October 10, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Hurricane Milton hits FL
- Mailbag!
- History of hurricanes in FL & Tampa escapes the major surge of the storm
- Katie Green's Headlines!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Petty and He.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arms Me Armstrong and Getty Show live from Studio C,
a dimly lit room.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
We are tanging. I wrote it down and I can't
find it. Where did I write it? Bang? Hold on?
We are lethal, precise and mainly surprising. That's what the
Defense Minister of Israel said their attack on Iran was
going to be like and mainly surprising. That's what we
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strive for it exactly every day. And today we're under
the tutelage of our General Manager, Ron DeSantis. Okay, the
incredibly effective, competent, strong governor of Florida. Mister get it done,
mister common sense, you could learn to smile like a
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normal person. You could be president of the United States.
If America could learn to pull its head out of
its horse, may it be president of the United States.
That's right, I'm talking to you, America. How was the
precise part right there? Right and mainly surprising. Must have
been a translation something or other, right or not? Yeah?
Oh yeah, yeah, subtleties of language. Yeah, exactly that is funny, lethal, precise,
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and mainly surprising. Um uh yeah. So the so it
looks like the hurricane is not going to be a
giant political issue for the presidential campaign. Would you say
that's probably correct, not giant. Yeah, I would say that
is absolutely correct, partly because ironically, Ron DeSantis is such
a damn good governor, and he says very good at hurricanes. Yeah,
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prepositioning thousands of troops, tens of thousands of utility workers,
they're just they're there and ready before it is. Now. Granted,
the North Carolina situation was weird. Nobody really saw it coming.
But the sloth of the response to that. You know
who's not getting hammered is the democratic governor of the
state old what's his face? Uh? The democratic governor of
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which state? North Carolina? They have a Democrat for a governor? Yeah, yes,
name is on the tip of my tongue. I'm sorry
it flitted right out of my head because I'm old
and senile. But ah, yeah, he's not taking much guff
there in that purple state. Yeah, that is not the
precise part. I can't remember things that.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Was impreciset precise, and above all surprising.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes, and above all surprising. Ah, that is awesome. Yes, Katie. Uh,
Governor Roy Cooper, there you go, Roy Cooper. That's it.
He's a moderate. Dam put the horns on him, blame
him for everything. Sure so. But anyway, so it looks
like the hurricane is not going to be a giant
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cluster f that becomes a two week portion of the
presidential campaign like I thought it might. Not this one.
But Helene, the true the reality of Helene is not
fully realized, okay, because the many of the victims, the suffering,
the dead bodies have yet to be discovered and or
reported upon because of the challenges of the terrain. But
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I mean, you're gonna have like a family of four
found dead having scratched out a diary on the wall
saying day eleven and still nothing. I sort of thing
could happen exactly. Yeah, I hope not. My niece was
in Orlando, which is kind of if you've never been
there is kind of in the middle of the state,
although the state's not very wide, but so inland. But
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she was sending me texts last night. They closed down
the Disney property where she interns, and they all had
to go up high to their rooms because nobody knew
how far the how high the water was going to be,
or how far it went in, and everybody was just
looking down at the parking lot hoping their cars didn't
get ruined. But they did have to go to generators.
At one point, the whole state was ready with generators.
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But like you said, they get hit with hurricanes a lot,
so one you have very competent government government, and two
they get hit with hurricanes a lot, so they kind
of have the infrastructure for it, right which helps. Indeed,
run to Santis, if we've got some clips from him
from an interview we're going to play a little bit later.
But if he if he could smile like a normal
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person and knew where to put his hands, he could
be president of the United States. Isn't that crazy? I mean,
isn't that Isn't that amazing? Because if you go back
pre television, you wouldn't have any idea of that for
any candidate, right right. And it's a curious thing and
much disgusted that we place so high an importance on charm,
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kind of telegenic charm. You know, Bill Clinton was the
earliest reference I can remember to you know, having a
talk show president, and we relected him because he played
sax On Arsenio Hall in The Red Right. But the
trend is continued in that direction. I mean, I'm not
saying it's completely ridiculous. If you find a guy just
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he's uncomfortably makes you uncomfortable, it's a human reaction. But competence,
executive competence. The idea that that would be swept aside
because of a perceived deficit in charmingness is just given
the stakes. Well, it's suicidal, it's idiot suicidally idiotic or
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idiotically suicidal or both. I don't know. So there's a
lightly surprising.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So there's a lot of talk about precise and above
all surprising.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All surprising exactly right. A lot of talk, of course,
especially on the left, about it being a climate change
thing causing these storms to be worse and the evil
Republicans are causing this and that sort of thing. But
as has been pointed out, you know one place where
the weather gets worse for it than people liked it before.
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Some places it's going to get better, at least briefly, right,
And beaches in the Yukon full of happy Sunday theres
have you been seeing the videos of what's happening in
the Sierra Desert where they've got all this water for
the first time in at least half a century, just
light lots of water, not some water, but lots of water,
lagoons with plants sprouting up where there haven't been any
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in decades and decades and decades, the Sahara Desert, the Sahara. Okay,
so there's the upside of global warming. Now they got
lagoons and Sahara and there're gonna be palm trees and
that'll be your new vacation spot.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Your old vacation spot will be come a desert, a
god forsaken desert, but you'll know vacation spot will be
the Sahara Desert. Right. We're gonna take a fishing trip,
me and the boys. We're going to Saudi Arabia. There
you go. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday. It's October
the tenth year, twenty twenty four. We are armstrong in
getting we approve of this program. Let's begin then, officially,
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according to FCC rules and regulations, here comes the show.
At Mark. We're a law in order state. We will
hold looters accountable and people are not gonna get away
with messing with anyone's property. Just know we're gonna have
law enforcement there.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We're not gonna let the inmates run the asylum on
the heels of this storm.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I like that way to go. Ron, Huh, take a
little ass looter shooters, that's what we need more of, amen,
I like Milton will be weakening throughout the day. Also
my plan the usual trend. Yeah, exactly exactly, come on
strong like a storm and then weaken throughout the day
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to I'll be a tropical depression by bedtime, no doubt
about it. We also have some not like I hate
to say the word polling because it makes people grown,
but like, yes, oh yes it does. Oh how about
overarching impressions of where the campaign, where the election stands,
that are very favorable to Donald Trump. Without getting into
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the particular numbers. It's just some of the stuff we
mentioned the other day, but the behind the scenes, the
people that see the best polling that's out there, the campaigns.
Trump's in a pretty good spot right now. And I
don't know if it's you know, that's sort of thing
that can hold for three and a half weeks or not.
But we'll see three and a half weeks now. That
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gave me hope that soon it will be over, I mean,
will be on to new madness. Yeah. Well, no, it'll
be a different brand of madness. It could be much
worse madness.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Though.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was talking to my son about this yesterday because
I was listening to this podcast where they're talking about
how there's some bad news and the internal polls for
Kamala Harris out there, and I said to my son,
I said, this nation is going to lose its effing
mind if Trump wins. Oh boy, yes, yes it is,
and he probably will. Yeah, and for a lot of people,
you know, it's going to be somewhere between a static
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and cautiously happy. But at least half the country is
going to go into full despair. As Mark Alprin has
been saying, there's going to be a mental health crisis
in this nation if Trump wins for about half the country,
and the endless articles you're going to see in the
Washington Post and the New York Times about you know,
therapy and school, I said, the school in this town
will probably call off school the next day. They won't
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make kids go to school the next day, and they'll
cancel tests at the local university and that sort of
thing because of the trauma of Trump winning. Honest to god,
that is going to happen. Come on in China, just
come on, in exaggerated, I wouldn't be the least been
shocked if they don't cancel school if Trump wins. One
hundred percent, right, I mean, I'm just so so horrified
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by notion. You've you've knocked me backwards. I'm on my heels.
Oh oh, but you're right. Yeah, it's gonna be so
crazy to follow. Oh my god, the Atlantic is gonna
curl up into the fetal position. They won't even be
able to write their fifty thousand word weep pieces. Oh yeah,
there'll be just all kinds of articles out there about
how to deal with your your trauma and fear and
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you know, and the various groups that now need to
you know, women are gonna have to hunker down and
the gaze and everything because of the Project twenty twenty
five whatever they're claiming that is, and everything. Everybody's good,
the gay marriage will be ending in all these different
things and just oh, it's gonna be nuts. I'm really,
I'm really, I gotta say, I'm really looking forward to it.
It's gonna be yeah in a way. In a way,
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I just say. I still have the T shirt one
of our beloved listeners made for me in twenty sixteen
when Trump was running against Hillary and it was just
so ugly and dumb and there was so much just
just stupidity, and I said, candidate, my candidates are chaos
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and ugliness. I'm just really enjoying the chaos and ugliness.
And then little did I know, the gods heard me
and said, oh, you want chaos and ugliness, boy, and
they delivered and how and so yes, there is part
of me that is really looking forward to that absolute
torrential pants wedding that is going to take place on
the left. But there's a part of me that thinks, oh,
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this is just going to be a new brand of ugly.
I can picture the opinion piece in the New York Times,
how to regain your strength this weekend after the trauma
of election Day. You know that sort of things. We
have aspirations, we have dreams. It'll be a drum beat
of that recipes to help you recover from election day.
Oh music you should listen to soothe your aching soul
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after the election. John Legend has teamed up with who
would it be Beyonce to record a cycle of songs
to kit you through this terrible traumatic period. I know
it's gonna be amazing. Okay, how does mailbag look today?
It is on the way. We're going to be precise,
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something or other than mainly surprising. Our text line is
four one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Weeks, precise and above all surprising.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
There you go, text line four one five two nine
five k FTC. It is a mess in North Carolina
and that part of the country from the previous hurricane.
And there is a way to help. They do need help,
and we're going to tell you about that a little
bit later this hour someplace. If you're if you're watching
that stuff on TV and thinking, God, those poor people,
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will throw a couple of bucks away and we'll tell
you how coming up. Yeah. Absolutely, just saw where Taylor
Swift donated five million dollars to hurricane relief. Wow. Taylor
Swift to Jack is constantly kicking out of some bizarre
love hate lusts. What tornado of ugliness. I'm team t
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I think that's a fair assessment. Ah here, here's your
freedom loving quote of the day. Let's go with uh wow,
this one's just this one. I don't like it. I
don't want to read it. I would prefer not to
read this one. Okay from H. Jackson Brown Junior, whose
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work I do not know, but I've seen this quote before.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given
to Helen Keller, pastor, Michelangelo, mother, Teresa Leonardo Da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. I wish you hadn't read that. Well,
and come on, now, come on now, they were all
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raising kids. Mclangelo, he is a gay fella for for one, right?
Is that what they think? I don't know that Einstein.
It's not like he was going home early to do
the dishes. You're standing there scratching his fuzzy head doing
math on the jokboard. So your argument is, I'm busy.
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You would have cracked the code on relativity if you
didn't have kids to raise. That's your argument. Well, yeah, plus,
you know my golf game is safe. You know needs maintenance.
I thought that when I was listening to the Elon
Musk podcast the other day. It's just how does he
freaking do so many different things all day, every day.
I just it's just astounding to me that some people
are built like that. I've always, i think everybody has been,
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since childhood, astounded and amazed by the Helen Keller story.
Oh yeah, how she learned and achieved and the people
who helped her get there. Uh yeah, what a what
a touching and miraculous story of human love and tenacity.
I don't know if they teach this to kids anymore,
but uh oh they probably don't. Helen Helen Keller was
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born deaf and blind, yet somehow figured out a way
to communicate. Yeah, learn maybe a brilliant communicator. Yeah, just astounding.
Uh yeah, Well, now they just you know, concentrate on
whether she was transgender or not, or or she she
was a white woman. She was the oppressor, so she
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probably took resources away from BIPOC people anyway. Mailbag drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot
com Daily Listener Jewels rites. Hey, really good idea adding
the One More Thing podcast into the normal feed. Much
better user experience. Speaking as a Marketer. Love your show.
(15:28):
Thanks Jules, and thanks for the feedback. I will tell
you this Yesterday's One More Thing podcast. That would be
the October the ninth. I thought was some really really
good work in a lot of different ways. I don't
remember it super thought provoking. For one thing, America's disorder problem.
Oh right, you remember that discussion? Yeah? Yeah, anyway, check
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it out wherever you like to get podcasts. This is
Aaron listening to the Monday podcast. Biggie Witch. Heard your
discussion identity economics. Absolutely fascinating. I rewound a couple times
to double check check the website. Can you link the
article you pull the examples from or post it? Yeah,
I'll make sure Hanson has that in the next half
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hour something or so. It'll be under hotlinks and Armstrong
and getty dot com. Thanks Aaron. Let's see Martin in
New Mexico. Why do we persist in calling people liberals
when they want to shut down free speech, takeaway guns,
neuter the Supreme Court, and tax the s out of us.
Let's call them what they are, ohpressers. There's a lot
of mislabeling in politics, but I see your point. Bill
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Nye blows harder than Milton Right, Steve from Everett, Washington. Wow,
I was watching HIMSNBC when Bill Nye, the insufferable guy,
blame the recent hurricanes on climate change and by extension,
anyone who votes republic Oh my god. Last year China
counted for ninety five percent of the world's new coldplower
power plant generation. US hasn't built a new cold power plants.
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It's twenty thirteen. I used to work in Shanghai when
the air was orange and smelled like plastic changes. Truly
an existential threat, as Bill and I willing to go
to war with China over it. Not maybe you should
shut the hell up. He blows harder than the hurricane. Milton. Wow.
If you want more of these hurricanes, vote Republican. Yeah,
that's a fair much more mail bag to come. We'll
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sprinkle it in throughout the show, all sorts of good
stuff to get and how to help out with the hurricanes.
We got all that coming. Armstrong and Getty Boles announced
that it will offer discounted burritos to customers and Costume
and waffle House said they'll give you hash Browns if
you put on a shirt. Well, that shot at waffle house.
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Waffle house big in the South, and thank god, many
waffle houses have survived Hurricane Milton, which hit overnight, and
we've got an update on how that's going in just
a moment. But first, have you ever heard of the
waffle house index? No? It is Seriously, people judge the
seriousness of a weather disaster by how many waffle houses close.
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Houses close, and and you know, if a bunch of
waffle houses have closed, it's going to be really, really bad. Interesting.
I have eaten at more waffle homes than anybody on
the show, I'm certain, from my drinking days living in
the South, I have spent many a late night early
morning in a waffle house. They are their own cultural thing.
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But that's interesting. So if the waffle if a bunch
of waffle houses closed, that means that s is getting real, right,
because otherwise they're always open. As ask any you know,
late night drunk, prostitute, tweaker, whatever, but perhaps just a
hungry bar patron I found themselves in need of calories,
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pursuing that always enjoyable fourth meal of the day. Yes,
after a lovely evening of I don't know, talk, conality, conviviality,
and spirits right right, I believe you're about to launch
into a note about how folks can help. Yeah, most
of the waffle homes i've been to have been in
North Carolina when we used to live there, and I
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am pretty familiar with the Asheville area actually, and my man,
that county is hurting right now, as you've seen on
television and probably seen on a lot of social media.
And so we wanted to And then there's this talk
of FEMA being out of money and how the federal
responses ben super super slow. We're big on the idea
of local and smaller is better than big and far away,
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and that's why we wanted to try to figure out
what would be a good organization closer on the ground
that you could donate to. Yeah, and so we're teaming
up with the United Way right there in that area.
Just go to Armstrong egeddy dot com. There's a big banner,
you can't miss it, just right the first thing you
get to on the page, and you know, kicking ten,
twenty bucks, a hundred bucks, whatever you have, whatever you
think is appropriate to help your fellow Americans were suffering
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like crazy, and for what it's worth, my aunt and
uncle lived in the next county over, and at the
bottom of the United Way page they have a link
to other counties in the area. If you want to
help us Pacific area because they all need help. So anyway,
do your part if you can so. A smart person
put this up regarding Milton, which landed on Florida yesterday
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late yesterday. Florida has had one hundred and twenty five
hurricanes since eighteen fifty one, including one in nineteen twenty
six which destroyed Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Didn't know that,
Sorry about the flim got all Bernie Sanders there for
a second, Sorry about it was terrible. That was disgusting.
So I'm sorry. What were you saying? Your words were
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there lost? I'm sorry it was The sentence was so wet.
He couldn't understand. What is a hurricane? Please? Florida has
said one hundred and twenty five hurricanes since eighteen fifty one,
including one in nineteen twenty six, one hundred years ago
which destroyed Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but experts say the
last few Florida hurricanes are your fault, and twenty five
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in the last one hundred and fifty years, including one
which wiped out two and tired the two biggest cities
in the state. But the last couple of yearfold so
Hurricane Milton tore the roof off Tropicana Field where the
Rays play, I believe, well more importantly, they had turned
it into a place you could go for shelter if
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you were worried about the hurricane. And then the roof
gets torn off. That doesn't make you feel very sheltered,
including first responders. Yeah, there are lots and lots of
first responders there. But slammed a tower crane into downtown
Tampa buildings, spun up tornadoes that killed people on the
opposite coast while cutting a destructive path against central Florida.
They're just beginning to reckon with the damage and the
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loss of life as we speak on Thursday morning. The
heavily populated Tampa Bay area appears to have escaped that
devastating storm surge because of a fairly small jog to
the south, but the Barrier Islands along the Gulf coast
reported heavy flooding, and again inland and on the opposite coast,
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there were at least one hundred and sixteen tornadoes spun
up by the herd one hundred and sixteen tornadoes. Wow. Yeah,
Sighted documented tornadoes. So and you know the usual sort
of damage, uprooting trees, stripping the sides off buildings, tossing
yachts onto the waterfront. Tossed yachts is my new yacht
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rock band. Wow, that's pretty cool. A lot of Michael McDonald's.
He's going to be upside down, yacht is going to
be our you know, it's probably not the right time
for mirth. Let's go to let's go to that bar
that's on the water. Tossed yacht is playing tonight. Oh,
they're fantastic. About three and a half million customers without
power in Florida, and again they're just reckoning with the damage.
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So but the bit have to see. The biggest headline
if you don't live there is it wasn't the worst
case scenario that was feared, either from a horror standpoint
or what it was going to do to the presidential
election standpoint. Correct. I didn't get the four feet surge
that wiped Tampa off the map, although I'm looking up
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at TV and seeing one of those scenes where you
got somebody in a boat and then they pull out
and you realize it's like a town. It's a street
in a neighborhood there, cruising around on a boat with
the motor Yeah, craziness. Anyway, if you voted Republican, it's
your fault. According to Bill Nye, the Insufferable Guy on MSNBC.
A couple of follow ups. Very briefly, the flap we
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talked about yesterday at several points throughout the show is
developments developed the CBS news controversy, wherein a journalist actually
asked journalists to questions to a progressive saint and was
pilloried for it, and CBS is roiled by woke staffers
weeping and tearing at their garments that anybody dared ask
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any journalistic questions. More and more folks are commenting on that,
and on the right side of the issue. It's gratifying.
It might be a small victory in a you know,
a hurricane of woke, terrible journalism, but it's good to
see the good guys in this story are getting some support.
So we'll have more on that to come. Fantastic Trump
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is in the I heard this term for the first
time this morning. Bent metal states, bent steel states, steel benders.
That's it. Steel Benders. He's visiting the steel benders today.
Had you heard that term before, sir, And they mean
Michigan and Pennsylvania. So if you hear the steel benders,
that's what they're talking about, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which might
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be key to the whole damned election, and Trump's visiting
there today. In the latest internal polls apparently show Trump
pretty good shape in both, there's a decent chance that
election night, it's gonna be obvious early that Trump has won.
If North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, for instance, go for Trump,
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you might be able to go to bed early, very
very solid that it's over based on the latest polling
that's coming out. But steel Benders, and if they're all
like seven votes apart, you'll have to stay up for days. Yeah,
it could last six months. How many clever nicknames do
we need for these states? Bell Sun, Industrial Media, upper Yes,
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blue Wall. Why don't you just say Michigan, Pennsylvania. It
takes like half a second. That's an excellent point. Steel Bender,
the steel Bender state. It's also known as the rust Belt,
also known as the you know, bread basket of the Midwest,
also known as the whatever Okay, the Nobel Prize in
Literature was awarded to a South Korean author I had
never heard of, called Han Kang. Every year I read
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a book from whoever wins the Nobel Prize for Literature,
and I have never been disappointed, even though I think
they're often chosen for political reasons. For instance, here they
say her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas, okay,
always has to be historical. You know what I like
to hear from the Nobel Literature committee sometime is we
chose this person because we thought their writing was the best.
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Is that what it's supposed to be? As opposed to
me said my question, Because I happen to read something
about this gallon or her writing, is I assume she
writes in Korean? And how good is the translation? I mean, well,
if you were too, I mean that's almost always the case.
All right, well sure, yeah, but I mean, and obviously
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we don't do a literary show, but the translator has
to be like equal the artists to the author. Yes,
if there are use the languages is creative. I could
really bore people on this because I have spent so
much time, like if I'm going to read. Recently, I
read some what did I get into? One of your
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Russian authors, Anton Chekhov. You have to do some research
on which of the translations you want to read, which
ones are respected for whichever reasons, because it makes a
very very big difference. And there are websites now that
you can go to where you can look at several
translations side by side, one paragraph and figure out which
one you like better, whatever style you like. But yeah,
that's a very big part of it for anything that's
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not written in English. Tomorrow, though. The reason I brought
up the Nobel thing at all is the stupidest prize
of all that is always fun and it makes you
angry sort of way. The Nobel Peace Prize comes out tomorrow,
which is almost always dumb, like really really freaking dumb.
Give it to Joe Biden, Mister, we don't want to escalate,
(27:35):
don't Did credit Tunberg win or did she was just
on the short list. I think last year was a
hoping she was on. She didn't actually ever win, did she?
I don't know. I couldn't tell you. It's so absurd.
Every year I just snicker at it and move on
with my life. An annoying little girl with the mask on,
screaming about climate change. Yeah, I don't think you're her. Yeah, well,
how she's screaming about Israel. I don't think she ever
(27:57):
ought Joe Biden. That'd be a good one, that rank
right up there. Yeah, well, I heard Douglas Murray Unlesia screed,
the great British historian, writer, who is talking about this
several times in the fairly recent past, where American leadership
has convinced the Israelis, do not take out the leaders
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of these movements that are trying to wipe you off
the earth. Don't escalate, negotiate, which brought them to October seventh,
and Murray was making the point that not defeating your
sword enemies, and these people are that they're not what
the college kids are telling you. They're simply resisting the
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colonial low presser. No, they hate Jews. There is Lamists.
They want to wipe everybody but Islam off the face
of the earth and take over every inch of territory. Anyway,
Murray was making the point that by not defeating your enemies,
you sentence yourself to endless war. You want to get
you don't like, for course, quote unquote forever wars, defeat
(29:02):
your enemy? Yeah. Has there ever been a time in
world history where if you were a if you were
powerful enough to defeat your enemy, and your enemy was saying,
the only reason we exist is to kill you all,
And we mean all of you. We mean mom's children, dads, everyone.
We don't mean just defeat you in battle. We want
you all dead. Has there that they're claiming it? They're
(29:23):
doing it every chance. Has there been a time in
a world history that a state, country, village, or whatever
wouldn't have wiped those people out if they could. No,
there has not been thereby ensuring the peace. Yes, uh, yeah,
that's a good one. One more thing we'll get to later.
Inflation is cooling more slowly than expected. Brand new numbers
that have come out actually in the last couple of hours.
(29:44):
That's the Wall Street Journal headline, which is different than
the New York Times headline. But inflation is cooling more
slowly than expected. Okay, we'll see what that means. We've
got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay with us. Brooks
coming back hard against that woman accusing him of rape.
(30:04):
I guess yeah. The lawyers are warring with each other
with various releases. I have to talk about that later.
And I don't know if I'm stealing one of your
headlines or not, Katie, But from the New York Times,
Republicans appear poised to take control of the Senate. Not
could basically saying, nat looks like what's going to happen.
From the New York Times a month out, Republicans been
(30:26):
poised to take control of the Senate. So no matter
who's president, it looks like the Republicans will have the Senate. Okay, well,
that's great. That'll put a break on the most insane
insanities of the left at the very least. We'll find
out so much to talk about today, Let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Katie talked to us NBC News.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Tampa mayor says major wind damage but city spared of
worst of storm surge.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yep, fantastic, good good news.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
From the New York Times, inflation cools slightly. Consumer prices
rose two point four percent in the year through September,
less of a slowdown than economists had expected.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah whatever, whyever that means I don't know, you guessed
and you guessed wrong, So does that make it worse?
The numbers, the number whatever, and it's close ish, yeah, right,
all right?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
What else CBS Biden speaks with Netan Yahoo as Israeli
Prime Minister Warne's war with Iran proxies could spread Gaza's
misery to Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I wonder how that conversation was. We probably won't know
for years for real, what it was like. I don't
know how much Biden is actually willing to go along
with whatever Israel wants to do, right, and the United
States is completely essentially necessary for Israel and its defense.
(31:50):
At the same time, I gotta believe net Yahoo, who
is sharp, a hard ass, and in the midst of
an existential struggle, it's like, oh my god, I got
to talk to that dreamy old senile man again.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Right from the Washington Post, the Dodgers reached deep into
their bag of tricks to extend their season. LA used
eight relievers in another home run from Mookie Betts to
beat the Padres in Game four.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So it's two two, eight relievers eight early. Wow, that
must have been quite the game.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
From the Huffington Post, Garth Brooks slammed by alleged rape
victims attorneys for publicly naming her.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Did he I missed that? Well, his his people did.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I think, Ah, yeah, the big thing is now they've
publicly named a rape victim, but all of the news
reports are staying away from using her name.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Obviously. It's a tough one. That's a tough one. I
don't know. I can understand why that's not cool if
somebody was raped, because then you're like doubly a victim.
But if you're a freaking a gold digger, liar, extortionists, extortionist,
you do do you get to hide behind anonymity and
go after somebody? That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
From Breitbart dot Com Audios Complainers, tech ceo offers unhappy
employees thirty thousand dollars and to leave the company forever.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
What now? For what?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
This is a tech company called Automatic and he's basically saying,
if you're unhappy working here, gets a buy out package
of thirty thousand dollars and then promise you'll never return.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
To the company. I like it, Okay Wow. From The
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Gen Z is making this fashion faux pas chic quote
crotch cleavage.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I saw that Oh cool, it's a old CC. Oh mine.
It's always tough to tell what the New York Post
if something's real or not, or any trend. You never
can tell if it's like three people or if it's
actually a trend. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And if it has to do with price, if it
parts or nip whatever, I'll out it to get clicks. Yeah,
private parts or nipples. You don't consider nipples a private part.
Not exactly, certainly.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Kim Kardashian just released a bra that has hard nipples
built into it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Really, yes, yes, and it's quite the craze. Okay, anyway.
Meme of the day.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's a picture of a guy who has his head
in both of his hands down on his desk, and
it says any meeting without food.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Really should just be an email. I understand.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
And finally, your Babylon bee unclear if city destroyed by
hurricane or just run by democrats?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Ooa, that's hard. Good is set with San Francisco hit
by a hurricane? No, no, no, just policy, she said,
because downtown is devastated. We're standing here downtown San Francisco.
The defasit. Why are you yelling because of the wind
or there's no wind to rain and just see all
of the buildings parted up, Jim. The businesses are hoard
(35:00):
it up. There's a debris everywhere, broken glass was there hurricane.
Not just just the policies, just apolicles living on the streets.
They are drugging themselves. It's a wasteland here, Jim. But
stay safe, Ed. Yeah, that's good, it's funny. That is
actually pretty good. We've got more on the way. If
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We are lethal, precise and mainly surprising. That's what the
Defense Minister of Israel said their attack on Iran was
going to be like and mainly surprising. That's what we
(01:01):
strive for it exactly every day. And today we're under
the tutelage of our General Manager, Ron DeSantis. Okay, the
incredibly effective, competent, strong governor of Florida. Mister get it done,
mister common sense, you could learn to smile like a
(01:23):
normal person. You could be president of the United States.
If America could learn to pull its head out of
its horse, may it be president of the United States.
That's right, I'm talking to you, America. How was the
precise part right there? Right and mainly surprising. Must have
been a translation something or other, right or not? Yeah?
Oh yeah, yeah, subtleties of language. Yeah, exactly that is funny, lethal, precise,
(01:49):
and mainly surprising. Um uh yeah. So the so it
looks like the hurricane is not going to be a
giant political issue for the presidential campaign. Would you say
that's probably correct, not giant. Yeah, I would say that
is absolutely correct, partly because ironically, Ron DeSantis is such
a damn good governor, and he says very good at hurricanes. Yeah,
(02:14):
prepositioning thousands of troops, tens of thousands of utility workers,
they're just they're there and ready before it is. Now. Granted,
the North Carolina situation was weird. Nobody really saw it coming.
But the sloth of the response to that. You know
who's not getting hammered is the democratic governor of the
state old what's his face? Uh? The democratic governor of
(02:37):
which state? North Carolina? They have a Democrat for a governor? Yeah, yes,
name is on the tip of my tongue. I'm sorry
it flitted right out of my head because I'm old
and senile. But ah, yeah, he's not taking much guff
there in that purple state. Yeah, that is not the
precise part. I can't remember things that.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Was impreciset precise, and above all surprising.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Yes, and above all surprising. Ah, that is awesome. Yes, Katie. Uh,
Governor Roy Cooper, there you go, Roy Cooper. That's it.
He's a moderate. Dam put the horns on him, blame
him for everything. Sure so. But anyway, so it looks
like the hurricane is not going to be a giant
(03:18):
cluster f that becomes a two week portion of the
presidential campaign like I thought it might. Not this one.
But Helene, the true the reality of Helene is not
fully realized, okay, because the many of the victims, the suffering,
the dead bodies have yet to be discovered and or
reported upon because of the challenges of the terrain. But
(03:42):
I mean, you're gonna have like a family of four
found dead having scratched out a diary on the wall
saying day eleven and still nothing. I sort of thing
could happen exactly. Yeah, I hope not. My niece was
in Orlando, which is kind of if you've never been
there is kind of in the middle of the state,
although the state's not very wide, but so inland. But
(04:03):
she was sending me texts last night. They closed down
the Disney property where she interns, and they all had
to go up high to their rooms because nobody knew
how far the how high the water was going to be,
or how far it went in, and everybody was just
looking down at the parking lot hoping their cars didn't
get ruined. But they did have to go to generators.
At one point, the whole state was ready with generators.
(04:25):
But like you said, they get hit with hurricanes a lot,
so one you have very competent government government, and two
they get hit with hurricanes a lot, so they kind
of have the infrastructure for it, right which helps. Indeed,
run to Santis, if we've got some clips from him
from an interview we're going to play a little bit later.
But if he if he could smile like a normal
(04:48):
person and knew where to put his hands, he could
be president of the United States. Isn't that crazy? I mean,
isn't that Isn't that amazing? Because if you go back
pre television, you wouldn't have any idea of that for
any candidate, right right. And it's a curious thing and
much disgusted that we place so high an importance on charm,
(05:12):
kind of telegenic charm. You know, Bill Clinton was the
earliest reference I can remember to you know, having a
talk show president, and we relected him because he played
sax On Arsenio Hall in The Red Right. But the
trend is continued in that direction. I mean, I'm not
saying it's completely ridiculous. If you find a guy just
(05:33):
he's uncomfortably makes you uncomfortable, it's a human reaction. But competence,
executive competence. The idea that that would be swept aside
because of a perceived deficit in charmingness is just given
the stakes. Well, it's suicidal, it's idiot suicidally idiotic or
(05:56):
idiotically suicidal or both. I don't know. So there's a
lightly surprising.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
So there's a lot of talk about precise and above
all surprising.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
All surprising exactly right. A lot of talk, of course,
especially on the left, about it being a climate change
thing causing these storms to be worse and the evil
Republicans are causing this and that sort of thing. But
as has been pointed out, you know one place where
the weather gets worse for it than people liked it before.
(06:23):
Some places it's going to get better, at least briefly, right,
And beaches in the Yukon full of happy Sunday theres
have you been seeing the videos of what's happening in
the Sierra Desert where they've got all this water for
the first time in at least half a century, just
light lots of water, not some water, but lots of water,
lagoons with plants sprouting up where there haven't been any
(06:46):
in decades and decades and decades, the Sahara Desert, the Sahara. Okay,
so there's the upside of global warming. Now they got
lagoons and Sahara and there're gonna be palm trees and
that'll be your new vacation spot.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Your old vacation spot will be come a desert, a
god forsaken desert, but you'll know vacation spot will be
the Sahara Desert. Right. We're gonna take a fishing trip,
me and the boys. We're going to Saudi Arabia. There
you go. Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
He's Joe Getty on this It is Thursday. It's October
the tenth year, twenty twenty four. We are armstrong in
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(07:21):
according to FCC rules and regulations, here comes the show.
At Mark. We're a law in order state. We will
hold looters accountable and people are not gonna get away
with messing with anyone's property. Just know we're gonna have
law enforcement there.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
We're not gonna let the inmates run the asylum on
the heels of this storm.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I like that way to go. Ron, Huh, take a
little ass looter shooters, that's what we need more of, amen,
I like Milton will be weakening throughout the day. Also
my plan the usual trend. Yeah, exactly exactly, come on
strong like a storm and then weaken throughout the day
(07:59):
to I'll be a tropical depression by bedtime, no doubt
about it. We also have some not like I hate
to say the word polling because it makes people grown,
but like, yes, oh yes it does. Oh how about
overarching impressions of where the campaign, where the election stands,
that are very favorable to Donald Trump. Without getting into
(08:23):
the particular numbers. It's just some of the stuff we
mentioned the other day, but the behind the scenes, the
people that see the best polling that's out there, the campaigns.
Trump's in a pretty good spot right now. And I
don't know if it's you know, that's sort of thing
that can hold for three and a half weeks or not.
But we'll see three and a half weeks now. That
(08:43):
gave me hope that soon it will be over, I mean,
will be on to new madness. Yeah. Well, no, it'll
be a different brand of madness. It could be much
worse madness.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Though.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I was talking to my son about this yesterday because
I was listening to this podcast where they're talking about
how there's some bad news and the internal polls for
Kamala Harris out there, and I said to my son,
I said, this nation is going to lose its effing
mind if Trump wins. Oh boy, yes, yes it is,
and he probably will. Yeah, and for a lot of people,
you know, it's going to be somewhere between a static
(09:17):
and cautiously happy. But at least half the country is
going to go into full despair. As Mark Alprin has
been saying, there's going to be a mental health crisis
in this nation if Trump wins for about half the country,
and the endless articles you're going to see in the
Washington Post and the New York Times about you know,
therapy and school, I said, the school in this town
will probably call off school the next day. They won't
(09:39):
make kids go to school the next day, and they'll
cancel tests at the local university and that sort of
thing because of the trauma of Trump winning. Honest to god,
that is going to happen. Come on in China, just
come on, in exaggerated, I wouldn't be the least been
shocked if they don't cancel school if Trump wins. One
hundred percent, right, I mean, I'm just so so horrified
(09:59):
by notion. You've you've knocked me backwards. I'm on my heels.
Oh oh, but you're right. Yeah, it's gonna be so
crazy to follow. Oh my god, the Atlantic is gonna
curl up into the fetal position. They won't even be
able to write their fifty thousand word weep pieces. Oh yeah,
there'll be just all kinds of articles out there about
how to deal with your your trauma and fear and
(10:21):
you know, and the various groups that now need to
you know, women are gonna have to hunker down and
the gaze and everything because of the Project twenty twenty
five whatever they're claiming that is, and everything. Everybody's good,
the gay marriage will be ending in all these different
things and just oh, it's gonna be nuts. I'm really,
I'm really, I gotta say, I'm really looking forward to it.
It's gonna be yeah in a way. In a way,
(10:41):
I just say. I still have the T shirt one
of our beloved listeners made for me in twenty sixteen
when Trump was running against Hillary and it was just
so ugly and dumb and there was so much just
just stupidity, and I said, candidate, my candidates are chaos
(11:01):
and ugliness. I'm just really enjoying the chaos and ugliness.
And then little did I know, the gods heard me
and said, oh, you want chaos and ugliness, boy, and
they delivered and how and so yes, there is part
of me that is really looking forward to that absolute
torrential pants wedding that is going to take place on
the left. But there's a part of me that thinks, oh,
(11:23):
this is just going to be a new brand of ugly.
I can picture the opinion piece in the New York Times,
how to regain your strength this weekend after the trauma
of election Day. You know that sort of things. We
have aspirations, we have dreams. It'll be a drum beat
of that recipes to help you recover from election day.
Oh music you should listen to soothe your aching soul
(11:47):
after the election. John Legend has teamed up with who
would it be Beyonce to record a cycle of songs
to kit you through this terrible traumatic period. I know
it's gonna be amazing. Okay, how does mailbag look today?
It is on the way. We're going to be precise,
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something or other than mainly surprising. Our text line is
four one.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Weeks, precise and above all surprising.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
There you go, text line four one five two nine
five k FTC. It is a mess in North Carolina
and that part of the country from the previous hurricane.
And there is a way to help. They do need help,
and we're going to tell you about that a little
bit later this hour someplace. If you're if you're watching
that stuff on TV and thinking, God, those poor people,
(12:36):
will throw a couple of bucks away and we'll tell
you how coming up. Yeah. Absolutely, just saw where Taylor
Swift donated five million dollars to hurricane relief. Wow. Taylor
Swift to Jack is constantly kicking out of some bizarre
love hate lusts. What tornado of ugliness. I'm team t
(12:57):
I think that's a fair assessment. Ah here, here's your
freedom loving quote of the day. Let's go with uh wow,
this one's just this one. I don't like it. I
don't want to read it. I would prefer not to
read this one. Okay from H. Jackson Brown Junior, whose
(13:19):
work I do not know, but I've seen this quote before.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly
the same number of hours per day that were given
to Helen Keller, pastor, Michelangelo, mother, Teresa Leonardo Da Vinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. I wish you hadn't read that. Well,
and come on, now, come on now, they were all
(13:41):
raising kids. Mclangelo, he is a gay fella for for one, right?
Is that what they think? I don't know that Einstein.
It's not like he was going home early to do
the dishes. You're standing there scratching his fuzzy head doing
math on the jokboard. So your argument is, I'm busy.
(14:02):
You would have cracked the code on relativity if you
didn't have kids to raise. That's your argument. Well, yeah, plus,
you know my golf game is safe. You know needs maintenance.
I thought that when I was listening to the Elon
Musk podcast the other day. It's just how does he
freaking do so many different things all day, every day.
I just it's just astounding to me that some people
are built like that. I've always, i think everybody has been,
(14:26):
since childhood, astounded and amazed by the Helen Keller story.
Oh yeah, how she learned and achieved and the people
who helped her get there. Uh yeah, what a what
a touching and miraculous story of human love and tenacity.
I don't know if they teach this to kids anymore,
but uh oh they probably don't. Helen Helen Keller was
(14:46):
born deaf and blind, yet somehow figured out a way
to communicate. Yeah, learn maybe a brilliant communicator. Yeah, just astounding.
Uh yeah, Well, now they just you know, concentrate on
whether she was transgender or not, or or she she
was a white woman. She was the oppressor, so she
(15:07):
probably took resources away from BIPOC people anyway. Mailbag drop
us a note mail bag at Armstrong and getty dot
com Daily Listener Jewels rites. Hey, really good idea adding
the One More Thing podcast into the normal feed. Much
better user experience. Speaking as a Marketer. Love your show.
(15:28):
Thanks Jules, and thanks for the feedback. I will tell
you this Yesterday's One More Thing podcast. That would be
the October the ninth. I thought was some really really
good work in a lot of different ways. I don't
remember it super thought provoking. For one thing, America's disorder problem.
Oh right, you remember that discussion? Yeah? Yeah, anyway, check
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it out wherever you like to get podcasts. This is
Aaron listening to the Monday podcast. Biggie Witch. Heard your
discussion identity economics. Absolutely fascinating. I rewound a couple times
to double check check the website. Can you link the
article you pull the examples from or post it? Yeah,
I'll make sure Hanson has that in the next half
(16:11):
hour something or so. It'll be under hotlinks and Armstrong
and getty dot com. Thanks Aaron. Let's see Martin in
New Mexico. Why do we persist in calling people liberals
when they want to shut down free speech, takeaway guns,
neuter the Supreme Court, and tax the s out of us.
Let's call them what they are, ohpressers. There's a lot
of mislabeling in politics, but I see your point. Bill
(16:33):
Nye blows harder than Milton Right, Steve from Everett, Washington. Wow,
I was watching HIMSNBC when Bill Nye, the insufferable guy,
blame the recent hurricanes on climate change and by extension,
anyone who votes republic Oh my god. Last year China
counted for ninety five percent of the world's new coldplower
power plant generation. US hasn't built a new cold power plants.
(16:55):
It's twenty thirteen. I used to work in Shanghai when
the air was orange and smelled like plastic changes. Truly
an existential threat, as Bill and I willing to go
to war with China over it. Not maybe you should
shut the hell up. He blows harder than the hurricane. Milton. Wow.
If you want more of these hurricanes, vote Republican. Yeah,
that's a fair much more mail bag to come. We'll
(17:16):
sprinkle it in throughout the show, all sorts of good
stuff to get and how to help out with the hurricanes.
We got all that coming. Armstrong and Getty Boles announced
that it will offer discounted burritos to customers and Costume
and waffle House said they'll give you hash Browns if
you put on a shirt. Well, that shot at waffle house.
(17:36):
Waffle house big in the South, and thank god, many
waffle houses have survived Hurricane Milton, which hit overnight, and
we've got an update on how that's going in just
a moment. But first, have you ever heard of the
waffle house index? No? It is Seriously, people judge the
seriousness of a weather disaster by how many waffle houses close.
(17:59):
Houses close, and and you know, if a bunch of
waffle houses have closed, it's going to be really, really bad. Interesting.
I have eaten at more waffle homes than anybody on
the show, I'm certain, from my drinking days living in
the South, I have spent many a late night early
morning in a waffle house. They are their own cultural thing.
(18:22):
But that's interesting. So if the waffle if a bunch
of waffle houses closed, that means that s is getting real, right,
because otherwise they're always open. As ask any you know,
late night drunk, prostitute, tweaker, whatever, but perhaps just a
hungry bar patron I found themselves in need of calories,
(18:43):
pursuing that always enjoyable fourth meal of the day. Yes,
after a lovely evening of I don't know, talk, conality, conviviality,
and spirits right right, I believe you're about to launch
into a note about how folks can help. Yeah, most
of the waffle homes i've been to have been in
North Carolina when we used to live there, and I
(19:05):
am pretty familiar with the Asheville area actually, and my man,
that county is hurting right now, as you've seen on
television and probably seen on a lot of social media.
And so we wanted to And then there's this talk
of FEMA being out of money and how the federal
responses ben super super slow. We're big on the idea
of local and smaller is better than big and far away,
(19:28):
and that's why we wanted to try to figure out
what would be a good organization closer on the ground
that you could donate to. Yeah, and so we're teaming
up with the United Way right there in that area.
Just go to Armstrong egeddy dot com. There's a big banner,
you can't miss it, just right the first thing you
get to on the page, and you know, kicking ten,
twenty bucks, a hundred bucks, whatever you have, whatever you
think is appropriate to help your fellow Americans were suffering
(19:50):
like crazy, and for what it's worth, my aunt and
uncle lived in the next county over, and at the
bottom of the United Way page they have a link
to other counties in the area. If you want to
help us Pacific area because they all need help. So anyway,
do your part if you can so. A smart person
put this up regarding Milton, which landed on Florida yesterday
(20:11):
late yesterday. Florida has had one hundred and twenty five
hurricanes since eighteen fifty one, including one in nineteen twenty
six which destroyed Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Didn't know that,
Sorry about the flim got all Bernie Sanders there for
a second, Sorry about it was terrible. That was disgusting.
So I'm sorry. What were you saying? Your words were
(20:33):
there lost? I'm sorry it was The sentence was so wet.
He couldn't understand. What is a hurricane? Please? Florida has
said one hundred and twenty five hurricanes since eighteen fifty one,
including one in nineteen twenty six, one hundred years ago
which destroyed Miami and Fort Lauderdale, but experts say the
last few Florida hurricanes are your fault, and twenty five
(20:56):
in the last one hundred and fifty years, including one
which wiped out two and tired the two biggest cities
in the state. But the last couple of yearfold so
Hurricane Milton tore the roof off Tropicana Field where the
Rays play, I believe, well more importantly, they had turned
it into a place you could go for shelter if
(21:18):
you were worried about the hurricane. And then the roof
gets torn off. That doesn't make you feel very sheltered,
including first responders. Yeah, there are lots and lots of
first responders there. But slammed a tower crane into downtown
Tampa buildings, spun up tornadoes that killed people on the
opposite coast while cutting a destructive path against central Florida.
They're just beginning to reckon with the damage and the
(21:40):
loss of life as we speak on Thursday morning. The
heavily populated Tampa Bay area appears to have escaped that
devastating storm surge because of a fairly small jog to
the south, but the Barrier Islands along the Gulf coast
reported heavy flooding, and again inland and on the opposite coast,
(22:01):
there were at least one hundred and sixteen tornadoes spun
up by the herd one hundred and sixteen tornadoes. Wow. Yeah,
Sighted documented tornadoes. So and you know the usual sort
of damage, uprooting trees, stripping the sides off buildings, tossing
yachts onto the waterfront. Tossed yachts is my new yacht
(22:22):
rock band. Wow, that's pretty cool. A lot of Michael McDonald's.
He's going to be upside down, yacht is going to
be our you know, it's probably not the right time
for mirth. Let's go to let's go to that bar
that's on the water. Tossed yacht is playing tonight. Oh,
they're fantastic. About three and a half million customers without
power in Florida, and again they're just reckoning with the damage.
(22:44):
So but the bit have to see. The biggest headline
if you don't live there is it wasn't the worst
case scenario that was feared, either from a horror standpoint
or what it was going to do to the presidential
election standpoint. Correct. I didn't get the four feet surge
that wiped Tampa off the map, although I'm looking up
(23:05):
at TV and seeing one of those scenes where you
got somebody in a boat and then they pull out
and you realize it's like a town. It's a street
in a neighborhood there, cruising around on a boat with
the motor Yeah, craziness. Anyway, if you voted Republican, it's
your fault. According to Bill Nye, the Insufferable Guy on MSNBC.
A couple of follow ups. Very briefly, the flap we
(23:29):
talked about yesterday at several points throughout the show is
developments developed the CBS news controversy, wherein a journalist actually
asked journalists to questions to a progressive saint and was
pilloried for it, and CBS is roiled by woke staffers
weeping and tearing at their garments that anybody dared ask
(23:51):
any journalistic questions. More and more folks are commenting on that,
and on the right side of the issue. It's gratifying.
It might be a small victory in a you know,
a hurricane of woke, terrible journalism, but it's good to
see the good guys in this story are getting some support.
So we'll have more on that to come. Fantastic Trump
(24:15):
is in the I heard this term for the first
time this morning. Bent metal states, bent steel states, steel benders.
That's it. Steel Benders. He's visiting the steel benders today.
Had you heard that term before, sir, And they mean
Michigan and Pennsylvania. So if you hear the steel benders,
that's what they're talking about, Michigan and Pennsylvania, which might
(24:37):
be key to the whole damned election, and Trump's visiting
there today. In the latest internal polls apparently show Trump
pretty good shape in both, there's a decent chance that
election night, it's gonna be obvious early that Trump has won.
If North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, for instance, go for Trump,
(25:02):
you might be able to go to bed early, very
very solid that it's over based on the latest polling
that's coming out. But steel Benders, and if they're all
like seven votes apart, you'll have to stay up for days. Yeah,
it could last six months. How many clever nicknames do
we need for these states? Bell Sun, Industrial Media, upper Yes,
(25:23):
blue Wall. Why don't you just say Michigan, Pennsylvania. It
takes like half a second. That's an excellent point. Steel Bender,
the steel Bender state. It's also known as the rust Belt,
also known as the you know, bread basket of the Midwest,
also known as the whatever Okay, the Nobel Prize in
Literature was awarded to a South Korean author I had
never heard of, called Han Kang. Every year I read
(25:44):
a book from whoever wins the Nobel Prize for Literature,
and I have never been disappointed, even though I think
they're often chosen for political reasons. For instance, here they
say her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas, okay,
always has to be historical. You know what I like
to hear from the Nobel Literature committee sometime is we
chose this person because we thought their writing was the best.
(26:06):
Is that what it's supposed to be? As opposed to
me said my question, Because I happen to read something
about this gallon or her writing, is I assume she
writes in Korean? And how good is the translation? I mean, well,
if you were too, I mean that's almost always the case.
All right, well sure, yeah, but I mean, and obviously
(26:30):
we don't do a literary show, but the translator has
to be like equal the artists to the author. Yes,
if there are use the languages is creative. I could
really bore people on this because I have spent so
much time, like if I'm going to read. Recently, I
read some what did I get into? One of your
(26:53):
Russian authors, Anton Chekhov. You have to do some research
on which of the translations you want to read, which
ones are respected for whichever reasons, because it makes a
very very big difference. And there are websites now that
you can go to where you can look at several
translations side by side, one paragraph and figure out which
one you like better, whatever style you like. But yeah,
that's a very big part of it for anything that's
(27:14):
not written in English. Tomorrow, though. The reason I brought
up the Nobel thing at all is the stupidest prize
of all that is always fun and it makes you
angry sort of way. The Nobel Peace Prize comes out tomorrow,
which is almost always dumb, like really really freaking dumb.
Give it to Joe Biden, Mister, we don't want to escalate,
(27:35):
don't Did credit Tunberg win or did she was just
on the short list. I think last year was a
hoping she was on. She didn't actually ever win, did she?
I don't know. I couldn't tell you. It's so absurd.
Every year I just snicker at it and move on
with my life. An annoying little girl with the mask on,
screaming about climate change. Yeah, I don't think you're her. Yeah, well,
how she's screaming about Israel. I don't think she ever
(27:57):
ought Joe Biden. That'd be a good one, that rank
right up there. Yeah, well, I heard Douglas Murray Unlesia screed,
the great British historian, writer, who is talking about this
several times in the fairly recent past, where American leadership
has convinced the Israelis, do not take out the leaders
(28:18):
of these movements that are trying to wipe you off
the earth. Don't escalate, negotiate, which brought them to October seventh,
and Murray was making the point that not defeating your
sword enemies, and these people are that they're not what
the college kids are telling you. They're simply resisting the
(28:41):
colonial low presser. No, they hate Jews. There is Lamists.
They want to wipe everybody but Islam off the face
of the earth and take over every inch of territory. Anyway,
Murray was making the point that by not defeating your enemies,
you sentence yourself to endless war. You want to get
you don't like, for course, quote unquote forever wars, defeat
(29:02):
your enemy? Yeah. Has there ever been a time in
world history where if you were a if you were
powerful enough to defeat your enemy, and your enemy was saying,
the only reason we exist is to kill you all,
And we mean all of you. We mean mom's children, dads, everyone.
We don't mean just defeat you in battle. We want
you all dead. Has there that they're claiming it? They're
(29:23):
doing it every chance. Has there been a time in
a world history that a state, country, village, or whatever
wouldn't have wiped those people out if they could. No,
there has not been thereby ensuring the peace. Yes, uh, yeah,
that's a good one. One more thing we'll get to later.
Inflation is cooling more slowly than expected. Brand new numbers
that have come out actually in the last couple of hours.
(29:44):
That's the Wall Street Journal headline, which is different than
the New York Times headline. But inflation is cooling more
slowly than expected. Okay, we'll see what that means. We've
got Katie's headlines on the way. Stay with us. Brooks
coming back hard against that woman accusing him of rape.
(30:04):
I guess yeah. The lawyers are warring with each other
with various releases. I have to talk about that later.
And I don't know if I'm stealing one of your
headlines or not, Katie, But from the New York Times,
Republicans appear poised to take control of the Senate. Not
could basically saying, nat looks like what's going to happen.
From the New York Times a month out, Republicans been
(30:26):
poised to take control of the Senate. So no matter
who's president, it looks like the Republicans will have the Senate. Okay, well,
that's great. That'll put a break on the most insane
insanities of the left at the very least. We'll find
out so much to talk about today, Let's figure out
who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Katie talked to us NBC News.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
Tampa mayor says major wind damage but city spared of
worst of storm surge.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
Yep, fantastic, good good news.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
From the New York Times, inflation cools slightly. Consumer prices
rose two point four percent in the year through September,
less of a slowdown than economists had expected.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah whatever, whyever that means I don't know, you guessed
and you guessed wrong, So does that make it worse?
The numbers, the number whatever, and it's close ish, yeah, right,
all right?
Speaker 4 (31:16):
What else CBS Biden speaks with Netan Yahoo as Israeli
Prime Minister Warne's war with Iran proxies could spread Gaza's
misery to Lebanon.
Speaker 1 (31:28):
I wonder how that conversation was. We probably won't know
for years for real, what it was like. I don't
know how much Biden is actually willing to go along
with whatever Israel wants to do, right, and the United
States is completely essentially necessary for Israel and its defense.
(31:50):
At the same time, I gotta believe net Yahoo, who
is sharp, a hard ass, and in the midst of
an existential struggle, it's like, oh my god, I got
to talk to that dreamy old senile man again.
Speaker 4 (32:00):
Right from the Washington Post, the Dodgers reached deep into
their bag of tricks to extend their season. LA used
eight relievers in another home run from Mookie Betts to
beat the Padres in Game four.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So it's two two, eight relievers eight early. Wow, that
must have been quite the game.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
From the Huffington Post, Garth Brooks slammed by alleged rape
victims attorneys for publicly naming her.
Speaker 1 (32:31):
Did he I missed that? Well, his his people did.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
I think, Ah, yeah, the big thing is now they've
publicly named a rape victim, but all of the news
reports are staying away from using her name.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
Obviously. It's a tough one. That's a tough one. I
don't know. I can understand why that's not cool if
somebody was raped, because then you're like doubly a victim.
But if you're a freaking a gold digger, liar, extortionists, extortionist,
you do do you get to hide behind anonymity and
go after somebody? That's a tough one.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
From Breitbart dot Com Audios Complainers, tech ceo offers unhappy
employees thirty thousand dollars and to leave the company forever.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
What now? For what?
Speaker 4 (33:21):
This is a tech company called Automatic and he's basically saying,
if you're unhappy working here, gets a buy out package
of thirty thousand dollars and then promise you'll never return.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
To the company. I like it, Okay Wow. From The
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Gen Z is making this fashion faux pas chic quote
crotch cleavage.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
I saw that Oh cool, it's a old CC. Oh mine.
It's always tough to tell what the New York Post
if something's real or not, or any trend. You never
can tell if it's like three people or if it's
actually a trend. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:58):
Right.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
And if it has to do with price, if it
parts or nip whatever, I'll out it to get clicks. Yeah,
private parts or nipples. You don't consider nipples a private part.
Not exactly, certainly.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Kim Kardashian just released a bra that has hard nipples
built into it.
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Really, yes, yes, and it's quite the craze. Okay, anyway.
Meme of the day.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
It's a picture of a guy who has his head
in both of his hands down on his desk, and
it says any meeting without food.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
Really should just be an email. I understand.
Speaker 4 (34:32):
And finally, your Babylon bee unclear if city destroyed by
hurricane or just run by democrats?
Speaker 1 (34:39):
Ooa, that's hard. Good is set with San Francisco hit
by a hurricane? No, no, no, just policy, she said,
because downtown is devastated. We're standing here downtown San Francisco.
The defasit. Why are you yelling because of the wind
or there's no wind to rain and just see all
of the buildings parted up, Jim. The businesses are hoard
(35:00):
it up. There's a debris everywhere, broken glass was there hurricane.
Not just just the policies, just apolicles living on the streets.
They are drugging themselves. It's a wasteland here, Jim. But
stay safe, Ed. Yeah, that's good, it's funny. That is
actually pretty good. We've got more on the way. If
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