March 17, 2025 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:39):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy arm Strong
and Jetty and he Armstrong And it's gonna be a
big week, brand new week. This is the week you
(01:01):
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this week. I can just seek or are they right?
If you're non gendered? Live from the studio, C say
seen your dimly lit room? Do you put them? The
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compounded. Today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager, not Saint Patrick's day.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a culture, not a costume, you racists. Today's general
manager March madness. Though I'm a friend of September psychosis
and November neurosis.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't see a lot of green, Michael, you have
any green on anywhere? No? No, I don't, Hans and
I haven't seen you yet green. I'm wearing a green shirt.
Katie and I both have green shirts? Are you irish
at ol? Katie? Yes, majorly okay? And Joe's actually Irish?
Who's and he's not wearing any green, which don't change
for you. So anybody pinches me, I'll loosen their teeth.
(01:54):
By the way, just for the record, well a show
this for years. Anybody's not wearing green gets an old
fashioned Irish flogging with the same sort of stick that
Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland with. So
it's a bluff in tradition, a lot like singing Christmas Carols,
(02:15):
only only more beatings when you is boy. I forgot
to tell my son, so I got a text him
to put on some greener. I know one one teacher
that will absolutely give him crap. Michael I used to
heal up after about two days. Well, we're not monsters, right,
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and we need you to be able to work that.
It's in our interest, right, We're enlightened. Uh bombed the
but Jesus out of the Hoothies over the weekend. Yeah, huh,
how about that. They've I was reading about the Hoothies recently. Man,
they've they've hung in there. Those are tough sons of guns.
But Trump is not going to do a one or
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two and done by style and then say don't don't.
Trump says we're gonna keep bombing the until they say
we won't target your ships anymore. They had attacked according
to Marco Rubio yesterday on Face Nation, they had attacked
US navy vessels one hundred and seventy four times. How
does any self respecting country allow that to happen and
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not just devastate whoever's doing it. I think there's a
word for that situation. It's called what is it? It's
a short little word starts with a wis war?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's war? You attack our navy over and over again,
we're at war. Mf or's huh, pardon me. We can't
take that as a country. Do you show weakness over
and over again?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What do you get peace?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Say idiots, No, you get attacked, you get war, you
get violence, you get death. Be so big and tough
and me nobody dares mess with you. That's how you
save lives.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So we had, according to Marco Rubio, under the Biden administration,
who thi's would fire at us and then we would
take out that particular missile launcher launcher. Whereas Saturday night
we took out like all their radar systems, all their
missile launchers, killed a whole bunch of their leadership with
then posted some of the videos online. Thank you Michael
for posting that to the group text so we could
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watch that guy get obliterated driving down the road. Man,
is some technology that exists on planet Earth right now,
isn't it? And luckily basically we have it and almost
nobody else. But you're just driving down some county road
in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden
you disappear the engine making that whistling sound. I don't
(04:37):
think that's the engine. I don't even know if they
hear anything. It's just all of a sudden and you
just cease thinking. I guess, mmm, that's something. AnyWho, we
did that with a whole bunch of leaders of the
Houthy Rebels. They call them over the weekend. We'll see
how that turns out. Putin and Trump are meeting tomorrow.
(05:00):
Of course that's a fairly big deal depending on what
Trump past to Satapoot and vicey versy. Are they meeting
or talking? They're talking. I don't think they're a mean
phone call. Yeaheah, I mean miss mislead you uh, they are.
They're talking and we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And realizing in the modern world that if you just
call somebody out of the blue, it freaks them out.
You've got to at least text and say, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Are you around? You have a minute to talk? Right,
that's all set up in it right right, My phone rings,
and it's somebody I haven't communicated with a long time.
I look at my phone like, oh my god, oh wow,
oh no. I wonder what they want. I wonder if
I'll be able to deal with it. Should I answer?
Should I send it to voicemail and listen to the
voicemail first, see what it's about, so I can get
my footing before along like this tape. I don't know
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any of these things. And we grew up in the
world the phone rings, you pick it up, Hey, hello, yeah,
pray anybody, every phone call you ever got in your
life prior to a few years ago with out of
the blue, they all were.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Could be your dad, could be the CIA, could be
your granny who you haven't you know whatever? Right, every
phone call was out of the will always, and you
cannot tell me, in terms of being adaptable and resilient
that this is a better situation for human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's crazy. I wonder everybody's so damn anxious. Anything unexpected happens,
just all Trump and those of us are grew up
with it. I think Trump and Putin are doing that,
texting each other when would be a good time for
you sometime Tuesday, Okay, like after six, Yeah, that'd be fine. Sure. Yeah.
(06:34):
Well they're very busy.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Trump doging like a maniac, and Putin, you know, slaughtering
Ukrainians and is a pent On conquest is campaign for conquest.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Ukraine has lost all but a couple of square miles
now of that territory in Russia that they had held.
They'd had five hundred square miles of Russia, and they're
down to the last little bit and it looks like
they're gonna be driven out of that, which might have
been the goal for pot before this talk tomorrow, so
that he could get to bargaining without having that out there,
(07:07):
I would throw out. As I'm reading, I've mentioned several
times I'm reading the book Thirteen Days, which is about
the Middle East Piece process of seventy eight, in which
all three recipients ended up with the Nobel Prize. Began
Sadat and Carter for bringing Egypt in Israel together. It
started as I'm reading the book the first many days,
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very similar to what Putin has done. Egypt showed up
with like a laundry list of all the things that'd
be perfect for them, and they will not budge under
any circumstances, and didn't look like it go anywhere, and
it got somewhere. So it's not necessarily the case that
Putin is not willing to give anything or that because
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he's asking for it, he's going to get it. Who knows. Yeah, yeah,
there are differences too. Obviously, what I'd say a carter
wasn't leaning on the Israelis at them and calling them
dictators and.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Whatnot, right, and Putin hasn't had his arse kicked twice
by Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
For instance. Yeah, anyway, that'll be something we should uh.
On that note, we should start to show officially because
we got a clip around that I'm Jack Armstrong, he's
Joe getting on this. It is Saint Patrick's day, with
not a lot of Irish spared around here, that you're
twenty twenty five March seventeenth. We are Armstrong, you getting
we approve of this program. You get to speak in
a funny accent now to mock my people e' racist.
(08:31):
All right, let's begin officially now according to FCC rules
and regulations. Here we go, at Mark, what's the plan.
If Putin doesn't agree to a ceasefire?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Bad news for this world because so many people are dying.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But I think he's going to gray, I really do.
I think I know him pretty well, and I think
he's going to agree. Got a chance. He didn't say
bad news for Putin. He just made it sound like
if Putin doesn't, bad news for everybody, be a shame.
I'm hoping desperately that Trump's softness on Putin is just
(09:08):
attack to me because he knows that'll be the tough
nut to crack. We'll have to wait and see and
find out together. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The only reason Putin would conceivably agree to anything temporarily
because he violates every agreement he makes, is because he
sees it as a more effective way to continue his
conquest just slightly delayed.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Putin answers to only one thing. That's greater power and
the willingness to use it. Well, if it ended up
with a whole bunch of British and French troops in
Ukraine and US with major business interests, that would be
a different situation.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't see Putin agreeing to that. I think there's
roughly a zero percent chance. But if I'm wrong, I'll
manfully admit it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, I'm already urinating green that's how much green beer
I've had. Oh lord, I just stopped by the men's
room on the way into the studio in the Manna
just quickly there. Wow, wow, Wow. We've got Katie's headlines
on the way. Mail bag a little bit later, and
more news of the day. Of course, everybody's eyes will
be on the stock market to see if the UH
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reaction to the tariff thing continues the direction it was
all last week. Things start to settle down and we
find a bottom there, always looking for a firm bottom.
That's the market. Yeah, so we got plenty of news
to talk about, no doubt, and UH you can join
in anytime. Our text line is four one five, but Goora,
I gotta throw that in four one five, two nine
(10:33):
five KFTC already run now I want to punch someone.
This Irish music surely gets me in the mood.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh my god, more racism, Katie. How long do we
put up with this before we call the EOE?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Or the FDA or somebody. I'm already done with it. Yeah,
no kidding, good lord. I have done a number of
radio shows in my career that, uh, we're like parades
and whatnot. Did the big parade in Kansas City with
the radio station I worked with many many years ago.
Everybody was hammered by like seven am, I mean hammered
the giant parade going on. Wow, it's an interesting tradition.
(11:13):
I don't think most of those people were just like
deeply celebrating their cherished family heritage.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No more than I'm celebrating my old abuela, my Spanish
for I think grandmother on sinko to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, you guys, you want to get a case of
Dan drinks and Margarita's. Well, yes, yes, I would like that. Yeah,
ne need a reason.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, please come on, we have got a lot to
get to this hour. Got a great freedom loving quote
of the day mail pack, very intriguing and thought provoking.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead
story with Katie Green. Katie starting with.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Fox News, El Salvador takes in hundreds of Venezuelan gang
members from United States, even as Judge moves.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
To block deportation. Man, if you want a show that
talks about what time the planes took off versus is
the court ruling, this ain't the one for you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's going to be an interesting case to see play
out story.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just the various wranglings on these things of come on,
can we just I wish we would just come up
with a what do we all want? And it seems
like everybody wants to kick out illegals.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Right, especially the criminals, the nasty guys. Yeah, and I'm sorry, Kitty.
We will talk in a little bit at some point
about how this trend of if you can find ad
district courts somewhat to say no, I don't like this policy,
you can derail it for weeks, months, years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
From the Associated Press, Russia and.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Ukraine trade aerial.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Man, So you're expecting not a lot tomorrow out of
the Putin phone call? No, eventually, not a lot. I
just I don't know whether.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Putin's maneuver is going to be to say no, we
don't have any interest than this. We're gonna crush him
because we're on the front foot, or he will pretend
to have some sort of interest in a piece deal
to get more troops trained up and restock his weapons.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I would guess it's going to be the latter. It's
gonna be all. We have lawyers looking at it. We're
very intrigued by it. Nobody would like to see the
killing end more than me. That sort of thing Trump
will come out with. He he cares deeply about the
deaths and all that sort of stuff, And yeah, putbull
rearm and buy a little time and come up with
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a reason. A lot of thinkers are expecting some sort
of false flag situation where some Russian soldiers are killed
and we had to go back in that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From Breitbart quote we will escalate Puti chief announces terror
campaign against US warships.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Bring it on, man, Bring it on who. Piece from ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
North Korea vows to strengthen nuclear capabilities, rejecting d G
seven call for denuclearization.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Are there any news stories that do not make the
world seem more insane and.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Danger No kidding well From the Free Beacon. Columbia encampment
leader known for owning quote emotional support Rabbit is among
students expelled for storming Hamilton hall.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Wow, so you're dangerous revolutionary in your coffee and your
terrorist scarf if you prefer that term. Is also a cringing,
anxiety prone little thing that needs a comfort, rabbits. But
I took that is the perfect world. There is the
modern world, folks.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
There can somebody draw that up with AI please and
present me with the poster. I'm just gonna label it
the modern world. I took out a lot of legal
podcasts and stuff around this over the weekend. UH Columbia
student and free speech and whether we should or can
kick them out and all that sort of stuff. It's
even the people that are hardcore, this violates free speech.
(14:56):
It's not a like a clear cut easy call based
on our laws, right.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The existing laws are somewhat surprising, at least to me.
That's a Secretary of State can say, now that's harming
American policy.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That guy over there a boot them out, right? Yeah,
it's interesting from the.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Daily Mail, hospitals in New Jersey force parents to choose
pronouns and sexual orientation for newborn babies.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
They force you to. How can they force me to?
Or you're gonna do what? Take my baby back?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They're handing out this form to everyone who's given birth
and they want them.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
To fill it out. That doesn't surprise me, But you're
gonna get a big dose f you from me if
I'm there as a brand new parent and you hit
me with that paperwork, Oh my god, I'd be incensed
from ESPN.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Auburn and Duke top men's NCAA tournament field.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So they changed up all the conferences in all of sports,
those of us who are sports, so I don't even
know what I don't even know who's in what conference anymore, right,
And there's like forty teams in the Big twelve and
three teams in the Big ten.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Just I mean, it's all very, very complicated. But uh yeah,
and the players can switch teams every year. And you
got a bunch of grad students quote unquote grad students
on a bunch of the rosters.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What does that even mean? I don't know. You know,
they couldn't make the NBA. It'll be interesting to see
if it continues to be as hot as it has
been in year's pack. But there's lots of new fresh
faces at the top with shots at Final four and
a championship this time around. So that's either good or bad.
I have no idea which.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
From the New York Post quote what the f man
seen casually eating pieces of bloody New York City rat
corpse in stomach turning video from.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Drug addict like out off mine on trank eating a
dead rat.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'd assume so, but he is showing down on this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I think you could have shortened up that headline and
left stomach turning out of it. I think we all
got there without you telling us, right.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And finally, the Babylon bee track and field runner accidentally trips,
punches and attacks rival with a sword.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So we got to get into some more news of
the day, and there's lots of it out there. Yeah.
Like Joe said, are there any headlines that don't include
the world getting worse or possible World War three? It'd
be nice to stay away from those for a while.
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Speaker 4 (17:33):
President Trump is more popular than in his first term,
but voters have soured on his handling of the economy,
one of his signature issues. Fifty four percent of voters
disapprove of the president's handling of the economy, just eighteen
percent of voters rate the economy is excellent or good,
the lowest market are polling in more than a decade.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's enough of that. I turned on NBC Meet the
Press yesterday. I wanted to see how they were going
to handle their own poll that came out with all
the he headlines. Unless you're going out of your way
to make your audience happy about something negative about Trump.
The headline is he's got the highest approval rating he's
ever had in the NBC poll and all of last term,
in this term, highest approval rating Trump has ever had ever,
(18:15):
which is stunning, giving off the twists and turns of
his career, whether it's January sixth, or the tariffs or
whatever the hell. He's got the highest approval rating he's
ever had in the NBC poll. But they had to
dig into he's got the lowest economic numbers he's ever had,
like one of fifteen numbers that are negative, all the
other ones were positive. The right track, wrong track is
the highest it's been in twenty years. Twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm hearing a shameless Trump honk, folks, and I apologize
for Jack's one sided approach. I would say the economic
number is the most important number.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Of the many. But but if indeed people are that
skeptical of his economic program and I am with him
on that, and he's still has his highest number, and
he and we have the highest right track run check
in twenty years, what does that say to you about
(19:09):
the other stuff going on? So the risk is certainly
there in the economic stuff, But to me, that's a
giant hoorah. The other people love the border stuff. People
love the no transmit and sports, all the culture war stuff,
people love all that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh that reminds me, guys, if you could bring back
the clip from I think it was the end of
last week talking about certain stats on the border that
I asked for.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We'll get those in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But yeah, unquestionably, if the economy goes kur bluey in
a significant way, it's all going to go away. But yeah,
you are really working to find the eighth of the
glass that is half empty.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There. The overall approval rating is always the headline, always,
anytime anybody does these stories, except for when Trump's got
the highest he's ever had. Then you have to go
with different numbers being more important.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They are utterly hilariously dishonest. I wish that their jobs
and industries would collapse and go away.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh they are. That's an excellent point. Yeah, so what
are you? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm gonna punish them by their current reality and certainly
their future. Ask Don Lemon, who is spewing his hateful
nonsense on Bill Maher the other day.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The same poll, by the way, has the Democrats with
their lowest overall approval rating ever. I think it was
eighteen percent. It's not like, I mean, incredibly low. Democrats
are the most unpopular they've ever been in the history
of the party. Later on the show, none of these
things will stay the same, of course, surely you understand that, right,
(20:38):
I think so Later on the show, and we haven't
figured out when to do this because it's going to
be fairly lengthy. But to just one of the most
mind blowingly interesting things I've stumbled across in years, and
that is, oddly enough, a piece by one Yoni Applebaum
in The Atlantic, the insufferably progressive Atlantic, about how Americans
(21:04):
have stopped doing what we always did and what made
us great and progressives are to blame. I'm surprised to
see that in the Atlantic. I don't want to give
away the whole thing. Okay, it's a tease. We were
in our minds, we're guessing what that might be. Let
me let me put it to you like this, for
(21:25):
the entirety of American history, if you didn't have the
opportunities you wanted, what would you do? Cry racism? Exactly? No, No,
You'd go somewhere else where there was opportunity. You'd go west,
(21:45):
young Man, or east, or north or south, it didn't matter.
The point is you went where there was opportunities. So
just and the how they our tendencies have changed in
some of the glimpses from history, I was like, how
have I never heard of that? Just amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So anyway, stay tuned for that. This is because I'm
trying to put off getting into.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Some of the heavy issues of the day. I admit
that freely.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is one of my favorite, dryly hilarious lines, and
it's very dry.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Sage rights.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
At no point in this sentence did I know what
was going to happen next.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And it is a headline from the New York Post.
At no point in this sentence did I know what
was going to happen next. Here's your headline death defying
neuroscientist turned only fans model. Okay, I see, I am.
I'm right there with you. I have no idea confronts
life with memory loss after brutal bike accident caused by
(22:49):
a pigeon. There's so many twists in that headline you
can hardly remember how it starts. So this is a
scientist who is also an OnlyFans model. Yeah, yeah, A very.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Young woman yes indeed, yes, evidently has memory loss after
a brutal bike accident caused once again by rats with
wings pigeon.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I said. One of the first replies on Twitter is
plot of the Average House episode. That's pretty funny that. God,
I heard something else I got overy the week and
I'll have to get I'll have to dig that back up.
I was looking through my notes from the weekend. Things
I want to get to, For instance, Bill Maher, I
didn't you watch Bill Maher Friday Night? Michael, you usually do.
(23:38):
But Bill Maher pins education disaster on democrats, questions of
Education department is even needed if mainstream democrats like that
are are saying that I like dog's chances. I don't
understand how you could do anything, but I mean that seriously,
not just as an angry partisan, but the progressives have
owned education for the last forty years, and over the
(24:01):
last forty years it's gotten progressively worse. So who are
you gonna blame Reagan? Right? So we're gonna have more
on that later. And then this from my own real
life from western Kansas, from where I'm from. My brother
sent me this text and I looked into it. It was
getting national in the news attention. There was a crash
(24:22):
out in the middle of nowhere on Interstate seventy that
ended up being fifty to sixty vehicles all piled up,
many injured and killed because of a dust storm like
thirties era dust storm. Now, I lived in Kansas, that's
my home state, for many many years, and never saw
a dust storm once, And now I guess it's semi
(24:44):
regular to have them so blinding you can't drive. And
I'm not a climate change you know, it's not my
top topic. But it's interesting that I never saw one
in my life, and now it regularly stops starving major pilots.
Not because of snow, it hardly ever snows anymore, but
dust storms. That's something I realize. The climate is always
(25:05):
changing part of.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That whole giant storm that killed thirty five people or
so across the country in various ways, in various places.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Terrible. God, if you're in one of those giant pile ups,
that's gotta be awful when you hit somebody. You're sitting
there and you're thinking how soon before somebody smashes into
me from behind? That's just got to be brutal. I know,
it's a nightmare. Fog is similar, Yeah, just terrible. Yikes.
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
So I was saying, when I heard about Saint Patrick's Dan,
then a couple of things about the big New York
Parade and everything like that. The Boston Parade, wasn't that
a really big deal for seven years, for several years,
whether or not gay people could march in those parades. Yes,
it was a big topic, like twenty years ago or
something like. It was like the biggest topic. It fought
really hard to make sure gay people couldn't march in
(26:48):
the very Now I guess everybody's over it, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, at one point they were going to cancel it
or postponent or something or everybody had their she latelys out,
But yes, they settled. It turns out those gay fellows
like to drink and fight.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Two, they're okay with me. You're actually Irish. What do
you claim Sat Patrick's Day about. I don't give a
damn Okay, I really don't mean anything to you, no,
Sir Patrick Ancestry. More or less. Yeah, we're mutts. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I've got a lot of Irish in me, a lot
of English and Welsh and Norwegian, German, and god knows
what else.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm a mutt like most Americans are.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I subscribe to Teddy Roosevelt's screed that if you're an American,
you're not an American and something else. No hyphens in
my world, Jack, By God, I'm red.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
White and blue. I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But if I go back to Ireland and get drawnk,
I'll be weeping like a baby. Oh it's good to
be among my people, and they'll say, your fake accent sucks.
Shut up, you're an American. Trust us.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Actually we got this note from Zennon. He actually included.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
An explainer of how to pronounce his name and listening
to the show for many moons. Guys, he wasn't even
it wasn't even Irish. He was British. Kidnapped at sixteen
by Irish band. It's sold into slavery in Ireland for
six years, escaped England and resumed to Ireland, or returned
to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And no, he didn't remove any snakes from Ireland. There
you go. There's your history. Lest what you always point
out and should be understood more because it's really interesting,
so we understand our politics more. These holidays are a
gift to various voting groups to try to get them
to vote. Like Columbus Day was a hey Italians, we'd
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like your vote, So we've made Columbus Day a day.
That sort of thing. That's what's driven a lot of
this entirely.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Yeah, because the
ethnic groups were seen much like black people are today.
And it's an insult to your intelligence. And I apologize
on behalf of America for this. But if you can
convince people of a certain ethnicity of race that they're
supposed to vote one way or that you know it's
natural for them all to vote one way and it's
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just merely an auction for their vote, you know, how much?
Who can promise how much? Then you can count on
the huge turnout of those votes. It's insulting, an idiotic
in our system. But it's existent for long time.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And often very very wrong, with the most recent example
being we'll use the term latinix and claim we should
never arrest an illegal, and you end up with more
Hispanics voting for Republicans than ever because they don't agree
with either one of those things. Right, yeah, yeah, so
the guests is often wrong. Conservatives might make the case that, hey,
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Hispanic Americans are heavily working class and rampant illegal immigration
kills the working class. Everybody knows that, says our CHEFZ
know that Bernie Sanders knows it. So hey, come on
over the Water's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
But you will never hear any anybody on the right
side of the aisle say if you don't vote Republican,
you ain't Mexican.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
What a horrific thing to say. But Columbus Day is
a federal holiday, Saint Patrick, today is not, is it?
This isn't a federal holidays? No? No, okay, might be
an observant. It's like National Blueberry Day, you know what
I mean? The Irish no better than blueberries. You know
what are going to dig up. I've had been entertained
by this many times in my life. There are YouTube
videos of old timey Irish dudes talking in English but
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with an Irish accent. You can't understand a word they say.
It's really kind of entertaining that, among other things, we'll
get to later and mail bag on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Ay, I may take over the world someday.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But another example of how it ain't ready yet, not
even close. We'll get to probably an hour or two.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Alrighty, how about a freedom loving quote of the day
from the aforementioned Theodore Roosevelt. The things that will destroy
America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price,
safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living,
and the get rich quick theory of life.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Is that a real quote or that's a little that's
almost too perfect? Oh, teddy, teddy, teddy, teddy, I got
some I got some badness. Yeah, that's pretty goodly disappointing news.
That sounds like teddy. I didn't check that one.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Although, as I've said before, a significant percentage of quotes
on the Internet, even on the quote sites, are false
or mis.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Misattributed. The internet will eliminate misinformation in the world. When
people have access to blah blah blah, it.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Will eliminate mankind, I think, certainly in any any of
the good stuff of life. Boy, that's a dark thing
to say, and Monday and I apologize for it. But man,
I could give you examples. There is no ideology so stupid, hateful, destructive,
suicidal that it can't line up ten thousand adherents on
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the Internet and reinforce the thinking of the lunatics promoting it.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, if I was a more cynical person, I would
try to make one up, just just as an experiment.
Make up some sources, quote some PhDs. Come up with
some historical facts from books that don't exist, right, and uh,
and see who.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I can just you know, quote books that do exist,
just you know, stuff that isn't in them. Yeah, yeah,
what are you gonna go with?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You know, the world is perched on the back of
a thousand turtles or a flat earth or what you got?
An idea blaming a particular group for all the problems
seems to work really well.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So pick oh wow, maybe the Irish in honor of
Saint Patrick's dag mailbag drop is an oat mail bag
at Armstrong and Geddy dot Com swiftly moving mailton bag.
Today we're going to touch on a few different things,
Sean writes. For years, Joe, you went to McDonald's and
ordered the fish sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Mister Getty, you are now the weird one. Yack is
the reasonable one.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I enjoyed the file of fish.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It was my order at Joyce for several years. Let's
see Patrick Henry is rolling in his brave breke Zee.
Sarah codyt you was the head health official I think
in Santa Clara County in the Bay area of California
during the pandemic. Was quoted looking back, I value life,
so that was really animating a lot of the decisions
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I made. But a couple of years out and certainly
with what's happening now, that's not the value that everyone holds.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Some people value liberty over life. Wow. And and she's
amazed by that. Yeah, and troubled. I will enslave you.
I will imprison you for your own good as I
see it, even though you know, even at the time
and certainly a year later, I was wrong about everything.
(33:52):
But I'm here to help you. Wow. That's interesting, lady.
You're a monster.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You don't realize that, because you're so base in your
own self righteousness, you are a monster. John from Kansas,
Save mankind.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You're right, guys.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
People may not realize that, in all the bickering about
gender identity, grotesque cause playing, and grooming of children, that
the question of what is a woman can be most
simply explained by the origin of the word itself. Woman
is an Old Slash Middle English word that simply means
womb man or man with a womb. You see, the
word man used to be a synonym for person and
was used interchangeably in context such as man hours and mankind.
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Then he makes jokes about replacing the man holes in
our city streets with human holes or perhaps woman holes.
We need to stop with a humankind nonsense, save mankind
by saving the language.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I believe that's your version of her history, not mine.
Oh lord, I've been saying that for forever. Women were
not named what's the way to put this that's even
slightly delicate penisless man, balllessman, as if there's something missing.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No, they were named woom man, a person with a womb,
which is the miracle that gives life. It's not an
insult and progressives are nuts?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How much time do we have? Michael A little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Dennison, beautiful Lincoln, California writes, good afternoon men. Well I
wrote this yesterday as I watched the final imagines me
just constantly monitoring the email, just waiting for emails to
come in so I could read them. After I watched
the final college Conference too many to remember basketball championships
before March Madness, I was struck by the number of
players identified as graduate students who look to me to
(35:41):
be in their freaking thirties. OMG, I guess the appeal
of the nil money is a great incentive to go
back to graduate school for those various masters degrees in
basket weaving oops, I mean basketball or communications.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Funny that none of them are in the stem fields
enjoy the tournament. Interesting to see. I'm unfamiliar with this
aspect of the whole thing. Yeah, I was watching the
game the other day. There was a sixth year senior
or something like that. He was twenty six, twenty seven
years old. And the ability to make money is keeping
people around in a way that it wouldn't have in
the past. Or they're hoping to have a really good
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season and go play in Greece or Macedonia or maybe,
by some wild dream, the NBA. I don't know exactly.
I do need to police the office today to make
sure there's no illegal gambling going on. It's very important
for me. Thank you. Call the police right away. We've
got more news to come in an hour two. If
you missed the segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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and Jetty and he Armstrong And it's gonna be a
big week, brand new week. This is the week you
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coffee shop where mister raids. It's all gonna come together
this week. I can just seek or are they right?
If you're non gendered? Live from the studio, C say
seen your dimly lit room? Do you put them? The
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under the tutelage of our general manager, not Saint Patrick's day.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
It's a culture, not a costume, you racists. Today's general
manager March madness. Though I'm a friend of September psychosis
and November neurosis.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I don't see a lot of green, Michael, you have
any green on anywhere? No? No, I don't, Hans and
I haven't seen you yet green. I'm wearing a green shirt.
Katie and I both have green shirts? Are you irish
at ol? Katie? Yes, majorly okay? And Joe's actually Irish?
Who's and he's not wearing any green, which don't change
for you. So anybody pinches me, I'll loosen their teeth.
(01:54):
By the way, just for the record, well a show
this for years. Anybody's not wearing green gets an old
fashioned Irish flogging with the same sort of stick that
Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland with. So
it's a bluff in tradition, a lot like singing Christmas Carols,
(02:15):
only only more beatings when you is boy. I forgot
to tell my son, so I got a text him
to put on some greener. I know one one teacher
that will absolutely give him crap. Michael I used to
heal up after about two days. Well, we're not monsters, right,
(02:36):
and we need you to be able to work that.
It's in our interest, right, We're enlightened. Uh bombed the
but Jesus out of the Hoothies over the weekend. Yeah, huh,
how about that. They've I was reading about the Hoothies recently. Man,
they've they've hung in there. Those are tough sons of guns.
But Trump is not going to do a one or
(02:58):
two and done by style and then say don't don't.
Trump says we're gonna keep bombing the until they say
we won't target your ships anymore. They had attacked according
to Marco Rubio yesterday on Face Nation, they had attacked
US navy vessels one hundred and seventy four times. How
does any self respecting country allow that to happen and
(03:20):
not just devastate whoever's doing it. I think there's a
word for that situation. It's called what is it? It's
a short little word starts with a wis war?
Speaker 2 (03:30):
That's war? You attack our navy over and over again,
we're at war. Mf or's huh, pardon me. We can't
take that as a country. Do you show weakness over
and over again?
Speaker 1 (03:42):
What do you get peace?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Say idiots, No, you get attacked, you get war, you
get violence, you get death. Be so big and tough
and me nobody dares mess with you. That's how you
save lives.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
So we had, according to Marco Rubio, under the Biden administration,
who thi's would fire at us and then we would
take out that particular missile launcher launcher. Whereas Saturday night
we took out like all their radar systems, all their
missile launchers, killed a whole bunch of their leadership with
then posted some of the videos online. Thank you Michael
for posting that to the group text so we could
(04:16):
watch that guy get obliterated driving down the road. Man,
is some technology that exists on planet Earth right now,
isn't it? And luckily basically we have it and almost
nobody else. But you're just driving down some county road
in the middle of nowhere, and all of a sudden
you disappear the engine making that whistling sound. I don't
(04:37):
think that's the engine. I don't even know if they
hear anything. It's just all of a sudden and you
just cease thinking. I guess, mmm, that's something. AnyWho, we
did that with a whole bunch of leaders of the
Houthy Rebels. They call them over the weekend. We'll see
how that turns out. Putin and Trump are meeting tomorrow.
(05:00):
Of course that's a fairly big deal depending on what
Trump past to Satapoot and vicey versy. Are they meeting
or talking? They're talking. I don't think they're a mean
phone call. Yeaheah, I mean miss mislead you uh, they are.
They're talking and we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
And realizing in the modern world that if you just
call somebody out of the blue, it freaks them out.
You've got to at least text and say, hey.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Are you around? You have a minute to talk? Right,
that's all set up in it right right, My phone rings,
and it's somebody I haven't communicated with a long time.
I look at my phone like, oh my god, oh wow,
oh no. I wonder what they want. I wonder if
I'll be able to deal with it. Should I answer?
Should I send it to voicemail and listen to the
voicemail first, see what it's about, so I can get
my footing before along like this tape. I don't know
(05:45):
any of these things. And we grew up in the
world the phone rings, you pick it up, Hey, hello, yeah,
pray anybody, every phone call you ever got in your
life prior to a few years ago with out of
the blue, they all were.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Could be your dad, could be the CIA, could be
your granny who you haven't you know whatever? Right, every
phone call was out of the will always, and you
cannot tell me, in terms of being adaptable and resilient
that this is a better situation for human beings.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
It's crazy. I wonder everybody's so damn anxious. Anything unexpected happens,
just all Trump and those of us are grew up
with it. I think Trump and Putin are doing that,
texting each other when would be a good time for
you sometime Tuesday, Okay, like after six, Yeah, that'd be fine. Sure. Yeah.
(06:34):
Well they're very busy.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Trump doging like a maniac, and Putin, you know, slaughtering
Ukrainians and is a pent On conquest is campaign for conquest.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Ukraine has lost all but a couple of square miles
now of that territory in Russia that they had held.
They'd had five hundred square miles of Russia, and they're
down to the last little bit and it looks like
they're gonna be driven out of that, which might have
been the goal for pot before this talk tomorrow, so
that he could get to bargaining without having that out there,
(07:07):
I would throw out. As I'm reading, I've mentioned several
times I'm reading the book Thirteen Days, which is about
the Middle East Piece process of seventy eight, in which
all three recipients ended up with the Nobel Prize. Began
Sadat and Carter for bringing Egypt in Israel together. It
started as I'm reading the book the first many days,
(07:27):
very similar to what Putin has done. Egypt showed up
with like a laundry list of all the things that'd
be perfect for them, and they will not budge under
any circumstances, and didn't look like it go anywhere, and
it got somewhere. So it's not necessarily the case that
Putin is not willing to give anything or that because
(07:47):
he's asking for it, he's going to get it. Who knows. Yeah, yeah,
there are differences too. Obviously, what I'd say a carter
wasn't leaning on the Israelis at them and calling them
dictators and.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Whatnot, right, and Putin hasn't had his arse kicked twice
by Ukraine.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
For instance. Yeah, anyway, that'll be something we should uh.
On that note, we should start to show officially because
we got a clip around that I'm Jack Armstrong, he's
Joe getting on this. It is Saint Patrick's day, with
not a lot of Irish spared around here, that you're
twenty twenty five March seventeenth. We are Armstrong, you getting
we approve of this program. You get to speak in
a funny accent now to mock my people e' racist.
(08:31):
All right, let's begin officially now according to FCC rules
and regulations. Here we go, at Mark, what's the plan.
If Putin doesn't agree to a ceasefire?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Bad news for this world because so many people are dying.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
But I think he's going to gray, I really do.
I think I know him pretty well, and I think
he's going to agree. Got a chance. He didn't say
bad news for Putin. He just made it sound like
if Putin doesn't, bad news for everybody, be a shame.
I'm hoping desperately that Trump's softness on Putin is just
(09:08):
attack to me because he knows that'll be the tough
nut to crack. We'll have to wait and see and
find out together. Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
The only reason Putin would conceivably agree to anything temporarily
because he violates every agreement he makes, is because he
sees it as a more effective way to continue his
conquest just slightly delayed.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Putin answers to only one thing. That's greater power and
the willingness to use it. Well, if it ended up
with a whole bunch of British and French troops in
Ukraine and US with major business interests, that would be
a different situation.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
I don't see Putin agreeing to that. I think there's
roughly a zero percent chance. But if I'm wrong, I'll
manfully admit it.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Okay, I'm already urinating green that's how much green beer
I've had. Oh lord, I just stopped by the men's
room on the way into the studio in the Manna
just quickly there. Wow, wow, Wow. We've got Katie's headlines
on the way. Mail bag a little bit later, and
more news of the day. Of course, everybody's eyes will
be on the stock market to see if the UH
(10:12):
reaction to the tariff thing continues the direction it was
all last week. Things start to settle down and we
find a bottom there, always looking for a firm bottom.
That's the market. Yeah, so we got plenty of news
to talk about, no doubt, and UH you can join
in anytime. Our text line is four one five, but Goora,
I gotta throw that in four one five, two nine
(10:33):
five KFTC already run now I want to punch someone.
This Irish music surely gets me in the mood.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh my god, more racism, Katie. How long do we
put up with this before we call the EOE?
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Or the FDA or somebody. I'm already done with it. Yeah,
no kidding, good lord. I have done a number of
radio shows in my career that, uh, we're like parades
and whatnot. Did the big parade in Kansas City with
the radio station I worked with many many years ago.
Everybody was hammered by like seven am, I mean hammered
the giant parade going on. Wow, it's an interesting tradition.
(11:13):
I don't think most of those people were just like
deeply celebrating their cherished family heritage.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No more than I'm celebrating my old abuela, my Spanish
for I think grandmother on sinko to Ohio.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, you guys, you want to get a case of
Dan drinks and Margarita's. Well, yes, yes, I would like that. Yeah,
ne need a reason.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, please come on, we have got a lot to
get to this hour. Got a great freedom loving quote
of the day mail pack, very intriguing and thought provoking.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
But let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead
story with Katie Green. Katie starting with.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Fox News, El Salvador takes in hundreds of Venezuelan gang
members from United States, even as Judge moves.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
To block deportation. Man, if you want a show that
talks about what time the planes took off versus is
the court ruling, this ain't the one for you.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It's going to be an interesting case to see play
out story.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just the various wranglings on these things of come on,
can we just I wish we would just come up
with a what do we all want? And it seems
like everybody wants to kick out illegals.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Right, especially the criminals, the nasty guys. Yeah, and I'm sorry, Kitty.
We will talk in a little bit at some point
about how this trend of if you can find ad
district courts somewhat to say no, I don't like this policy,
you can derail it for weeks, months, years.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
From the Associated Press, Russia and.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Ukraine trade aerial.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Attacks after Putin sets out conditions for ceasefire.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Man, So you're expecting not a lot tomorrow out of
the Putin phone call? No, eventually, not a lot. I
just I don't know whether.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
Putin's maneuver is going to be to say no, we
don't have any interest than this. We're gonna crush him
because we're on the front foot, or he will pretend
to have some sort of interest in a piece deal
to get more troops trained up and restock his weapons.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
I would guess it's going to be the latter. It's
gonna be all. We have lawyers looking at it. We're
very intrigued by it. Nobody would like to see the
killing end more than me. That sort of thing Trump
will come out with. He he cares deeply about the
deaths and all that sort of stuff, And yeah, putbull
rearm and buy a little time and come up with
(13:29):
a reason. A lot of thinkers are expecting some sort
of false flag situation where some Russian soldiers are killed
and we had to go back in that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
From Breitbart quote we will escalate Puti chief announces terror
campaign against US warships.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Bring it on, man, Bring it on who. Piece from ABC.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
North Korea vows to strengthen nuclear capabilities, rejecting d G
seven call for denuclearization.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Are there any news stories that do not make the
world seem more insane and.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
Danger No kidding well From the Free Beacon. Columbia encampment
leader known for owning quote emotional support Rabbit is among
students expelled for storming Hamilton hall.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
Wow, so you're dangerous revolutionary in your coffee and your
terrorist scarf if you prefer that term. Is also a cringing,
anxiety prone little thing that needs a comfort, rabbits. But
I took that is the perfect world. There is the
modern world, folks.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
There can somebody draw that up with AI please and
present me with the poster. I'm just gonna label it
the modern world. I took out a lot of legal
podcasts and stuff around this over the weekend. UH Columbia
student and free speech and whether we should or can
kick them out and all that sort of stuff. It's
even the people that are hardcore, this violates free speech.
(14:56):
It's not a like a clear cut easy call based
on our laws, right.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The existing laws are somewhat surprising, at least to me.
That's a Secretary of State can say, now that's harming
American policy.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
That guy over there a boot them out, right? Yeah,
it's interesting from the.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Daily Mail, hospitals in New Jersey force parents to choose
pronouns and sexual orientation for newborn babies.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
They force you to. How can they force me to?
Or you're gonna do what? Take my baby back?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
They're handing out this form to everyone who's given birth
and they want them.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
To fill it out. That doesn't surprise me, But you're
gonna get a big dose f you from me if
I'm there as a brand new parent and you hit
me with that paperwork, Oh my god, I'd be incensed
from ESPN.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Auburn and Duke top men's NCAA tournament field.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
So they changed up all the conferences in all of sports,
those of us who are sports, so I don't even
know what I don't even know who's in what conference anymore, right,
And there's like forty teams in the Big twelve and
three teams in the Big ten.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Just I mean, it's all very, very complicated. But uh yeah,
and the players can switch teams every year. And you
got a bunch of grad students quote unquote grad students
on a bunch of the rosters.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
What does that even mean? I don't know. You know,
they couldn't make the NBA. It'll be interesting to see
if it continues to be as hot as it has
been in year's pack. But there's lots of new fresh
faces at the top with shots at Final four and
a championship this time around. So that's either good or bad.
I have no idea which.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
From the New York Post quote what the f man
seen casually eating pieces of bloody New York City rat
corpse in stomach turning video from.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Drug addict like out off mine on trank eating a
dead rat.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I'd assume so, but he is showing down on this thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
I think you could have shortened up that headline and
left stomach turning out of it. I think we all
got there without you telling us, right.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And finally, the Babylon bee track and field runner accidentally trips,
punches and attacks rival with a sword.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So we got to get into some more news of
the day, and there's lots of it out there. Yeah.
Like Joe said, are there any headlines that don't include
the world getting worse or possible World War three? It'd
be nice to stay away from those for a while.
If you missed a seconment, get the podcast Armstrong and
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Speaker 4 (17:33):
President Trump is more popular than in his first term,
but voters have soured on his handling of the economy,
one of his signature issues. Fifty four percent of voters
disapprove of the president's handling of the economy, just eighteen
percent of voters rate the economy is excellent or good,
the lowest market are polling in more than a decade.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's enough of that. I turned on NBC Meet the
Press yesterday. I wanted to see how they were going
to handle their own poll that came out with all
the he headlines. Unless you're going out of your way
to make your audience happy about something negative about Trump.
The headline is he's got the highest approval rating he's
ever had in the NBC poll and all of last term,
in this term, highest approval rating Trump has ever had ever,
(18:15):
which is stunning, giving off the twists and turns of
his career, whether it's January sixth, or the tariffs or
whatever the hell. He's got the highest approval rating he's
ever had in the NBC poll. But they had to
dig into he's got the lowest economic numbers he's ever had,
like one of fifteen numbers that are negative, all the
other ones were positive. The right track, wrong track is
the highest it's been in twenty years. Twenty years.
Speaker 2 (18:39):
I'm hearing a shameless Trump honk, folks, and I apologize
for Jack's one sided approach. I would say the economic
number is the most important number.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Of the many. But but if indeed people are that
skeptical of his economic program and I am with him
on that, and he's still has his highest number, and
he and we have the highest right track run check
in twenty years, what does that say to you about
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the other stuff going on? So the risk is certainly
there in the economic stuff, But to me, that's a
giant hoorah. The other people love the border stuff. People
love the no transmit and sports, all the culture war stuff,
people love all that.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Oh that reminds me, guys, if you could bring back
the clip from I think it was the end of
last week talking about certain stats on the border that
I asked for.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
We'll get those in a little bit.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
But yeah, unquestionably, if the economy goes kur bluey in
a significant way, it's all going to go away. But yeah,
you are really working to find the eighth of the
glass that is half empty.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
There. The overall approval rating is always the headline, always,
anytime anybody does these stories, except for when Trump's got
the highest he's ever had. Then you have to go
with different numbers being more important.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
They are utterly hilariously dishonest. I wish that their jobs
and industries would collapse and go away.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Oh they are. That's an excellent point. Yeah, so what
are you? What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (20:10):
I'm gonna punish them by their current reality and certainly
their future. Ask Don Lemon, who is spewing his hateful
nonsense on Bill Maher the other day.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
The same poll, by the way, has the Democrats with
their lowest overall approval rating ever. I think it was
eighteen percent. It's not like, I mean, incredibly low. Democrats
are the most unpopular they've ever been in the history
of the party. Later on the show, none of these
things will stay the same, of course, surely you understand that, right,
(20:38):
I think so Later on the show, and we haven't
figured out when to do this because it's going to
be fairly lengthy. But to just one of the most
mind blowingly interesting things I've stumbled across in years, and
that is, oddly enough, a piece by one Yoni Applebaum
in The Atlantic, the insufferably progressive Atlantic, about how Americans
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have stopped doing what we always did and what made
us great and progressives are to blame. I'm surprised to
see that in the Atlantic. I don't want to give
away the whole thing. Okay, it's a tease. We were
in our minds, we're guessing what that might be. Let
me let me put it to you like this, for
(21:25):
the entirety of American history, if you didn't have the
opportunities you wanted, what would you do? Cry racism? Exactly? No, No,
You'd go somewhere else where there was opportunity. You'd go west,
(21:45):
young Man, or east, or north or south, it didn't matter.
The point is you went where there was opportunities. So
just and the how they our tendencies have changed in
some of the glimpses from history, I was like, how
have I never heard of that? Just amazing.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So anyway, stay tuned for that. This is because I'm
trying to put off getting into.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
Some of the heavy issues of the day. I admit
that freely.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
This is one of my favorite, dryly hilarious lines, and
it's very dry.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Sage rights.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
At no point in this sentence did I know what
was going to happen next.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
And it is a headline from the New York Post.
At no point in this sentence did I know what
was going to happen next. Here's your headline death defying
neuroscientist turned only fans model. Okay, I see, I am.
I'm right there with you. I have no idea confronts
life with memory loss after brutal bike accident caused by
(22:49):
a pigeon. There's so many twists in that headline you
can hardly remember how it starts. So this is a
scientist who is also an OnlyFans model. Yeah, yeah, A very.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Young woman yes indeed, yes, evidently has memory loss after
a brutal bike accident caused once again by rats with
wings pigeon.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
I said. One of the first replies on Twitter is
plot of the Average House episode. That's pretty funny that. God,
I heard something else I got overy the week and
I'll have to get I'll have to dig that back up.
I was looking through my notes from the weekend. Things
I want to get to, For instance, Bill Maher, I
didn't you watch Bill Maher Friday Night? Michael, you usually do.
(23:38):
But Bill Maher pins education disaster on democrats, questions of
Education department is even needed if mainstream democrats like that
are are saying that I like dog's chances. I don't
understand how you could do anything, but I mean that seriously,
not just as an angry partisan, but the progressives have
owned education for the last forty years, and over the
(24:01):
last forty years it's gotten progressively worse. So who are
you gonna blame Reagan? Right? So we're gonna have more
on that later. And then this from my own real
life from western Kansas, from where I'm from. My brother
sent me this text and I looked into it. It was
getting national in the news attention. There was a crash
(24:22):
out in the middle of nowhere on Interstate seventy that
ended up being fifty to sixty vehicles all piled up,
many injured and killed because of a dust storm like
thirties era dust storm. Now, I lived in Kansas, that's
my home state, for many many years, and never saw
a dust storm once, And now I guess it's semi
(24:44):
regular to have them so blinding you can't drive. And
I'm not a climate change you know, it's not my
top topic. But it's interesting that I never saw one
in my life, and now it regularly stops starving major pilots.
Not because of snow, it hardly ever snows anymore, but
dust storms. That's something I realize. The climate is always
(25:05):
changing part of.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
That whole giant storm that killed thirty five people or
so across the country in various ways, in various places.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Terrible. God, if you're in one of those giant pile ups,
that's gotta be awful when you hit somebody. You're sitting
there and you're thinking how soon before somebody smashes into
me from behind? That's just got to be brutal. I know,
it's a nightmare. Fog is similar, Yeah, just terrible. Yikes.
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Speaker 1 (26:27):
So I was saying, when I heard about Saint Patrick's Dan,
then a couple of things about the big New York
Parade and everything like that. The Boston Parade, wasn't that
a really big deal for seven years, for several years,
whether or not gay people could march in those parades. Yes,
it was a big topic, like twenty years ago or
something like. It was like the biggest topic. It fought
really hard to make sure gay people couldn't march in
(26:48):
the very Now I guess everybody's over it, and that's fine.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Yeah, at one point they were going to cancel it
or postponent or something or everybody had their she latelys out,
But yes, they settled. It turns out those gay fellows
like to drink and fight.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Two, they're okay with me. You're actually Irish. What do
you claim Sat Patrick's Day about. I don't give a
damn Okay, I really don't mean anything to you, no,
Sir Patrick Ancestry. More or less. Yeah, we're mutts. Honestly.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I've got a lot of Irish in me, a lot
of English and Welsh and Norwegian, German, and god knows
what else.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
I'm a mutt like most Americans are.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
I subscribe to Teddy Roosevelt's screed that if you're an American,
you're not an American and something else. No hyphens in
my world, Jack, By God, I'm red.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
White and blue. I like that.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
But if I go back to Ireland and get drawnk,
I'll be weeping like a baby. Oh it's good to
be among my people, and they'll say, your fake accent sucks.
Shut up, you're an American. Trust us.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Actually we got this note from Zennon. He actually included.
Speaker 2 (27:53):
An explainer of how to pronounce his name and listening
to the show for many moons. Guys, he wasn't even
it wasn't even Irish. He was British. Kidnapped at sixteen
by Irish band. It's sold into slavery in Ireland for
six years, escaped England and resumed to Ireland, or returned
to Ireland to convert the Irish to Christianity.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
And no, he didn't remove any snakes from Ireland. There
you go. There's your history. Lest what you always point
out and should be understood more because it's really interesting,
so we understand our politics more. These holidays are a
gift to various voting groups to try to get them
to vote. Like Columbus Day was a hey Italians, we'd
(28:33):
like your vote, So we've made Columbus Day a day.
That sort of thing. That's what's driven a lot of
this entirely.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
Yeah, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Yeah, because the
ethnic groups were seen much like black people are today.
And it's an insult to your intelligence. And I apologize
on behalf of America for this. But if you can
convince people of a certain ethnicity of race that they're
supposed to vote one way or that you know it's
natural for them all to vote one way and it's
(29:02):
just merely an auction for their vote, you know, how much?
Who can promise how much? Then you can count on
the huge turnout of those votes. It's insulting, an idiotic
in our system. But it's existent for long time.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
And often very very wrong, with the most recent example
being we'll use the term latinix and claim we should
never arrest an illegal, and you end up with more
Hispanics voting for Republicans than ever because they don't agree
with either one of those things. Right, yeah, yeah, so
the guests is often wrong. Conservatives might make the case that, hey,
(29:38):
Hispanic Americans are heavily working class and rampant illegal immigration
kills the working class. Everybody knows that, says our CHEFZ
know that Bernie Sanders knows it. So hey, come on
over the Water's fine.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
But you will never hear any anybody on the right
side of the aisle say if you don't vote Republican,
you ain't Mexican.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
What a horrific thing to say. But Columbus Day is
a federal holiday, Saint Patrick, today is not, is it?
This isn't a federal holidays? No? No, okay, might be
an observant. It's like National Blueberry Day, you know what
I mean? The Irish no better than blueberries. You know
what are going to dig up. I've had been entertained
by this many times in my life. There are YouTube
videos of old timey Irish dudes talking in English but
(30:22):
with an Irish accent. You can't understand a word they say.
It's really kind of entertaining that, among other things, we'll
get to later and mail bag on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
Ay, I may take over the world someday.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
But another example of how it ain't ready yet, not
even close. We'll get to probably an hour or two.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Alrighty, how about a freedom loving quote of the day
from the aforementioned Theodore Roosevelt. The things that will destroy
America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price,
safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living,
and the get rich quick theory of life.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Is that a real quote or that's a little that's
almost too perfect? Oh, teddy, teddy, teddy, teddy, I got
some I got some badness. Yeah, that's pretty goodly disappointing news.
That sounds like teddy. I didn't check that one.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Although, as I've said before, a significant percentage of quotes
on the Internet, even on the quote sites, are false
or mis.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Misattributed. The internet will eliminate misinformation in the world. When
people have access to blah blah blah, it.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Will eliminate mankind, I think, certainly in any any of
the good stuff of life. Boy, that's a dark thing
to say, and Monday and I apologize for it. But man,
I could give you examples. There is no ideology so stupid, hateful, destructive,
suicidal that it can't line up ten thousand adherents on
(32:01):
the Internet and reinforce the thinking of the lunatics promoting it.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
Well, if I was a more cynical person, I would
try to make one up, just just as an experiment.
Make up some sources, quote some PhDs. Come up with
some historical facts from books that don't exist, right, and uh,
and see who.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I can just you know, quote books that do exist,
just you know, stuff that isn't in them. Yeah, yeah,
what are you gonna go with?
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You know, the world is perched on the back of
a thousand turtles or a flat earth or what you got?
An idea blaming a particular group for all the problems
seems to work really well.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
So pick oh wow, maybe the Irish in honor of
Saint Patrick's dag mailbag drop is an oat mail bag
at Armstrong and Geddy dot Com swiftly moving mailton bag.
Today we're going to touch on a few different things,
Sean writes. For years, Joe, you went to McDonald's and
ordered the fish sandwich.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Mister Getty, you are now the weird one. Yack is
the reasonable one.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Now.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I enjoyed the file of fish.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
It was my order at Joyce for several years. Let's
see Patrick Henry is rolling in his brave breke Zee.
Sarah codyt you was the head health official I think
in Santa Clara County in the Bay area of California
during the pandemic. Was quoted looking back, I value life,
so that was really animating a lot of the decisions
(33:25):
I made. But a couple of years out and certainly
with what's happening now, that's not the value that everyone holds.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Some people value liberty over life. Wow. And and she's
amazed by that. Yeah, and troubled. I will enslave you.
I will imprison you for your own good as I
see it, even though you know, even at the time
and certainly a year later, I was wrong about everything.
(33:52):
But I'm here to help you. Wow. That's interesting, lady.
You're a monster.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
You don't realize that, because you're so base in your
own self righteousness, you are a monster. John from Kansas,
Save mankind.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
You're right, guys.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
People may not realize that, in all the bickering about
gender identity, grotesque cause playing, and grooming of children, that
the question of what is a woman can be most
simply explained by the origin of the word itself. Woman
is an Old Slash Middle English word that simply means
womb man or man with a womb. You see, the
word man used to be a synonym for person and
was used interchangeably in context such as man hours and mankind.
(34:32):
Then he makes jokes about replacing the man holes in
our city streets with human holes or perhaps woman holes.
We need to stop with a humankind nonsense, save mankind
by saving the language.
Speaker 1 (34:42):
I believe that's your version of her history, not mine.
Oh lord, I've been saying that for forever. Women were
not named what's the way to put this that's even
slightly delicate penisless man, balllessman, as if there's something missing.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
No, they were named woom man, a person with a womb,
which is the miracle that gives life. It's not an
insult and progressives are nuts?
Speaker 1 (35:16):
How much time do we have? Michael A little bit.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Dennison, beautiful Lincoln, California writes, good afternoon men. Well I
wrote this yesterday as I watched the final imagines me
just constantly monitoring the email, just waiting for emails to
come in so I could read them. After I watched
the final college Conference too many to remember basketball championships
before March Madness, I was struck by the number of
players identified as graduate students who look to me to
(35:41):
be in their freaking thirties. OMG, I guess the appeal
of the nil money is a great incentive to go
back to graduate school for those various masters degrees in
basket weaving oops, I mean basketball or communications.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Funny that none of them are in the stem fields
enjoy the tournament. Interesting to see. I'm unfamiliar with this
aspect of the whole thing. Yeah, I was watching the
game the other day. There was a sixth year senior
or something like that. He was twenty six, twenty seven
years old. And the ability to make money is keeping
people around in a way that it wouldn't have in
the past. Or they're hoping to have a really good
(36:17):
season and go play in Greece or Macedonia or maybe,
by some wild dream, the NBA. I don't know exactly.
I do need to police the office today to make
sure there's no illegal gambling going on. It's very important
for me. Thank you. Call the police right away. We've
got more news to come in an hour two. If
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