October 14, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- The stupidest federal holiday of all time
- Mailbag!
- Presidential polls shows it's a tight race & Kamala has lost SNL
- Why are we not concerned about surveillance drones?
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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 and he.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Armstrong and ah, that's right, it's freaking Columbus Day. I
completely forgot, oh freaking Columbus and all of his accomplishments.
I gotta talk about that. As I heard some high
school kids talking about Columbus trafficking humans and all these
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things that they've been taught at their public school. Oh boy,
I heard this yesterday. I couldn't have rolled my eyes
harder Live from studio scene Senor a dimmly lit room,
deeper from the bowels of the Armstrong in Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all,
brand new week today, we're under the tutelage of our
general manager, Trump's brain. And why is Trump's brain our
(01:40):
general manager? It would seem as though the final argument,
the final pitch, the stretch runs strategy for Kamala and
Company is Trump is senile? Yeah, I didn't hear that
over the weekend. She released her medical records on Friday,
and why won't he release his medical record? And then
to start talking about things, he says rally clearly he's
(02:02):
got dementia. Why when he releases medical records. So is
this going to be the closing argument from the Airs campaign?
I don't know. It doesn't persuade me. I remember Trump's doctor,
who lives under a bridge, pronounced him the healthiest president ever,
like nine years ago. That's good enough for me. The
rich part of this, of course, is that our current
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president's brain doesn't work. He's the current president of the
United stated, the current most powerful person in the world's
brain absolutely doesn't work. And everybody knows that this isn't
even a question, right, you don't need a test. Yeah,
he funks the test every time he walks out in
front of a camera. And he's the current president, and
the vice president who's talking about Trump's brain covered it
up for all those ones. He's so energetic. I can't
(02:45):
keep up with him behind the scenes. Oh boy. And
remember she said like a week ago that Biden's completely
capable of handling the world affairs. I see him in
the yeah, at any time of day. So yeah, it's
home lying about it. So whatever, whatever, shut up. We
got some good I mean, she got big on her
rallies this weekend about Trump's dimension releasing his medical records.
(03:07):
So yeah, that is fairly rich. You could almost make
the argument for national security reasons, the sitting vice president
should not be out on the campaign trail saying, tell
you what, old Biden, whoa, he doesn't know where he is,
much less which day it is. I told him that
I mentioned the White House. He said, what white House?
Come on, that's a decent point. I suppose you know
(03:29):
what you do if you're Trump. What I do if
I'm Trump, is you delayed. You delay the calls grow
louder to release your medical you can kill, like two
of the last there's only three weeks to go. Three
weeks from tomorrow is an election day. You could kill
the next two weeks with the growing calls for releasing
your medical records. Then you release them and it's nothing,
(03:51):
and then you know, it diffuses the whole thing. Well,
you remember Biden when his records came out and they
indicated that he was just in tiptop shape. It became
clear that the president Kennedy for that matter, releases what
they want. Sure, that's it, Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, so
I think that's the way that's going to rule out.
I'm distracted by the fact that it's Columbus. I'd completely
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forgotten until I was I'm sorry. I'm sorry racist Indigenous
people's day place right so, which is why I'm broadcasting
live from Aviano Air Force Base in Italy, as that
is where I'm indigenous too. I expect you to respect
my customs and my traditions. Long before this came became controversial.
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If you're a long time listening, you'll know that I
would rant and rape about this is our stupidest holiday.
It is by far our stupidest federal holiday. Without a doubt.
The idea of it, we have a federal holiday for
Columbus is insane. Yes, an explorer landed in a country
that had been occupied by humans for like twenty five
thousand years. We landed in islands like four hundred miles
away right here or something like that. That's true. So he
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lands in Haiti. Yes, after years. People have been living
here for twenty five thousand years in North America, and
we have a federal holiday. What an achievement holiday for him,
which is Joe always points out, was something that was
done back in the day to get the Italians on
your buying off the Italian vote. Back in the early
twentieth century. I don't remember precisely when the idiotic tradition began,
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but so it's that stupid thing and it's been going
on my whole life and it's just stupid and super stupid.
Then whoever decided that, Well, Columbus came here and then
Europeans came here and decimated the Indians, so it's actually
a genocide. So he's part of a genocide. So we
can't have a day on it, so they change it
to Indigenous People Day. So my son goes to a
private school, has school today, as you should. Why wouldn't
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your kids go to school today? That's crazy the reason. Right. Anyway,
his public school friends were with him yesterday and Sam said,
can I go over to their house? They don't have
school tomorrow. I know, okay, well you have school tomorrow.
And I said, you guys don't have school tomorrow and
they said, no, it's People Day or something. I said,
you know, because they're high school kids. They don't care
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why they have the day off. They just know they
have the day. It's not like it's a funny thing
that schools do too. It's like the kids are home
studying all these things whatever. Day they have off, you know,
sitting around watching documentaries or whatever. But they they both said,
it's I said, Indigenous People Day. He said yeah, uh,
they used to call it Columbus Day. But he was
like a genocide or something. And the other one said, yeah,
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I guess he was trafficking people or something. Is the
other what the other one said? And then they rode
off on their bikes and I thought, wow, that's what
the public school has taught them. I guess he trafficked
humans or something. You know, that's what they have the
day off because Columbus traffic humans. The only reassuring part
of that story to me is that I'm reminded that
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as the lunatic teachers and administrators are trying to indoctrinate
the kids, the kids don't really care. No, not on
a maybe teenage apathy that saves the United States of America.
I had to say, thought, except you're talking to boys, true,
and the girls are different. If the girls are told
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you've got to believe this to get along to belong, man,
that's powerful. Uugh. So a holiday that shouldn't have existed
at all. So I think this is sort of significant
significant Now It was just dumb before that, they took
the day off for Columbus, But now that you're using
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it as an opportunity to teach kids that Europeans were
doing something unique on the world stage, conquering territory, fighting
by going to other lands and trying to take their resources.
It's what every freaking body was doing. Yeah, they're still
doing it, and they're still doing it, and Russia just
did it in Ukraine, and China's trying to do it
in the Philippines and Taiwan. It's a thing. It's always
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been a thing. I've got a little feature coming up,
What's Up with Africa, which will make it plain that
there are a dozen different wars of quest going on
on that traveled continent for instance. Yeah, I wish I
had recorded that. I wouldn't have used it on the
airkas wouldn't have been fair. But I just for my
own the two high schoolers, Yeah, it's indigenous people or something,
because I guess it was a genocide or something. Sure,
(08:12):
yeah he was Columbus was trafficking people or something. Anyway,
we got to ride off on our bikes, So that's
the impression that was made on them. Oh boy, we
should start to show officially, we have a lot to
talk to about today. Oh you're about to hear an
opening clip will explain, and that's good stuff. I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, October fourteenth,
(08:34):
three weeks from election day tomorrow. They are twenty twenty four.
We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
Let's leap into action. Then, according the FCC rules and regulations,
here we go. At Markt, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Going to stop you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,
and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers have acted
on those concerned. Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a
handful of apartment complexes in America we're taken over by
Venezuelan gangs. More while later, you know that is an
excellent rejoinder, Jady, Yes it is, and we've got the
(09:10):
whole thing for you coming up a little bit later.
The Martha Raddock's position is no, Trump's exaggerating towns haven't
been taken over. A few apartment complexes have been taken over.
Jady Van says, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're okay with a
few apartment complexes and a small town being taken over
by Venezuelan gang. That's nothing to write home about. Wow,
(09:32):
that is so common sensically. Oh great, And we'll pair
that with the latest polling on deportation. That reminds me
who was it who came up? It doesn't matter. I
think it may have been a piece by Peggy Noonan
that I first came across. The notion of the protected
class and the unprotected class. Those are the two classes
in America, and so much of our media and politicians
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are in the protected class. They're awful. Policies open borders,
for instance, don't impact them, except maybe they're gardener's a
little cheaper. The folks in Aurora are part of the
unprotected class, and they do care about apartment complexes being
commandeered by Venezuelan gangs. It is only our a couple
of apartment complex who, let's not exaggerate, how crazy is that?
(10:17):
So you got that and a bunch of other stuff
on the way, A slew of polls came out. Uh
Kamala Harris isn't a bad spot? Is the headline? How
does mailbag look quite good? Awesome? That's on the way.
Our text line is four one five two nine five kftcart.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Banks are closed today, so if you got an important
banking to do, you can't because an Italian landed in
Haiti twenty five thousand years after people came to North America.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's hilarious and a human trafficked or something right, right exactly.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, friends. Another
great Elvis Huxley quote sent along by loyal listeners. Zabo
is he like a master of the pan fluid or
a magician or what? Okay, it's a screen name. Is Zabo?
(11:09):
By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation,
the democracies will change their nature. The quaint old forms, elections, parliament,
Supreme courts and all the rest will remain. Democracy and
freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile,
the ruling oligarchy, and it's highly trained to lead of soldiers, policemen,
thought manufacturers, and mind manipulators will quietly run the show
(11:29):
as they see fit. That's pretty good, oof. Zabo does
sound like a off the main drag Vegas magician show.
We couldn't afford Copperfield, so we went to see Zabo.
It was pretty good, pretty good. The galley sodden half
was like seventy. She was wearing a sensible pants suit. Mailbag.
(11:53):
Trump us a note with you mail bag at Armstrong
at getty dot com. We're having printer problems, so it
wasn't so many in America. That's not having printer problems.
Oh that's a good point. We're going to get to
Mars and people still can't make their printers work at
home or at work.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Still.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I like to orchestrate it. I arrange it carefully, so
it may be a little haphazard today. But guys, I
was reading, Oh this is from a loyal listener, a
frequence correspondent Power Law. I was reading Kamala Harris got
five billion dollars for lecture school buses. They're slowly hitting
the road. Proponents say the bus is whose initial cost
about three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars apiece, is
that will boost US manufacturing and bring cleaner air for Americans,
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reduced planet warming emissions, et cetera, et cetera. The story
never gets around to even attempting to actually quantify and
compare the cost of the buses. To the benefits derived
from them. For example, if the key benefit is reduction
in global warming, how great is the reduction? What benefits
will come from it? I fear both answers are negligible.
Oh yeah, absolutely, we can't afford to spend billions for
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negligible benefits. But to some of the cost doesn't seem
to matter. It's practically a religious issue. Correct. That is
absolutely well written. Yeah, yeah, well, said Pellow. As always,
let's see Frank talks about chronic pain and how to
deal with it. Then he says, now, some pain is
completely different. I've had kidney stones, and that requires a
(13:14):
different strategy altogether while walking around inside of it. As
Jack mentioned, makes total sense to me. I take a
similar but opposite approach. First, I congratulate God on creating
something so exquisitely perfect the pain. Then I imagine him
and I standing side by side and observing and admiring
the pain. That and a little demorroll do the trick.
Oh man, I'm so glad of dodge the kidney stone
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stone so far. When I had my gallbladder attack, I
was trying to try to apply some sort of pain
stuff I'd heard before in my life but I wasn't
so much pain, I couldn't even think. Oh yeah, and
then you know what did the trick? Morphine? Morphine is
what really worked. Yeah yeah. A special request for this
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the most election of our life lifetime from JT and Livermore.
Even though we only have about three weeks to go
into the most election of our lifetime, the weekends are
so boring, So I have a special request, for the
good of the country and for the sanity of your audience,
can you please do your show every day, including weekends,
until the winner is announced. Critic selection of our lifetime.
It is the most election of our lifetime. Well, thank
(14:18):
you for that obviously underhanded compliment. JT. I tell you what,
if you own a shotgun and you can get it
into the studio and you can level it at me,
prepare yourself to see my blood spattered on the walls,
because you're gonna have to shoot me before I do
a show on the weekends. But thank you. Let's see,
Oh this is good David and Oakland who writes now
(14:40):
and again and it's always a little like this. You're
a pennis thing. How disgusting are you trying to be trendy?
You guys dip below the belt and come off as
desperate to be cool and with it. I turned the
dial having no interest in the part you are alluding to.
You just couldn't help yourself. And I wonder how dense
and dumb you it can be. Do you really think
(15:01):
this is cutting edge stuff? What are they talking about?
I don't know. Did we do some reference to genitalium?
Perhaps in the one war Thing podcast? Do you remember
Hansen something penis related? From Friday? David has been so
much lately it all blends together, right, Yeah, that's a
good point. Yeah, David writes occasionally makes it clear that
(15:22):
he just despises us, and then you know, vanishes back
into the woodwork. Barbaric Joe you mentioned the other day.
There's no fixing stupid. The only example I can think of,
writes Daniel where stupid was fixed was the Scarecrow and
the Wizard of Oz. So can we get Kamala Harris
to crack open a bud light and sing if I
only had a brain? I don't see that happening. And
(15:44):
then finally this from Tammy with two e's controversial Tammy,
I don't recall what prompted me to Google Katie Green
this weekend. But I did, and I landed on her YouTube.
But the Blue Angels number one is a woman. I
pictured her as a brunette, but she's a cute blonde.
I'm a hetero woman, not creepily hitting on her, just saying. Two,
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I've only heard snippets of Jack's experience with the Blue Angels. Three,
Jack and Katie could talk about their flights. Hmm, so
David and Oakland. If he didn't like penis talk, he's
gonna love vomit talk, so stay with us. Yeah, yeah, Katie,
did you find it upsetting digestively the flight at two instances? Yes,
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breast of it? No, I was fine. I filled both
of the vomit bags completely full. Oh really, yes, For
a while they were calling me two sack Jack because
I got off the plane holding both bags and some
good pictures of like trophies. However, I did drink the
night before and eat unfortunate food tie food, as I recall. Yes,
I went out to a tie restaurant and drank when
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they said don't eat anything spicy or drink okay, because
rules do not apply to me, No, certainly not. What
are you use some sort of sheeply, which of the
many polling numbers would you like to hear that are
amazing from the weekend? For instance, this one, Did Biden's
policies help or hurt your family? Forty five percent hurt?
(17:13):
Did Trump's policies help or hurt your family forty four
percent helped? Uh? With tiny numbers for the other side.
Oh yeah, so lots of that.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Stay to armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So I've been loving Saturday Night Lives take on the Election,
where they have all the people. They got Maya Rudolph
doing Kamala Harris, they got their guy doing Trump, they
got Andy Samberg doing Kamala Harris's husband, they got Gaffigan
doing Walls. They all of them every week and it's
really good. But if you didn't see it Saturday Night,
here's the premise before we play a little clip. Since
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they couldn't agree to a debate or anything like that,
they decided the best thing to do between Harris, the
Harris family and the Trump family would be to play
the family feud truck try to decide. You know where
things are, and so here's the first question for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Okay, one hundred people surveyed. Top six answers on the board.
Name something that you're keeping your glove compartment?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, dp, Harris, Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Look, I was raised in a middle class family.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
All right, Oh, here we go. Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
My mother raised my sister and me. All right, she
worked hard and saved up.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, huh.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We had a second mother too.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, did that mother have a glow compartment?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
A small business owner named miss Shelton?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Okay, we got that something that you keep in your
glocal apartment?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh a glock?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
See if a big old block?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Oh snap, okay, so you strapped like that? All right,
show me the blip blam blicket number two answer the
Democrats is controlling the board.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Let's go. Oh boy. I thought that was pretty funny.
And the fact that Saturday Night Live is willing to
go with the look I was born in a middle
class family. Yeah, as a mocking thing is you know
that's something if you've penetrated to that level by Kamala Harris,
that snl' is bocking you for it, sure, because they
think it's so mockable. And what was interesting was that
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it was universally recognized by the audience. They got the
joke right, away right, Yeah, which will lead into some
of the a little bit of the polling that came
out of the weekend. Bunch of major polls came out
over the weekend. But here's a little Trump at is
this all Coachella or wherever he was? He was a
bunch of different plays. It doesn't matter wherever. Here's a
little bit of Trump and my numbers with the black
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and especially black men. I love black men, I love them,
I love them. I'm I have gone through the roof
with black men. Black. Kamala gets four more years, the
entire country will be turned into a migrant camp. And
that's what's happening. Millions and millions of people early voting
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by mail.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And in person opened in errors owner earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So if you have a ballot, return it immediately, and
if not, go vote, get your you know what up
and vote. So the polls come out, the big poles
come out over the weekend, and it's the behind the
scenes stuff. Reporting is that a lot of Democrats are
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strategists and whatnot, are frightened to death, and they probably
should be since it's basically a tide race and everybody
knows that Kamala Harris really has to win the vote
by at least three points nationwide to win the electoral college,
and if it's tied, they're definitely losing anyway, some of
this stuff like from the NBC poll basically your approval
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rating your feelings toward candidate's positive or negative. Trump and
Harris tied at forty three for positive. So you can
talk about the threat to democracy and now he's Hitler
and all this sort of stuff you want, but they're
tied forty three forty three. Yeah, I hate to be
tied with Hitler, absolutely new. You hate to be tied
(21:04):
with the greatest threat to our democracy since it was
found out. And the main thing about that is the
NBC polled their own same pole so using the same
methodology September, So that's now just a month ago. A
month ago on September, that whole feeling toward the candidate
was forty eight Harris forty Trump. So Trump's gone up three,
Harris has gone down five. Not shocking. Who was it
(21:28):
who said the other day, Oh it was Kevin McCarthy said, Uh,
she always peaks early, and then the more you're exposed
to her, the less you like her. Every race she's
ever run, and he is correct. Yeah, I mean that,
that's clearly true. And that was always the knock on Hillary.
You need to go to Wisconsin where she'd go. Wherever
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she went, her numbers went down right like because a
person's vision of her seemed great until you actually sorry,
You're like, I don't know, I like that. I mean,
Kamala Harris has got that same problem. Maybe Kamala has
to get back to Central America and keep working on
the root causes. Get out of the country completely. Might
be your only chance to win. Here's another number that
(22:10):
came out over the weekend that I thought was pretty
damned interesting, just in terms of being a vice president
running for president. When George H. W. Bush ran for
president as the sitting VEEP, Reagan was at sixty percent.
When Al Gore ran for president with Bill Clinton as
a sitting president, so he was a bit. Bill Clinton
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was at sixty percent, So both Reagan and Clinton were
sixty percent. Biden's at forty three. So she's trying to
run with a current president, her boss, same administration a lot,
you know, a full seventeen points lower, and that forty
three is about as high as it's been for a
long time. Yeah, I suspect some of that sympathy because
(22:51):
the guys you know, in God's waiting room, as it were.
And yeah, no kidding. And then we can get into
a later the breakdown of some of the racial stuff,
which is really really interesting. Trump is doing way better
among Hispanics and black vote than any Republican has done,
and that hasn't chipped away or gone down, if anything's
(23:13):
got up. Oh and my other favorite number from the weekend.
Oh if I might jump in quickly, I thought, Keenan,
what's his last tame? I can never remember it. I'm
sut In Thompson. He's the funniest guy in America. Anyway.
He made a joke about Democrats are losing black people.
Without black people, you don't have a party, you have
a small gathering. That thought, wow, that's an interesting comment. Yeah. Oh, well,
(23:39):
to that black vote. In twenty sixteen, Democrats got ninety
two percent of the black vote. In twenty twenty, they
got ninety percent of the black vote. Currently in the
New York Times, Senapol Democrats are getting seventy eight percent
of the black vote. So that's still overwhelming majority, but
that's a big drop a dozen points or more double
(24:00):
digit drop, and it's not explained by some sort of
cultive personality thing either. I mean with Trump, it's got
to be well, it's probably fatigue with the Democratic Party
and its empty promises on the one hand, and also
just the raw economic argument Trump it can make that
appeals to plenty of folks, no matter what they look like,
which is the way you ought to vote, right, I
(24:22):
think it's I think it's wrong to break it down
by race and break it down by working class men.
It's black, working classmen. Working classmen are by far going
for Trump. Actually, men are going for Trump and women
are going for Harris by pretty big numbers. If the
numbers hold where they are now, boy, this will be
fun for everybody's relationships. If you're straight, yeah, if you're gay,
(24:42):
you don't have to worry about it. But if you're straight,
it's going to be the biggest gender gap in the
history of America, it looks like, in terms of the
difference between men and women voting. So maybe just don't
bring down the presidential race, you know in the bedroom. Okay,
(25:02):
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here's a number that the media hates. Gotta be. This
one's been holding true for a while. It's up damn
near sixty percent views on deporting all undocumented immigrants, almost
(26:33):
sixty percent support for that nationwide. Wow. You want to
talk about the all time example of the difference between
how America is and the way it's portrayed by the media,
right there there, Shiblaus. Right. So in all your debates,
they get into these conversations about immigration, always presented from
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the progressive point of view, about how mean you've been
to immigrants, locking kids in kse just in separating families
and all these things. Sixty percent of Americans want anybody
that's not documented now kicked out. I don't care if
it's mom and dad, I don't care if it's kids,
I don't It doesn't matter to me. I want all
kicked out. I mean, and that's a crazy position, but
(27:16):
it's untenable. It can't happen, it will never happen, right,
But it just shows how the country feels about this. Literally,
the question from those two she wolves on ABC was
are you going to separate families? Are you willing to
separate children from their families? Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa?
How did we get into the like the four hundred
(27:38):
level micro part of immigration policy? You skipped over the
fact that the border is open. Unbelievable. Trump should hammer
this more, not less, And he hammers it a lot,
but he should he should feel perfectly comfortable going about
as far as he can on the conversation of immigration. Yeah,
(28:01):
that's that's just astounding. Again, how do you feel about
deporting all undocumented immigrants?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Not?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It doesn't even say illegals. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking
about this over the weekend. I was what about the Dreamers?
What are you gonna do to help the dreamers? Another
question that comes up in debates all the time. Help
the dreamers? Aren't they like sixty years old at this point?
The vast majority, the vast majority of Americans want them
killed kicked out. Yeah, wow, wow, So I was thinking
about it over the weekend. I was pretty surprised. The
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Wall Street Journal ran a news story that was essentially
taking all of Trump's nuttiest pronouncements one hundred percent seriously
and and more, that he'd be a dictator, that sort
of thing. I got a house said down the street
from me that has a project twenty twenty five horror
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sign in the art or something. That's right. I gotta
make a note. I wouldn't talk about that, but anyway,
UH tell me if I'm wrong. And you know, I
think Trump's a maniac. I think his own party will
restrain his worst impulses. That's what I'm counting. I think
Kamala's party will reinforce her worst impulses. Well, that's a
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good one. You got to send that to somebody. That's
a good one. The air. I mean, this doesn't count.
Somebody write that down for me. This doesn't count. Get it, busy,
get it somewhere important. That's really good analysis. Right, he
is going to go? Or yeah, I suppose you could
make the argument for both sides. You could make the
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argument that he gets elected president his party, his own
party is going to have to restrain him. If our side,
if speaking for a Kamala Harris supporter, which I'm not,
if our side wins were all in together to try
to accomplish these things, we're not trying to hold back
our own candidate. I would put it this way, after
his inauguration, Trump will be moderated by forces with an
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Republican party. There you go, that's a good way to
put it. Moderated. Yeah, I mean the whole woke thing,
oh thousand miles per hour down the train track to
doom three weeks from tomorrow. Although the chance was elected obviously,
the chance that we know three weeks from marrow who
one is probably fairly low. Looks like we're sending one
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hundred troops and an anti missile system to Israel, sending
troops to Israel, will there be boots on the ground,
among other things we need to talk about today, it's
Columbus Day, so we've got a bit of a reverential
tone going. Indeed, Happy Columbus Day to U and US.
Stay tuned. Fans of the Peanuts comic strip were upset
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after a fan account endorsed Donald Trump. Even worse, they
claim that Franklin was trying to eat Snoopy. Franklin is
the black character and peanits if you don't remember. Yes,
you see Haitians and they're eating the pets of the
people who lived there. Wow, that's a funny joke. That's good,
(31:08):
frank I was gonna eat Snoopy. That's funny. I laughing. Boy,
it's time to get serious. I'm reminded of a quote
that i'd never heard from Winston Churchill. Somebody, I think
one of you find folks sent it in. We were
talking about World War two and the gathering storm and
the rest of it, and Churchill once said, nothing will change,
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or nothing changes until you're attacked. He tried for years
and years and years to wake up the British government,
the British people, and then the Germans attacked and everybody said,
Churchill's right, let's fire up the forges, let's get ready
for to defend ourselves. And of course by then they've
taken terrible losses and came within, you know, the English
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channel of being wiped off the face of the earth,
along with democracy in Europe. Anyway, this is from that theme,
nothing change just till you're attacked. Mystery drones have been
swarming one of our most sensitive military bases for seventeen days.
The Pentagon is stumped. US officials don't know who's behind
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the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national security sites,
and they don't know how to stop them because it
might be dangerous to shoot them down, some shrapnel might
fall and hurt somebody or something, so they just let
them keep flying. I saw that, and there were quotes
from normal people, not like quack jobs. That's what got
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my attention about this story. This is you know, you
hear this sort of thing sometimes and it's wacky people
talking about it, but it was like it was, you know,
sober minded people. Oh yeah. US Air Force General Mark
Kelly got reports that these drones have been flying over
Langley Air Force Base on Virginia's shoreline. Oh, for what
it's worth, Kelly, who's a fighter pilot now, in general
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estimating that the first drone he saw was roughly twenty
feet long, flying at more than one hundred miles per
hour at an altitude of roughly three to four thousand feet.
This is not a three hundred dollars target drone. Once again,
you are right, we need different words for different things, right,
because when I read that and I saw the headlining
you just mentioned it, I always picture tiny little drunk
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like the one I saw at the high school football
game flying over it so it could get pictures the
other day. That's not it. This is like an airplane. Yeah.
So Kelly, who's a senior commander at the base, got
on a squadron rooftop to see for himself with a
handful of other officers responsible for several of the nation's
most advanced jet fighters, including F twenty two Raptors. Anyway,
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for several nights they had been reporting this mysterious breach
of restricted airspace, quoting from the Wall Street General over
a stretch of land that has one of the largest
concentrations in national security facilities in the US. The show
so usually starts forty five minutes to an hour after sunset,
another senior leader told Kelly, and sure enough, they just
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crisscrossed the area for quite some time, a dozen or
more over the following nights, and they don't know if
they belong to clever hobbyists or hostile forces. Some suspected
that Russia or China deployed them to test the response
of US forces, which seems absolutely clear to me. But
federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drunes on
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your military basis unless they pose an imminent threat. Remember
what Elon was saying last week about most of the
time this stuff is us testing super fancy stuff that
is so secretive that other people in the chain of
command don't even know about it. Is there any chance
we're testing our own ability to pick these things up
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over our own national security sites, testing our own vulnerability.
Maybe I'm just trying to steal a man your argument.
I guess I'm just trying to figure out why we're
I'm not very concerned about this. I know, I know,
and having read this, and there are a couple other
quotes about how you know it could be dangerous to
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civilians and we don't want to risk blah blah blah.
And to me, it's straight out of Churchill's quote, which
is why I brought it up. It was like the
damn Chinese spy balloon. The idea that you couldn't shoot
a town over rural Montana because it might hit like
one dude out hunting bear or something. That that is
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a that is a fat, happy country that thinks it's
it's impregnable. Well, did you read the big New York
Times peace over the weekend about they got that treasured
trove of information about Hamas's planning for the big October
seventh attack? Did you need that to start? I see that. Yeah,
that's a good one. I'll have to talk about that later.
(35:53):
But we know all about their planning in Israel's response
and that sort of thing, and Israel, and Israel was
convinced that a mass wasn't interested in attacking them, and
just so we don't need to worry about this sort
of society. Yeah, we know they're doing drills. Don't worry
about it. Right, Well, that's that's what that's where we are. Well,
the story I didn't get to related. I think scale
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of Chinese spying overwhelms Western governments. They're spying all the time, everywhere.
Our point today, be afraid, be very afraid.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy arm Strong
and and he.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Armstrong and ah, that's right, it's freaking Columbus Day. I
completely forgot, oh freaking Columbus and all of his accomplishments.
I gotta talk about that. As I heard some high
school kids talking about Columbus trafficking humans and all these
(01:16):
things that they've been taught at their public school. Oh boy,
I heard this yesterday. I couldn't have rolled my eyes
harder Live from studio scene Senor a dimmly lit room,
deeper from the bowels of the Armstrong in Getting Communications Compound. Hey, y'all,
brand new week today, we're under the tutelage of our
general manager, Trump's brain. And why is Trump's brain our
(01:40):
general manager? It would seem as though the final argument,
the final pitch, the stretch runs strategy for Kamala and
Company is Trump is senile? Yeah, I didn't hear that
over the weekend. She released her medical records on Friday,
and why won't he release his medical record? And then
to start talking about things, he says rally clearly he's
(02:02):
got dementia. Why when he releases medical records. So is
this going to be the closing argument from the Airs campaign?
I don't know. It doesn't persuade me. I remember Trump's doctor,
who lives under a bridge, pronounced him the healthiest president ever,
like nine years ago. That's good enough for me. The
rich part of this, of course, is that our current
(02:22):
president's brain doesn't work. He's the current president of the
United stated, the current most powerful person in the world's
brain absolutely doesn't work. And everybody knows that this isn't
even a question, right, you don't need a test. Yeah,
he funks the test every time he walks out in
front of a camera. And he's the current president, and
the vice president who's talking about Trump's brain covered it
up for all those ones. He's so energetic. I can't
(02:45):
keep up with him behind the scenes. Oh boy. And
remember she said like a week ago that Biden's completely
capable of handling the world affairs. I see him in
the yeah, at any time of day. So yeah, it's
home lying about it. So whatever, whatever, shut up. We
got some good I mean, she got big on her
rallies this weekend about Trump's dimension releasing his medical records.
(03:07):
So yeah, that is fairly rich. You could almost make
the argument for national security reasons, the sitting vice president
should not be out on the campaign trail saying, tell
you what, old Biden, whoa, he doesn't know where he is,
much less which day it is. I told him that
I mentioned the White House. He said, what white House?
Come on, that's a decent point. I suppose you know
(03:29):
what you do if you're Trump. What I do if
I'm Trump, is you delayed. You delay the calls grow
louder to release your medical you can kill, like two
of the last there's only three weeks to go. Three
weeks from tomorrow is an election day. You could kill
the next two weeks with the growing calls for releasing
your medical records. Then you release them and it's nothing,
(03:51):
and then you know, it diffuses the whole thing. Well,
you remember Biden when his records came out and they
indicated that he was just in tiptop shape. It became
clear that the president Kennedy for that matter, releases what
they want. Sure, that's it, Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, so
I think that's the way that's going to rule out.
I'm distracted by the fact that it's Columbus. I'd completely
(04:12):
forgotten until I was I'm sorry. I'm sorry racist Indigenous
people's day place right so, which is why I'm broadcasting
live from Aviano Air Force Base in Italy, as that
is where I'm indigenous too. I expect you to respect
my customs and my traditions. Long before this came became controversial.
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If you're a long time listening, you'll know that I
would rant and rape about this is our stupidest holiday.
It is by far our stupidest federal holiday. Without a doubt.
The idea of it, we have a federal holiday for
Columbus is insane. Yes, an explorer landed in a country
that had been occupied by humans for like twenty five
thousand years. We landed in islands like four hundred miles
away right here or something like that. That's true. So he
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lands in Haiti. Yes, after years. People have been living
here for twenty five thousand years in North America, and
we have a federal holiday. What an achievement holiday for him,
which is Joe always points out, was something that was
done back in the day to get the Italians on
your buying off the Italian vote. Back in the early
twentieth century. I don't remember precisely when the idiotic tradition began,
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but so it's that stupid thing and it's been going
on my whole life and it's just stupid and super stupid.
Then whoever decided that, Well, Columbus came here and then
Europeans came here and decimated the Indians, so it's actually
a genocide. So he's part of a genocide. So we
can't have a day on it, so they change it
to Indigenous People Day. So my son goes to a
private school, has school today, as you should. Why wouldn't
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your kids go to school today? That's crazy the reason. Right. Anyway,
his public school friends were with him yesterday and Sam said,
can I go over to their house? They don't have
school tomorrow. I know, okay, well you have school tomorrow.
And I said, you guys don't have school tomorrow and
they said, no, it's People Day or something. I said,
you know, because they're high school kids. They don't care
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why they have the day off. They just know they
have the day. It's not like it's a funny thing
that schools do too. It's like the kids are home
studying all these things whatever. Day they have off, you know,
sitting around watching documentaries or whatever. But they they both said,
it's I said, Indigenous People Day. He said yeah, uh,
they used to call it Columbus Day. But he was
like a genocide or something. And the other one said, yeah,
(06:25):
I guess he was trafficking people or something. Is the
other what the other one said? And then they rode
off on their bikes and I thought, wow, that's what
the public school has taught them. I guess he trafficked
humans or something. You know, that's what they have the
day off because Columbus traffic humans. The only reassuring part
of that story to me is that I'm reminded that
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as the lunatic teachers and administrators are trying to indoctrinate
the kids, the kids don't really care. No, not on
a maybe teenage apathy that saves the United States of America.
I had to say, thought, except you're talking to boys, true,
and the girls are different. If the girls are told
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you've got to believe this to get along to belong, man,
that's powerful. Uugh. So a holiday that shouldn't have existed
at all. So I think this is sort of significant
significant Now It was just dumb before that, they took
the day off for Columbus, But now that you're using
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it as an opportunity to teach kids that Europeans were
doing something unique on the world stage, conquering territory, fighting
by going to other lands and trying to take their resources.
It's what every freaking body was doing. Yeah, they're still
doing it, and they're still doing it, and Russia just
did it in Ukraine, and China's trying to do it
in the Philippines and Taiwan. It's a thing. It's always
(07:51):
been a thing. I've got a little feature coming up,
What's Up with Africa, which will make it plain that
there are a dozen different wars of quest going on
on that traveled continent for instance. Yeah, I wish I
had recorded that. I wouldn't have used it on the
airkas wouldn't have been fair. But I just for my
own the two high schoolers, Yeah, it's indigenous people or something,
because I guess it was a genocide or something. Sure,
(08:12):
yeah he was Columbus was trafficking people or something. Anyway,
we got to ride off on our bikes, So that's
the impression that was made on them. Oh boy, we
should start to show officially, we have a lot to
talk to about today. Oh you're about to hear an
opening clip will explain, and that's good stuff. I'm Jack Armstrong,
he's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, October fourteenth,
(08:34):
three weeks from election day tomorrow. They are twenty twenty four.
We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.
Let's leap into action. Then, according the FCC rules and regulations,
here we go. At Markt, I'm.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Going to stop you.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
The incidents were limited to a handful of apartment complexes,
and the mayor said, our dedicated police officers have acted
on those concerned. Martha, do you hear yourself? Only a
handful of apartment complexes in America we're taken over by
Venezuelan gangs. More while later, you know that is an
excellent rejoinder, Jady, Yes it is, and we've got the
(09:10):
whole thing for you coming up a little bit later.
The Martha Raddock's position is no, Trump's exaggerating towns haven't
been taken over. A few apartment complexes have been taken over.
Jady Van says, whoa, whoa, whoa. You're okay with a
few apartment complexes and a small town being taken over
by Venezuelan gang. That's nothing to write home about. Wow,
(09:32):
that is so common sensically. Oh great, And we'll pair
that with the latest polling on deportation. That reminds me
who was it who came up? It doesn't matter. I
think it may have been a piece by Peggy Noonan
that I first came across. The notion of the protected
class and the unprotected class. Those are the two classes
in America, and so much of our media and politicians
(09:54):
are in the protected class. They're awful. Policies open borders,
for instance, don't impact them, except maybe they're gardener's a
little cheaper. The folks in Aurora are part of the
unprotected class, and they do care about apartment complexes being
commandeered by Venezuelan gangs. It is only our a couple
of apartment complex who, let's not exaggerate, how crazy is that?
(10:17):
So you got that and a bunch of other stuff
on the way, A slew of polls came out. Uh
Kamala Harris isn't a bad spot? Is the headline? How
does mailbag look quite good? Awesome? That's on the way.
Our text line is four one five two nine five kftcart.
Speaker 4 (10:34):
Banks are closed today, so if you got an important
banking to do, you can't because an Italian landed in
Haiti twenty five thousand years after people came to North America.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
He's hilarious and a human trafficked or something right, right exactly.
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, friends. Another
great Elvis Huxley quote sent along by loyal listeners. Zabo
is he like a master of the pan fluid or
a magician or what? Okay, it's a screen name. Is Zabo?
(11:09):
By means of ever more effective methods of mind manipulation,
the democracies will change their nature. The quaint old forms, elections, parliament,
Supreme courts and all the rest will remain. Democracy and
freedom will be the theme of every broadcast and editorial. Meanwhile,
the ruling oligarchy, and it's highly trained to lead of soldiers, policemen,
thought manufacturers, and mind manipulators will quietly run the show
(11:29):
as they see fit. That's pretty good, oof. Zabo does
sound like a off the main drag Vegas magician show.
We couldn't afford Copperfield, so we went to see Zabo.
It was pretty good, pretty good. The galley sodden half
was like seventy. She was wearing a sensible pants suit. Mailbag.
(11:53):
Trump us a note with you mail bag at Armstrong
at getty dot com. We're having printer problems, so it
wasn't so many in America. That's not having printer problems.
Oh that's a good point. We're going to get to
Mars and people still can't make their printers work at
home or at work.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Still.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I like to orchestrate it. I arrange it carefully, so
it may be a little haphazard today. But guys, I
was reading, Oh this is from a loyal listener, a
frequence correspondent Power Law. I was reading Kamala Harris got
five billion dollars for lecture school buses. They're slowly hitting
the road. Proponents say the bus is whose initial cost
about three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars apiece, is
that will boost US manufacturing and bring cleaner air for Americans,
(12:32):
reduced planet warming emissions, et cetera, et cetera. The story
never gets around to even attempting to actually quantify and
compare the cost of the buses. To the benefits derived
from them. For example, if the key benefit is reduction
in global warming, how great is the reduction? What benefits
will come from it? I fear both answers are negligible.
Oh yeah, absolutely, we can't afford to spend billions for
(12:54):
negligible benefits. But to some of the cost doesn't seem
to matter. It's practically a religious issue. Correct. That is
absolutely well written. Yeah, yeah, well, said Pellow. As always,
let's see Frank talks about chronic pain and how to
deal with it. Then he says, now, some pain is
completely different. I've had kidney stones, and that requires a
(13:14):
different strategy altogether while walking around inside of it. As
Jack mentioned, makes total sense to me. I take a
similar but opposite approach. First, I congratulate God on creating
something so exquisitely perfect the pain. Then I imagine him
and I standing side by side and observing and admiring
the pain. That and a little demorroll do the trick.
Oh man, I'm so glad of dodge the kidney stone
(13:37):
stone so far. When I had my gallbladder attack, I
was trying to try to apply some sort of pain
stuff I'd heard before in my life but I wasn't
so much pain, I couldn't even think. Oh yeah, and
then you know what did the trick? Morphine? Morphine is
what really worked. Yeah yeah. A special request for this
(13:58):
the most election of our life lifetime from JT and Livermore.
Even though we only have about three weeks to go
into the most election of our lifetime, the weekends are
so boring, So I have a special request, for the
good of the country and for the sanity of your audience,
can you please do your show every day, including weekends,
until the winner is announced. Critic selection of our lifetime.
It is the most election of our lifetime. Well, thank
(14:18):
you for that obviously underhanded compliment. JT. I tell you what,
if you own a shotgun and you can get it
into the studio and you can level it at me,
prepare yourself to see my blood spattered on the walls,
because you're gonna have to shoot me before I do
a show on the weekends. But thank you. Let's see,
Oh this is good David and Oakland who writes now
(14:40):
and again and it's always a little like this. You're
a pennis thing. How disgusting are you trying to be trendy?
You guys dip below the belt and come off as
desperate to be cool and with it. I turned the
dial having no interest in the part you are alluding to.
You just couldn't help yourself. And I wonder how dense
and dumb you it can be. Do you really think
(15:01):
this is cutting edge stuff? What are they talking about?
I don't know. Did we do some reference to genitalium?
Perhaps in the one war Thing podcast? Do you remember
Hansen something penis related? From Friday? David has been so
much lately it all blends together, right, Yeah, that's a
good point. Yeah, David writes occasionally makes it clear that
(15:22):
he just despises us, and then you know, vanishes back
into the woodwork. Barbaric Joe you mentioned the other day.
There's no fixing stupid. The only example I can think of,
writes Daniel where stupid was fixed was the Scarecrow and
the Wizard of Oz. So can we get Kamala Harris
to crack open a bud light and sing if I
only had a brain? I don't see that happening. And
(15:44):
then finally this from Tammy with two e's controversial Tammy,
I don't recall what prompted me to Google Katie Green
this weekend. But I did, and I landed on her YouTube.
But the Blue Angels number one is a woman. I
pictured her as a brunette, but she's a cute blonde.
I'm a hetero woman, not creepily hitting on her, just saying. Two,
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I've only heard snippets of Jack's experience with the Blue Angels. Three,
Jack and Katie could talk about their flights. Hmm, so
David and Oakland. If he didn't like penis talk, he's
gonna love vomit talk, so stay with us. Yeah, yeah, Katie,
did you find it upsetting digestively the flight at two instances? Yes,
(16:27):
breast of it? No, I was fine. I filled both
of the vomit bags completely full. Oh really, yes, For
a while they were calling me two sack Jack because
I got off the plane holding both bags and some
good pictures of like trophies. However, I did drink the
night before and eat unfortunate food tie food, as I recall. Yes,
I went out to a tie restaurant and drank when
(16:49):
they said don't eat anything spicy or drink okay, because
rules do not apply to me, No, certainly not. What
are you use some sort of sheeply, which of the
many polling numbers would you like to hear that are
amazing from the weekend? For instance, this one, Did Biden's
policies help or hurt your family? Forty five percent hurt?
(17:13):
Did Trump's policies help or hurt your family forty four
percent helped? Uh? With tiny numbers for the other side.
Oh yeah, so lots of that.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Stay to armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
So I've been loving Saturday Night Lives take on the Election,
where they have all the people. They got Maya Rudolph
doing Kamala Harris, they got their guy doing Trump, they
got Andy Samberg doing Kamala Harris's husband, they got Gaffigan
doing Walls. They all of them every week and it's
really good. But if you didn't see it Saturday Night,
here's the premise before we play a little clip. Since
(17:49):
they couldn't agree to a debate or anything like that,
they decided the best thing to do between Harris, the
Harris family and the Trump family would be to play
the family feud truck try to decide. You know where
things are, and so here's the first question for Kamala Harris.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Okay, one hundred people surveyed. Top six answers on the board.
Name something that you're keeping your glove compartment?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh, dp, Harris, Steve.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
Look, I was raised in a middle class family.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
All right, Oh, here we go. Okay.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
My mother raised my sister and me. All right, she
worked hard and saved up.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Yeah, huh.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
We had a second mother too.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Okay, did that mother have a glow compartment?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
A small business owner named miss Shelton?
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Okay, we got that something that you keep in your
glocal apartment?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh a glock?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
See if a big old block?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Oh snap, okay, so you strapped like that? All right,
show me the blip blam blicket number two answer the
Democrats is controlling the board.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Let's go. Oh boy. I thought that was pretty funny.
And the fact that Saturday Night Live is willing to
go with the look I was born in a middle
class family. Yeah, as a mocking thing is you know
that's something if you've penetrated to that level by Kamala Harris,
that snl' is bocking you for it, sure, because they
think it's so mockable. And what was interesting was that
(19:13):
it was universally recognized by the audience. They got the
joke right, away right, Yeah, which will lead into some
of the a little bit of the polling that came
out of the weekend. Bunch of major polls came out
over the weekend. But here's a little Trump at is
this all Coachella or wherever he was? He was a
bunch of different plays. It doesn't matter wherever. Here's a
little bit of Trump and my numbers with the black
(19:33):
and especially black men. I love black men, I love them,
I love them. I'm I have gone through the roof
with black men. Black. Kamala gets four more years, the
entire country will be turned into a migrant camp. And
that's what's happening. Millions and millions of people early voting
(19:57):
by mail.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
And in person opened in errors owner earlier this week.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
So if you have a ballot, return it immediately, and
if not, go vote, get your you know what up
and vote. So the polls come out, the big poles
come out over the weekend, and it's the behind the
scenes stuff. Reporting is that a lot of Democrats are
(20:21):
strategists and whatnot, are frightened to death, and they probably
should be since it's basically a tide race and everybody
knows that Kamala Harris really has to win the vote
by at least three points nationwide to win the electoral college,
and if it's tied, they're definitely losing anyway, some of
this stuff like from the NBC poll basically your approval
(20:42):
rating your feelings toward candidate's positive or negative. Trump and
Harris tied at forty three for positive. So you can
talk about the threat to democracy and now he's Hitler
and all this sort of stuff you want, but they're
tied forty three forty three. Yeah, I hate to be
tied with Hitler, absolutely new. You hate to be tied
(21:04):
with the greatest threat to our democracy since it was
found out. And the main thing about that is the
NBC polled their own same pole so using the same
methodology September, So that's now just a month ago. A
month ago on September, that whole feeling toward the candidate
was forty eight Harris forty Trump. So Trump's gone up three,
Harris has gone down five. Not shocking. Who was it
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who said the other day, Oh it was Kevin McCarthy said, Uh,
she always peaks early, and then the more you're exposed
to her, the less you like her. Every race she's
ever run, and he is correct. Yeah, I mean that,
that's clearly true. And that was always the knock on Hillary.
You need to go to Wisconsin where she'd go. Wherever
(21:49):
she went, her numbers went down right like because a
person's vision of her seemed great until you actually sorry,
You're like, I don't know, I like that. I mean,
Kamala Harris has got that same problem. Maybe Kamala has
to get back to Central America and keep working on
the root causes. Get out of the country completely. Might
be your only chance to win. Here's another number that
(22:10):
came out over the weekend that I thought was pretty
damned interesting, just in terms of being a vice president
running for president. When George H. W. Bush ran for
president as the sitting VEEP, Reagan was at sixty percent.
When Al Gore ran for president with Bill Clinton as
a sitting president, so he was a bit. Bill Clinton
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was at sixty percent, So both Reagan and Clinton were
sixty percent. Biden's at forty three. So she's trying to
run with a current president, her boss, same administration a lot,
you know, a full seventeen points lower, and that forty
three is about as high as it's been for a
long time. Yeah, I suspect some of that sympathy because
(22:51):
the guys you know, in God's waiting room, as it were.
And yeah, no kidding. And then we can get into
a later the breakdown of some of the racial stuff,
which is really really interesting. Trump is doing way better
among Hispanics and black vote than any Republican has done,
and that hasn't chipped away or gone down, if anything's
(23:13):
got up. Oh and my other favorite number from the weekend.
Oh if I might jump in quickly, I thought, Keenan,
what's his last tame? I can never remember it. I'm
sut In Thompson. He's the funniest guy in America. Anyway.
He made a joke about Democrats are losing black people.
Without black people, you don't have a party, you have
a small gathering. That thought, wow, that's an interesting comment. Yeah. Oh, well,
(23:39):
to that black vote. In twenty sixteen, Democrats got ninety
two percent of the black vote. In twenty twenty, they
got ninety percent of the black vote. Currently in the
New York Times, Senapol Democrats are getting seventy eight percent
of the black vote. So that's still overwhelming majority, but
that's a big drop a dozen points or more double
(24:00):
digit drop, and it's not explained by some sort of
cultive personality thing either. I mean with Trump, it's got
to be well, it's probably fatigue with the Democratic Party
and its empty promises on the one hand, and also
just the raw economic argument Trump it can make that
appeals to plenty of folks, no matter what they look like,
which is the way you ought to vote, right, I
(24:22):
think it's I think it's wrong to break it down
by race and break it down by working class men.
It's black, working classmen. Working classmen are by far going
for Trump. Actually, men are going for Trump and women
are going for Harris by pretty big numbers. If the
numbers hold where they are now, boy, this will be
fun for everybody's relationships. If you're straight, yeah, if you're gay,
(24:42):
you don't have to worry about it. But if you're straight,
it's going to be the biggest gender gap in the
history of America, it looks like, in terms of the
difference between men and women voting. So maybe just don't
bring down the presidential race, you know in the bedroom. Okay,
(25:02):
that's some good marital advice, and maybe among the biggest
numbers I saw over the weekend right after Do we
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here's a number that the media hates. Gotta be. This
one's been holding true for a while. It's up damn
near sixty percent views on deporting all undocumented immigrants, almost
(26:33):
sixty percent support for that nationwide. Wow. You want to
talk about the all time example of the difference between
how America is and the way it's portrayed by the media,
right there there, Shiblaus. Right. So in all your debates,
they get into these conversations about immigration, always presented from
(26:54):
the progressive point of view, about how mean you've been
to immigrants, locking kids in kse just in separating families
and all these things. Sixty percent of Americans want anybody
that's not documented now kicked out. I don't care if
it's mom and dad, I don't care if it's kids,
I don't It doesn't matter to me. I want all
kicked out. I mean, and that's a crazy position, but
(27:16):
it's untenable. It can't happen, it will never happen, right,
But it just shows how the country feels about this. Literally,
the question from those two she wolves on ABC was
are you going to separate families? Are you willing to
separate children from their families? Wait a minute, whoa, whoa, whoa?
How did we get into the like the four hundred
(27:38):
level micro part of immigration policy? You skipped over the
fact that the border is open. Unbelievable. Trump should hammer
this more, not less, And he hammers it a lot,
but he should he should feel perfectly comfortable going about
as far as he can on the conversation of immigration. Yeah,
(28:01):
that's that's just astounding. Again, how do you feel about
deporting all undocumented immigrants?
Speaker 5 (28:09):
Not?
Speaker 2 (28:09):
It doesn't even say illegals. Yeah, yeah, I was thinking
about this over the weekend. I was what about the Dreamers?
What are you gonna do to help the dreamers? Another
question that comes up in debates all the time. Help
the dreamers? Aren't they like sixty years old at this point?
The vast majority, the vast majority of Americans want them
killed kicked out. Yeah, wow, wow, So I was thinking
about it over the weekend. I was pretty surprised. The
(28:31):
Wall Street Journal ran a news story that was essentially
taking all of Trump's nuttiest pronouncements one hundred percent seriously
and and more, that he'd be a dictator, that sort
of thing. I got a house said down the street
from me that has a project twenty twenty five horror
(28:52):
sign in the art or something. That's right. I gotta
make a note. I wouldn't talk about that, but anyway,
UH tell me if I'm wrong. And you know, I
think Trump's a maniac. I think his own party will
restrain his worst impulses. That's what I'm counting. I think
Kamala's party will reinforce her worst impulses. Well, that's a
(29:14):
good one. You got to send that to somebody. That's
a good one. The air. I mean, this doesn't count.
Somebody write that down for me. This doesn't count. Get it, busy,
get it somewhere important. That's really good analysis. Right, he
is going to go? Or yeah, I suppose you could
make the argument for both sides. You could make the
(29:34):
argument that he gets elected president his party, his own
party is going to have to restrain him. If our side,
if speaking for a Kamala Harris supporter, which I'm not,
if our side wins were all in together to try
to accomplish these things, we're not trying to hold back
our own candidate. I would put it this way, after
his inauguration, Trump will be moderated by forces with an
(30:00):
Republican party. There you go, that's a good way to
put it. Moderated. Yeah, I mean the whole woke thing,
oh thousand miles per hour down the train track to
doom three weeks from tomorrow. Although the chance was elected obviously,
the chance that we know three weeks from marrow who
one is probably fairly low. Looks like we're sending one
(30:21):
hundred troops and an anti missile system to Israel, sending
troops to Israel, will there be boots on the ground,
among other things we need to talk about today, it's
Columbus Day, so we've got a bit of a reverential
tone going. Indeed, Happy Columbus Day to U and US.
Stay tuned. Fans of the Peanuts comic strip were upset
(30:44):
after a fan account endorsed Donald Trump. Even worse, they
claim that Franklin was trying to eat Snoopy. Franklin is
the black character and peanits if you don't remember. Yes,
you see Haitians and they're eating the pets of the
people who lived there. Wow, that's a funny joke. That's good,
(31:08):
frank I was gonna eat Snoopy. That's funny. I laughing. Boy,
it's time to get serious. I'm reminded of a quote
that i'd never heard from Winston Churchill. Somebody, I think
one of you find folks sent it in. We were
talking about World War two and the gathering storm and
the rest of it, and Churchill once said, nothing will change,
(31:30):
or nothing changes until you're attacked. He tried for years
and years and years to wake up the British government,
the British people, and then the Germans attacked and everybody said,
Churchill's right, let's fire up the forges, let's get ready
for to defend ourselves. And of course by then they've
taken terrible losses and came within, you know, the English
(31:52):
channel of being wiped off the face of the earth,
along with democracy in Europe. Anyway, this is from that theme,
nothing change just till you're attacked. Mystery drones have been
swarming one of our most sensitive military bases for seventeen days.
The Pentagon is stumped. US officials don't know who's behind
(32:15):
the drones that have flown unhindered over sensitive national security sites,
and they don't know how to stop them because it
might be dangerous to shoot them down, some shrapnel might
fall and hurt somebody or something, so they just let
them keep flying. I saw that, and there were quotes
from normal people, not like quack jobs. That's what got
(32:38):
my attention about this story. This is you know, you
hear this sort of thing sometimes and it's wacky people
talking about it, but it was like it was, you know,
sober minded people. Oh yeah. US Air Force General Mark
Kelly got reports that these drones have been flying over
Langley Air Force Base on Virginia's shoreline. Oh, for what
it's worth, Kelly, who's a fighter pilot now, in general
(33:02):
estimating that the first drone he saw was roughly twenty
feet long, flying at more than one hundred miles per
hour at an altitude of roughly three to four thousand feet.
This is not a three hundred dollars target drone. Once again,
you are right, we need different words for different things, right,
because when I read that and I saw the headlining
you just mentioned it, I always picture tiny little drunk
(33:23):
like the one I saw at the high school football
game flying over it so it could get pictures the
other day. That's not it. This is like an airplane. Yeah.
So Kelly, who's a senior commander at the base, got
on a squadron rooftop to see for himself with a
handful of other officers responsible for several of the nation's
most advanced jet fighters, including F twenty two Raptors. Anyway,
(33:45):
for several nights they had been reporting this mysterious breach
of restricted airspace, quoting from the Wall Street General over
a stretch of land that has one of the largest
concentrations in national security facilities in the US. The show
so usually starts forty five minutes to an hour after sunset,
another senior leader told Kelly, and sure enough, they just
(34:06):
crisscrossed the area for quite some time, a dozen or
more over the following nights, and they don't know if
they belong to clever hobbyists or hostile forces. Some suspected
that Russia or China deployed them to test the response
of US forces, which seems absolutely clear to me. But
federal law prohibits the military from shooting down drunes on
(34:28):
your military basis unless they pose an imminent threat. Remember
what Elon was saying last week about most of the
time this stuff is us testing super fancy stuff that
is so secretive that other people in the chain of
command don't even know about it. Is there any chance
we're testing our own ability to pick these things up
(34:48):
over our own national security sites, testing our own vulnerability.
Maybe I'm just trying to steal a man your argument.
I guess I'm just trying to figure out why we're
I'm not very concerned about this. I know, I know,
and having read this, and there are a couple other
quotes about how you know it could be dangerous to
(35:08):
civilians and we don't want to risk blah blah blah.
And to me, it's straight out of Churchill's quote, which
is why I brought it up. It was like the
damn Chinese spy balloon. The idea that you couldn't shoot
a town over rural Montana because it might hit like
one dude out hunting bear or something. That that is
(35:32):
a that is a fat, happy country that thinks it's
it's impregnable. Well, did you read the big New York
Times peace over the weekend about they got that treasured
trove of information about Hamas's planning for the big October
seventh attack? Did you need that to start? I see that. Yeah,
that's a good one. I'll have to talk about that later.
(35:53):
But we know all about their planning in Israel's response
and that sort of thing, and Israel, and Israel was
convinced that a mass wasn't interested in attacking them, and
just so we don't need to worry about this sort
of society. Yeah, we know they're doing drills. Don't worry
about it. Right, Well, that's that's what that's where we are. Well,
the story I didn't get to related. I think scale
(36:14):
of Chinese spying overwhelms Western governments. They're spying all the time, everywhere.
Our point today, be afraid, be very afraid.
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