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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 Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Apparently the Biden administration and USAID authorized twenty million dollars
to create a version of Sesame Street in Iraq. In
this version, when the cookie monster steals cookies, they cut
off his hands.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's still happy though.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
I saw some of that Sesame Street in Iraq. Some
video is floating around, But that's another thing we funded
for some reason. So all that money that's getting cut
and it's supposedly controversial, it isn't to me. But we'll
get to some of the punk tree around that coming
up this hour.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
And I just can't wait to hear more about the
Clinton foundations grifting through USAID that the current Transportation Secretary
referenced in a tweet. But first let's figure out who's
reporting what better relate the Neverest lead story with Katy Green.
Speaker 5 (01:16):
Katie already, let's start with ABC News. Borders are Tom
Holman threatens military action Mexican cartels if necessary.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I think it's a good idea to be flexing like this,
just to make it clear. I mean seriously saying, don't
not in the commona Joe Biden way that nobody knew,
everybody knew it didn't mean anything, but actually mean don't
think that that's an option.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well, sometimes it helps to offer the alternative.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
If Mexican drug cartels threaten and fire on our people,
we will not defend ourselves.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I mean, what an insane proposition that is.
Speaker 5 (01:55):
USA today government workers sue to stop Trump from this
dismantling usaid go ahead?
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Can I sue if? When?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Not?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
If when they decide to get rid of us, can
I sue? Say you can't get rid of me? This
is my job. I'd have to move.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
From NBC US added one hundred and forty three thousand
jobs in January.
Speaker 6 (02:18):
Unemployment rate dips to four.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
Percent, which is actually bad news because or it's good news,
or I don't know anymore.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
The Fed has signaled something something from Fox Business.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
Costco awarded executives hundreds of thousands and DEI related bonuses.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Really Costco. I have a host Co a buddy of mine.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
His daughter works for Costco and absolutely loves the company.
And I was talking the other day about I'm just
stunned by how efficient they are at Costco. But I
didn't know they were down with the DEI stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, I've been reading about this. I brought this up recently.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They are.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
They're among the people who think DEI merely means having
opportunities available for minority folks. They don't understand that it's
a method of Neo Marx's takeover. So when Costco says DEI,
they're just trying to recruit people of you know, all
sorts of races to work at their company. So I
think it's more confusion than like dedication.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
To the actual philosophy.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Got my son is t Dap Booster yesterday at Costco
and it couldn't have been easier and more efficient as
a place to I mentioned that recently buy stock.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
There's something this is half a commercial, but I meant
I mentioned that to a couple of people. They're like,
you're getting He's getting his shot at Costco.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Yeah, it was really easy to go on the wrap
and book it in the time. And I showed up
and there's no waight and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's great. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
The lady who hands out samples of the cheese dip
also gives out the shots.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
That's funny, all right, well, sponsored by Costco.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
This is from Breitbart.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin yet y'all, who on summit with
President Trump quote best meeting between US and Israel.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Ever, I don't doubt it. I mean, especially after Biden. Oh,
they got a room behind the pharmacy. They take you
back there. It's like being at a doctor's office.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I know because my son is like, I don't want
to be out there with everybody looking at me, thinking
it's going to be like standing next to the woman
with the hairnet on and her little cups of cheese.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Next to the guy it says, hey, do you own
a home? Have you thought a solar in a little
cups of cheese? It'll won't be between those two people. God,
the barkers at me. I hate that so much. I
hate that so much. Hey, if you have solar, I'm
here to pick up a couple of things.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Leave me alone. Can get you in a solar how
long you been in your house? And they walk along
with you as you're trying to get away from them.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
The idea of signing up for a solar system when
you're there for socks and ketchup.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I mean, how do you how do you make decisions
in your life?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Maybe you do the decisions just off the cuff because
I need to go get socks and a big thing
of mayonnaise.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
All right, I'm gonna wrap this up so you can
keep talking about Costco there, Jack Washington Post, super Bowl
parties are out, Taylor ball parties are in.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
No, they're not among young women. Maybe I don't.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Last year there was a fair amount of you and
cry over how much time the broadcast would spend on
showing Taylor or mentioning or whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Has that subsided? Has the NFL gotten it right.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
To where it's pleasing the people that want Taylor and
not angering the people who do or I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
I guarantee you the executives and the producers and the
directors have had a meeting about that very question.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
Absolutely, they probably have a number in mind. I mean,
the boss probably said, if we show her more than
ten times, that's too much much, or if we don't
show her at least ten times, that's you know, we've
failed something.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
And either Roger Goodell or one of his top deputies,
the commissioner of the NFL, was there for that meeting,
which is kind of funny if you think about them.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Well, I know that they have stats that show she's
increased viewership, which you know adds up the money.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
You know. It's a lot like building a political coalition.
If you can add these voters without alienating those voters,
that's the sweet spot you go for. Be tough on immigration,
but not alienate Hispanics.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Same idea.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Why do we still have the pounding music underneath this?
Is this to keep the momentum going here?
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Yeah, that's because we haven't hit the Babylon b.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh right, you have to end the thing I knew, Michael, Michael.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Don't back down when a bully comes at you write that.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
All right? Ready to stand up for myself?
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Really, it's fine. Let's show. Let's show Taylor real quick. Okay,
now back to you.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Kaby right, so Leggy, Yes, look what she's wearing. A right.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
Finally, the Babylon b Biden lands role with Talent Agency
signs on as a corpse for CS.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I did see where he'd signed with one of the
big agencies to do what.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
God, what is he going to be?
Speaker 4 (07:21):
Is he going to just disappear like Reagan did? Basically,
you know, because he was into dementia for for quite
a few years and lived for quite a few more years,
but he wasn't out in about or doing anything.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Biden's going to be like that, right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Yeah, again, unless he's like a special guest on Chicago
Hope or whatever. The hospital show is of the moment
where you know, he's that case where they put him
in the morgue but he wasn't actually dead and the
family's angry, and I mean, that'd be a good plot.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
I was talking to a guy yesterday, very successful guy,
same age as me, and you're talking about, you know what,
what what are you're going to do with in your
rest of your life or what do you want to
do in retirement or what you know, what's your second
act or whatever? And he was talking about getting into politics,
and I said, wow, that is interesting. You know, with
everything else, we're on the older end or maybe too
old to get into that.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
On politics, you're on the young end. You're like the
you'd be the fresh face. Isn't that wild that in
that one area of life, somebody who's sixty five, for instance,
is a fresh young face on the scene. You absolutely
could be. Yeah, yeah, it's wild. Oh yeah, I don't
(08:29):
know how we made that decision. We don't think that
about anything else, not one other thing.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Well, I don't.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Object to people with some life experience and wisdom who
aren't going to fall for the latest you know, craze
or cashphrase or whatever in politics.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I think it, Mikexes nice.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
The problem is when it's like, all eighty years, everybody's eighty.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Well, that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Because a sixty five year old is fifteen years younger
than the eighty year old.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
That's a lot. Sure.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Yeah, what using was it to see Chuck Schumer out
there trying to fire up the crowd. We're gonna fight them,
We're not gonna take this Doge dictatorship.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
And you are so a parody of yourself at this point.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
Can you get a forty year old in there and
you're not a kid when you're forty and.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
You're half the age, you're four.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Decades Yet it's like Bill Bella checking his girlfriend. I mean,
it's crazy, right, What does Peggy Nunan know? The Wall
Street Journal think of Elon and Doge? Among other things,
We've got on the waist to here.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Elon Musk is helping us on it.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
He's pretty good.
Speaker 7 (09:41):
As Doge engineers continue pouring over federal spending, federal workers
now have an extra four days to mull over a
buyout offer. The White House Press secretary says, we are
grateful to the judge for extending the deadline so more
federal workers who refuse to show up to the office
can take the administration up on this very generous, once
in a lifetime off. But some Democratic lawmakers say it
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might be too good to be true.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
I mean saying to all the federal employees, beware of
this offer.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I don't believe it's been funded. Whatever.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
I can't believe how much attention DOGE is getting. Got
a lot of tension during the election the run up.
I had high hopes for it because I'd love to
see it be effective. But man, it is the focal
point of the media right now, partially because most of
the mainstream media believes government is your savior and the
idea of shrinking it is just horrifying to them. There's
a guy standing outside the White House. Part of the protesters.
(10:37):
DOGE stands for diabolical oligarch grifting efficiently.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Oh no, they beating us with their clever twisted acronyms.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Right, the government isn't grifting efficiently. No, it's somebody who
comes in and tries to shrink it. Is that the great?
He was so proud of his sign too, so a
couple of Elon's young ung helpers. He's got this young
team got attention yesterday. One guy who the only thing
about him that made the news yesterday. This Edward Korstein,
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a nineteen year old technologist who was gone by the
internet moniker big Balls. And I guess that alone was
to be a reason that I don't want to be
part of the team, or horrified or something.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
I'm not a fan of it, but I'm not sure
that's very effective indictment.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Are you within the range of normal and it's okay?
Or have you seen a doctor? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
You need to break out your orchidometer, which we learned
years ago is the device used for measuring the size
of men's testicles. I believe that was in the context
of steroid use in baseball.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Barry Bonds, that's right, right, yeah, But then there was
another guy who actually had to resign. Dog staffer resigns
over racist posts. This guy's twenty five years old and
part of the Elon Musk lieutenants deployed by Doge to
try to root out inefficiencies. He had posted in July
so pretty recently.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,
he said. He had said, you could not pay me
to marry outside my ethnicity. He put on Twitter one
point in September. I don't think that makes you a racist.
Saying I'm a racist probably does. How about normalize Indian hate? Oh,
(12:25):
you shouldn't hate anybody, Na, I'm not pro hating anybody. Really,
I hate the government, so I really do.
Speaker 4 (12:31):
I actually hate the government in like a practically irrational way.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But I do.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Normalized Indian hate, the account wrote the same month, in
reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from
India in Silicon Valley. Yeah, that's not cool. After The
Wall Street Journal inquired about the account, White House spokesman
Caroline Levitt said that Elis had resigned from his role.
So Elon probably told him that it's too much, dude,
I guess I don't know.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Yeah, yeah, uh, you're.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Getting in the way. Go as it says they're in
the Wall Street Journal. Doge has radically upended the federal
government in the weeks since weeks.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We're only what two weeks into this, not a month now?
Isn't that striking? It really is. It doesn't feel like
it's been three weeks.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
It feels like a like a year of the administration anyway.
Don't just radically up into the federal government in the
weeks since Trump's inauguration, including by largely dismantling the US
Agency for International Development us AID, which is going from
eleven thousand employees to two hundred sum today and Monday,
(13:39):
which is really something cut Yeah, I'd say, according to
the Treasury Secretary, Scott bes sent because a lot of
the knock is on elon getting information about various federal employees,
(13:59):
and there's horror over that. According to the Treasury Secretary,
this is not some roving band running around doing things.
These are highly trained professionals doing it in a professional manner.
So I don't know it'll be rooted out one way
or the other. I assume mm hm, oh, this is interesting.
So the this is not big balls. This is the
guy who says I was a racist before racism was cool.
(14:21):
He had also tweeted out ninety nine percent of Indian
H one b's that's the visa that allows you to
come here to work. Nine percent of Indian visa workers
will be replaced by slightly smarter lms. That's the h
a I thing they're going back. Don't worry, guys, he
had posted.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Is that true? I wonder, is hey, I going to
replace those people? I have no idea. Oh I think so.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Yeah, coders and like you're lower mid level engineers. That's
my understanding of it, though I can't go any further.
I soon ish because if it's soon ish, that whole
issue of are we getting the best tech people from
around the world in here, and whether the H one
B blah blah blah, or the tax advantages and all
(15:08):
that sort of stuff hiring instead of American citizens, that'll
go away as an issue, if least in that sector.
If AI can do it, certainly could.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
So we'll get to when we come back or how
much time do you say we have, Michael, two minutes? Okay,
you want to get to a Peggy Nunans.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
I don't know there's a lot there.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Okay, let me do one thing that's got nothing to
do with this, and we'll come back and do that
when we come back. I wanted to mention this. So
my son, We're sitting at Red Robin having a cheeseburger
yesterday and the TV's on. There's a basketball game on,
and Michael Jordan comes on in a commercial and my
son says, who's the best basketball player of all time?
I said, well, that's a good conversation, I said, and
it depends on how you look at it, and blah
blah blah, and got into the why the conversation is fraught,
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to say the least. When you ever have you you
have those kind of conversations. But I said, you can
certainly make the argument for Lebron James for a variety
of reasons, because he's the all time leadings score and
that's why you're on the court in the first place,
is to score points. And he scored more points than
anybody else in the history, one of your more important statistics.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Yes, I bring it.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Up because today is the two year anniversary of him
breaking the all time record. He's played two years since then,
and he's gonna play two more.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
It looks like at least he's forty years old. Last
night he had forty two points in a game, So
it's not like he's coming off the benches of forty
years old and you know garbage time. His average for
the season now twenty five points, eight rebounds, nine assists.
You go to the Hall of Fame with this year's
averages easily, Yes, twenty five, eight and.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Nine, shooting fifty two percent from the field. I mean,
that's just stunning. As a forty year old, Yeah, I
would agree.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And you know, those of us who liked eighties basketball
where they beat the hell out of each other, if
they tried to take it to the hoop, Lebron.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Would have been a monster in that era too. Yeah,
because he's so big.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, I loved Michael Jarge know, such a big fan.
But you definitely have a strong case.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
May never be another better point score, that's for certain.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
What does the Wall Street Journal think of Doge one
of their opinion pieces, among other things Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:14):
Well, what's going on here is when you spend money
on stupid things, you attack the guy who exposes it.
That's exactly what democrats are doing. The proponents of big government,
the recipients of big government spending, they just as soon.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Keep all that secret. But Elon Musk comes along and says,
this is ridiculous.
Speaker 8 (17:30):
Has Mark put it out some trans opera in Ireland?
They're funding sesame street shows in Iraq.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
I mean, think about it.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
China's building bridges and roads in certain countries and we're
putting big burden Burton Ernie on TV in Baghdad. Who
do you think is going to have more influence? So
what Elon Musk is saying, this is stupid. Let's stop it.
Let's focus on serving the American people, not having these
agencies do what do I do?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
That's Jim Jordan and his classic Jim Jordan's style. He
is on the side of doge and eliminating some of
the waste, fraught an abuse that goes on. Mark Alpern
writes today of Elon Musk's first several weeks, we're not
even close to one hundred days yet, but somebody should
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write a book about Musk's first one hundred days in
this administration, because Halprin says, what is happening is, without
a doubt, one of the most consequential and compelling sets
of maneuvers in the name.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Of pure power in the history of our republic. Wow,
that's something.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Wow. Wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
What's interesting to me is that it's an exercise of
absolutely an appropriate power that the people ought to have
through trives theoretically right, but power to cut bad programs
and make sure government is spending responsibly. I mean, it's
not like we've declared war on France, right, and the
whole unelected billionaire or whatever. The fact these billionaires has
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nothing to do with it. The unelected.
Speaker 4 (19:02):
Yeah, president appoints people to like gather information for him
and then he makes decision.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Calls as advisors. That's a thing. Yeah, so phony.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
As I say, many times, people don't come at you
with phony, stupid arguments because they're keeping their good ones
fresh for later.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
It's because that's all they've got. Did you want to
get into the Peggy Noonon thing? Yeah, you can do it,
or I can do it.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
Done matter?
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Oh no, fire away? Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
So a big fan of Peggy Noonon writing in the
Wall Street Journal as she does today.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So smart, so reasonable.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
By the way, Politico with a big piece out today
in their ongoing attempt to bury Elon Musk and how
awful it is and that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
But Politico, with their millions of dollars at government subset.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
They claim that's not true. I don't know. Okay.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
Uh, that one got a lot of attention yesterday for
some reason. Peggy Newton writes this in the Wall Street Journal.
Jump to what has been going on in the past
few weeks in Washington with the unelected Elon Musk reorganizing,
if that's the word the federal agencies. Here, I pick
on him, pick on him in part to show fairness.
He is surely a genius, a visionary, a titan, but
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there's something childish and primitive about him. His wild confidence
in his ability to engineer desired outcomes, but unstable elements
have a way of exploding in the beaker, And like
everyone else from Silicon Valley, he lacks a sense of
the tragic. They think human life can be rationally shaped
and perfected, that every problem just needs the right wrench,
and in any case, they all think they're God. My
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fear here we switch metaphors, is that mister Muskin is young.
Staffers and acolytes are mad doctors who will put thirty
chemo ports in a sick body. They'll not only kill
the cancer, they'll kill the patient. But they are up
against her trying to reform a government whose agencies themselves
were often maximalist and went too far.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I don't know. I don't agree with I mean, I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I don't know if you're going to accept that she
does in the last paragraph that there they are, they
did this giant powerful, gone too far, all these agencies.
How else are you going to possibly ever bring them
down without going one hundred miles an hour into the fray.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
Yeah, her whole column is about going too far, and
she starts it with some great examples about the trans
thing or opening up the borders. I mean, it's unquestionably
from a conservative perspective, but that part I think it's
a good argument, and she's right that you can't go
so crazy you end up screwing the taxpayers in the
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United States because you were too haphazard and fast. You know, Jack,
you've been saying, well, let's let's let's air to that
side for a little while. But what I would say
to reassure her, because that stuff about the Silicon Valley
guys is mostly true. And I don't worship Elon Musk.
I think I have a pretty realistic view of how
he operates. He didn't send that giant rocket into space
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and bring it back and parallel park it and grab
it with those arms. Because he doesn't learn from mistakes.
That's his whole thing. Yeah, he makes mistakes, and they
ought to be minimized to whatever extent we can practically,
But that's the one thing he does, he learns and perfects.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Yeah, Washington, DC is certainly not used to the move
fast and break things mentality of Silicon Valley.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Yeah, fail fast, learn faster.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Yeah, it's amazing that the guy who made electric cars
a thing. I'm not sure they're ever going to be
actually a thing, but gave them a chance to be
a thing. With Tesla is the villain of the left.
For Elon, they'd be still be selling a hundred Nissan leafs.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
That's somewhere in the country.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Yeah, yeah, per year. You know, I love and respect
Peggy Noonan. I've got a crush on her intellect. I
think it's going to be fine.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Now.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I want I wanted to read that part just because
I don't actually know how the nation's reacting to this.
I am reacting with such glee and I want him
to move fast and break things.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
And if we go too far, okay, we'll fix it.
Speaker 1 (23:28):
But there's plenty of energy and momentum to add back
in employees and agencies.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I just I'm not worried about it.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
I'm not enough of a social butterfly to be able
to report. You know, the seventy four people I talked
to yesterday said, but I'll tell you the only place
I'm getting before I don't know if I've talked to
seventy four people in the last decade. I was actually
at a lovely dinner last night. I talked to a
number of fellas. Anyway, the only place I've gotten a
hint of this is an out age. This is an
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unelected bureaucrat acting like a king.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Is through the.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
Very media that told us Joe Biden's as sharp as
against Zoe knife and could easily serve another three terms.
You can't keep up with them behind the seeds. I mean,
that's the only place I'm hearing that. People aren't coming
up to me in real life because people talk to
me about politics all the time. They don't come up
to me and say, well, it's really shocking. This is
caught it cutting a program.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
No nobody and Anthony found she was an unelected bureaucrat
who could run the entire country from whether or not
you're able to boot out a tenant who doesn't pay rent,
or when the school's open, or all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
Everybody's fine with it.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Oh, that reminds me the insufferable Chris Solizza, you know,
his act big politics writer, well known within the Bellway,
came out with a mea culpa about how wrong he
was about COVID, certain co aspects of the COVID reaction,
and his effort at coming clean is hilariously either dumb
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or disingenuous. Maybe we can squeeze.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
That in later.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Speaking of what I just mentioned, I'm sorry I was
not just I don't bring that out just out of
personal animosity towards chrys Eliza, but because it is difficult
for normal people with normal lives to comprehend how bubbled
the bubbled are on both sides, but the mainstream media
type people. It would be like visiting Napaul and seeing
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how the Sherpas live, to be among them for a
while and understand how bizarre and abnormal their lives.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Are, combining Doge and the pandemic response and Fauci and
everything like that.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I came across this.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
There's legislation just now in the House that would end
a pandemic era emergency regulation that made it almost impossible
for landlords to boot people out who aren't paying rent.
That's still going on. Wow, and that something so obvious.
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We need emergency powers. Grant us emergency powers. We will
seize all sorts of powers and over use them and
misuse them, and just it's so ABC one, two three.
If your hip to the way government works, don't fall
for it.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Friends.
Speaker 4 (26:15):
We got some Super Bowl stuff we want to talk
to you about, and a whole bunch of other things.
I hope you can stick around game.
Speaker 9 (26:24):
It's Sunday, running, passing, kicking. You'll scream at the players
while your mouth is full of chickens as iconic uber
and but life mcconnaugh hay will be in them all night,
all night, all night, halftimes. It's Kendrick with some help
from Sizza. He's the biggest star right now unless you
count the Rizzla. The crowd New Orleans trouble yelling cheer while.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
The Gulf of America looks really great.
Speaker 9 (26:50):
Premiere Game Electric Kansas City, Philly to ads five seconds well,
that'll be three million.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Halftime is live and everyone will sing every swing on.
Speaker 9 (27:04):
The list Sunday Sunday, Sunday Sunday Sundays.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
Getting get rhymey fun there. I do enjoy a good
song right there by the Gulf of America. That's pretty funny.
So we're far too cool and ironic to gush about
super Bowl ads. But some of the trends I think
are very exciting coming up. Katie's hints for the perfect
super Bowl party, which I'm sure is dumb.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
I swear the list these these things are always dumb folks.
Speaker 5 (27:33):
During the break, Yeah, I told both the guys, Hey,
this list is dumb.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Anyway, Yes, gipse behind the scenes, so h But anyway,
the trends I think are really revealing. You're gonna see
a lot of AI commercials, Chat, GPT, Open AI, Metas
ray Band, smart glasses, Google's Pixel phones, and a bunch
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of others.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
I'll be interested see how that's presented, mostly like Chat GPT,
how they're going to do an ad that makes me think, oh,
I need to do that. The glasses I get. Everybody
I know who's got those glasses loves them.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
It's going to be an ad.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
For one of the weight loss injection drugs, sharing screen
time of choruse with pitches for pizza, frozen food, and beer.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Somewhat ironically. That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
But unlike the Super Bowl following President Trump's first election,
and I'd not forgotten this, but it wasn't top of
mind when airbn B advocated tolerance in their commercials and
Budweiser's celebrated immigration. Oh, it was a horrifying humiliation. That
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was a precursor to the whole Dylan mulvaney thing.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
I wonder if that same gal was.
Speaker 1 (28:51):
In charge of that little girl at the base of
the wall and people help were over some crap. I
can't it's it was like a fever dream. It was
like a nightmare I had when I had a fever
of one hundred and five.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Would it actually happened? I remember?
Speaker 4 (29:06):
It was so woke before we even knew the term
work woke. Actually, it was so woken over the top
that Saturday Night Live mocked it.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Remember that thing with Alec Baldwin, hard cut to little
girl crying along the border. Oh, that's right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
But it looks like this ad roster, this year is
kind of designed not to risk the ire of the
re elected Trump for his supporters now against of America,
you should be scared of us.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Unilever skin and haircare brand Dove leras Super Bowl ad
about keeping girls in sports, continuing his long running focus
on self steam for women and girls. Brands afraid of
backlash will avoid emphasizing topics they played up in the past,
like inclusion, wind power and electric vehicles. Interestingly, in twenty fourteen,
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twenty three percent of the ads were called risk gay
by a organization that rates that sort of thing. Twenty
three percent. The figure has been zero the past three years.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Wow, I do remember.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
It's funny how this comes in and out of fashion,
which I guess is your point here. Yeah, because there
was a year or two there. Remember the Carl's Junior
commercial is just way too sexy. I mean, quit dripping
the goo all over you half naked for Mike. I
mean it's just too much.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
Those commercials made me sick because of the eating.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
The eating. Yeah, the eating sounds are so gross.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
But yeah, a super really ridiculously sexy hot women. Yeah,
that had I don't remember that the last couple of
years to the same on the outs. At least good
four now, good Trump fans. You need to please them.
It should be all gun commercials and McDonald's and lawnmowers
and I don't know whatever else.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Deportation flights just counts. I I don't know what it
would be exactly, but I'll tell you what. I'm gonna
have to listen closely to the ads because I'm going
to be at this the perfect super Bowl party thanks
to Katie's list.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
Good transition as I go back to the last topic
that uh, what year was the Erection Bowl when remember
when ed stuff became okay and it was a groundbreaking
that Bob Dole and serious tones talk about. But there's
lots of ads because finally the the, the the the,
I don't know, we'd crossed the line to where we
could talk about erectal dysfunction.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
That was a big thing for a while.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It was a long time. Yeah, nineties obviously, Uh, what
do you got, Katie?
Speaker 6 (31:30):
What you're gonna get me?
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Put on some watch list, googling the questions you ask,
You know.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Right, you'll get lots of weird ads, especially as.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
There shows they're accessing these cuban computer systems like dictators
the road, elected bureaucrats. What do I.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
Need for my super Bowl party? Katy?
Speaker 5 (31:45):
Okay, Well, I'll start this by saying it's not my list,
as Joe Getty has claimed.
Speaker 1 (31:50):
Uh. It says it comes Katie's hints for a perfect
super Bowl party, and if your party sucks, it's all
Katie's fun.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
It's from Katie's colder stuff. Number one, prepare your food
ahead of time.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
That's actually a good idea when.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
It comes to hosting. Preparing ahead of time is key.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
Yeah, certainly if you're the host. I've done the running
around getting things together and missing the game routine before
and made me unhappy.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
They say crock pots are a.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Big, big helpitation.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
I don't own a crockpot and I should get one, Yes, Michael, No,
they're very helpful.
Speaker 6 (32:27):
They especially for dips keeping them warm.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
Oh wow, do you have electric lights and clothing? I mean,
no crock pot. It's like a caveman not owning a crockpot.
We sit around in loan loin clothes in the dark, crockpotless.
I got idiots, not a crockpot in sight.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Do you say your grill up on your driveway on
the floor, and my little tiny grill.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Yeah it's almost gutty grill, my under the bridge grill.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
I just put that on the coffee table.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
All right.
Speaker 6 (33:01):
Number two.
Speaker 5 (33:02):
This is accompanied by a little picture of football shaped cookies.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
Guys, lean into theme, Lean into themed food.
Speaker 5 (33:09):
You don't have to have a million in football shaped dishes, but.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Come on, I like that. That's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Football shaped cookies and little football shaped containers.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
That sounds fun. That does sound fun, doesn'tan Michael?
Speaker 4 (33:23):
How much more fun that would be the eating your
ranch dip out of a football shaped container than if
it were round.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
I mean double the fun double.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
Party just got so much better.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
It's bumping.
Speaker 6 (33:37):
Number three.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Have plenty of canned drinks on hand. Checking drinks off
your list is the easiest thing you'll do for your party,
and make sure you have a wide variety, from IPA's
to canned cocktails, which, by the way, I side note
had a canned Bloody Mary a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 6 (33:58):
It was awesome.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Yeah, I've heard that because I haven't had a drinking
a very long time, but I've heard that the canned
drinks have gotten pretty good.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
That the good ones are really good.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
Bartender could have turned around, shaken this thing up, put
it over ice, and turned around and told me she
made it like a craft thing, and I would have
fooled with.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
A knife in their hand, like they just got done
cutting up celery or something.
Speaker 5 (34:18):
Like she went and cut the tomatoes right off the
plant outside right.
Speaker 6 (34:22):
Number four is have games that they're ready.
Speaker 5 (34:25):
They suggest cornhole or a classic game of beer pong.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
No, because apparently they're also nineteen. That sounds fantastic game
on the TV. I like you're saying, because we're all nineteen.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Yeah, you're not belittling cornhole, are you please? Oh?
Speaker 5 (34:41):
No, beer, I was belittling beer pong. Oh, I don't
twist it.
Speaker 2 (34:45):
God.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
I was at a Super Bowl party one time. At halftime,
we all went out and played touch football in the street.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
God, that was fun.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
And it was perfect good, a little exercise before you
go back in and eat and drink more.
Speaker 2 (34:54):
It was great. True enough.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
You miss you know, the fantastic halftime show whatever it is.
This time, it's Kendrick Lamar and I.
Speaker 5 (35:00):
Have one more for you. You guys are going to just
hate keep your jersey clean. And it's a picture of
an apron.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
Aprons.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
I go to your house and you have football shaped cookies.
I think this is turnt I mean no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
This party lit with Okay, Armstrong and Getty