February 24, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- 5 reasons we should keep our jobs & JD Vance's message to young men
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- 3 year anniversary of the Russia Ukraine war
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Arm Strong and and He Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Everybody who works on the show, Michael, Katie Hansen, Joe
and I. By the end of the segment needless five
things we've done in the last week to justify our jobs.
The five things that we've accomplished in the last week
that can justified.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Our continuing bullets.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I picked up a watt in favorite tell in the
bathroom that I didn't need to, and I just thought
it'd look nicer without it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I watched a lot of television that seems like a
good idea live from studio.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
See other than that, nothing springs to mind season your
dimly lit room, blah blah blah blah. Today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager, Elon Musk, apparently for
better or worse. I was talking to some people who
actually work in the federal government who got that email
where you got to come up with five things to
justify your job, And some of them said it was
(01:50):
quite easy. And some of those who said it was
quite easy said they know those who it's a bit
of a struggle to come up with five things. They
have to get a little creative to come up with
five things that they actually do.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So it depends on who you are and what your
job is.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I guess this might be the absolute emblematic Trumpian move
or Muskian move. Who knows if Trump even knew Elon
was gonna send it out. Maybe not a good question,
but it's exactly It's the perfect symbol of the Trump
reality we're living in right now. In principle, I love
(02:25):
it as an idea, Hey, what do you actually accomplish?
What are you doing for your pay that's paid by
the American taxpayer. That is a one hundred percent legitimate inquiry.
It ought to be happening all the time, as it
does in the private sector all the damn time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And you know what, in about six months, we're gonna
ask you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Again and or just watch you and figure it out
for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
In principle, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
In reality, you got a bunch of Trump's own departments
saying what, no, don't do that, you don't have to
do that. What's good, it's it's flailing, it's print. Okay,
it's good in principle, but just too fast, too much,
too nutty. Why do you think those the departments reacted
that way, some of them, the FBI and others saying no, no, no, no, no,
(03:13):
you don't need to fill out that list. Why do
you think what was the going on there? Including some
of Trump's direct The point is it's uh well that
that mechanism doesn't exist, that you report to Elon Musk
on the internet or you get hired from your federal job.
I mean, I think federal employees in their unions have
(03:33):
weigh too many protections. Well they just I mean, if
Jeff Bezo says no, no, forget that, I want to
know how much you can lift, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Much waiting till you lift overread. I mean what then?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And then Bill Gates says, I need to know what
kind of car you drive by the end of the day,
right exactly, and what you're Well, they's just compiling information,
isn't he? And I don't so I responded to some
Democratic senator I'd never even heard of. It's funny how
there are only one hundred senators, but like most of well,
most people can't name one senator. And then people who
(04:10):
follow politics a lot can name like six, because it's
always the same six.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then but then there's a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Other senators like the pop up now, and then you
think you're a US senator I've never heard of again,
I don't recall it name anyway, some Democratic US senators.
She tweeted out, Elon Musk is not our boss and
we are not gonna blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I read I.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Retweeted that with the response to her. Yet, no, no,
Elon Musk is not. But US taxpayers are. And I
think a lot of US taxpayers are pretty interested in
what do all you people do? What did you do
last week? As a taxpayer, I'm interested, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree completely portraying, it is portraying. It is answering
to Elon Musk as opposed to answering to taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't think it's accurate. Although no, it is accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's one hundred percent accurate, and the other one's a
hundred for accurate too.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's the problem there is this is not a thing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is the kids say this is not He has no
power to compel anybody to do anything like that. Well,
I mean he can ask them to and that's fine,
there's no legal power.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like all the lawyers in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All the departments, including Trump appointees, are going to judges
and saying, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We don't. The judge says, what's what? What law are
you resting on?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And the lawyers are saying and this is literally literally,
and this is from a person who loathes progressives.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Keep in mind, I want Trump to succeed.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is why I criticize, not because I want him
to fail, because I want him to succeed his.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Own lawyers are going to the court and the judges.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Are saying, what laws are you guys, restaurant? And the
lawyers say, we don't really know, And then all right,
what sort of facts are you bringing to bear that
we don't know that either, I don't know. They just
sent us here to argue it. Well, it's flailing, is there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is there a way to do it that's not FLAILINGK
I mean, there's so many protections for everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Is the is the only alternative to this to just
let it continue the way it is?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh, you have the head some you have the heads
of departments who you appointed and are now managing within
the next few months or so, say hey, we could
absolutely afford a ten percent reduction in our workforce. Absolutely
there will be a hiring freeze. Anybody who resigns or retires,
we're not going to replace him. I was talking to
a federal armor You can everybody write an essay and
(06:30):
send it to deer Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
My name is Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I work in the Department of Agriculture, specifically in the
Sorghum division. What I do is I go to Sorgham
Farms and tell the farmer, Oh, come on, bye, chalk
this one out. Label this segment. Joe's for big government.
Apparently Joe's for a federal workers just wasting our tax
money him the way I'm taking it, I was talking
(06:56):
to a federal employee who their particular department. I have
lost a bunch of people last week. They were people
that were within that first couple of years where you
can still fire them, and they're gone, and everybody's horrified
at how they're going to get their jobs done with
less employees and being doing two people's jobs and all
that sort of stuff. And again I say, I mean,
(07:17):
it sucks for you, but again, welcome to everybody. Else's life.
My answer would be, how are you gonna get all
that work done? Let's find out exactly. Well, that's why
it's worked. I only know one industry, the radio industry,
for the past forty years of my life. But that
has happened around here over the last couple of decades.
We're just you know, Jim's gone. You have Jim's job.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now. I was busy before. How am I going to
do my job and Jim's done? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Figure it out. Has been the answer for people the
private sector for a long time, right right, Jack has
exclusively been in the radio business. I run a website,
an online shopping center for marital aids, and I can
tell you that that market is you've got to be very,
very efficient because you know, anybody can sell those things
(08:02):
and they're all more or less the same. So it's
all about, you know, keeping the costs low. Well, you've
got your only fans page. But you're self employed. You
work whatever hours you want to work. And that's one
of the exacts exactly. And who wouldn't like to lay
around pleasuring themselves all day for a living?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my god, Oh my god, I was you.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Know, it's funny, I got sucked into a little clickbait
if an only fans woman explaining her day, and she
was making a lot of money. She was making like
low mid six figures, three hundred and fifty grand something
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh is that possible.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I just don't understand how there's the demand for the supply.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But anyway, go on.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But to to get that, you've constantly got to post
new content. And whether you're actually m doing the on
camera work or the editing and marketing and social media
and stuff like that, it's it's it's a pretty good
work day.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But to spend one to four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Just probing yourself, et cetera, I just seems like an
odd way to live. Well, not specifically only fans, but
just any of those websites, anything online in general. That's
one of mister Beasts things he tells all the young people.
Don't think that this is something you can just do
kind of as a hobby. It I mean, it has
to dominate your life. You work constantly to be able.
(09:23):
The actual content is seriously the tip of an iceberg. Yeah,
and you want to provide it, and you have to
provide it constantly and as p Diddy would tell you
it's just tremendous amount of lubrication. So if you so, yes,
it's only fans women, justify your job. What are five
things you've accomplished in the last week? You'd say, Well,
I'm masturbated a thousand times. I bought some high heels. Uh,
(09:46):
let's see, I put this in my that and also
that over here. I went to a tanning bed, and
so let's easily easily justified. Way this is the worst
digression perhaps and they of the show history.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I blame myself. Well, you came out pro government. We
need to do. We have into the switching topic.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday,
February twenty fourth of the year twenty twenty five, or
Armstrong in getting we approve of this program right new week.
Let's start it here we go according to the FCC rules
and regulations. I want to see those FCC commissioners and
justify any paycheck they get.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Please, what do you people do? Anyway? Here we go
at Mark.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad
person because you're a man. Because you like to tell
a joke, because you like to have a beer with
your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the
cultural message, and I think the presidents in mine is
the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think
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that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female,
into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same,
and act the same.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We actually think.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
God made male and female for a purpose, and we
want you guys to thrive as.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Young men and as young women.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And we're gonna help with our public policy to make
it possible.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Jd Evans justifying toxic masculinity details to come in comparison
with the horrors that would have been visited upon our
fair country had the moron from California one the presidency.
I am so so happy with most what's happening. Like
I said before, I am criticizing some of the methodology
(11:37):
because I wanted to succeed, not because I wanted to fail.
Oh that reminds me, speaking of Kamala, we need to
introduce the elephant round into American politics like they do
in Germany. We need the elephant round the what now
that'd be awesome. We'll talk about that later. I just
learned about this yesterday with the German election. Maybe i'll
tell you about that next. The Elephant Round we should
we should start doing that, let's all vote for it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Among other things.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's the three year anniversary the start of that horrifying
war in.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Ukraine, which we'll be talking about that. Plus we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Katie's headlines coming up in moments stay here. So that's
a three year anniversary of the war and Ukraine beginning
with Vladimir Putin launching the most vile and evil war
from a major country since World War Two.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He started it there, let there be no question. And
it fits in with.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The German presidential elections I had over the weekend, certainly
played a role. And then we'll talk about what the
Elephant round is, which I just learned yesterday that they
have in their politics that we should have more. It
sounds like it's ready to start the next segment. One
more note on jd Vance's quote that we opened the
show with, and we'll get to a little more of
that down the line. But I was coming to my
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wife last night and a misogynist is the last thing
I am. I'm the proud dad of two wonderful, brave
daughters and you know, super proud of them and want
them to have great life.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Blah blah blah blah blah. End of the disclaimer.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
There's a new show on NBC, I can't remember one
of the big networks, the Pit or something. It's about
some super secret classified prison with the worst of the worst,
psychopathic terrorists to multiple murdering lunatics, and there's some big
prison break and who do they send to really bring
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them in, these violent, horrifying individuals, And it's gonna be
a bloodbath to get them. One hundred and ten pound
hotty woman, which is about as likely as a three
hundred and seventy pound white guy being an Olympic sprinter.
You might as well have a drama show about a
three hundred and seventy five pound white guy winning the
(13:43):
one hundred meter dash in the Olympics. It's utterly ridiculous,
but it's part of that whole bizarre, idiotic, unrealistic women
kick ass thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Sure they do, but not at that. Okay, we gotta
get to Katie's headlines.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Dewey Dewey, like Elon Musk handed out edicts right and laugh.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
It's Katie Green, starting with the Associated Press. Federal workers
face mass confusion as Musk's deadline to list accomplishment's looms.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I really, you know, I want government workers who aren't
needed to go.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But a little tip from old Jack, who's been shooting
for a bee his whole life and found workarounds for
a lot of things. I have a feeling that if
you put down practically anything on a piece of paper,
he'll be okay. I just don't think there's gonna be
room or time or money for scrutiny to like really
nail down. Are you sure you had an appointment at
three o'clock last Thursday. It reminds me of what I
(14:48):
was told about, Like the steroid tests in baseball. It's
not a steroid test, it's an intelligence test. If you're
not smart enough to get around it, you don't deserve
to play well. I think that was part of it.
Elon said. But if you don't want to do that,
then feel free to resign. I think it might be
a if you're not even willing to try to justify
your job get I think that might be part of it.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And in the same vein from the Washington Post, several
administration officials tell their workers not to reply to Elon
Musk's email.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, could this be the beginning of the Trump Musk
feud that everybody anticipates at some point, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
From the Wall Street Journal, HESBLA once dominant and Lebanon
shows new signs of weakness.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
They're broke.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
The hohothis fired it on one of our fighter jets
over the weekend. First time they've done that. So that
was that was exciting. National Review Editorial Board says it's
time to unleash Hell. I agree completely.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
From Axios, Zelenski says he's ready to resign if it
brings peace to Ukraine or if Ukraine can join NATO.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Yeah, we got a lot on Ukraine later on the
three year anniversary.
Speaker 5 (15:58):
Today it's week Donald Trump celebrates Joy reid cancelation quote
least talented people.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Joy Reid's show is going away on a MNSNBC. You
probably don't know who she was, and you never watched it,
but she was horrible and she's gone. I wonder if
they canceled it because it's a steaming pilot craft.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Nobody watched. That's my theory.
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Speaker 5 (16:46):
The Babylon Bee paternity test reveals Luke Skywalker's father is
actually Elon.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Musk Oh, we gotta talk about that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
How about that chick who roped him into having a
baby with her and her texts came out over the weekend,
and that's really an interesting story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Just saw the headline don't know the deats.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, that's a good one and oh yeah, we'll talk
about it more later. So what's the elephant round in
politics in Germany? We need to start having out in
the United States, among other things.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There's lots to.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Talk about today. We got to catch up from the
whole weekend. Have you missed a segment? Get the podcast
Armstrong and Getty on demand.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Armstrong and Getty. Russian launching its biggest ever drone strike
on Ukraine. The capital city of Kiev under attack.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Ukraine has weathered assaults like these every single day for
almost three years. Yeah, it's a three year anniversary of
the bombs beginning to fall and Russia invading Ukraine completely
unjustifiedly in every way possible and killing hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of people, if you include their own soldiers,
(17:52):
and it's just absolutely awful. And so we'll be talking
more about that later and play some sound from what
it sounded like three years ago today, when the whole
thing's started. This is from the Wall Street Journal today,
which is interesting. President McCrone is at the White House
meeting with Trump today. The Macrone the leader of France,
and the Wall Street Journal writing Britain and France are
developing a plan to deploy up to thirty thousand European
(18:15):
peace coup keepers call them troops. They're troops in Ukraine
if Moscow and Kiev reach a cease fire deal. But
the European proposal hinges on persuading President Trump to agree
to a limited US military role, which he and Hegzad
have said is off the table, dubbing that a backstop
by British officials to protect the European troops in Ukraine
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if they were put in danger and deter Russia violating
an e c's fire, I think more than the or
along with the idea that our troops would be very
helpful if Russia who were attacked to the European troops,
it would be okay, it's on now. The United States
is now, you know, in a war with Russian, right,
we'll be okay. I don't I don't see Trump and
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hexetha green.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Do you about.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Establishing the air defense system with our technology and consultants,
training personnel, and that's it, something like that, some half measure,
no fly zone enforcement, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, we'll see where these negotiations go.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I thought it was interesting Zelensky saying over the weekend
that he'd be he'd be happy to step down if
if that somehow gets us closer to a peace deal.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Very bad at being a dictator, terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I guess that's the reason you say that, to
make it clear for anybody who wasn't sure that he's
not a dictator.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
The dictator is Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Anyway, Again, like I said, what, we'll have more on
the whole Russia Ukraine thing later. So I'm this is
a complicated thing that's going on, and some of it
is important.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
About the tone, I guess, or however far it goes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So all this Jdvans goes to Europe and gives that
speech about you know, some of our European friends and
they got problems within and their free speech stuff and
this and that, and they need to step up and
support themselves and everything like that. So Germany has their
election over the weekend and the Conservatives win and this
new guy, Fred Mertz, if you're old enough to remember
(20:13):
the Honeymooners, Fred Mertz is now going to be the
leader of Germany.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
By the way, I'll just step in right here. I'm
gonna step.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
In right here so we don't get eight hundred more
emails because I said the same thing. Fred Mertz was
the neighbor on I love Lucy, not the Honeymooners.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't care. I just don't want to get any
more email. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was thinking, Okay, cool, is Joe's going to jump
in with something important that I need to know about
the whole European, NATO, us UK.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
No, it was which show is fred Mertz on? That's Katie.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I'm really happy that Joe is doing this because they
tracked me down on Twitter to let me know to
let you know.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now you're a young person, have you ever seen any
of these?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You have?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Okay, yes, I never know what people have seen. Reruns
are not all the Honeymooners are. It's like twenty five
years before I was born. I was We saw them
back when there are only a couple of channels and
they ran, and now there's eight gazillion things you could
watch every single day.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I have no idea age of every runs. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah, for.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The record, I couldn't give a crap if that was
the professor's real name on Gilligan's Island. But I just
want to just stop getting the emails. So there we were,
There we are? Where were we? Attack by the true dictator?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah? So Fred Mertz is gonna run.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He's the leader of the moderately conservative party that kicked
out the old lefty party there in Germany. And he
gave a speech yesterday and the ultra Conservatives had their
biggest showing they've ever had, a lot of it around
immigration and a bunch of other stuff. But so this
new guy, Fred Mertz, he gives a speech in the
Elephant Round, which we need to start having here in
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the United.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
States, there is it's begun.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
At the end of an election, they have what they
called the Elephant round, and they bring in everybody who
was running into one room and they sit at a
table and they discuss the issues and how I can't
imagine that happening in the United States. I mean in
the United States, it would just be probably two people,
maybe three or four if you're gonna be a really
general just before election day. No, at the end of
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the election, after you've picked the winner. They did it
last night, So after fred Mertz is declared you know
he's going to be the winner, they all sit down
and it's a big TV show that everybody watches, with
everybody ran, you know, say in all their crap that
you say in elections, and then sitting down and have
a conversation about where do we go from here? And
I find that fascinating. I don't know what that would
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look like in the United States. I don't know what
German elections are like. Do they do? They are there
elections like ours where people say all kinds of wild
crazy s that can't come ever, ever come true, and
you know, and then say that if that person wins,
it's the end of democracy and then abandon that the
moment the election is over.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean, so, I don't know what it would look like.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm not an expert on German elections, but they're exceedingly
polite and gentle menly by our standards, very issues orient
they should be compared to ours. But anyway, during the
elephant round, this new guy, fred Mertz, who's running the thing, said,
my goal is to make us as independent and Europe
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is independent from the United States as we can possibly be.
We need to be able to stand on our own.
We can't count on the United States anymore. So it's
being portrayed by you know, Trump haters as Look, Europe
can't count on us, our best allies, can't count on
us anymore. Whereas I'm hoping for more of a nuanced
they're getting the lesson that they.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Need to be able to support themselves.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It can't be the United States supplying their defense forever
it doesn't work. Yeah, this is a great example of
both things being true. Has Trump pissed off and shaken
up our European allies maybe more than he needed to, Yeah,
you could absolutely make that our On the other hand,
if fred Mertz with the support of both Lucy and
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DESI were to beef up their defenses, start living up
to their obligations, and be strong enough to be fairly
independent from the United States, that would make them an
ally worth having. I don't think it's that complicated a reality.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We mentioned this last week.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You mentioned it. Let me read from it. This is
from the New York Times in twenty eleven. You might
remember from the date that Barack Obama was the President
of the United States, and his Secretary of Defense is who.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We're quoting here.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Defense Secretary Robert Gates sharply criticized NATO nations on Friday
forty said were shortages of military spending and political will,
warning of a dim, if not dismal future and irrelevance
for the Alliance and less more core members contributed weapons,
money in personnel. In his final policy speech before he
stepped down again, this is Obama's sect death issued a
(25:01):
dire and unusually direct warning that the United States, a
traditional leader and patron of the Alliance, was exhausted by
a decade of war and its own mounting budget deficits,
and simply might not see NATO as.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A group we need to be involved with in the future.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So that happened in Obama because it's freaking true. It's
just absolutely true. So the whole our allies can't count
on us anymore. Okay, this has been going on for
a while giving that message. First of all, unfortunate flashbacks
to my high school garden guidance counselor when you said
a dim if not dismal future.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That was such an uncomfortable meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So like every report card I ever got had that
scrawled at the bottom, Jack as a dim if not
dismal future unless he buckles down.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's funny anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's you know, it reminds me the press's relationship with
Trump is. It's so I mean, it's become so obvious
at this point it's a little try to even talk
about it. Not only is he their ratings promotion and
their desperate click bait fodder.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But the relationship is a great deal.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Like you know, if you have a really crumbling relationship,
personal relationship where you just criticize the other, you find
fault with the other person for everything they do, even
if it's the same things you do, the same things
you did two weeks ago, it's just completely nonsense.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And Trump is a bull in a china shop. Absolutely,
he antagonizes where he doesn't need to, but to get
to the core demand, which is what is important. Yeah,
it's exactly like Obama and his people. But you saying, now, okay,
that's fine, you know, you can say whatever you want.
But is it possible, oh, thank you? What is this
Germany if even has three speech but we will tell
(26:46):
you what free spece?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Is it possible to pull ourselves away from.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
News story and then defending or criticizing Trump. Is it
possible to leave Trump out of this and just discuss
the fact that Europe needs to get stronger and be
more military capable, militarily capable, and be able to defend
itself and not think, you know, we can spend all
our money on ridiculous social programs and people retiring at
(27:12):
fifty because the United States will come if we're ever
invaded by Russia.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That's got to end.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Were it only Germany that would be a worthy discussion,
it's also France and Britain. Does Spain even have a gun?
I mean, just all the European countries except for maybe
Sweden and Finland that are pretty hard asked and increasingly
so because they're so close to Vladimir Putin's expansionist Tsarist Russia.
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
My birthday weekend. It's just no know what's going on there.
Part of my brain broke. I love tacos. I apparently
love chicken fish steak. I apparently love gluttony.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Just a minute, it might be a glutton I gotta
look up the definition of glutton I might actually be
should you should take a look at the mirror, if
you got a big enough mirror. I want the mirror
they have in nice hotels that slim you so you
look nicer.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I need the slimming mirrors. That's what I need.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We've got mail bag on the way and and a
lot more news of the day.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Here's our text line four.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Definition of gluttony, according to my Merriam Webster, excess in
eating or drinking, greedy or excessive indulgence in uh taking
in food. Sounds like that, sounds like me, apparently, I
am that uh. Trump got into a war awards with
(30:00):
some governors over the weekend around the whole transathlete thing,
and the New York Times out with some new polling
on that how Americans feel about that issue. He's so
on the right side of this. I mean, it's not
even close. But we'll get to that an how or two.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Can't wait. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,
the Great George.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Washington with Jack requested last week, So let's do a
week of great George Washington quotes.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
My favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb
and silent, we may be led.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Like sheep to the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I mentioned to a guy over the weekend Iminette's clothing store,
and I said, it's my birthday today. So he said, oh,
happy birthday. My birthday's tomorrow and I said, oh, cool,
your birthday's Washington's birthday. He said, yeah, yeah, he said.
You know. I say that to people, and people most
of the time say who I thought, really, WHOA?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Really? Whoa? If you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Deny people their history, they forget who they are and
hurry easily molded into what you want them to be,
or well spelled it out fairly eloquently in.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
A couple of books. Mail bag.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What the progressives who are trying to get confused adolescent
boys into girls' sports are the same people who refuse
to teach about the great George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, that
sort of thing. They're denying us our history. It is
Marxism one one boi. Anyway, let's see Fred Merz was
(31:28):
on I Love Lucy not the Honeymooners who we covered that.
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. We should probably mention that once
a segment so people listening to the podcasts will stop bleading.
We've emails Glad we've cleared up the issue of the day. Yeah,
absolutely the issue that's been tearing America. Part Happy Birthday,
Jack writes Frequent, corresponding to MONI, I think you said
(31:50):
you're gonna have some time to yourself. Hope was nice
and relaxing. Perhaps you even lifted your baked good band
for the day and were able to down a couple
of pies just because you have a general band. In effect,
doesn't mean you can't have a couple of pie windows
that open up each year. Pie windows. That's when I
need a Pye window. Don't allow mission creep around those
pie windows. I did need to talk about what I
(32:10):
did on my birthday and how you hold on to
that feeling. I think we've all experienced this before. But anyway,
stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Uh yeah, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
How about French camp Pat on the topic of sixty Minutes.
It's funny Pat, you had and a similar experience to
me last night. Guys have had some reservations regarding some
of the Trump administration's actions the j six pardons, tariffs,
Doge and others, But after watching sixty Minutes the last
two weeks and their aggressive, unfair criticism of Trump, I'm
confident Trump is doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh my god, yes, wow, that is is there.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Have we come up with a term for that if
we If we have it, don't recall essentially the obnoxiousness
of the media and many Democrats, which we'll get into,
you know soon during the show, just drives you into
the Trump camp.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, like, yeah, he can be a real a hole.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But I tell you who, I'm not ever going to
join forces with you lunatics.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Moving along, Paolo.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think there are two categories of DEI supporters, those
who believe racism is justified and those who sincerely believe
that racism has no part of DEI programs. The first
group are just racists. I think they're often disingenuous. They
don't admit racism. They try to justify it, probably because
they know it's steep hill to climb. Indeed, they generally
deny it. They cannot be persuaded to modify their beliefs
(33:33):
or even discuss them in good faith.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, they're activists, neo Marxist activists. The second group is
either uninformed or naive, or they've been gaslated by the
first group. This group will listen to reason, they can
be one over. But how let's hope the second group
is larger than the first.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Multiple times over the weekend with Trump firing that black
chairman of the joint whatever over there again. We'll talk
about that later, But several times over the weekend I
heard news outlets report DEI as an effort to have
more diversity in our workplaces.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Right, that's the cover story.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, that's the insidiously clever cover story because they know
they exploit our goodness. They know Americans aren't racists, and
they say, you gotta be down with this, or you're
a racist. And people who are busy or dopey or
gaslighted or whoever, they say, oh, well, I'm not a racist,
so I guess yeah, I've got to be down with this. No, no, no,
(34:28):
it's a lie. Rob in beautiful El Dorado County. In
County unic Corneer writes, guys, the LA mayor blames the
fire chief and fires her for not calling in reserve
personnel and not telling the mayor to not go on
her trip to Africa. Bet the mayor would have blown
her top if somebody would try to tell her what
to do. So the real people who were to blame her,
the voters who elected the mayor and the city council
(34:50):
who hired the fire chief. Elections do matter who'd she fire.
Karen Bass fired the lady fire chief Friday afternoon Friday evening.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Funny coincidence, just when it would get no news coverage.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I was in LA on Friday, but I wasn't paying
attention to the news because the fire chief has been
saying no everything the mayor is saying, is lie about
our preparation or budget, et cetera. Yeah, Karen bass is
an evil person. She's a bad person. She's a union
hack who lives only to hand out money to her cronies.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Wake up, figure that out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And or be willing to say to your public employee
union friends, Hey, you know the people that y'all get
elected over and over again are ruining our state Illinois.
Get the memo Massachusetts, New York, same memo.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That is absolutely unbelievable. I wanted to get to this.
How much time do we have? Michael likes seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Occasionally, somebody, when they're writing about NATO says, the US
overthrew a freely elected government to get Zelenski elected. Roshenko
government was a puppet of Moscow. Their election was as
legitimate as putins are. If you're walking around saying Porishenko
was freely elected, you have swallowed awful, dishonest Kremlin talking place.
(36:14):
You need to take a look at yourself. Why would
the Poroshenko was a crook? New York Times, New polling
on the whole Transaffu issue. I think you'll like this,
among other things on the way. If you miss a
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Arm Strong and and He Armstrong and.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Everybody who works on the show, Michael, Katie Hansen, Joe
and I. By the end of the segment needless five
things we've done in the last week to justify our jobs.
The five things that we've accomplished in the last week
that can justified.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Our continuing bullets.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I picked up a watt in favorite tell in the
bathroom that I didn't need to, and I just thought
it'd look nicer without it.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I watched a lot of television that seems like a
good idea live from studio.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
See other than that, nothing springs to mind season your
dimly lit room, blah blah blah blah. Today we're under
the tutelage of our general manager, Elon Musk, apparently for
better or worse. I was talking to some people who
actually work in the federal government who got that email
where you got to come up with five things to
justify your job, And some of them said it was
(01:50):
quite easy. And some of those who said it was
quite easy said they know those who it's a bit
of a struggle to come up with five things. They
have to get a little creative to come up with
five things that they actually do.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
So it depends on who you are and what your
job is.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
I guess this might be the absolute emblematic Trumpian move
or Muskian move. Who knows if Trump even knew Elon
was gonna send it out. Maybe not a good question,
but it's exactly It's the perfect symbol of the Trump
reality we're living in right now. In principle, I love
(02:25):
it as an idea, Hey, what do you actually accomplish?
What are you doing for your pay that's paid by
the American taxpayer. That is a one hundred percent legitimate inquiry.
It ought to be happening all the time, as it
does in the private sector all the damn time.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And you know what, in about six months, we're gonna
ask you.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Again and or just watch you and figure it out
for ourselves.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
In principle, beautiful.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
In reality, you got a bunch of Trump's own departments
saying what, no, don't do that, you don't have to
do that. What's good, it's it's flailing, it's print. Okay,
it's good in principle, but just too fast, too much,
too nutty. Why do you think those the departments reacted
that way, some of them, the FBI and others saying no, no, no, no, no,
(03:13):
you don't need to fill out that list. Why do
you think what was the going on there? Including some
of Trump's direct The point is it's uh well that
that mechanism doesn't exist, that you report to Elon Musk
on the internet or you get hired from your federal job.
I mean, I think federal employees in their unions have
(03:33):
weigh too many protections. Well they just I mean, if
Jeff Bezo says no, no, forget that, I want to
know how much you can lift, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Much waiting till you lift overread. I mean what then?
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And then Bill Gates says, I need to know what
kind of car you drive by the end of the day,
right exactly, and what you're Well, they's just compiling information,
isn't he? And I don't so I responded to some
Democratic senator I'd never even heard of. It's funny how
there are only one hundred senators, but like most of well,
most people can't name one senator. And then people who
(04:10):
follow politics a lot can name like six, because it's
always the same six.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
And then but then there's a whole bunch of.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Other senators like the pop up now, and then you
think you're a US senator I've never heard of again,
I don't recall it name anyway, some Democratic US senators.
She tweeted out, Elon Musk is not our boss and
we are not gonna blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I read I.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Retweeted that with the response to her. Yet, no, no,
Elon Musk is not. But US taxpayers are. And I
think a lot of US taxpayers are pretty interested in
what do all you people do? What did you do
last week? As a taxpayer, I'm interested, right, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I agree completely portraying, it is portraying. It is answering
to Elon Musk as opposed to answering to taxpayers.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
I don't think it's accurate. Although no, it is accurate.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's one hundred percent accurate, and the other one's a
hundred for accurate too.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's the problem there is this is not a thing.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Is the kids say this is not He has no
power to compel anybody to do anything like that. Well,
I mean he can ask them to and that's fine,
there's no legal power.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Like all the lawyers in.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
All the departments, including Trump appointees, are going to judges
and saying, we don't know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
We don't. The judge says, what's what? What law are
you resting on?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
And the lawyers are saying and this is literally literally,
and this is from a person who loathes progressives.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Keep in mind, I want Trump to succeed.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This is why I criticize, not because I want him
to fail, because I want him to succeed his.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Own lawyers are going to the court and the judges.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Are saying, what laws are you guys, restaurant? And the
lawyers say, we don't really know, And then all right,
what sort of facts are you bringing to bear that
we don't know that either, I don't know. They just
sent us here to argue it. Well, it's flailing, is there?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Well?
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Is there a way to do it that's not FLAILINGK
I mean, there's so many protections for everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Is the is the only alternative to this to just
let it continue the way it is?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Oh, you have the head some you have the heads
of departments who you appointed and are now managing within
the next few months or so, say hey, we could
absolutely afford a ten percent reduction in our workforce. Absolutely
there will be a hiring freeze. Anybody who resigns or retires,
we're not going to replace him. I was talking to
a federal armor You can everybody write an essay and
(06:30):
send it to deer Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
My name is Jim.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I work in the Department of Agriculture, specifically in the
Sorghum division. What I do is I go to Sorgham
Farms and tell the farmer, Oh, come on, bye, chalk
this one out. Label this segment. Joe's for big government.
Apparently Joe's for a federal workers just wasting our tax
money him the way I'm taking it, I was talking
(06:56):
to a federal employee who their particular department. I have
lost a bunch of people last week. They were people
that were within that first couple of years where you
can still fire them, and they're gone, and everybody's horrified
at how they're going to get their jobs done with
less employees and being doing two people's jobs and all
that sort of stuff. And again I say, I mean,
(07:17):
it sucks for you, but again, welcome to everybody. Else's life.
My answer would be, how are you gonna get all
that work done? Let's find out exactly. Well, that's why
it's worked. I only know one industry, the radio industry,
for the past forty years of my life. But that
has happened around here over the last couple of decades.
We're just you know, Jim's gone. You have Jim's job.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Now. I was busy before. How am I going to
do my job and Jim's done? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Figure it out. Has been the answer for people the
private sector for a long time, right right, Jack has
exclusively been in the radio business. I run a website,
an online shopping center for marital aids, and I can
tell you that that market is you've got to be very,
very efficient because you know, anybody can sell those things
(08:02):
and they're all more or less the same. So it's
all about, you know, keeping the costs low. Well, you've
got your only fans page. But you're self employed. You
work whatever hours you want to work. And that's one
of the exacts exactly. And who wouldn't like to lay
around pleasuring themselves all day for a living?
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my god, Oh my god, I was you.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Know, it's funny, I got sucked into a little clickbait
if an only fans woman explaining her day, and she
was making a lot of money. She was making like
low mid six figures, three hundred and fifty grand something
like that.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Oh is that possible.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I just don't understand how there's the demand for the supply.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
But anyway, go on.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
But to to get that, you've constantly got to post
new content. And whether you're actually m doing the on
camera work or the editing and marketing and social media
and stuff like that, it's it's it's a pretty good
work day.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
But to spend one to four hours a day.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Just probing yourself, et cetera, I just seems like an
odd way to live. Well, not specifically only fans, but
just any of those websites, anything online in general. That's
one of mister Beasts things he tells all the young people.
Don't think that this is something you can just do
kind of as a hobby. It I mean, it has
to dominate your life. You work constantly to be able.
(09:23):
The actual content is seriously the tip of an iceberg. Yeah,
and you want to provide it, and you have to
provide it constantly and as p Diddy would tell you
it's just tremendous amount of lubrication. So if you so, yes,
it's only fans women, justify your job. What are five
things you've accomplished in the last week? You'd say, Well,
I'm masturbated a thousand times. I bought some high heels. Uh,
(09:46):
let's see, I put this in my that and also
that over here. I went to a tanning bed, and
so let's easily easily justified. Way this is the worst
digression perhaps and they of the show history.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
I blame myself. Well, you came out pro government. We
need to do. We have into the switching topic.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Monday,
February twenty fourth of the year twenty twenty five, or
Armstrong in getting we approve of this program right new week.
Let's start it here we go according to the FCC rules
and regulations. I want to see those FCC commissioners and
justify any paycheck they get.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Please, what do you people do? Anyway? Here we go
at Mark.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
My message to young men is, don't allow this broken
culture to send you a message that you're a bad
person because you're a man. Because you like to tell
a joke, because you like to have a beer with
your friends, or because you're competitive. O. Our message, the
cultural message, and I think the presidents in mine is
the exact opposite. But our cultural message is I think
(10:48):
that it wants to turn everybody into whether male or female,
into androgynous idiots who think the same, talk the same,
and act the same.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
We actually think.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
God made male and female for a purpose, and we
want you guys to thrive as.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Young men and as young women.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And we're gonna help with our public policy to make
it possible.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
To do that.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Love it.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Jd Evans justifying toxic masculinity details to come in comparison
with the horrors that would have been visited upon our
fair country had the moron from California one the presidency.
I am so so happy with most what's happening. Like
I said before, I am criticizing some of the methodology
(11:37):
because I wanted to succeed, not because I wanted to fail.
Oh that reminds me, speaking of Kamala, we need to
introduce the elephant round into American politics like they do
in Germany. We need the elephant round the what now
that'd be awesome. We'll talk about that later. I just
learned about this yesterday with the German election. Maybe i'll
tell you about that next. The Elephant Round we should
we should start doing that, let's all vote for it.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
Among other things.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
It's the three year anniversary the start of that horrifying
war in.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Ukraine, which we'll be talking about that. Plus we've got.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Katie's headlines coming up in moments stay here. So that's
a three year anniversary of the war and Ukraine beginning
with Vladimir Putin launching the most vile and evil war
from a major country since World War Two.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
He started it there, let there be no question. And
it fits in with.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The German presidential elections I had over the weekend, certainly
played a role. And then we'll talk about what the
Elephant round is, which I just learned yesterday that they
have in their politics that we should have more. It
sounds like it's ready to start the next segment. One
more note on jd Vance's quote that we opened the
show with, and we'll get to a little more of
that down the line. But I was coming to my
(12:52):
wife last night and a misogynist is the last thing
I am. I'm the proud dad of two wonderful, brave
daughters and you know, super proud of them and want
them to have great life.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Blah blah blah blah blah. End of the disclaimer.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
There's a new show on NBC, I can't remember one
of the big networks, the Pit or something. It's about
some super secret classified prison with the worst of the worst,
psychopathic terrorists to multiple murdering lunatics, and there's some big
prison break and who do they send to really bring
(13:23):
them in, these violent, horrifying individuals, And it's gonna be
a bloodbath to get them. One hundred and ten pound
hotty woman, which is about as likely as a three
hundred and seventy pound white guy being an Olympic sprinter.
You might as well have a drama show about a
three hundred and seventy five pound white guy winning the
(13:43):
one hundred meter dash in the Olympics. It's utterly ridiculous,
but it's part of that whole bizarre, idiotic, unrealistic women
kick ass thing.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Sure they do, but not at that. Okay, we gotta
get to Katie's headlines.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Dewey Dewey, like Elon Musk handed out edicts right and laugh.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
All right, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story.
Speaker 5 (14:08):
It's Katie Green, starting with the Associated Press. Federal workers
face mass confusion as Musk's deadline to list accomplishment's looms.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I really, you know, I want government workers who aren't
needed to go.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
But a little tip from old Jack, who's been shooting
for a bee his whole life and found workarounds for
a lot of things. I have a feeling that if
you put down practically anything on a piece of paper,
he'll be okay. I just don't think there's gonna be
room or time or money for scrutiny to like really
nail down. Are you sure you had an appointment at
three o'clock last Thursday. It reminds me of what I
(14:48):
was told about, Like the steroid tests in baseball. It's
not a steroid test, it's an intelligence test. If you're
not smart enough to get around it, you don't deserve
to play well. I think that was part of it.
Elon said. But if you don't want to do that,
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And in the same vein from the Washington Post, several
administration officials tell their workers not to reply to Elon
Musk's email.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Yeah, could this be the beginning of the Trump Musk
feud that everybody anticipates at some point, I don't know.
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The hohothis fired it on one of our fighter jets
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was that was exciting. National Review Editorial Board says it's
time to unleash Hell. I agree completely.
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From Axios, Zelenski says he's ready to resign if it
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Yeah, we got a lot on Ukraine later on the
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The Babylon Bee paternity test reveals Luke Skywalker's father is
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Musk Oh, we gotta talk about that.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
How about that chick who roped him into having a
baby with her and her texts came out over the weekend,
and that's really an interesting story.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Just saw the headline don't know the deats.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
Yeah, that's a good one and oh yeah, we'll talk
about it more later. So what's the elephant round in
politics in Germany? We need to start having out in
the United States, among other things.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
There's lots to.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Talk about today. We got to catch up from the
whole weekend. Have you missed a segment? Get the podcast
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Armstrong and Getty. Russian launching its biggest ever drone strike
on Ukraine. The capital city of Kiev under attack.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Ukraine has weathered assaults like these every single day for
almost three years. Yeah, it's a three year anniversary of
the bombs beginning to fall and Russia invading Ukraine completely
unjustifiedly in every way possible and killing hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of people, if you include their own soldiers,
(17:52):
and it's just absolutely awful. And so we'll be talking
more about that later and play some sound from what
it sounded like three years ago today, when the whole
thing's started. This is from the Wall Street Journal today,
which is interesting. President McCrone is at the White House
meeting with Trump today. The Macrone the leader of France,
and the Wall Street Journal writing Britain and France are
developing a plan to deploy up to thirty thousand European
(18:15):
peace coup keepers call them troops. They're troops in Ukraine
if Moscow and Kiev reach a cease fire deal. But
the European proposal hinges on persuading President Trump to agree
to a limited US military role, which he and Hegzad
have said is off the table, dubbing that a backstop
by British officials to protect the European troops in Ukraine
(18:36):
if they were put in danger and deter Russia violating
an e c's fire, I think more than the or
along with the idea that our troops would be very
helpful if Russia who were attacked to the European troops,
it would be okay, it's on now. The United States
is now, you know, in a war with Russian, right,
we'll be okay. I don't I don't see Trump and
(18:59):
hexetha green.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Do you about.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Establishing the air defense system with our technology and consultants,
training personnel, and that's it, something like that, some half measure,
no fly zone enforcement, blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, we'll see where these negotiations go.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
I thought it was interesting Zelensky saying over the weekend
that he'd be he'd be happy to step down if
if that somehow gets us closer to a peace deal.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Very bad at being a dictator, terrible.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Yeah, I guess that's the reason you say that, to
make it clear for anybody who wasn't sure that he's
not a dictator.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
The dictator is Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
Anyway, Again, like I said, what, we'll have more on
the whole Russia Ukraine thing later. So I'm this is
a complicated thing that's going on, and some of it
is important.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
About the tone, I guess, or however far it goes.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
So all this Jdvans goes to Europe and gives that
speech about you know, some of our European friends and
they got problems within and their free speech stuff and
this and that, and they need to step up and
support themselves and everything like that. So Germany has their
election over the weekend and the Conservatives win and this
new guy, Fred Mertz, if you're old enough to remember
(20:13):
the Honeymooners, Fred Mertz is now going to be the
leader of Germany.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
By the way, I'll just step in right here. I'm
gonna step.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
In right here so we don't get eight hundred more
emails because I said the same thing. Fred Mertz was
the neighbor on I love Lucy, not the Honeymooners.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
I don't care. I just don't want to get any
more email. You know, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
I was thinking, Okay, cool, is Joe's going to jump
in with something important that I need to know about
the whole European, NATO, us UK.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
No, it was which show is fred Mertz on? That's Katie.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
I'm really happy that Joe is doing this because they
tracked me down on Twitter to let me know to
let you know.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
Now you're a young person, have you ever seen any
of these?
Speaker 5 (21:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:01):
You have?
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Okay, yes, I never know what people have seen. Reruns
are not all the Honeymooners are. It's like twenty five
years before I was born. I was We saw them
back when there are only a couple of channels and
they ran, and now there's eight gazillion things you could
watch every single day.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I have no idea age of every runs. Don't worry. Yeah, yeah, for.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
The record, I couldn't give a crap if that was
the professor's real name on Gilligan's Island. But I just
want to just stop getting the emails. So there we were,
There we are? Where were we? Attack by the true dictator?
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Yeah? So Fred Mertz is gonna run.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
He's the leader of the moderately conservative party that kicked
out the old lefty party there in Germany. And he
gave a speech yesterday and the ultra Conservatives had their
biggest showing they've ever had, a lot of it around
immigration and a bunch of other stuff. But so this
new guy, Fred Mertz, he gives a speech in the
Elephant Round, which we need to start having here in
(21:54):
the United.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
States, there is it's begun.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
At the end of an election, they have what they
called the Elephant round, and they bring in everybody who
was running into one room and they sit at a
table and they discuss the issues and how I can't
imagine that happening in the United States. I mean in
the United States, it would just be probably two people,
maybe three or four if you're gonna be a really
general just before election day. No, at the end of
(22:19):
the election, after you've picked the winner. They did it
last night, So after fred Mertz is declared you know
he's going to be the winner, they all sit down
and it's a big TV show that everybody watches, with
everybody ran, you know, say in all their crap that
you say in elections, and then sitting down and have
a conversation about where do we go from here? And
I find that fascinating. I don't know what that would
(22:41):
look like in the United States. I don't know what
German elections are like. Do they do? They are there
elections like ours where people say all kinds of wild
crazy s that can't come ever, ever come true, and
you know, and then say that if that person wins,
it's the end of democracy and then abandon that the
moment the election is over.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean, so, I don't know what it would look like.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
I'm not an expert on German elections, but they're exceedingly
polite and gentle menly by our standards, very issues orient
they should be compared to ours. But anyway, during the
elephant round, this new guy, fred Mertz, who's running the thing, said,
my goal is to make us as independent and Europe
(23:21):
is independent from the United States as we can possibly be.
We need to be able to stand on our own.
We can't count on the United States anymore. So it's
being portrayed by you know, Trump haters as Look, Europe
can't count on us, our best allies, can't count on
us anymore. Whereas I'm hoping for more of a nuanced
they're getting the lesson that they.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Need to be able to support themselves.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
It can't be the United States supplying their defense forever
it doesn't work. Yeah, this is a great example of
both things being true. Has Trump pissed off and shaken
up our European allies maybe more than he needed to, Yeah,
you could absolutely make that our On the other hand,
if fred Mertz with the support of both Lucy and
(24:04):
DESI were to beef up their defenses, start living up
to their obligations, and be strong enough to be fairly
independent from the United States, that would make them an
ally worth having. I don't think it's that complicated a reality.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
We mentioned this last week.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You mentioned it. Let me read from it. This is
from the New York Times in twenty eleven. You might
remember from the date that Barack Obama was the President
of the United States, and his Secretary of Defense is who.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
We're quoting here.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Defense Secretary Robert Gates sharply criticized NATO nations on Friday
forty said were shortages of military spending and political will,
warning of a dim, if not dismal future and irrelevance
for the Alliance and less more core members contributed weapons,
money in personnel. In his final policy speech before he
stepped down again, this is Obama's sect death issued a
(25:01):
dire and unusually direct warning that the United States, a
traditional leader and patron of the Alliance, was exhausted by
a decade of war and its own mounting budget deficits,
and simply might not see NATO as.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
A group we need to be involved with in the future.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
So that happened in Obama because it's freaking true. It's
just absolutely true. So the whole our allies can't count
on us anymore. Okay, this has been going on for
a while giving that message. First of all, unfortunate flashbacks
to my high school garden guidance counselor when you said
a dim if not dismal future.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
That was such an uncomfortable meeting.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
So like every report card I ever got had that
scrawled at the bottom, Jack as a dim if not
dismal future unless he buckles down.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
That's funny anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
It's you know, it reminds me the press's relationship with
Trump is. It's so I mean, it's become so obvious
at this point it's a little try to even talk
about it. Not only is he their ratings promotion and
their desperate click bait fodder.
Speaker 2 (26:06):
But the relationship is a great deal.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Like you know, if you have a really crumbling relationship,
personal relationship where you just criticize the other, you find
fault with the other person for everything they do, even
if it's the same things you do, the same things
you did two weeks ago, it's just completely nonsense.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
At this point.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
And Trump is a bull in a china shop. Absolutely,
he antagonizes where he doesn't need to, but to get
to the core demand, which is what is important. Yeah,
it's exactly like Obama and his people. But you saying, now, okay,
that's fine, you know, you can say whatever you want.
But is it possible, oh, thank you? What is this
Germany if even has three speech but we will tell
(26:46):
you what free spece?
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Is it possible to pull ourselves away from.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
News story and then defending or criticizing Trump. Is it
possible to leave Trump out of this and just discuss
the fact that Europe needs to get stronger and be
more military capable, militarily capable, and be able to defend
itself and not think, you know, we can spend all
our money on ridiculous social programs and people retiring at
(27:12):
fifty because the United States will come if we're ever
invaded by Russia.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
That's got to end.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Were it only Germany that would be a worthy discussion,
it's also France and Britain. Does Spain even have a gun?
I mean, just all the European countries except for maybe
Sweden and Finland that are pretty hard asked and increasingly
so because they're so close to Vladimir Putin's expansionist Tsarist Russia.
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Speaker 2 (28:55):
My birthday weekend. It's just no know what's going on there.
Part of my brain broke. I love tacos. I apparently
love chicken fish steak. I apparently love gluttony.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Just a minute, it might be a glutton I gotta
look up the definition of glutton I might actually be
should you should take a look at the mirror, if
you got a big enough mirror. I want the mirror
they have in nice hotels that slim you so you
look nicer.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
I need the slimming mirrors. That's what I need.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
We've got mail bag on the way and and a
lot more news of the day.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Here's our text line four.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
Definition of gluttony, according to my Merriam Webster, excess in
eating or drinking, greedy or excessive indulgence in uh taking
in food. Sounds like that, sounds like me, apparently, I
am that uh. Trump got into a war awards with
(30:00):
some governors over the weekend around the whole transathlete thing,
and the New York Times out with some new polling
on that how Americans feel about that issue. He's so
on the right side of this. I mean, it's not
even close. But we'll get to that an how or two.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Can't wait. Here's your freedom loving quote of the day,
the Great George.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Washington with Jack requested last week, So let's do a
week of great George Washington quotes.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
My favorite.
Speaker 1 (30:26):
If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb
and silent, we may be led.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Like sheep to the slaughter.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
I mentioned to a guy over the weekend Iminette's clothing store,
and I said, it's my birthday today. So he said, oh,
happy birthday. My birthday's tomorrow and I said, oh, cool,
your birthday's Washington's birthday. He said, yeah, yeah, he said.
You know. I say that to people, and people most
of the time say who I thought, really, WHOA?
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Really? Whoa? If you.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Deny people their history, they forget who they are and
hurry easily molded into what you want them to be,
or well spelled it out fairly eloquently in.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
A couple of books. Mail bag.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
What the progressives who are trying to get confused adolescent
boys into girls' sports are the same people who refuse
to teach about the great George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, that
sort of thing. They're denying us our history. It is
Marxism one one boi. Anyway, let's see Fred Merz was
(31:28):
on I Love Lucy not the Honeymooners who we covered that.
You can drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. We should probably mention that once
a segment so people listening to the podcasts will stop bleading.
We've emails Glad we've cleared up the issue of the day. Yeah,
absolutely the issue that's been tearing America. Part Happy Birthday,
Jack writes Frequent, corresponding to MONI, I think you said
(31:50):
you're gonna have some time to yourself. Hope was nice
and relaxing. Perhaps you even lifted your baked good band
for the day and were able to down a couple
of pies just because you have a general band. In effect,
doesn't mean you can't have a couple of pie windows
that open up each year. Pie windows. That's when I
need a Pye window. Don't allow mission creep around those
pie windows. I did need to talk about what I
(32:10):
did on my birthday and how you hold on to
that feeling. I think we've all experienced this before. But anyway,
stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Uh yeah, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
How about French camp Pat on the topic of sixty Minutes.
It's funny Pat, you had and a similar experience to
me last night. Guys have had some reservations regarding some
of the Trump administration's actions the j six pardons, tariffs,
Doge and others, But after watching sixty Minutes the last
two weeks and their aggressive, unfair criticism of Trump, I'm
confident Trump is doing the right things.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Oh my god, yes, wow, that is is there.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Have we come up with a term for that if
we If we have it, don't recall essentially the obnoxiousness
of the media and many Democrats, which we'll get into,
you know soon during the show, just drives you into
the Trump camp.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Yeah, like, yeah, he can be a real a hole.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
But I tell you who, I'm not ever going to
join forces with you lunatics.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Moving along, Paolo.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think there are two categories of DEI supporters, those
who believe racism is justified and those who sincerely believe
that racism has no part of DEI programs. The first
group are just racists. I think they're often disingenuous. They
don't admit racism. They try to justify it, probably because
they know it's steep hill to climb. Indeed, they generally
deny it. They cannot be persuaded to modify their beliefs
(33:33):
or even discuss them in good faith.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
You're absolutely right.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
Yeah, they're activists, neo Marxist activists. The second group is
either uninformed or naive, or they've been gaslated by the
first group. This group will listen to reason, they can
be one over. But how let's hope the second group
is larger than the first.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
Multiple times over the weekend with Trump firing that black
chairman of the joint whatever over there again. We'll talk
about that later, But several times over the weekend I
heard news outlets report DEI as an effort to have
more diversity in our workplaces.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Right, that's the cover story.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Yeah, that's the insidiously clever cover story because they know
they exploit our goodness. They know Americans aren't racists, and
they say, you gotta be down with this, or you're
a racist. And people who are busy or dopey or
gaslighted or whoever, they say, oh, well, I'm not a racist,
so I guess yeah, I've got to be down with this. No, no, no,
(34:28):
it's a lie. Rob in beautiful El Dorado County. In
County unic Corneer writes, guys, the LA mayor blames the
fire chief and fires her for not calling in reserve
personnel and not telling the mayor to not go on
her trip to Africa. Bet the mayor would have blown
her top if somebody would try to tell her what
to do. So the real people who were to blame her,
the voters who elected the mayor and the city council
(34:50):
who hired the fire chief. Elections do matter who'd she fire.
Karen Bass fired the lady fire chief Friday afternoon Friday evening.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Funny coincidence, just when it would get no news coverage.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I was in LA on Friday, but I wasn't paying
attention to the news because the fire chief has been
saying no everything the mayor is saying, is lie about
our preparation or budget, et cetera. Yeah, Karen bass is
an evil person. She's a bad person. She's a union
hack who lives only to hand out money to her cronies.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Wake up, figure that out.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
And or be willing to say to your public employee
union friends, Hey, you know the people that y'all get
elected over and over again are ruining our state Illinois.
Get the memo Massachusetts, New York, same memo.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That is absolutely unbelievable. I wanted to get to this.
How much time do we have? Michael likes seconds.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Occasionally, somebody, when they're writing about NATO says, the US
overthrew a freely elected government to get Zelenski elected. Roshenko
government was a puppet of Moscow. Their election was as
legitimate as putins are. If you're walking around saying Porishenko
was freely elected, you have swallowed awful, dishonest Kremlin talking place.
(36:14):
You need to take a look at yourself. Why would
the Poroshenko was a crook? New York Times, New polling
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