December 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Featured in Hour Four of the Thursday December 25, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Replay...
- Jack Fired Up about Immigration
- Douglas Murray 2022 Speech
- Mailbag Joe's B-day-No Milestones/Dems Dumb Fight/Pennies
- Which Side Are You On/Listener Can't Hear/Luka Not Fat
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I'm strong and get.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A strong That's so, that's somebody yelling at protesters saying
we love immigrants and you should to use stupid mf
for once again as people always do. In fact, I'm
about to have that in the story we're going to
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do from the Wall Street Journal. Quit conflating illegal and
legal immigration. Have a grown up discussion, or I won't
even engage with you unless you're going to point out
that there's a difference, that there's two different things. I'm
not talking to you. That's what everybody should say. That's
what the that's what every Republican should say when they
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go on those Sunday talk shows. Okay, I gotta stop
you right there. If you're going to pretend that we're
talking about legal immigration when it's illegal or legal when
it's legal, and keep going back and forth by using
one word, I'm not having this discussion. If you would
like to act like a grown up and have a
distinction between the two things, we can engage something we've
been saying going on three decades now. In for years,
(01:09):
it has astonished me the number of people who are
willing to engage on the bizarre terms of the other side.
Like you're describing. What are you doing? Are you just
a coward? Do you have no confidence in your own needs? Well,
you know the conclusions in Ittall Act's men.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Say, make your argument.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You believe in illegal immigration, make your argument, your argument
sway me or sway the American people and why we
need illegal immigration, But don't start with the Statue of
liberty and we're all immigrants and crap like that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Jesus, what are you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well in anybody who got backed up and stimied by
that on our side of the aisle, You're an idiot.
Get out of the way. And I don't know what
to say. They invoked the Statue of liberty. They make
a pretty good point. Okay, So we got into this
yesterday and there's an update on the story in the
Wall Street Journals.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's confusing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So Trump ran on deporting all illegals, and then polling
showed two thirds of American wanted every non documented immigrant deported.
Then Trump vows the biggest deportation program in world history.
And then you got his guy, Stephen Miller, one of
his main advisors, who actually does want to deport everybody
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who's here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And then they start last week or week before, as.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We all know, raids of farms and restaurants where they
were grabbing people that were just here illegally, not with
criminal records in all cases, and round them up to
try to boot them out.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
With the caveat that they are here illegally. That is
the law.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's not insane to want to enforce the law. That's
not crazy. It's just very disruptive. But anyway, let me
read from the Wall Street Journal. It's also not nearly
as popular as you portrayed it. We quibble about this
all the time. Those two thirds of people did not
mean that. They just didn't know. It's like the flip
of people take Trump seriously but or not literally, but seriously,
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and it ought to be vice versus Steven Miller. You
need to take literally. He wants to deport everybody. I
don't care. It's illegal to be here without documentation. It's illegal.
So either come up with a new law or boot
them out, is my position. My privilege would be to
come up with a new law. But you can't just decide,
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you know, and be disruptive. So we'll ignore this law.
Like you said yesterday, which other laws can we do?
Can we ignore. How about the tax law? I don't
like some of the start with tax I think some
of them are really over the top wrong. Can we
just those I understand on principles? You can't do that,
You shout, We've been doing it for fifty years, three
hundred and sixty five days a year, the rubbers meeting
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the road.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
At some point, you got to enforce. You got to
enforce the law or change the law. Two choices.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, so maybe enforcing the law is a good way
to be a what do you call that? Something mechanism?
Force the issue, to force Congress to actually change the law,
or people to start running on.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Changing the law. Nobody ever talks about it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Who's come out in the last couple of weeks with
their the law they'd like to pass.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I've had this written that my lawyers look over. This
is what I think the law should be. Who's with me?
I haven't heard a single person say that.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I made the joke last week that I was going
to drop a sea bomb on the air.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The sea words.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You just can't ever say, Congress, how often do you
hear Congress needs act in this discussion right now? Practically never.
I'm going to use up all my time before I
get to this, because I thought it was damned interesting.
When federal agents rated Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska,
last Thursday. They arrested about seventy five of the meat
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processors workers, roughly half the production line.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The following day, the plant was operating at.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Fifteen percent set capacity and a skeleton crew strained to
fill orders. Chief executive Gary Rower can't see a future
that doesn't include immigrant workers. Immigrant workers? Are they illegal?
Are they illegal?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
God?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Get it. I don't know if I'm mad at the
guy because did he say that? I don't know. There's
not quotes around that Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Did you just blur the line between legal and illegal?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Of course they're pro open borders because they're pro big business. God.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That makes me mad is the guy saying I can't
see a future that doesn't include illegal immigration, or these
people should be made legal.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Anyway, I'll just get back to the story.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The chief executive said he can't see a future that
doesn't include immigrant workers. Without them, there wouldn't be an industry.
So then they go through President Trump's aggressive deportation, and
he's got people within his cabinet that actually want everybody
booted out, and then there's people that don't want everybody
booted out. So Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Again, like he often does, combining like he's a.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bystander or he's doing a talk radio show and it's
not his administration, comments like Friday or Saturday, and says, we.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can't be booting out. You know, people have been here
for years working hard. Can we? I mean, that'd be
very disruptive. It's your program here, the president, what do
you want to.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do as a traveling just in a different form than
past administrations have sent them up. But the Department of
Homeland Security last week DHS directed immigration officers to pause
arrests at farms, restaurants, and hotels, stressing that sweeps should
focus on people here illegally of criminal backgrounds. Okay, fine,
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But at the same time, dh just appeared to walk
back its own directive. I don't know if somebody wrote
that without Christy Nomes's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Knowledge or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
In a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership over
the weekend. Homeland Security Secretary, that's a person in charge
of that very organization. I was just mentioning that said,
let's let's not deport people or just here working. Christy
Nome doubled down on the administration's efforts to board millions
of people living in the country illegally. We must dramatically
intensify arrest and removal operations nationwide. This is non negotiable
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as a national priority, right kay, well plan accordingly?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is your department that just said the day before not
too so?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Where are you on this? Or maybe she doesn't know
where the president is on this. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's pretty clear to me what is happening.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And I remember the first Trump administration was famously undisciplined
in its messaging and like the coherence of the team.
Trump's got a team of rivals to a large extent,
and they all have access to social media and media
leaks in a way that like Lincoln's team of rivals didn't. Plus,
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so you get conflicting messages coming out breaking news. Secretary
Stewart did not tweet that's your breaking news.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah. True.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And the second thing is that Trump is more than
willing to send a message to the business community. Yeah,
we gotta go easy on the meat in the hotels
and the agriculture. We gotta go easy on that. Then
simultaneously truce out to the base. We're booting them all out,
every single one of them. Pack your bags, folks, and
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everybody hears what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Christinom went on to say, first she made sure her
hair was cascading lovely around her.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Shoulders, reglossed her swollen lips.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And the lighting was okay, so she looked like she's
on the cover of I don't know some fancy magazine.
Ice agents will be judged every day by how many
arrests you, your teammates, and your office are able to effectuate.
Failure is not an option. I would take that as
a threat at my job, of like, if I don't
have if I don't meet my goal numbers, I'm gonna
get I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Lose my job.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Interestingly, though, she threads the needle in her next statement,
if you were going to go there, go there. But
she said, your workplace raids will remain a cornerstone of
the President's deporportation plan. There will be no safe spaces
for industries who harbor violent criminals. Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's different. That's threadning the needle or purposely try to
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undermine ICE's efforts. Well, what if I'm just running Joe's
meatpacking plant and we just package up our delicious polk
jobs with the help of some folks whose paperwork looks
a little fishy, but they work hard in the nice people.
I'm not harboring violent criminals, and I'm not undermining anyone.
I think you should start booting out everybody. Just start
(09:33):
booting out everybody, because it's the law. And you can
in tow Congress act, which might take a week by
the way, you know, I see what you're driving at.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now, enforce the damn law. And if it's so disruptive
in so many.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
States that people are howling, and maybe Congress says, I
suppose we better deal with this. Yeah, yeah, Maybe he
could come out out hand in hand with Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That'd be a pu Corthy image.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And Trump would say, look, my base won't let us
pass serious immigration law, and Schumer says, neither will mine,
and then we reckon with it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't know. So.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Trump was asked on the plane as he was flying
back if there would still be exemptions on ICE raids
for certain industries.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Trump said on.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Air Force one last night as he was flying back
to the United States. Everyone is being looked at. But
the bigger problem is the cities right now. I don't
know what that answer means. So the Wall Street Journal
has a little graph industries with the highest share of
workers who are likely undocumented.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You mean here illegally. You mean they're illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Wall Street Journal taking the language of the left to
soften illegal immigration for obvious reasons in my mind. But landscaping,
almost a fifth of landscapers are here illegally. Private households
only a fifth. Yeah, I think they're undershooting nott But
private household said, be like nannies and you know whatever
else help you're getting from.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
It's almost twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Services to buildings and dwellings, So that would be all
the people doing all the maintenance around your big building
and all that sort of stuff. It's about eighteen percent.
It looks like in this graph crop production. This has
got to be low seventeen percent crop production. Maybe I
don't know about the rest of the country, but in
California it's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Sure got to be higher. On it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Animals slaughtering and processing.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
What you can get it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You have a better term for that. The meat to
go today honey, good killed about fifteen cows at job.
That last one really struggled though. It's hard to get
him down. Wait to go, dad, that looks like sixteen
seventeen percent. I think those numbers are low too, but
it's and I'm sorry, were those those numbers were illegals?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh that's right, because you ran document. Yes, we're land
of immigrants. I don't know if you're where are they
give me your huddled masses and have him kill cows
for a living.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
If we I'll tell you this, this will be my
I'm giving myself the final word for me if we
go through. If we go through this moment without either
enforcing the law or changing the law.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It will never happen. And you read my mind, and.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We'll just have an underground brown working class that does
stuff we don't want to do that we can exploit
for lower wages and not give them all the perks
that you would get as a US citizen and whatever. Right,
with the full support of the America's left, which is
constantly shouting about equity and the rest of it. Yes,
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equity for all except for my maid.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Say the limousine liberals.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Keeping in mind, while Trump was crowing about deporting everyone
while he's running for president.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
He got half of Hispanic males the vote for him. Yeah,
as a Republican candidate.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Douglas Murray, the fabulous British thinker, gave this speech.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I believe it was thirteen years ago. He was right then,
he is right. Now. Let's hit it, Michael.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
When Israel is pushed to the situation it will be
pushed to of having to believe they mean it. And
when every bit of jiggery pokery behind the scenes runs out,
and when the un and distinguished figures have run out
of time and Iran is about to produce his first bomb,
Israel will strike. Every single country, including this one, will
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condemn Israel. Everyone in the Middle East will condemn Israel,
and they will go back to their homes and they
will say in private, thank God for Israel. The Saudis,
the Barrainis, the Lippyans, the Lebanese, everybody will say thank
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God they did it, because nobody else would.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Everybody knows Israel has the most at stake in preventing
Iran from having nukes, and everybody's known for a very
long time. As Murray put it so eloquently that they
would make sure that it won't happen. And so everybody
else had the lovely and still has the lovely luxury
(14:29):
of saying where against violence and for diplomacy. Israel with
their violence in the attacks, we don't approve and then
they go to their homes and say, thank god.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They did it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I saw a number of people over the week and say,
this really sets back the ability to negotiate. Actually, Ran
Paul said that among other people here we were in
the midst of negotiations in Israel, did this.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
This is not helpful. All you're in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Wow, Wow, that is just delusional. Let's go roll on
with mister Murray.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Position being put before you tonight is that you have
a choice between war.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And an Iran with the bomb.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You have a choice, as has been said before, between
war and dishonor you'll choose disnor this evening and you'll
get war.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You have the choice between a war.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
With a nuclear Iran or a war at some point
with an Iran that is not nuclear, which you stop
from ever being nuclear, and hope that in stopping that
regime in embedding itself, you will give the Iranian people
the best chance they will have of overthrowing that regime.
But as I say, thank God, this doesn't rely on
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you or any Europeans because you've made the same Mason
mistake before and nobody should cust you to get it
right this time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it was it nineteen eighty one that Israel took
out a nuclear facility At that time, was it who
was it the Iraqis that were getting close to having
a nuclear weapon, And it was Prime Minister monocham Began
at the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Time who made that call.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And Reagan said that that was awful and just just
like Douglas Mori related, the whole world condemned it, and
then Prime Minister Began after his office out of office,
was given the Medal of Freedom by Dick Cheney years later,
because in reality, behind closed doors, we were happier than
hell that Israel did what had to be done. Yeah,
I'm cynical enough to get how domestic politics influence the
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pronouncements you make about foreign relations, even if behind the
scenes your actual policies are very different than the pronouncements.
But it's just I get sick of it, you know,
I'm just it's so obvious. If it's obvious to Ustin
Douglas Murray. I mean, it's obvious to a lot of
people what's going on.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I understand why Mohammed Bien Solomon has to pretend for
the quote unquote arab street. You remember when that was
a popular term. Anyway, I get why he has to
pretend to condemn it and the rest of it. But
our leaders, please just so phony Jack Armstrong and Joe
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Armstrong and Gaddi Shall.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Steven sent this along.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Did the god fearing founders of America arrive at the
three branches of government? From the Bible, this is from
Isaiah thirty third chapter twenty fourth verse for Jehovah is
our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah is our king.
He is the one who will save us. I see judicial, legislative,
and executive right there in scripture. I think, you know,
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that reflects the ancient reality that when human beings associate,
they need someone to make up the rules, then figure
out how are we going to enforce these rules and
what if there's a disagreement.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I think it's as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back
to the Old Testament.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Bible. That's right, sir, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Mail Dag. You can drop us a note anytime you like.
Michael always appropriate, drop us a note mail bag at
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. This first email references the
fact that today is indeed my birthday, not only that
it is my sixtieth birthday. I know you're saying that, Joe,
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you seem so youthful and clever.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That can't be true. Yeah, I know. Have you checked
the math on the iron?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Jack and I first connected in our mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, that seems you only remember like three things between
then and now.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Two of them were brothers of children.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's sorry, lady, that seems like and I know, if
you're forty, this seems weird. Maybe you're certainly for twenty five.
That seems like six years ago. Yeah, roughly seems like
about little six years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, it's crazy. That's nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
lovely and very very much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And it's funny. It's Tuesday, it's a work day.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I've got my kids arriving in town this week, which
is that big fun that is awesome. Yeah, it is awesome,
and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in various ways. My
son and I. I picked him up at the airport.
I'm a big hug and then we philosophized the entire
way home from the airport, which.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is what we do.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and
joke and kid each other.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But
happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Fuay Hanson and Katie.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You'll get you something. And as to the whole, you know,
I don't need anything. As to the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Old sixty thing, which seems like such a milestone, you know,
it's funny. I was so miserable like a year ago
because of my back problems, and I feel so much
better now. I feel I can d aging or something.
I'm not Lord knows, but so I don't feel old.
I feel younger than I used to.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So I don't know. I just let's let's just keep
doing what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Let's let's have fun, let's do the shows, play some golf,
let's enjoy a nice glass of wine. And I just
as opposed to not big on milestone as opposed to
what lay down in front of a train? I mean,
is that the other option? Or well, no, no, no,
I'm just I've never been huge about milestones. It's like,
when I graduated from college, I was like, all right,
what's next? I just I didn't weep, and and maybe
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I lack the ability to reflect properly on things as
they pass, but certainly when my kids moved out, that
was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, thanks, great,
let's let's get on with life.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So this is from David Reno, with whom I apparently
share a birthday. In fact, here are some other famous
people that we share a birthday with. I was aware
of some of these people, not.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All of them. Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, that's Jeb with
an exclamation point. Sarah Palin, Oh, lipstick?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
How old is she? Did you get your joon? You
guys are probably about to say age, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And Sarah Palin, Yeah, yeah we could date, but just
gonna remind you to you that now and again. Sarah
Palin and I we got a connection anyway. Alex Jones,
oh great, Thomas Edison, what order is this?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
This is a good list. You've got.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Good in a way, Alex Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, sharing sharing day.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
With a big with your birthday with other people, Thomas Edison,
that's a big one. That is a big one. Although
you know my great Well, I'll finish some of the lists.
Your mom it is, I know, just always in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And I'll explain that in a moment. But Leslie Nielsen,
the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And other people who don't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But I've always been resentful that I was one day
short of sharing birthday with my great hero. Abraham Lincoln said,
I get Burt Reynolds traded the beard for the mustache.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Moving along, moving along with mailbagging the question of the
Democrats going crazy and J T read an interesting Victor
Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,
the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
middle ground, working together. Ever since Trump came down that escalator,
they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The result
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is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
wants to control the border, they want to leave it
wide open. When Trump wants to apport legal aliens guilty
of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists,
and gang members in the country. When Trump wants to
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save tax pairs, billions or trillions of wasteful government spending dollars,
they want to fight for the wasteful government spending. There
is no common ground to be found in a party
that's held bent on opposing everything Trump wants to do.
It's a bizarre sort of politics, dumb. I like your
strategy of I would hang back and wait for something
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to go wrong, because inevitably will on the world stage,
domestically something, and then take your shot to the trying
to turn what's going in right now into something bad.
You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.
I felt like there was a different tone on the
evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it
to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump
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having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like
I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in
David Muir's voice as they were covering Trump yesterday at
the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him
like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a
point sort of tone. I mean, maybe I'm making that up,
but I really feel like that. And oh no, it
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should be they should be. There should have been somebody
in that news director meeting and all of.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Those newscasts saying, hey.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Look, people, he's got a fifty three percent approval rating
after all of this craziness has happened. So maybe other
people don't think it's as crazy as we do. Maybe
we ought to look at it slightly different. I mean,
they'd be nuts if they weren't doing that. I don't
have any great admiration for politicians brains and wisdom and
the rest of it. I think most of them are
hacks in great heads. But I would think they would
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at least perceive a what you just said and be
that the frantic this guy is falling. He's a Russian agent.
He's going to kill millions of people with COVID. I
don't trust his vaccine now that it's our vaccine. Jabbet
into yourself, whether you like it or not. I mean,
just the systematicid he wants the borders closed, to open
up the borders led rapists, and having seen how miserably
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all that failed, I would think they would at least say, hey,
let's talk about this for a couple of weeks and
figure out what to do. But instead there I mean,
full speed ahead, that moron, Maxine Waters screeching as security
guards at the Department of Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing,
we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
What are you going to fight in the streets exactly?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Anyway, We're kind of getting off on a tangent away
from mailbag, which is fine. A number of people have
sent the screenshot House votes on the Protection of Women
and Girls in Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen
to nothing, yay, with two Democrat votes joining them. But
Democrats were two six to two against protecting girls.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And Sprat didn't know that well.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And the caption is imagine being the party that accuses
the other party of hating women and then voting against
women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the
nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.
My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want
to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that
to the bank, Yeah, because that strikes me. I've received
(25:44):
it from a bunch of people. It says it appears
to be a screen capture from Fox News. But it's
easy to make things appear to be something they're not.
To devastate definitely, that'll do for now, sprinkle in some
more later. Copper is already up two and a half percent.
This was yesterday. I haven't looked today because of the
announcement of ending the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so
(26:07):
far this year and it's early February. So the return
on keeping pennies in a jar is beating interest earned
by keeping cash in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
you actually throw them away? Oh? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Not leave them? Well, no, no, no offense. And I would
call the fense. Good lord, I know what's your worth.
I can't have you destroying currency.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah no, I.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just leave them places for people to find them, that's nice.
I'll leave them on counters or whatever. I can't tell
if that's nice or just like super the opposite. Here's
a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have a
good day. I left them at penny. I don't address
them to their face like that. I just leave it
(26:55):
and fellow oligarchs like me will pass it by, say
I'm not picking up that the piece of coffee, but
the poor m i'd appreciate my own. I feel like
that's the way. Then we'll take a break for Katie's headlines.
I've said for years that's the way they should judge
whether or not we should keep currency. Get one hundred
random people. Maybe do it at an airport or bus
station or something like that. You leave a penny on
(27:15):
the ground and nickel the ground on the dime on
the ground. What percentage of people bend over to pick
it up? Almost nobody's going to bend over to pick
up a penny, which is proof that it is worthless.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody I think
would pick up the dime.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But nickel.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I I'm not exactly sure. Your your sour on the nickel.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I still think a nickel is something, but practically nobody's
gonna bend over to pick up a penny, which I
think is I don't think I have spent twenty seven
hours in the last year with any change in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You haven't spent an hour with any money in your
pocket at all in the last year. Younger people, not
just the idea of having money in your pocket seems insane.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Why would you do that? Hmm yes, Katie.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Another big indicator are the numerous shops on Etsy of
people drilling holes in pennies and tournament to keychains.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, when penny jewelry everywhere? Oh really yeah,
and that's happening. Your currency is no longer.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
How did it take till now for Trump to say, nobody,
we don't need the penny? It's that weird clinging to
what saddest quo. Whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,
or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of
re examining things and asking the only question that matters
is this working?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But then we adopt as a country or get scared
into adopting all of a sudden. Dudes can participate in girls' sports,
and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I mean, so, how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
away with the time change that we all hate or
the penny which is worthless.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That's how bullying, I guess in bi radicals, the.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Armstrong and Getdy show.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah more John, your Joe podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Meanwhile, Jack, I've discovered what I believe to be the
we Shall Overcome of twenty twenty five, the we are
the world of the twenty first century. Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you, which side are you on? Which side
are you on? Which side?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Are you all.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Side?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We'll fight against Joe where fights?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Wait lanscap, then our walls will fight from don to dusk?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Which side are you.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Shine?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'm on?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Whichever side? I'm sures I never have to hear this
song again? Play it, Michael, play it, damn it.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Try somebody till you turn it off for our unions.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
He wants, he wants to bow to him, but we
want him in jail.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh my god, Wow, you know I don't forget who
wrote this or said this, and I thought it was
really good. One of the problems we got going on
in America is we we had this period in the
sixties where there was a whole bunch of late fifties
mid sixties particularly where we had all kinds of this
(30:34):
sort of thing, songs and protests and you know, the
look at the Bob Dylan movie and the Civil Rights
Act and all these different sorts of things where there
was like a real major issue to be dealt with
and people rallied around and there was a witch side.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Where you're on and people it was righteous.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was righteous, and people want to relive that all
the time, even if that issue doesn't exist right now.
And you can't like put that level of intensity on dog.
He's trying to cut spending by a few percent and
shrink the government.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Which side of.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Musk? Thanks for asking you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's about moral question of our time, as as you
exactly as you point out, it's just so nakedly a
strategy of we've got to change these incremental cuts that
aren't nearly enough to have bloated federal workforce into the
civil rights issue of our day. Yeah, good, luck with that.
And you want to talk about trying to make a
silk person out of a sow's ear, that's like a
(31:34):
silk pers out of the pig's crap. Never mind it's ear,
it's not gonna work. The singing the lyrics was that
a Saturday night live bit. Good Lord, do take that.
Government translives.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Heaven got a chance lesson organize, pretending that the is
standing up for goodness and righteousness, when indeed they're just
standing up for continuing to have way too many workers
paying way too many dues to enrich themselves.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Hi, we're onto you, friends.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I sure hope I'm right about this, and I think
but the vast majority of America doesn't look at government
jobs is sacro sankeed, protected by all that is good.
They should never go away under any circumstances. The way
they think we do well. They have managed to jam
through every bit of wasteful spending and redundant taxation and
(32:33):
similar stuff for years and years. And we're most familiar
with California. But by always it's the teachers and the firefighters.
If there are any cuts, it's going to you know,
the firefighters are going to have to fight fires with
Dixie cups full of water. And the teachers, well, they're
just going to be in prison apparently, if we don't
pass this tax increase.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, now it's extended.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Like all government workers who are sacrosanct and sacred and
so valuable to society, we dare not question them for
a minute, right, The great civil rights issue of our
day is making sure mid level government employees who do
something that you can't even tell what it is, don't
lose their jobs, all right, no matter how unnecessary their
(33:13):
jobs are. Right, And there's also the issue in the
I don't think Elon's been hammering this enough, although he
has many times in his Twitter threats. There are important
jobs and important agencies that are going to have to
go away if you don't have enough money. It's like
if you're broke, you really really want to do this
or that, but you can't. You just flat don't have
(33:34):
the money. Katie Green, what should we know about what
we're about to play?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
So I was scrolling through TikTok and this popped up
on my for you page. And the visual of this,
it's a woman filming it. Her husband is driving and
he has headphones in and she's clearly talking at him,
but he cannot hear her.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And this is how it goes down.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
He thinks I talk too much, can't get a word
in edge wise when I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
To my girls.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
But we're on a road trip in.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
A confined space, and he's got your buds in listening
to arm triangle. Yeah, oh good man, Yeah he can't.
He says he can't get a word in edgewise, and
he's sitting there. He doesn't hear a thing she's saying
because he's listening to you guys.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's funny. We made TikTok.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I hope she Jin Ping doesn't purge that clip because
it mentions the flaming anti communists Armstrong and Getty. Uh I,
so you have TikTok on your phone or yeah, how
much do you enjoy it? It's it's okay.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I mean the algorithms definitely, it catches my attention, but
I try to, you know, not use it as much
because the China thing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I wish I could do it. I mean I would
like to. I would like to, but I'm not going to.
There's a lot of obnoxious crap on there.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
But somehow that algorithm put that video on my phone yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Don't trust China.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
So it knows where you work it or it just
knows what radio show has beloved coast to coast.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, or it hears it through my phone when I'm
on with you guys every day.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I'm not sure, but I thought that was hilarious. That
is fun funny. Bring him back. He's not fat. That's
a good chance.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
The Armstrong and Getty Show
And I'm strong and get.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
A strong That's so, that's somebody yelling at protesters saying
we love immigrants and you should to use stupid mf
for once again as people always do. In fact, I'm
about to have that in the story we're going to
(00:25):
do from the Wall Street Journal. Quit conflating illegal and
legal immigration. Have a grown up discussion, or I won't
even engage with you unless you're going to point out
that there's a difference, that there's two different things. I'm
not talking to you. That's what everybody should say. That's
what the that's what every Republican should say when they
(00:47):
go on those Sunday talk shows. Okay, I gotta stop
you right there. If you're going to pretend that we're
talking about legal immigration when it's illegal or legal when
it's legal, and keep going back and forth by using
one word, I'm not having this discussion. If you would
like to act like a grown up and have a
distinction between the two things, we can engage something we've
been saying going on three decades now. In for years,
(01:09):
it has astonished me the number of people who are
willing to engage on the bizarre terms of the other side.
Like you're describing. What are you doing? Are you just
a coward? Do you have no confidence in your own needs? Well,
you know the conclusions in Ittall Act's men.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Say, make your argument.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
You believe in illegal immigration, make your argument, your argument
sway me or sway the American people and why we
need illegal immigration, But don't start with the Statue of
liberty and we're all immigrants and crap like that.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Jesus, what are you.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well in anybody who got backed up and stimied by
that on our side of the aisle, You're an idiot.
Get out of the way. And I don't know what
to say. They invoked the Statue of liberty. They make
a pretty good point. Okay, So we got into this
yesterday and there's an update on the story in the
Wall Street Journals.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
It's confusing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
So Trump ran on deporting all illegals, and then polling
showed two thirds of American wanted every non documented immigrant deported.
Then Trump vows the biggest deportation program in world history.
And then you got his guy, Stephen Miller, one of
his main advisors, who actually does want to deport everybody
(02:26):
who's here illegally.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
And then they start last week or week before, as.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
We all know, raids of farms and restaurants where they
were grabbing people that were just here illegally, not with
criminal records in all cases, and round them up to
try to boot them out.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
With the caveat that they are here illegally. That is
the law.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
It's not insane to want to enforce the law. That's
not crazy. It's just very disruptive. But anyway, let me
read from the Wall Street Journal. It's also not nearly
as popular as you portrayed it. We quibble about this
all the time. Those two thirds of people did not
mean that. They just didn't know. It's like the flip
of people take Trump seriously but or not literally, but seriously,
(03:08):
and it ought to be vice versus Steven Miller. You
need to take literally. He wants to deport everybody. I
don't care. It's illegal to be here without documentation. It's illegal.
So either come up with a new law or boot
them out, is my position. My privilege would be to
come up with a new law. But you can't just decide,
(03:30):
you know, and be disruptive. So we'll ignore this law.
Like you said yesterday, which other laws can we do?
Can we ignore. How about the tax law? I don't
like some of the start with tax I think some
of them are really over the top wrong. Can we
just those I understand on principles? You can't do that,
You shout, We've been doing it for fifty years, three
hundred and sixty five days a year, the rubbers meeting
(03:52):
the road.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
At some point, you got to enforce. You got to
enforce the law or change the law. Two choices.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, so maybe enforcing the law is a good way
to be a what do you call that? Something mechanism?
Force the issue, to force Congress to actually change the law,
or people to start running on.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Changing the law. Nobody ever talks about it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Who's come out in the last couple of weeks with
their the law they'd like to pass.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I've had this written that my lawyers look over. This
is what I think the law should be. Who's with me?
I haven't heard a single person say that.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I made the joke last week that I was going
to drop a sea bomb on the air.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
The sea words.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
You just can't ever say, Congress, how often do you
hear Congress needs act in this discussion right now? Practically never.
I'm going to use up all my time before I
get to this, because I thought it was damned interesting.
When federal agents rated Glenn Valley Foods in Omaha, Nebraska,
last Thursday. They arrested about seventy five of the meat
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processors workers, roughly half the production line.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
The following day, the plant was operating at.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Fifteen percent set capacity and a skeleton crew strained to
fill orders. Chief executive Gary Rower can't see a future
that doesn't include immigrant workers. Immigrant workers? Are they illegal?
Are they illegal?
Speaker 3 (05:13):
God?
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Get it. I don't know if I'm mad at the
guy because did he say that? I don't know. There's
not quotes around that Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Did you just blur the line between legal and illegal?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Of course they're pro open borders because they're pro big business. God.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
That makes me mad is the guy saying I can't
see a future that doesn't include illegal immigration, or these
people should be made legal.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Anyway, I'll just get back to the story.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
The chief executive said he can't see a future that
doesn't include immigrant workers. Without them, there wouldn't be an industry.
So then they go through President Trump's aggressive deportation, and
he's got people within his cabinet that actually want everybody
booted out, and then there's people that don't want everybody
booted out. So Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Again, like he often does, combining like he's a.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Bystander or he's doing a talk radio show and it's
not his administration, comments like Friday or Saturday, and says, we.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
Can't be booting out. You know, people have been here
for years working hard. Can we? I mean, that'd be
very disruptive. It's your program here, the president, what do
you want to.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Do as a traveling just in a different form than
past administrations have sent them up. But the Department of
Homeland Security last week DHS directed immigration officers to pause
arrests at farms, restaurants, and hotels, stressing that sweeps should
focus on people here illegally of criminal backgrounds. Okay, fine,
(06:38):
But at the same time, dh just appeared to walk
back its own directive. I don't know if somebody wrote
that without Christy Nomes's.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Knowledge or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
In a letter to Immigration and Customs Enforcement leadership over
the weekend. Homeland Security Secretary, that's a person in charge
of that very organization. I was just mentioning that said,
let's let's not deport people or just here working. Christy
Nome doubled down on the administration's efforts to board millions
of people living in the country illegally. We must dramatically
intensify arrest and removal operations nationwide. This is non negotiable
(07:10):
as a national priority, right kay, well plan accordingly?
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Is your department that just said the day before not
too so?
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Where are you on this? Or maybe she doesn't know
where the president is on this. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's pretty clear to me what is happening.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
And I remember the first Trump administration was famously undisciplined
in its messaging and like the coherence of the team.
Trump's got a team of rivals to a large extent,
and they all have access to social media and media
leaks in a way that like Lincoln's team of rivals didn't. Plus,
(07:47):
so you get conflicting messages coming out breaking news. Secretary
Stewart did not tweet that's your breaking news.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Yeah. True.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
And the second thing is that Trump is more than
willing to send a message to the business community. Yeah,
we gotta go easy on the meat in the hotels
and the agriculture. We gotta go easy on that. Then
simultaneously truce out to the base. We're booting them all out,
every single one of them. Pack your bags, folks, and
(08:18):
everybody hears what they want to hear.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Watch what they do, not what they say.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Christinom went on to say, first she made sure her
hair was cascading lovely around her.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Shoulders, reglossed her swollen lips.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
And the lighting was okay, so she looked like she's
on the cover of I don't know some fancy magazine.
Ice agents will be judged every day by how many
arrests you, your teammates, and your office are able to effectuate.
Failure is not an option. I would take that as
a threat at my job, of like, if I don't
have if I don't meet my goal numbers, I'm gonna
get I'm gonna.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Lose my job.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Interestingly, though, she threads the needle in her next statement,
if you were going to go there, go there. But
she said, your workplace raids will remain a cornerstone of
the President's deporportation plan. There will be no safe spaces
for industries who harbor violent criminals. Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa.
That's different. That's threadning the needle or purposely try to
(09:12):
undermine ICE's efforts. Well, what if I'm just running Joe's
meatpacking plant and we just package up our delicious polk
jobs with the help of some folks whose paperwork looks
a little fishy, but they work hard in the nice people.
I'm not harboring violent criminals, and I'm not undermining anyone.
I think you should start booting out everybody. Just start
(09:33):
booting out everybody, because it's the law. And you can
in tow Congress act, which might take a week by
the way, you know, I see what you're driving at.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Now, enforce the damn law. And if it's so disruptive
in so many.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
States that people are howling, and maybe Congress says, I
suppose we better deal with this. Yeah, yeah, Maybe he
could come out out hand in hand with Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
That'd be a pu Corthy image.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
And Trump would say, look, my base won't let us
pass serious immigration law, and Schumer says, neither will mine,
and then we reckon with it.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I don't know. So.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Trump was asked on the plane as he was flying
back if there would still be exemptions on ICE raids
for certain industries.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Trump said on.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Air Force one last night as he was flying back
to the United States. Everyone is being looked at. But
the bigger problem is the cities right now. I don't
know what that answer means. So the Wall Street Journal
has a little graph industries with the highest share of
workers who are likely undocumented.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
You mean here illegally. You mean they're illegal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Wall Street Journal taking the language of the left to
soften illegal immigration for obvious reasons in my mind. But landscaping,
almost a fifth of landscapers are here illegally. Private households
only a fifth. Yeah, I think they're undershooting nott But
private household said, be like nannies and you know whatever
else help you're getting from.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
It's almost twenty percent.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Services to buildings and dwellings, So that would be all
the people doing all the maintenance around your big building
and all that sort of stuff. It's about eighteen percent.
It looks like in this graph crop production. This has
got to be low seventeen percent crop production. Maybe I
don't know about the rest of the country, but in
California it's.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Sure got to be higher. On it.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Animals slaughtering and processing.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
What you can get it.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
You have a better term for that. The meat to
go today honey, good killed about fifteen cows at job.
That last one really struggled though. It's hard to get
him down. Wait to go, dad, that looks like sixteen
seventeen percent. I think those numbers are low too, but
it's and I'm sorry, were those those numbers were illegals?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Oh that's right, because you ran document. Yes, we're land
of immigrants. I don't know if you're where are they
give me your huddled masses and have him kill cows
for a living.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
If we I'll tell you this, this will be my
I'm giving myself the final word for me if we
go through. If we go through this moment without either
enforcing the law or changing the law.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
It will never happen. And you read my mind, and.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
We'll just have an underground brown working class that does
stuff we don't want to do that we can exploit
for lower wages and not give them all the perks
that you would get as a US citizen and whatever. Right,
with the full support of the America's left, which is
constantly shouting about equity and the rest of it. Yes,
(12:48):
equity for all except for my maid.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
Say the limousine liberals.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Keeping in mind, while Trump was crowing about deporting everyone
while he's running for president.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
He got half of Hispanic males the vote for him. Yeah,
as a Republican candidate.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Douglas Murray, the fabulous British thinker, gave this speech.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
I believe it was thirteen years ago. He was right then,
he is right. Now. Let's hit it, Michael.
Speaker 4 (13:18):
When Israel is pushed to the situation it will be
pushed to of having to believe they mean it. And
when every bit of jiggery pokery behind the scenes runs out,
and when the un and distinguished figures have run out
of time and Iran is about to produce his first bomb,
Israel will strike. Every single country, including this one, will
(13:43):
condemn Israel. Everyone in the Middle East will condemn Israel,
and they will go back to their homes and they
will say in private, thank God for Israel. The Saudis,
the Barrainis, the Lippyans, the Lebanese, everybody will say thank
(14:04):
God they did it, because nobody else would.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
Everybody knows Israel has the most at stake in preventing
Iran from having nukes, and everybody's known for a very
long time. As Murray put it so eloquently that they
would make sure that it won't happen. And so everybody
else had the lovely and still has the lovely luxury
(14:29):
of saying where against violence and for diplomacy. Israel with
their violence in the attacks, we don't approve and then
they go to their homes and say, thank god.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
They did it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
I saw a number of people over the week and say,
this really sets back the ability to negotiate. Actually, Ran
Paul said that among other people here we were in
the midst of negotiations in Israel, did this.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
This is not helpful. All you're in your mouth.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Wow, Wow, that is just delusional. Let's go roll on
with mister Murray.
Speaker 4 (15:00):
Position being put before you tonight is that you have
a choice between war.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
And an Iran with the bomb.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
You have a choice, as has been said before, between
war and dishonor you'll choose disnor this evening and you'll
get war.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You have the choice between a war.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
With a nuclear Iran or a war at some point
with an Iran that is not nuclear, which you stop
from ever being nuclear, and hope that in stopping that
regime in embedding itself, you will give the Iranian people
the best chance they will have of overthrowing that regime.
But as I say, thank God, this doesn't rely on
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you or any Europeans because you've made the same Mason
mistake before and nobody should cust you to get it
right this time.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So it was it nineteen eighty one that Israel took
out a nuclear facility At that time, was it who
was it the Iraqis that were getting close to having
a nuclear weapon, And it was Prime Minister monocham Began
at the.
Speaker 1 (16:04):
Time who made that call.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
And Reagan said that that was awful and just just
like Douglas Mori related, the whole world condemned it, and
then Prime Minister Began after his office out of office,
was given the Medal of Freedom by Dick Cheney years later,
because in reality, behind closed doors, we were happier than
hell that Israel did what had to be done. Yeah,
I'm cynical enough to get how domestic politics influence the
(16:30):
pronouncements you make about foreign relations, even if behind the
scenes your actual policies are very different than the pronouncements.
But it's just I get sick of it, you know,
I'm just it's so obvious. If it's obvious to Ustin
Douglas Murray. I mean, it's obvious to a lot of
people what's going on.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
I understand why Mohammed Bien Solomon has to pretend for
the quote unquote arab street. You remember when that was
a popular term. Anyway, I get why he has to
pretend to condemn it and the rest of it. But
our leaders, please just so phony Jack Armstrong and Joe
(17:11):
Armstrong and Gaddi Shall.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Steven sent this along.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Did the god fearing founders of America arrive at the
three branches of government? From the Bible, this is from
Isaiah thirty third chapter twenty fourth verse for Jehovah is
our judge. Jehovah is our lawgiver. Jehovah is our king.
He is the one who will save us. I see judicial, legislative,
and executive right there in scripture. I think, you know,
(17:42):
that reflects the ancient reality that when human beings associate,
they need someone to make up the rules, then figure
out how are we going to enforce these rules and
what if there's a disagreement.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
I think it's as simple as that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
But yeah, it's interesting indeed that it goes way back
to the Old Testament.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Bible. That's right, sir, that's what we're talking about.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Mail Dag. You can drop us a note anytime you like.
Michael always appropriate, drop us a note mail bag at
Armstrong and Giddy dot com. This first email references the
fact that today is indeed my birthday, not only that
it is my sixtieth birthday. I know you're saying that, Joe,
(18:22):
you seem so youthful and clever.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
That can't be true. Yeah, I know. Have you checked
the math on the iron?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Jack and I first connected in our mid twenties.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
We're twenty five.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah, that seems you only remember like three things between
then and now.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
Two of them were brothers of children.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's sorry, lady, that seems like and I know, if
you're forty, this seems weird. Maybe you're certainly for twenty five.
That seems like six years ago. Yeah, roughly seems like
about little six years ago.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, it's crazy. That's nuts.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
And I've received a lot of well wishes, which is
lovely and very very much appreciated.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And it's funny. It's Tuesday, it's a work day.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
I've got my kids arriving in town this week, which
is that big fun that is awesome. Yeah, it is awesome,
and I'm looking forward to reconnecting in various ways. My
son and I. I picked him up at the airport.
I'm a big hug and then we philosophized the entire
way home from the airport, which.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
Is what we do.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
My eldest of my youngest daughter and I spar and
joke and kid each other.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
And so it's just fun reconnecting. It's been great. But
happy birthday, Joe, thank you, Michael, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Fuay Hanson and Katie.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
You'll get you something. And as to the whole, you know,
I don't need anything. As to the.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Old sixty thing, which seems like such a milestone, you know,
it's funny. I was so miserable like a year ago
because of my back problems, and I feel so much
better now. I feel I can d aging or something.
I'm not Lord knows, but so I don't feel old.
I feel younger than I used to.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
So I don't know. I just let's let's just keep
doing what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
Let's let's have fun, let's do the shows, play some golf,
let's enjoy a nice glass of wine. And I just
as opposed to not big on milestone as opposed to
what lay down in front of a train? I mean,
is that the other option? Or well, no, no, no,
I'm just I've never been huge about milestones. It's like,
when I graduated from college, I was like, all right,
what's next? I just I didn't weep, and and maybe
(20:33):
I lack the ability to reflect properly on things as
they pass, but certainly when my kids moved out, that
was a big thing. I'm like, yeah, okay, thanks, great,
let's let's get on with life.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
Anyway.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
So this is from David Reno, with whom I apparently
share a birthday. In fact, here are some other famous
people that we share a birthday with. I was aware
of some of these people, not.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
All of them. Jeb Bush, I'm sorry, that's Jeb with
an exclamation point. Sarah Palin, Oh, lipstick?
Speaker 2 (21:03):
How old is she? Did you get your joon? You
guys are probably about to say age, aren't you?
Speaker 4 (21:06):
You?
Speaker 2 (21:07):
And Sarah Palin, Yeah, yeah we could date, but just
gonna remind you to you that now and again. Sarah
Palin and I we got a connection anyway. Alex Jones,
oh great, Thomas Edison, what order is this?
Speaker 1 (21:20):
This is a good list. You've got.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Good in a way, Alex Jones.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Well, sharing sharing day.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
With a big with your birthday with other people, Thomas Edison,
that's a big one. That is a big one. Although
you know my great Well, I'll finish some of the lists.
Your mom it is, I know, just always in a hurry.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
And I'll explain that in a moment. But Leslie Nielsen,
the great Burt Reynolds, Jennifer Aniston.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
And other people who don't matter.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
But I've always been resentful that I was one day
short of sharing birthday with my great hero. Abraham Lincoln said,
I get Burt Reynolds traded the beard for the mustache.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Moving along, moving along with mailbagging the question of the
Democrats going crazy and J T read an interesting Victor
Davis Hansen piece about that. But to put it bluntly,
the left has abandoned this common sense approach of finding
middle ground, working together. Ever since Trump came down that escalator,
they've abandoned any effort to seek common ground. The result
(22:22):
is what VDH writes about in his article anti Americanism,
anti rule of law, anti equality and favor of equal outcomes,
and even anti reality. If Trump was for opening schools
based on the science, they were against it. When Trump
wants to control the border, they want to leave it
wide open. When Trump wants to apport legal aliens guilty
of terrible crimes, they want to fight to keep murders, rapists,
and gang members in the country. When Trump wants to
(22:44):
save tax pairs, billions or trillions of wasteful government spending dollars,
they want to fight for the wasteful government spending. There
is no common ground to be found in a party
that's held bent on opposing everything Trump wants to do.
It's a bizarre sort of politics, dumb. I like your
strategy of I would hang back and wait for something
(23:04):
to go wrong, because inevitably will on the world stage,
domestically something, and then take your shot to the trying
to turn what's going in right now into something bad.
You ain't gonna do it. There's too much public support.
I felt like there was a different tone on the
evening newscasts last night, and I blame Slash credit it
to that CBS poll that came out Sunday with Trump
(23:27):
having a fifty three percent approval rating. I felt like
I could hear that fifty three percent approval rating in
David Muir's voice as they were covering Trump yesterday at
the beginning of the evening newscast, much more treating him
like a regular president. I mean, maybe he has a
point sort of tone. I mean, maybe I'm making that up,
but I really feel like that. And oh no, it
(23:48):
should be they should be. There should have been somebody
in that news director meeting and all of.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Those newscasts saying, hey.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
Look, people, he's got a fifty three percent approval rating
after all of this craziness has happened. So maybe other
people don't think it's as crazy as we do. Maybe
we ought to look at it slightly different. I mean,
they'd be nuts if they weren't doing that. I don't
have any great admiration for politicians brains and wisdom and
the rest of it. I think most of them are
hacks in great heads. But I would think they would
(24:16):
at least perceive a what you just said and be
that the frantic this guy is falling. He's a Russian agent.
He's going to kill millions of people with COVID. I
don't trust his vaccine now that it's our vaccine. Jabbet
into yourself, whether you like it or not. I mean,
just the systematicid he wants the borders closed, to open
up the borders led rapists, and having seen how miserably
(24:37):
all that failed, I would think they would at least say, hey,
let's talk about this for a couple of weeks and
figure out what to do. But instead there I mean,
full speed ahead, that moron, Maxine Waters screeching as security
guards at the Department of Energy and Chuck Schumer bellowing,
we will fight in the streets.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
What are you going to fight in the streets exactly?
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Anyway, We're kind of getting off on a tangent away
from mailbag, which is fine. A number of people have
sent the screenshot House votes on the Protection of Women
and Girls in Sports Act Republicans two hundred and sixteen
to nothing, yay, with two Democrat votes joining them. But
Democrats were two six to two against protecting girls.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
And Sprat didn't know that well.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
And the caption is imagine being the party that accuses
the other party of hating women and then voting against
women the hypocrisy's breadth. Wow, they're so scared of the
nutty left that they were that uniform and being against that.
My wait a minute, bone is a hummin. I want
to check those numbers to verify them. Don't take that
to the bank, Yeah, because that strikes me. I've received
(25:44):
it from a bunch of people. It says it appears
to be a screen capture from Fox News. But it's
easy to make things appear to be something they're not.
To devastate definitely, that'll do for now, sprinkle in some
more later. Copper is already up two and a half percent.
This was yesterday. I haven't looked today because of the
announcement of ending the penny. That's almost fifteen percent so
(26:07):
far this year and it's early February. So the return
on keeping pennies in a jar is beating interest earned
by keeping cash in the bank currently, at least for pennies.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
I shouldn't have chucked them away all these years. What
you actually throw them away? Oh? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Not leave them? Well, no, no, no offense. And I would
call the fense. Good lord, I know what's your worth.
I can't have you destroying currency.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Yeah no, I.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Just leave them places for people to find them, that's nice.
I'll leave them on counters or whatever. I can't tell
if that's nice or just like super the opposite. Here's
a penny to the proletariat. I hope they have a
good day. I left them at penny. I don't address
them to their face like that. I just leave it
(26:55):
and fellow oligarchs like me will pass it by, say
I'm not picking up that the piece of coffee, but
the poor m i'd appreciate my own. I feel like
that's the way. Then we'll take a break for Katie's headlines.
I've said for years that's the way they should judge
whether or not we should keep currency. Get one hundred
random people. Maybe do it at an airport or bus
station or something like that. You leave a penny on
(27:15):
the ground and nickel the ground on the dime on
the ground. What percentage of people bend over to pick
it up? Almost nobody's going to bend over to pick
up a penny, which is proof that it is worthless.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I don't know about the nickel. Almost everybody I think
would pick up the dime.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
But nickel.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
I I'm not exactly sure. Your your sour on the nickel.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I still think a nickel is something, but practically nobody's
gonna bend over to pick up a penny, which I
think is I don't think I have spent twenty seven
hours in the last year with any change in my pocket.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well no, no, if you're under the age of forty,
you don't.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
You haven't spent an hour with any money in your
pocket at all in the last year. Younger people, not
just the idea of having money in your pocket seems insane.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
Why would you do that? Hmm yes, Katie.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Another big indicator are the numerous shops on Etsy of
people drilling holes in pennies and tournament to keychains.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, when penny jewelry everywhere? Oh really yeah,
and that's happening. Your currency is no longer.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
How did it take till now for Trump to say, nobody,
we don't need the penny? It's that weird clinging to
what saddest quo. Whether it's a government, programmers, the schools,
or whatever. We just were terrified by the idea of
re examining things and asking the only question that matters
is this working?
Speaker 1 (28:41):
Right?
Speaker 2 (28:41):
But then we adopt as a country or get scared
into adopting all of a sudden. Dudes can participate in girls' sports,
and there's no such thing as men's and women's restrooms.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
I mean, so, how does that sweep the nation?
Speaker 2 (28:52):
At the same time, we're unwilling to, you know, do
away with the time change that we all hate or
the penny which is worthless.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
That's how bullying, I guess in bi radicals, the.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Armstrong and Getdy show.
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah more John, your Joe podcasts and our hot links.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Meanwhile, Jack, I've discovered what I believe to be the
we Shall Overcome of twenty twenty five, the we are
the world of the twenty first century. Ladies and gentlemen,
I give you, which side are you on? Which side
are you on? Which side?
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Are you all.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
Side?
Speaker 1 (29:30):
Are you on?
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 3 (29:35):
We'll fight against Joe where fights?
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Now?
Speaker 3 (29:42):
Wait lanscap, then our walls will fight from don to dusk?
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Which side are you.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Shine?
Speaker 5 (29:53):
Are you?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I'm on?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Whichever side? I'm sures I never have to hear this
song again? Play it, Michael, play it, damn it.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
Try somebody till you turn it off for our unions.
Speaker 3 (30:02):
He wants, he wants to bow to him, but we
want him in jail.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Oh my god, Wow, you know I don't forget who
wrote this or said this, and I thought it was
really good. One of the problems we got going on
in America is we we had this period in the
sixties where there was a whole bunch of late fifties
mid sixties particularly where we had all kinds of this
(30:34):
sort of thing, songs and protests and you know, the
look at the Bob Dylan movie and the Civil Rights
Act and all these different sorts of things where there
was like a real major issue to be dealt with
and people rallied around and there was a witch side.
Speaker 1 (30:48):
Where you're on and people it was righteous.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
It was righteous, and people want to relive that all
the time, even if that issue doesn't exist right now.
And you can't like put that level of intensity on dog.
He's trying to cut spending by a few percent and
shrink the government.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
Which side are you on?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Which side of.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
Musk? Thanks for asking you.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
It's about moral question of our time, as as you
exactly as you point out, it's just so nakedly a
strategy of we've got to change these incremental cuts that
aren't nearly enough to have bloated federal workforce into the
civil rights issue of our day. Yeah, good, luck with that.
And you want to talk about trying to make a
silk person out of a sow's ear, that's like a
(31:34):
silk pers out of the pig's crap. Never mind it's ear,
it's not gonna work. The singing the lyrics was that
a Saturday night live bit. Good Lord, do take that.
Government translives.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Heaven got a chance lesson organize, pretending that the is
standing up for goodness and righteousness, when indeed they're just
standing up for continuing to have way too many workers
paying way too many dues to enrich themselves.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Hi, we're onto you, friends.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
I sure hope I'm right about this, and I think
but the vast majority of America doesn't look at government
jobs is sacro sankeed, protected by all that is good.
They should never go away under any circumstances. The way
they think we do well. They have managed to jam
through every bit of wasteful spending and redundant taxation and
(32:33):
similar stuff for years and years. And we're most familiar
with California. But by always it's the teachers and the firefighters.
If there are any cuts, it's going to you know,
the firefighters are going to have to fight fires with
Dixie cups full of water. And the teachers, well, they're
just going to be in prison apparently, if we don't
pass this tax increase.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
Well, now it's extended.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Like all government workers who are sacrosanct and sacred and
so valuable to society, we dare not question them for
a minute, right, The great civil rights issue of our
day is making sure mid level government employees who do
something that you can't even tell what it is, don't
lose their jobs, all right, no matter how unnecessary their
(33:13):
jobs are. Right, And there's also the issue in the
I don't think Elon's been hammering this enough, although he
has many times in his Twitter threats. There are important
jobs and important agencies that are going to have to
go away if you don't have enough money. It's like
if you're broke, you really really want to do this
or that, but you can't. You just flat don't have
(33:34):
the money. Katie Green, what should we know about what
we're about to play?
Speaker 5 (33:38):
So I was scrolling through TikTok and this popped up
on my for you page. And the visual of this,
it's a woman filming it. Her husband is driving and
he has headphones in and she's clearly talking at him,
but he cannot hear her.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
And this is how it goes down.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
He thinks I talk too much, can't get a word
in edge wise when I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (33:58):
To my girls.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
But we're on a road trip in.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
A confined space, and he's got your buds in listening
to arm triangle. Yeah, oh good man, Yeah he can't.
He says he can't get a word in edgewise, and
he's sitting there. He doesn't hear a thing she's saying
because he's listening to you guys.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
That's funny. We made TikTok.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
I hope she Jin Ping doesn't purge that clip because
it mentions the flaming anti communists Armstrong and Getty. Uh I,
so you have TikTok on your phone or yeah, how
much do you enjoy it? It's it's okay.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
I mean the algorithms definitely, it catches my attention, but
I try to, you know, not use it as much
because the China thing.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
I wish I could do it. I mean I would
like to. I would like to, but I'm not going to.
There's a lot of obnoxious crap on there.
Speaker 5 (34:51):
But somehow that algorithm put that video on my phone yesterday.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Don't trust China.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
So it knows where you work it or it just
knows what radio show has beloved coast to coast.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, or it hears it through my phone when I'm
on with you guys every day.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I'm not sure, but I thought that was hilarious. That
is fun funny. Bring him back. He's not fat. That's
a good chance.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
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