February 11, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- When status quo is a problem & how the media has changed
- Bill Belichick's girlfriend...
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jetty and Key.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms from Studio C see Senior A dimly let room
deeper them the Babbles, so the Armstrong in getting communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager,
Donald J. Trump, his world. We're just living in it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Then, no doubt, no doubt. I got a philosophical question
for you. Then you're perfect to answer. I hope so
arguing about in my head as I was driving, but
I can't do it over.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
This music's nice groove.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This is a fine groove, Michael, thanks for playing it
doing so. Two of our lead stories today we'll be
talking about is Trump threatening, Uh all hell breaking loose
in Gaza if they don't turn over the hostages. That's
a good one. We'll talk about that today. The AI conference,
it's going on in Europe and all that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But you know, uh, plenty of doge stuff is still
going on, Yeah, roiling the country.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
DC and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And I was thinking about the power of status quo,
how it's just just the momentum of status quo is
just so amazing. And then I thought to myself, but
wait a second, dude, I'm arguing with my like I'm
really putting a finger in my chest. Say hey, wise guy,
your anti status quo. I thought that's what conservatism was,
you know, conserving things, hanging on to things. Then I
(01:53):
shot back at my phone. You owned yourself, I owned
I clapped back at my own brain. Yes, trying to
figure out this. So the idea of conservatism is to
hang on to things that are working. The status quo, though,
that we're trying to disrupt are things that aren't working.
So that's where status quo becomes a problem. Why would
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we hang on to things continue doing things that don't work?
For instance, public schooling, we're spending multiples more money than
we were spending ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty
years ago for less results. Why wouldn't you want to
disrupt that in a major way.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, like in a major way where people going,
oh my god, what are we going to do now?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, something different because this isn't working. Sure, yeah,
I think the fundamental problem is awareness. If people are
aware of the miserable failure of our government schools. They
are in enormous numbers in favor of some serious reforms,
even if they're not quite sure what those should look like.
But I think a huge percentage of population assumes that
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their school experience is.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Continuing on today. That's roughly the same what's roughly the
same effectiveness.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There's got to be a word for that, though, the
difference between status quo for things that aren't working versus conservatism,
which is, you know, moving slowly in a Burkian way.
Because we got a functioning society, you don't want me
jerking it around too much because you're not exactly sure
why it's functioning.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Sure, Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's a good distinction, really interesting topic. I just think
it has to do with with realism and continually Uh,
you know the Chesterston's fence is, you don't remove the
fence unless you know one hundred percent why it was there. Well,
I think that's all about understanding effectiveness of always appraising
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whether things are working or not. That's that's kind of
the other side of the coin. If something is clearly
not working, it's fine to get rid of it. Here's
here's here's another example of the power of status quo.
Let me grab this. This is from ABC looking at
their tweet and Emon musk Ally, hired to overhaul the
Department of Treasury, has an under has an undertaking hard line,
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has a record of undertaking hardline reforms in the private
sector that demoralized staff and made them fear for their jobs,
according to interviews with several former employees, Well you might cute,
you might be demoralized and fear for your job if you're.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Not needing needed or you're doing a sucky job.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Why I don't I don't even understand the conversation. It's
hard to have an argument with people when I don't
even understand your point of view. I guess my point
of view is so freaking what so what right? I
think we may be better positioned than some to understand
and feel what you're talking about, because media has changed
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so vastly in the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And and you know radio.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Ranches that none specific come to mind, but that had
employed ninety eight people fifteen years ago now employ fifteen
twenty maybe three. Well, it depends, Yeah, it depends where
you're talking about. So the idea of well, the world
has changed and now they want to make changes at
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the company, and that's unfair. It's just I don't know
what ways you live in that's immune to change. Well, yeah,
if ABC's point is losing your job sucks, or industries
changing and becoming more efficient in a way that they
don't need you sucks for you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I understand. But acting like that's just.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
A horror in general, or that something unfair has been done, right, Yeah, exactly,
that's it. That's something unfair has been done. No, it's
just you know, we're gonna do things differently now because
this wasn't work. We found a more efficient way to
do it now. Of course, this all hinges on the
fact that it actually is going to accomplish something and
be more efficient. But in the case of the public schools,
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for instance, I don't I don't know how it could
get worse. Really, Yeah, yeah, it might be as simple
as and this seems just so dopey it can't be true,
but I think it is. And there are a bunch
of different examples of this, a bunch of different contexts.
We've had very similar conversation. If it makes someone feel bad,
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it must be wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There you go. That is a lot of the coverage of.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
This, and it extends to all sorts of things, from
parenting to government reform, to ending programs that don't work,
to reforming schools to you know, the teacher's union head
who would have made just a great Nazi. It seems upset.
Therefore this must be wrong. Someone is upset, This must
be wrong. I guess that gets to that difference in
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philosophy of looking at individuals as opposed to the whole group.
I'm sad for all the kids in school across the
country who have so many layers of middle management that
aren't needed that they can't get the sort of education
that happened decades earlier.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That makes me sad.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Do you get sad for the individual middle management person
that didn't used to exist and everything was just fine
if they're going to lose their job, but not for
the kids. Is that just the practical versus the emotional?
I mean anything somebody of our mindset is involved with
you ask what are we doing here? Why are we
here to educate children? How are we doing very poorly?
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What is standing in the way of educating those children?
And then addressing it? And absolutely people are going to
be upset by those answers and by the solutions you
decide upon. But that's not only is that fine, it's
absolutely necessary, But there's a significant chunk of the population
that can't get past. Oh, somebody's upset. It must be
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mean I don't know, Republicans or whatever, just being jerks. Yeah,
if this education week where Doge is really loicing at education,
I wish Elon could get somebody at a high position,
teachers union or something like that to answer that question
of why if the student population has gone up, you know,
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single digits present, the number of middle management people in
schools has gone up one hundred and eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Why and this is just.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In the two thousands, not even going back to like
the eighties or something like that. Why Why Why do
you need that many more people in a school where
all the money is going than you used to do?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What would their answer be on the left? Yeah, there
are there a political answer or the truthful answer. I
think answer it's a jobs program. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But well right, yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The political answer would be we need experts to solve
these problems. So we have added more funding, We've got
more folks involved we're going.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
To get to the bottom of this, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But no, the the honest answer is no, we're just
we know we can count on their votes. We are
buying our power through government. School has to push back
on the political answer seems pretty easy though, but we're
getting less lower results, we're getting worse results, so it
has we're getting really philosophical. Here. Here's the headbutting that
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makes me uncomfortable. Every civilization, every society, every culture has
its myths, and myths doesn't necessarily mean inaccurate or fictional.
They are stories we all tell that help us understand
the way our culture works. And in the United States,
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one of the most critical ones is that we have
a system of self governance. We the people, for the people,
by the people, et cetera, and that we all participate.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And it's a beautiful thing. And it is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's one of the most incredible things that's ever been
done on the face of the earth by humankind.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
On the other hand, the honest truth is there's only a.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Little truth to that, and there there's a whole lot
of self serving greed and lust for power, and that
we the people, you know, it's funny that that's not
it's not contradictory. I think we the people just need
to be smart enough to know, like the founding fathers
did that Evildoers will exploit that system as much as
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they can all the time. But we've lost our cynicism
about politicians because the government does everything all the time now,
and so we're dependent. It's practically as Stockholm syndrome. We
dare not displease our captors. Well, we got the latest
list of recommended or actual DOGE cuts from a whole
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bunch of different places.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There was a lot yesterday. Some of you agree with,
some of you might not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this it is how did it already
get to be? Tuesday February eleventh, Here twenty twenty five,
we are Armstrong and Getty and that you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Jive and we approval.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules
and regulations, here we go at mark elon Musk. Where
are you bring.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Your ass of a hair? How you can? Says hair?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Kid with an IQ between seventy five and eighty five
deserve a congresswoman too.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Bring your ass over here.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Maxine Waters, Elon Mike walk over, he's that kind of guy,
and say, okay, let's have a conversation here on the
microphones in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, the penny as Maxine and Chuck and Jakim
bravely stand up for bureaucrats and against the American people.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Good strategy. Elon Musk, Bring your ass over here, Wed
and they getting weird fast. You're right?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You unelected dictator? How does the mailbag look? Oh, that's right,
we've moved mailbag. I The listeners must be adjustinguse I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Know who I am? Yes, moved mail bag too. Different segments.
So this Jack considers this Chesterton's teas.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We don't want to remove this teas until we fully
understand why mailbag was In the second segment, Man jd
Vance gave quite a statement about AI in Europe yesterday
in front of the world leaders of AI controversial, among
other things, stay with us.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
The Eagles scored twenty four points in just the first half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Twenty four twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Four, or in football terms, one full Bill Belichick girlfriend.
You could tell the game was over when the Eagles
dumb gator d on their coach halfway through the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We've still got a lot of game left.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's interesting that whole Bill Belichick. He's a famous coach
if you don't know who he is. But the key
to the story is his super hot girlfriend was a
cheerleader while he was a coach.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And he's fifty years older than her.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Fifty forty eight actually, but I mean close enough, fifty
freaking years, and the way he flaunts it is just
so interesting in like a no, I'm not like a
little uncomfortable with this.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm a I know you're I know you're jealous of me.
I'm making it. I don't make her.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But she dresses as skippy as possible to accentuate the
fact that she's fifty years younger than me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wow, you're on her.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I've got to stand up for the defense here. Mister
Belichick isn't flaunting anything. It's his girlfriend. He goes places
with her, and she's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Young gal who dresses like lovely young gals.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm hearing a lot of prejudicial talk out of the
prosecutor here.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fifty years sure, that's a long time. Yeah, I know,
I would think.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You'd been literally nothing to talk about in terms of
really into you know, the blitz and defensive backs.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, Katie, their play. Oh it's simple. They love each other.
Thank you exactly. Joe Biden's long lost daughter. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I prize the right for people to make their own
choices in life and follow their own paths, and I
totally get the lifestyle must be fantastic. But I just
I don't know, Darling, and maybe she thinks, you know,
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I had a.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Conversation with a youngish person the other day and it
was so well reflected with your discussion of Henry, your son,
who is talking about serving in the military and having
a good, long career and then saying, Hey, when I
get out, I'll only be x years old. I'll have
plenty of life in front of me, which is incredibly
insightful for a lad of his years. I think maybe
the young galon Bill's arm is thinking, you know what,
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when he croaks, I'll be like thirty three.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's still hot, so still lot.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And I've got a verbal contract that he'll quote unquote
support me. We're working on firming that up. Everything's going beautifully, Yes, Michael.
Maybe they're both Milton Borough fans. Oh boy, Yeah, Well,
I'll make a controversial statement. I don't know where the
cut iff cut off is because I don't think this
for you know, all age gaps. But I think at
fifty years, if she's in love with him, she's got
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some psychological problem.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I believe that would be correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean I have a handful of relationships with much
younger people than me, and they are entirely friend mentor
sounding board, which is a beautiful thing. But if it
turned romantic, I'd be like, what the hell? And I'm
many years younger than him, well several a few. Anyway,
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I wanted to get to this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's simple. They love each other exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They just like Joe Biden's dad fancifully told him in
nineteen forty or something about gay men kissing on the
sidewalk another and how that was perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's simple, they love each other. Good lord, is the
mummy still kicking? Is he still around his first? Yeah?
So I wanted to get this. Gosh, you don't really
have time. How much time do we have, Michael, barely
a minute? Nah?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't know if we can get We're talking about
teachers unions and schools and how bloated they are and
how they're not educating anybody. And they recently reported in
the Free Press the miserable test scores. You've probably heard them,
but they're highlighting a teachers union contract from Michigan that
reveals that to be fired, you have to be caught
drunk at school five times.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, I saw that five times.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Caught drunk, which means you have an unlimited pass if
you can keep it on the QT.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So who knew there was such attractive jobs I know?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
To me, that's just a giant billboard for we're all
about protecting teachers, not about making sure your kids are
educated in the best way.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That is our At number one.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If you, as a teacher get caught literally selling drugs,
your punishment is three days without pay. You have to
get caught selling drugs a second time to get fired.
Then they mentioned that the entire flowchart of the Fairfax
County Schools flows through their DEI office. Everybody reports to
DEI more or less alongside the head of the school district.
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It's insane. Has nothing to do with educating the kids.
That's an afterthought. Mail bags on the way and a
bunch of other stuff. If you miss the secment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Demand Armstrong and Getty O. The Great.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Rich Lowry writes in The New York Post today that
we the right have had our best three weeks in
the culture war in half a century at least, and
goes through the examples, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Think he's right then, that something though, that is something.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Here's my favorite doge cut from me that was announced
to yesterday, nine million dollars cut from Central American Gender
Assessment Services.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Gender assessment so.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Down in Central America, I was paying with my tax
payer money to assess what gender you are to me
next and if there's any doubt, we'll drop your pants.
I mean it's a little intrusive, but yeah, yeah, it's
just crazy and just strategically speaking, I read a couple
of stages talking about how the Democrats and we'll get
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into this in detail in a little bit, but they
seem to be going with hair on fire all the
time as the strategy directed in various you know, directions
and kind of varying messages just about theft and constitutional
crises and unelected this, but that it's a horror and
everything's terrible and got to help us all. And I
(18:39):
find myself wondering, what if you're just lay low for
a little bit, just wait for Trump to do something wrong,
maybe the tariffs. I'm concerned that the tariffs are really
going to screw up the economy, for instance.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Just wait for that. But I guess you don't raise
money that way. Maybe that's it. Anyway, here's your freedom
loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, I know that Mark Alpern rights and quoting a
lot of Democratic strategists. They're at a complete loss how
to do this. It's like a whirlwind has hit them
hard and fast, with what looks to be a lot
of public support, and they just have no idea what
they should do at this point to fight back, and
they're flighting. They seem to be divided fifty to fifty
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between those who are screaming, we need to.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Move further to the left and oppose everything Trump.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Does, and then the same branch of the Democratic Party
that's saying, no, why don't we work with them when
we can and shove our lunatic left wing aside because
they're killing us here, right, But I mean, there is
no accord there anyway. I thought this was so interesting.
Steven sent this along did the god fearing founders of
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America arrive at the three branches of government? From the Bible,
this is from Isaiah thirty third chapter, twenty fourth verse.
For Jehovah is our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah
is our case. He is the one who will save us.
I see judicial, legislative, and executive right there in scripture.
I think you know that reflects the ancient reality that
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when human beings associate, they need someone to make up
the rules, then figure out how are we going to
enforce these rules, and what if there's a disagreement.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think it's as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back
to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's what we're
talking about. Mail day. You can drop us a note
at any time you like. Michael always appropriate, drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
This first email references the fact that today is indeed
(20:43):
my birthday, not only that it is my sixtieth birthday.
I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so youthful and clever.
That can't be true.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on that?
Why not?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Jack and I first.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Connected in our mid twenties. We're twenty five.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then
and now.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Two of them were brothers of children. That's sorry. That
seems like And I know, if you're forty, this seems weird.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Maybe you're certainly if you're twenty five, that seems like
six years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, roughly seems like about six years ago. It's crazy.
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday,
it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in
town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah,
it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in
various ways. My son and I. I picked them up
at the airport. I'm a big hug, and then we
philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is what we do.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and
joke and kid each other.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But
happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it. Flate Hanson
and Katie will get you something. And as to the whole,
you know, I don't need anything.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
As to the old sixty thing, which seems like such
a milestone, you know, it's funny. I was so miserable
like a year ago because of my back problems, and
I feel so much better now. I feel like I'm
de aging or something. I'm not, lord knows, but so
I don't feel old. I feel younger than I used to.
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So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I just let's let's just keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Let's let's have fun, let's do the shows, play some golf,
let's enjoy a nice glass of wide.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And I just as opposed to what big on.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Milestone, as opposed to what lay down in front of
a train. I mean, is that the other option? Or well, no, no, no,
I'm just I've never been huge about milestones. It's like
when I graduated from college, I was like, all right,
what's next. I just I didn't weep. And and maybe
I lack the ability to reflect properly on things as
they pass, but certainly when my kids moved out, that
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was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, thanks great,
let's let's get on with life anyway. So this is
from David Reno, with whom I apparently share a birthday.
In fact, here are some other famous people that we
share a birthday with. I was aware of some of
these people.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Not all of them. Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, that's Jeb
with an exclamation point. Sarah Palin, Oh, lipstick? How old
is shoe?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You get your joan? You guys are probably about the
same age, aren't you. You and Sarah Palin, Yeah, yeah
we could date. But I'm just gonna remind you to
you that now and again. Sarah Palin and I we
got a connection anyway. Alex Jones, Oh great, Thomas Edison,
what order is this?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That's a good list. You've got good in a way, Alex.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Jones, Well, sharing sharing day with a big with your
birthday with other people.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Thomas Edison, that's a big one.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That is a big one. Although you know, my great, Well,
I'll finish some of the list. It is, I know,
just always in a hurry, and I'll explain that in
a moment. But Leslie Nielson, the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer
Aniston and other.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
People who don't matter.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
But I've always been resentful that I was one day
short of sharing birthday with my great hero Abraham Lincoln,
which had been said. I get Burt Reynolds traded the
beard for the mustache.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I guess what you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Moving along, moving along with mailbaging the question of the
Democrats going crazy and j T read an interesting Victor
Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,
the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
middle ground working together.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Ever since Trump came down that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Escalator, they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The
result is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
went to control the border, they want to leave it
wide open. When Trump wants to apport it legal aliens
guilty of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And gang members in the country.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
When Trump plus to save taxpairs, billions or trillions of
wasteful government spending dollars. They want to fight for the
wasteful government spending. There is no common ground to be
found in a party that's held vent on opposing everything
Trump wants to do. It's it's a bizarre sort of politics,
just dumb. I like your strategy of I would hang
(25:29):
back and wait for something to go wrong, because inevitably
will on the world stage, domestically something, and then take
your shot to the the trying to turn what's going
in right now into something bad.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I felt like there was a different tone on the
evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it
to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump
having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like
I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in
David Muir's VOI as they were covering Trump yesterday at
the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him
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like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a
point sort of tone. I you know, maybe I'm making
that up, but I really feel like that. Oh no,
I guess should agree.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
They should be.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
There should have been somebody in that news director meeting
and all of those newscasts saying, hey, look, people, he's
got a fifty three percent approval rating after all of
this craziness has happened. So maybe other people don't think
it's as crazy as we do. Maybe we ought to
look at it slightly different. I mean, they'd be nuts
if they.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Weren't doing that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah. I don't have any great admiration for politicians brains
and wisdom and the rest of it. I think most
of them are hacks and greed heads. But I would
think they would at least perceive a what you just
said and be that the frantic the sky is falling.
He's a Russian agent. He's going to kill millions of
people with COVID. I don't trust his vaccine now that
it's our vaccine. Jabbt into yourself, whether you like it
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or not. I mean, just the systematic kid he wants
the borders closed, to open up the.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Borders led rapists in.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Having seen how miserably all that failed, I would think
they would at least say, hey, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
About this for a couple of weeks and figure out
what to do.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But instead they're I mean, full speed ahead, moron, Maxine
Waters screeching as security guards at the the Department of
Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing, we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What are you going to fight in the streets? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Anyway, Uh, we're kind of getting off on a tangent
away from mailbag, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
A number of people have sent the screenshot.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
House votes on the Protection of Women and Girls in
Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen to nothing yay,
with two Democrat votes joining them. But Democrats were two
zero six to two against protect protecting.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Girls, and spot didn't know that well.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
In the caption is imagine being the party that accuses
the other party of hating women and then voting against
women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the
nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.
My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want
to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that
to the bank, Okay, yeah, because that strikes me. I've
received it from a bunch of people. It says it
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appears to be a screen capture from Fox News, but
it's easy to make things appear to be something they're not. Definitely,
that'll do for now, sprinkling some more later. Copper is
already up two and a half percent. This was yesterday.
I haven't looked today because of the announcement of ending
the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so far this year
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and it's early February. So the return on keeping pennies
in a jar is beating interest earned by keeping cash
in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
you actually throw them away?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, not leave them?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well no, no, no offense, and I would call thefense. Good lord,
I know what you worth next. I can't have you
destroying currency. Yeah, uh no. I just leave them places
for people to find them.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, that's nice. I'll leave them on counters or whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I can't tell if that's nice or just like super
the opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Here's a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have
a good day. I left them a penny. I don't
address them to their face like that.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I just leave it and fellow oligarchs like me will
pass it by and say I'm not picking up that
filthy piece of copy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But the poor m I'd appreciate my all.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I feel like that's the way. Then we'll take a
break for Katie's headlines. I've said for years that's the
way they should judge whether or not we should keep currency.
Get one hundred random people. Maybe do it at an
airport or bus station or something like that. You leave
a penny on the ground and nicol the ground on
the dime on the ground. What percentage of people bend
over to pick it up. Almost nobody's gonna bend over
to pick up a penny, which is proof that it
is worthless. I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody
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I think would pick up the dime, but nickel, I
I'm not exactly sure. You're You're sour on the neck.
I still think a nickel is something. But practically nobody's
going to bend over to pick up a penny, which
I think is I don't think I have spent twenty
seven hours in the last year with any change in
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my pocket. Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
you don't. You haven't spent an hour with any money
in your pocket at all in the last year.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Younger people.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I know, just the idea of having money in your
pocket seems insane.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Why would you do that? Hmm, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Another big indicator the numerous shops on Etsy of people
drilling holes in pennies and turning them into keychains.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, any jewelry everywhere. Oh really yeah,
and that's happening. Your currency is no longer. How did
it take till now for Trump to say, nobody, we
don't need the penny. It's that weird clinging to what
is saddest quote, whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,
or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of
re examining things and asking the only question that matters
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is this working?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But then we adopt as a country or get scared
into adopting. All of a sudden, dudes can participate in girls'
sports and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I mean, so how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
away with the time change that we all hate, or
the penny, which is worthless.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's bullying. That's how bullying, I guess. Biradicals.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Katie's headlines on the way stay here? Have we had
the best three weeks in the culture war and a
half a century? As Rich Lowery writes of The National Review,
maybe the uh there's some new polling out about people's
attitudes towards the whole trans thing. Kind of interesting, man.
(31:48):
It's moved a lot m the correct direction in my opinion,
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I mean a lot. So we'll get to that next hour.
Among other things. The next great.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Challenge schools, American government schools. We can arouse the awareness
of the population and help them understand how miserable the
current state of things is. I think we could really
change the society for the better. Anyway, More on that
to come, but right now, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, thank you guys, NBC.
Trump threatens quote all hell is going to break out
if Hamas delays the hostage release.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, we'll get into a couple of statements he made yesterday,
one on the plane and one from the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He ain't kidding either, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Kind of alone, neither we, nor Hamas nor Israel really
knows what the shape of that might be.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
To bring it on brdbart dot com. Nearly one third
of Gossen's wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Before the war. I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
If you lived in a society governed by AMAS, how
much would you enjoy it?
Speaker 5 (33:02):
From The Business Standard, FBI uncovers twenty four hundred secret
records on John F.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Kennedy's assassination.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Not you know what's the significance? Oh yeah, I'm making
my skeptical face. Then mister Jones interviewed mister Smith, who
had nothing of interest to say. Is that one of
the records?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
From the Wall Street Journal, China g is building an
economic fortress against US pressure as Trump turns.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Up the heat on Beijing. Yeah, we got to get
into JD.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Vance's statement at the Big Ai summit in Paris from yesterday,
and it was all directed at China as the world
is attempting to hamstring us around Ai, when China is
going to ignore those rules similar to the climate change stuff.
And xiz in Ping while evil as smart as hell,
and he's understood that, all right. So the US tries
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to pressure us in this way, that way, and that way,
we need to build an economy in a society that
can't be pressured in any of those three ways.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So they're working at it like crazy. He's incredibly strategic
and evil.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
For The Washington Post, Elon Musk and group of investors
launches ninety seven billion dollar bid for chat gpte maker
open Ai.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, to which Sam Altman immediately replied, how about I
buy Twitter for nine billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't have time to figure out that whole rift
between those two guys. It's like Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
To me, I'm aware they hate each other, but I'm
not sure why.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, Elon is concerned about the fact that open ai
is about to go private, when the whole the reason
it's called open ai is originally was you know, this
is going to be open and people can see it
and it's not going to be evil, and Elon's braid
it's gonna take everything evil and he wants to buy
it and stop that from happening.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
And finally, the Babylon Bee doubles in value after being egged.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There you go, being egged is a good thing. Now
try to scrap it off. You and catch it in
a cup. If you could egg lick it off like Rocky,
you get it raw egg heist. So you're also the country.
We have more on more on that. There's quite a
bit of news to talk about today. So our two
could be juicy. I don't appreciate that choice of words,
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but I agree it will be action packed
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Armstrong and Jetty and Key.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Arms from Studio C see Senior A dimly let room
deeper them the Babbles, so the Armstrong in getting communications compound.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager,
Donald J. Trump, his world. We're just living in it.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Then, no doubt, no doubt. I got a philosophical question
for you. Then you're perfect to answer. I hope so
arguing about in my head as I was driving, but
I can't do it over.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
This music's nice groove.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
This is a fine groove, Michael, thanks for playing it
doing so. Two of our lead stories today we'll be
talking about is Trump threatening, Uh all hell breaking loose
in Gaza if they don't turn over the hostages. That's
a good one. We'll talk about that today. The AI conference,
it's going on in Europe and all that.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
But you know, uh, plenty of doge stuff is still
going on, Yeah, roiling the country.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
DC and everything like that.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And I was thinking about the power of status quo,
how it's just just the momentum of status quo is
just so amazing. And then I thought to myself, but
wait a second, dude, I'm arguing with my like I'm
really putting a finger in my chest. Say hey, wise guy,
your anti status quo. I thought that's what conservatism was,
you know, conserving things, hanging on to things. Then I
(01:53):
shot back at my phone. You owned yourself, I owned
I clapped back at my own brain. Yes, trying to
figure out this. So the idea of conservatism is to
hang on to things that are working. The status quo, though,
that we're trying to disrupt are things that aren't working.
So that's where status quo becomes a problem. Why would
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we hang on to things continue doing things that don't work?
For instance, public schooling, we're spending multiples more money than
we were spending ten years ago, twenty years ago, thirty
years ago for less results. Why wouldn't you want to
disrupt that in a major way.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I mean, like in a major way where people going,
oh my god, what are we going to do now?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
I don't know, something different because this isn't working. Sure, yeah,
I think the fundamental problem is awareness. If people are
aware of the miserable failure of our government schools. They
are in enormous numbers in favor of some serious reforms,
even if they're not quite sure what those should look like.
But I think a huge percentage of population assumes that
(02:57):
their school experience is.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Continuing on today. That's roughly the same what's roughly the
same effectiveness.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
There's got to be a word for that, though, the
difference between status quo for things that aren't working versus conservatism,
which is, you know, moving slowly in a Burkian way.
Because we got a functioning society, you don't want me
jerking it around too much because you're not exactly sure
why it's functioning.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Sure, Yeah, that's a.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
That's a good distinction, really interesting topic. I just think
it has to do with with realism and continually Uh,
you know the Chesterston's fence is, you don't remove the
fence unless you know one hundred percent why it was there. Well,
I think that's all about understanding effectiveness of always appraising
(03:43):
whether things are working or not. That's that's kind of
the other side of the coin. If something is clearly
not working, it's fine to get rid of it. Here's
here's here's another example of the power of status quo.
Let me grab this. This is from ABC looking at
their tweet and Emon musk Ally, hired to overhaul the
Department of Treasury, has an under has an undertaking hard line,
(04:08):
has a record of undertaking hardline reforms in the private
sector that demoralized staff and made them fear for their jobs,
according to interviews with several former employees, Well you might cute,
you might be demoralized and fear for your job if you're.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Not needing needed or you're doing a sucky job.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Why I don't I don't even understand the conversation. It's
hard to have an argument with people when I don't
even understand your point of view. I guess my point
of view is so freaking what so what right? I
think we may be better positioned than some to understand
and feel what you're talking about, because media has changed
(04:47):
so vastly in the last thirty years.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And and you know radio.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
Ranches that none specific come to mind, but that had
employed ninety eight people fifteen years ago now employ fifteen
twenty maybe three. Well, it depends, Yeah, it depends where
you're talking about. So the idea of well, the world
has changed and now they want to make changes at
(05:12):
the company, and that's unfair. It's just I don't know
what ways you live in that's immune to change. Well, yeah,
if ABC's point is losing your job sucks, or industries
changing and becoming more efficient in a way that they
don't need you sucks for you.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I understand. But acting like that's just.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
A horror in general, or that something unfair has been done, right, Yeah, exactly,
that's it. That's something unfair has been done. No, it's
just you know, we're gonna do things differently now because
this wasn't work. We found a more efficient way to
do it now. Of course, this all hinges on the
fact that it actually is going to accomplish something and
be more efficient. But in the case of the public schools,
(05:52):
for instance, I don't I don't know how it could
get worse. Really, Yeah, yeah, it might be as simple
as and this seems just so dopey it can't be true,
but I think it is. And there are a bunch
of different examples of this, a bunch of different contexts.
We've had very similar conversation. If it makes someone feel bad,
(06:14):
it must be wrong.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
There you go. That is a lot of the coverage of.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
This, and it extends to all sorts of things, from
parenting to government reform, to ending programs that don't work,
to reforming schools to you know, the teacher's union head
who would have made just a great Nazi. It seems upset.
Therefore this must be wrong. Someone is upset, This must
be wrong. I guess that gets to that difference in
(06:41):
philosophy of looking at individuals as opposed to the whole group.
I'm sad for all the kids in school across the
country who have so many layers of middle management that
aren't needed that they can't get the sort of education
that happened decades earlier.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
That makes me sad.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Do you get sad for the individual middle management person
that didn't used to exist and everything was just fine
if they're going to lose their job, but not for
the kids. Is that just the practical versus the emotional?
I mean anything somebody of our mindset is involved with
you ask what are we doing here? Why are we
here to educate children? How are we doing very poorly?
(07:23):
What is standing in the way of educating those children?
And then addressing it? And absolutely people are going to
be upset by those answers and by the solutions you
decide upon. But that's not only is that fine, it's
absolutely necessary, But there's a significant chunk of the population
that can't get past. Oh, somebody's upset. It must be
(07:46):
mean I don't know, Republicans or whatever, just being jerks. Yeah,
if this education week where Doge is really loicing at education,
I wish Elon could get somebody at a high position,
teachers union or something like that to answer that question
of why if the student population has gone up, you know,
(08:07):
single digits present, the number of middle management people in
schools has gone up one hundred and eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Why and this is just.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
In the two thousands, not even going back to like
the eighties or something like that. Why Why Why do
you need that many more people in a school where
all the money is going than you used to do?
Speaker 2 (08:27):
What?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
What would their answer be on the left? Yeah, there
are there a political answer or the truthful answer. I
think answer it's a jobs program. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But well right, yeah, I was gonna say.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
The political answer would be we need experts to solve
these problems. So we have added more funding, We've got
more folks involved we're going.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
To get to the bottom of this, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But no, the the honest answer is no, we're just
we know we can count on their votes. We are
buying our power through government. School has to push back
on the political answer seems pretty easy though, but we're
getting less lower results, we're getting worse results, so it
has we're getting really philosophical. Here. Here's the headbutting that
(09:15):
makes me uncomfortable. Every civilization, every society, every culture has
its myths, and myths doesn't necessarily mean inaccurate or fictional.
They are stories we all tell that help us understand
the way our culture works. And in the United States,
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one of the most critical ones is that we have
a system of self governance. We the people, for the people,
by the people, et cetera, and that we all participate.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And it's a beautiful thing. And it is a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
It's one of the most incredible things that's ever been
done on the face of the earth by humankind.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
On the other hand, the honest truth is there's only a.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Little truth to that, and there there's a whole lot
of self serving greed and lust for power, and that
we the people, you know, it's funny that that's not
it's not contradictory. I think we the people just need
to be smart enough to know, like the founding fathers
did that Evildoers will exploit that system as much as
(10:20):
they can all the time. But we've lost our cynicism
about politicians because the government does everything all the time now,
and so we're dependent. It's practically as Stockholm syndrome. We
dare not displease our captors. Well, we got the latest
list of recommended or actual DOGE cuts from a whole
(10:41):
bunch of different places.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
There was a lot yesterday. Some of you agree with,
some of you might not. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
We should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this it is how did it already
get to be? Tuesday February eleventh, Here twenty twenty five,
we are Armstrong and Getty and that you know.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Jive and we approval.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
All right, let's begin officially then, according to FCC rules
and regulations, here we go at mark elon Musk. Where
are you bring.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Your ass of a hair? How you can? Says hair?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Kid with an IQ between seventy five and eighty five
deserve a congresswoman too.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
Bring your ass over here.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
Maxine Waters, Elon Mike walk over, he's that kind of guy,
and say, okay, let's have a conversation here on the
microphones in front of everybody.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
What do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yeah, yeah, the penny as Maxine and Chuck and Jakim
bravely stand up for bureaucrats and against the American people.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Good strategy. Elon Musk, Bring your ass over here, Wed
and they getting weird fast. You're right?
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (11:52):
You unelected dictator? How does the mailbag look? Oh, that's right,
we've moved mailbag. I The listeners must be adjustinguse I.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Know who I am? Yes, moved mail bag too. Different segments.
So this Jack considers this Chesterton's teas.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
We don't want to remove this teas until we fully
understand why mailbag was In the second segment, Man jd
Vance gave quite a statement about AI in Europe yesterday
in front of the world leaders of AI controversial, among
other things, stay with us.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
The Eagles scored twenty four points in just the first half.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Twenty four twenty.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Four, or in football terms, one full Bill Belichick girlfriend.
You could tell the game was over when the Eagles
dumb gator d on their coach halfway through the second quarter.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
We've still got a lot of game left.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
That's interesting that whole Bill Belichick. He's a famous coach
if you don't know who he is. But the key
to the story is his super hot girlfriend was a
cheerleader while he was a coach.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
And he's fifty years older than her.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Fifty forty eight actually, but I mean close enough, fifty
freaking years, and the way he flaunts it is just
so interesting in like a no, I'm not like a
little uncomfortable with this.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I'm a I know you're I know you're jealous of me.
I'm making it. I don't make her.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
But she dresses as skippy as possible to accentuate the
fact that she's fifty years younger than me.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Wow, you're on her.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
I've got to stand up for the defense here. Mister
Belichick isn't flaunting anything. It's his girlfriend. He goes places
with her, and she's a lovely.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Young gal who dresses like lovely young gals.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I'm hearing a lot of prejudicial talk out of the
prosecutor here.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Fifty years sure, that's a long time. Yeah, I know,
I would think.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
You'd been literally nothing to talk about in terms of
really into you know, the blitz and defensive backs.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Yes, Katie, their play. Oh it's simple. They love each other.
Thank you exactly. Joe Biden's long lost daughter. Uh. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I prize the right for people to make their own
choices in life and follow their own paths, and I
totally get the lifestyle must be fantastic. But I just
I don't know, Darling, and maybe she thinks, you know,
it's funny.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
I had a.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Conversation with a youngish person the other day and it
was so well reflected with your discussion of Henry, your son,
who is talking about serving in the military and having
a good, long career and then saying, Hey, when I
get out, I'll only be x years old. I'll have
plenty of life in front of me, which is incredibly
insightful for a lad of his years. I think maybe
the young galon Bill's arm is thinking, you know what,
(14:43):
when he croaks, I'll be like thirty three.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
It's still hot, so still lot.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
And I've got a verbal contract that he'll quote unquote
support me. We're working on firming that up. Everything's going beautifully, Yes, Michael.
Maybe they're both Milton Borough fans. Oh boy, Yeah, Well,
I'll make a controversial statement. I don't know where the
cut iff cut off is because I don't think this
for you know, all age gaps. But I think at
fifty years, if she's in love with him, she's got
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some psychological problem.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I believe that would be correct. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I mean I have a handful of relationships with much
younger people than me, and they are entirely friend mentor
sounding board, which is a beautiful thing. But if it
turned romantic, I'd be like, what the hell? And I'm
many years younger than him, well several a few. Anyway,
(15:39):
I wanted to get to this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
It's simple. They love each other exactly.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
They just like Joe Biden's dad fancifully told him in
nineteen forty or something about gay men kissing on the
sidewalk another and how that was perfectly fine.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's simple, they love each other. Good lord, is the
mummy still kicking? Is he still around his first? Yeah?
So I wanted to get this. Gosh, you don't really
have time. How much time do we have, Michael, barely
a minute? Nah?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I don't know if we can get We're talking about
teachers unions and schools and how bloated they are and
how they're not educating anybody. And they recently reported in
the Free Press the miserable test scores. You've probably heard them,
but they're highlighting a teachers union contract from Michigan that
reveals that to be fired, you have to be caught
drunk at school five times.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Yeah, I saw that five times.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Caught drunk, which means you have an unlimited pass if
you can keep it on the QT.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So who knew there was such attractive jobs I know?
Speaker 1 (16:38):
To me, that's just a giant billboard for we're all
about protecting teachers, not about making sure your kids are
educated in the best way.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
That is our At number one.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
If you, as a teacher get caught literally selling drugs,
your punishment is three days without pay. You have to
get caught selling drugs a second time to get fired.
Then they mentioned that the entire flowchart of the Fairfax
County Schools flows through their DEI office. Everybody reports to
DEI more or less alongside the head of the school district.
(17:14):
It's insane. Has nothing to do with educating the kids.
That's an afterthought. Mail bags on the way and a
bunch of other stuff. If you miss the secment, get
the podcast Armstrong and Getty on.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Demand Armstrong and Getty O. The Great.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Rich Lowry writes in The New York Post today that
we the right have had our best three weeks in
the culture war in half a century at least, and
goes through the examples, which is pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Think he's right then, that something though, that is something.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Here's my favorite doge cut from me that was announced
to yesterday, nine million dollars cut from Central American Gender
Assessment Services.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Gender assessment so.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Down in Central America, I was paying with my tax
payer money to assess what gender you are to me
next and if there's any doubt, we'll drop your pants.
I mean it's a little intrusive, but yeah, yeah, it's
just crazy and just strategically speaking, I read a couple
of stages talking about how the Democrats and we'll get
(18:17):
into this in detail in a little bit, but they
seem to be going with hair on fire all the
time as the strategy directed in various you know, directions
and kind of varying messages just about theft and constitutional
crises and unelected this, but that it's a horror and
everything's terrible and got to help us all. And I
(18:39):
find myself wondering, what if you're just lay low for
a little bit, just wait for Trump to do something wrong,
maybe the tariffs. I'm concerned that the tariffs are really
going to screw up the economy, for instance.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Just wait for that. But I guess you don't raise
money that way. Maybe that's it. Anyway, here's your freedom
loving quote of the day.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Well, I know that Mark Alpern rights and quoting a
lot of Democratic strategists. They're at a complete loss how
to do this. It's like a whirlwind has hit them
hard and fast, with what looks to be a lot
of public support, and they just have no idea what
they should do at this point to fight back, and
they're flighting. They seem to be divided fifty to fifty
(19:20):
between those who are screaming, we need to.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Move further to the left and oppose everything Trump.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Does, and then the same branch of the Democratic Party
that's saying, no, why don't we work with them when
we can and shove our lunatic left wing aside because
they're killing us here, right, But I mean, there is
no accord there anyway. I thought this was so interesting.
Steven sent this along did the god fearing founders of
(19:48):
America arrive at the three branches of government? From the Bible,
this is from Isaiah thirty third chapter, twenty fourth verse.
For Jehovah is our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah
is our case. He is the one who will save us.
I see judicial, legislative, and executive right there in scripture.
I think you know that reflects the ancient reality that
(20:10):
when human beings associate, they need someone to make up
the rules, then figure out how are we going to
enforce these rules, and what if there's a disagreement.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I think it's as simple as that.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back
to the Old Testament. That's right, sir, that's what we're
talking about. Mail day. You can drop us a note
at any time you like. Michael always appropriate, drop us
a note mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy dot com.
This first email references the fact that today is indeed
(20:43):
my birthday, not only that it is my sixtieth birthday.
I know you're thinking, Joe, you seem so youthful and clever.
That can't be true.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Yeah, I know. Have you checked the math on that?
Why not?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Jack and I first.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Connected in our mid twenties. We're twenty five.
Speaker 1 (21:05):
Yeah, that seems only remember like three things between then
and now.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Two of them were brothers of children. That's sorry. That
seems like And I know, if you're forty, this seems weird.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Maybe you're certainly if you're twenty five, that seems like
six years ago.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, roughly seems like about six years ago. It's crazy.
That's nuts.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
lovely and very very much appreciated. And it's funny. It's Tuesday,
it's a work day. I've got my kids arriving in
town this week, which is that big fun. That is awesome. Yeah,
it is awesome, and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in
various ways. My son and I. I picked them up
at the airport. I'm a big hug, and then we
philosophized the entire way home from the airport, which.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Is what we do.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and
joke and kid each other.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But
happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it. Flate Hanson
and Katie will get you something. And as to the whole,
you know, I don't need anything.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
As to the old sixty thing, which seems like such
a milestone, you know, it's funny. I was so miserable
like a year ago because of my back problems, and
I feel so much better now. I feel like I'm
de aging or something. I'm not, lord knows, but so
I don't feel old. I feel younger than I used to.
(22:33):
So I don't know.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I just let's let's just keep doing what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Let's let's have fun, let's do the shows, play some golf,
let's enjoy a nice glass of wide.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
And I just as opposed to what big on.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Milestone, as opposed to what lay down in front of
a train. I mean, is that the other option? Or well, no, no, no,
I'm just I've never been huge about milestones. It's like
when I graduated from college, I was like, all right,
what's next. I just I didn't weep. And and maybe
I lack the ability to reflect properly on things as
they pass, but certainly when my kids moved out, that
(23:07):
was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, thanks great,
let's let's get on with life anyway. So this is
from David Reno, with whom I apparently share a birthday.
In fact, here are some other famous people that we
share a birthday with. I was aware of some of
these people.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
Not all of them. Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, that's Jeb
with an exclamation point. Sarah Palin, Oh, lipstick? How old
is shoe?
Speaker 1 (23:30):
You get your joan? You guys are probably about the
same age, aren't you. You and Sarah Palin, Yeah, yeah
we could date. But I'm just gonna remind you to
you that now and again. Sarah Palin and I we
got a connection anyway. Alex Jones, Oh great, Thomas Edison,
what order is this?
Speaker 2 (23:46):
That's a good list. You've got good in a way, Alex.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Jones, Well, sharing sharing day with a big with your
birthday with other people.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Thomas Edison, that's a big one.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
That is a big one. Although you know, my great, Well,
I'll finish some of the list. It is, I know,
just always in a hurry, and I'll explain that in
a moment. But Leslie Nielson, the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer
Aniston and other.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
People who don't matter.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
But I've always been resentful that I was one day
short of sharing birthday with my great hero Abraham Lincoln,
which had been said. I get Burt Reynolds traded the
beard for the mustache.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
I guess what you're gonna do it?
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Moving along, moving along with mailbaging the question of the
Democrats going crazy and j T read an interesting Victor
Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,
the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
middle ground working together.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Ever since Trump came down that.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Escalator, they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The
result is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
went to control the border, they want to leave it
wide open. When Trump wants to apport it legal aliens
guilty of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
And gang members in the country.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
When Trump plus to save taxpairs, billions or trillions of
wasteful government spending dollars. They want to fight for the
wasteful government spending. There is no common ground to be
found in a party that's held vent on opposing everything
Trump wants to do. It's it's a bizarre sort of politics,
just dumb. I like your strategy of I would hang
(25:29):
back and wait for something to go wrong, because inevitably
will on the world stage, domestically something, and then take
your shot to the the trying to turn what's going
in right now into something bad.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
I felt like there was a different tone on the
evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it
to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump
having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like
I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in
David Muir's VOI as they were covering Trump yesterday at
the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him
(26:06):
like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a
point sort of tone. I you know, maybe I'm making
that up, but I really feel like that. Oh no,
I guess should agree.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
They should be.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
There should have been somebody in that news director meeting
and all of those newscasts saying, hey, look, people, he's
got a fifty three percent approval rating after all of
this craziness has happened. So maybe other people don't think
it's as crazy as we do. Maybe we ought to
look at it slightly different. I mean, they'd be nuts
if they.
Speaker 2 (26:33):
Weren't doing that.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah. I don't have any great admiration for politicians brains
and wisdom and the rest of it. I think most
of them are hacks and greed heads. But I would
think they would at least perceive a what you just
said and be that the frantic the sky is falling.
He's a Russian agent. He's going to kill millions of
people with COVID. I don't trust his vaccine now that
it's our vaccine. Jabbt into yourself, whether you like it
(26:55):
or not. I mean, just the systematic kid he wants
the borders closed, to open up the.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
Borders led rapists in.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Having seen how miserably all that failed, I would think
they would at least say, hey, let's talk.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
About this for a couple of weeks and figure out
what to do.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
But instead they're I mean, full speed ahead, moron, Maxine
Waters screeching as security guards at the the Department of
Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing, we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
What are you going to fight in the streets? Exactly?
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Anyway, Uh, we're kind of getting off on a tangent
away from mailbag, which is fine.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
A number of people have sent the screenshot.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
House votes on the Protection of Women and Girls in
Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen to nothing yay,
with two Democrat votes joining them. But Democrats were two
zero six to two against protect protecting.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Girls, and spot didn't know that well.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
In the caption is imagine being the party that accuses
the other party of hating women and then voting against
women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the
nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.
My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want
to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that
to the bank, Okay, yeah, because that strikes me. I've
received it from a bunch of people. It says it
(28:11):
appears to be a screen capture from Fox News, but
it's easy to make things appear to be something they're not. Definitely,
that'll do for now, sprinkling some more later. Copper is
already up two and a half percent. This was yesterday.
I haven't looked today because of the announcement of ending
the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so far this year
(28:34):
and it's early February. So the return on keeping pennies
in a jar is beating interest earned by keeping cash
in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
you actually throw them away?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, not leave them?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
Well no, no, no offense, and I would call thefense. Good lord,
I know what you worth next. I can't have you
destroying currency. Yeah, uh no. I just leave them places
for people to find them.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Well, that's nice. I'll leave them on counters or whatever.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
I can't tell if that's nice or just like super
the opposite.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Here's a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have
a good day. I left them a penny. I don't
address them to their face like that.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I just leave it and fellow oligarchs like me will
pass it by and say I'm not picking up that
filthy piece of copy.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
But the poor m I'd appreciate my all.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
I feel like that's the way. Then we'll take a
break for Katie's headlines. I've said for years that's the
way they should judge whether or not we should keep currency.
Get one hundred random people. Maybe do it at an
airport or bus station or something like that. You leave
a penny on the ground and nicol the ground on
the dime on the ground. What percentage of people bend
over to pick it up. Almost nobody's gonna bend over
to pick up a penny, which is proof that it
is worthless. I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody
(29:52):
I think would pick up the dime, but nickel, I
I'm not exactly sure. You're You're sour on the neck.
I still think a nickel is something. But practically nobody's
going to bend over to pick up a penny, which
I think is I don't think I have spent twenty
seven hours in the last year with any change in
(30:14):
my pocket. Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
you don't. You haven't spent an hour with any money
in your pocket at all in the last year.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
Younger people.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
I know, just the idea of having money in your
pocket seems insane.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Why would you do that? Hmm, yes, Katie.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
Another big indicator the numerous shops on Etsy of people
drilling holes in pennies and turning them into keychains.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, any jewelry everywhere. Oh really yeah,
and that's happening. Your currency is no longer. How did
it take till now for Trump to say, nobody, we
don't need the penny. It's that weird clinging to what
is saddest quote, whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,
or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of
re examining things and asking the only question that matters
(31:05):
is this working?
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Right?
Speaker 1 (31:07):
But then we adopt as a country or get scared
into adopting. All of a sudden, dudes can participate in girls'
sports and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
I mean, so how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 1 (31:18):
At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
away with the time change that we all hate, or
the penny, which is worthless.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
It's bullying. That's how bullying, I guess. Biradicals.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Katie's headlines on the way stay here? Have we had
the best three weeks in the culture war and a
half a century? As Rich Lowery writes of The National Review,
maybe the uh there's some new polling out about people's
attitudes towards the whole trans thing. Kind of interesting, man.
(31:48):
It's moved a lot m the correct direction in my opinion,
in the last couple of years.
Speaker 2 (31:54):
I mean a lot. So we'll get to that next hour.
Among other things. The next great.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
Challenge schools, American government schools. We can arouse the awareness
of the population and help them understand how miserable the
current state of things is. I think we could really
change the society for the better. Anyway, More on that
to come, but right now, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 5 (32:17):
It's the lead story with Katie Green Katie, thank you guys, NBC.
Trump threatens quote all hell is going to break out
if Hamas delays the hostage release.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Yeah, we'll get into a couple of statements he made yesterday,
one on the plane and one from the Oval office.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
He ain't kidding either, I don't think.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
Kind of alone, neither we, nor Hamas nor Israel really
knows what the shape of that might be.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
To bring it on brdbart dot com. Nearly one third
of Gossen's wanted to leave.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
Before the war. I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
If you lived in a society governed by AMAS, how
much would you enjoy it?
Speaker 5 (33:02):
From The Business Standard, FBI uncovers twenty four hundred secret
records on John F.
Speaker 2 (33:08):
Kennedy's assassination.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Not you know what's the significance? Oh yeah, I'm making
my skeptical face. Then mister Jones interviewed mister Smith, who
had nothing of interest to say. Is that one of
the records?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
From the Wall Street Journal, China g is building an
economic fortress against US pressure as Trump turns.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Up the heat on Beijing. Yeah, we got to get
into JD.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Vance's statement at the Big Ai summit in Paris from yesterday,
and it was all directed at China as the world
is attempting to hamstring us around Ai, when China is
going to ignore those rules similar to the climate change stuff.
And xiz in Ping while evil as smart as hell,
and he's understood that, all right. So the US tries
(33:57):
to pressure us in this way, that way, and that way,
we need to build an economy in a society that
can't be pressured in any of those three ways.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
So they're working at it like crazy. He's incredibly strategic
and evil.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
For The Washington Post, Elon Musk and group of investors
launches ninety seven billion dollar bid for chat gpte maker
open Ai.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
Yeah, to which Sam Altman immediately replied, how about I
buy Twitter for nine billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
I don't have time to figure out that whole rift
between those two guys. It's like Kendrick Lamar and Drake.
To me, I'm aware they hate each other, but I'm
not sure why.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
Well, Elon is concerned about the fact that open ai
is about to go private, when the whole the reason
it's called open ai is originally was you know, this
is going to be open and people can see it
and it's not going to be evil, and Elon's braid
it's gonna take everything evil and he wants to buy
it and stop that from happening.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
And finally, the Babylon Bee doubles in value after being egged.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
There you go, being egged is a good thing. Now
try to scrap it off. You and catch it in
a cup. If you could egg lick it off like Rocky,
you get it raw egg heist. So you're also the country.
We have more on more on that. There's quite a
bit of news to talk about today. So our two
could be juicy. I don't appreciate that choice of words,
(35:25):
but I agree it will be action packed
Speaker 2 (35:28):
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