March 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Lent, trans in our military & useful morons
- Stuffed crust pizza & Bill Murray comments on Bob Woodward's book
- Trump makes English the official language of the US
- Final Thoughts!
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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
Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So I see some people on Fox with ashes on
their forehead. It is as it is ash Wednesday, and
Fox is a religion approving network. You won't see that
on any other channels probably, but it is ash Wednesday,
and I am I'm not Catholic. I've always admired Lent
has an idea. As a kid, I thought it was lent,
(00:44):
but that is what is in your belly button and
or dryer vent lent, the whole giving up something for lent.
When I was a kid, I had lots of Catholic friends.
All all the private Catholic school kids rode the same
buss me to school and then they'd get off at
Saint Joseph. I'd go to the public school the second
or public school. But anyway, they were into the whole
Lent thing and what they would give up, and it
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just always seemed like a good idea to me. It's
kind of like a New Year's resolution, but it's just
I think a little more you stick to it. A
little closer. Yes, Kate, I think it's an outstanding idea.
I'm Catholic.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
In one year I made the joke that I was
giving up lent for Lent, and the priest did not appreciate.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It, didn't think it was funny. Heard they he'd heard
that one before. That's the are you giving anything? Are
you a lapse Catholic? Or are you giving up something
for lent? This camera. No, I'm not giving up anything. Okay, exercise,
that's what I'm giving up. I'm sorry, it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Mocking and truly wise sacred and ancient tradition of making
a sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I apologize, but because it is what goes along
with lent in this week is always fat. Two day
in Marti Gras happening in New Orleans, and I just
saw some Marti Gras revelers down there. Cyber truck had
pulled up on the street and there was a tremendous
(02:09):
amount of booing going on, and I just thought that
was interesting that that is like seen as an I
was going to say a vehicle, but it's actually a vehicle,
so using it as a here's the sound the crown
going a cyber truck pulling truck while the music pulsates
(02:30):
in the background, women are showing their boobs for meads.
Yet it's still time to do the leader of doge
because you hate cutbacks and spending.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I just don't get it. Wasteful spending, idiotic spending. That's
just tribal signaling. Ooga boga, don't care. Yeah, speaking of
that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up
playing chest for LNT? I am, yes, no more chadulis so.
(03:05):
One of the themes that the President struck in his
speech last night was getting rid of a bunch of
woke crap and transgender this and that, which I thought
was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in I don't know,
twenty minutes, half an hour or something like that. But
I thought a couple of things were very interesting, one
more newsy and one more philosophical. But first of all
(03:27):
the newsy thing. For the last decade, the establishment media
have touted advocates claims as fact that we have roughly
fifteen thousand transgender people serving in the US military. If
you're not familiar with the term, it means a person
of one sex pretending to be the other.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sex Wow, and over and over again.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I've heard the fifteen thousand numbers and thought, damn, that's
a lot. I know, yeah, I was. I didn't either,
but I had no idea what to think. But this
week President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is
about forty two hundred service members, which is still a
hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter
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of what they were claiming. This adds up to one
transgender person for every five hundred service members in a
military of two point one million active in reserve members.
I am surprised that it is that many, and I'd
be curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That would cause that. I mean, you talk about ridiculous tribalism.
I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night. Most of
you don't know who he is. He used to be
one of my favorite pundits. He is a hardcore conservative,
like in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal, founded
I think the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers
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of conservatism, and Bill Crystal carried that on and then
Bill Crystal hated it, called Berry Goldwater a moderate. Bill Crystal,
who used to be on you know, like meet the
press and face a nation and arguing for conservatives all
these years. He hated Trump so much he went over
with the people that formed the Bulwark, and they have
become a grift machine. And they've just figured out that
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if they say bad things about Republicans that they can
make a lot of money. And this is what Bill
Crystal tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans. You
don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience to
know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust
and dangerous. You've lost your mind just because he hasn't
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lost his mind. He's become so cynical. He just thinks,
you know what, it's all a game anyway, screw it.
There are enough of these people out there. If I
take this angle, they'll continue to, you know, donate money
to us and read our stuff and give us clicks,
and I'll make it look whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, I give them the converts. Everybody wants to celebrate
the converts.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yep, yep, yeah, wow, that is some cynical crack.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical
have looked at the world around us, and I think
a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore activists
in the woke thing are neo Marxists, and the woke
thing is just an excuse to say, you're in charge
of this institution, but you're a racist, and I can
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prove it with my anti racist theories, and obviously we
can't have a racist in charge, so now I'm in charge.
It's a method of conquest. It takes over institutions, be
they you know, schools or government departments or whatever. We
get the hardcore doing that, the people who want to
be nice people and they go along with it. This
is the useful idiots, and they are legion in their numbers,
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and often it's young people because young people are easy
to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The problem with that term is that Lenin's term, I
think it is. Yeah, John Lennon, no v I Lenin.
The problem with that term is that it's obviously quite insulting.
It's not a good way to explained to someone that
they maybe are being used for a purpose that they
do not agree with. If you call them an idiot, right,
you know, you make a good point.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Let's go with useful morons instead useful halfways. No, it's
it's actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which
is what I'm leading toward.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's long been known that.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
All the intelligence agencies and governments of the world are
interested in influencing people to believe certain things to support
certain programs or certain governments. I mean, that's that's obvious, right, Propaganda,
the Hitler Youth, to the Malte Tongue and his Red Guard,
just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy
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who's been studying this his whole life, his name is
a Jason Christoff, and he did a presentation recently that
was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson speaking of rock ribbed Conservatives,
and he explained how mine control it is easy to
execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops. He said
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he quote he said, Mimetic programming, which is the process
of having someone learned to imitate patterns and behaviors, is
routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations and governments.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Quote. Mind control works on the subconscious, and the subconscious
is something that loves us and wants to protect us.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And it's in the realm of activity, similar to your
heart beating. So there are things you understand as a
human being that you're not in control of their instinctive.
Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the
bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is
responsive to repetitive content.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Simply put, people are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Always looking to learn what a larger group is doing
and fit in, meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful.
You know, obviously we're just talking about conformity.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Here all but all sales organizations know this sure, quoting
again from mister Christoff.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
The reason the subconscious does this is because it knows
that most humans like other humans who act, talk, and
think like they do. And all the subconscious know, and
all your subconscious know that it's safer to bond with
a bigger group. To break this mind control technique down further,
your subconscious automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to
adopt ideas as their own. Your reptile brain is telling
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you you decided this on your own, to go along
with the crowd, because, for whatever reason, that what works
better with humans. It's more adaptive. As they say in anthropology,
that's why.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
For example, do any of my beliefs come from my
own thinking? Or is this all just because I was
surrounded by it.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I think sometimes the best you can do is be
intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now
and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's
a great other topic.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
What time is it? Yeah, we're good, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
This is why, for example, at a party where there's
a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can
feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if
you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content,
your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and
full of anxiety, and it will also reward you for
going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and
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calm in the feeling of calmness.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That's so, there's more to peer pressure than meets the eye.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Right, exactly, It's not weakness, it's it's anthropologically adaptive. The
problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're going
to be fine having a drink, or unless somebody is
trying to feed your roofy and rape you or something
like that, you're fine Bill Cosby's house or oh right, exactly.
In short, but if there is an insidious group bent
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on evil utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get
an entire generation of young people walking around saying it's
not wrong to have a man in a woman's sport,
even though he whoops the hell out of the women
and takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have
a man in a women's prison because that man says
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he's a woman. They come up with an idea as
ludicrous is that a man who says.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
He's a woman is actually a woman. And then certainly
things that are easier to go for. I won't say
fall four like hearing about climate change every class you're
ever in your whole life, right.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Christoph actually touched on the COVID nineteen pandemic in the response.
He said, media let's push highly similar similar narratives to
quote unquote control people, influencing them to stay at home.
Mind control is the basis of all advertising, and the
governments have been proven to be using the same group
dynamic application against the public. He pointed to examples such
as the UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known is the
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Nudge Unit.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No it's a former government organization now run by a charity,
which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example,
by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay
their taxes on time.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Christoff believes such tactics have been used to drive social
changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on
screen diminishing since the nineteen fifties in favor of less
conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations
use similar strategies.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But we're running out of time. But you get the idea.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And I've often said, you don't need to do what
the culture is doing because a lot of that is
designed by people who do not have your best interests
in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this
is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that
that is your animal brain being used, often by evil
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people to try to get you to behave in a
certain way.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That's really interesting stuff. I have many thoughts about that.
We need to take a break though. More on the way.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Domino's Pizza has launched the chain's first stuffed crust pizza,
and it might be a big seller because apparently it's
stuffed with better pizza.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like the sound of stuffed crust pizza, but I've
not had any that I liked. It's just too much.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh yeah, I liked it because you could dip it
in sauce and it was kind of like, it's fine.
I mean, it's rearranging the ingredients. So what to each
their own. If you enjoy a stuffed crust, friends, eat
it with our blessing.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So I've seen a lot of videos popping up over
the last several weeks of Saturday Night Live stars, and
I guess that's around the fact that they had the
fiftieth anniversary show when they were all there, or they
have projects, or they're back in the news. I don't
know why, but I've seen lots of different stuff popping
up in interviews and stuff like that. Bill Murray was
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on a podcast the other day. He was part of
the original crew when Saturay and Life started. She's fifty
years ago. He's an old man now, but a famous actor,
and he was friends with John Belushi. John Belushi among
the biggest stars to ever come out at Saturday Night Live.
(14:35):
But if you're old enough to remember, he died quite
young because he got kind of into the party lifestyle
and that did him in was the cause of death.
That's pitball, did two America and cocaine, yeah odeed. Any who,
there was a book about John Belushi written by Bob Woodward.
(14:56):
Of all the topics for Bob Woodward to take on,
he wrote a boo called Wired about John Belushi's demise,
and Bill Murray was on a podcast talking about that book.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
When I read Wired, the book written by what's his
name Woodward about Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired,
and I went, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They framed Nixon like.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
All of a sudden, I went, oh my god, if
this is what he writes about my friend that I've known,
you know, for you know, half my adult life, which
is completely inaccurate. Talking to like the people of the
outer outer circle getting the story, what the hell did
they could they have done to Nixon? I just felt like,
if he did this to my friend like this, and
(15:47):
I acknowledge only read five pages, but the five pages
I read, you know, made me want to like set
fire to the whole thing. If you get five pages,
I went, if they if he did this to Belushi,
what he.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Did in Nixon's is probably soiled for me too. I
can't I can't take it. And I know you say, well,
you can have two sources and everything like that, but
the two sources that he had, if he had them
for the Wired book, were so far outside the inner
circle that it was criminal.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I fraught. That was really interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I read every time you bring up Bob Woodward and
his books, and he's done some brilliant reporting and he's
crazy smart guy. But I think of a long article
I read about Wired that was one of the most
convincing and brutal indictments of a journalist I've ever heard.
He would report on a something that happened, brought to
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him by like an outer outer, outer ring person, and
wildly misinterpret what happened and why it happened, to the
point that the people who were there and participating in
it thought, this is fiction.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Do you think this was a cash grab about something
that wasn't important enough for him to care about getting
the fact straight? Or I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I wish we had time to elaborate a little bit,
maybe next half hour.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's pretty interesting though. A lot more on the way
stay here Armstrong and Getty, And.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Two days ago I signed an order making English the
official language.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Of the United States of America.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America,
and likewise I renamed for a great president, William McKinley,
Mount McKinley again.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Beautiful Aska as another one of my faves.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Oh, coming up, really interesting perspectives from somebody who was
in the room.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I liked forty eight, Michael.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
And we've ended weaponized government where as an example, a
sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent
like me.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
How did that work out? Not to account? Not for good.
JD was highly amused by many of Trolle's comments. Yes
he was, he was.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Indeed, he touched on a lot of the DEI and
protecting women's sports stuff that I absolutely loved.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
This was pretty good to fifty six.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
As you've heard me say many times, we have more
liquid gold under our feet than any nation on earth,
and by far, and now I fully authorized the most
talented team ever assembled to go and get it.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's called drill, Baby drill. And the Democrats are against that,
I guess because they don't like fossil fuels.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Right right, right, And they're also against this, bizarrely enough,
Clip sixty four place.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers, and
child predators who are allowed to enter our country under
the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the
Biden administration, the open border insane policies that you've allowed
to destroy our country, we will now bring in brilliant,
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hard working, job creating people. They're going to pay a
lot of money, and we're going to reduce our debt
with that money.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And then my last request, this has become controversial. I'm
told Jack seventy three.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or
wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end
in sight. The United States has sent hundreds of billions
of dollars to support Ukraine's defense, with no security, with
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no anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, you would say, Pocahonta says yes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
He'd called Elizabeth worn Pokahontas from the podium in the
in the capital. PoCA Hunta says, yes, yeah, I know
something else was that racist. I don't care. Well the
number of people have said it's racist to Charlie C.
Cook of National Review pointed out, the comment is about
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the fact that she lied about being an Indian, right
so that she could be the first person of color
in Harvard or something like that. The comment is not
about Polkahontas or Indians or anything like that. It's about
the fact that she lied about it. Says, Yes, the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
People who are claiming offense know that, but right, no,
they can weaponize I and I know this.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Is getting sidetracked from what we were talking about. I
just don't get the strategy on the whole Ukraine thing.
I just don't get it. So many Ukrainians have done
what were they supposed to do, not fight the Russians.
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, I think he's just talking about from this moment forward.
I don't get it either in full. But yeah, I
mean I would like him to say so many Ukrainians
and Russians have died unnecessarily because Vladimir Putin wants to
rebuild the so Via Empire, right.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah. I wish I remembered which pundit I saw yesterday,
some pundit or journalists, I think, who said, I've checked
in with many conservative foreign policy experts and have yet
to come across anybody who quite understands what the strategy
is here. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I'm a little
mystified myself.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But Trump's negotiating strategy, how he lays the groundwork for
doing deals sometimes strikes me as chaotic and incomprehensible. And then,
like the Panama Canal situation that we talked about earlier,
it works out fine. I never would have gone about
it that way, but the results.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay. Now, so he read from what a letter or
a tweet or whatever from Zelensky last night, and the
Zelensky is ready to do the deal and re meet,
and I assume he'll show up in a suit and
shave and do all the things that Trump wants him
to do. And then and then you still requires the
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other side to stop trying to kill you. Is putting
on board fat while they're on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean not by much, but you know, they're making
inch by inch progress while slaughtering many thousands of young
men of various ethnicity.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They're making an inch by inch progress. When we were
supporting Ukraine, we've just said we're not gonna support them anymore.
So if I'm rushing, I think, okay, cool, Yeah, No,
we're not coming to the table. Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Or we will come to the table, but continue fighting
and pretending to negotiate. But I wanted to squeeze this
in if we can. Unless you have more of substance,
that's fine. I'm pro substance. I just don't like substance abuse.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm on the tail end of the flu, so I'm
barely hanging on anyway. I got one. Well, grab a seat.
You're gonna like this.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
None other than Ethan Ham, the great brave whistle blowing
doctor from Texas who blew the whistle on the Texas
Children's Hospital that was continuing to perform cruel experimentals sex
change surgery on confused children even after Texas had outlawed it.
He was invited as a guest to the not the
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State of the Union State of the Union address last night,
and he made some really interesting comments in a Twitter
thread about how the Democrats refused to applaud anything, including
stuff that ought to be universally popular appoint Trump made. Actually,
that was one of the more powerful moments of the speech.
But then he said beyond the applause. There are a
few other notable observations. After al Green started yelling and
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shaking his cane at Trump, the first person security approached
was not Green but Nancy Pelosi, almost like she was
the pit boss for the DEM's side. I could tell
she was not pleased, since she didn't even turn her
head toward the security guard. This would have required Pelosi
to look towards her right side, which was the direction
where Green was embarrassing himself in front of the country.
Not really surprised by her reaction since this would have
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compounded the collective sense of defeat on the Democrat side
of the chamber.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Why by admitting that she's act sally the most powerful
person and not the current leader or I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I had a very perceptive question slash comment there. I
wasn't sure precisely what he meant by that.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Because she's just an eighty year old representative from northern
California at this point.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
What she supposed to do again an incredibly safe district. Yeah,
I thought that was interesting on that level, but there
was absolutely a thick sense of defeat that was unmistakable
as you watched it anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I'll jump in with this before you finished that.
So I was watching Mark Halprin's zoom call last night,
and I don't remember the name of the Democrat he
has on with him all the time. Seems like a
really nice guy, really like hardcore Democrat, but not woke.
So he's very unhappy that a lot of stuff Democrats do. AnyWho,
he said, you have no idea how enraged the Democratic
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base is currently combination of defeated and enraged feeling that
the Democratic Party is not fighting, is not doing anything,
is just rolling over. So some of the dumb ideas
they came up with last night with the signs and
we won't stand for anything, is just an attempt to
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show them that they were trying to do something, but
they got no good answers. There's no real reasons. Nobody
is emerged as like the leader, like the voice of
the party.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Right and all reciting that silly you're gonna hear s
that isn't true. That was written in all the dozens
of you know government Lackey's repeated. But anyway, I believe that.
So back to Ethan Ham, he said, well, the cameras
were focused on the characters on the chamber floor, they
missed the ones in the gallery, like the young woman
Caddy corner to my left. It looked like she was
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dressed in sweats and was fully passed out for the
entire speech, And it didn't seem like this was an
act of protester defiance, but that she was actually sleeping,
working her way through multiple ram cycles. She even used
the tight seating in the gallery to her benefit, ying
on her neighbor's shoulders and arms to achieve the most
comfortable position possible for an extended tiger snooze.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
At one point I thought she.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Was snoring, Unfortunately I was too far away to obtain
audible verification.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
How are you connected enough to be in that hall,
but so disinterested you sleep through the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Then there was a young guy with a voluminous shoulder
length mullet, a Lieutenant Dan esque military jacket, and blue jeans.
One of the guys sitting next to me said it
was likely one of Peter Thield's famous tech prodigies. Probably
top three coolest people in the room I am in.
Then there was the entire row of mainstream media journalists,
about a dozen or so directly behind Trump in the
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gallery got to mean the Trump family Millennia. What made
this stand out was that they all had the same
gray MacBook, which formed a wall of Apple logos.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It was too.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Symbolic for the current moments in American history. The irony
was almost too much, given the viral video earlier that day,
which showed over twenty day Democratic senators reading the same
script using the same microphone, producing one of the most
cringeworthy displays of shameless and often inticity.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I can remember we have that, absolutely true. I haven't
heard that. Yeah, I was looking for that on the list.
Where is that? Go ahead and roll it. I don't
know where it is. It's not earlier we have that guy.
Is that from yesterday? Or is that I asked for
it today. I think it's all on the list.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
We have so much audio today or thirty ago.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are not down, They're up.
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are up, not down.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
That ain't true.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's what you just saw. Since day one of Donald
Trump's presidency, prices are up knocked down. That was just
three of the twenty two that all did precisely the
same thing in the same way, using the same equipment.
But we're hip and cool and bomb in the modern world.
Don't they realize we're going to catch on to that?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I don't know, I know, I know, and it's just
so sad and pathetic. But to wrap up Ethan Haymes commentary,
but the most remarkable, remarkable part of it all was
the indescribable energy coming from the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It was truly a sight to see such an impressive.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Group of people, well some of them are from every
possible background and every political persuasion collesced around a shared
vision one of the most important moments in American history,
and I was able to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Will be forever grateful for Senator Hawley having me as
a guest. Okay, cool, here's a little punditry around it.
Scott Jennings, he's the conservative they have on CNN for
the roundtable. He said, this was a horrific night for
the opposition party. Democrats came into the speech lost and
defeated by Donald Trump. It looks to me like they're
even more lost and even more defeated when the speech started. Okay,
(29:53):
I would agree, yeah, and yes, I We'll use that
clip for the rest of their lives. Brit Hume said
last night on Fox if you've ever doubted that Donald
Trump is the political colossus of our time in our nation,
this night and this speech should have put that to rest.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
The why of the Democrats are still hardcore and uniformly
against protecting girls from boys in sports, women from men
in sports. It's like an eighty six to eight issue,
eighty five to eight, and they still can't get a
single vote. They won't allow a single member in either
House to cross the line and say, yeah, I don't
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think men should be raping women in prisons. I don't think,
you know, men should be beating the crap out of
women on sports fields.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Not even one man that is sad or I don't
like everything Doge is doing, but I love cutting these
wasteful programs so we'll have more money for good programs.
Not one would applaud that, Yeah, you're just gonna write
that into the ground. At what point a long constructions
we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Sir, I'm gonna miss my flight.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Wis momento, But I'm going to miss my flight. Why
didn't you get it before you picked me up. I'm
on my way to the airport and I'm going to
miss my flight because my Uber driver first of all,
took a wrong turn. Second of all, is stopping to
get gas, which has never happened before. So I always
(31:37):
wonder with these sorts of things, are you doing this
to post it to get clicks or were you recording
this to like have evidence of the fact that you
got screwed by the Uber guy and you want your
money backer. I don't know what, but yeah, I had
a bad run of lift drivers I was using Lyft
in La. So I'm not willing to draw any conclusions yet,
(31:59):
but and it was several bad, not good in any way.
And I just I don't know if there's a labor
situation going now where they're having to be less picky
about who they hire or what, or if it was
just unique to the two days I was in La. Yeah,
I'm a little.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Vexed by the fact that that whatever Uber Lyft whatever
hes guy could not speak a lick of English.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I didn't even say I needed gas. I had
a couple of those well, I told you, I got
the message of your uber driver is hearing impaired, so
please learn how to say helloga and goodbye and sign
language before he gets there, which I thought was hilarious. Sure,
I'll just pick up a foreign language real quick, standing
here with my bag outside the airport, because you know,
(32:48):
sign language is a foreign language to me. But as
people pointed out to me, that's cover four. I don't
speak English. That way you can just get away with
not being to speak English. Well, it's pretty tough if
you can't talk to him. But because I had somebody
who I couldn't talk to, he just kept going around
the hotel. I was like, it's over there, you gotta
turn to just kind of said some words I didn't understand,
and did the shrug his shoulders, and I started like
(33:11):
pointing and saying left really loud, Like if I said
it loud in English, you'd understand what I'm saying. It's
a weird habit that they're a tendency that humans have
left left that makes any difference. But oh what am
I supposed to leave for a rating? If you couldn't
get me where I'm going and I couldn't talk to you,
(33:33):
and then if I give you one star, do I
get a one star? I never know how to handle
those situations.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
Eleven score and seventeen minutes ago, aren't strong? And Getty
brought forth upon this nation a new broadcast and now
final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Now, okay, the great Abe Lincoln. There wait, great, here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
wrap things up for the day, beginning with our technical
director Mike Aangslow.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Michael final thought, Yeah, we need to return humanity to politics.
When you're at a State of the Union and there's children.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Involved and involves them recovering from cancer, everybody should be
on their feet applauding.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I don't care what not do. That is a stunning indictment.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, you're so right.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Katie Green's wearing a doge had Katie final thought?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I thought last night, I thought it was great. I
think Trump did a great job. And I'm with Michael.
If I was a Democrat today, I'm embarrassed that that's
who's representing that party.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah, sad, sad Jack the final thought for us.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
So, according to the doctor, yesterday, I had the flu
or still have the flu, recovering from the flu. And
then I was wondering about the flu vaccine would have worked.
Then a doctor friend of mine sent me the CDC
chart on this, which I'll assume is accurate. But it
says the flu vaccine last year was forty two percent effective.
What does that mean? Does that mean if you got it?
(34:58):
I don't know what it means.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
There are to pull strains of the flu, and they're
never sure which ones are going to be big in
your area, and so forty two percent of the time
they got it right and it prevented people from getting
sick with the flu.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How do you know, though, you don't know if I
came in contact with the flu. Maybe I didn't get
the flu because I didn't come And I mean I've
never I didn't get the flu last year, and I
didn't get the vaccine.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
It's a test in the poopy water science. You wouldn't
understand taking my word for it, Okay. My final thought.
South Carolina plans to execute a man via a firing
squad on March the seventh. Cool to talk about that tomorrow, Cool.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He says, bloodthirsty maniac Armstrong and getty wrapping up another
grueling four hour workday. The firing squad.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So many people think, so little time, So many people
who ought to be in front of a firing squad.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You saw him last night on the TV. Got armstrong,
getty dot com our electricity rates too much or they
use old sparky shee tomorrow, God bless America. I don't
know who saw them.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I'm strong and getty, but they should be fired.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's what you just heard. Well, it's a collage of idiocy.
I can't imagine still doubting that. Who did doubt that?
That's a good question. What the hell are you talking about?
Doesn't that sound crazy? It seems like there's a few
kings in a slinky. That's what you just heard. It's true.
I've been thinking that we really all need a tremendous
hug in the world right now there you're trying to
expire by are strong and Getty.
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
So I see some people on Fox with ashes on
their forehead. It is as it is ash Wednesday, and
Fox is a religion approving network. You won't see that
on any other channels probably, but it is ash Wednesday,
and I am I'm not Catholic. I've always admired Lent
has an idea. As a kid, I thought it was lent,
(00:44):
but that is what is in your belly button and
or dryer vent lent, the whole giving up something for lent.
When I was a kid, I had lots of Catholic friends.
All all the private Catholic school kids rode the same
buss me to school and then they'd get off at
Saint Joseph. I'd go to the public school the second
or public school. But anyway, they were into the whole
Lent thing and what they would give up, and it
(01:05):
just always seemed like a good idea to me. It's
kind of like a New Year's resolution, but it's just
I think a little more you stick to it. A
little closer. Yes, Kate, I think it's an outstanding idea.
I'm Catholic.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
In one year I made the joke that I was
giving up lent for Lent, and the priest did not appreciate.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
It, didn't think it was funny. Heard they he'd heard
that one before. That's the are you giving anything? Are
you a lapse Catholic? Or are you giving up something
for lent? This camera. No, I'm not giving up anything. Okay, exercise,
that's what I'm giving up. I'm sorry, it's I'm.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Mocking and truly wise sacred and ancient tradition of making
a sacrifice.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
And I apologize, but because it is what goes along
with lent in this week is always fat. Two day
in Marti Gras happening in New Orleans, and I just
saw some Marti Gras revelers down there. Cyber truck had
pulled up on the street and there was a tremendous
(02:09):
amount of booing going on, and I just thought that
was interesting that that is like seen as an I
was going to say a vehicle, but it's actually a vehicle,
so using it as a here's the sound the crown
going a cyber truck pulling truck while the music pulsates
(02:30):
in the background, women are showing their boobs for meads.
Yet it's still time to do the leader of doge
because you hate cutbacks and spending.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I just don't get it. Wasteful spending, idiotic spending. That's
just tribal signaling. Ooga boga, don't care. Yeah, speaking of
that sort of thing. Oh, Michael, are you giving up
playing chest for LNT? I am, yes, no more chadulis so.
(03:05):
One of the themes that the President struck in his
speech last night was getting rid of a bunch of
woke crap and transgender this and that, which I thought
was terrific. And we'll play some highlights in I don't know,
twenty minutes, half an hour or something like that. But
I thought a couple of things were very interesting, one
more newsy and one more philosophical. But first of all
(03:27):
the newsy thing. For the last decade, the establishment media
have touted advocates claims as fact that we have roughly
fifteen thousand transgender people serving in the US military. If
you're not familiar with the term, it means a person
of one sex pretending to be the other.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Sex Wow, and over and over again.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I've heard the fifteen thousand numbers and thought, damn, that's
a lot. I know, yeah, I was. I didn't either,
but I had no idea what to think. But this
week President Donald Trump's Pentagon revealed that the number is
about forty two hundred service members, which is still a
hell of a lot, but it's just over one quarter
(04:10):
of what they were claiming. This adds up to one
transgender person for every five hundred service members in a
military of two point one million active in reserve members.
I am surprised that it is that many, and I'd
be curious as to what is going on psychosocially that would.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
That would cause that. I mean, you talk about ridiculous tribalism.
I came across Bill Crystal's tweet last night. Most of
you don't know who he is. He used to be
one of my favorite pundits. He is a hardcore conservative,
like in the classic style. His dad, Irving Crystal, founded
I think the Weekly Standard, one of the great writers
(04:53):
of conservatism, and Bill Crystal carried that on and then
Bill Crystal hated it, called Berry Goldwater a moderate. Bill Crystal,
who used to be on you know, like meet the
press and face a nation and arguing for conservatives all
these years. He hated Trump so much he went over
with the people that formed the Bulwark, and they have
become a grift machine. And they've just figured out that
(05:14):
if they say bad things about Republicans that they can
make a lot of money. And this is what Bill
Crystal tweeted out last night. Stand with trans Americans. You
don't have to understand everything about the transgender experience to
know that Trump's act of humiliation and dehumanization are unjust
and dangerous. You've lost your mind just because he hasn't
(05:35):
lost his mind. He's become so cynical. He just thinks,
you know what, it's all a game anyway, screw it.
There are enough of these people out there. If I
take this angle, they'll continue to, you know, donate money
to us and read our stuff and give us clicks,
and I'll make it look whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, I give them the converts. Everybody wants to celebrate
the converts.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Yep, yep, yeah, wow, that is some cynical crack.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
So, speaking of which, those of us who aren't cynical
have looked at the world around us, and I think
a lot of you probably understand that the hardcore activists
in the woke thing are neo Marxists, and the woke
thing is just an excuse to say, you're in charge
of this institution, but you're a racist, and I can
(06:17):
prove it with my anti racist theories, and obviously we
can't have a racist in charge, so now I'm in charge.
It's a method of conquest. It takes over institutions, be
they you know, schools or government departments or whatever. We
get the hardcore doing that, the people who want to
be nice people and they go along with it. This
is the useful idiots, and they are legion in their numbers,
(06:42):
and often it's young people because young people are easy
to indoctrinate.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
The problem with that term is that Lenin's term, I
think it is. Yeah, John Lennon, no v I Lenin.
The problem with that term is that it's obviously quite insulting.
It's not a good way to explained to someone that
they maybe are being used for a purpose that they
do not agree with. If you call them an idiot, right,
you know, you make a good point.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Let's go with useful morons instead useful halfways. No, it's
it's actually one of the better impulses in humankind, which
is what I'm leading toward.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
It's long been known that.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
All the intelligence agencies and governments of the world are
interested in influencing people to believe certain things to support
certain programs or certain governments. I mean, that's that's obvious, right, Propaganda,
the Hitler Youth, to the Malte Tongue and his Red Guard,
just all sorts of programs like that. And a guy
(07:43):
who's been studying this his whole life, his name is
a Jason Christoff, and he did a presentation recently that
was hosted by Senator Ron Johnson speaking of rock ribbed Conservatives,
and he explained how mine control it is easy to
execute because human beings are essentially walking psyops. He said
(08:04):
he quote he said, Mimetic programming, which is the process
of having someone learned to imitate patterns and behaviors, is
routinely used in Hollywood films and by powerful corporations and governments.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Quote. Mind control works on the subconscious, and the subconscious
is something that loves us and wants to protect us.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
And it's in the realm of activity, similar to your
heart beating. So there are things you understand as a
human being that you're not in control of their instinctive.
Your subconscious mind is always looking to establish what the
bigger group of humans is doing, and so it is
responsive to repetitive content.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Simply put, people are.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Always looking to learn what a larger group is doing
and fit in, meaning that repeated messages can be enormously powerful.
You know, obviously we're just talking about conformity.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
Here all but all sales organizations know this sure, quoting
again from mister Christoff.
Speaker 4 (08:59):
The reason the subconscious does this is because it knows
that most humans like other humans who act, talk, and
think like they do. And all the subconscious know, and
all your subconscious know that it's safer to bond with
a bigger group. To break this mind control technique down further,
your subconscious automatically absorbs repetitive content and forces people to
adopt ideas as their own. Your reptile brain is telling
(09:26):
you you decided this on your own, to go along
with the crowd, because, for whatever reason, that what works
better with humans. It's more adaptive. As they say in anthropology,
that's why.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
For example, do any of my beliefs come from my
own thinking? Or is this all just because I was
surrounded by it.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
I think sometimes the best you can do is be
intellectually honest and examine your beliefs and test them now
and again and try the other ideas. But anyway, that's
a great other topic.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
What time is it? Yeah, we're good, blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
This is why, for example, at a party where there's
a lot of alcohol being served and consumed, people can
feel nervous saying no when offered a drink. Quote, if
you dare say no in opposition of the most repetitive content,
your nervous system will make you feel extremely uneasy and
full of anxiety, and it will also reward you for
going along with it, putting your neurology at peace and
(10:23):
calm in the feeling of calmness.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That's so, there's more to peer pressure than meets the eye.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Right, exactly, It's not weakness, it's it's anthropologically adaptive. The
problem is, you know, unless you're an alcoholic, you're going
to be fine having a drink, or unless somebody is
trying to feed your roofy and rape you or something
like that, you're fine Bill Cosby's house or oh right, exactly.
In short, but if there is an insidious group bent
(10:55):
on evil utilizing these truths intentionally and aggressively, you get
an entire generation of young people walking around saying it's
not wrong to have a man in a woman's sport,
even though he whoops the hell out of the women
and takes all the titles. It's not wrong to have
a man in a women's prison because that man says
(11:16):
he's a woman. They come up with an idea as
ludicrous is that a man who says.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
He's a woman is actually a woman. And then certainly
things that are easier to go for. I won't say
fall four like hearing about climate change every class you're
ever in your whole life, right.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Christoph actually touched on the COVID nineteen pandemic in the response.
He said, media let's push highly similar similar narratives to
quote unquote control people, influencing them to stay at home.
Mind control is the basis of all advertising, and the
governments have been proven to be using the same group
dynamic application against the public. He pointed to examples such
as the UK's Behavioral Insights Team, informally known is the
(12:01):
Nudge Unit.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Have you ever heard of this?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
No it's a former government organization now run by a charity,
which uses behavioral insights to change people's behavior, for example,
by changing messaging to make people more likely to pay
their taxes on time.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Christoff believes such tactics have been used to drive social
changes for decades, with depictions of large nuclear families on
screen diminishing since the nineteen fifties in favor of less
conventional families with fewer children, among other things. And corporations
use similar strategies.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
But we're running out of time. But you get the idea.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
And I've often said, you don't need to do what
the culture is doing because a lot of that is
designed by people who do not have your best interests
in mind. So maybe the only great takeaway from this
is if you find yourself wanting to conform, understand that
that is your animal brain being used, often by evil
(13:03):
people to try to get you to behave in a
certain way.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That's really interesting stuff. I have many thoughts about that.
We need to take a break though. More on the way.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Domino's Pizza has launched the chain's first stuffed crust pizza,
and it might be a big seller because apparently it's
stuffed with better pizza.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like the sound of stuffed crust pizza, but I've
not had any that I liked. It's just too much.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Oh yeah, I liked it because you could dip it
in sauce and it was kind of like, it's fine.
I mean, it's rearranging the ingredients. So what to each
their own. If you enjoy a stuffed crust, friends, eat
it with our blessing.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So I've seen a lot of videos popping up over
the last several weeks of Saturday Night Live stars, and
I guess that's around the fact that they had the
fiftieth anniversary show when they were all there, or they
have projects, or they're back in the news. I don't
know why, but I've seen lots of different stuff popping
up in interviews and stuff like that. Bill Murray was
(14:14):
on a podcast the other day. He was part of
the original crew when Saturay and Life started. She's fifty
years ago. He's an old man now, but a famous actor,
and he was friends with John Belushi. John Belushi among
the biggest stars to ever come out at Saturday Night Live.
(14:35):
But if you're old enough to remember, he died quite
young because he got kind of into the party lifestyle
and that did him in was the cause of death.
That's pitball, did two America and cocaine, yeah odeed. Any who,
there was a book about John Belushi written by Bob Woodward.
(14:56):
Of all the topics for Bob Woodward to take on,
he wrote a boo called Wired about John Belushi's demise,
and Bill Murray was on a podcast talking about that book.
Speaker 6 (15:07):
When I read Wired, the book written by what's his
name Woodward about Belushi, I read like five pages of Wired,
and I went, oh my god.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They framed Nixon like.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
All of a sudden, I went, oh my god, if
this is what he writes about my friend that I've known,
you know, for you know, half my adult life, which
is completely inaccurate. Talking to like the people of the
outer outer circle getting the story, what the hell did
they could they have done to Nixon? I just felt like,
if he did this to my friend like this, and
(15:47):
I acknowledge only read five pages, but the five pages
I read, you know, made me want to like set
fire to the whole thing. If you get five pages,
I went, if they if he did this to Belushi,
what he.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
Did in Nixon's is probably soiled for me too. I
can't I can't take it. And I know you say, well,
you can have two sources and everything like that, but
the two sources that he had, if he had them
for the Wired book, were so far outside the inner
circle that it was criminal.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I fraught. That was really interesting.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
I read every time you bring up Bob Woodward and
his books, and he's done some brilliant reporting and he's
crazy smart guy. But I think of a long article
I read about Wired that was one of the most
convincing and brutal indictments of a journalist I've ever heard.
He would report on a something that happened, brought to
(16:42):
him by like an outer outer, outer ring person, and
wildly misinterpret what happened and why it happened, to the
point that the people who were there and participating in
it thought, this is fiction.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Do you think this was a cash grab about something
that wasn't important enough for him to care about getting
the fact straight? Or I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
I wish we had time to elaborate a little bit,
maybe next half hour.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
That's pretty interesting though. A lot more on the way
stay here Armstrong and Getty, And.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Two days ago I signed an order making English the
official language.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Of the United States of America.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America,
and likewise I renamed for a great president, William McKinley,
Mount McKinley again.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Beautiful Aska as another one of my faves.
Speaker 4 (17:52):
Oh, coming up, really interesting perspectives from somebody who was
in the room.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
I liked forty eight, Michael.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
And we've ended weaponized government where as an example, a
sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent
like me.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
How did that work out? Not to account? Not for good.
JD was highly amused by many of Trolle's comments. Yes
he was, he was.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Indeed, he touched on a lot of the DEI and
protecting women's sports stuff that I absolutely loved.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
This was pretty good to fifty six.
Speaker 8 (18:41):
As you've heard me say many times, we have more
liquid gold under our feet than any nation on earth,
and by far, and now I fully authorized the most
talented team ever assembled to go and get it.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
It's called drill, Baby drill. And the Democrats are against that,
I guess because they don't like fossil fuels.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Right right, right, And they're also against this, bizarrely enough,
Clip sixty four place.
Speaker 8 (19:17):
So while we take out the criminals, killers, traffickers, and
child predators who are allowed to enter our country under
the open border policy of these people, the Democrats, the
Biden administration, the open border insane policies that you've allowed
to destroy our country, we will now bring in brilliant,
(19:38):
hard working, job creating people. They're going to pay a
lot of money, and we're going to reduce our debt
with that money.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
And then my last request, this has become controversial. I'm
told Jack seventy three.
Speaker 8 (19:57):
I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine.
Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed or
wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict with no end
in sight. The United States has sent hundreds of billions
of dollars to support Ukraine's defense, with no security, with
(20:22):
no anything.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
Speaker 8 (20:29):
Yeah, yeah, you would say, Pocahonta says yes.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
He'd called Elizabeth worn Pokahontas from the podium in the
in the capital. PoCA Hunta says, yes, yeah, I know
something else was that racist. I don't care. Well the
number of people have said it's racist to Charlie C.
Cook of National Review pointed out, the comment is about
(21:03):
the fact that she lied about being an Indian, right
so that she could be the first person of color
in Harvard or something like that. The comment is not
about Polkahontas or Indians or anything like that. It's about
the fact that she lied about it. Says, Yes, the.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
People who are claiming offense know that, but right, no,
they can weaponize I and I know this.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Is getting sidetracked from what we were talking about. I
just don't get the strategy on the whole Ukraine thing.
I just don't get it. So many Ukrainians have done
what were they supposed to do, not fight the Russians.
I don't get it.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Yeah, I think he's just talking about from this moment forward.
I don't get it either in full. But yeah, I
mean I would like him to say so many Ukrainians
and Russians have died unnecessarily because Vladimir Putin wants to
rebuild the so Via Empire, right.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Yeah. I wish I remembered which pundit I saw yesterday,
some pundit or journalists, I think, who said, I've checked
in with many conservative foreign policy experts and have yet
to come across anybody who quite understands what the strategy
is here. Yeah, yeah, I would agree. I'm a little
mystified myself.
Speaker 4 (22:23):
But Trump's negotiating strategy, how he lays the groundwork for
doing deals sometimes strikes me as chaotic and incomprehensible. And then,
like the Panama Canal situation that we talked about earlier,
it works out fine. I never would have gone about
it that way, but the results.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Okay. Now, so he read from what a letter or
a tweet or whatever from Zelensky last night, and the
Zelensky is ready to do the deal and re meet,
and I assume he'll show up in a suit and
shave and do all the things that Trump wants him
to do. And then and then you still requires the
(23:01):
other side to stop trying to kill you. Is putting
on board fat while they're on the front foot.
Speaker 4 (23:09):
I mean not by much, but you know, they're making
inch by inch progress while slaughtering many thousands of young
men of various ethnicity.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
They're making an inch by inch progress. When we were
supporting Ukraine, we've just said we're not gonna support them anymore.
So if I'm rushing, I think, okay, cool, Yeah, No,
we're not coming to the table. Absolutely not.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
Or we will come to the table, but continue fighting
and pretending to negotiate. But I wanted to squeeze this
in if we can. Unless you have more of substance,
that's fine. I'm pro substance. I just don't like substance abuse.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
I'm on the tail end of the flu, so I'm
barely hanging on anyway. I got one. Well, grab a seat.
You're gonna like this.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
None other than Ethan Ham, the great brave whistle blowing
doctor from Texas who blew the whistle on the Texas
Children's Hospital that was continuing to perform cruel experimentals sex
change surgery on confused children even after Texas had outlawed it.
He was invited as a guest to the not the
(24:08):
State of the Union State of the Union address last night,
and he made some really interesting comments in a Twitter
thread about how the Democrats refused to applaud anything, including
stuff that ought to be universally popular appoint Trump made. Actually,
that was one of the more powerful moments of the speech.
But then he said beyond the applause. There are a
few other notable observations. After al Green started yelling and
(24:31):
shaking his cane at Trump, the first person security approached
was not Green but Nancy Pelosi, almost like she was
the pit boss for the DEM's side. I could tell
she was not pleased, since she didn't even turn her
head toward the security guard. This would have required Pelosi
to look towards her right side, which was the direction
where Green was embarrassing himself in front of the country.
Not really surprised by her reaction since this would have
(24:53):
compounded the collective sense of defeat on the Democrat side
of the chamber.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Why by admitting that she's act sally the most powerful
person and not the current leader or I'm not sure.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
I had a very perceptive question slash comment there. I
wasn't sure precisely what he meant by that.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Because she's just an eighty year old representative from northern
California at this point.
Speaker 4 (25:17):
What she supposed to do again an incredibly safe district. Yeah,
I thought that was interesting on that level, but there
was absolutely a thick sense of defeat that was unmistakable
as you watched it anyway.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
So I'll jump in with this before you finished that.
So I was watching Mark Halprin's zoom call last night,
and I don't remember the name of the Democrat he
has on with him all the time. Seems like a
really nice guy, really like hardcore Democrat, but not woke.
So he's very unhappy that a lot of stuff Democrats do. AnyWho,
he said, you have no idea how enraged the Democratic
(25:54):
base is currently combination of defeated and enraged feeling that
the Democratic Party is not fighting, is not doing anything,
is just rolling over. So some of the dumb ideas
they came up with last night with the signs and
we won't stand for anything, is just an attempt to
(26:15):
show them that they were trying to do something, but
they got no good answers. There's no real reasons. Nobody
is emerged as like the leader, like the voice of
the party.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Right and all reciting that silly you're gonna hear s
that isn't true. That was written in all the dozens
of you know government Lackey's repeated. But anyway, I believe that.
So back to Ethan Ham, he said, well, the cameras
were focused on the characters on the chamber floor, they
missed the ones in the gallery, like the young woman
Caddy corner to my left. It looked like she was
(26:45):
dressed in sweats and was fully passed out for the
entire speech, And it didn't seem like this was an
act of protester defiance, but that she was actually sleeping,
working her way through multiple ram cycles. She even used
the tight seating in the gallery to her benefit, ying
on her neighbor's shoulders and arms to achieve the most
comfortable position possible for an extended tiger snooze.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
At one point I thought she.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Was snoring, Unfortunately I was too far away to obtain
audible verification.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
How are you connected enough to be in that hall,
but so disinterested you sleep through the whole thing.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Then there was a young guy with a voluminous shoulder
length mullet, a Lieutenant Dan esque military jacket, and blue jeans.
One of the guys sitting next to me said it
was likely one of Peter Thield's famous tech prodigies. Probably
top three coolest people in the room I am in.
Then there was the entire row of mainstream media journalists,
about a dozen or so directly behind Trump in the
(27:43):
gallery got to mean the Trump family Millennia. What made
this stand out was that they all had the same
gray MacBook, which formed a wall of Apple logos.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
It was too.
Speaker 4 (27:52):
Symbolic for the current moments in American history. The irony
was almost too much, given the viral video earlier that day,
which showed over twenty day Democratic senators reading the same
script using the same microphone, producing one of the most
cringeworthy displays of shameless and often inticity.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
I can remember we have that, absolutely true. I haven't
heard that. Yeah, I was looking for that on the list.
Where is that? Go ahead and roll it. I don't
know where it is. It's not earlier we have that guy.
Is that from yesterday? Or is that I asked for
it today. I think it's all on the list.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
We have so much audio today or thirty ago.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are not down, They're up.
That ain't true. That's what you just heard. Since day
one of Donald Trump's presidency, prices are up, not down.
Speaker 9 (28:45):
That ain't true.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
That's what you just saw. Since day one of Donald
Trump's presidency, prices are up knocked down. That was just
three of the twenty two that all did precisely the
same thing in the same way, using the same equipment.
But we're hip and cool and bomb in the modern world.
Don't they realize we're going to catch on to that?
Speaker 4 (29:03):
I don't know, I know, I know, and it's just
so sad and pathetic. But to wrap up Ethan Haymes commentary,
but the most remarkable, remarkable part of it all was
the indescribable energy coming from the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
It was truly a sight to see such an impressive.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Group of people, well some of them are from every
possible background and every political persuasion collesced around a shared
vision one of the most important moments in American history,
and I was able to be part of it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Will be forever grateful for Senator Hawley having me as
a guest. Okay, cool, here's a little punditry around it.
Scott Jennings, he's the conservative they have on CNN for
the roundtable. He said, this was a horrific night for
the opposition party. Democrats came into the speech lost and
defeated by Donald Trump. It looks to me like they're
even more lost and even more defeated when the speech started. Okay,
(29:53):
I would agree, yeah, and yes, I We'll use that
clip for the rest of their lives. Brit Hume said
last night on Fox if you've ever doubted that Donald
Trump is the political colossus of our time in our nation,
this night and this speech should have put that to rest.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
The why of the Democrats are still hardcore and uniformly
against protecting girls from boys in sports, women from men
in sports. It's like an eighty six to eight issue,
eighty five to eight, and they still can't get a
single vote. They won't allow a single member in either
House to cross the line and say, yeah, I don't
(30:37):
think men should be raping women in prisons. I don't think,
you know, men should be beating the crap out of
women on sports fields.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Not even one man that is sad or I don't
like everything Doge is doing, but I love cutting these
wasteful programs so we'll have more money for good programs.
Not one would applaud that, Yeah, you're just gonna write
that into the ground. At what point a long constructions
we'll finish strong next.
Speaker 9 (31:06):
Sir, I'm gonna miss my flight.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Wis momento, But I'm going to miss my flight. Why
didn't you get it before you picked me up. I'm
on my way to the airport and I'm going to
miss my flight because my Uber driver first of all,
took a wrong turn. Second of all, is stopping to
get gas, which has never happened before. So I always
(31:37):
wonder with these sorts of things, are you doing this
to post it to get clicks or were you recording
this to like have evidence of the fact that you
got screwed by the Uber guy and you want your
money backer. I don't know what, but yeah, I had
a bad run of lift drivers I was using Lyft
in La. So I'm not willing to draw any conclusions yet,
(31:59):
but and it was several bad, not good in any way.
And I just I don't know if there's a labor
situation going now where they're having to be less picky
about who they hire or what, or if it was
just unique to the two days I was in La. Yeah,
I'm a little.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Vexed by the fact that that whatever Uber Lyft whatever
hes guy could not speak a lick of English.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, I didn't even say I needed gas. I had
a couple of those well, I told you, I got
the message of your uber driver is hearing impaired, so
please learn how to say helloga and goodbye and sign
language before he gets there, which I thought was hilarious. Sure,
I'll just pick up a foreign language real quick, standing
here with my bag outside the airport, because you know,
(32:48):
sign language is a foreign language to me. But as
people pointed out to me, that's cover four. I don't
speak English. That way you can just get away with
not being to speak English. Well, it's pretty tough if
you can't talk to him. But because I had somebody
who I couldn't talk to, he just kept going around
the hotel. I was like, it's over there, you gotta
turn to just kind of said some words I didn't understand,
and did the shrug his shoulders, and I started like
(33:11):
pointing and saying left really loud, Like if I said
it loud in English, you'd understand what I'm saying. It's
a weird habit that they're a tendency that humans have
left left that makes any difference. But oh what am
I supposed to leave for a rating? If you couldn't
get me where I'm going and I couldn't talk to you,
(33:33):
and then if I give you one star, do I
get a one star? I never know how to handle
those situations.
Speaker 9 (33:40):
Eleven score and seventeen minutes ago, aren't strong? And Getty
brought forth upon this nation a new broadcast and now
final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Now, okay, the great Abe Lincoln. There wait, great, here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
wrap things up for the day, beginning with our technical
director Mike Aangslow.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Michael final thought, Yeah, we need to return humanity to politics.
When you're at a State of the Union and there's children.
Speaker 4 (34:09):
Involved and involves them recovering from cancer, everybody should be
on their feet applauding.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
I don't care what not do. That is a stunning indictment.
Speaker 9 (34:18):
Man.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
Yeah, you're so right.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Katie Green's wearing a doge had Katie final thought?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I thought last night, I thought it was great. I
think Trump did a great job. And I'm with Michael.
If I was a Democrat today, I'm embarrassed that that's
who's representing that party.
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah, sad, sad Jack the final thought for us.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
So, according to the doctor, yesterday, I had the flu
or still have the flu, recovering from the flu. And
then I was wondering about the flu vaccine would have worked.
Then a doctor friend of mine sent me the CDC
chart on this, which I'll assume is accurate. But it
says the flu vaccine last year was forty two percent effective.
What does that mean? Does that mean if you got it?
(34:58):
I don't know what it means.
Speaker 4 (34:59):
There are to pull strains of the flu, and they're
never sure which ones are going to be big in
your area, and so forty two percent of the time
they got it right and it prevented people from getting
sick with the flu.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
How do you know, though, you don't know if I
came in contact with the flu. Maybe I didn't get
the flu because I didn't come And I mean I've
never I didn't get the flu last year, and I
didn't get the vaccine.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
It's a test in the poopy water science. You wouldn't
understand taking my word for it, Okay. My final thought.
South Carolina plans to execute a man via a firing
squad on March the seventh. Cool to talk about that tomorrow, Cool.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
He says, bloodthirsty maniac Armstrong and getty wrapping up another
grueling four hour workday. The firing squad.
Speaker 4 (35:37):
So many people think, so little time, So many people
who ought to be in front of a firing squad.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
You saw him last night on the TV. Got armstrong,
getty dot com our electricity rates too much or they
use old sparky shee tomorrow, God bless America. I don't
know who saw them.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
I'm strong and getty, but they should be fired.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
That's what you just heard. Well, it's a collage of idiocy.
I can't imagine still doubting that. Who did doubt that?
That's a good question. What the hell are you talking about?
Doesn't that sound crazy? It seems like there's a few
kings in a slinky. That's what you just heard. It's true.
I've been thinking that we really all need a tremendous
hug in the world right now there you're trying to
expire by are strong and Getty.
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