katie, thank you, guys.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Starting with ABC.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Trump returns to the White House for the first time
in all of branch meeting with Biden.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Malanie has said no thanks to doctor Jill, not aur
Ill doctor.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Is it actually because of the raid on their home?
Speaker 1 (30:29):
I don't know. I keep it because Malanie is just
I don't want to be the kind I don't want.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
To be a celebrity like that.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
I just in I didn't sign on to be a
political wife, and doctor Jill strikes me as a crack pot,
So no, thank you.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
He could have her look at your elbow and say
it hurts when I do this?
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Oh useless.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
From The New York Times, Jack Smith plans to step
down as special counsel before.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Trump takes office.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Yep, that's over.
Speaker 4 (30:59):
Fox Santase State volleyball team quote distraught over coaches firing
following lawsuit to protect women's sports.
Speaker 1 (31:08):
I'm sure they are. I've been reading about how miserable
the poor young women are on that team. They got
their dream of a college scholarship. Now they're expected to
swallow the utterly unacceptable, threatened and badgered that if they
dare speak out about what is obviously a terrible situation,
they will lose their scholarships. The fun has gone out
(31:29):
of it. They're still working like crazy, but they live
to compete, and now the fun is just gone. I
want to talk about that more later. I've had a
number of Division I college athlete women as sitters over
the years, so I want to talk about that later.
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Right before the election, inflation rose to two point six
percent annual rate prices went up by two percent in
September and October inflation is down.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
Why to con Over still say the economy is bad?
What was oh, yesterday? So I go into the convenience
store and I get my son wanted an energy drink
because he had a term paper he had been putting
off and he had to stay up late anyway. So yeah,
an energy drink and one other, oh, a packet gum.
And it was nine dollars a tiny energy drink in
a package that was nine dollars, So inflation is still
(32:22):
like what And the person who worked there, I said,
I know, she said. Every customer says that, I'd say it,
so no, no, she needs to explain to them that
inflation is down, right, Scott Pelley on sixty minutes. The
rate of inflation is down, but people seem to not
be feeling that. No, because the prices didn't go down,
You numb nut USA.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Today, Dutch police arrested three people after a police vehicle
in Amsterdam was set on fire and a city bus
was vandalized.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
I want to talk about that story more too. We
are so ignoring one of the most important dynamics on
planet Earth, and it's born out there in Amsterdam right now.
And that is I'll give away the punchline Islam versus
the West. That ain't over From NBC News.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
More women seek testosterone therapy prompted by internet influencers.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Yeah, I read that yesterday. So there are so many
men like myself doing testosterone therapy and I love it.
But a bunch of women are doing it now based
on things they're here on the internet. There may or
not be true, mayor may or may not be true.
And I don't know anything about it. I was looking
into the trends in nose jobs and found that very
(33:41):
very troubling among women again influencers and Instagram and looking
for the Whoville knows, which is like a tiny little
upturned nose very popular. Now the Barbie nose was very
hot for a while. Hey, get a job or have
some kids or something. Quit carbon on face. But looking
at the Internet and trying to figure out if you're
(34:03):
beautiful enough you are, go find a dude. Dudes, put
down the porn, go find a woman. Good lord, this
is easy. It's simple.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
From Breitbart dot com Yale University to offer Beyonce course
in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
I know, I would think that these colleges realize that
they have become a punchline and are now seen as
a negative, that they would stop going with that crap
and thinking that makes them sort of cool and edgy. Yeah,
you got to picture the most delusional person you've ever known,
and then think about how long it takes for the
truth to seep into their consciousness, if it gets there
(34:41):
at all. And then you picture the Ivy League with
their incredible self regard and pride. Please, it'll be the
end of time before they realize they're a laughing stock.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
And finally, the Babylon b White House chef excited.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
To work with solid foods again.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
Knock on oh, because Biden's so old, he is just
mashing up his meat and serving. That's right, Put the
steak in the blender, Jim. The President's ready for his dinner.
I can't wait for the big photo op Trump Biden
in the Oval Office today. Something good's gonna happen. I
just feel it.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I wonder Trump putting his hand in front of Biden's face.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
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