November 20, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Beware of today's information environment
- What will the D.O.G.E. do?
- You people see the world as only good vs. evil
- Nancy Mace is protecting the congressional women's bathroom
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The departments do not have any clue where the dollars
are going. How many audits has the Pentagon failed?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Who has any idea?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
How much waste and abuse there is in the trillions
of dollars spent by the federal government. This government is
not watching how your dollars are being spent. And President
Trump has commissioned Elon and vi Veik and many others
across the government to get to the bottom of this,
so the money that you earn as an American citizen
will be jealously treasured and guarded and not wasted any longer.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That's Stephen Miller, who is going to be the Deputy
something or other. What did he get named to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The other day, I can't remember. He's one of the
chief advisors certainly.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, in the Trump administration talking about DOJE the Department
of Government Excess or expenditures or waste or whatever efficiency
efficiency there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, And it's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There's a couple of things he said there that if
you stop and think about it. And one of my
themes lately has been number one, cut the crap, which
is closely related to my other theme, remember your first principles.
What are we doing here? Let's start at the beginning.
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And if you get down the road two, three, four
priorities and those priorities start to interfere with and damage
your first principle what you are here to do, you
need to take serious look at whether you've you've been
led as strike anyway, Having said that, Miller pointing out
that this enormous, incredibly expensive enterprise that is the federal
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government is practically never subjected to.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Any sort of analysis.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Assessing efficiency and waste and effectiveness and the idea that
something this incredibly expensive would exist without like serious safeguards
and rein ends and fail safes.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Every American citizen should be familiar with the yearly audit
that's done on the federal government and like weight with
baited breath to see what it would yield.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But no, it's the opposite.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Nobody even asks the question, right, which is crazy and
oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And and incredibly expensive, Thank you very much. As text,
you know, the deadlines approach.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I was disappointed.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts the
other day and they are really yucking it up about
how unlikely it is that Elon and Vivek can make
any real difference on this, since the big drive of
our financial problems are the big entitlements and nobody's going
to touch those. They can save maybe two hundred and
fifty billion dollars a year out of this. After that,
(03:09):
it's gonna be hard, Like, that's nothing like. That's the
fact that every cent I ever pay in tax, my
whole life gets wasted, and you could stop that from happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is not worth doing? Is I find offensive? Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And even more than that, because you're one hundred percent
right Elon once again, is his idea, his philosophy of
fail fast and learn faster.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If this, excuse me, if this.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Effort the Doge thing, if indeed it yields some decent
results in the discretionary part of the budget, which is,
you know, I can't remember a third of it or
something like that, and that, and then people talk about
and it becomes household knowledge that well, they can only
do so much because most of our government is actually
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all these programs.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You've heard about that would be enormous. It's important, sure
and educational.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Ninety percent of Americans could not tell you that, or
or seventy five percent something like that. So anyway, I
just I like the effort to please do it, even
if you fail completely, at least YOUT tried. Anyway, A
couple of interesting things about the size of the federal
workforce and the sprawling federal government. I found this interesting.
Charlie Kirk tweeted this the other day. Did you know
(04:24):
that eighty five percent of the federal workforce works from
home and only have to come in one day a
month on any given day, Only seventeen percent of the
federal workforces in a federal office building. Blah blah blah.
And I read that and I thought, wait a minute,
is that right. No, it's not right, it's not right.
According to the OMB, and they're fairly accurate, about half
of federal workers are eligible for telework, and of those
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about sixty percent of the work is actually performed at
a job site. So if you can do basic methods,
probably around twenty percent of the federal government that is
working remotely with god knows what level of efficiency or accountability.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But but again, you don't need to go with.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The wild, extraordinary and inaccurate number to say, okay, maybe
we start there. And I brought that up not to
undermine my own point, but just to point out, and
we struggle with this every day. There's so much out
there that is untrue, but it's so good you want
to believe it. So you just have to beware of
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that sort of thing in today's information environment. But this
from Wall Street Journal two point three million jobs the
federal workforce in charts, and they go through the various hirings,
growth and reduction in federal workforce the last four presidential administrations.
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And it's interesting the Democrats definitely grew it way more
than the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Year over year, but the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Republicans grew at times too, depending on their needs Worth
mentioning seventy percent of civilian workers are in military related agencies.
Seventy percent. I did not know that, wow, And are
they needed.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And it's difficult to get out get through this topic
without you know, throwing in a million talent tangents. But
as I've said for a long time, we need to
have respect for our military, particularly our fighting.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Men and women.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We do not need worship of our military, because if
you're worshiping the military and worshiping the Pentagon, you're not
constantly calling to calling for them to account for every
dollar they spend.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And it's an enormous budget we need to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, you can get a lot closer to worship for
our people in uniform, but no, well, I guess they
all wear uniforms, are fighting people. But no need to
for the bureocracy at all. It's no different than any
other bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Right, yeah, yeah, and it's subject to the iron law
of bureaucracy. But the Journal points out that two point
three million Americans who worked directly for the federal government,
less than two percent of the total US workforce. And
you think, well, that's not that significant. It's every dollar
of your federal taxes except the ones that go to entitlements.
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So yeah, as long as the money's coming out of
my paycheck, I care. They work as everything from nurses
and FA hospitals and park rangers and Yellowstone to guards
and federal prisons, and the nineteen employees of the Nuclear
Waste Technical Review Board about eighty percent of them actually
work outside of Washington, d C. I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It is amazing that we don't value our tax money more,
as you already said. But so you go to work
every single day and you make a living and the
government takes a big chunk of it, and you don't
pay attention.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
To how they spend it. They just waste it. They
waste a lot of it. We should be outraged at that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Don't take my money if you're not going to spend
it on something that I want or care about.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it's so much being.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Our brilliant plan we came up with a few years ago.
And this could be assigned at random because it doesn't matter,
and that would be an accurate way to do it. Anyway,
you get a notice with your federal taxes at the
end of every year on your final W two you
paid what ten thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars eight
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hundred thousand dollars in federal income taxes, and it would
say you built one one hundredth of this bridge, or
you every single dollar you paid went to the Department
of wasting your money on education or something like that,
and everybody and that way, everybody would think wow, wow,
that or you know, a bridge is practically universally understood
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and accepted. But wait a second, this went to the
Department of the whatever the hell the Department of the
Interior all of my tax money for their programs supporting
indigenous art programs.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Right, Oh okay, what is that program? How does it work?
I wonder what their budget is? Is that money wasted?
Is it just given out to cronies?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And everybody would have a personal stake, But anyway, I
don't want to get hung up on that as much
as I enjoy the discussion. Roughly seventy percent of civilian
roles or military or security related agencies VA. The VA
has the most civilian workers because it operates hundreds of
hospitals and clinics. Homeland Security is now the third largest.
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Education department is the smallest, has forty four hundred and
twenty five workers, easily shut down it should not exist,
which we'll talk about later on. Let's see, Yeah, that's
kind of interesting. You got any other justice apartment has
one hundred and seventeen thousand employees civilian employees?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Anyway we could get deep.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Could they operates just fine? With ten percent fewer than that?
I would guess that they could.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Uh, yeah, probably so I thought this was great Breitbart
reporting the Knagon failed at seventh audit in a row,
failing to account for it's more than eight hundred and
twenty four billion dollar budget in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Do you remember that there's a famous John Stewart clip
about that several years back where he grilled somebody on
a stage from the Pentagon about the Pentagon failing their
audit and where did those money go in? And the
person that ran it didn't have any idea. They don't
care because there's no public there's no political pressure on
them to pay attention to where the money goes.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So the DoD's Office of Inspector General, the DODIG yeah yeaoh,
said auditors quote could not obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence
to support an opinion. The audit, performed by an independent
public accounting firm, looked at twenty seven different DoD components,
and in a statement, the Inspector General, Robert Storch, said,
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there's been little progress since two thousand and five, almost
twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Although the DoD made some progress in improving financial management
during the fiscal year of financial audit statements blah, many
of it's identified weaknesses have not improved since two thousand
and five.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, I guess you just accept that we do get
the government we deserve and people don't care. Of course,
part of the reason, well, I was going to say,
part of the reason is half the country doesn't pay
federal taxes, so they don't have.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Any reason to care.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But the half that does pay taxes doesn't care much either,
because there's not supporting any party that's super fiscally concerned.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
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Speaker 4 (12:53):
There was a cyber truck in Trump's motorcade yesterday going
over to the rocket launch first time ever. So the
Biden administration who tried to pretend that Tesla doesn't exist
because they're not part of the auto workers' union. Trump
is embracing, of course, the only successful really electric car
company in history. Boy, politics makes for strange bedfellows all
the way around. We got a lot more on the
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way to stay here. Biden said yes to the rockets
and today has said yes to landmines, two things that
had been no goes in Ukraine up until this week.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the first sexually confused oddball has been elected to
Congress some transgender person, So now there'll be Willie's in
the women's bathroom and folks are not happy, but it
we'll discuss that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
With us love.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Andy Kessler columnist, He wrote, what the Doge people should
look at first, We're talking about these sprawling, obscene federal
budget and all of our tax dollars, and like the
California homeless programs, nobody even asks the question if if
any of this stuff is working.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Not only can they not answer.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
The question, nobody asks the question. So we need to
hone in on efficiency and not squandering people's damn money.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And it's amazing that more people aren't fired up about this.
I just I think they're defeated. Anyway, Andy says, here's
a handy cheat sheet on how mister Musk can toss
shrinker squeeze departments, commissions and agencies, the FTC, the Federal
Trade Commission, toss it the current FTC under Lena Khan
is a worse record than the Chicago White Sox. The
FTC already splits anti trust cases with the Justice Department,
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so move a few pro consumer competition lawyers there and
then shudder it. The FCC.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Toss it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The FCC caused the dot com boom and bust. Net
neutrality killed the broadband in Europe. It was still reinstated
here under the Biden administration. Three economists in a back
room can create and maintain a set of rules to
keep access competitive.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Toss it. So don't need the FCC at all.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No, no, Well, we're in the business regulated by it,
and I have seen no use for it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Security is and Exchange Commission. Toss it. The SEC missed the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, allowed crypto and spack, pump and dumps,
missed the FTX fiasco. Free trading requires setting and enforcing
simple rules. Could be not my area of expertise. US
Department of Agriculture toss it. This will end finally, end
corn subsidies for Iowa. We can move food stamp administrators
in funding to the States. The Department of Agriculture is
(15:28):
a gigantic bureaucracy and quite socialist right exactly, all those
free meals for everybody all the time. Now that's the
Department of Agriculture who voted on this. You're no longer
in charge of feeding your children. The government will do
you for do it for you. That won't cause massive
societal sociological change. Interesting Federal Reserve shrinket. The Central Bank
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missed Biden inflation. Dart throwers could do better than its
four hundred PhDs cut its funding dart throwers. I love
that the Defense Department squeeze it reallocate spending the drones, ships,
and defense systems such as Patriot missiles. Anti missile defenses
can be a giant export business as well. US Postal
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Service toss it and its monopoly on first and third
class mail go private. Amazon trucks already come to most
neighborhoods every day. My neighborhood. Between Amazon and UPS and
FedEx and a couple of other lesser players, they're omnipresent.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, to come to the drivers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Hey Joe, hey Jim, Yeah, others to toss. Fracking happened
despite the Energy Department, do we need it? Trump tariffs
will curtail imports so we can shrink the Import Export
Bank by at least half, close the Small Business Administration,
and what does the Commerce.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Department even do? Even more?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
To toss the Labor Department union puppets, that is abs,
It's a lutely true.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Shrink it by eighty percent. I know they have important work.
Shrink it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I know I'd be accused of being an ignoramis by
people who know more about this, But got I feel
like you could get rid of so much of the
government and everything would just be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
A few more, even more to toss Labor Department, union puppets,
Transportation Department, it's mileage and electric vehicle mandates killed Detroit,
although Miss d Musk may want to run the department himself.
The EPA reduce its carbon footprint housing in urban developments,
not the seventies anymore, get rid of it. Interior outsource
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the parks to Disney. No, they're too much into grooming
right now. Veterans affairs, can't they use the same hospitals
as the rest of us, no matter who pays.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I would not be too smug about that, since our
veterans deserve the care they are promised. But the idea
that you get a voucher and can use it anywhere
you want, as opposed to waiting fifteen months for appointment
at a VA hospital. I'm fully in favor of that.
More competition, more.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Uh yeah, we're gonna have our first trans congress person.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How they're going to handle the bathrooms, among other things.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
And restaurant chain I Hop announced this week that it
is the official breakfast partner of Xbox, while waffle House
remains the official breakfast partner of meth.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I used to throw my headphones on. Was it funny?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I just go to waffle House a lot, and I
was not on meth. I was just drunk, like a
lot of the other people. Just good old fashioned drunk.
Criticizing my hobbies is good old fashioned, run of the
mill drunk. It doesn't have to be meth. Yes, Katie, good.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Time killer waffle House fights on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh really? Oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Sh everywhere, way way more entertaining than Tyson Jake paul I.
Honest to god, I have seen a half dozen at
least really good waffle House fights.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
With my own eyes. So back in the day, that's
your new thing.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You become like the Joe Rogan of wildlhouse fights like
the Well, he's the MMA announcer and you know, kind
of an impresario and all. I don't know exactly how
you turn that into an online empire, but it's doable.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Have you seen the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese project, Uh,
what is it again?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The Saints?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I have.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It's a series or several episodes, four different religious saints,
Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, and then two others
that I didn't quite know as well. But anyway, it
looks like, well, it's Martin Scorsese level depiction of what
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it was like for Joan of Arc to uh, you know,
be what she was and lead crusaders against what she
thought were evil doers and be he caught and tortured
and burn at the steak.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hey, in all your Scorsese glory, it looks pretty dramatic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The John the Baptist one is super intriguing. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding, but they all look interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll check that out. Yeah why not? Why not?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What was I going to say?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I had something I wanted to bring up real quickly,
and it flitted out of my mind because I'm old
and easily distracted.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Happy birthday to Joe Biden. I just saw up on
some news thing where it said Joe Biden is the
oldest president to ever be in office. Exclamation point. That's
kind of a weird thing to have an exclamation point about,
given the fact that he's quitting because he's so old.
I mean, right, you just emphasized the thing that drove
him out of office with an exclamation point, like yay.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I thought that was what had driven out of office.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And he was so delusional he tried to run for
president again in his own party.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
After he got a.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Certain amount down the road, said Joe, you can't do this.
You're too senile. So yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
At the G twenty after some big gathering they had today,
he took no questions and all the other leaders did,
and was pointed out yesterday he has not taken a
question or said anything since the election. Oh wow at all.
I wonder if he's going to write it clear to
January twenty of like that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, and do we have to clip We had it
the other day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We didn't use it where they were trying to take
some sort of group picture, but he'd wandered off behind
a palm tree and they couldn't find him or something.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It happens. Yeah, well, yeah he's old.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's very very old in senile but just great for
another term. As recently as four or five months ago, anyway,
AW came across piece speaking of Joe Rogan about the left.
Keeps saying this is kind of a hot topic in
you know, online lefty circles. We need our own Joe
Rogan that would win the next election, and why there's
never going to be one.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But I thought this was this was overly interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
A very popular podcaster, from what I understand, does he
need at an explanation at this point?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't know either. I'm not equivaling with you. I
just I wonder.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, anyway, yeah, super super popular podcaster, has these like
three hour long conversations with interesting thinkers.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Many of them are very very out of the box.
But more on that to come.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You know, Joe Rogan almost certainly doesn't need any sort
of introduction, since any grown up who takes in spoken
word has at least heard of him. And when I
did career day at my son's high school the other day,
that was one of the few people I could mention
that the fourteen to seventeen year olds had heard of
and they all recognized the name Joe Rogan as children.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And that's something. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, honestly and seriously, you need to recalibrate now and again.
ABC News, ABC Nightly News needs more of an explanation
for a lot of humanity.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Absolutely, the Big Podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Absolutely, So before we get to the Joe Rogan thing,
which I think you'll find interesting, I was reading a
great piece that I mentioned about how the University of
North Carolina has started a new college within the university,
which is kind of a big tent that has colleges
underneath it, quote unquote, but it's all about free exchange
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of ideas and balanced faculty and no censoring of controversial opinions.
It's a return to academic freedom and it's wonderful. But
the guy who wrote the article and I could talk
all day about the main point of the article, but
this was kind.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Of just thrown in in the middle.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He mentions that a friend, a professor of literature at
an elite university, recently observed something he's noticed about his
students over a couple of decades. They seem to think
of social and political problems as simply matters of good
and evil. Good people take the right view, people take
the wrong view. Does that remind you of how you
were treated when your brother in law found out you
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voted for Trump? I mean, for instance, anyway, he says,
he writes, I like it to Menisianism, the third century
philosophy holding that the world consists of spirit good and
matter evil. But anyway, this this guy they're quoting, he mentions,
uh Plato and he bray Hebraic law, it's all about
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there's good and evil. But that dualism, it's a constant
temptation in human affairs, but it has been heightened in
recent decades. Social media is a great ratchet. There's a
like button and a dislike button. No, maybe button, But
he says, the youngsters have now increasingly seen the world in.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That dualistic way.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Not, oh interesting, you see the world differently than I do?
Or gosh, I wonder if my idea and your idea
overlap in a way we can talk about which is
the way mankind moves forward? No, it's all good and evil.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Or even that I'm sixty four, you're seventy thirty. On
this topic, right, that's just not allowed.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And who it was, said James Lindsey, who pointed out
first of all that no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
But Jonathan Hyde, who talked about how the most savage attacks.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Are within your bubble.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
If you're in a college student liberal bubble and you
say you know that conservative speaker, you know whoever it
might be who came to campus, I don't think it
would do any harm to hear him out. You will
be savagely attacked within your circle.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And that's the worst censorship.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Sure, plus with the fact that you care what those
people think. You don't care if you're being attacked by
the other side, but if you're attacked by your own
friends or bosses or teachers, you know that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, you'll quickly be kicked into submission.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
So Rich Lowry, who's a terrific writer, wrote a piece
for The New York Post there's a reason progressives don't
have their own Joe Rogan, because that's been kind of
a big conversation lately in circle.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's hilarious the idea that came out of the election
that the left doesn't have enough of the media.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What are you talking about you're right, you really ought
to take a moment to smell the roses of the hilarity.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Of that notion.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We need, we need liberal media to fight back. What Yeah,
it's hilarious. And what a Lowry's questions is, could the
left really tolerate its own Joe Rogan or is that anyway?
(26:45):
Let me skip ahead to the Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Early missed all Ellie Mistall of the left wing nation
declared liberals need to build their own Joe Rogan. I
remember Air America, that great experiment in liberal talk radio
that we saw and some of our sister stations took
part in, and the company invested in a place came
and it went. But Lowry rights progressives are correct about
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the power of you know, podcasters, the bro podcasters, the
new media, the intellectual dark web, whatever you want to
call it. But they don't understand how thoroughly anathema of
their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming.
This is the point they could, like the Hairs campaign,
have a billion dollars to spend and still not be
able to create one semi popular bro podcaster. How is
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the Party of Policing what people say, to ensure that
the discussion always stays within a narrow set of guardrails,
going to create or even tolerate the free wheelingly heterodox
media voices if they did, If the left did manage
to create a progressive Joe broken in a lab, as
soon as he said something controversial out in the wild,
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he'd be anesthetized and subject to cancellation or anathematized, which
is word I don't often see. That's exactly what happened
to well Joe Rogan. Before he was a Trump bro,
he was a Bernie bro. He's socially liberal, he's mocked
religion and is in no way a traditional Republican. But
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the left turned on him with a vengeance because he
expressed controversial views on COVID and had a rogue rolist
virologist on the show.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
As we did too. That's good. They don't get it
over here.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
We disagree with each other all the time, and it's okay,
and it's interesting and it's fun and we learn and
we grow big.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Popular talk shows.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Even though you know, as we've joked for the longest time,
we get done with a segment and get a dozen
emails saying you suck. I'll never listen to you again.
You're too pro Trump and you suck. I'll never listen
to you again. You're too anti Trump based on the
same you know, screed. But that's fine. That's how you
get what we do, so good luck. Grow it in
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a lab ye far lefties.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Speaking of the COVID views some people had, I came
across this tweet yesterday, a bit of a throwback. Just
remember the government did more to stop the distribution of
ivermectin and hydrochloro queen than it did to stop the
distribution of fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It does feel that way, doesn't it That.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
There was more of an uprise of making sure nobody
took ivervectin or that hydro chloro queen stuff that Trump
talked about van fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
If you want to talk about marshaling up public opinion
to resist something.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And they creating fear around it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I don't know if it's literally true with the
DEA and the border patrol and stuff like that, but
now I see the point absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Another tweet I came across that I liked prank idea
give every person access to all the information in the world,
but don't teach them how to discern what's true.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Ooh, I get it, I get it. Ooh oh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So coming up, there's a poor, confused individual calls themselves
transgender elected to Congress, and a number of the ladies
in Congress are saying, don't want no wangs in our
locker rooms, et cetera. Are audio sheets here that have
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all the clips that we might play.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
During the show today.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
That section cleverly labeled by Mike Hanson has no trans
in the cane, new transgender congress person. That controversy coming
up a little later on.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, the rubber is going to meet the road on
the whole bathroom thing. They're gonna have to figure something out.
It might end up being the national policy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yep. That on the way Congress.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I'man Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, defending legislation
she introduced to try to change House rules to prohibit
transgender women and girls from using women's bathrooms and.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Facility on Capitol Hill. This is less than two.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Months before Congresswoman elects Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender
person ever elected to Congress, is scheduled to be sworn
into office.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
It is you know, it's just disgusting. I don't understand
why Republicans are so obsessed with people's private parts. She's
going to do these exams herself. I mean, it is absurd.
We have real work to do here in the United
States Congress.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think it's a very bigoted approach to the issue.
For a newbody in this.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Place is threatened by whatever bathroom an margin member from
Delaware chooses.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
To walk into.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
All right, So it's Republicans that are obsessed with people's genitals,
and that's a bigoted approach, says a man. No one
is threatened by a sponse in the girls room. Thank
you for pronouncing that and lecturing those stupid women to
keep their mouths shut. That's Representative Adam Smith of Washington. What.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
First of all, I can't believe there'd be a very
large percentage of women nationwide who are okay with you know,
call yourself what you want, but if you have a
penis being in the women's restroom, I gotta believe that
polls pretty overwhelmingly one direction, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
What I tried so hard? Wow? Really did wow? Katie?
Feel free to weigh in if you want.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I mean, you're a woman always does it bother you
to be in a women's room to know there's a
guy next door.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
One hundred and fifty percent without a doubt, because you
don't know if that is a person who is actually
mentally ill dealing with this whole trans thing, or if
it's a predator in the women's restroom where guys usually
do not belong. As far as I know.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I suppose the I'm trying to steal man the other side,
I suppose the arment would be, well, you do know
who this person is. It's a not just anybody can
go into the congressional bathrooms and there's just one person,
you know, the an elected congress person.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're not some.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
You know, nobody predator that you have to wonder about, right,
I was speaking just in general.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, sure, but.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, but again, I tell you what, Let's let this
dude in because he's wearing a dress and says he's
a girl. Now, so hey, come on, girls, just shut
up and take it. You don't want to be a bigot.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Do you know? I'm with JK. Rowling and other people.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
No women's spaces are for women, period end of sentence.
And the Wall Street Journal, of all places, the journalists
uh Kathy Stetchferic and Xavier Xavier Martinez falling into the
trap that so many people do using the terminology of
radical gender theory in this article, you know, it would
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prevent people whose birth sex was designated as male.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
No, it wasn't designated, it was observed if.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You produce sperm your male, If you produce ov eggs,
you're a female period. And again, you want to present
any way you want, that's fine, but don't fall into
the trap of using the radical lefts terminology.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
What bathroom do you want this person to use?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, that's where you get into if you're going to
go down the road as far as okay, transgender is
a thing as opposed to for you know a lot
of human history that was an issue to be worked out.
You got to go with likex one little unisex restroom
like you see in all the airports.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Yeah, well, well that's what's going to happen. I was
going to say, I know how this is going to
be solved. All the bathrooms are going to be you know,
one whole bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's that's what sucks.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So instead of having a bathroom where you can have
eight guys going there at once and speed things up.
You have to have everything be unit sex and one
person at a time. And that's why it is that
your Starbucks, er McDonald's, or your library are wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That's how they get around this problem and don't get sued.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So Nancy Mace of South Carolina proposed a resolution to
prohibit House lawmakers and employees quote from using single sex
facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex quote.
Biological men do not belong in private women's faces, period.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Period. I'm such a zealot on this topic.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I don't even use the term biological men because that
employer implies that there are other.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Sorts of men. There aren't.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's there are men and there are women. Of course,
it's defined by biology. There's no need to say that.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well, they're going to solve this by going gender neutral bathrooms,
So you can use whatever bathroom you want. And then girls, good, good,
get you get to enjoy the filthy filthy.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Male, Now you're used to clean bathrooms because you girls
are cleaner. Now you get to enjoy dirty bathrooms because
there's gonna be guys going in your bathroom.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Uh sweet.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Marjorie MTG is down with Nancy May saying women in
women's bathrooms period. I'm glad this discussion is going to
be had.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I'll just say that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Like I said, I think I think I know how
they're gonna solve it. It's gonna be the way they solved
it a most of the places I go, and it
sucks because it's just harder to get into the bathroom now.
They won't eliminate bathrooms like they've done a lot of
places I go where they just plane eliminate the bathroom
to stay away from the from room. Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, arm.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
The departments do not have any clue where the dollars
are going. How many audits has the Pentagon failed?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Who has any idea?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
How much waste and abuse there is in the trillions
of dollars spent by the federal government. This government is
not watching how your dollars are being spent. And President
Trump has commissioned Elon and vi Veik and many others
across the government to get to the bottom of this,
so the money that you earn as an American citizen
will be jealously treasured and guarded and not wasted any longer.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
That's Stephen Miller, who is going to be the Deputy
something or other. What did he get named to.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
The other day, I can't remember. He's one of the
chief advisors certainly.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah, in the Trump administration talking about DOJE the Department
of Government Excess or expenditures or waste or whatever efficiency
efficiency there you go.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, And it's funny.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
There's a couple of things he said there that if
you stop and think about it. And one of my
themes lately has been number one, cut the crap, which
is closely related to my other theme, remember your first principles.
What are we doing here? Let's start at the beginning.
(01:39):
And if you get down the road two, three, four
priorities and those priorities start to interfere with and damage
your first principle what you are here to do, you
need to take serious look at whether you've you've been
led as strike anyway, Having said that, Miller pointing out
that this enormous, incredibly expensive enterprise that is the federal
(02:00):
government is practically never subjected to.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Any sort of analysis.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Assessing efficiency and waste and effectiveness and the idea that
something this incredibly expensive would exist without like serious safeguards
and rein ends and fail safes.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Every American citizen should be familiar with the yearly audit
that's done on the federal government and like weight with
baited breath to see what it would yield.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
But no, it's the opposite.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Nobody even asks the question, right, which is crazy and
oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And and incredibly expensive, Thank you very much. As text,
you know, the deadlines approach.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, I was disappointed.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts the
other day and they are really yucking it up about
how unlikely it is that Elon and Vivek can make
any real difference on this, since the big drive of
our financial problems are the big entitlements and nobody's going
to touch those. They can save maybe two hundred and
fifty billion dollars a year out of this. After that,
(03:09):
it's gonna be hard, Like, that's nothing like. That's the
fact that every cent I ever pay in tax, my
whole life gets wasted, and you could stop that from happening.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Is not worth doing? Is I find offensive? Yeah? It is.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
And even more than that, because you're one hundred percent
right Elon once again, is his idea, his philosophy of
fail fast and learn faster.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
If this, excuse me, if this.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Effort the Doge thing, if indeed it yields some decent
results in the discretionary part of the budget, which is,
you know, I can't remember a third of it or
something like that, and that, and then people talk about
and it becomes household knowledge that well, they can only
do so much because most of our government is actually
(03:57):
all these programs.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
You've heard about that would be enormous. It's important, sure
and educational.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Ninety percent of Americans could not tell you that, or
or seventy five percent something like that. So anyway, I
just I like the effort to please do it, even
if you fail completely, at least YOUT tried. Anyway, A
couple of interesting things about the size of the federal
workforce and the sprawling federal government. I found this interesting.
Charlie Kirk tweeted this the other day. Did you know
(04:24):
that eighty five percent of the federal workforce works from
home and only have to come in one day a
month on any given day, Only seventeen percent of the
federal workforces in a federal office building. Blah blah blah.
And I read that and I thought, wait a minute,
is that right. No, it's not right, it's not right.
According to the OMB, and they're fairly accurate, about half
of federal workers are eligible for telework, and of those
(04:47):
about sixty percent of the work is actually performed at
a job site. So if you can do basic methods,
probably around twenty percent of the federal government that is
working remotely with god knows what level of efficiency or accountability.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But but again, you don't need to go with.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
The wild, extraordinary and inaccurate number to say, okay, maybe
we start there. And I brought that up not to
undermine my own point, but just to point out, and
we struggle with this every day. There's so much out
there that is untrue, but it's so good you want
to believe it. So you just have to beware of
(05:22):
that sort of thing in today's information environment. But this
from Wall Street Journal two point three million jobs the
federal workforce in charts, and they go through the various hirings,
growth and reduction in federal workforce the last four presidential administrations.
(05:42):
And it's interesting the Democrats definitely grew it way more
than the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Year over year, but the.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Republicans grew at times too, depending on their needs Worth
mentioning seventy percent of civilian workers are in military related agencies.
Seventy percent. I did not know that, wow, And are
they needed.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Right? Right?
Speaker 1 (06:06):
And it's difficult to get out get through this topic
without you know, throwing in a million talent tangents. But
as I've said for a long time, we need to
have respect for our military, particularly our fighting.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Men and women.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
We do not need worship of our military, because if
you're worshiping the military and worshiping the Pentagon, you're not
constantly calling to calling for them to account for every
dollar they spend.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
And it's an enormous budget we need to.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
Yeah, you can get a lot closer to worship for
our people in uniform, but no, well, I guess they
all wear uniforms, are fighting people. But no need to
for the bureocracy at all. It's no different than any
other bureaucracy.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Right, yeah, yeah, and it's subject to the iron law
of bureaucracy. But the Journal points out that two point
three million Americans who worked directly for the federal government,
less than two percent of the total US workforce. And
you think, well, that's not that significant. It's every dollar
of your federal taxes except the ones that go to entitlements.
(07:10):
So yeah, as long as the money's coming out of
my paycheck, I care. They work as everything from nurses
and FA hospitals and park rangers and Yellowstone to guards
and federal prisons, and the nineteen employees of the Nuclear
Waste Technical Review Board about eighty percent of them actually
work outside of Washington, d C. I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
It is amazing that we don't value our tax money more,
as you already said. But so you go to work
every single day and you make a living and the
government takes a big chunk of it, and you don't
pay attention.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
To how they spend it. They just waste it. They
waste a lot of it. We should be outraged at that.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Don't take my money if you're not going to spend
it on something that I want or care about.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it's so much being.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Our brilliant plan we came up with a few years ago.
And this could be assigned at random because it doesn't matter,
and that would be an accurate way to do it. Anyway,
you get a notice with your federal taxes at the
end of every year on your final W two you
paid what ten thousand dollars one hundred thousand dollars eight
(08:23):
hundred thousand dollars in federal income taxes, and it would
say you built one one hundredth of this bridge, or
you every single dollar you paid went to the Department
of wasting your money on education or something like that,
and everybody and that way, everybody would think wow, wow,
that or you know, a bridge is practically universally understood
(08:45):
and accepted. But wait a second, this went to the
Department of the whatever the hell the Department of the
Interior all of my tax money for their programs supporting
indigenous art programs.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Right, Oh okay, what is that program? How does it work?
I wonder what their budget is? Is that money wasted?
Is it just given out to cronies?
Speaker 1 (09:07):
And everybody would have a personal stake, But anyway, I
don't want to get hung up on that as much
as I enjoy the discussion. Roughly seventy percent of civilian
roles or military or security related agencies VA. The VA
has the most civilian workers because it operates hundreds of
hospitals and clinics. Homeland Security is now the third largest.
(09:28):
Education department is the smallest, has forty four hundred and
twenty five workers, easily shut down it should not exist,
which we'll talk about later on. Let's see, Yeah, that's
kind of interesting. You got any other justice apartment has
one hundred and seventeen thousand employees civilian employees?
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Anyway we could get deep.
Speaker 4 (09:49):
Could they operates just fine? With ten percent fewer than that?
I would guess that they could.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Uh, yeah, probably so I thought this was great Breitbart
reporting the Knagon failed at seventh audit in a row,
failing to account for it's more than eight hundred and
twenty four billion dollar budget in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Do you remember that there's a famous John Stewart clip
about that several years back where he grilled somebody on
a stage from the Pentagon about the Pentagon failing their
audit and where did those money go in? And the
person that ran it didn't have any idea. They don't
care because there's no public there's no political pressure on
them to pay attention to where the money goes.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Zero.
Speaker 1 (10:31):
So the DoD's Office of Inspector General, the DODIG yeah yeaoh,
said auditors quote could not obtain sufficient appropriate audit evidence
to support an opinion. The audit, performed by an independent
public accounting firm, looked at twenty seven different DoD components,
and in a statement, the Inspector General, Robert Storch, said,
(10:53):
there's been little progress since two thousand and five, almost
twenty years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Although the DoD made some progress in improving financial management
during the fiscal year of financial audit statements blah, many
of it's identified weaknesses have not improved since two thousand
and five.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Yeah, I guess you just accept that we do get
the government we deserve and people don't care. Of course,
part of the reason, well, I was going to say,
part of the reason is half the country doesn't pay
federal taxes, so they don't have.
Speaker 2 (11:27):
Any reason to care.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
But the half that does pay taxes doesn't care much either,
because there's not supporting any party that's super fiscally concerned.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
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sheet after a quick break?
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Diari Just see there was amount.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
There was a cyber truck in Trump's motorcade yesterday going
over to the rocket launch first time ever. So the
Biden administration who tried to pretend that Tesla doesn't exist
because they're not part of the auto workers' union. Trump
is embracing, of course, the only successful really electric car
company in history. Boy, politics makes for strange bedfellows all
the way around. We got a lot more on the
(13:15):
way to stay here. Biden said yes to the rockets
and today has said yes to landmines, two things that
had been no goes in Ukraine up until this week.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
More on that later.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
And the first sexually confused oddball has been elected to
Congress some transgender person, So now there'll be Willie's in
the women's bathroom and folks are not happy, but it
we'll discuss that as well.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
With us love.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Andy Kessler columnist, He wrote, what the Doge people should
look at first, We're talking about these sprawling, obscene federal
budget and all of our tax dollars, and like the
California homeless programs, nobody even asks the question if if
any of this stuff is working.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Not only can they not answer.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
The question, nobody asks the question. So we need to
hone in on efficiency and not squandering people's damn money.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And it's amazing that more people aren't fired up about this.
I just I think they're defeated. Anyway, Andy says, here's
a handy cheat sheet on how mister Musk can toss
shrinker squeeze departments, commissions and agencies, the FTC, the Federal
Trade Commission, toss it the current FTC under Lena Khan
is a worse record than the Chicago White Sox. The
FTC already splits anti trust cases with the Justice Department,
(14:33):
so move a few pro consumer competition lawyers there and
then shudder it. The FCC.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Toss it.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
The FCC caused the dot com boom and bust. Net
neutrality killed the broadband in Europe. It was still reinstated
here under the Biden administration. Three economists in a back
room can create and maintain a set of rules to
keep access competitive.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Toss it. So don't need the FCC at all.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
No, no, Well, we're in the business regulated by it,
and I have seen no use for it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Security is and Exchange Commission. Toss it. The SEC missed the.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme, allowed crypto and spack, pump and dumps,
missed the FTX fiasco. Free trading requires setting and enforcing
simple rules. Could be not my area of expertise. US
Department of Agriculture toss it. This will end finally, end
corn subsidies for Iowa. We can move food stamp administrators
in funding to the States. The Department of Agriculture is
(15:28):
a gigantic bureaucracy and quite socialist right exactly, all those
free meals for everybody all the time. Now that's the
Department of Agriculture who voted on this. You're no longer
in charge of feeding your children. The government will do
you for do it for you. That won't cause massive
societal sociological change. Interesting Federal Reserve shrinket. The Central Bank
(15:54):
missed Biden inflation. Dart throwers could do better than its
four hundred PhDs cut its funding dart throwers. I love
that the Defense Department squeeze it reallocate spending the drones, ships,
and defense systems such as Patriot missiles. Anti missile defenses
can be a giant export business as well. US Postal
(16:16):
Service toss it and its monopoly on first and third
class mail go private. Amazon trucks already come to most
neighborhoods every day. My neighborhood. Between Amazon and UPS and
FedEx and a couple of other lesser players, they're omnipresent.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, to come to the drivers.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Hey Joe, hey Jim, Yeah, others to toss. Fracking happened
despite the Energy Department, do we need it? Trump tariffs
will curtail imports so we can shrink the Import Export
Bank by at least half, close the Small Business Administration,
and what does the Commerce.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Department even do? Even more?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
To toss the Labor Department union puppets, that is abs,
It's a lutely true.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Shrink it by eighty percent. I know they have important work.
Shrink it.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
I know I'd be accused of being an ignoramis by
people who know more about this, But got I feel
like you could get rid of so much of the
government and everything would just be fine.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
A few more, even more to toss Labor Department, union puppets,
Transportation Department, it's mileage and electric vehicle mandates killed Detroit,
although Miss d Musk may want to run the department himself.
The EPA reduce its carbon footprint housing in urban developments,
not the seventies anymore, get rid of it. Interior outsource
(17:35):
the parks to Disney. No, they're too much into grooming
right now. Veterans affairs, can't they use the same hospitals
as the rest of us, no matter who pays.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
That's an interesting question.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
I would not be too smug about that, since our
veterans deserve the care they are promised. But the idea
that you get a voucher and can use it anywhere
you want, as opposed to waiting fifteen months for appointment
at a VA hospital. I'm fully in favor of that.
More competition, more.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Uh yeah, we're gonna have our first trans congress person.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
How they're going to handle the bathrooms, among other things.
Speaker 5 (18:14):
And restaurant chain I Hop announced this week that it
is the official breakfast partner of Xbox, while waffle House
remains the official breakfast partner of meth.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I used to throw my headphones on. Was it funny?
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I just go to waffle House a lot, and I
was not on meth. I was just drunk, like a
lot of the other people. Just good old fashioned drunk.
Criticizing my hobbies is good old fashioned, run of the
mill drunk. It doesn't have to be meth. Yes, Katie, good.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Time killer waffle House fights on YouTube?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Oh really? Oh yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Sh everywhere, way way more entertaining than Tyson Jake paul I.
Honest to god, I have seen a half dozen at
least really good waffle House fights.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
With my own eyes. So back in the day, that's
your new thing.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
You become like the Joe Rogan of wildlhouse fights like
the Well, he's the MMA announcer and you know, kind
of an impresario and all. I don't know exactly how
you turn that into an online empire, but it's doable.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Have you seen the trailer for the new Martin Scorsese project, Uh,
what is it again?
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The Saints?
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah I have.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
It's a series or several episodes, four different religious saints,
Joan of Arc, John the Baptist, and then two others
that I didn't quite know as well. But anyway, it
looks like, well, it's Martin Scorsese level depiction of what
(19:51):
it was like for Joan of Arc to uh, you know,
be what she was and lead crusaders against what she
thought were evil doers and be he caught and tortured
and burn at the steak.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Hey, in all your Scorsese glory, it looks pretty dramatic. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
The John the Baptist one is super intriguing. Yeah, yeah,
no kidding, but they all look interesting.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
I'll check that out. Yeah why not? Why not?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
What was I going to say?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
I had something I wanted to bring up real quickly,
and it flitted out of my mind because I'm old
and easily distracted.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
Happy birthday to Joe Biden. I just saw up on
some news thing where it said Joe Biden is the
oldest president to ever be in office. Exclamation point. That's
kind of a weird thing to have an exclamation point about,
given the fact that he's quitting because he's so old.
I mean, right, you just emphasized the thing that drove
him out of office with an exclamation point, like yay.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I thought that was what had driven out of office.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
And he was so delusional he tried to run for
president again in his own party.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
After he got a.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Certain amount down the road, said Joe, you can't do this.
You're too senile. So yeah, it's a little uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
At the G twenty after some big gathering they had today,
he took no questions and all the other leaders did,
and was pointed out yesterday he has not taken a
question or said anything since the election. Oh wow at all.
I wonder if he's going to write it clear to
January twenty of like that.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Well, and do we have to clip We had it
the other day.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
We didn't use it where they were trying to take
some sort of group picture, but he'd wandered off behind
a palm tree and they couldn't find him or something.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
It happens. Yeah, well, yeah he's old.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's very very old in senile but just great for
another term. As recently as four or five months ago, anyway,
AW came across piece speaking of Joe Rogan about the left.
Keeps saying this is kind of a hot topic in
you know, online lefty circles. We need our own Joe
Rogan that would win the next election, and why there's
never going to be one.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
But I thought this was this was overly interesting.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
A very popular podcaster, from what I understand, does he
need at an explanation at this point?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
I don't know either. I'm not equivaling with you. I
just I wonder.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, anyway, yeah, super super popular podcaster, has these like
three hour long conversations with interesting thinkers.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Many of them are very very out of the box.
But more on that to come.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
You know, Joe Rogan almost certainly doesn't need any sort
of introduction, since any grown up who takes in spoken
word has at least heard of him. And when I
did career day at my son's high school the other day,
that was one of the few people I could mention
that the fourteen to seventeen year olds had heard of
and they all recognized the name Joe Rogan as children.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
And that's something. Now.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Yeah, honestly and seriously, you need to recalibrate now and again.
ABC News, ABC Nightly News needs more of an explanation
for a lot of humanity.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Absolutely, the Big Podcast.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
Absolutely, So before we get to the Joe Rogan thing,
which I think you'll find interesting, I was reading a
great piece that I mentioned about how the University of
North Carolina has started a new college within the university,
which is kind of a big tent that has colleges
underneath it, quote unquote, but it's all about free exchange
(23:15):
of ideas and balanced faculty and no censoring of controversial opinions.
It's a return to academic freedom and it's wonderful. But
the guy who wrote the article and I could talk
all day about the main point of the article, but
this was kind.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Of just thrown in in the middle.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
He mentions that a friend, a professor of literature at
an elite university, recently observed something he's noticed about his
students over a couple of decades. They seem to think
of social and political problems as simply matters of good
and evil. Good people take the right view, people take
the wrong view. Does that remind you of how you
were treated when your brother in law found out you
(23:55):
voted for Trump? I mean, for instance, anyway, he says,
he writes, I like it to Menisianism, the third century
philosophy holding that the world consists of spirit good and
matter evil. But anyway, this this guy they're quoting, he mentions,
uh Plato and he bray Hebraic law, it's all about
(24:17):
there's good and evil. But that dualism, it's a constant
temptation in human affairs, but it has been heightened in
recent decades. Social media is a great ratchet. There's a
like button and a dislike button. No, maybe button, But
he says, the youngsters have now increasingly seen the world in.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
That dualistic way.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Not, oh interesting, you see the world differently than I do?
Or gosh, I wonder if my idea and your idea
overlap in a way we can talk about which is
the way mankind moves forward? No, it's all good and evil.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Or even that I'm sixty four, you're seventy thirty. On
this topic, right, that's just not allowed.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
And who it was, said James Lindsey, who pointed out
first of all that no, it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
It was.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
But Jonathan Hyde, who talked about how the most savage attacks.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Are within your bubble.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
If you're in a college student liberal bubble and you
say you know that conservative speaker, you know whoever it
might be who came to campus, I don't think it
would do any harm to hear him out. You will
be savagely attacked within your circle.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
And that's the worst censorship.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Sure, plus with the fact that you care what those
people think. You don't care if you're being attacked by
the other side, but if you're attacked by your own
friends or bosses or teachers, you know that's uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah, you'll quickly be kicked into submission.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
So Rich Lowry, who's a terrific writer, wrote a piece
for The New York Post there's a reason progressives don't
have their own Joe Rogan, because that's been kind of
a big conversation lately in circle.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
It's hilarious the idea that came out of the election
that the left doesn't have enough of the media.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
What are you talking about you're right, you really ought
to take a moment to smell the roses of the hilarity.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Of that notion.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
We need, we need liberal media to fight back. What Yeah,
it's hilarious. And what a Lowry's questions is, could the
left really tolerate its own Joe Rogan or is that anyway?
(26:45):
Let me skip ahead to the Okay.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
So.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Early missed all Ellie Mistall of the left wing nation
declared liberals need to build their own Joe Rogan. I
remember Air America, that great experiment in liberal talk radio
that we saw and some of our sister stations took
part in, and the company invested in a place came
and it went. But Lowry rights progressives are correct about
(27:09):
the power of you know, podcasters, the bro podcasters, the
new media, the intellectual dark web, whatever you want to
call it. But they don't understand how thoroughly anathema of
their ideology and cultural sensibility are to this kind of programming.
This is the point they could, like the Hairs campaign,
have a billion dollars to spend and still not be
able to create one semi popular bro podcaster. How is
(27:32):
the Party of Policing what people say, to ensure that
the discussion always stays within a narrow set of guardrails,
going to create or even tolerate the free wheelingly heterodox
media voices if they did, If the left did manage
to create a progressive Joe broken in a lab, as
soon as he said something controversial out in the wild,
(27:53):
he'd be anesthetized and subject to cancellation or anathematized, which
is word I don't often see. That's exactly what happened
to well Joe Rogan. Before he was a Trump bro,
he was a Bernie bro. He's socially liberal, he's mocked
religion and is in no way a traditional Republican. But
(28:13):
the left turned on him with a vengeance because he
expressed controversial views on COVID and had a rogue rolist
virologist on the show.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
As we did too. That's good. They don't get it
over here.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
We disagree with each other all the time, and it's okay,
and it's interesting and it's fun and we learn and
we grow big.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Popular talk shows.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Even though you know, as we've joked for the longest time,
we get done with a segment and get a dozen
emails saying you suck. I'll never listen to you again.
You're too pro Trump and you suck. I'll never listen
to you again. You're too anti Trump based on the
same you know, screed. But that's fine. That's how you
get what we do, so good luck. Grow it in
(29:00):
a lab ye far lefties.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Speaking of the COVID views some people had, I came
across this tweet yesterday, a bit of a throwback. Just
remember the government did more to stop the distribution of
ivermectin and hydrochloro queen than it did to stop the
distribution of fentanyl.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
It does feel that way, doesn't it That.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
There was more of an uprise of making sure nobody
took ivervectin or that hydro chloro queen stuff that Trump
talked about van fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
If you want to talk about marshaling up public opinion
to resist something.
Speaker 2 (29:36):
And they creating fear around it.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Yeah, I don't know if it's literally true with the
DEA and the border patrol and stuff like that, but
now I see the point absolutely.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Another tweet I came across that I liked prank idea
give every person access to all the information in the world,
but don't teach them how to discern what's true.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
Ooh, I get it, I get it. Ooh oh.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
So coming up, there's a poor, confused individual calls themselves
transgender elected to Congress, and a number of the ladies
in Congress are saying, don't want no wangs in our
locker rooms, et cetera. Are audio sheets here that have
(30:22):
all the clips that we might play.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
During the show today.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
That section cleverly labeled by Mike Hanson has no trans
in the cane, new transgender congress person. That controversy coming
up a little later on.
Speaker 4 (30:38):
Yeah, the rubber is going to meet the road on
the whole bathroom thing. They're gonna have to figure something out.
It might end up being the national policy.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yep. That on the way Congress.
Speaker 5 (30:48):
I'man Nancy Mace, a Republican from South Carolina, defending legislation
she introduced to try to change House rules to prohibit
transgender women and girls from using women's bathrooms and.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Facility on Capitol Hill. This is less than two.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
Months before Congresswoman elects Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender
person ever elected to Congress, is scheduled to be sworn
into office.
Speaker 7 (31:11):
It is you know, it's just disgusting. I don't understand
why Republicans are so obsessed with people's private parts. She's
going to do these exams herself. I mean, it is absurd.
We have real work to do here in the United
States Congress.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I think it's a very bigoted approach to the issue.
For a newbody in this.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Place is threatened by whatever bathroom an margin member from
Delaware chooses.
Speaker 2 (31:34):
To walk into.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
All right, So it's Republicans that are obsessed with people's genitals,
and that's a bigoted approach, says a man. No one
is threatened by a sponse in the girls room. Thank
you for pronouncing that and lecturing those stupid women to
keep their mouths shut. That's Representative Adam Smith of Washington. What.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
First of all, I can't believe there'd be a very
large percentage of women nationwide who are okay with you know,
call yourself what you want, but if you have a
penis being in the women's restroom, I gotta believe that
polls pretty overwhelmingly one direction, so to speak.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
What I tried so hard? Wow? Really did wow? Katie?
Feel free to weigh in if you want.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
I mean, you're a woman always does it bother you
to be in a women's room to know there's a
guy next door.
Speaker 6 (32:33):
One hundred and fifty percent without a doubt, because you
don't know if that is a person who is actually
mentally ill dealing with this whole trans thing, or if
it's a predator in the women's restroom where guys usually
do not belong. As far as I know.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
I suppose the I'm trying to steal man the other side,
I suppose the arment would be, well, you do know
who this person is. It's a not just anybody can
go into the congressional bathrooms and there's just one person,
you know, the an elected congress person.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
They're not some.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
You know, nobody predator that you have to wonder about, right,
I was speaking just in general.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, sure, but.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Yeah, but again, I tell you what, Let's let this
dude in because he's wearing a dress and says he's
a girl. Now, so hey, come on, girls, just shut
up and take it. You don't want to be a bigot.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Do you know? I'm with JK. Rowling and other people.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
No women's spaces are for women, period end of sentence.
And the Wall Street Journal, of all places, the journalists
uh Kathy Stetchferic and Xavier Xavier Martinez falling into the
trap that so many people do using the terminology of
radical gender theory in this article, you know, it would
(33:46):
prevent people whose birth sex was designated as male.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
No, it wasn't designated, it was observed if.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
You produce sperm your male, If you produce ov eggs,
you're a female period. And again, you want to present
any way you want, that's fine, but don't fall into
the trap of using the radical lefts terminology.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
What bathroom do you want this person to use?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Well, that's where you get into if you're going to
go down the road as far as okay, transgender is
a thing as opposed to for you know a lot
of human history that was an issue to be worked out.
You got to go with likex one little unisex restroom
like you see in all the airports.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Yeah, well, well that's what's going to happen. I was
going to say, I know how this is going to
be solved. All the bathrooms are going to be you know,
one whole bathrooms.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
That's that's what sucks.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
So instead of having a bathroom where you can have
eight guys going there at once and speed things up.
You have to have everything be unit sex and one
person at a time. And that's why it is that
your Starbucks, er McDonald's, or your library are wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
That's how they get around this problem and don't get sued.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
So Nancy Mace of South Carolina proposed a resolution to
prohibit House lawmakers and employees quote from using single sex
facilities other than those corresponding to their biological sex quote.
Biological men do not belong in private women's faces, period.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
Period. I'm such a zealot on this topic.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I don't even use the term biological men because that
employer implies that there are other.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Sorts of men. There aren't.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's there are men and there are women. Of course,
it's defined by biology. There's no need to say that.
Speaker 4 (35:31):
Well, they're going to solve this by going gender neutral bathrooms,
So you can use whatever bathroom you want. And then girls, good, good,
get you get to enjoy the filthy filthy.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
Male, Now you're used to clean bathrooms because you girls
are cleaner. Now you get to enjoy dirty bathrooms because
there's gonna be guys going in your bathroom.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
Uh sweet.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Marjorie MTG is down with Nancy May saying women in
women's bathrooms period. I'm glad this discussion is going to
be had.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
I'll just say that. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Like I said, I think I think I know how
they're gonna solve it. It's gonna be the way they solved
it a most of the places I go, and it
sucks because it's just harder to get into the bathroom now.
They won't eliminate bathrooms like they've done a lot of
places I go where they just plane eliminate the bathroom
to stay away from the from room. Armstrong and Getty
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