February 27, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- AI Don Trump Jr. & Jake Tapper's book
- Bezos is shooting a bunch of women up into space
- Elon in the cabinet meeting
- Howard Lutnick on Special Report
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
But they forget that Ukraine isn't the kind of country
you go all in on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I honestly can't imagine anyone in their right mind picking
Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option.
I mean, just think about it, massive nuclear power, loaded
with natural resources. Everyone needs, literally the biggest country on
the planet. And haha, there's Ukraine, which has Chernobyl and
some radiation proof dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, oh, yeah, this is
definitely the ally we need. Let's dump all our money
into them. Honestly, if anything, the US should have been
sending weapons to Russia.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Pretty shocking stuff from Don Trump ju year yesterday on
a podcast immediately recognizable voice, shocking statements.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
As you say, I got a little squinty listening to it,
but only because it was too much that is AI generated.
I'm not sure ever said that. I'm not sure I
would have.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I don't know, based on some of the things his
dad had said in the last week or so. I'm
not sure I would have jumped to that this can't
be real.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh, I was not confident at all.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
No, I'm just saying I thought, wait a minute, there's
there's something just a little too odd and perfect and
over the top radiation proof dogs Don Junior does have
a pretty good sense of humor, but honestly, if it
had been a little more subtle, I would have bought
it completely.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, it got retweeted by an awful lot of legit organizations,
Democrats and some Republicans are more pro supporting Ukraine, and
a lot of those people have pull it down later
in the day when it became clear that it was
AI generated. And I think this is the most the first,
most successful time people have been hoodwinked in an important story.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's going to happen a lot more in the future.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It helps that it's just it was just audio in
a podcast, so you didn't have any of the video stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
All the video gets.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Better every single day, and pretty sure we'll be completely
falling for that. And even with the corrections and the
people who pulled it down, what percentage of people who
heard that heard the correction later.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
In the day that that wasn't real. I've seen studies
on that very thing, and it's a tiny fraction sure,
of course, that actually hears the retraction the correction, and
the original misperception becomes much much bigger. Yeah, yeah, that's
a problem.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is a real problem, not only on the practical level,
because you can be so easily fooled.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean any human being. Heck, were made to recognize.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Each other's voices and each other's faces, that's our method
of identification, and so on a practical level, obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You could mislead people seriously.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But on that second level, and this is the part
that really troubles me, And this is the point of
a lot of propagandas not to convince you of anything specific,
but to convince you that there is no knowing the truth.
Give up, there's no way to discern the truth. We
are going to discourage you to the point that all
you can do is obey. And I think AI could
(03:31):
easily get us to that point. I mean, if you
have a perfect Don Junior saying something outrageous but not
like two over the top, the effectiveness of that would
be near one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
And then where do you go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
As a consumer of news, information and opinion, what do
you do? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Wait, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Maybe as a species or as a society, will get
a little less anxious to leap to opinions and immediately
clap back. We'll have to go through a process of
could be legit, maybe not. We've got to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I would like to think that we're going to gravitate
back toward gatekeepers the way we used to have with
and I realized this is flawed and that they were
all left leaning, but it was, you know, your big
evening newscasts, big newspapers, big magazines were gatekeepers, and you
had at least some reason to believe that they were
(04:28):
trying to not feed you things that were completely inaccurate.
But I don't know if people have any interest in that.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
No, No, that's a really good question. I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There's a real difference between the kron kite left and
the woke left. Oh heck, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
But I don't know if there's enough.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of a market for it to overcome the clickbaity, you know,
bubble information, information biased society. I don't know. I doubt it, honestly, Yeah,
I don't I have no idea where this is going.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
That's interesting to watch. We're going to live through it,
so yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know. The only thing that heartens me at times
like this was, you know, we've gone through revolutions and
wars and meteors and plagues and as human beings and
I don't buy it. This is why I didn't get
to the end. I know the end. This is different. Well,
the end is a planet of the beavers. As I've
made clear. You want to talk about something I am
certain about, that is it?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I know. The argument is always like, there's been all
kinds of major changes in society that have been deemed
that will be the end of the world, whether it's
rock and roll music or the printing press or television
or whatever the hell. But this is different. Speaking of
deep fakes and AI and cheap fakes, Jake Tapper's book,
can we talk.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
About that for another minute or two?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Fourteen? This is Joe Conshew on Fox News. I think
he's sums it up pretty well. Tapper writing this book
is like Hannibal Lecter writing one on the dangers of cannibalism.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
It's original sin.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
President Biden's decline it's cover up in his disastrous choice
to run again. And I like Tapper, who could not
have been a more enthusiastic.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Cover upper coverver rupper of.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The president's mental decline than he was. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And I like to picture on the cover of the
book and it comes out in May, it's Joe Biden
with is it his hands over his eyes or somebody
else's hands over his eyes, but anyway, it's basically the
we're not gonna look at you know, we're gonna we're
gonna blind ourselves to reality.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Well, you were part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So the fact I knew this book would come out
at some point, but I didn't think it'd be by one.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Of the participants right in the cover. So incredibly egregious
and worth noting. Klippner thirteen Hanson that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
While anybody like us who was stating that which was
plainly clear, would receive nasty pushback. The White House is
calling cheap fakes. We're hearing about so called cheap fakes.
It's playing out on right wing media. These videos, I mean,
they're blatant lies.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
These are cheap fakes with the White House and Biden.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
People call them cheap fakes are a little bit simpler.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
They're cheap.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
They're just disorted, out of context, videos chopped up in
certain ways, constructed in certain ways.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Several of those clips from CNN, well, right.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
We played the clip yesterday of Jake Tapper yelling at
somebody who brought up it was a Republican who brought
up on his show, Joe Biden's you know, mental decline,
and Jake Tapper said, oh no, no, these are talking points.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The guy has a stutter. You have no evidence what
you're diagnosing him from Afar? You know that he's senile.
Come on, when the American people could figure it out,
and you're going to write a book President Biden's decline,
its cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again?
Did you call it a disastrous choice at the time?
(07:59):
And I read one on this point out that two
months after the inauguration, she was writing about how Biden
forgot the name of the Pentagon as well as the
name of his secretary of Defense and wrote, these are
not isolated incidents, These are not selectively edited clips.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Something is wrong with Biden and it should concern all
of us.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That was two months after the inauguration and honestly throughout
the campaign. When he would wander off, not take questions.
He had prompts telling him stage directions, identifying press Corps members.
He would only answer a couple of questions. He would
stammer out his answers, Robert her declining to prosecute for
the reasons we all discussed kindly old man with a
(08:39):
bad memory, So putting you know, another layer of are
you kidding me? On top of Tappers just incredible hypocrisy
is the idea that And it all happened in the
last six weeks or so of his presidency, and they
covered it up, and now I'm bravely writing about it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What I often think Molly Hemingway's over the top. But
she had a funny tweet response to Jake Tapper's book release.
She tweeted out lots of capital letter words in here,
the mother bleeping audacity of you to do this after
running twenty four or seven interference on behalf of him
and mocking and attacking every single person who noticed Biden's decline.
(09:18):
The mother beleeping audacity, Have you no decency?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Have you no shame? That is a perfectly reasonable response. Wow, Wow, Yeah,
I think it is well, you know what, I'm gonna
leave it there. It's it is self beclownman of a
Titanic proportion. I can't even it. It's difficultiable Is this
(09:44):
a deep fake? Is this a really kind of clever
double reverse trying to convince us that Jake Tapper, of
all people, has the audacity to write a book informing us.
Now you gonna want to sit down for this. Joe
Biden had a serious metal decline, was senile, and some people,
(10:06):
including the media, we're covering it up.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Come on, nobody'd have balls that big.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Please, I can't believe it's true.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, that is something. I also bet there's some really
good stuff in the book. I mean, he's clearly checked
his shame, hypocrisy, whatever at the door. But I'll bet
there's some really good nuggets in that book about people
covering it up.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I look forward to it. Well, here's a multi
multi layered Twitter storm from this alleged independent journalist explaining
how these pieces he's talking about, the dozens of pieces
that came out of journalism in the wake of the
her announcement, These pieces are baseless. They can't be evaluated
(10:59):
because of ani total memory lapses just utterly unfair, no
medical basis irresponsible. So do you think there's a chance
that we're misreading it and we're all so.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Not bubbled?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But like, I don't know a slave to our wishes
that they just they actually couldn't their their minds wouldn't
let them see his decline.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's a fascinating question. I have no idea the answer
of it. I wish it were possible to answer that question,
because I'd love to hear it. Jake Tapper is a
smart guy, and we've talked to him before. He for
the longest time I thought he was a very reasonable
and very good journalist. This is inexplicable unless it is
it's either ideology, deliberate dishonesty, or some aspect of the
(11:51):
human mental condition like you're suggesting. That is scary and
I'd love to know more about.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, like getting back to our dear abbey thing did
last hour? I've seen this happen before, and I remember
this woman saying, this wife saying to me one time,
it's easy to believe a lie if you really want
it to be true. It was on the idea that
her husband was not being the way he should be
and she so didn't want it to be true. Wow,
the book I'm reading about Martin Luther King Jr. His
(12:19):
wife to the very end convinced that Martin did not
cheat on her. I did not know that, but anyway,
it's the whole. I don't want this to be true.
So I just can't even let that in.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is that what the media was doing?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
They just so didn't want it to be true that
Joe Biden, you know, needed to step down. It was
gonna help Trump get elected, and blah blah blah. They
couldn't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I wonder, Yeah, you know, the marital thing's a little
different obviously because of the incredibly deep emotional bond there.
But I just if you fall for that, you are
weak minded. If you are that blinded by your own wishes. Seriously,
you shouldn't be a journalist. For one thing. I tell
(12:57):
you if you and this is not to portray myself
as sort of paragun but if you want me to
explain any flaws or weaknesses in my arguments at any point,
I would do that for you, because I'm acutely aware
of them. I like to think, now, do I have
some confirmation bias? Of course, I do.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But yeah, Jake tap or shame on you.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, be interesting to see what's in that book and
the way it's received, Like everybody's just like this is
shocked by these revelations.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
That'll be something to watch. Also, we've got a lot
more of this hour. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Strong.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I'm confident at this point knock on wood you know,
knock on my.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Wooden head.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Se gouts A lot of would have there that we
can actually find a trillion dollars in savings. We do
need to move quickly if we're if we're to achieve
a trillion dollar deficit reduction and financially twenty twenty six,
it requires saving four billion dollars per day every day
from now through the end of September.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
But we can do it, and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Elon Musk yesterday in that first cabinet meeting of the
Trump administration, and a lot of the cabinet members there
to me not looking super jazz that Elon had so
much time to speak.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But I could be reading into their facial expressions. I
don't know, but I like Elon pointing out, look, we
got to say four billion dollars a day through September,
just to keep from going under.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
In that spirit.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And you know, Trump's foreign policy leaves me scratching my
head or troubles me. But with him sometimes he throws
things in a chaos then comes to a decent solution.
The jury is still out to me on Trump foreign relations.
I mean really seriously, the jury is out.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
But this stuff I could not be more enthusiastic about.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Brett Bear talked to Howard Lutnick, who's the Secretary of Commerce,
and we've got some clips later on the hour of
Lutnik describing the things they're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
It is awe inspiring. It's beyond great. It's like, let's
have a party.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Great if they can even do half of what they're
talking about in terms of raining in the bloat, the redundancy,
the stupidity of the federal government.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
Great stuff. Can't wait to play it.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's breaking news.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
They're gonna shoot Katy Perry into space, good which John
Mayer is probably happy about. Bezos and his rocket company,
second richest guy in the world. He's gonna shoot Katy Perry,
Gail King, his weird looking hot fiance wife, and some
other chicks into space.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
That's the man.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
In a historic all women mission, They said, up, So
there you go?
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Is it historic? Will any historians be on hand? And
what will they write?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
The all female six person crew is set to launch
this spring. Gail King seventy. She's not a young person. No, indeed,
you know, good for her? Sounds like an adventure. Okay,
so what this go ahead? I get his wife for
his fiance, saying does he probably mentioned the people he's
going to send in a space Hello?
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Hello, I know some other women that would like to
go into space. So she's going into space? But why
Katie Perry probably his wife's favorite to pop starw don't
you're right? Something like that? I tell you what, if
I'm being shot into space with a rich guy's girlfriend
slash wife, I'm checking into the health of the relationship
(16:27):
before I sign on. If you hear me talking, hello
Jeff Bezos News, I am one tenth is interested in
this as I am about his piece in Twitter and
his announcement that the policy the Washington Post is going
to be from here on out, free markets and free people,
to paraphrase the Wall Street Journal's slogan advocating for America
and freedom.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Absolutely love that way to go.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Jeff yeah, and specifically saying that any articles that are
counter to that will have to be published elsewhere. I
mean just like the editorials. Yeah, yeah, any opinion pieces
in that you want to write about that, I ain't
gonna be in this newspaper. I like to take your
commy clap trap elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Really interesting new poll out about a lot that's going
on in the country. Those results coming up armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So you didn't feel like Marco and RFK Jr. And
heg Zeth or any of the other cabinet members looked
a little uncomfortable with Elon.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I wouldn't deny that. No, No, they just look serious
to me. I didn't think much about it, but I
don't disagree with you that they're a little like he
when's he going to shut up? I'm the secretary of
something or other and I haven't said a damn word.
I want to get back to that discussion and doge
in a recent poll. I'm giving myself ninety seconds by
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the clock to do something else first, because I know
me I'll start ranting. But I wanted to squeeze this in.
We're talking about Senile Joe Biden earlier and I begun
the timer and I've talked about doctor Ethan Ham, thirty
four year old whistleblower who reported that the Texas Children
Hospital was continuing to perform gender transition surgeries on children
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even after Texas outlawed the process.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
And he's a hero and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What I didn't know until today was because Trump rescinded it,
the Biden administration issued an executive something or other edict
that protected hospitals from state investigations into gender transition procedures. Wow,
(18:40):
it was a complete inversion of the role of the AHHS,
the rule of the legal framework, says Ethan Ham, it
outlaw well what it does. What it did was it
gave hospitals the right not to comply with state level
investigations related to the provision of transgender medical treatment to minors.
(19:01):
That is a if there's been a more perverse use
of the power of the federal government, I have no
idea what it was. Wow, that's just insane. That should
be known by more people, and I only have nine
seconds to tell you. It also clear that the Biden
FCC absolutely approved George Soros buying two hundred radio stations
in a way that there's never been an approval before.
(19:25):
They skipped all of the regulatory steps and just said no, no, no,
you can do it. Most people are outrageous. Good lord, No,
nobody's ever going to hear these stories. All right, that's
ninety seconds My alarm went off. Moving along back to
Elon Musk. Here's Elon in the cabinet meeting as Marco
Rubio was starting to look slightly miffed.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
According to Jack, the overall goal here with the dog
team is to help address the almost topic that we
still we cannot sustain at the country. Two trillion dollar
death seats, the interest rates, that just the interest on
the national debt.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Now it sees that a fast department sped. We spent
a lot on the new pest department, but we're spending
like over trillion dollars on interest. If this continues, the
country will become de facto bankrupt. It's not an optional thing.
It is a central thing. That's that's the reason I'm
here and taking a lot of plaque and getting a
(20:18):
lot of death threats. By the way, I would like
to stuck them up there. But if we don't do this,
America will go bankrupt. That's why it has to be done.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So he's absolutely right, and that's great stuff. I had
said yesterday on the show that that Doge and Elon
have less than majority support, they are underwater poll number wise,
and one of our beloved listeners, and I apologize I
didn't keep handy who sent this along, but it's great.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Oh it's Ben.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He said, I'm not sure where you're getting those numbers
because the Harris the Harvard Harris pole just came out
and it seems different, and Ben, thank you for the information.
It just illustrates so beautifully what we said for a
long time. It is so easy to manipulate issues polling
with wording, because the one I saw was and I
(21:13):
wish I had in front of you, but it said essentially,
do you think Elon Musk and the Doge team is
working too fast and doing too much or exceeding their authority?
That sort of thing? And yeah, pretty good percentage of Americans.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Agreed with that.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
But this is the Harvard Harris pole and they say
two in three voters say the federal government's debt is unsustainable.
You third that don't say that, You gotta wow, show
me your math. As they used to say in math class, show.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Me your work.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Wow. Anyway, but over four and five say they should
work to balance the budget.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
So if you were to question people in a way that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Emphasized a little bit more style and personality, you could
easily portray and it was portrayed this way that DOGE
is highly unpopular in their work. People not supporting the
unelected billionaire Elon Musk.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
But if you look at the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Underlying you know, the principles that we're talking about, there's
overwhelming support for it.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
If four out of five people think we should balance
a budget, how do we keep electing two parties that
have no interest in doing that?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because when it comes down to crunch time, you go
with who is going to promise you more as the
common voter.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's that is a really interesting contrast.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
The U.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
And I'm reminded once again of one of my all
time favorites Thomas Sowell.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Quotes, and I've got like fifty of them, maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
One hundred and fifty, is that we're partly to blame
for the fact that politicians are such liars, because if we,
over and over again demand the impossible from them, only
liars can get elected right, and we want a dollar
thirty in government services for a dollar perpetually and never
any tax increases.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, that first poll of two thirds of people think
we're going to go broke, like you said the other third.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
God, I'd love to sit down with those people.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I just like to, you know, explain to me how
you see things. It might be some of those lunatics
who believe that the monetarists or whatever the liberal economist
group thinks that that will just keep printing money or
thought about it that much. Yeah, I was gonna say,
And a few of them are probably the No we
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about that even as they cut like crazy, which is good,
but I think it's mostly morons. Some more, some more
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An overwhelming majority of voters say the government should reduce
(24:55):
government expenses over increasing taxes, and a full examination of
expenditure is needed. The taxes versus expenditures thing. You know,
that's interesting. It's eighty three to seventeen the devil's in
the details. But I thought, here's the way the questions phrase,
and I thought this was even more interesting. Do you
(25:16):
think that we are in need of a full examination
of all government expenditures? Or should we not get in
the way of current contracts and expenditures? And it's seventy
seven twenty three that no, we got to turn over
every rock and look at it, which is heartening, but
in a raw political taking a look at it through
(25:37):
the political lens. The idea that Chuck Schumer and Jakeem
Jeffreys and the others are on the hill, on the
steps of Capitol Hill saying, how dare they disrupt look
at all these government programs that everyone loves, these pure bureaucrats.
There's very very little constituency for that. In fact, it's
(25:59):
it's mockable as a pitch to voters given the numbers.
But four for the millionth time, we got to when
there ought to be like confetti fall out of this
guy when we say this for the millionth time, for
the almost one millionth time, the media reports it as
if that's what most Americans believe, even though it's a
(26:22):
tiny subset seven to ten voters think government expenditures are
filled with waste. That's the actual phrase from the Harvard
Hairs poll. Do you think that the government expenditures are
basically fair and reasonable or do you think they are
filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Seventy to thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Wow, that's fantastic. It is happy to hear that. This
is why folks like us who are not the mainstream
media I think are growing and growing and growing in
the mainstream media are withering and withering because they're so
effing dishonest.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Do you support or oppose the goal of cutting one
trillion dollars of government expenditures?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Nine to thirty one? That's in quarters. Okay, how about this?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Do you think there should be a US government agency
focused on efficiency initiatives or not?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Seventy two twenty eight Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Do you think the so called Department of Government Efficiency DOGE,
led by Elon Musk?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
They go ahead and mention his name.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is helping make major cuts and government expenditures or not
helping wins sixty to forty. There you see a little
Elon fatigue or you know that sort of thing creeping
in And indeed, when you ask do you think DOGE
employees should have access to all information on government expenditures,
including sensitive information on Americans, including name, social Security numbers.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Is then you get a no answer.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But in general, if they can avoid you know, the
most obvious of excesses and screw.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Ups, they have huge popular support.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Somebody ought to tell the New York Times that and
Jake Tapper in the Washington Post huge support A law
A law. Well, that's the best news I've heard today,
that polling. I like to wait still several hours into
the show to give anybody any good news. I like
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to just batter them and discourage them as much as possible.
Some of the bad news woke up to, of course,
is that Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Is dead, the great actor. Not that he was doing
a lot of movies lately. He retired quite a few
years ago. My favorite actor of all time, Gene Hackman.
I used to go to any movie he would be in.
I would go see because I liked it so much.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Anyway, he and his wife and dog all died overnight,
and they haven't announced yet.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Why gotta be carbon monoxide or.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Something like that, gas leak or something. Is ninety five,
but she is only sixily sixty five so you know,
why did they both die?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
And the dog?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Come on, the dog didn't dis end his own life,
so asked, yes, Katie, do we have an update?
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, they just did an update saying that one of
the dogs died.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There were two that lived, and they're speculating as to
why they were in separate bedroom. Those dogs did it?
The two dogs did it?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
The dog he got locked to them first?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Where were you.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That dog?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Everyone knows that. Yeah, I get your I don't know
carbon monoxide detector batteries checked or something. You got to
ask the dog just point blank, did you do it?
If it's fur gets up on its back, it's guilty.
If it wags its tail, it's innocent, simple as that.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Too soon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
The fact that they immediately announced no foul play, Yeah, yeah,
I think it was some sort of terrible accident.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How did they even find out? Did somebody do a
wellness check? Like I hadn't heard from him in a
couple of days or what? No idea must have been
something like that, right. Maybe the dogs who survived called again?
Too soon? Too soon?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Wow, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
We're gonna play one of Gene Hackman's greatest movie.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Roles for you an hour four. We'll have a clip
of that, among other things we got coming up systems. Yeah,
my new favorite to figure in government, Howard Lutnik speaking
of cutting the budget and fiscal health. Oh my gosh,
great stuff. You're gonna love him. I don't like his name.
What I don't like the name Lutnik? Yep, please, No,
that's the way it sounds. We got that coming up stair.
(30:40):
We used the word Trantifa on the air before. Have
I come across? Yes?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah, okay, I have Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Anyway, our four we'll talk about this latest Trantifa activist
that just got arrested in Colorado wanting to blow up
a Tesla property.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Got some great audio to get to, so I'll keep
this short, but I was just saying a jack off
the air. I am so glad we have people who
know what they're dealing doing, dealing with taxes and the
money stuff and everything. As we're getting toward tax time
and we have a couple of different relationships and it's
a little complicated, but it returns me to the thought
that we've had so many times that it's insane that
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a person, just a regular person with a regular tax return,
has to pay somebody to help them figure out how
much the government owes them.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
It's absolutely idiotic.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It needs to be reformed, it needs it desperately, and
maybe now is the time that happens.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
So Special Report with Brett Bear.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Last night Brett was talking to Howard Lutnick, who's the
secretary of Commerce at at his office, Commerce Building. And Lutnick,
who is so excited about his job. He's really a
fascinating guy. He ran a big firm on Wall Street,
lost hundreds of employees on nine to eleven, including his brother.
He was only spared because he was taking his little
boy to his first day of school.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Oh my god, I think it was his partner.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
As brothers little boys first day of school had been
the previous day, so Howard lived.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
They all died.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But anyway, but he is so crazy enthusiastic about what
he's doing right now. I have two clips I want
to play for you from the from the interview. This
is forty eight first handsome.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
US postal service coming under commerce. I mean, where did
that come from? And what is that about? And how
will Americans deal with it? Will it affect their mail?
Speaker 9 (32:23):
No, it won't affect their mail. So the concept was,
I'm sitting with the president and the costs of the
post office are like it loses seven billion dollars and
he said, can you do something with it? And I
said sure. So I saw him the next day. He goes, Okay,
what do he got? You know, he gives me a
whole twenty four hours to figure it out. And I said, well,
the Commerce Department does the census, and we spend forty
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billion dollars every ten years doing the census, and that
means we hire six hundred and twenty five thousand people.
And they go and they rent cars and gas and
you paying food.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
And you know what they do. They go to every
household in America and count the people.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
What department we already have that are already employed.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Six hundred and twenty five thousand people, it's got cars,
already has gas, goes to every household.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Can you imagine saying your postman, can you count the
people in the house?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
What day?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Could he do the census?
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Monday?
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Could he double check it on Tuesday? How about Wednesday?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Goes every day?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So we can only save forty billion dollars or four
billion a year, and we'll do a better job. And
you know what else we can do with the post office.
They can go to your house when you have a
baby and give you the form for Social Security. And
the twenty thousand Social Security offices that we have, we.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Just don't need them. We actually can do real customer service.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Go right to your house.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Someone died.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
Here's the forums, you can fill it out. I'll bring
them to your house. Customer service.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Why because we've got those people. Let's use the assets
of the government to make us better and save us money.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
We can be smart.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
You know, we're loud howl liking great.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Is that that's fantastic even if the specifics don't work
out for some reason. The spirit of it, right, which
is the spirit of private enterprise, come to government. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, Well, why are we doing
two different things here? They're essentially the same Businesses' combine
them and save you know, seventy percent of the budget.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And if you're only look at things as the way
people in government look at things, you could have two
things grow up separately that overlap, but you don't think
about it or care because you don't think about money.
You don't care about money. There's endless tax payer money.
You don't care if it's sufficient or not, as opposed
to a businessman and says, wait, we got two things, we.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Could have one thing right. It's way more insidious than
not caring. You would never bring it to anybody's attention,
because then you wouldn't have the turf and the budget
and the people under you as the census guy. You
would never say, hey, you know what, mister president, the
Post Office could do this. It just came to me
in a dream last night. We should get rid of
my giant fiefdom in DC and my big house in
(34:50):
Fairfax and the rest of it. I'm not necessary. Yeah,
wait for that to happen. That's so positive and good.
I hesitate to do this. Do we have time for
a minute long clip? No, Okay, we'll do it next hour.
Lutni goes on to talk about Brett asks him.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
What are you worried about?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And lot next description of why he's worried about China
is great, cool.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I'm worried about our college system and the numb nut
students at Columbia took over a building yesterday fighting for
the rights of Homas and we've got some chanting and
stuff from them, and how that played out.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's ridiculous. I'm telling you. The snow flaky, idiotic goodness
of their chanting is amazing. It's some of my favorite
stupid chanting of all time. Please join us for Next Hour.
If you don't get Next Hour, you got to go
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fallow and enjoyed today's show because it's a decent chance.
I've got a bola. I haven't been able to nail
down what illness it does I have, but I'm just
assuming it's obola. Yeah, you're bleeding from the eyes and ears.
I didn't want to bring it up. I felt indelicate,
but it's probably a bola. You actually sound and look
better today, are you? Or is it just better drugs.
I'm not on any drugs, but I don't feel better.
(36:12):
I'm glad I sound better. That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
That's absolutely Maybe I'll pull both feet out of the
grave and just have one foot in the grave.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
But they forget that Ukraine isn't the kind of country
you go all in on.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
This is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I honestly can't imagine anyone in their right mind picking
Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option.
I mean, just think about it, massive nuclear power, loaded
with natural resources. Everyone needs, literally the biggest country on
the planet. And haha, there's Ukraine, which has Chernobyl and
some radiation proof dogs.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Meanwhile, the Biden administration is like, oh, yeah, this is
definitely the ally we need. Let's dump all our money
into them. Honestly, if anything, the US should have been
sending weapons to Russia.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Pretty shocking stuff from Don Trump ju year yesterday on
a podcast immediately recognizable voice, shocking statements.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
As you say, I got a little squinty listening to it,
but only because it was too much that is AI generated.
I'm not sure ever said that. I'm not sure I
would have.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I don't know, based on some of the things his
dad had said in the last week or so. I'm
not sure I would have jumped to that this can't
be real.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Oh, I was not confident at all.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
No, I'm just saying I thought, wait a minute, there's
there's something just a little too odd and perfect and
over the top radiation proof dogs Don Junior does have
a pretty good sense of humor, but honestly, if it
had been a little more subtle, I would have bought
it completely.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Well, it got retweeted by an awful lot of legit organizations,
Democrats and some Republicans are more pro supporting Ukraine, and
a lot of those people have pull it down later
in the day when it became clear that it was
AI generated. And I think this is the most the first,
most successful time people have been hoodwinked in an important story.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
It's going to happen a lot more in the future.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
It helps that it's just it was just audio in
a podcast, so you didn't have any of the video stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
All the video gets.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Better every single day, and pretty sure we'll be completely
falling for that. And even with the corrections and the
people who pulled it down, what percentage of people who
heard that heard the correction later.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
In the day that that wasn't real. I've seen studies
on that very thing, and it's a tiny fraction sure,
of course, that actually hears the retraction the correction, and
the original misperception becomes much much bigger. Yeah, yeah, that's
a problem.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
It is a real problem, not only on the practical level,
because you can be so easily fooled.
Speaker 5 (02:57):
I mean any human being. Heck, were made to recognize.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Each other's voices and each other's faces, that's our method
of identification, and so on a practical level, obviously.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You could mislead people seriously.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
But on that second level, and this is the part
that really troubles me, And this is the point of
a lot of propagandas not to convince you of anything specific,
but to convince you that there is no knowing the truth.
Give up, there's no way to discern the truth. We
are going to discourage you to the point that all
you can do is obey. And I think AI could
(03:31):
easily get us to that point. I mean, if you
have a perfect Don Junior saying something outrageous but not
like two over the top, the effectiveness of that would
be near one hundred percent.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
And then where do you go.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
As a consumer of news, information and opinion, what do
you do? I don't know.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
Wait, I suppose.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Maybe as a species or as a society, will get
a little less anxious to leap to opinions and immediately
clap back. We'll have to go through a process of
could be legit, maybe not. We've got to wait and see.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
I would like to think that we're going to gravitate
back toward gatekeepers the way we used to have with
and I realized this is flawed and that they were
all left leaning, but it was, you know, your big
evening newscasts, big newspapers, big magazines were gatekeepers, and you
had at least some reason to believe that they were
(04:28):
trying to not feed you things that were completely inaccurate.
But I don't know if people have any interest in that.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
No, No, that's a really good question. I don't know either.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
There's a real difference between the kron kite left and
the woke left. Oh heck, yeah.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
But I don't know if there's enough.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Of a market for it to overcome the clickbaity, you know,
bubble information, information biased society. I don't know. I doubt it, honestly, Yeah,
I don't I have no idea where this is going.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
That's interesting to watch. We're going to live through it,
so yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
You know. The only thing that heartens me at times
like this was, you know, we've gone through revolutions and
wars and meteors and plagues and as human beings and
I don't buy it. This is why I didn't get
to the end. I know the end. This is different. Well,
the end is a planet of the beavers. As I've
made clear. You want to talk about something I am
certain about, that is it?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
No?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I know. The argument is always like, there's been all
kinds of major changes in society that have been deemed
that will be the end of the world, whether it's
rock and roll music or the printing press or television
or whatever the hell. But this is different. Speaking of
deep fakes and AI and cheap fakes, Jake Tapper's book,
can we talk.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
About that for another minute or two?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Fourteen? This is Joe Conshew on Fox News. I think
he's sums it up pretty well. Tapper writing this book
is like Hannibal Lecter writing one on the dangers of cannibalism.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
It's original sin.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
President Biden's decline it's cover up in his disastrous choice
to run again. And I like Tapper, who could not
have been a more enthusiastic.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Cover upper coverver rupper of.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The president's mental decline than he was. Just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
And I like to picture on the cover of the
book and it comes out in May, it's Joe Biden
with is it his hands over his eyes or somebody
else's hands over his eyes, but anyway, it's basically the
we're not gonna look at you know, we're gonna we're
gonna blind ourselves to reality.
Speaker 5 (06:38):
Well, you were part of it.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So the fact I knew this book would come out
at some point, but I didn't think it'd be by one.
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Of the participants right in the cover. So incredibly egregious
and worth noting. Klippner thirteen Hanson that.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
While anybody like us who was stating that which was
plainly clear, would receive nasty pushback. The White House is
calling cheap fakes. We're hearing about so called cheap fakes.
It's playing out on right wing media. These videos, I mean,
they're blatant lies.
Speaker 5 (07:12):
These are cheap fakes with the White House and Biden.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
People call them cheap fakes are a little bit simpler.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
They're cheap.
Speaker 7 (07:16):
They're just disorted, out of context, videos chopped up in
certain ways, constructed in certain ways.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Several of those clips from CNN, well, right.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
We played the clip yesterday of Jake Tapper yelling at
somebody who brought up it was a Republican who brought
up on his show, Joe Biden's you know, mental decline,
and Jake Tapper said, oh no, no, these are talking points.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
The guy has a stutter. You have no evidence what
you're diagnosing him from Afar? You know that he's senile.
Come on, when the American people could figure it out,
and you're going to write a book President Biden's decline,
its cover up, and his disastrous choice to run again?
Did you call it a disastrous choice at the time?
(07:59):
And I read one on this point out that two
months after the inauguration, she was writing about how Biden
forgot the name of the Pentagon as well as the
name of his secretary of Defense and wrote, these are
not isolated incidents, These are not selectively edited clips.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
Something is wrong with Biden and it should concern all
of us.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That was two months after the inauguration and honestly throughout
the campaign. When he would wander off, not take questions.
He had prompts telling him stage directions, identifying press Corps members.
He would only answer a couple of questions. He would
stammer out his answers, Robert her declining to prosecute for
the reasons we all discussed kindly old man with a
(08:39):
bad memory, So putting you know, another layer of are
you kidding me? On top of Tappers just incredible hypocrisy
is the idea that And it all happened in the
last six weeks or so of his presidency, and they
covered it up, and now I'm bravely writing about it.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
What I often think Molly Hemingway's over the top. But
she had a funny tweet response to Jake Tapper's book release.
She tweeted out lots of capital letter words in here,
the mother bleeping audacity of you to do this after
running twenty four or seven interference on behalf of him
and mocking and attacking every single person who noticed Biden's decline.
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The mother beleeping audacity, Have you no decency?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Have you no shame? That is a perfectly reasonable response. Wow, Wow, Yeah,
I think it is well, you know what, I'm gonna
leave it there. It's it is self beclownman of a
Titanic proportion. I can't even it. It's difficultiable Is this
(09:44):
a deep fake? Is this a really kind of clever
double reverse trying to convince us that Jake Tapper, of
all people, has the audacity to write a book informing us.
Now you gonna want to sit down for this. Joe
Biden had a serious metal decline, was senile, and some people,
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including the media, we're covering it up.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Come on, nobody'd have balls that big.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Please, I can't believe it's true.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah, that is something. I also bet there's some really
good stuff in the book. I mean, he's clearly checked
his shame, hypocrisy, whatever at the door. But I'll bet
there's some really good nuggets in that book about people
covering it up.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
So I look forward to it. Well, here's a multi
multi layered Twitter storm from this alleged independent journalist explaining
how these pieces he's talking about, the dozens of pieces
that came out of journalism in the wake of the
her announcement, These pieces are baseless. They can't be evaluated
(10:59):
because of ani total memory lapses just utterly unfair, no
medical basis irresponsible. So do you think there's a chance
that we're misreading it and we're all so.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
Not bubbled?
Speaker 4 (11:15):
But like, I don't know a slave to our wishes
that they just they actually couldn't their their minds wouldn't
let them see his decline.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's a fascinating question. I have no idea the answer
of it. I wish it were possible to answer that question,
because I'd love to hear it. Jake Tapper is a
smart guy, and we've talked to him before. He for
the longest time I thought he was a very reasonable
and very good journalist. This is inexplicable unless it is
it's either ideology, deliberate dishonesty, or some aspect of the
(11:51):
human mental condition like you're suggesting. That is scary and
I'd love to know more about.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Yeah, like getting back to our dear abbey thing did
last hour? I've seen this happen before, and I remember
this woman saying, this wife saying to me one time,
it's easy to believe a lie if you really want
it to be true. It was on the idea that
her husband was not being the way he should be
and she so didn't want it to be true. Wow,
the book I'm reading about Martin Luther King Jr. His
(12:19):
wife to the very end convinced that Martin did not
cheat on her. I did not know that, but anyway,
it's the whole. I don't want this to be true.
So I just can't even let that in.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Is that what the media was doing?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
They just so didn't want it to be true that
Joe Biden, you know, needed to step down. It was
gonna help Trump get elected, and blah blah blah. They
couldn't see it.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I wonder, Yeah, you know, the marital thing's a little
different obviously because of the incredibly deep emotional bond there.
But I just if you fall for that, you are
weak minded. If you are that blinded by your own wishes. Seriously,
you shouldn't be a journalist. For one thing. I tell
(12:57):
you if you and this is not to portray myself
as sort of paragun but if you want me to
explain any flaws or weaknesses in my arguments at any point,
I would do that for you, because I'm acutely aware
of them. I like to think, now, do I have
some confirmation bias? Of course, I do.
Speaker 5 (13:13):
But yeah, Jake tap or shame on you.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Yeah, be interesting to see what's in that book and
the way it's received, Like everybody's just like this is
shocked by these revelations.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
That'll be something to watch. Also, we've got a lot
more of this hour. Stay here.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Strong.
Speaker 6 (13:31):
I'm confident at this point knock on wood you know,
knock on my.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Wooden head.
Speaker 6 (13:37):
Se gouts A lot of would have there that we
can actually find a trillion dollars in savings. We do
need to move quickly if we're if we're to achieve
a trillion dollar deficit reduction and financially twenty twenty six,
it requires saving four billion dollars per day every day
from now through the end of September.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
But we can do it, and we will do it.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Elon Musk yesterday in that first cabinet meeting of the
Trump administration, and a lot of the cabinet members there
to me not looking super jazz that Elon had so
much time to speak.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
But I could be reading into their facial expressions. I
don't know, but I like Elon pointing out, look, we
got to say four billion dollars a day through September,
just to keep from going under.
Speaker 5 (14:27):
In that spirit.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And you know, Trump's foreign policy leaves me scratching my
head or troubles me. But with him sometimes he throws
things in a chaos then comes to a decent solution.
The jury is still out to me on Trump foreign relations.
I mean really seriously, the jury is out.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
But this stuff I could not be more enthusiastic about.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Brett Bear talked to Howard Lutnick, who's the Secretary of Commerce,
and we've got some clips later on the hour of
Lutnik describing the things they're trying to do.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
It is awe inspiring. It's beyond great. It's like, let's
have a party.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Great if they can even do half of what they're
talking about in terms of raining in the bloat, the redundancy,
the stupidity of the federal government.
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Mayer is probably happy about. Bezos and his rocket company,
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Gail King, his weird looking hot fiance wife, and some
other chicks into space.
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Jeff Bezos News, I am one tenth is interested in
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his announcement that the policy the Washington Post is going
to be from here on out, free markets and free people,
to paraphrase the Wall Street Journal's slogan advocating for America
and freedom.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Absolutely love that way to go.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Jeff yeah, and specifically saying that any articles that are
counter to that will have to be published elsewhere. I
mean just like the editorials. Yeah, yeah, any opinion pieces
in that you want to write about that, I ain't
gonna be in this newspaper. I like to take your
commy clap trap elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (17:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Really interesting new poll out about a lot that's going
on in the country. Those results coming up armstrong and getty.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
So you didn't feel like Marco and RFK Jr. And
heg Zeth or any of the other cabinet members looked
a little uncomfortable with Elon.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
I wouldn't deny that. No, No, they just look serious
to me. I didn't think much about it, but I
don't disagree with you that they're a little like he
when's he going to shut up? I'm the secretary of
something or other and I haven't said a damn word.
I want to get back to that discussion and doge
in a recent poll. I'm giving myself ninety seconds by
(17:50):
the clock to do something else first, because I know
me I'll start ranting. But I wanted to squeeze this in.
We're talking about Senile Joe Biden earlier and I begun
the timer and I've talked about doctor Ethan Ham, thirty
four year old whistleblower who reported that the Texas Children
Hospital was continuing to perform gender transition surgeries on children
(18:11):
even after Texas outlawed the process.
Speaker 5 (18:13):
And he's a hero and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
What I didn't know until today was because Trump rescinded it,
the Biden administration issued an executive something or other edict
that protected hospitals from state investigations into gender transition procedures. Wow,
(18:40):
it was a complete inversion of the role of the AHHS,
the rule of the legal framework, says Ethan Ham, it
outlaw well what it does. What it did was it
gave hospitals the right not to comply with state level
investigations related to the provision of transgender medical treatment to minors.
(19:01):
That is a if there's been a more perverse use
of the power of the federal government, I have no
idea what it was. Wow, that's just insane. That should
be known by more people, and I only have nine
seconds to tell you. It also clear that the Biden
FCC absolutely approved George Soros buying two hundred radio stations
in a way that there's never been an approval before.
(19:25):
They skipped all of the regulatory steps and just said no, no, no,
you can do it. Most people are outrageous. Good lord, No,
nobody's ever going to hear these stories. All right, that's
ninety seconds My alarm went off. Moving along back to
Elon Musk. Here's Elon in the cabinet meeting as Marco
Rubio was starting to look slightly miffed.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
According to Jack, the overall goal here with the dog
team is to help address the almost topic that we
still we cannot sustain at the country. Two trillion dollar
death seats, the interest rates, that just the interest on
the national debt.
Speaker 6 (19:57):
Now it sees that a fast department sped. We spent
a lot on the new pest department, but we're spending
like over trillion dollars on interest. If this continues, the
country will become de facto bankrupt. It's not an optional thing.
It is a central thing. That's that's the reason I'm
here and taking a lot of plaque and getting a
(20:18):
lot of death threats. By the way, I would like
to stuck them up there. But if we don't do this,
America will go bankrupt. That's why it has to be done.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So he's absolutely right, and that's great stuff. I had
said yesterday on the show that that Doge and Elon
have less than majority support, they are underwater poll number wise,
and one of our beloved listeners, and I apologize I
didn't keep handy who sent this along, but it's great.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Oh it's Ben.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
He said, I'm not sure where you're getting those numbers
because the Harris the Harvard Harris pole just came out
and it seems different, and Ben, thank you for the information.
It just illustrates so beautifully what we said for a
long time. It is so easy to manipulate issues polling
with wording, because the one I saw was and I
(21:13):
wish I had in front of you, but it said essentially,
do you think Elon Musk and the Doge team is
working too fast and doing too much or exceeding their authority?
That sort of thing? And yeah, pretty good percentage of Americans.
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Agreed with that.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
But this is the Harvard Harris pole and they say
two in three voters say the federal government's debt is unsustainable.
You third that don't say that, You gotta wow, show
me your math. As they used to say in math class, show.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Me your work.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Wow. Anyway, but over four and five say they should
work to balance the budget.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
So if you were to question people in a way that.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
Emphasized a little bit more style and personality, you could
easily portray and it was portrayed this way that DOGE
is highly unpopular in their work. People not supporting the
unelected billionaire Elon Musk.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
But if you look at the.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Underlying you know, the principles that we're talking about, there's
overwhelming support for it.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
If four out of five people think we should balance
a budget, how do we keep electing two parties that
have no interest in doing that?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because when it comes down to crunch time, you go
with who is going to promise you more as the
common voter.
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I think.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
It's that is a really interesting contrast.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
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Speaker 1 (22:41):
And I'm reminded once again of one of my all
time favorites Thomas Sowell.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Quotes, and I've got like fifty of them, maybe.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
One hundred and fifty, is that we're partly to blame
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liars can get elected right, and we want a dollar
thirty in government services for a dollar perpetually and never
any tax increases.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
Yeah, that first poll of two thirds of people think
we're going to go broke, like you said the other third.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
God, I'd love to sit down with those people.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
I just like to, you know, explain to me how
you see things. It might be some of those lunatics
who believe that the monetarists or whatever the liberal economist
group thinks that that will just keep printing money or
thought about it that much. Yeah, I was gonna say,
And a few of them are probably the No we
(23:37):
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about that even as they cut like crazy, which is good,
but I think it's mostly morons. Some more, some more
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An overwhelming majority of voters say the government should reduce
(24:55):
government expenses over increasing taxes, and a full examination of
expenditure is needed. The taxes versus expenditures thing. You know,
that's interesting. It's eighty three to seventeen the devil's in
the details. But I thought, here's the way the questions phrase,
and I thought this was even more interesting. Do you
(25:16):
think that we are in need of a full examination
of all government expenditures? Or should we not get in
the way of current contracts and expenditures? And it's seventy
seven twenty three that no, we got to turn over
every rock and look at it, which is heartening, but
in a raw political taking a look at it through
(25:37):
the political lens. The idea that Chuck Schumer and Jakeem
Jeffreys and the others are on the hill, on the
steps of Capitol Hill saying, how dare they disrupt look
at all these government programs that everyone loves, these pure bureaucrats.
There's very very little constituency for that. In fact, it's
(25:59):
it's mockable as a pitch to voters given the numbers.
But four for the millionth time, we got to when
there ought to be like confetti fall out of this
guy when we say this for the millionth time, for
the almost one millionth time, the media reports it as
if that's what most Americans believe, even though it's a
(26:22):
tiny subset seven to ten voters think government expenditures are
filled with waste. That's the actual phrase from the Harvard
Hairs poll. Do you think that the government expenditures are
basically fair and reasonable or do you think they are
filled with waste, fraud, and inefficiency?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Seventy to thirty.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Wow, that's fantastic. It is happy to hear that. This
is why folks like us who are not the mainstream
media I think are growing and growing and growing in
the mainstream media are withering and withering because they're so
effing dishonest.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
Pardon me?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Do you support or oppose the goal of cutting one
trillion dollars of government expenditures?
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Nine to thirty one? That's in quarters. Okay, how about this?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Do you think there should be a US government agency
focused on efficiency initiatives or not?
Speaker 5 (27:10):
Seventy two twenty eight Yes.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Do you think the so called Department of Government Efficiency DOGE,
led by Elon Musk?
Speaker 5 (27:18):
They go ahead and mention his name.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Is helping make major cuts and government expenditures or not
helping wins sixty to forty. There you see a little
Elon fatigue or you know that sort of thing creeping
in And indeed, when you ask do you think DOGE
employees should have access to all information on government expenditures,
including sensitive information on Americans, including name, social Security numbers.
Speaker 5 (27:41):
Is then you get a no answer.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
But in general, if they can avoid you know, the
most obvious of excesses and screw.
Speaker 5 (27:49):
Ups, they have huge popular support.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
Somebody ought to tell the New York Times that and
Jake Tapper in the Washington Post huge support A law
A law. Well, that's the best news I've heard today,
that polling. I like to wait still several hours into
the show to give anybody any good news. I like
(28:14):
to just batter them and discourage them as much as possible.
Some of the bad news woke up to, of course,
is that Gene Hackman.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Is dead, the great actor. Not that he was doing
a lot of movies lately. He retired quite a few
years ago. My favorite actor of all time, Gene Hackman.
I used to go to any movie he would be in.
I would go see because I liked it so much.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
Anyway, he and his wife and dog all died overnight,
and they haven't announced yet.
Speaker 5 (28:41):
Why gotta be carbon monoxide or.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
Something like that, gas leak or something. Is ninety five,
but she is only sixily sixty five so you know,
why did they both die?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Well?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
And the dog?
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Come on, the dog didn't dis end his own life,
so asked, yes, Katie, do we have an update?
Speaker 8 (29:03):
Yeah, they just did an update saying that one of
the dogs died.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
There were two that lived, and they're speculating as to
why they were in separate bedroom. Those dogs did it?
The two dogs did it?
Speaker 5 (29:15):
The dog he got locked to them first?
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Where were you.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That dog?
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Everyone knows that. Yeah, I get your I don't know
carbon monoxide detector batteries checked or something. You got to
ask the dog just point blank, did you do it?
If it's fur gets up on its back, it's guilty.
If it wags its tail, it's innocent, simple as that.
Speaker 5 (29:46):
Too soon.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
The fact that they immediately announced no foul play, Yeah, yeah,
I think it was some sort of terrible accident.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
How did they even find out? Did somebody do a
wellness check? Like I hadn't heard from him in a
couple of days or what? No idea must have been
something like that, right. Maybe the dogs who survived called again?
Too soon? Too soon?
Speaker 5 (30:07):
Wow, I apologize.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
We're gonna play one of Gene Hackman's greatest movie.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Roles for you an hour four. We'll have a clip
of that, among other things we got coming up systems. Yeah,
my new favorite to figure in government, Howard Lutnik speaking
of cutting the budget and fiscal health. Oh my gosh,
great stuff. You're gonna love him. I don't like his name.
What I don't like the name Lutnik? Yep, please, No,
that's the way it sounds. We got that coming up stair.
(30:40):
We used the word Trantifa on the air before. Have
I come across? Yes?
Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yeah, okay, I have Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Anyway, our four we'll talk about this latest Trantifa activist
that just got arrested in Colorado wanting to blow up
a Tesla property.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Got some great audio to get to, so I'll keep
this short, but I was just saying a jack off
the air. I am so glad we have people who
know what they're dealing doing, dealing with taxes and the
money stuff and everything. As we're getting toward tax time
and we have a couple of different relationships and it's
a little complicated, but it returns me to the thought
that we've had so many times that it's insane that
(31:17):
a person, just a regular person with a regular tax return,
has to pay somebody to help them figure out how
much the government owes them.
Speaker 5 (31:23):
It's absolutely idiotic.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
It needs to be reformed, it needs it desperately, and
maybe now is the time that happens.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
So Special Report with Brett Bear.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Last night Brett was talking to Howard Lutnick, who's the
secretary of Commerce at at his office, Commerce Building. And Lutnick,
who is so excited about his job. He's really a
fascinating guy. He ran a big firm on Wall Street,
lost hundreds of employees on nine to eleven, including his brother.
He was only spared because he was taking his little
boy to his first day of school.
Speaker 5 (31:51):
Oh my god, I think it was his partner.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
As brothers little boys first day of school had been
the previous day, so Howard lived.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
They all died.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
But anyway, but he is so crazy enthusiastic about what
he's doing right now. I have two clips I want
to play for you from the from the interview. This
is forty eight first handsome.
Speaker 7 (32:12):
US postal service coming under commerce. I mean, where did
that come from? And what is that about? And how
will Americans deal with it? Will it affect their mail?
Speaker 9 (32:23):
No, it won't affect their mail. So the concept was,
I'm sitting with the president and the costs of the
post office are like it loses seven billion dollars and
he said, can you do something with it? And I
said sure. So I saw him the next day. He goes, Okay,
what do he got? You know, he gives me a
whole twenty four hours to figure it out. And I said, well,
the Commerce Department does the census, and we spend forty
(32:45):
billion dollars every ten years doing the census, and that
means we hire six hundred and twenty five thousand people.
And they go and they rent cars and gas and
you paying food.
Speaker 3 (32:53):
And you know what they do. They go to every
household in America and count the people.
Speaker 9 (32:58):
What department we already have that are already employed.
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Six hundred and twenty five thousand people, it's got cars,
already has gas, goes to every household.
Speaker 9 (33:06):
Can you imagine saying your postman, can you count the
people in the house?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
What day?
Speaker 9 (33:10):
Could he do the census?
Speaker 5 (33:11):
Monday?
Speaker 9 (33:12):
Could he double check it on Tuesday? How about Wednesday?
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Goes every day?
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So we can only save forty billion dollars or four
billion a year, and we'll do a better job. And
you know what else we can do with the post office.
They can go to your house when you have a
baby and give you the form for Social Security. And
the twenty thousand Social Security offices that we have, we.
Speaker 9 (33:30):
Just don't need them. We actually can do real customer service.
Speaker 5 (33:32):
Go right to your house.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Someone died.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
Here's the forums, you can fill it out. I'll bring
them to your house. Customer service.
Speaker 3 (33:38):
Why because we've got those people. Let's use the assets
of the government to make us better and save us money.
Speaker 1 (33:47):
We can be smart.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
You know, we're loud howl liking great.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Is that that's fantastic even if the specifics don't work
out for some reason. The spirit of it, right, which
is the spirit of private enterprise, come to government. Wait
a minute, Wait a minute, Well, why are we doing
two different things here? They're essentially the same Businesses' combine
them and save you know, seventy percent of the budget.
That's right.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
And if you're only look at things as the way
people in government look at things, you could have two
things grow up separately that overlap, but you don't think
about it or care because you don't think about money.
You don't care about money. There's endless tax payer money.
You don't care if it's sufficient or not, as opposed
to a businessman and says, wait, we got two things, we.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Could have one thing right. It's way more insidious than
not caring. You would never bring it to anybody's attention,
because then you wouldn't have the turf and the budget
and the people under you as the census guy. You
would never say, hey, you know what, mister president, the
Post Office could do this. It just came to me
in a dream last night. We should get rid of
my giant fiefdom in DC and my big house in
(34:50):
Fairfax and the rest of it. I'm not necessary. Yeah,
wait for that to happen. That's so positive and good.
I hesitate to do this. Do we have time for
a minute long clip? No, Okay, we'll do it next hour.
Lutni goes on to talk about Brett asks him.
Speaker 5 (35:05):
What are you worried about?
Speaker 1 (35:07):
And lot next description of why he's worried about China
is great, cool.
Speaker 4 (35:14):
I'm worried about our college system and the numb nut
students at Columbia took over a building yesterday fighting for
the rights of Homas and we've got some chanting and
stuff from them, and how that played out.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
It's ridiculous. I'm telling you. The snow flaky, idiotic goodness
of their chanting is amazing. It's some of my favorite
stupid chanting of all time. Please join us for Next Hour.
If you don't get Next Hour, you got to go
somewhere whatever. Grab it via podcast later Armstrong and Getting
on demand. You should probably be safe and subscribe or
(35:48):
fallow and enjoyed today's show because it's a decent chance.
I've got a bola. I haven't been able to nail
down what illness it does I have, but I'm just
assuming it's obola. Yeah, you're bleeding from the eyes and ears.
I didn't want to bring it up. I felt indelicate,
but it's probably a bola. You actually sound and look
better today, are you? Or is it just better drugs.
I'm not on any drugs, but I don't feel better.
(36:12):
I'm glad I sound better. That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
That's absolutely Maybe I'll pull both feet out of the
grave and just have one foot in the grave.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
Our four will be big.
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