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March 31, 2025 36 mins

Hour 1 of A&G features...

  • The guys are at Sutter Health ball park & Trump's 3rd term
  • Katie Green's Headlines!
  • The Tesla protests & Elon handing out checks
  • Mailbag! 

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Speaker 1 (00:38):
Podcast broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Geddy arm
Strong and he.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Is Armstrong and ed the Major League ballpark, which you
will explain in a little bit Senior.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
A dimly route, not brightly out, looking straight out over
a by baseball field, which is very, very cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
And today we're under the two ledge of our general man.
Split it right out of my head. Oh the third term.
Oh jesus, yes, it's a dictator chip. Wow Hitler.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
That might be as great as troll ever. Uh like
yanking a puppet strings? Oh the arms fly up?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
Oh he yanks them again. Wow. Dance, little puppets dance.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
So yeah, we're at a major league ballpark. It's actually
it's called Sutter Health Park. It's where the A Triple
League A Triple A baseball team plays. But now the
former Oakland A's are playing here in Sacramento, California. And uh,
and we're out at the ballpark for opening Day. And
I'll tell you what. If you're somewhere else in the
country and you have a favorite team, I don't care

(01:53):
who it is, and they play the A's, you should
fly out to see your favorite team play. The A's
in a ballpark that is half or smaller than the
size of any major league ballpark you've ever been in.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It's a spring training park.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
If you've ever been a spring training those stadiums have
gotten amazing. It's probably actually a little smaller than one
or two of them. But yes, it's an intimate, beautiful
little park in a great location that Napa, the Valley
is handy, the Wine Country, Tahoe, San Francisco, our longtime
flagship station in beautiful Sacramento is going to be the

(02:28):
A's flagship. So they asked us to come out here,
and here we are. Yeah, we're sitting up in the
press booth looking out over the baseball field and it
is pretty cool, although it is an empty stadium completely
lit up though they live it lit up all night
every day.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Or is this because broadcasting today or I expect.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Human beings are going to be working very hard soon
to get the park ready for opening night. Will I
be able to order a hot dog? You can order one,
You order anything you want. I'll have the steak.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Media hot dog air. I'll just keep yelling that.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
See if anybody responds, Hey, beer Man because it's a
completely empty ballpark with the time.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Dolly, what God, he's loud. They gotta be able to
hear me clear over there.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
If a guy has a hot dog, I see no
hot dogs. It's a coffee machine, which is a miracle. Anyway,
if you don't know what Joe is referencing, so Trump
the way he does things. He called Kristen Welker of
Meet the Press. He calls her on the phone a
couple hours before broadcast, not a scheduled interview or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
He just calls her up.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
I didn't know that, like a couple hours before she's
gonna go on the air with Meet the Press. So
she goes on and unleash. It's a whole bunch of
big breaking news.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
I mean, a bunch of really important stuff.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
He talked about how angry he is with Putin and
Potin's really about to see the bad side of him
and everything like that if he doesn't come around, you know,
sort of thing he hasn't said yet. But anyway, he
also threw out because I think she asked him about it,
that he's serious about sticking around for a third term
and there's ways to do it.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
We're exploring it. But there are ways, what ways? Ways?

Speaker 3 (03:57):
There are ways, and that wasn't a way to troll
and jerk around the compliant media at all.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
But they reacted the way you would expect, again to
the puppet metaphor it.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
You know, what I'm really curious about is Putin, because
Putin has behaved in you know, in a big hurry,
in a way that was sure to derail Trump's you know,
charitable words toward him, charitable attitude toward him. I mean,
he didn't even like pretend for very long to be
interested because he agreed to that we won't attack each

(04:28):
other's energy infrastructure things, and then what was it? Within
thirty six hours or so, he bombed some Ukrainian energy
plan And so what's what's he playing at? You're trying
to solidify the relationship with the Chinese and deliberately taunting Trump.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I don't know. I have many thoughts on that, So
we'll probably do a whole segment on that. At some point.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
I'm looking out at the ballpark. It says over there,
A's which I'm from. Kansas City was originally the A's
Kansas City Negro League team way back, kans City Monarchs. Monarchs,
that's what the Negro league team, right Ken City A's
I think we're just a white people team or I

(05:15):
don't know, after that, after integration and we call it
major League base.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Paul check, white people team. There's like no black people.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
The weird thing is that there's like no black players
in the Major League base I know, I know, I've
seen the percentages from the seventies to today, and it's amazing. It's,
you know, white guys and Hispanic guys mostly not entirely,
but mostly because black athletes have decided they'd rather play
basketball or football.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, yep. Interesting.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
But anyway, they got up there, the nine time world champions.
So if I can see that far, it's like nineteen ten,
nineteen eleven, nineteen thirteen, what.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Was what was the who was playing back then? Nineteen thirteen?
Three fingers McGee, you don't remember, Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
His stuff was filthy dead ball air of course, then
dead batier as well.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Wasn't a lot of scoring AnyWho one hundred and fifty
feet between bases back in the nineteen tens.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Briefly, I wonder if you could pluck the best player,
which would actually at nineteen thirteen, the best player would
have been Babe Ruth. If you could pluck the best
player out of nineteen thirteen and put them in today,
could they could they make the team? I think the
bambino would see one hundred mile per hour fastball followed
by a ninety two mile per hour breaking pitch and
say what the hell is going on? Or he well,

(06:36):
I was going to say, or he would throw that,
but just nobody was doing that back well, they didn't
have a way to measure it either.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Well.

Speaker 3 (06:42):
Yeah, and the fitness regimen was show up, you know,
show up with your glove.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
That was spring training, and you had to work in
the off season.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
I had to get a friend of job as a milkman,
so I guess the training regimen was carrying creates a
milk up to people's front stoops. Sports were better then,
is the problems? The words were better when it was
structured that way. Thinking of NCAA college basketball, which is
ruined itself, the four number one seeds are in the
final four, just for the second time ever, and it's

(07:12):
because if you have a really great player. One of
the teams has a star that was on another small team.
I think Florida. Their biggest star played for some tiny
team that he might have taken to the final four.
If you didn't have this stupid you can transfer to
another team. Thing going on, right, And so now there
may never be another tournament where the four number ones
make it through. Thinking of Steph Curry when he took

(07:35):
Davidson to the final four nobody'd ever heard of in
their lives years ago, he would have transferred to Duke
or something, right, right, there will be no plucky midwestern
upstarts with nuns.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Who come to every game anymore. Ever, again it happened,
and then and then Big sports.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
Of course, for your sports fan at all, you know player,
he gets a contract to go play for your hated rival.

Speaker 2 (07:55):
He goes over there and plays for more money. I
like this illustration.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
In the past, the school that lacked rim protector or
a knockdown shooter would have to recruit a high school prospect,
wait for him to develop, and hope he could do
against the country's top Division one athletes what he flashed
and highlight reels from state tournaments. Now those teams the
top team's top conferences simply need to target a player
with the desired skill set in the portal and cut
an nil check for a proven commodity who doesn't need

(08:19):
to mature into the college game. Problem solved. So it's
like if say Major League Baseball had no long term contracts.
Everything was year to year, and probably the Dodgers and
Yankees would say, hey, we need a power hitting left
fielder who's in the portal and have five or six
guys to choose from. They'd offer him a giant contract

(08:39):
for a year, and the teams would constantly reshuffle and
everybody would filter forward the power team. So it's actually
worse than the setup for major league sports. Yes, well
that can't last, I think, so, yeah, that can't last.
Times changed for the worst usually, that's my assessment.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, and at.

Speaker 3 (08:59):
The risk of, you know, bringing the Black Lives Matter
people down on me, although this is not racial. In
the past, before free agency, for instance, you could you know,
you'd have a rookie player and he'd be raw talented,
and he'd grow into a mature player and then a
time honored star and a beloved you know, member of

(09:21):
the community that he'd retire and everybody'd have tears in
their eyes. Now you know, it's rent to players and
they absolutely have the right to seek employment where they
see fit, just like anybody else does. So it's much
more fair, reasonable and American. But it's not as good.
I don't think although your loser teams can become winners.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Through free agency. So I don't know. We should start
the show efficiently.

Speaker 3 (09:44):
There is quite a bit of news today, and a
fair amount of it from Donald Trump calling up the
host to meet the press right before the show started
and unleashing some stuff on her. Let's start the show officially.
I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty out at the Old
Ballpark on Monday morning, March thirty, first, the year tw
twenty five, or Armstrong and getting we approve of this program?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
All right, then let's jump.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
Into action precisely according to the FCC rules and regulations.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Here we go at Mark.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Will Smith has released his first new album in twenty years,
and ironically, the album doesn't.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Slap Crowd drowns, He goes wild.

Speaker 3 (10:21):
Will Smith could star in The Joe Getty Story, which
is podcasting.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
I wouldn't. I wouldn't go see it.

Speaker 3 (10:29):
I know I hate him so much. I hate him
so much. I see him on TV. I thought how's
anybody watching him walk through a red carpet. I would
actually boo him if I saw him. I haven't ever
bowed anybody. I don't think booh you fuck. I would
see nothing he was in. I would not put a
dime in his pocket. I'll seek other entertainment.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
The album does not slap, which is a common young
person expression. For Chris rock Guffaud that he loved it.
That's funny. Probably we've got Katie's headlines on the way.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
What's the other big story that hit me over the
weekend other than my son's boy scout trip, which I
want to talk about later. He learned how to tie
some knots. Sorry, show me square nott serve you the
rest of your life. I'll tell you a square knot.
I'm pathetic at knots. Oh, I'm gonna make me feel inferior.
I don't know how anybody should could go through life
without knowing I'm going a square knot.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Seriously, so far, so good? Really, I don't think I
never have.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Two pieces of string or rope that you need to connect,
and the square not's the only one that.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Wore shoelace, not pull a couple part. Yeah, well, square
knot part.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
That's why I have to buy a new boat every
year because they drift away. I don't know how to
secure them to the dock. It's been really expensive boat
every year because you can't do a half inch right.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Judy won't let me buy more than one a year.

Speaker 3 (11:43):
So actually, if you have growing up with some horses around,
you have to learn a few knots for that other
than well, you can't you're time to a post.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
That's the same problem as the boats. You gotta get
a new horse every time I go riding. You have
to get a new horse. Or I could learn a not,
but i'd have to google it. It seems like a
lot of works and you have to remember it. So uh. Anyway,
we'll get to all that stuff coming up.

Speaker 3 (12:02):
Katie's headlines on the way next text line four one
five two nine five k FTC. Anybody, I'm gone, god man,
no luck, we're out of the Major League Baseball park.

Speaker 2 (12:15):
I haven't eaten a single hot dog.

Speaker 3 (12:17):
He'd probably break into a fridge downstairs and get a
cold one. You that's pre cooked, eyeballs. My brother used
to walk around with a hot dog in his hand
when he's a little kid.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
We have pictures. We still talk about it.

Speaker 3 (12:28):
He'd walk around holding he'd go get it out of
the fridge, he'd eat it, he'd hold it in his
hand like it was Oh. He'd walk around eating a
cold otscar my here, hot dog?

Speaker 2 (12:36):
Why not? Why not?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
It's pre cooked right, It's like child childhood sharcooter.

Speaker 2 (12:41):
It delicious. What's up, Katie? Don't you wish you were
here with us?

Speaker 3 (12:47):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (12:47):
I so do a beautiful view we've got up here.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I'd like I'd like to have you ever watched a
baseball game from the press box? Yes?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Part of one? Mm hmm, this is a great view.

Speaker 3 (13:00):
I used to cover Illinois sports when I lived in
Central and Illinois right after college, so I'd occasionally watch
football games from the press box, which was fun, super comfy.
They got food and coffee and everything you want and
a bathroom. I mean, press guys are not like the
classiest people on earth, but it's better than the drunks
p and all over public bathroom.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
So that was that was the trough. The trough.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I was the announcer for my son's tackle football when
he was twelve years old eleven years old last year,
and I was announcer and I set up in the
press box at a college thing, so it was a
lot like this, but I had to also play the music,
so I would talk and then like when the time out,
I had to and it was hooked up to my iPhones,
so would have to play a song.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Then faded out.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And I faded it out too late. Play started. The
referees got it mad at me and they banned music.

Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh no, oh no, wow, good job Jack, Way to go,
Jack t cute. Yeah wow. All right, let's figure out
who's reporting what it's leaps through. It's Katy Green and
Katie Sorry we're late. Go ahead.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
We'll start with NPR from Seattle to Miami, anti musk
protesters gather at hundreds of Tesla locations.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Man, I saw some of those videos over the weekend.
These Tesla protesters.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Are completely unhinged.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
Someone had drive by to Tesla and they're just red faced, screaming,
eyes bulging, spit coming out of their mouths, Like, what.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Is wrong with you?

Speaker 3 (14:26):
It's really like pre civilization, quasi religious, the hatred. It's
it's the sort of bigotry that caused people to burn
other people into space.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, it's so nuts.

Speaker 4 (14:37):
Yeah, if you guys get into this later in the show,
I have a story for you about one of these
that's nowhere in the news and I've been looking for it.

Speaker 2 (14:44):
From ABC.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
Two people killed and dozens wounded in Russian attack on Kharkiv.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, the fighting race is hun From Breitbart.

Speaker 4 (14:55):
Hamas tortures and executes a twenty two year old Palestinian
who led anti FAMAS protests in Gaza.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
Oh. We talked about that last week.

Speaker 3 (15:05):
How incredibly, incredibly brave these people are for protesting in
Gaza against TAMAS and predictable result hopefully, you know, it's
a martyr situation where people rally around.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
From the New York Times, the self deporters. I chose
this because the coyotes that are usually smuggling people into
this country are now smuggling the illegals.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Out of this country. Yes, I like that. I tell
you what.

Speaker 3 (15:31):
The cartels are loathsome obviously in half a dozen different ways,
but clever and adaptable. They're amazing. They're like free enterprise
gone wild. All right, they're cutting off the drugs.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
What do we do?

Speaker 3 (15:43):
How about people? Let's smuggle people in. Now they're keeping
people out. Let's smuggle people out.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
From the New York Post. Next it'll be cryptocurrency like
the Trial Family.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Next it'll be single serve water bottles in California.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
I want to talk about that. There, boy from the
New York Post.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
Elon Musk hands out one million dollar checks to voters
after Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to intervene.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
Elon, who apparently doesn't have enough to do, is in
Wisconsin yesterday with a cheese head thing on top of
his head in front of a crowd, trying to get
everybody to vote the way he thinks people should vote
for Supreme Court in Wisconsin. And he's handing out what
big checks for all kinds of different reasons to get
people to the polls.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
Oh my god, that's odd and he's super into it.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
Well, I have talk about it later. But he said
civilization could depend on this vote.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
Well yeah.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
From Box News, Second Calthkit.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Take two, Take too, Second.

Speaker 4 (16:45):
South Carolina inmate chooses execution by firing squad.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
There you go is the first guy dead. It worked.
What's your first choice? What's your other choice?

Speaker 4 (17:00):
And finally, the Babylon Bee Greenland furiously making snowballs in
preparation for American military invasion fantastic.

Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know, if I'm giving the choice between old Sparky
and the firing Squad, I'm definitely going firing squad.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Yeah, yeah, I don't like either choice. But yes, we'll
get to some of the news of the day coming
up Station Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
That's a bunch of anti Elon protesters and from a
front of a Tesla dealership whatever day, that was their
day of rage, and some guy drove buying a cyber
truck with a Maga hat on and a long lost
their minds.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Oh you know what's funny.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
I was thinking as I was listening to that, this guy,
who's you know, pretty pro Elon, pretty pro Trump, I
felt zero shame in spite of the chanting. Not even
a glimmer of shame entered my soul. So good chanting.
So this, this guy d a number of people across
the country in Tesla's, drove by Tesla dealerships to provoke

(18:25):
or show their support the other direction, or however you
want to look at it. Counter protests, counter protest, that's fine.
So this guy drives by in the cyber truck with
a Maga hat on. That's obviously that, you know, you're
trying to provoke, but you get to they're trying to provoke, certainly,
but anyway, they go out and they're like, you know,
they got their hands on his vehicle, and then he

(18:46):
starts screaming at him, get your hands off my car.

Speaker 2 (18:48):
Which I don't blame.

Speaker 3 (18:49):
Him, but people are just I mean out of their
minds with anger screaming at this guy. It's just I
look at their faces and I think you are insane. Yeah, yeah,
I'm reminded of you know, one of my favorite Voltaire
quotes about if they can make you repeat absurdities, they
can make you commit atrocities. Those people have surrendered their

(19:12):
judgment to their you know, their religious overlords in the
woke movement, and they've been told this is satan. Then
he must be burned at the steak. And do they
not look like they be capable of it? Tiny elon
musk to a steak and setting them on fire. Absolutely,
So your level of in just over the top rage.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Can't control your emotions.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Rage is because somebody is driving a brand of vehicle
that was developed by I mean he's the lead shareholder,
but it's a public company now, was developed by a
guy who is now helping the current president try to
cut costs.

Speaker 2 (19:54):
Right, That's why you've got spit flying out.

Speaker 3 (19:56):
Of your mouth and you're screaming that the dude is
Hitler and it was a brand that you demanded ought
to be subsidized by the government, you know, six months ago,
a year ago, whatever, still is. If you make under
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, you get
a seventy five hundred dollars credit, which is other people's
money right to buy one of these vehicles.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Yeah, yeah, it's It is.

Speaker 3 (20:16):
Very much like religious wars at this point. There's no
reasoning with those people. If you were to sit them
down and say, you know, the Dose Fellows have made
some mistakes, but they're actually very serious people, and they
believe that the federal government doesn't serve the taxpayers and
it's spending itself into oblivion and.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
Blah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 3 (20:32):
They would look at you with blank eyes and then
start screaming with spit flying out of their mouths again.
So I wasn't sure if I was going to talk
about this on the air nut, but I'm more or
less incapable of not talking about that. Michael, do you
have an opinion on whether Jack should talk about this?

Speaker 2 (20:46):
I have no opinion. What who are you? What have
you done with? Michaelangelow?

Speaker 3 (20:53):
I purchased a Cyberbeast on Saturday, so I've been driving
it around the last couple of days. The amount of
attention you get in that vehicle, positive or negative, is unbelievable.
It's unbelievable, and it's been kind of fun so far.
I'm not sure it's the lifestyle I want going forward
if this continues.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
But it's just it's it's crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. How
could you drive any car on planet Earth that would
get you this much attention?

Speaker 3 (21:21):
Well, nobody's looking at that and saying, is that f
one fifty or a cyber truck? You know?

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Is that a Toyota or a Hyundai? No, you can
tell what it is. I'm a mile. I got thumbs
up and smiles.

Speaker 3 (21:31):
I got like coming out of the gas station or
the comedians start to get something. People peering in the
window checking it out, or just curious or uh angry hanks.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
A guy rolled coal on.

Speaker 3 (21:43):
Me as my son pointed out to me, what does
that mean if you got a big diesel truck and
you and you gun the engine a certain reasons, you
get all the black smoked.

Speaker 2 (21:52):
So I had my windows down and he rolled coal
next to me. Oh black smister. He should have road
raged him. How could car ever of vote that kind
of emotion from people?

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Topless women standing up in the sun roof of limousines
wish they could get as much attention as you were getting.
So I don't know how this is going to play
out over time, but anyway, so that's the craziness of
the Tesla protests and the pushback. Elon continues to be
involved in politics in a way that is just stunning.
So he's, as I mentioned, he was in Wisconsin over
the weekend because they're having an election and they got

(22:26):
Supreme Court justices on the line, and he's trying to
support the Republican And the quote from Elon Musk, which
is something I.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Think this is important for the future of civilization.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
The world's richest man, they always have to point out,
set on a stage in front of a bunch of
Wisconsin voters.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
It's that significant.

Speaker 3 (22:44):
So he came out in a cheesehead like, you know,
if you're root for the packers and the crowd went
wild and he was handing out one million dollar checks
to voters, and the current court decided not to intervene
in that and decided it was okay for some reason.
And it was like a random, watery thing. I'm canceling
everything and getting to the bank right now before anybody

(23:05):
changes their mind.

Speaker 2 (23:09):
The reason he thinks it's.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
So important is, yeah, yeah, this is a million dollar
check from Elon Musk. What's that a three day hold
on that? When can I access those funds? Various groups
have spent more than twenty million dollars backing this guy.
Shimmel the Republican to be Supreme Court just most expensive
judicial race in American history four to three, currently held

(23:30):
by the wo Liberals.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
You flip, that changes Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (23:34):
And obviously I understand the back and forth over I
must give it out million dollar checks to people, So
let's figure out if that's okay.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
On the other hand, as.

Speaker 3 (23:41):
They say, as Wisconsin goes, so goes Minnesota. Well, according
to Elon, the entire world because of this, Oh, if
Wisconsin Supreme Court is able to redraw the districts in
the way that they can jerry mander and deprive Wisconsin
of two seats on the Republican side, it may flip
the House to the Democrats, which will stop the government reforms.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
This is a little bit.

Speaker 3 (24:05):
Like if you give a mouse a cookie, but for
want of a nail, the shoe is lost. Yeah, but
he says it will stop the reforms. Dough just wanting
to do which is the only thing that's going to
keep the United States from going and solve it? And
the United States is the only thing that's keeping the
world from a completely falling apart. Which is not a
crazy theory. That is not wacky, No, not at all.

(24:25):
You know, I think we could probably survive the loss
of Wisconsin for a little while, because you know, countervailing
forces always pop up.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
But I see his point.

Speaker 3 (24:33):
And if you're not familiar with Wisconsin politics, and I'm
no expert by any means, but Wisconsin is full of
a lot of really good, salt of the earth, practical
people and a couple of big college towns full of
lunatics who are not like center left, good old left.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
They are full on woke nut jobs.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
And so, you know, I hope for the sake of
the people of Wisconsin. You know what's funny is when
your reasonable conservatives win things.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Life goes on quite swimmingly.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Nobody gets hounded out of their profession or screeched that
on the street. When was the last time you screeched
at somebody on the street, for instance, for the car
they were drying.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
Oh my god, I see somebody in a Toyota Prius
Hitler Stalin, I jump up on their hood. Sure that's reasonable.
It goes fine, which I think is why they have to.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Crank up the uh you know, the the utterly overcooked
rhetoric about how you know, gay marriage will end and
black people will be hounded out of their marriages and
whatever other harem scarem stuff is popular these days.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
It's all ridiculous. We can play. Have you noticed that?
You know what somebody's got to have.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
Elon Musk needs to he's got to buy one of
those giant billboards in Times Square and have a permanent,
semi permanent list of the scary things that were promised.
If whatever is the Trump gets elected and they're up
there all the time, and then you know, gay marriage

(26:06):
ends and have untrue hasn't end?

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Interracial marriage? Well yeah, sure.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
Just to remind people, your high priestesses of your secular
wackadoodle cult lie to you all the time.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
This stuff doesn't happen, So we play the clips.

Speaker 3 (26:24):
Later, Elon was on stage in front of this crowd
in Wisconsin saying civilization hangs in the balance, which is
a heck of a thing to say.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
About the Supreme Court justice.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
But we just laid out the math on that and
the way he sees it. But well, I'm gonna get
ready to home invade my neighbors to take their provisions
just in case civilization does crumble. Go a little more
Elon smart, a little more on the hymn handing out
million dollar checks, and just to say a.

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Speaker 2 (27:54):
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Speaker 3 (27:55):
Again, the code is Armstrong the Prize Picks app. Prize
Picks run your game now. I think you gotta be
honest as some of you that if George Soros was
handing out million dollar checks to Democrats to vote a
certain way, you would be screaming and yelling about how
outrageous that was. So I don't know what the legality
of this, but Elon Musk handed out one million dollar

(28:16):
checks to two Wisconsin voters he deemed spokespeople for his
cause after the state's highest court refused to hear a
lawsuit from the state attorney general over the cash giveaways.
Did the same thing in Pennsylvania during the presidential election,
and the court also didn't look into that. They were
considering that perhaps it's an illegal lottery, like he might
be in violation of lottery laws. But nobody's even claiming

(28:39):
he's in violation of election stuff right now, which is kind.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Of surprising to me. You can't have billionaires going around.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
I mean, you couldn't stand outside the poll and give
people twenty bucks to vote one way or another. There's
no verifying it for one thing, so and there's no
quid pro quo, but that is I mean, if you said, look,
you're a great spokesman for what I'm trying to do.
Here's a million dollars, keep preaching the good word. You've
hired a PR firm.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Really, Yeah, I don't know where you draw the line,
uh me, neither. It's a it's an odd question.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
I can see how people in the left are outraged
about it. Though sure it looks it looks bad.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
It's different. But it's innovative, Jack, That's what it is.
It's innovating outside the SpaceX.

Speaker 3 (29:27):
But I'll tell you what, I don't know how i'd
get through the day if I didn't just scream at
people based on what they drive.

Speaker 2 (29:32):
Though.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
Oh my son said to me at one point, We're
sitting there at the stop light, and he said, you
like to draw attention to yourself, don't You said, is
that why you do what you do? And I said
you'd be quiet, and I turned up the music.

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You're no son of mine? What I do. We've got
Katie's headlines on the way.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
Next, we need to talk about some of the sweep
stuff that we learned on Friday from textures. We got
a text from somebody who's done a lot of research
in the whole melotonin m hmm, and since half you
all struggle with sleeping, I'm sure that's a relatable.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
We also learned a lot about the whole ice bath thing.

Speaker 3 (30:08):
I just wake up to an ice bath, man, I'm
never gonna do that, so I don't. I couldn't sleep
all night in terror, right dreading about what would you know?
I'm gonna die of a heart attack in the morning.
Will my wife be taken care of?

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Yeah, that sounds terrible.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
Here's your freedom loving code of the day. We explained
earlier in the Hour that Jack and I are sitting
at a Major League ballpark in West Sacramento, California, where
the Athletics will be playing for the next three years.
Our flagship station for the talk show for many many
years in Sacramento is also the flagship of the eighth
So we are here at an empty stadium as the

(30:42):
sun comes up, the tarpa is on the field, and
folks are starting to move about and get ready for
opening night.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
So anyway, that's why we're here.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Up still been trying to order a hot dog and
there's no there are no hot dog vendors.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
What are we a dozen hours before the game starts?

Speaker 3 (30:57):
And as we are at the home park of the Athletics,
I thought it'd be fun too. You look to an
A's great for our freedom loving quotes of the day,
and I'm gonna go with Reggie Jackson.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
There you go a couple of quotes.

Speaker 3 (31:06):
Number One, fans don't boo nobody's that's pretty good, which
is true. And then these, which I thought were really interesting.
Do you have any idea what Ali meant to black people.
He was the leader of a nation, the leader of
Black America. As a young black man, at times, I
was ashamed of my color, I was ashamed of my hair,
and Ali made me proud. I thought that was really interesting. Yeah,

(31:31):
Reggie Jackson.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
The straw that stirs the drink.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
Indeed, mailbag, Y, we're using different machines here, so I
have to scroll down.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
They're rolling out the shirts and everything to the concession stand. Yeah,
a beautiful can. I gotta get some swag. I'm the
world's biggest swag ho. All right, there we go. Let's
see Aeron, I'm sorry, this is you. No, that's okay.
There we go, Aaron, Right's guy.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
As long as we're ahead and the culture wars, there
are a couple of other.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Things we need to fix.

Speaker 3 (32:05):
For instance, the order of the flags in the Apple
emoji's list. For years now, the trans and gay flags
have been first in the emoji section. The American flag, surprise,
is dead last. I want this corrected and reversed immediately.

Speaker 2 (32:19):
What outrageous is outrageous?

Speaker 3 (32:24):
Well, the checkered flag is first. I'm not sure I've
ever used the checkered flag. Let's see sins of emission
rights powlow. Gabby Newsom was on Bill Maher Friday doing
his pest to sound normal and reasonable and talking about
the importance of DEM's quote their mistakes. I think their
biggest mistake now is the lack of vision and a
plan instead of just squawking about Trump's plans.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Good example the resistance to Doge activities.

Speaker 3 (32:48):
Ratner in criticizing Doge's tactics proactively promoting alternative money saving strategies,
they out for knee jerk Sky's falling resistance.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
This isn't unappealing only to right leaners.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
A lot of the people on the left recognize the
urgency of reducing government spending too. They aren't talking to
those people at all, let alone trying to recruit folks
from the right. Yeah, we got the polling on well,
a whole bunch of Trump stuff. CBS had a new
poll that came out over the weekend. But and his
overall approval rating hangs in at fifty percent. But Doge
is still a fifty to fifty issue even with the

(33:20):
incredibly negative press. It's right, right, you've almost got to
equalize for that. When you look at how popular or something. Well,
it's either popular it's not. But in terms of people's
receptiveness to an idea or whether it strikes them as
a good idea, if you get nothing but bad press,
you're gonna get skewed results. Anyway, note from Marina, I
love this. She says, I'm happy to hear Jack's son

(33:41):
is in Scouts, which you'll be talking about later. My
fifteen year old, who is on the autism spectrum, has
a wonderful experience saying that about a month ago on
the Fox show Outnumbered, which I refer to as what's
a more up to date reference than McNeil lair cross Fire,
Crossfire meets leg show. Anyway, the Kaylee Mcanany and the

(34:04):
panel went on a tie rate about the renaming the
Boy Scouts the Scouts of America. They said, how bad
it is, how woke is ramp and played a role
in this change, That Girl Scouts is for girls, and
so on.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
They could not be more wrong.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Since my son I had first hand knowledge, they didn't
know what they were talking about. Scouts had to rebrand
because the abuse scandal. Now they have the highest protocol
standards and background checks to protect the kids. At first
I had hesitation concerns about having girls in the troop.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
Now I can't see it without them.

Speaker 3 (34:30):
We're in a high adventure troop with extraordinarily extraordinary leadership. Yeah,
the girls and boys camp separately, a little distance between them.
I remember having the same reaction as Kaylee mcananey did,
because it seems like so obvious, a woke reaction. But
then we got a couple of emails from gals who'd

(34:51):
been in Girl Scouts as my girls were, and said,
it's way to nineteen fifties domestic stuff. The boys are
canoeing and camping and hiking and doing cool.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Starting to use an axe like Henry did over the weekend.

Speaker 3 (35:03):
Exactly, and we're learning to sew esteem and it's bull ass.
I mean, if you're in this, my wife's the seamstress, Like,
oh boy, make me a sandwich. So anyway, I'm agnostic.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
I don't you know.

Speaker 3 (35:15):
Your results may vary, but I like the idea of
the girls being able to do adventury stuff and getting
dirty and skin in their knees too, just like boys.

Speaker 5 (35:23):
Man my.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Weekend experience, this is his first camp out, is like
a lot of youth sports. So many moms and dads
that have to dedicate so much time to make this work.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, Scout leaders, we salute you.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
And finally, this Mark in Stanton. Where is Stanton?

Speaker 3 (35:42):
I don't know herd Jack trying to wrap his mind
around why more people aren't upset about all the waste,
fraud and abuse being uncovered by Doge. Set aside that
many of these people have natural tendency to loathe successful
people and a sering hatred of Trump, I would guess
that many of these people pay relatively little, if any,
federal income taxes, and in case may receive money from
the government. I've yet to hear a bona fide taxpayer

(36:04):
in my community of friends and colleagues complain about dogs,
with the exception of left landing people who are buying
the lives being spread by unions, bureaucrats with pink slips
in hand, and the bizarre Democratic party line that it's
bad for America. Oh, and then he tells a story
about working for the government. We don't have time, We'll
squeeze it the next hour.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Yeah, I want to hear that.

Speaker 3 (36:21):
And some of the sleep tips, which actually have found
kind of interesting and helpful. We'll get to all that now,
or two or three or four tomorrow or whenever. Yeah,
I don't know when we'll do it. If you miss
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