February 13, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Galentine's Day & Trump the "Shaker Upper In Chief!"
- Attack in Munich, Germany
- Mailbag!
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Jettie and he arms Happy Gallantines Day. I just learned
about this Happy Gallantines Day right into that live from
Studio C Hey dimly lit room within the bowels of
(00:44):
the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, today we're
under the tutelage of our general Manager, Donald J. Trump,
shaker upper in chief. So Gallantine's Day comes from the
television show Parts and Recreation. I guess it's a fan
that is caught on over the last many years, and
a lot of women get together for mimosas for brunch
(01:07):
or drinks after work or whatever the day before Valentine's Day.
You're nodding your head, Katie, you're aware of this or not?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've been invited to a few of these, and they
give gifts and play games.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh I didn't know there were gifts. Oh yeah, gifts
and games. A bunch of celibate, non dating, bitter women
who are giving up on life getting together. I don't
think that's it at all.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
All of the girls that invited me to a Gallentine's Day,
are married?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I don't think that's it at all. Yeah, I
think you're a whole bitter don't have it airing lesbians?
Probably every woman who ever turned me down surely a lesbian.
If if Gallentine's Day somehow like becomes a thing and
women realize this is more fun without the dudes, we
decide what we want to do and do it the
(01:56):
way we want and where we want and what the
people we want, and you're not here and everything like that,
and it overtakes Valentine's Day, that would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Culturally speaking, I think, yeah, Galentine's Valentine's Day is about
as big as friends giving.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I mean it's caught on Okay, Yeah, it's definitely a thing.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then uh, Golfanine's Day with the fellas well, y'all
are doing that would be just fine. It'll all getting
together for games and gifts. Sounds like hell to me.
But if you know, go ahead and knock yourself the
hell out have a good time. Yeah, you're here, that's awesome.
How did I miss out on this? I guess you
were doing it on the sly.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yep, we don't want anything to do with you guys
during Valentine's.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Day again, fair enough, it might be. I'll be on
the back of nine. If I'm needed, I'll be over here.
Text me if you need something. That's that's something we're
breaking news to it good.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I don't have to dip my body in red paint
anymore on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So far, I think Valentine's Day is still a thing.
So I know you dip your body in red paint
and you had that allergic reaction a couple of years ago. Yeah,
we are. It was a whole thing. It was pretty bad.
It was paint. It toldally not paint. Go with die
food guy, red dye number one. It's good for you. ASCARFK.
Junior is about to be the head of HHS. Were
you up breaking news today? So Hamas has announced just
(03:13):
in the last couple hours that they are going to
release three more hostages at noon on Saturday. And it's
being reported that that's satisfying the ceasefire agreement, which I
think it strictly does. But I believe Trump said all
of the hostages need to come back by noon on Saturday.
Didn't he No more of this? Two here? Three? There
two there, or is he backed off that. I haven't
(03:35):
heard that he officially has. I wouldn't be surprised if
he's backed off of it, just because that's not the
agreement that the Israelis came to, right, that's like a
brand new I've got a better idea, which is fine. Yeah, again,
is the shaker upper in chief both domestically and foreign
relations wise. And the latest version I've heard of him
with the noon deadline for Saturday, he said Israel can
(03:56):
overrule that. Of course, it's just my opinion. So maybe
that's the backing off it. If Israel decides to just
stay locked in with the ceasefire agreement, which I think
he kind of have to, I don't think he can
go beyond. Although if they're jerking you around, you know,
starting to cancel. Of course, that whole treating the hostages
the way they treat him up into the you know,
the moment they get in the Israeli van, that's reason
(04:17):
enough to break the deal as far as I'm concerned. Also,
though Israel's main goal is we're gonna We're gonna ignore.
You're poking me in the chest, you're spitting on me,
you're calling my mom an m ephor you're doing all
these things. I'm gonna ignore that until we get it
back as many hostages as we can. Then I'm gonna
kill your ass, every single one of you. Yes, putting
(04:40):
aside the fact that my mom being an mfor is
confusing at best, I agree. And Donald Trump is playing
the role with a bad cop, which is kind of
interesting given the fact that bibit net and Yaho's plenty
of badass himself. But yeah, it's the madman theory. He said, no,
we want all of them back by Saturday. Beebe's holding
(05:00):
him back. I'm trying to hold him back. I'm trying well.
As has been written by many people right center and left,
it was completely the opposite under Biden. Oh, Biden was
holding onto Bebe's shoulders, holding him back. Hey, jim As,
I'm holding him back. He's not gonna go too far.
I got him here, which was inexplicable and awful and
(05:22):
morally wrong and all kinds of horrible things. But yeah, so,
I just even heard David Ignatius of The Washington Post,
no Trump fan, say it was Trump's threat that got
Hamas back. In the structure of the ceasefire, deal, right, right,
I have some really really interesting analysis of a couple
(05:43):
of Trump's nuttiest statements thus far and the effect they've had,
which is it's either four to five dimensional chess or
it's a happy accident. But it's really interesting. Go the
disruptor in chief. There is something to be said and
(06:04):
just in life in general, for just plowing forward every
day in every direction of your life and just just
keep going, just keep going forward. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. That didn't work. To try this, it'll either
work or you'll learn something from it. As they say,
you try to avoid disastrous mistakes. But but yes, yes,
(06:24):
let's start the show officially already. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Gallantine's Day. I can't
believe I've just learned about this. That's a state. It's
a big thanks saying combined words that are cute, see
and it's just make me seccarently, let's do whatever you want.
Just don't say the word is February thirteenth, year, twenty
twenty five or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.
(06:47):
It's better for going to celebrate Gallantine's Day with their work.
Husband and their Oh you know what i'd like for
Galentine's Day? A staycation?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Lord, all right, let's begin officially now according to see
rules and Regulations. One of my favorite opening clips and sometime,
and it comes at mark.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Elon, go take your musty million, and Mustar Mosca writes
to the moon. That's because if you don't, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Going to stand up.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
We're gonna speak up, We're gonna mart We're gonna do
anything we need to do to make sure that the
people of this country understand that the stay up maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Just for them. You get your mustard hands. Oh blah
money at a mousetown, you mustard boom boom moon. Things
are getting weird. Okay, you musty boom moo moo. Right.
How how has he become such a lightning rod? Because
(07:54):
he's threatening their impossible to get rid of jobs. That's
the whole thing, isn't it, right? And the money that
flows to the politicians. Yeah, and also because they've realized
that yelling that Trump's a dictator, Trump's a dictator, and
it's just not working. They need a new devil to
terrify people. With hl Menkin's endless series of hobgoblins meant
(08:19):
to frighten the population, and there running one way or another.
Elon's the newest hobgoblin or musty moo moo moo if
you prefer. While I find it amusing. Like I told
my kids at dinner last night about how he changed
his Twitter handle to Harry Balls for a day is
to make people say it. I don't think it helps
(08:42):
him any but he's he's so childish in that way.
So I got the new Tesla update on the computer
showed up. You just get in your car and things
are different, and so they interrupt. They updated this and
it says ass and big letters on my screen ass
actually smart summon. So he improved the summon feature where
(09:05):
I can press a button on her any day, like
the day the car will back out and come pick
me up in front of the building and I can
get in without having a walk in the rain. But
the actually smart summon ASS. So it's his ass and
pick letters, I mean, because because that's what he likes.
I just I think, and you have to accept it.
It's it's like I've you know, accepted my flaws along
with my strength and that of my sweet wife and
(09:27):
the rest of it. It just you get the package.
There's no can I get this without onions with human beings.
That's a that's a good one. That should be your quote.
That might be your best quote. Oh no, no, I've tried,
so is it a great one? All right? Thank you?
There's no can I get this without onions with human beings?
You like all the stuff with them? The other stuff
(09:49):
comes with it, right, Which is not an excuse to
be an extra hot, spicy onion all the time. You
ought to try to, you know, just soften your onion
inness to make the relationship work. But ros is there
any of the things that you really hair a stray
hair in the burger? You don't want that? That by
personality you can get certainly, that's right. But there you go. Finally,
(10:14):
Michael I came up with a quote worth memorizing, being
remembered by the generations the ages to come. But we
got more clips of this, and we've had him for
several days. The elon as a lightning rod and like
the biggest threat in America to a certain segment of
society is just so interesting. He wants to make government
smaller and less efficient. How is that so horrible efficient
(10:37):
yea more efficient, yeah, smaller and more vision less efficient
to be easy. You just wait his speech yesterday about
yesterday about bureaucracy, and he actually he gave a speech
overnight to some video conference in Dubai. I don't understand
how he lives his life, but talking about it's it's
the government by the bureaucracy, up the bureaucracy. Just I
(11:00):
wish everybody understood the way bureaucracies work, the way they grow,
the way they become, you know, the iron law bureaucracy.
They become about serving the bureaucracy more than accomplishing their goals.
It's just it's all real. It's like a science. We
need to bring back a couple of the clips from
the other day where he was describing that. I you know,
perhaps some of the folks didn't hear them, and I
(11:20):
would love to hear them again. Trump with some strong
statements about the Department of Education and how bad it
is and how he wants to get rid of it.
We'll get into that coming up. We got mailed bag
a little bit later, case headlines and other news of
the day. I hope you can just stick around.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Armstrong Andyetty that Jesus I know would be dressed in
full drag and serving face, or handsome as a trans man,
or wrapped in the garb of a non binary person
who knows one gender is way too small to capture
their gloriousness.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's a tease ahead to the podcast we're going to
do after the show. Every day after the show we
do the One More Thing podcast will play the entire audio, well,
not the entire audio, because it'd be like an hour long,
but many minutes of a city council meeting they had
in Wooster, mass last night to be as they voted
to become a trans sanctuary city. Whatever the hell that means.
(12:22):
Good Lord, that was a crazy person. Oh that's why
I wanted to put it in the podcast so we
can play the whole thing. It is an endless parade
of mentally ill people as far as I can tell,
and the city then decided to do what they want. Yeah,
it is truly a cult, the whole something else but
(12:44):
radical trans theory cult. If you don't usually grab the
One More Thing podcast, you listen to this or whatever,
you should. We do good stuff every single day. We
kind of have some breaking news Katie Katie the news lady.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
We do this morning in Munich, Germany, a driver deliberately
drove into a crowd of people Injuring twenty eight and
it's confirmed that he is a kabulborn Afghan asylum seeker,
already known for drug crimes and theft.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Twenty four years old. Yeah, so I assume people are
thinking it might be one of those isis like attacks
we had in New Orleans. They're calling it a deliberate attack. Yeah,
very much like that, and of even greater significance. The
flow in Europe and especially Germany these days was one
hundred percent toward cracking down on immigration and to the
(13:34):
bizarre multicultural experiment that Angela Merkel was running in the
rise of the AfD, the far Ish right party that
everybody's acting like is anathema. We can't have them in power.
Has this reap which is so Heinrich. I was listening
to some sober news analysis I remember it was, but
it was like somebody who's like, you know, tries to
(13:55):
be honest, who fought Marilla Penn's group would win in
France next election because this topic thought, Wow, okay, well
you do rep what you saw You're absolutely right. So
there's two topics there. Really, it's the whole unfettered immigration
of people who want you to go away, which is
an odd policy to have in any country. And two,
(14:18):
the how's the modern world gonna do with these car attacks?
How are you gonna You can't protect every crowded area
that exists. I mean, I could name off the top
of my head twenty that have no protection whatsoever. Yet.
I don't want to give anybody any ideas, but I
mean it'd be very difficult to do. Even more significantly
than that. I think the whole radical Islam versus the
(14:41):
West thing it took a nap. It's not over. It's
far from over. Well, And to that point, I didn't
get into the story. I saw the headline Israel is
considering significant strikes on Iranian nuclear sites this year. US
(15:02):
intelligence agencies warned that's a breaking news in the Wall
Street Journal. Why somebody leaked that? Why the US intelligence
agencies know what Israel's going to do and then we
leaked it in the United States? Is that an attempt
to get them to not do it? Is that to
warn a Ran? I'm not exactly sure that stuff can
get very complicated, But that's the story overnight. Two main possibilities.
(15:25):
It was, you know, the permanent bureaucracy in intelligence or
the State Department that leaked it to constrain Israel, like
you said, in a very Biden administration like act, or
deliberate leak from the Trump administration saying yeah, Israel is
just going to whack the hell out of you boys. Yeah,
so get to negotiating or something. Come correct. Exactly how
(15:47):
much time we got, Michael? About six months? How much
time we got? You know the way you eat? Yeah, acts,
I got a minute thirty. You look like you're harried.
Are you harried? What's the problem. Oh, we're just on
something here. Okay, first personal life or a radio show?
Oh my god, let them we're goodness on the air.
(16:08):
You made a flavorable I thought it might be a
personal life thing. You don't know, day before Valentine's Day
and say we don't have dinner reservations and he's on
the phone with his wife and you know, you know,
you never that can happen. Turns out that's not the case. Though,
I'm wearing horrible socks today and this is not making
my job easier. Somehow, I let the laundry get behind
and I went throw all my decent socks and that's
(16:30):
down to my Why do I even have them in
the drawer at the back of the drawer, incredibly uncomfortable?
What was I thinking when I bought them? What decade
did they come from? Socks? And I'm wearing them today
and they're just it's it's gonna affect my mood the
entire day. I think a lot of us do it.
We stick them in the back of the drawer as
if they're going to heal themselves or get better or something. Yeah,
or why would why would you get down to your
(16:51):
emergency socks before you do well, won't you just do
laundry before you get to your last beer? I don't know.
It's a a I've failed at living, is what I've done.
We've got mail bag on the way. How is that looking?
It's outstanding, full of revelations and insights, great freedom loving
quote of the day in just an insanely busy news day,
socks are like they're designed to be annoying, Like the
whole point was to make you unhappy all day long.
(17:13):
If you miss a segment of the show, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. You know,
I don't want to talk about what Trump did every day,
but he does so much stuff. Surely it'll taper off
at something potentially huge significance. How do you not, I mean,
(17:34):
you made him our general manager today, disruptor in chief.
There's so much stuff around Taiwan and Russia and Israel,
not to mention the remaking of the federal government in
a bunch of different ways. So yeah, you gotta talk about
all that. The biggest rumor in the world, according to
Mark Calprin, that involves Greenland and China and Taiwan and
(17:55):
all kinds of stuff. I'll share that with you this
half hour because it's it's damned interesting. Oh there's a
lot to wrap your arms around there. Freedom, I mean
quoted the day, continuing on with old Abe Lincoln. His
birthday was yesterday. It used to be a holiday. I mean,
that's your trans day of visibility or whatever. Anyway, we
(18:15):
used to have holidays that meant something. We're just pandering
to special interest groups anyway. Lincoln known for his great
political speeches, but also it struck me and looking through
this list, some very ben Franklin like advice for living,
I mean a lot. Be sure you put your feet
in the right place, then stand firm, said Lincoln. That's
(18:37):
pretty good. No man has a good enough memory to
be a successful liar. That's another good one. Let's see,
h where's the other one that I really like? That
first one is a better written version of Is this
the Hill you Want to Die on? Yeah? Yeah. Character
is like a tree, and reputation like a shadow. The
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shadow is what we think of it. The tree is
the real thing. And then finally, and this one will
either chill you to the bone, spur you to action,
or both. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next. That's
a Lincoln quote. Allegedly there's a guy who didn't go
(19:22):
to school. That's pretty interesting. Yeah, I'll have to research that.
I'm it doesn't aware recently the number of quotes it's
a little bit too good. Yes, yes, I would agree.
The number of quotes that are misattributed on the internet
is roughly seventy eight percent. You can quote me on that.
We're going or say Ben Franklin said, just in general,
(19:43):
we're going further down the road of the Internet being
practically worthless in terms of looking anything up. Yeah, and
some of them, some of the things I've come across
are kind of inexplicable too. A P. J. O'Rourke quote
attributed to Christopher Hitchens. Why why pt Work's a fine
guy to quote, very smart and a charming man. Quote
(20:06):
him instead of Hitchins. The idea is just as good.
Mailbag Woo. I can't believe they named those big luxury
cars after me, Abraham Lincoln, totally authentic. You can drop
us the note mail bag at Armstrong and Geddy dot com.
Where to send the Palestinians while rebuilding Gaza, writes Bill,
(20:29):
pull it DeSantis habit, ship them to Iran. They'd fit
right in. Furthermore, Iran's already funding and supporting them anyway,
so this would probably be more Doge, cost effective and
efficient for everyone. He says. Keep up the great work,
guys and crew. I say, keep up the great emails,
Bill from Kansas. That's clever, Speaking of which, called Trump
(20:50):
the shaker upper in Chief. What his absolutely nutty Gaza
Lago plan has shaken loose coming up? Stay with us Arizona,
Matt if they digitize the Oh, this is check describing
to us what Elon Musk was describing. I guess, yeah,
that's right. We played the Elon Musk audio describing how
(21:11):
there was a limit to the number of federal employees
that could retire at any given time. It's one thousand
a month because the way they file the retirement papers
is to take actual papers, put them in actual Manila envelopes,
carry them down a long elevator, down a mine shaft
into a mine and where is it, Arizona or Nevada
or something like that, put them in a cardboard box
for some reason, right, it like it's nineteen fifty three.
(21:34):
And as Elon pointed out, I guess if the elevator
breaks down, nobody can retire. It's just an hilariously antiquated system.
And my favorite quote from Elon on that was practically
anything would be better than this. Yeah, yeah, no kidding anyway, Arizona,
Matt says, hey, guys, if they digitize the retirement process,
the morlocks living in the mine will not have enough
(21:55):
to do and we'll start to terrorize the eloy living
in DC. Excellent HG reference. Why is it necessary to
have two pieces of ID to open a bank account,
by the way, Jack telling them they tried to open
a bank account for a child. The ridiculous Patriot Act
is so full of the government spying on us to
prevent another nine to eleven, some of which we thankfully
(22:16):
learned from Edward Snowden. We probably still wouldn't know about
it though he was a trader. Yeah, they just went way, way,
way overboard. I get that you disrupt terrorist networks by
following the money, but allow me to suggest that at
the point a thirteen year old boy can't have a
savings account opened in his name, you've gone too far.
When he's there with his parent, Yes, which I can
(22:37):
prove who I am. To the point of Arizona MAT's
note here, which I think is excellent. Why is it
necessary to have two pieces of ideed open a bank account?
Isn't that too burdensome? Burdensome against people of color? An
excellent point. No, ID needed to vote lots of places.
But my thirteen year old, who's with me and I've
had an account there for twenty five years, have to
(22:58):
have two pieces. You have two pieces ID, your thirteen
year old? Would you what the hell the one thing
you have to get used to in politics, especially, is
that people will make moral arguments with all the sincerity
of a of a dedicated preacher of the word. I
mean of all they will put on the cloak of
(23:19):
absolutely righteous kind humanity to make their arguments. They don't
mean a stinking word of it. They're using your goodness
against you making these arguments. Yeah, the combine they can't
ask for voter ideas. It's too burdensome for people of color. No,
that's a way to get fraudulent votes in and vote
harvest and the rest of it. That's it. And yes,
(23:40):
my complain is about a minor activity, hoping a savings
account fort a thirteen year old. But it just speaks
to the sort of bureaucracy thing that Elon's talking about,
just the thickening of all the crap that slows things down,
makes it more expensive, makes it burdensome, it's a federal
law whatever. Yeah, it's kind of a small thing. But
I'm ThReD percent confident that Soulzan Nitsen himself would say, no,
(24:03):
you're absolutely right to point out crap like that. That's
the snare that gets built around you. Let me see,
uh I will say. Harry in Portland says, let me
start by saying, your show is fantastic. Oh, that can
be the middle in the end too, if you want. Anyway,
your take on Putin was good on Thursday. That being
(24:24):
that Putin's Putin behaves entirely in Putin's self interest one
hundred percent of the time. There's nothing you can do
to sway, cajole, threaten him. He is a calculating alligator
of a human being. Anyway, he said, But I believe
Trump is walking softly and carrying a big stick, or
he's a narcissistic moron. I don't. I just didn't hear
(24:45):
the stick metaphor on the show. Keep entertaining my brain
and port not a. But we did take their nukes
and promise to defend them in ninety one, if I'm
not mistaken, NaNs wed that gets left out of the
the discussion. All the time Ukraine had nukes to protect themselves.
We said, now give them to us, we promise we'll
protect you. And we didn't give him to Russia. Really anyway,
(25:12):
I'm the lazy. We wanted all the Soviet nukes under
the same central control. The latest wrinkle that we need
to talk about with Russian Putin. Is Trump's saying he's
gonna go there and Putin might come here to the
White House. We're gonna have Vladimir Putin, one of the
most evil men on earth, a child killer, sitting with
the President. I don't know want to feel about that
(25:35):
that's gonna happen. I don't even like him saying it
out loud. I don't either. He is maneuvering in his
inimitable way. And Robert Rights just heart a clip of
Caroline Levitt, the new Press Secretary, have to say. It's
nice to hear someone who's every other word is not
m or KJP was so terrible. She was unqualified for
(25:56):
the job. But then I love this, signed loyal listener,
Rob though for today known as that Hispanic Asian adult
movie sensation Manuel Hung in the spirit of Elon Musk
Wow being Harry Bowles, Manuel Hung, beautiful, Robert proud of yourself.
(26:18):
I get it, Okay, you're ready for the biggest rumor
in the world. According to Mark Calprin, will it terrify me?
It's something, the biggest rumor in the world, persistent and
omnipresent in the sort of salons that Mark Alpern dips
into knowing all the players and everything is the talk
(26:41):
of a grand bargain between the United States and China
that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's peaceful
taking of Taiwan, and several provisions and players to be
named later. It seems implausible to many ears and eyes.
But the talk of the deal is every where right now,
(27:01):
writes Mark Alprin, who is of one of those three
team deals though where you know Cleveland for some reason
gets relief from their salary cap by taking some scrub right,
But why is one of the pieces China gets peaceful
access to Taiwan? And there's an article in the New
York Times today sort of speaking to that, not getting
(27:23):
as specific. Taiwan prepares for Trump's tariffs and a changed
Washington how they thought they were fully being supported by
the United States. In no way, China gets to take
over and now things look different. Wow, that is a
troubling rumor, I'd say, I can't imagine how that would
shake out. The New York Times article, with lots of
(27:47):
quotes from Donald Trump and his people, make it sound
like Trump's all about no, no no, no, Why is Taiwan
the leader making leader and making chips around the world
that we need. That's a ridiculous way to structure the world.
Those chips need to be made here. You need to
get those back over here. So that might be as
you want to be part of China, or you want
to give us the chips and then we'll protect it.
I don't know, I don't know what he's talking about.
(28:09):
Maybe this hearkens back to our conversation earlier about how
you don't get to make substitutions when you're dealing with
a human being. You can't say, can I have that
without onions? Please for your spouse for instance. They are
who they are within you know, reason, Trump being the
agitator in chief and not giving a damn about all
of the power structures of DC and how well, wait
(28:31):
a minute, these hundred thousand people will all have always
had their job. They're always have their job and their
pension and the rest of it, and they contribute to me,
so neither party can mess with them. Okay, okay, And
everybody agrees and goes about their business, and they waste
more and more of our money. Well, he's shaking stuff
up like that he's shaking up the Middle East with
his actually ridiculous idea of taking over Gausen turning it
(28:51):
into a resort. But again, I want to get to
what that's shaken loose down the line. At the same time,
I don't think he understands or cares about Chesterton's fence.
He thinks, no, we'll build a Trump fence. It'll be
better than Chesterton, whoever that was. And we will see
things shaken up that should not be shaken up. I
(29:14):
just hope it's not too many and too disastrously. What
he said about the Department of Education yesterday music to
my ears. We've got Katie's headlines on the way, lots
of stuff stay here. There are so many headlines around
the Elon Musk if you just like look at the
you know, we've got TV monitors and Twitter up and
all the different news sources and everything like that. Elon's
(29:35):
name gets mentioned more than Trump's. Now, I think wonder
at some point of Trump's gonna be wait a second,
eit a second. Elon can't be the most famous person
in the world. I'm the most famous person in the world.
Could happen? That could be the point of Rubb. I'm
just I'm just pleased that America's geopolitical adversaries, who are
evil and dangerous, have agreed to pause their evil doing
(29:56):
while we yell at each other over doge. Oh no,
that's right there, doing a pace, as they say, to
do their evil. I've got a great example of that.
Next hour. You need to wake up, friends, White wake up.
Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green, Katie from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Hamas says it will release the hostages as planned on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In reference to what I just said, Andy McCarthy with
an absolutely devastating piece that should be read everywhere in
America came out a few weeks ago. The jihad against
Jews is war against the West. He explains exactly what
he means, and we will share that with you.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Trump's call with Putin alarms Europe and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah. I I'm disgusted by the even throwing it out
there as a possibility, the idea of Putin coming and
sitting in the White House and doing that whole thing
in the fireplace and like smiling and talking. I mean no,
Trump thinks he can work him. You guys, mentioned. Yeah,
go ahead, you guys.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Mentioned this from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Trump calls for.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Department of Education to be quote closed immediately.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, we'll listen to Trump explain why.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
An hour two from the Free Beacon, Trump administration formerly
ends Biden's war on gas stoves.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh yeah, Oh so all those things that Trump has
done that because he has done so many things have
kind of gotten obscured. But the gas stoves thing. Bringing
back the regular light bulb water pressure rules that the
Biden with a stroke of the pen had forced down
everybody's throat. You know, that's what Trump's always talking about.
You can't get any water pressure out of your shower. Unfortunately,
(31:46):
for folks living in blue states, the various governors of
those states have become frantic like a gavenousom, for instance,
in Trump proofing California, or the city in Massachusetts trying
to become a trans sanctuary, and they're doubling and tripling
down on the madness. But at least it's your state deciding.
The founding fathers did not think the federal government should
(32:08):
be involved in how much water pressure you have in
your toilet or how you cook your food.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Good Lord, along those lines, from Fox News. EPA administrator
Zelden demand's return of twenty billion dollars in taxpayer money
wasted on climate agenda by Biden.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh I love this so much, me too. From NBC.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Judge rules that Trump's sweeping plan to persuade federal workers
to resign can move forward.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah. Oh interesting. Yeah, the some of the addition the
initial injunctions where they judge shop some Obama appointees left
to Trotsky and he rules against Trump for a week
and a half. It'll be fine. Let's just let the
fight begin. From ABC this week.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Shares of Elon Musk's Tesla have fallen.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Sharply, with the speculation that it is his vibe as
a guy who's trying to slash government and take over
the country. I'll never be able to sell my car.
It's probably worth half what it was when Trump got inaugurated.
I mean, it's amazing. And this also from this week
about Elon Musk. Elon Musk called Thursday to delete entire
(33:27):
agencies from the US federal government as part of a
push under Trump to upend the restructure and delete entire agencies.
So it's that sort of headline as leading to the
Tesla shares crashing, they think.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
From the New York Times. Google calendar deletes Women's History Month,
Black History Month, and Pride Month due.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
To DEI rollback. All right, there you go. We know
how that game works. Whatever what they've they've deleted them.
They're just good. They doing the thing where they take
out things that people weren't upset about to see, like
the government's forcing us to not even honor women anymore.
They're doing the all thing.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Eh from USA today, good enough to bathe in Papa
John's unveils garlic dipping sauce inspired.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Bath bomb, right, you know what. It's a desperate plead
to dupe people like you, Katie into giving them a
free commercial. Yes, like you just did. Although this one's
amusing enough, I will the judges will forbid it. I
can just see myself laying in the tomb and think,
(34:40):
what a little bit of this. I wonder what it
tastes like.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh gosh, this is repulsive.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Finally, the Babylon b Doge eliminates Congress after audit finds
it's completely useless and mostly for show boo.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, West Congress got like an eleven percent of brutal rating.
That's generous, you eleven percent. What are your standards. There's
a lot going on today, too much going on. Yeah,
I'm thinking mostly the geopolitical stuff, which could get ugly.
We'll talk more about that and a whole bunch of
other things. If you missed a segment, get the podcast
(35:16):
Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Jettie and he arms Happy Gallantines Day. I just learned
about this Happy Gallantines Day right into that live from
Studio C Hey dimly lit room within the bowels of
(00:44):
the Armstrong and Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all, today we're
under the tutelage of our general Manager, Donald J. Trump,
shaker upper in chief. So Gallantine's Day comes from the
television show Parts and Recreation. I guess it's a fan
that is caught on over the last many years, and
a lot of women get together for mimosas for brunch
(01:07):
or drinks after work or whatever the day before Valentine's Day.
You're nodding your head, Katie, you're aware of this or not?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I've been invited to a few of these, and they
give gifts and play games.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Oh I didn't know there were gifts. Oh yeah, gifts
and games. A bunch of celibate, non dating, bitter women
who are giving up on life getting together. I don't
think that's it at all.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
All of the girls that invited me to a Gallentine's Day,
are married?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Yeah, I don't think that's it at all. Yeah, I
think you're a whole bitter don't have it airing lesbians?
Probably every woman who ever turned me down surely a lesbian.
If if Gallentine's Day somehow like becomes a thing and
women realize this is more fun without the dudes, we
decide what we want to do and do it the
(01:56):
way we want and where we want and what the
people we want, and you're not here and everything like that,
and it overtakes Valentine's Day, that would be awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Culturally speaking, I think, yeah, Galentine's Valentine's Day is about
as big as friends giving.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I mean it's caught on Okay, Yeah, it's definitely a thing.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
And then uh, Golfanine's Day with the fellas well, y'all
are doing that would be just fine. It'll all getting
together for games and gifts. Sounds like hell to me.
But if you know, go ahead and knock yourself the
hell out have a good time. Yeah, you're here, that's awesome.
How did I miss out on this? I guess you
were doing it on the sly.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yep, we don't want anything to do with you guys
during Valentine's.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Day again, fair enough, it might be. I'll be on
the back of nine. If I'm needed, I'll be over here.
Text me if you need something. That's that's something we're
breaking news to it good.
Speaker 6 (02:48):
I don't have to dip my body in red paint
anymore on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
So far, I think Valentine's Day is still a thing.
So I know you dip your body in red paint
and you had that allergic reaction a couple of years ago. Yeah,
we are. It was a whole thing. It was pretty bad.
It was paint. It toldally not paint. Go with die
food guy, red dye number one. It's good for you. ASCARFK.
Junior is about to be the head of HHS. Were
you up breaking news today? So Hamas has announced just
(03:13):
in the last couple hours that they are going to
release three more hostages at noon on Saturday. And it's
being reported that that's satisfying the ceasefire agreement, which I
think it strictly does. But I believe Trump said all
of the hostages need to come back by noon on Saturday.
Didn't he No more of this? Two here? Three? There
two there, or is he backed off that. I haven't
(03:35):
heard that he officially has. I wouldn't be surprised if
he's backed off of it, just because that's not the
agreement that the Israelis came to, right, that's like a
brand new I've got a better idea, which is fine. Yeah, again,
is the shaker upper in chief both domestically and foreign
relations wise. And the latest version I've heard of him
with the noon deadline for Saturday, he said Israel can
(03:56):
overrule that. Of course, it's just my opinion. So maybe
that's the backing off it. If Israel decides to just
stay locked in with the ceasefire agreement, which I think
he kind of have to, I don't think he can
go beyond. Although if they're jerking you around, you know,
starting to cancel. Of course, that whole treating the hostages
the way they treat him up into the you know,
the moment they get in the Israeli van, that's reason
(04:17):
enough to break the deal as far as I'm concerned. Also,
though Israel's main goal is we're gonna We're gonna ignore.
You're poking me in the chest, you're spitting on me,
you're calling my mom an m ephor you're doing all
these things. I'm gonna ignore that until we get it
back as many hostages as we can. Then I'm gonna
kill your ass, every single one of you. Yes, putting
(04:40):
aside the fact that my mom being an mfor is
confusing at best, I agree. And Donald Trump is playing
the role with a bad cop, which is kind of
interesting given the fact that bibit net and Yaho's plenty
of badass himself. But yeah, it's the madman theory. He said, no,
we want all of them back by Saturday. Beebe's holding
(05:00):
him back. I'm trying to hold him back. I'm trying well.
As has been written by many people right center and left,
it was completely the opposite under Biden. Oh, Biden was
holding onto Bebe's shoulders, holding him back. Hey, jim As,
I'm holding him back. He's not gonna go too far.
I got him here, which was inexplicable and awful and
(05:22):
morally wrong and all kinds of horrible things. But yeah, so,
I just even heard David Ignatius of The Washington Post,
no Trump fan, say it was Trump's threat that got
Hamas back. In the structure of the ceasefire, deal, right, right,
I have some really really interesting analysis of a couple
(05:43):
of Trump's nuttiest statements thus far and the effect they've had,
which is it's either four to five dimensional chess or
it's a happy accident. But it's really interesting. Go the
disruptor in chief. There is something to be said and
(06:04):
just in life in general, for just plowing forward every
day in every direction of your life and just just
keep going, just keep going forward. Sometimes it works, sometimes
it doesn't. That didn't work. To try this, it'll either
work or you'll learn something from it. As they say,
you try to avoid disastrous mistakes. But but yes, yes,
(06:24):
let's start the show officially already. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Joe Getty on this. It is Gallantine's Day. I can't
believe I've just learned about this. That's a state. It's
a big thanks saying combined words that are cute, see
and it's just make me seccarently, let's do whatever you want.
Just don't say the word is February thirteenth, year, twenty
twenty five or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program.
(06:47):
It's better for going to celebrate Gallantine's Day with their work.
Husband and their Oh you know what i'd like for
Galentine's Day? A staycation?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Lord, all right, let's begin officially now according to see
rules and Regulations. One of my favorite opening clips and sometime,
and it comes at mark.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Elon, go take your musty million, and Mustar Mosca writes
to the moon. That's because if you don't, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Going to stand up.
Speaker 6 (07:22):
We're gonna speak up, We're gonna mart We're gonna do
anything we need to do to make sure that the
people of this country understand that the stay up maybe.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Just for them. You get your mustard hands. Oh blah
money at a mousetown, you mustard boom boom moon. Things
are getting weird. Okay, you musty boom moo moo. Right.
How how has he become such a lightning rod? Because
(07:54):
he's threatening their impossible to get rid of jobs. That's
the whole thing, isn't it, right? And the money that
flows to the politicians. Yeah, and also because they've realized
that yelling that Trump's a dictator, Trump's a dictator, and
it's just not working. They need a new devil to
terrify people. With hl Menkin's endless series of hobgoblins meant
(08:19):
to frighten the population, and there running one way or another.
Elon's the newest hobgoblin or musty moo moo moo if
you prefer. While I find it amusing. Like I told
my kids at dinner last night about how he changed
his Twitter handle to Harry Balls for a day is
to make people say it. I don't think it helps
(08:42):
him any but he's he's so childish in that way.
So I got the new Tesla update on the computer
showed up. You just get in your car and things
are different, and so they interrupt. They updated this and
it says ass and big letters on my screen ass
actually smart summon. So he improved the summon feature where
(09:05):
I can press a button on her any day, like
the day the car will back out and come pick
me up in front of the building and I can
get in without having a walk in the rain. But
the actually smart summon ASS. So it's his ass and
pick letters, I mean, because because that's what he likes.
I just I think, and you have to accept it.
It's it's like I've you know, accepted my flaws along
with my strength and that of my sweet wife and
(09:27):
the rest of it. It just you get the package.
There's no can I get this without onions with human beings.
That's a that's a good one. That should be your quote.
That might be your best quote. Oh no, no, I've tried,
so is it a great one? All right? Thank you?
There's no can I get this without onions with human beings?
You like all the stuff with them? The other stuff
(09:49):
comes with it, right, Which is not an excuse to
be an extra hot, spicy onion all the time. You
ought to try to, you know, just soften your onion
inness to make the relationship work. But ros is there
any of the things that you really hair a stray
hair in the burger? You don't want that? That by
personality you can get certainly, that's right. But there you go. Finally,
(10:14):
Michael I came up with a quote worth memorizing, being
remembered by the generations the ages to come. But we
got more clips of this, and we've had him for
several days. The elon as a lightning rod and like
the biggest threat in America to a certain segment of
society is just so interesting. He wants to make government
smaller and less efficient. How is that so horrible efficient
(10:37):
yea more efficient, yeah, smaller and more vision less efficient
to be easy. You just wait his speech yesterday about
yesterday about bureaucracy, and he actually he gave a speech
overnight to some video conference in Dubai. I don't understand
how he lives his life, but talking about it's it's
the government by the bureaucracy, up the bureaucracy. Just I
(11:00):
wish everybody understood the way bureaucracies work, the way they grow,
the way they become, you know, the iron law bureaucracy.
They become about serving the bureaucracy more than accomplishing their goals.
It's just it's all real. It's like a science. We
need to bring back a couple of the clips from
the other day where he was describing that. I you know,
perhaps some of the folks didn't hear them, and I
(11:20):
would love to hear them again. Trump with some strong
statements about the Department of Education and how bad it
is and how he wants to get rid of it.
We'll get into that coming up. We got mailed bag
a little bit later, case headlines and other news of
the day. I hope you can just stick around.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
Armstrong Andyetty that Jesus I know would be dressed in
full drag and serving face, or handsome as a trans man,
or wrapped in the garb of a non binary person
who knows one gender is way too small to capture
their gloriousness.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
It's a tease ahead to the podcast we're going to
do after the show. Every day after the show we
do the One More Thing podcast will play the entire audio, well,
not the entire audio, because it'd be like an hour long,
but many minutes of a city council meeting they had
in Wooster, mass last night to be as they voted
to become a trans sanctuary city. Whatever the hell that means.
(12:22):
Good Lord, that was a crazy person. Oh that's why
I wanted to put it in the podcast so we
can play the whole thing. It is an endless parade
of mentally ill people as far as I can tell,
and the city then decided to do what they want. Yeah,
it is truly a cult, the whole something else but
(12:44):
radical trans theory cult. If you don't usually grab the
One More Thing podcast, you listen to this or whatever,
you should. We do good stuff every single day. We
kind of have some breaking news Katie Katie the news lady.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
We do this morning in Munich, Germany, a driver deliberately
drove into a crowd of people Injuring twenty eight and
it's confirmed that he is a kabulborn Afghan asylum seeker,
already known for drug crimes and theft.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Twenty four years old. Yeah, so I assume people are
thinking it might be one of those isis like attacks
we had in New Orleans. They're calling it a deliberate attack. Yeah,
very much like that, and of even greater significance. The
flow in Europe and especially Germany these days was one
hundred percent toward cracking down on immigration and to the
(13:34):
bizarre multicultural experiment that Angela Merkel was running in the
rise of the AfD, the far Ish right party that
everybody's acting like is anathema. We can't have them in power.
Has this reap which is so Heinrich. I was listening
to some sober news analysis I remember it was, but
it was like somebody who's like, you know, tries to
(13:55):
be honest, who fought Marilla Penn's group would win in
France next election because this topic thought, Wow, okay, well
you do rep what you saw You're absolutely right. So
there's two topics there. Really, it's the whole unfettered immigration
of people who want you to go away, which is
an odd policy to have in any country. And two,
(14:18):
the how's the modern world gonna do with these car attacks?
How are you gonna You can't protect every crowded area
that exists. I mean, I could name off the top
of my head twenty that have no protection whatsoever. Yet.
I don't want to give anybody any ideas, but I
mean it'd be very difficult to do. Even more significantly
than that. I think the whole radical Islam versus the
(14:41):
West thing it took a nap. It's not over. It's
far from over. Well, And to that point, I didn't
get into the story. I saw the headline Israel is
considering significant strikes on Iranian nuclear sites this year. US
(15:02):
intelligence agencies warned that's a breaking news in the Wall
Street Journal. Why somebody leaked that? Why the US intelligence
agencies know what Israel's going to do and then we
leaked it in the United States? Is that an attempt
to get them to not do it? Is that to
warn a Ran? I'm not exactly sure that stuff can
get very complicated, But that's the story overnight. Two main possibilities.
(15:25):
It was, you know, the permanent bureaucracy in intelligence or
the State Department that leaked it to constrain Israel, like
you said, in a very Biden administration like act, or
deliberate leak from the Trump administration saying yeah, Israel is
just going to whack the hell out of you boys. Yeah,
so get to negotiating or something. Come correct. Exactly how
(15:47):
much time we got, Michael? About six months? How much
time we got? You know the way you eat? Yeah, acts,
I got a minute thirty. You look like you're harried.
Are you harried? What's the problem. Oh, we're just on
something here. Okay, first personal life or a radio show?
Oh my god, let them we're goodness on the air.
(16:08):
You made a flavorable I thought it might be a
personal life thing. You don't know, day before Valentine's Day
and say we don't have dinner reservations and he's on
the phone with his wife and you know, you know,
you never that can happen. Turns out that's not the case. Though,
I'm wearing horrible socks today and this is not making
my job easier. Somehow, I let the laundry get behind
and I went throw all my decent socks and that's
(16:30):
down to my Why do I even have them in
the drawer at the back of the drawer, incredibly uncomfortable?
What was I thinking when I bought them? What decade
did they come from? Socks? And I'm wearing them today
and they're just it's it's gonna affect my mood the
entire day. I think a lot of us do it.
We stick them in the back of the drawer as
if they're going to heal themselves or get better or something. Yeah,
or why would why would you get down to your
(16:51):
emergency socks before you do well, won't you just do
laundry before you get to your last beer? I don't know.
It's a a I've failed at living, is what I've done.
We've got mail bag on the way. How is that looking?
It's outstanding, full of revelations and insights, great freedom loving
quote of the day in just an insanely busy news day,
socks are like they're designed to be annoying, Like the
whole point was to make you unhappy all day long.
(17:13):
If you miss a segment of the show, get the
podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty. You know,
I don't want to talk about what Trump did every day,
but he does so much stuff. Surely it'll taper off
at something potentially huge significance. How do you not, I mean,
(17:34):
you made him our general manager today, disruptor in chief.
There's so much stuff around Taiwan and Russia and Israel,
not to mention the remaking of the federal government in
a bunch of different ways. So yeah, you gotta talk about
all that. The biggest rumor in the world, according to
Mark Calprin, that involves Greenland and China and Taiwan and
(17:55):
all kinds of stuff. I'll share that with you this
half hour because it's it's damned interesting. Oh there's a
lot to wrap your arms around there. Freedom, I mean
quoted the day, continuing on with old Abe Lincoln. His
birthday was yesterday. It used to be a holiday. I mean,
that's your trans day of visibility or whatever. Anyway, we
(18:15):
used to have holidays that meant something. We're just pandering
to special interest groups anyway. Lincoln known for his great
political speeches, but also it struck me and looking through
this list, some very ben Franklin like advice for living,
I mean a lot. Be sure you put your feet
in the right place, then stand firm, said Lincoln. That's
(18:37):
pretty good. No man has a good enough memory to
be a successful liar. That's another good one. Let's see,
h where's the other one that I really like? That
first one is a better written version of Is this
the Hill you Want to Die on? Yeah? Yeah. Character
is like a tree, and reputation like a shadow. The
(19:00):
shadow is what we think of it. The tree is
the real thing. And then finally, and this one will
either chill you to the bone, spur you to action,
or both. The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation
will be the philosophy of government in the next. That's
a Lincoln quote. Allegedly there's a guy who didn't go
(19:22):
to school. That's pretty interesting. Yeah, I'll have to research that.
I'm it doesn't aware recently the number of quotes it's
a little bit too good. Yes, yes, I would agree.
The number of quotes that are misattributed on the internet
is roughly seventy eight percent. You can quote me on that.
We're going or say Ben Franklin said, just in general,
(19:43):
we're going further down the road of the Internet being
practically worthless in terms of looking anything up. Yeah, and
some of them, some of the things I've come across
are kind of inexplicable too. A P. J. O'Rourke quote
attributed to Christopher Hitchens. Why why pt Work's a fine
guy to quote, very smart and a charming man. Quote
(20:06):
him instead of Hitchins. The idea is just as good.
Mailbag Woo. I can't believe they named those big luxury
cars after me, Abraham Lincoln, totally authentic. You can drop
us the note mail bag at Armstrong and Geddy dot com.
Where to send the Palestinians while rebuilding Gaza, writes Bill,
(20:29):
pull it DeSantis habit, ship them to Iran. They'd fit
right in. Furthermore, Iran's already funding and supporting them anyway,
so this would probably be more Doge, cost effective and
efficient for everyone. He says. Keep up the great work,
guys and crew. I say, keep up the great emails,
Bill from Kansas. That's clever, Speaking of which, called Trump
(20:50):
the shaker upper in Chief. What his absolutely nutty Gaza
Lago plan has shaken loose coming up? Stay with us Arizona,
Matt if they digitize the Oh, this is check describing
to us what Elon Musk was describing. I guess, yeah,
that's right. We played the Elon Musk audio describing how
(21:11):
there was a limit to the number of federal employees
that could retire at any given time. It's one thousand
a month because the way they file the retirement papers
is to take actual papers, put them in actual Manila envelopes,
carry them down a long elevator, down a mine shaft
into a mine and where is it, Arizona or Nevada
or something like that, put them in a cardboard box
for some reason, right, it like it's nineteen fifty three.
(21:34):
And as Elon pointed out, I guess if the elevator
breaks down, nobody can retire. It's just an hilariously antiquated system.
And my favorite quote from Elon on that was practically
anything would be better than this. Yeah, yeah, no kidding anyway, Arizona,
Matt says, hey, guys, if they digitize the retirement process,
the morlocks living in the mine will not have enough
(21:55):
to do and we'll start to terrorize the eloy living
in DC. Excellent HG reference. Why is it necessary to
have two pieces of ID to open a bank account,
by the way, Jack telling them they tried to open
a bank account for a child. The ridiculous Patriot Act
is so full of the government spying on us to
prevent another nine to eleven, some of which we thankfully
(22:16):
learned from Edward Snowden. We probably still wouldn't know about
it though he was a trader. Yeah, they just went way, way,
way overboard. I get that you disrupt terrorist networks by
following the money, but allow me to suggest that at
the point a thirteen year old boy can't have a
savings account opened in his name, you've gone too far.
When he's there with his parent, Yes, which I can
(22:37):
prove who I am. To the point of Arizona MAT's
note here, which I think is excellent. Why is it
necessary to have two pieces of ideed open a bank account?
Isn't that too burdensome? Burdensome against people of color? An
excellent point. No, ID needed to vote lots of places.
But my thirteen year old, who's with me and I've
had an account there for twenty five years, have to
(22:58):
have two pieces. You have two pieces ID, your thirteen
year old? Would you what the hell the one thing
you have to get used to in politics, especially, is
that people will make moral arguments with all the sincerity
of a of a dedicated preacher of the word. I
mean of all they will put on the cloak of
(23:19):
absolutely righteous kind humanity to make their arguments. They don't
mean a stinking word of it. They're using your goodness
against you making these arguments. Yeah, the combine they can't
ask for voter ideas. It's too burdensome for people of color. No,
that's a way to get fraudulent votes in and vote
harvest and the rest of it. That's it. And yes,
(23:40):
my complain is about a minor activity, hoping a savings
account fort a thirteen year old. But it just speaks
to the sort of bureaucracy thing that Elon's talking about,
just the thickening of all the crap that slows things down,
makes it more expensive, makes it burdensome, it's a federal
law whatever. Yeah, it's kind of a small thing. But
I'm ThReD percent confident that Soulzan Nitsen himself would say, no,
(24:03):
you're absolutely right to point out crap like that. That's
the snare that gets built around you. Let me see,
uh I will say. Harry in Portland says, let me
start by saying, your show is fantastic. Oh, that can
be the middle in the end too, if you want. Anyway,
your take on Putin was good on Thursday. That being
(24:24):
that Putin's Putin behaves entirely in Putin's self interest one
hundred percent of the time. There's nothing you can do
to sway, cajole, threaten him. He is a calculating alligator
of a human being. Anyway, he said, But I believe
Trump is walking softly and carrying a big stick, or
he's a narcissistic moron. I don't. I just didn't hear
(24:45):
the stick metaphor on the show. Keep entertaining my brain
and port not a. But we did take their nukes
and promise to defend them in ninety one, if I'm
not mistaken, NaNs wed that gets left out of the
the discussion. All the time Ukraine had nukes to protect themselves.
We said, now give them to us, we promise we'll
protect you. And we didn't give him to Russia. Really anyway,
(25:12):
I'm the lazy. We wanted all the Soviet nukes under
the same central control. The latest wrinkle that we need
to talk about with Russian Putin. Is Trump's saying he's
gonna go there and Putin might come here to the
White House. We're gonna have Vladimir Putin, one of the
most evil men on earth, a child killer, sitting with
the President. I don't know want to feel about that
(25:35):
that's gonna happen. I don't even like him saying it
out loud. I don't either. He is maneuvering in his
inimitable way. And Robert Rights just heart a clip of
Caroline Levitt, the new Press Secretary, have to say. It's
nice to hear someone who's every other word is not
m or KJP was so terrible. She was unqualified for
(25:56):
the job. But then I love this, signed loyal listener,
Rob though for today known as that Hispanic Asian adult
movie sensation Manuel Hung in the spirit of Elon Musk
Wow being Harry Bowles, Manuel Hung, beautiful, Robert proud of yourself.
(26:18):
I get it, Okay, you're ready for the biggest rumor
in the world. According to Mark Calprin, will it terrify me?
It's something, the biggest rumor in the world, persistent and
omnipresent in the sort of salons that Mark Alpern dips
into knowing all the players and everything is the talk
(26:41):
of a grand bargain between the United States and China
that involves reduced tariffs, US access to Greenland, China's peaceful
taking of Taiwan, and several provisions and players to be
named later. It seems implausible to many ears and eyes.
But the talk of the deal is every where right now,
(27:01):
writes Mark Alprin, who is of one of those three
team deals though where you know Cleveland for some reason
gets relief from their salary cap by taking some scrub right,
But why is one of the pieces China gets peaceful
access to Taiwan? And there's an article in the New
York Times today sort of speaking to that, not getting
(27:23):
as specific. Taiwan prepares for Trump's tariffs and a changed
Washington how they thought they were fully being supported by
the United States. In no way, China gets to take
over and now things look different. Wow, that is a
troubling rumor, I'd say, I can't imagine how that would
shake out. The New York Times article, with lots of
(27:47):
quotes from Donald Trump and his people, make it sound
like Trump's all about no, no no, no, Why is Taiwan
the leader making leader and making chips around the world
that we need. That's a ridiculous way to structure the world.
Those chips need to be made here. You need to
get those back over here. So that might be as
you want to be part of China, or you want
to give us the chips and then we'll protect it.
I don't know, I don't know what he's talking about.
(28:09):
Maybe this hearkens back to our conversation earlier about how
you don't get to make substitutions when you're dealing with
a human being. You can't say, can I have that
without onions? Please for your spouse for instance. They are
who they are within you know, reason, Trump being the
agitator in chief and not giving a damn about all
of the power structures of DC and how well, wait
(28:31):
a minute, these hundred thousand people will all have always
had their job. They're always have their job and their
pension and the rest of it, and they contribute to me,
so neither party can mess with them. Okay, okay, And
everybody agrees and goes about their business, and they waste
more and more of our money. Well, he's shaking stuff
up like that he's shaking up the Middle East with
his actually ridiculous idea of taking over Gausen turning it
(28:51):
into a resort. But again, I want to get to
what that's shaken loose down the line. At the same time,
I don't think he understands or cares about Chesterton's fence.
He thinks, no, we'll build a Trump fence. It'll be
better than Chesterton, whoever that was. And we will see
things shaken up that should not be shaken up. I
(29:14):
just hope it's not too many and too disastrously. What
he said about the Department of Education yesterday music to
my ears. We've got Katie's headlines on the way, lots
of stuff stay here. There are so many headlines around
the Elon Musk if you just like look at the
you know, we've got TV monitors and Twitter up and
all the different news sources and everything like that. Elon's
(29:35):
name gets mentioned more than Trump's. Now, I think wonder
at some point of Trump's gonna be wait a second,
eit a second. Elon can't be the most famous person
in the world. I'm the most famous person in the world.
Could happen? That could be the point of Rubb. I'm
just I'm just pleased that America's geopolitical adversaries, who are
evil and dangerous, have agreed to pause their evil doing
(29:56):
while we yell at each other over doge. Oh no,
that's right there, doing a pace, as they say, to
do their evil. I've got a great example of that.
Next hour. You need to wake up, friends, White wake up.
Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green, Katie from ABC News.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Hamas says it will release the hostages as planned on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In reference to what I just said, Andy McCarthy with
an absolutely devastating piece that should be read everywhere in
America came out a few weeks ago. The jihad against
Jews is war against the West. He explains exactly what
he means, and we will share that with you.
Speaker 4 (30:37):
Trump's call with Putin alarms Europe and Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah. I I'm disgusted by the even throwing it out
there as a possibility, the idea of Putin coming and
sitting in the White House and doing that whole thing
in the fireplace and like smiling and talking. I mean no,
Trump thinks he can work him. You guys, mentioned. Yeah,
go ahead, you guys.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Mentioned this from Breitbart dot com.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Trump calls for.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
Department of Education to be quote closed immediately.
Speaker 2 (31:11):
Yeah, we'll listen to Trump explain why.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
An hour two from the Free Beacon, Trump administration formerly
ends Biden's war on gas stoves.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Oh yeah, Oh so all those things that Trump has
done that because he has done so many things have
kind of gotten obscured. But the gas stoves thing. Bringing
back the regular light bulb water pressure rules that the
Biden with a stroke of the pen had forced down
everybody's throat. You know, that's what Trump's always talking about.
You can't get any water pressure out of your shower. Unfortunately,
(31:46):
for folks living in blue states, the various governors of
those states have become frantic like a gavenousom, for instance,
in Trump proofing California, or the city in Massachusetts trying
to become a trans sanctuary, and they're doubling and tripling
down on the madness. But at least it's your state deciding.
The founding fathers did not think the federal government should
(32:08):
be involved in how much water pressure you have in
your toilet or how you cook your food.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Good Lord, along those lines, from Fox News. EPA administrator
Zelden demand's return of twenty billion dollars in taxpayer money
wasted on climate agenda by Biden.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Oh I love this so much, me too. From NBC.
Speaker 4 (32:34):
Judge rules that Trump's sweeping plan to persuade federal workers
to resign can move forward.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Yeah. Oh interesting. Yeah, the some of the addition the
initial injunctions where they judge shop some Obama appointees left
to Trotsky and he rules against Trump for a week
and a half. It'll be fine. Let's just let the
fight begin. From ABC this week.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
Shares of Elon Musk's Tesla have fallen.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
Sharply, with the speculation that it is his vibe as
a guy who's trying to slash government and take over
the country. I'll never be able to sell my car.
It's probably worth half what it was when Trump got inaugurated.
I mean, it's amazing. And this also from this week
about Elon Musk. Elon Musk called Thursday to delete entire
(33:27):
agencies from the US federal government as part of a
push under Trump to upend the restructure and delete entire agencies.
So it's that sort of headline as leading to the
Tesla shares crashing, they think.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
From the New York Times. Google calendar deletes Women's History Month,
Black History Month, and Pride Month due.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
To DEI rollback. All right, there you go. We know
how that game works. Whatever what they've they've deleted them.
They're just good. They doing the thing where they take
out things that people weren't upset about to see, like
the government's forcing us to not even honor women anymore.
They're doing the all thing.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Eh from USA today, good enough to bathe in Papa
John's unveils garlic dipping sauce inspired.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Bath bomb, right, you know what. It's a desperate plead
to dupe people like you, Katie into giving them a
free commercial. Yes, like you just did. Although this one's
amusing enough, I will the judges will forbid it. I
can just see myself laying in the tomb and think,
(34:40):
what a little bit of this. I wonder what it
tastes like.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Oh gosh, this is repulsive.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (34:47):
Finally, the Babylon b Doge eliminates Congress after audit finds
it's completely useless and mostly for show boo.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, West Congress got like an eleven percent of brutal rating.
That's generous, you eleven percent. What are your standards. There's
a lot going on today, too much going on. Yeah,
I'm thinking mostly the geopolitical stuff, which could get ugly.
We'll talk more about that and a whole bunch of
other things. If you missed a segment, get the podcast
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