February 4, 2025 • 35 mins
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- Jack is spreading norovirus & not the tariffs!
- Mailbag!
- Don't google your symptoms & Elon Musk's "power"
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jettie and he arms wrong. I'm a tram a studio
(00:33):
see see senior, A dimly let room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Today we
are under the tutelage of our general manager, not the tariffs,
not the terrors, our first ever negative general manager. They everbind.
(00:55):
So I'm slightly distracted. Then I'm going to get my
act together. I know I can. I know I'm going
to get my egg together. Okay, I was out spitting
in the bushes before I walked in here. I really
thought I was going to throw up in my car
on the way to work. Oh. I thought I was
gonna throw it before I got into the building. And
I haven't yet, but I'm really close. Oh golly, So
(01:16):
if I duck off real fast, that's what I'm doing.
I don't know why I stop and snack on roadkill
on the way in again, did you it looked like
the squirrel had just been hit to me? Oh really recently? Wow?
I was afraid I'd gone too far I don't know
why I feel like this. I have no idea, but
I really it is subsided a little from when I
(01:37):
was just downstairs kneeled wishes, which you know is not unusual.
In front of this building, I thought I'll join the
other people who are pop passed out in either vomiting
or other or worse, any of them employees. Yes, just
see Hans in the the RV. There's an RV parked
out where that the car is gone that everybody was
working on for a couple of days. But there's a
(01:58):
big RV there. They even have the slides out today
like they're camping. I mean, they've got the full slide.
Nice climate, pleasant setting.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, so my kid is going to law school far
enough from the radio ranch.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's irrelevant. But man, the neurovirus is everywhere, is it really? Oh? Yeah,
pupkin and poop, and it's just it's rough. I haven't
come in contact with anybody sick. But I hope I
don't have that, you know of if I brought that
into the radio station, that would be awful. You remember
the stories about those cruise ships. I don't want to
(02:33):
repeat any of it, but it's rough. Yeah, and that's
what management would do here. They would lock the doors
and make us all live in here like a cruise
ship until we were over it. Right. You know, I
would love to throw in some good graphic detail, but
I just it's not appropriate. People wouldn't enjoy it. I'll
restrain myself for once. Oh man, all right, So explain
the whole tariff situation.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They look well, Donald J came hard at the Mexicans
and Canadians and Chinese Chinese, completely separate case.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We got to put that aside. Their dirty comedies. They're
trying to take over the globe. They commit genocides, that
they're they're they're a horrible regime. But our neighbors are
our friendly neighbors to the north and the south. He
came at them hard with the big giant tariffs if
they didn't help us with the border and a couple
other things, and and and honestly, and I kind of
predicted this. They came with some small to medium concessions
(03:22):
and he said, I I'll put it off for a while.
We'll hold back on those big giant tariffs. So they're
going to help out on the border. Some it's really
minor stuff in the case of Canada Mexico a little
more significant. So America's hat and America's pants got a
stall for a month. That's not over yet. Yeah, he's
going to keep the sword of Damocles hanging over there
(03:43):
their heads. I like, I kept saying yesterday, this is
not my area of expertise or interest. Really, uh this
economic stuff like this. But Wall Street Journal has an
editorial piece saying Trump blinked. You have people on the
Trump side saying, you know, it was the art of
the deal. He's squead them and they backed down and
gave his stuff that they wouldn't have otherwise given us.
(04:03):
So don't I don't know which is accurate. Yeah, I
think there's plenty of truth to both points of view.
I think Trump became more aware that more people were saying, hey,
this could really hurt the economy, which would dirt you know.
At the same time, it was always a threat opposed
to get some concessions on the border. I like it
so the like the MSNBC world is portraying it as
(04:27):
Trump backed down and laughing. Sure, So which is it.
You hate him because he was gonna go through with
this and he's a mad man, or you hate him
because he he's not a mad man and realized this
was going to do more harm than good and so
adjusted his sales. I mean, which is it. Yeah, yeah,
I'm reminded of the whole cold Open a Saturday Night
Live a couple of weeks ago, or they were trying
(04:49):
on the fake MSNBC trying to convince each other, Look,
we can't go nuts over everything he says, and then
they would literally go nuts over everything he says, and
you know, you just it. It takes a while, folks,
It's just a early February. We've got to get used
to the unique Trump style of chaotic leadership and not
(05:09):
getting nuts every time he threatens a twenty five percent
there on our largest trading partners over nothing we can
figure out. Speaking of MSNBC, I was watching Stephanie Rule's
show last night, and I like to watch these various
things to see what their big story is. And a
lot of the media's really got their panties in a
(05:30):
bind over Trump trying to shrink government in a variety
of ways, whether it's you know, sending the email to
all the workers saying, hey, you all can quit if
you want, We'll pay it. Till September just quit or
trying to do away at the Department of Education or
Elon Musk has gotten access to a bunch of information
that is supposed to be scary, and it's trying to
(05:51):
run the government like a business. You saw what he
did at Tesla and Twitter. Yeah, he got rid of
the waist at Twitter. I mean, I don't understand how
that's a threat, but the it's it's interesting to me
how for because I don't have this mindset. So's it's
almost shocking to me that exists the crowd that is
horrified by the idea of a government employee losing their
(06:12):
job or a government program going away. We're the other
half of the country. I think we're thrilled whenever we
hear that, we think that's awesome. So I just I
don't even need to hear the details exactly exactly exactly.
I don't even need the details. And the other side
is the same way. I don't even need to hear
the details. It's a horror that any government agency or
department would be shut down, and a horror that any
(06:33):
government workers would lose their jobs. It's just awful. I
think you're onto something really important there. I would love
to see a set of interviews with you know, four
or five people on each side and examine their their
attitudes about the government and stroll and their own lives
and how they're I just I think that would be
incredibly revealing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean, for here's a for instance, let's look at
the other side of the coin. Well, I was gonna say, uh,
now you know what I'm under reminded me. I was
gonna say, you never hear anybody saying the federal government
is just too small. But they wouldn't put it like that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They would put it like the federal government should be
solving this problem, that problem, doing this for me, and
doing that for me. So I guess they do, in
a essence think it's too small, which is a hell
of an attitude. And I don't know, I think they're
fifteen minutes of Civics education would go so far in
this country. But I'd love to grab those people by
their shirtfront and say, you live in a state. It's
(07:28):
a big, powerful government, it collects taxes, you live in
a county of town, you have your own you run
your own home. Why are you looking to them to
fix your problems? In that distant city where nobody gives
a crap about your life. But I don't get it. Well, yeah,
a bunch of people running around making a good salary
can't get fired, get much better uh oh benefits than
(07:50):
the rest of us in the private sector and call
themselves public servants. Well, if you're a public servant as
in your you know you're taking a hit to yourself
to serve the public. Okay, we're saying you don't have
to do that anymore. Go out in the private sector
and make the bigger money with better benefits that you
seem to think you could do. You're just doing public
service to help us all out.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Good wishes it exactly. I got a great example of
that coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So I was just listening to a report on NPR
about how the Trump administration's trying to wind down the
Department of Education and the stuff that they can do
and the stuff that they can do. There are big
chunks in the Department of Education that were created by
the executive branch by executive orders, so they can be
unwound by executive orders, and then there's a lot of
stuff that can't be But the other pushback that drives
(08:37):
me crazy is in the government is not Twitter. You
can't just walk in and fire people. Okay, well let's
have a conversation about that. Why not Why can't you
just walk in and fire people? Maybe you should be
able to walk in and fire people. How about we
do something about How about you figure out if anybody's
doing anything. If you got a room full of fifteen people,
do you need all fifteen? Do you need fifteen at all?
Do you need any of them to start with? And
(08:58):
then could you get by with half as many? I'm
thinking in a lot of cases you could.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I would argue if there is one entity on earth
where you should be able to quote, walk in and
fire people, it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Would be the government. Why not? It is responsible to
the taxpayers, and only the taxpayers, to be as efficient
with their money as humanly possible. They have no profit motive,
They have no board of directors, they have no shareholders.
All they have is responsibility to taxpayers. The why not
is the government is the only industry that can make
(09:30):
rules where they can't get fired. If we could make
rules around here where nobody could get fired, we'll probably
all ban together and vote for them. But you can't
do that, and the government has the opportunity to do that. Now,
it's so maddening. Now, it's frustrating to me because I
don't think Trump and Elon are going to get very far.
And the fact that they are taking the biggest swing
(09:51):
at it in my lifetime and probably won't get very
far as depressing. Yeah, let's see. I hope they're drawing
attention to it at least.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Let's see, and let's see if Trump in this one
term can lay the groundwork for perhaps another four to
eight years of progress.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Who knows, chip away, chip away, Let's start the show efficiently. Oh,
what's on the table of options here for me? Eight?
Something bad? I don't think that's on the table. Yeah, illness.
I suppose that's a possibility. I don't know where I
would have gotten it. That's pretty much on it, right
condition Oh some sort of like, yeah, there's something really
(10:27):
wrong with me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I doubt Well no, no, no, I don't mean like
life's threatening. I mean like you know, it was your
gall bladder saying digestive issues. Maybe you just a little
too much of something last night.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, I don't know. You know what I should do
is I should just google fatigue nausea? What could that
be hopefully stage four bank grant cancer. It's the only thing.
Let's start to show you slept poorly last night, one
of the other. Exactly, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this. It is Tuesday, February four, the year twenty
(11:02):
twenty five, where I'm strong and getting. We approve of
this program. Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules
and regulations, here we go, leaving you new action at
mark at the Mexican Cartel plans on using drones as
well as firing upon our agents m military. If this
were to happen, what would be the response of something
(11:22):
like this.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Or obviously I could stand for that lawrence, the most
powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody,
let alone cartels.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Speaking of the cartels, just what is their association with
the Mexican government. The nice lady president said it was
horrifying and slanderous to suggest they had any relationship with
the cartels. Oh yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah, that
little story there is from a memo that's circulating that
came out somehow from Mexico. But the cartels are talking
(11:54):
about putting drones and armed people at the border to
take on the terror. You start shooting at them with
the idea that they'll go away or something. I don't know.
And you heard Secretary of Defense Pete hegsas theory. They're
saying no, they're not, No, you're not. We ain't going away.
So that could turn pretty crazy. Wow. Absolutely, yeah, quickly,
(12:16):
how's mailbag look outstanding? Blockbuster cool? Here's our tannic. That
word was blockbuster. The text nine four one five nine
five k FTC by way overnight. Maybe you missed it.
China has launched a fifteen percent tariff on US colon
(12:40):
gas and retaliation for Trump's tariffs, So we can talk
more about that later. This will be fun, all righty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Jim Rown.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances.
The seasons are the wind. But you can change yourself.
That is some thing you have charge of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
They're in that theme. You are not a victim of
your life. You are the captain of that ship. In short,
be that mailbag.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Some days it's easier than others.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We sometimes the captain of the ship needs only to
keep it off the rocks and avoid all lives being lost.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And that's being a good captain. Doesn't mean you can
just go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's a thing about captaining ships. Jack, just ask me
my seafar and days are beyond me. But that one
went on a whale watch once. Anyway, here's mail bag.
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. Definitely not Scott in Danville, California.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Rights.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I keep asking my wife to try no wine February
with me. She says I'm bothering her. I inform her
she can't say that during no wine February.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is not going well. Wine with an h. The
idea is to not whin the whole month. See if
you can do it, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Don't whine if you see no wales on your whale watch.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Correct the pro illegals.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Demonstration la very in Thailand, Rights guys, letting you know
that a big part of me enjoyed what I saw
on TV. A far left democratic state with sanctuary cities
up and down deserves It just looks the mayor's governor,
senators and congress people. When will they ever learn there's
a big up with up with illegals.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I don't know what the message is. Demonstration going on
in a town near me yesterday we turned a corner
and there was a whole bunch of Mexican flags and
people beating on drums and stuff like that. I would
like to have asked him, so, what's your position that
criminal criminals who are here illegally should get to stay?
Is that your position? No human is illegal? No, no,
(14:50):
no no. Specifically, they're rounding up dangerous criminals.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So built bridges, not walls. They have no arguments. They're
like children, idiot children. As long as we're talking about that,
we'll skip to this one from Drew the Millennial regarding
the rioters blocking the UH one oh one in La
waving Mexican South American flags. I was just in Mexico
with my bride for our honeymoon. Anyway, very common protest
(15:14):
tactic there is to block the highway from these resort
towns to the major airports. Typically it's taxi drivers protesting
the introduction ride share services like Uber. The cabbyies will
set up a long blockade in the road where they
will essentially live in barbecue and party for days or weeks.
Subsequently causing tourists to miss flights and pressuring the local
government to capitulate this. Where they learned the tactic, wouldn't
(15:35):
be surprised.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We're asking about Beyonce when in a country the best
country album or and best overall album for an album
that doesn't seem to be country other than the Cowboy
had and.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
A couple of years.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Jeff points out John Rich, the Great country Star once said,
folks asking me, how do music awards shows work? Labels
and publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals
with each other for you vote for mine, will vote
for yours type thing. It has zero to do with
who made the best music. Thus, Beyonce with Country Album
of the Year, nice right, same is true with the CMAS,
ACM's Billboard, et cetera. All work exactly the same. Last night,
(16:11):
the Grammys out of themselves in a big way.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
That's interesting. I would love to know what the what
the trades were. We'll vote for fonce for best Country
Album if you'll what what did they give away? I wonder?
And do they like give draft choices for two years
from now and stuff like that? How complicated it is?
It get Yeah, I wonder do you owe me one
next year when I get you know? Somebody over the line? Interesting?
(16:35):
Rolling Stones won for best Rock Album. I'd missed that.
I love the Stones, but are you serious? I didn't
know they had an album, but it was the best
rock album of the entire year. Yeah, that's impressive. Only
I don't know what they're doing at this point. They're
in their eighties. Seriously, we got a bunch more great emails.
Maybe we'll sprinkle them in throughout the day. I love
(16:56):
the idea that we got some more news of the day.
On the way, what does it mean that China has
launched some tariffs at us? What's that gonna do anything?
I need to know? And the groundbreaking history making transgender
actress is being canceled by the left. Oh boy, I
hadn't heard that that's taking their own That's an interesting development. Also,
(17:17):
all on the Way sounds like a big news day
stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Good news for anyone hoping to score a last minute
Super Bowl ticket. Tickets for the could be historic game
are fifty percent cheaper than last year's. The cheapest ticket
price is under four thousand dollars. On resale websites, which,
while still expensive, has falling in recent days. Resale experts
say the lower prices could be due to less fan
interest in New Orleans, especially after the recent terrorist attack,
(17:45):
or that fans are just less excited about seeing those
annoying Chiefs in the big game for three years in
a row.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
I don't think who play. I don't know you have
any explanation why Super Bowl tickets would be half what
they were no when it was Chief. Yeah, I'm I
am too. I don't know think about it, but no
clue I did. I did the thing I mocked. It's
you should Nobody should ever do this. I did a
(18:12):
quick google of my symptoms, and it's just such a
terrible idea, Like before you finish typing, it will say
sign of cancer and for whatever symptoms you put in there.
Just it's really kind of hilarious in a macabre way.
Nobody should ever just google their symptoms hoping for a
(18:34):
good information. I've got my medical websites I like, and
even them, you have to stay fairly disciplined because just
to be thorough, they'll say, and you know, it could
be you know, Mongolian brain aids could be the worst
kind of cancer that exists, but we're just you know,
could be right. Thanks for that. We got this text
(18:56):
which leads into what we're going to talk about. Sorry,
my iPad I got up type in the code? What
is the code? Zero zero? Code zero six? The code?
Huh what does zero six zero zero? Now? But Chinese
will be able to hack into your iPad? Know what
we're going to talk about? Day to day? Oh no,
(19:20):
you guys are starting to be a couple of negative nannies.
Yesterday you were whining about Trump's tariffs. Thirty minutes later,
Mexico caved in a little while later, candidate gave in.
Now you're whining and saying you won't be able to
shrink the government. Just hide and watch Trump is getting
it done. Yeah, shut up. You had rhinos, which may
be true. That may that may be true. And then
(19:40):
in any day by day, hour by hour, Trump is
being successful or not successful. Is obviously silly. I'm looking
at this morning console pole that's out today, yet another pole.
Trump is at fifty two approved thirty eight disapproved, the
highest net approval rating for Trump ever recorded by that
well respected pulling organization. He's at the highest he's ever
(20:02):
been in his life. That will that will not last,
as I keep hearing pundit's point out, but of course
it never does for anybody. It's just part of the
whole governing thing. In fact, if you have high approval
ratings and they don't go down, I would say, you're
not trying to do anything. You're supposed to spend that
capital on some of the things you want to accomplish.
Barack Obama did it with healthcare. Lots of people do it,
(20:25):
but then he got like this headline in the New
York Times today, empowered by President Trump, Elon Musk is
waging a largely unchecked war against government, one that already
has far reaching consequences. That's the other scary thing that's
out there a lot is the whole Elon Musk. Nobody
elected him? What is he as if we don't have
hundreds or thousands of unelected bureaucrats making giant decisions every
(20:51):
single day about billions of dollars? Why are you kidding me?
Are you familiar with the way the whole agency thing?
You know, Tim so sanderfer is great, No bad things,
Bill gets passed, and then it goes to some department,
and then they just start filling in all the rest
a whole bunch of unelected bureaucrats. Michael, give me clip
number forty three.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
This is a Congressman, Jamie Raskin, who evidently has his
panties custom made so that they're never unwadded, wakes up
in the morning, pulls on some nice, tight wadded panties.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon
Musk two. There was more to it than that anyway,
The idea that there are bureaucrats who have power in
the executive branchet, we won't.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Have it coming from Democrats. I mean that is really like,
all right, guys, we need an argument for the dumbest
ten percent of our voters who like are completely unaware
of any issues or any.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Facet of government. I think it's probably pretty good politics,
because you know, you can a certain kind of crowd
is scared of super rich people, and a bureaucrat is
like just doing what's good for America. But Elon is
going to be evil, sohow and only what's in it
for him? And I also don't get the regular Elon Musk,
(22:18):
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg right there at Trump, the three
richest men in North Okay. So if you had a
dozen men who added up to the same amount of money,
are all at the Democrat thing? That isn't the same
I don't understand why that's not the same thing. Well,
they were at the Democrat thing, sure, exactly too. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The more I live, the more I see, the more
I'm convinced that hl Menken was right. The aim of
practical governance is to frighten the voters with a never
ending series of hobgoblins. Please, Elon Musk is going to
become some sort of king. I'll bet you a dollary doesn't.
Before we get to what China just announced. I thought
Mark Helprin's right up on the tariff thing of the
(22:59):
last twenty four hour was interesting. First, he lays out
a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump blinked,
and a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump
showed how he is the master of the art of
the deal. Halpern writes Trump got exactly what he wanted
in a rare moment of day trader playing a medium
term game demonstrating to Europe that, as with Columbia, the country,
(23:23):
not the university, they can do this the hard way
or the easy way.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Let me read you a quote from the New York Times.
It gets Trump just right on this topic. He thrives
in chaos, he thrives in uncertainty. John Feeley, the former
US Ambassador of panamaon deputy Chief of Mission in Mexico,
said of mister Trump, he doesn't need to have a metric.
You're making a mistake if you think he's sitting there
at a spreadsheet. He's not. He's sitting there looking at headlines.
And if he feels like the headlines are mostly that
(23:49):
the other side back down, which I think that is
what the headlines mostly are, then he considers it a win.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Right, and he obviously his modus operandi is chaos is
when we to describe it, everybody being uneasy and everything
being up in the air, and everybody else like with
wide eyes. He has, like a predator realized, Okay, that's
when I'm at my most efficient.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's when I get the most stuff done.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So he shows those seats, Hey, can we get back
to the federal workforce thing for a minute. The idea
of government jobs going away to being terrible and Elon
Musk being some sort of horrific, befanged creature. It's it's
chewing up lives and souls as he ranges unchecked across Washington, DC.
Love this from the Free Press. I think it's Nelly
(24:35):
Bowles writing. She points out that Bill Clinton, because everybody's
freaking out over Doge and the White House sending out
that email saying fork in the road, if you'd like
to quit your government job, will let you collect eight
months worth of pay for not working, and blah blah blah,
and everybody's pretending like that's some sort of outrage or
maybe if it's even illegal to send emails to.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The government workers or something.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So she's talking about that, and she talked about how
Bill Clinton offered did the same thing. He offered a
buyout for all federal workers back in the day. The
move saved the government almost one hundred and ten billion
dollars over five years, but this time federal workers have
responded with rage. Reddit is full of government workers saying
they feel unsafe about the email.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh please, I know, Oh my god, you are a
I most use the P word, which is a little harsh.
You should be you should be ashamed of yourself, embarrassed
for yourself. Yeah, America needs, I don't know, to start
producing testicles in factories so we can hand them out
to people. You have become such a and there's so many,
(25:42):
There are so many tough, smart women in the world.
I hate to even use some of those metaphors because
it's there are plenty of women who endure much and
complain little and kick ass. But it's just there's got
to be a better way to describe it. Anyway. A
bull of workers decided might actually be.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Illegal to email them all in ur suing the Office
of Personnel Management. If you work through the government, the
whole point is you never get emails, or at least
you never have to respond to them.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I saw one saw TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
A one federal worker explaining that work from home is
essential because now our colleagues are going to have to
figure out childcare, which was the first time I learned
that federal workers are also full time stay at home moms.
NPR has dived into the new reign of commuting terror,
highlighting a government worker who commutes to the office two
days a week by driving twenty minutes to the train
and then taking a train for forty minutes. You know,
(26:34):
I'm so exhausted at the end of the day, this
worker says, Oh my god. By that third morning, when
I'm you know, waking up and teleworking, I'm just so
brain dead.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It's actually hard to focus that next day. And I
cannot imagine trying to get in the car and go
in a third day. You've got to be kidding me.
A third day, Nellie writes, I bet this guy's running
the irs. Wow. Wow, So asking you to ease back
(27:02):
to coming to work, I don't know, two or three
days a week is so awful, so cruel, So it's.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Practically slavery ish. It's completely out of bounce. Wow, folks.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't think our government is too unbloated. I'll just
say that, yeah, And I know we're gonna get pushed
back on the text line from people in government work
who talk about how hard they work and some other project.
And that my very, very true. But I do think
people who work in government, especially over time, completely lose
(27:36):
track of how in the private sector, you think you're
gonna get fired every day of your life, every day
of your freaking life. Certainly recognize it's possibility, yes, And
it happens regularly and out of nowhere and at bad times,
and there's nothing you can do about it, and nobody
writes an op ed piece about it. It's just the
company cuts back ten percent and sends out an email.
(27:59):
And you know, a thousand of your friends are gone
across the country, right and you text them or go
out to lunch with them and say how it sucks.
And it happens every single day. You know. I was
gonna give the metaphor of.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Sports teams that they get rid of a fair number
of their players every single year because they figure they
can do better, because their pursuit is of excellence. It's
not some sort of jobs program where everybody assumes they
will be employed for life. It's well, it's one of
the reasons FDR was staunchly against public employee unions. But
(28:31):
we have definitely gotten ourselves into a place where there
are a perverse set of beliefs about anyone employed by
the government.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Reverse and utterly unhealthy. And I can understand how the
people that have those jobs push back. I'm just surprised
that there's such a big constituency out there of people
in the private sector who are so for a big,
bloated government full of government workers getting your money that
can't be fired without paying any attention to how much
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they get done or accomplish anything, or are needed.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I think it's probably hard for people like us and
a lot of the folks listening to get inside the
head of somebody who considered as considers it an article
of faith.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean, just it's an unquestionable truth that the government
is here to help me.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
The more government it is, the more problems they will solve.
I just I can't imagine what the sky looks like
in your world.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
It seems crazy to me. So we didn't get to
the China announce some tariffs on us, but maybe we'll
do that now or two. We got Katie's headlines on
the way stay here. You know what it makes me feel
better is a chocolate covered strawberry crem frappuccino that hits
Starbucks today. I guess it's one of their popular Valentine's
(29:47):
Day themed drinks. Even though Starbucks announce the other day
they're cutting their menu by a third, the number of
the drinks they have by a third, because I think
that's part of the reason there businesses down. They have
too many options and it's confused things. But uh, chocolate
covered strawberry crim frappuccino you got at the coffee shop, Okay,
that's your you're gonna get. I'm gonna stop buy and
(30:08):
get some coffee. Does it tell you how many grams
of sugar or in that thing? No? I should look
that up. Yeah, the faton and sugar would be insane
on that. Yeah. Yeah. I talked to Gal the other day.
I was telling me about how she stopped every single
day and got a big old one of those and
not slender either. But you don't each the first of all,
(30:29):
have our challenges. First of all, it's like that's probably
ten dollars a day. Yeah uh and then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, Okay, let's figure out who's reporting what it's knock
story with not one that it sounded like my dad.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Non capable of restraints. That was at the lead story
from Katy Green Katie starting.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
With NBC Elon Musk and Doge are hacking at the government.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah, and you either you're either like reflexibly think awesome,
I hope they can pull it off or you're horrified.
Apparently just looking at the reddit thread. The fed worker
reddit thread will be reading some of that later. It's
its own industry. They feel like they're an industry, which
they are, and they're under attack, and so they're rallying
(31:16):
the troops.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I think you were absolutely right, though, that the dynamics
of the free market that the rest of US deal
with all the time, they've drifted so far from it.
It's inconceivable to them that a job would go away.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
How would a job go away? I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
From the Washington Post, China strikes back at Trump's tariffs
with levies on US imports.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Decoupling is going to be painful and difficult and long
with China, but absolutely necessary, particularly critical goods and industries.
We can't be getting our drugs from China, nor our computers,
nor our weapons.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
For ABC News, Gabber gave support from two key GOP
senators ahead of confirmation votes.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So the votes are today right on Gabbard and RFK Junior,
So that'll be big news from USA today.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to jail US criminals
and deportees of any nationality.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well think I have information on that. It's really interesting, cool,
and there are a couple of aspects of it that
are probably a bit too much, but we'll talk about.
From the Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Journal, the Super Bowl has never seen anything like these
five gigantic humans. Apparently the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line is historically.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Large, really average six foot six. Do you have that
those numbers in front of you, Katie, I do. They're
be a myths. That's how they pull off the whole
tush push thing. That's a big part of it. Yeah,
where they us, they're just so big they can just
move any line forward a foot or a yard or
whatever they need.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
On average, they stand at six six and weigh three
hundred and thirty eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's the average sheeperidge. Holy crap, an average three thirty
eight for every slender three point fifteen, or you got
a three sixty guy out. Wow, six six mid threes
is a big dude. Yeah, I mean, holy crap.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
From brightbart dot com, waffle House adds fifty cent surch
charge per egg due to bird flu.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There you go, huh, I'm gonna start throwing chairs, Yeah, exactly.
The only waffle house is gonna cost three dollars. The
only thing you can do a waffle house if they
hit you at that price is walk over to that
guy and punch him in the face. Exactly from the
Smoking Gun.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Twenty two year old stripper busted for banana battery at
seven to eleven store.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
She beat up the clerk with a banana. That's kind
of hot. Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You know I expected something, but not that.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Wow. What disgusting?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Okay, Well, on that note, the Babylon Bee illegal immigrants
helpfully wave flags, so I snow which country to send
them back to.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh yes, I love that. I saw two strippers fight
at a bar one time, and there were lots of
guys around watching. The interesting thing was a midget broke
up the fight. That's what made it the Hemingway like
short story that it was two strippers and a bar
fighting and a fight broken up by a midget, a
(34:40):
small person. I'm sorry, we're on acid right now? Does
somebody slip acid in my coffee? Where was I? We
had crossed the border from North Carolina to South Carolina
where they shut down the bars two hours later, so
it was like three in the morning or something. All right, Hemingway,
you gotta paint a picture for me. What was the
the the exotic dancer's state of dress and or undressed
(35:01):
At that point, they were wearing clothes. I mean, this
is a bar. They were just probably wearing like Jeane
shorts and a tank top or something good enough. Yeah,
exactly enough. Yeah, I don't know what they were fighting about. Uh,
we have more details in the Chinese tariffs and other
things on the way. Our two Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jettie and he arms wrong. I'm a tram a studio
(00:33):
see see senior, A dimly let room deeper than the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. Today we
are under the tutelage of our general manager, not the tariffs,
not the terrors, our first ever negative general manager. They everbind.
(00:55):
So I'm slightly distracted. Then I'm going to get my
act together. I know I can. I know I'm going
to get my egg together. Okay, I was out spitting
in the bushes before I walked in here. I really
thought I was going to throw up in my car
on the way to work. Oh. I thought I was
gonna throw it before I got into the building. And
I haven't yet, but I'm really close. Oh golly, So
(01:16):
if I duck off real fast, that's what I'm doing.
I don't know why I stop and snack on roadkill
on the way in again, did you it looked like
the squirrel had just been hit to me? Oh really recently? Wow?
I was afraid I'd gone too far I don't know
why I feel like this. I have no idea, but
I really it is subsided a little from when I
(01:37):
was just downstairs kneeled wishes, which you know is not unusual.
In front of this building, I thought I'll join the
other people who are pop passed out in either vomiting
or other or worse, any of them employees. Yes, just
see Hans in the the RV. There's an RV parked
out where that the car is gone that everybody was
working on for a couple of days. But there's a
(01:58):
big RV there. They even have the slides out today
like they're camping. I mean, they've got the full slide.
Nice climate, pleasant setting.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, so my kid is going to law school far
enough from the radio ranch.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's irrelevant. But man, the neurovirus is everywhere, is it really? Oh? Yeah,
pupkin and poop, and it's just it's rough. I haven't
come in contact with anybody sick. But I hope I
don't have that, you know of if I brought that
into the radio station, that would be awful. You remember
the stories about those cruise ships. I don't want to
(02:33):
repeat any of it, but it's rough. Yeah, and that's
what management would do here. They would lock the doors
and make us all live in here like a cruise
ship until we were over it. Right. You know, I
would love to throw in some good graphic detail, but
I just it's not appropriate. People wouldn't enjoy it. I'll
restrain myself for once. Oh man, all right, So explain
the whole tariff situation.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
They look well, Donald J came hard at the Mexicans
and Canadians and Chinese Chinese, completely separate case.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
We got to put that aside. Their dirty comedies. They're
trying to take over the globe. They commit genocides, that
they're they're they're a horrible regime. But our neighbors are
our friendly neighbors to the north and the south. He
came at them hard with the big giant tariffs if
they didn't help us with the border and a couple
other things, and and and honestly, and I kind of
predicted this. They came with some small to medium concessions
(03:22):
and he said, I I'll put it off for a while.
We'll hold back on those big giant tariffs. So they're
going to help out on the border. Some it's really
minor stuff in the case of Canada Mexico a little
more significant. So America's hat and America's pants got a
stall for a month. That's not over yet. Yeah, he's
going to keep the sword of Damocles hanging over there
(03:43):
their heads. I like, I kept saying yesterday, this is
not my area of expertise or interest. Really, uh this
economic stuff like this. But Wall Street Journal has an
editorial piece saying Trump blinked. You have people on the
Trump side saying, you know, it was the art of
the deal. He's squead them and they backed down and
gave his stuff that they wouldn't have otherwise given us.
(04:03):
So don't I don't know which is accurate. Yeah, I
think there's plenty of truth to both points of view.
I think Trump became more aware that more people were saying, hey,
this could really hurt the economy, which would dirt you know.
At the same time, it was always a threat opposed
to get some concessions on the border. I like it
so the like the MSNBC world is portraying it as
(04:27):
Trump backed down and laughing. Sure, So which is it.
You hate him because he was gonna go through with
this and he's a mad man, or you hate him
because he he's not a mad man and realized this
was going to do more harm than good and so
adjusted his sales. I mean, which is it. Yeah, yeah,
I'm reminded of the whole cold Open a Saturday Night
Live a couple of weeks ago, or they were trying
(04:49):
on the fake MSNBC trying to convince each other, Look,
we can't go nuts over everything he says, and then
they would literally go nuts over everything he says, and
you know, you just it. It takes a while, folks,
It's just a early February. We've got to get used
to the unique Trump style of chaotic leadership and not
(05:09):
getting nuts every time he threatens a twenty five percent
there on our largest trading partners over nothing we can
figure out. Speaking of MSNBC, I was watching Stephanie Rule's
show last night, and I like to watch these various
things to see what their big story is. And a
lot of the media's really got their panties in a
(05:30):
bind over Trump trying to shrink government in a variety
of ways, whether it's you know, sending the email to
all the workers saying, hey, you all can quit if
you want, We'll pay it. Till September just quit or
trying to do away at the Department of Education or
Elon Musk has gotten access to a bunch of information
that is supposed to be scary, and it's trying to
(05:51):
run the government like a business. You saw what he
did at Tesla and Twitter. Yeah, he got rid of
the waist at Twitter. I mean, I don't understand how
that's a threat, but the it's it's interesting to me
how for because I don't have this mindset. So's it's
almost shocking to me that exists the crowd that is
horrified by the idea of a government employee losing their
(06:12):
job or a government program going away. We're the other
half of the country. I think we're thrilled whenever we
hear that, we think that's awesome. So I just I
don't even need to hear the details exactly exactly exactly.
I don't even need the details. And the other side
is the same way. I don't even need to hear
the details. It's a horror that any government agency or
department would be shut down, and a horror that any
(06:33):
government workers would lose their jobs. It's just awful. I
think you're onto something really important there. I would love
to see a set of interviews with you know, four
or five people on each side and examine their their
attitudes about the government and stroll and their own lives
and how they're I just I think that would be
incredibly revealing.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I mean, for here's a for instance, let's look at
the other side of the coin. Well, I was gonna say, uh,
now you know what I'm under reminded me. I was
gonna say, you never hear anybody saying the federal government
is just too small. But they wouldn't put it like that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
They would put it like the federal government should be
solving this problem, that problem, doing this for me, and
doing that for me. So I guess they do, in
a essence think it's too small, which is a hell
of an attitude. And I don't know, I think they're
fifteen minutes of Civics education would go so far in
this country. But I'd love to grab those people by
their shirtfront and say, you live in a state. It's
(07:28):
a big, powerful government, it collects taxes, you live in
a county of town, you have your own you run
your own home. Why are you looking to them to
fix your problems? In that distant city where nobody gives
a crap about your life. But I don't get it. Well, yeah,
a bunch of people running around making a good salary
can't get fired, get much better uh oh benefits than
(07:50):
the rest of us in the private sector and call
themselves public servants. Well, if you're a public servant as
in your you know you're taking a hit to yourself
to serve the public. Okay, we're saying you don't have
to do that anymore. Go out in the private sector
and make the bigger money with better benefits that you
seem to think you could do. You're just doing public
service to help us all out.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Good wishes it exactly. I got a great example of
that coming up.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So I was just listening to a report on NPR
about how the Trump administration's trying to wind down the
Department of Education and the stuff that they can do
and the stuff that they can do. There are big
chunks in the Department of Education that were created by
the executive branch by executive orders, so they can be
unwound by executive orders, and then there's a lot of
stuff that can't be But the other pushback that drives
(08:37):
me crazy is in the government is not Twitter. You
can't just walk in and fire people. Okay, well let's
have a conversation about that. Why not Why can't you
just walk in and fire people? Maybe you should be
able to walk in and fire people. How about we
do something about How about you figure out if anybody's
doing anything. If you got a room full of fifteen people,
do you need all fifteen? Do you need fifteen at all?
Do you need any of them to start with? And
(08:58):
then could you get by with half as many? I'm
thinking in a lot of cases you could.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
I would argue if there is one entity on earth
where you should be able to quote, walk in and
fire people, it.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
Would be the government. Why not? It is responsible to
the taxpayers, and only the taxpayers, to be as efficient
with their money as humanly possible. They have no profit motive,
They have no board of directors, they have no shareholders.
All they have is responsibility to taxpayers. The why not
is the government is the only industry that can make
(09:30):
rules where they can't get fired. If we could make
rules around here where nobody could get fired, we'll probably
all ban together and vote for them. But you can't
do that, and the government has the opportunity to do that. Now,
it's so maddening. Now, it's frustrating to me because I
don't think Trump and Elon are going to get very far.
And the fact that they are taking the biggest swing
(09:51):
at it in my lifetime and probably won't get very
far as depressing. Yeah, let's see. I hope they're drawing
attention to it at least.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Let's see, and let's see if Trump in this one
term can lay the groundwork for perhaps another four to
eight years of progress.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Who knows, chip away, chip away, Let's start the show efficiently. Oh,
what's on the table of options here for me? Eight?
Something bad? I don't think that's on the table. Yeah, illness.
I suppose that's a possibility. I don't know where I
would have gotten it. That's pretty much on it, right
condition Oh some sort of like, yeah, there's something really
(10:27):
wrong with me?
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I doubt Well no, no, no, I don't mean like
life's threatening. I mean like you know, it was your
gall bladder saying digestive issues. Maybe you just a little
too much of something last night.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Yeah, I don't know. You know what I should do
is I should just google fatigue nausea? What could that
be hopefully stage four bank grant cancer. It's the only thing.
Let's start to show you slept poorly last night, one
of the other. Exactly, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this. It is Tuesday, February four, the year twenty
(11:02):
twenty five, where I'm strong and getting. We approve of
this program. Let's begin then officially, according to FCC rules
and regulations, here we go, leaving you new action at
mark at the Mexican Cartel plans on using drones as
well as firing upon our agents m military. If this
were to happen, what would be the response of something
(11:22):
like this.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Or obviously I could stand for that lawrence, the most
powerful military in the world will not be intimidated by anybody,
let alone cartels.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Speaking of the cartels, just what is their association with
the Mexican government. The nice lady president said it was
horrifying and slanderous to suggest they had any relationship with
the cartels. Oh yeah, let's talk about it. Yeah, that
little story there is from a memo that's circulating that
came out somehow from Mexico. But the cartels are talking
(11:54):
about putting drones and armed people at the border to
take on the terror. You start shooting at them with
the idea that they'll go away or something. I don't know.
And you heard Secretary of Defense Pete hegsas theory. They're
saying no, they're not, No, you're not. We ain't going away.
So that could turn pretty crazy. Wow. Absolutely, yeah, quickly,
(12:16):
how's mailbag look outstanding? Blockbuster cool? Here's our tannic. That
word was blockbuster. The text nine four one five nine
five k FTC by way overnight. Maybe you missed it.
China has launched a fifteen percent tariff on US colon
(12:40):
gas and retaliation for Trump's tariffs, So we can talk
more about that later. This will be fun, all righty.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Jim Rown.
You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances.
The seasons are the wind. But you can change yourself.
That is some thing you have charge of.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
They're in that theme. You are not a victim of
your life. You are the captain of that ship. In short,
be that mailbag.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Some days it's easier than others.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
We sometimes the captain of the ship needs only to
keep it off the rocks and avoid all lives being lost.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And that's being a good captain. Doesn't mean you can
just go to the Bahamas.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
It's a thing about captaining ships. Jack, just ask me
my seafar and days are beyond me. But that one
went on a whale watch once. Anyway, here's mail bag.
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. Definitely not Scott in Danville, California.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Rights.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
I keep asking my wife to try no wine February
with me. She says I'm bothering her. I inform her
she can't say that during no wine February.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
This is not going well. Wine with an h. The
idea is to not whin the whole month. See if
you can do it, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Don't whine if you see no wales on your whale watch.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Correct the pro illegals.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Demonstration la very in Thailand, Rights guys, letting you know
that a big part of me enjoyed what I saw
on TV. A far left democratic state with sanctuary cities
up and down deserves It just looks the mayor's governor,
senators and congress people. When will they ever learn there's
a big up with up with illegals.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I don't know what the message is. Demonstration going on
in a town near me yesterday we turned a corner
and there was a whole bunch of Mexican flags and
people beating on drums and stuff like that. I would
like to have asked him, so, what's your position that
criminal criminals who are here illegally should get to stay?
Is that your position? No human is illegal? No, no,
(14:50):
no no. Specifically, they're rounding up dangerous criminals.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
So built bridges, not walls. They have no arguments. They're
like children, idiot children. As long as we're talking about that,
we'll skip to this one from Drew the Millennial regarding
the rioters blocking the UH one oh one in La
waving Mexican South American flags. I was just in Mexico
with my bride for our honeymoon. Anyway, very common protest
(15:14):
tactic there is to block the highway from these resort
towns to the major airports. Typically it's taxi drivers protesting
the introduction ride share services like Uber. The cabbyies will
set up a long blockade in the road where they
will essentially live in barbecue and party for days or weeks.
Subsequently causing tourists to miss flights and pressuring the local
government to capitulate this. Where they learned the tactic, wouldn't
(15:35):
be surprised.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
We're asking about Beyonce when in a country the best
country album or and best overall album for an album
that doesn't seem to be country other than the Cowboy
had and.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
A couple of years.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Jeff points out John Rich, the Great country Star once said,
folks asking me, how do music awards shows work? Labels
and publishers all have blocks of votes. They make deals
with each other for you vote for mine, will vote
for yours type thing. It has zero to do with
who made the best music. Thus, Beyonce with Country Album
of the Year, nice right, same is true with the CMAS,
ACM's Billboard, et cetera. All work exactly the same. Last night,
(16:11):
the Grammys out of themselves in a big way.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
That's interesting. I would love to know what the what
the trades were. We'll vote for fonce for best Country
Album if you'll what what did they give away? I wonder?
And do they like give draft choices for two years
from now and stuff like that? How complicated it is?
It get Yeah, I wonder do you owe me one
next year when I get you know? Somebody over the line? Interesting?
(16:35):
Rolling Stones won for best Rock Album. I'd missed that.
I love the Stones, but are you serious? I didn't
know they had an album, but it was the best
rock album of the entire year. Yeah, that's impressive. Only
I don't know what they're doing at this point. They're
in their eighties. Seriously, we got a bunch more great emails.
Maybe we'll sprinkle them in throughout the day. I love
(16:56):
the idea that we got some more news of the day.
On the way, what does it mean that China has
launched some tariffs at us? What's that gonna do anything?
I need to know? And the groundbreaking history making transgender
actress is being canceled by the left. Oh boy, I
hadn't heard that that's taking their own That's an interesting development. Also,
(17:17):
all on the Way sounds like a big news day
stay with us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
Good news for anyone hoping to score a last minute
Super Bowl ticket. Tickets for the could be historic game
are fifty percent cheaper than last year's. The cheapest ticket
price is under four thousand dollars. On resale websites, which,
while still expensive, has falling in recent days. Resale experts
say the lower prices could be due to less fan
interest in New Orleans, especially after the recent terrorist attack,
(17:45):
or that fans are just less excited about seeing those
annoying Chiefs in the big game for three years in
a row.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
I don't think that has anything to do with it.
I don't think who play. I don't know you have
any explanation why Super Bowl tickets would be half what
they were no when it was Chief. Yeah, I'm I
am too. I don't know think about it, but no
clue I did. I did the thing I mocked. It's
you should Nobody should ever do this. I did a
(18:12):
quick google of my symptoms, and it's just such a
terrible idea, Like before you finish typing, it will say
sign of cancer and for whatever symptoms you put in there.
Just it's really kind of hilarious in a macabre way.
Nobody should ever just google their symptoms hoping for a
(18:34):
good information. I've got my medical websites I like, and
even them, you have to stay fairly disciplined because just
to be thorough, they'll say, and you know, it could
be you know, Mongolian brain aids could be the worst
kind of cancer that exists, but we're just you know,
could be right. Thanks for that. We got this text
(18:56):
which leads into what we're going to talk about. Sorry,
my iPad I got up type in the code? What
is the code? Zero zero? Code zero six? The code?
Huh what does zero six zero zero? Now? But Chinese
will be able to hack into your iPad? Know what
we're going to talk about? Day to day? Oh no,
(19:20):
you guys are starting to be a couple of negative nannies.
Yesterday you were whining about Trump's tariffs. Thirty minutes later,
Mexico caved in a little while later, candidate gave in.
Now you're whining and saying you won't be able to
shrink the government. Just hide and watch Trump is getting
it done. Yeah, shut up. You had rhinos, which may
be true. That may that may be true. And then
(19:40):
in any day by day, hour by hour, Trump is
being successful or not successful. Is obviously silly. I'm looking
at this morning console pole that's out today, yet another pole.
Trump is at fifty two approved thirty eight disapproved, the
highest net approval rating for Trump ever recorded by that
well respected pulling organization. He's at the highest he's ever
(20:02):
been in his life. That will that will not last,
as I keep hearing pundit's point out, but of course
it never does for anybody. It's just part of the
whole governing thing. In fact, if you have high approval
ratings and they don't go down, I would say, you're
not trying to do anything. You're supposed to spend that
capital on some of the things you want to accomplish.
Barack Obama did it with healthcare. Lots of people do it,
(20:25):
but then he got like this headline in the New
York Times today, empowered by President Trump, Elon Musk is
waging a largely unchecked war against government, one that already
has far reaching consequences. That's the other scary thing that's
out there a lot is the whole Elon Musk. Nobody
elected him? What is he as if we don't have
hundreds or thousands of unelected bureaucrats making giant decisions every
(20:51):
single day about billions of dollars? Why are you kidding me?
Are you familiar with the way the whole agency thing?
You know, Tim so sanderfer is great, No bad things,
Bill gets passed, and then it goes to some department,
and then they just start filling in all the rest
a whole bunch of unelected bureaucrats. Michael, give me clip
number forty three.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
This is a Congressman, Jamie Raskin, who evidently has his
panties custom made so that they're never unwadded, wakes up
in the morning, pulls on some nice, tight wadded panties.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
We don't have a fourth branch of government called Elon
Musk two. There was more to it than that anyway,
The idea that there are bureaucrats who have power in
the executive branchet, we won't.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Have it coming from Democrats. I mean that is really like,
all right, guys, we need an argument for the dumbest
ten percent of our voters who like are completely unaware
of any issues or any.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
Facet of government. I think it's probably pretty good politics,
because you know, you can a certain kind of crowd
is scared of super rich people, and a bureaucrat is
like just doing what's good for America. But Elon is
going to be evil, sohow and only what's in it
for him? And I also don't get the regular Elon Musk,
(22:18):
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg right there at Trump, the three
richest men in North Okay. So if you had a
dozen men who added up to the same amount of money,
are all at the Democrat thing? That isn't the same
I don't understand why that's not the same thing. Well,
they were at the Democrat thing, sure, exactly too. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
The more I live, the more I see, the more
I'm convinced that hl Menken was right. The aim of
practical governance is to frighten the voters with a never
ending series of hobgoblins. Please, Elon Musk is going to
become some sort of king. I'll bet you a dollary doesn't.
Before we get to what China just announced. I thought
Mark Helprin's right up on the tariff thing of the
(22:59):
last twenty four hour was interesting. First, he lays out
a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump blinked,
and a couple of paragraphs on people who say Trump
showed how he is the master of the art of
the deal. Halpern writes Trump got exactly what he wanted
in a rare moment of day trader playing a medium
term game demonstrating to Europe that, as with Columbia, the country,
(23:23):
not the university, they can do this the hard way
or the easy way.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Let me read you a quote from the New York Times.
It gets Trump just right on this topic. He thrives
in chaos, he thrives in uncertainty. John Feeley, the former
US Ambassador of panamaon deputy Chief of Mission in Mexico,
said of mister Trump, he doesn't need to have a metric.
You're making a mistake if you think he's sitting there
at a spreadsheet. He's not. He's sitting there looking at headlines.
And if he feels like the headlines are mostly that
(23:49):
the other side back down, which I think that is
what the headlines mostly are, then he considers it a win.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Right, and he obviously his modus operandi is chaos is
when we to describe it, everybody being uneasy and everything
being up in the air, and everybody else like with
wide eyes. He has, like a predator realized, Okay, that's
when I'm at my most efficient.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
That's when I get the most stuff done.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
So he shows those seats, Hey, can we get back
to the federal workforce thing for a minute. The idea
of government jobs going away to being terrible and Elon
Musk being some sort of horrific, befanged creature. It's it's
chewing up lives and souls as he ranges unchecked across Washington, DC.
Love this from the Free Press. I think it's Nelly
(24:35):
Bowles writing. She points out that Bill Clinton, because everybody's
freaking out over Doge and the White House sending out
that email saying fork in the road, if you'd like
to quit your government job, will let you collect eight
months worth of pay for not working, and blah blah blah,
and everybody's pretending like that's some sort of outrage or
maybe if it's even illegal to send emails to.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
The government workers or something.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
So she's talking about that, and she talked about how
Bill Clinton offered did the same thing. He offered a
buyout for all federal workers back in the day. The
move saved the government almost one hundred and ten billion
dollars over five years, but this time federal workers have
responded with rage. Reddit is full of government workers saying
they feel unsafe about the email.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Oh please, I know, Oh my god, you are a
I most use the P word, which is a little harsh.
You should be you should be ashamed of yourself, embarrassed
for yourself. Yeah, America needs, I don't know, to start
producing testicles in factories so we can hand them out
to people. You have become such a and there's so many,
(25:42):
There are so many tough, smart women in the world.
I hate to even use some of those metaphors because
it's there are plenty of women who endure much and
complain little and kick ass. But it's just there's got
to be a better way to describe it. Anyway. A
bull of workers decided might actually be.
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Illegal to email them all in ur suing the Office
of Personnel Management. If you work through the government, the
whole point is you never get emails, or at least
you never have to respond to them.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I saw one saw TikTok.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
A one federal worker explaining that work from home is
essential because now our colleagues are going to have to
figure out childcare, which was the first time I learned
that federal workers are also full time stay at home moms.
NPR has dived into the new reign of commuting terror,
highlighting a government worker who commutes to the office two
days a week by driving twenty minutes to the train
and then taking a train for forty minutes. You know,
(26:34):
I'm so exhausted at the end of the day, this
worker says, Oh my god. By that third morning, when
I'm you know, waking up and teleworking, I'm just so
brain dead.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
It's actually hard to focus that next day. And I
cannot imagine trying to get in the car and go
in a third day. You've got to be kidding me.
A third day, Nellie writes, I bet this guy's running
the irs. Wow. Wow, So asking you to ease back
(27:02):
to coming to work, I don't know, two or three
days a week is so awful, so cruel, So it's.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
Practically slavery ish. It's completely out of bounce. Wow, folks.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I don't think our government is too unbloated. I'll just
say that, yeah, And I know we're gonna get pushed
back on the text line from people in government work
who talk about how hard they work and some other project.
And that my very, very true. But I do think
people who work in government, especially over time, completely lose
(27:36):
track of how in the private sector, you think you're
gonna get fired every day of your life, every day
of your freaking life. Certainly recognize it's possibility, yes, And
it happens regularly and out of nowhere and at bad times,
and there's nothing you can do about it, and nobody
writes an op ed piece about it. It's just the
company cuts back ten percent and sends out an email.
(27:59):
And you know, a thousand of your friends are gone
across the country, right and you text them or go
out to lunch with them and say how it sucks.
And it happens every single day. You know. I was
gonna give the metaphor of.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
Sports teams that they get rid of a fair number
of their players every single year because they figure they
can do better, because their pursuit is of excellence. It's
not some sort of jobs program where everybody assumes they
will be employed for life. It's well, it's one of
the reasons FDR was staunchly against public employee unions. But
(28:31):
we have definitely gotten ourselves into a place where there
are a perverse set of beliefs about anyone employed by
the government.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Reverse and utterly unhealthy. And I can understand how the
people that have those jobs push back. I'm just surprised
that there's such a big constituency out there of people
in the private sector who are so for a big,
bloated government full of government workers getting your money that
can't be fired without paying any attention to how much
(28:59):
they get done or accomplish anything, or are needed.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
I think it's probably hard for people like us and
a lot of the folks listening to get inside the
head of somebody who considered as considers it an article
of faith.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
I mean, just it's an unquestionable truth that the government
is here to help me.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
The more government it is, the more problems they will solve.
I just I can't imagine what the sky looks like
in your world.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
It seems crazy to me. So we didn't get to
the China announce some tariffs on us, but maybe we'll
do that now or two. We got Katie's headlines on
the way stay here. You know what it makes me feel
better is a chocolate covered strawberry crem frappuccino that hits
Starbucks today. I guess it's one of their popular Valentine's
(29:47):
Day themed drinks. Even though Starbucks announce the other day
they're cutting their menu by a third, the number of
the drinks they have by a third, because I think
that's part of the reason there businesses down. They have
too many options and it's confused things. But uh, chocolate
covered strawberry crim frappuccino you got at the coffee shop, Okay,
that's your you're gonna get. I'm gonna stop buy and
(30:08):
get some coffee. Does it tell you how many grams
of sugar or in that thing? No? I should look
that up. Yeah, the faton and sugar would be insane
on that. Yeah. Yeah. I talked to Gal the other day.
I was telling me about how she stopped every single
day and got a big old one of those and
not slender either. But you don't each the first of all,
(30:29):
have our challenges. First of all, it's like that's probably
ten dollars a day. Yeah uh and then yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Yeah, Okay, let's figure out who's reporting what it's knock
story with not one that it sounded like my dad.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Non capable of restraints. That was at the lead story
from Katy Green Katie starting.
Speaker 4 (30:48):
With NBC Elon Musk and Doge are hacking at the government.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Yeah, and you either you're either like reflexibly think awesome,
I hope they can pull it off or you're horrified.
Apparently just looking at the reddit thread. The fed worker
reddit thread will be reading some of that later. It's
its own industry. They feel like they're an industry, which
they are, and they're under attack, and so they're rallying
(31:16):
the troops.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
I think you were absolutely right, though, that the dynamics
of the free market that the rest of US deal
with all the time, they've drifted so far from it.
It's inconceivable to them that a job would go away.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
How would a job go away? I don't understand.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
From the Washington Post, China strikes back at Trump's tariffs
with levies on US imports.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Yeah, no doubt.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Decoupling is going to be painful and difficult and long
with China, but absolutely necessary, particularly critical goods and industries.
We can't be getting our drugs from China, nor our computers,
nor our weapons.
Speaker 4 (31:57):
For ABC News, Gabber gave support from two key GOP
senators ahead of confirmation votes.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
So the votes are today right on Gabbard and RFK Junior,
So that'll be big news from USA today.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
Rubio says El Salvador has offered to jail US criminals
and deportees of any nationality.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Well think I have information on that. It's really interesting, cool,
and there are a couple of aspects of it that
are probably a bit too much, but we'll talk about.
From the Wall Street.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Journal, the Super Bowl has never seen anything like these
five gigantic humans. Apparently the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line is historically.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Large, really average six foot six. Do you have that
those numbers in front of you, Katie, I do. They're
be a myths. That's how they pull off the whole
tush push thing. That's a big part of it. Yeah,
where they us, they're just so big they can just
move any line forward a foot or a yard or
whatever they need.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
On average, they stand at six six and weigh three
hundred and thirty eight pounds.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
That's the average sheeperidge. Holy crap, an average three thirty
eight for every slender three point fifteen, or you got
a three sixty guy out. Wow, six six mid threes
is a big dude. Yeah, I mean, holy crap.
Speaker 4 (33:27):
From brightbart dot com, waffle House adds fifty cent surch
charge per egg due to bird flu.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
There you go, huh, I'm gonna start throwing chairs, Yeah, exactly.
The only waffle house is gonna cost three dollars. The
only thing you can do a waffle house if they
hit you at that price is walk over to that
guy and punch him in the face. Exactly from the
Smoking Gun.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Twenty two year old stripper busted for banana battery at
seven to eleven store.
Speaker 1 (33:57):
She beat up the clerk with a banana. That's kind
of hot. Wow.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
You know I expected something, but not that.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
Wow. What disgusting?
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Okay, Well, on that note, the Babylon Bee illegal immigrants
helpfully wave flags, so I snow which country to send
them back to.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
Oh yes, I love that. I saw two strippers fight
at a bar one time, and there were lots of
guys around watching. The interesting thing was a midget broke
up the fight. That's what made it the Hemingway like
short story that it was two strippers and a bar
fighting and a fight broken up by a midget, a
(34:40):
small person. I'm sorry, we're on acid right now? Does
somebody slip acid in my coffee? Where was I? We
had crossed the border from North Carolina to South Carolina
where they shut down the bars two hours later, so
it was like three in the morning or something. All right, Hemingway,
you gotta paint a picture for me. What was the
the the exotic dancer's state of dress and or undressed
(35:01):
At that point, they were wearing clothes. I mean, this
is a bar. They were just probably wearing like Jeane
shorts and a tank top or something good enough. Yeah,
exactly enough. Yeah, I don't know what they were fighting about. Uh,
we have more details in the Chinese tariffs and other
things on the way. Our two Armstrong and Getty
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