October 16, 2024 • 35 mins
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- Kamala's media blitz... does it matter?
- Mailbag!
- Jack is done with tech & what it is doing to the world.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jetti
and Kee Army.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just came across this question, what is the birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Law around giant pandas?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two Chinese pandas have a baby on us soils that pandam.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Belong to the United States. It's an anchor panda. Clearly,
we're gonna invade it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We're gonna bring in all its panda relatives, exactly one
at a time, no vetting pracon. You go to the zoo,
will be nothing butt Pandas. You want to see a draft,
good luck you had no kidding, no room for drafts.
Got too many pandas. Live from studio scene, a dimly
lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong You
Getty Communications Compounding Today Wednesday, we're under the tutelage of
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our general manager Bears Panda and Brett. Hello, Kamala, Harris
toe to toe with Brett Bear? Who has more to lose?
That question and an answer coming up? You mean Brett
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or our Kamala? Oh really yeah, clearly Kamala.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But Brett has stuff he could lose too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I look at Twitter. I always say social media, but
Twitter is the only thing to look at. I'm not
really on Facebook or anything else, TikTok, Instagram, any of
those on Twitter. There's a lot of Brett bears in
the tank for Kamala Harris, Fox hates Trump. They're pre
recording it, so you know it's going to be edited,
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that sort of thing. So there's a fair amount of
that floating. Of course, for all I know, those are
all Russian bots. I don't ever checked to see if
they're actual human beings, right, yeah, yeah, the old I
wouldn't put it nearly that strongly that, in fact, those
are all ridiculous things to say, But I would.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Those are ridiculous things to say.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
If you if you've ever unless you have never watched
Brett Baer, then I suppose it'd be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But if you do, that's your impression of him. Seriously.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
On the other hand, there have been a couple of
times that I thought he leaned too far the other way,
whether he was trying so hard to be fair he
over corrected or or something. We can't be the only
conservative minded people in America who thought he and Martha
McCallum utterly booted the debate they moderated.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Uh yeah, when did they get a debate that years ago?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But anyway, I do remember the next day saying, even
Fox asks all questions from the left perspective. Yes, nobody
ever asks it from the citizen, taxpayer worker. I'm not
looking to get stuff, I'm looking to keep what I've got.
They never ask anything from that perspective, or the perspective
of the fetus. And one certain topic. Yeah, if you
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once you become aware of that, you'll notice all questions
are framed from the point of view that the progressive
remedy is the good thing, why would you want to
do it any different as opposed to perhaps the conservative
remedy is the good thing. Why would you want to
give more money to this group or that group or
blah blah blah. Right, And if you're talking about a
conservative issue like enforcement of immigration law, for instance, you
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will go immediately to the kind of hot flaws or
difficulties it might have, like when you have to have
children detained for a while while you process everybody's paperwork,
you go immediately to that. If it's a Democrat priority,
you go to why Republicans are against it. It's ridiculous
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and Sorett Martha wa is a bad as anybody. So
I wonder true true, yeahs a slip at the top.
So well, thank you, Brett. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's recording it right before his show and then airing it,
I assume at the very beginning, and that's at six
eastern three Pacific, and that's that's among the biggest political
moments since she became the candidate. I'd say, yeah, it
is a as one email or characterized that. It is
a boxer who realizes their strategy winning on points is
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not working their way behind. There's two rounds left and
she's got to storm out and knock knock Trump out.
Total change in strategy. Throw the long ball. That's an
odd thing to do in boxing, but I get it.
I had switched sports in my mind, Oh, I see
to one not so swing for the fences. I'd switched
to a sport not so full of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Thank you for that, mister Walls.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I had another point on that, look at you inventing masculinity.
But so, but we were trying to figure this out yesterday.
Have you come up with a reason why why go
on Fox?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Though?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And how does that help you even if you do well?
Is there a theory that there are a bunch of
people who watch Fox that aren't currently interested in her
that might become interested in her. I just find that
hard to believe. Yeah, I am a little perplexed by that.
As we've been discussing whether she's trying to grab anti
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Trump moderate Republicans, which is possible. Maybe they have polling,
the internal polling that indicates people really are upset is
the wrong word, unimpressed by the fact that she will
do no tough interviews or press conferences.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I remember in the wake of what was it that
could be it?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That could be the debate that all sorts of undecided
voters said, yeah, Trump's an asked, but she didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That is that That's almost got to be it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They must have polling that shows people are bothered by
her lack of press conferences and real interviews and that
sort of stuff. And if you want to like wipe
that clean with one shot, going on Fox is probably
the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm often lecturing the poor folks in the audience that
our perception, meaning theirs and ours of America and Americans
is much much, much more accurate than the bizarro funhouse
mirror view of the mainstream media. And yet here I
am not giving people enough credit, I think, for noticing
the things we've noticed and having you know, contempt for
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her for that reason being a chicken. So Brett tweeted
out yesterday in response to some journalist who said the
fact that this is being pre taped is a concern,
said some journalists, I don't know. And Brett Behar's response was,
it will run as live in its entirety. It's taped
because they gave us the time just before my shit,
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we plan to run it uninterrupted and not edited.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I believe that. I believe that too.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Sure, I will say this again just because Mark Alpern
wrote this in his new newsletter yesterday, and he has
got a lot of internal pulling information stuff like that.
But anyway, he said, here's my Spidey sense view, and
he said this yesterday from Trump's interview with Bloomberg today,
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which was yesterday, And we'll have some highlights from to
Harris's appearance on Fox News tomorrow by sundown Wednesday night,
we're going to know who will win the election.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
She's a hard thing to say. Yeah, so, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I think that's more about today's interview. But there's no
way that can't that can't be true. If she does well,
she's still just tied. She's not gonna win necessarily.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
She might, but it's not a loss.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There are moderate Republicans that are wooable through a good performance.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And I'm making my squinty face. I don't I don't
think there many.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I do think she could have a version of Joe
Biden's debate, not so overwhelmingly awful that it's just over,
like the bottom falls out. But maybe you know, a
third of that if she's just you know her. You know,
I'm impressed by the ethics of Americans and their ability
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to work. We have mames, Americans have dreams and aspirations.
Brett and Brett should say, ma'am, this is a Wendy's
that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, my greatest fear, well it's probably death, but my
second greatest fear locked locked in a box and buried underground.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh lord, now you're freaking me out.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Did you ever see that movie with Jeff Bridges and
keep her Sutherland and who is the very hot.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Chick of the nineties who is in all those movies?
A few? Sandral Bullock A few?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, that was all about Jeff Bridges capturing people in
locking them under ground in a box.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, that's my biggest thing. I missed that one,
and I'm sorry. Did you give us the name of
the great movie? Really? Oh, really good movie. He's still
a star power that he's sick. He was a crazy
serial killer. Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Keefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are a couple and they
go to the convenience store. She runs into the community
store to get something while he's pumping gas. She doesn't
come back out. It's like, what the heck. He goes
in there, can't find her, goes back out, wait a while,
sits in the car, goes back in there, he can't
find her. Anyway, Jeff Bridges had abducted her. And it's
a really good movie, The Vanishing. Yeah, well it's a
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scary freaking movie anyway. So back to the biggest fear
being locked in a box underground by Jeff Bridges. Specifically,
barring that eventuality, my greatest fear is kind of a
non event.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why is the big Lebowski Burier alive?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Just just you know, okay, not a disaster, not a triumph,
just okay, that'll be such a letdown.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, that's now. There's been a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's like paying fifty bucks to watch a boxing match
that turns out boring.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
I don't think that will happen. I know, I don't
think so. I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Her track record is disaster if she ever actually has
to talk.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
As long as Brett does his job, and if he doesn't,
I will be disillusioned. There will be a period of
mourning because he's one of my faves.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But yeah, and do we have one more on the
bear theme? I believe we've got more. I know we
have more. We'll have to use them throughout the day.
We have more Bear clips. Well, let's start the show.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
Officially, I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this It
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Speaker 4 (11:02):
A special delivery at the National Zoo. Two giant pandas,
a boy bow Leet and a girl Chingbao, are DC's
newest diplomats. They touched down in a cargo plane dubbed
the Panda Express for an eight thousand mile journey from Chengdu, China.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I've been like crying the past few days, just tears
of joy.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I know Ken's gonna be bring joy to the people
in the district than the new pair will have a
few months to acclimate in private before they slip, slide,
and munch their way right into our hearts.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Nobody involved in that story should be allowed to vote,
including the reporter, now kidding how we do stories like
that without any word whatsoever. China is our sworn enemy
and hell bent on replacing us. Is the world superpower.
They're currently conducting an actual genocide against the Wigars.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I have many many slaves.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
They've tested hypersonic missiles that could deliver a nuclear weapon
to any spot in the United States and up threatened
to do it. The Pandas are cute, though, what the
newest panda diplomat?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, no votes for you, that's crazy. It's nineteen thirty nine.
Hitler has sent over a couple of German beavers and
the crowd is just loving them at the zoo.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I've just cried and cried. I'm so excited about the beavers.
Hitler's beavers are coming. How does meilbag look?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's fine, all right, tom Away.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I just came across the most stunning metastat about the
election that I've seen in recent days.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Way to that later.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
by Antonio. It's from John Swinton, the former managing editor
of the New York Times and the New York Sun
back in the day, and he's referencing Martha Raddits.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So I don't know it's appropriate or not, but here's
the quote.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth,
to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at
the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and
his race for his daily bread.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know it, and I know it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And what folly is this toasting and independent press. We
are the tools and vassals of rich men. Behind the scenes.
We are the jumping jacks. They pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities in our lives are
all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What year did with that? He was having a rough day?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
When did he run The New York Times? I'd have
to look it up and I have had to be
a long time ago. Yeah, and the New York Sun.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What's his name? All Google Swinton? Okay? That interest huh.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, he was having a bad day apparently that day
in a foul mood. Drop us a note mail bag
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Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is really more for Jack. But I've got nothing
to say today except that today was trash day. Jack.
I forgot to put the trash out. Thank you too
late crap.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Wow, I got moved and so I got a new
trash day and I been able to Uh, you gotta adjust.
I need to slow adjustment period, a transitional period, Michael,
you can kill the music. Barry in Thailand says, hey, guys,
just to follow up on the White Dudes for Harris
video or the Manly Men for Harris or whatever it
was called.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon, meat.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Man enough to cook my steak, rare, man enough to
deadlift five hundred and bring it out of my anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Barry's comment is the actors in that video remind me
of a village people.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I heard saw several of those. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Kind of an effeminate gay guy. Your portrayal of a cop.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You're not a cowboy, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The cop was straight, right, he was the only I
do not have all the trivia I know related to
the village people.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Only I could clear that out of my mind. The cowboy,
it didn't look like a cowboy exactly. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The women, I want to talk more about the latest
college a University of Nevada who is refusing to play
San Jose State and volleyball because there's a dude on
San Jose's team and there's a development that I really
want to get to later. But Carlin Washington writes its
gender appropriation or the appropriation of women's sports.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Let's use their own terminology.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So I want to clear this up well because I
don't want to bring it up again. So it is
John Swinton quote that you had, which is really really good.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He died in nineteen o one, so he lived through
the bulk of the eighteen hundreds. And I've often wondered
if if we just grew up in a rare era
where the media actually tried to get to the truth
and be fair and media most of the rest of
the time, if you know much about history, back in
Swinton's day, it was run by powerful people who's the
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reason they had a newspaper was to put forward in
a yes, and that was the whole reason they ran it,
And all their stories were designed to promote a candidate
or a policy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And maybe we're just moving back to that. Maybe that's
the natural state of journalism.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And back in the day it was to the point
of utter deliberate falsehood too. They were just advocating a
case period. I wonder, And I'm curious to learn more
about Swinton. I wonder if he was one of the early,
you know, profits calling for a different sort of journalism.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Judging by that screedy unleashed, I'll bet he was right. Yeah, yeah,
Well he didn't like it that way apparently, Yeah, apparently not.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So we don't have much time, right, Michael got about
thirty seconds or so. Okay, Yeah, we've got a couple
of emails skeptical of Brett Baar in the job he's
going to do.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So I wouldn't mind hearing that at some point. Huh.
It does have a bit of a decisive moment, feel
no doubt. I think so. Yeah, I absolutely think so.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
China has been super aggressive with Terry X's exercises around
Taiwan the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's getting no attention in the last few days of
an election.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, it'd be a good time to make your move
when America's focused on an election in the final weeks.
I've been thinking the very same thing, or the transition period. Yeah,
there's been virtually zero talk about foreign policy. Yeah, even
with Israel announcing they're going to attack a Ran, it's
not getting much attention. Got a lot more on the way.
If you missing our get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
On demand Armstrong and Getty. I don't recall Miss Vanilli.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Millie Vanilli is a couple of dudes who didn't actually sing,
and then it was out. It becaves a giant hit
song and they e won like Video Awards and Grammys
and stuff, and then it turned out they didn't actually
sing them, and it became a scandal, and now everything.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Can be ai and who cares? Right, you might as
well just hire models to around the lip sing pre
fab anyway. I don't know why, who do we care? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
This is back to being a hit again, apparently because
it's featured in the Menendez show that is so popular. Hey,
let's get to the hook here the fake hook for
us get to the cars.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Perfectly nice pop song.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The other thing I find interesting about this is nice
timing by whoever put together the whole Menendez Brothers thing,
in that it's clearly nineties. It's nostalgia time we went.
You know, I'm old enough to remember seventies nostalgia. I
was quite a bit younger when that was happening. But
then eighties nostalgia, which was right in my wheelhouse, and
now nineties nostalgia is everything. Wow, it's like the clothes.
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My son talks about the clothes and the music and everything.
He looks back on that era long before he was
born as just being must have been the coolest time
to be a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh, it was amazing, son, It's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
When you get older to see that now when they
so I still I still I'm I was still young
enough in the nineties that it has some meaning to me,
the nostalgia. But when nostalgia moves into the two thousands,
they'll just be like's just an old guy going to
work at that point, there's I've got no memories for that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, kind of went past. Yeah I was busy, but
that's just the way life worked, right. Yeah, that's kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All that stuff is coming back to Milli Vanilli because
of the Menendez Show, but I think they're all part
of the nineties. Nostalgia is just a big deal right now,
Oh yeah, and will be for like half a decade
or decade or absolutely cuarly two thousands nostalgia, although you know,
pre smartphones probably worth the waxing nostalgic about right, dang it,
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Remember when you used to talk to your friends kids,
don't that. I think about this a lot for some reason,
that I got the brand new sixteen Promax, which I
may never get another new iPhone, transferring everything over.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I've done this.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I've had like seven iPhones, I think, and I've always
been able to do it fairly easy.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This one has been horrible, really horrible, so much harder.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So much like last night trying to get my Apple,
my my credit card on my watch, Like I'm so
paying for things with my watch. But anyway, and they
got this vetting process now where I got to put
my driver's license in there and take a picture and
now the picture's not clear enough in the back and
they want other documentation and everything like that. Whatever, But anyway,
it's just a pain in the ass. I'll never get
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another one again, So I hope this one lasts.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This iPhone. God, dang it, it's driving me nuts.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's that word what is that word you tried to
come up with when you're frustrated by technology and exhausted?
It is the most annoying feeling in the world, that
exhausted by technology feeling. I was laying in bed just
trying to get this to work, following their instructions getting rejected.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Is it just so maddening. There's already an account with
that name. Yet that's because it's fine. I think we
might have gone with exhausted.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I don't know, but it's it's its own unique frustration,
and I think it's because it's not a human or something.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, I had a point it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I was thinking about.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Elon's saying the robots will be the biggest product of
all time, and various people saying AI is going to
be the biggest thing since fire or whatever. The biggest
change in my lifetime has got to be the smartphone
showing up.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Every human being went from never ever.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Walking around staring at something, not paying attention to all
everyone always.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
How could you have a bigger change than that?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know, I know, I was just reading the piece,
got a little attention about well, the tech giants are
trying to claim that the kid's anxiety and depression isn't
from social media really, and even the Wall Street Journal,
which is usually fairly reasonable about this stuff, looked purely
at the interaction with social media and what the kids
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do and how often they do it and how much
they do it, and blah blah blah. They completely whift
on what tech has taken the place of right. It's
as if you, you know, you're talking about the people
who only eat to Snickers bars or something like that,
and you don't ever mention, of course, they're not eating
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meat and vegetables anymore at all, you just focus on
the nutrition of a Snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That is always left out, the assumption that that whatever
our brain was doing as we walked from the building
to my car every day, because I do this, everybody
does it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Or talked and laughed with our friends or whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Or you stood in line at Starbucks waiting for your
coffee right pre smartphone, whatever your brain was doing at
that time probably had some value or did something to us.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It wasn't just nothing. But now our brains never do that.
We never give it a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm a big believer actually in being bored certain chunks
of the day. If I'm in the doctor's waiting room,
I will deliberately not take out my smartphone for like
ten minutes and.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Just look around. Do you bite on a leather strap
while you're doing it? No, I'm missing something. I know
I am. There's a clever meme somewhere, Yeah, exactly. But
to me, I mean, that's huge.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But to me, it's the social interaction that young people
need so desperately that breaks my heart. I think about
it all the time. Maybe I'm to the point of
being neurotic on this topic. But I live in college town,
driving by the bus stop. All the college kids standing there,
staring at their phones, nobody talking to anybody. I gotta
believe if I had a time machine and I went
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back a full fifteen years or whenever it was, they'd
have been talking to each other. Oh yeah, one hundred percent,
including strangers. And this bus is late, you know, get
acquainted that sort of thing, And I've done it.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You would think you're standing around waiting for something like that,
pretty good opportunity to talk to the young lady there
next day and say, you know, you'd think they'd get
more buses so they come more often. Something to start
a conversation. It's hard to do when somebody's staring at
their phone. Yeah, they give you the I'm busy staring
at my phone, look right right. You know it made
the point before Sowha'll be very brief. But the on
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the Twitter machine, they somebody tweeted out videos of kids
in high school in the nineties and they're all talking
and looking at each other and laughing and that sort
of thing. And it was heartbreaking in this way. But anyway,
Millie Vanilli a simpler time mmmm true enough. I wanted
to get this on because we haven't talked about it yet.
This terror attack, it looks like that was thwarted. Can
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we hear that, Michael?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
The Biden administration says Israel has thirty days to improve
the dire humanitarian situation, and gossips.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Is not the right one.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I was I looking at yesterday's boy.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I remember in the nineties we used to play the
right clip seventy seventy Michael.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And now we're learning that the foiled Election Day plot
to kill Americans was part of a global terrorist attack
involving a relative from this man arrested in Oklahoma who
has arrested over the weekend his relative for a plot
to conduct the terrors attack in France. Now earlier this month,
this man, Afghan national, Messir Talhiti, who arrived in the
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US ten days after the withdrawal of US forces was completed.
We've now learned he worked as a security guard for
the CIA in Afghanistan. Is vetting came up during the
State Department briefing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So it is my understanding that he did not enter
the United States on an SIV.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And I'll refer to the Department of Homeland Security to
speak to further questions about his status on the Afghan
national The vetting, no matter how he came over, is
that done by DHS.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I would really defer you to DHS.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
So this is an isis K guy that they caught
somehow that was planning to do something similar to what
happened in Russia, or they went into the theater and
shot up a whole bunch of people. But it was
specifically planned for election day for some reason. Not exactly
sure what you'd be hoping to do in unless isis
K wants Trump to win, because I think if there
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were a terrorist attack on election Day.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I think people would swing right.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I think it is probably just designed to yield maximum
angst and hate, probably disruption, screw up our system, get
us at each other's throats. There's a lot of on
your more right wing news of trying to make this
about the Biden administration not properly vetting people coming into
this country, which is fine, but on the particular issue
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of the Afghanistan thing. If you remember, most people were
screaming and yelling about your stupid, thick bureaucracy of vetting
is keep getting people killed. That should have gotten out
people that helped us out right, and this guy was
working for the CIA, so I would have had the
assumption this is the kind of guy we should let in, right. Yeah,
that's one of the reasons I haven't had any great
(26:34):
desire to go big on that angle of the stories.
It's all a little confusing and muddled, and they're different.
They mentioned SIVs, the special something visa.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's funny. It flit it out of my head. But
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
There's so much bureaucrates going on here, and different organizations
and different vetting processes and disagreement over what this guy
went through, and all I just if it was murky,
I don't have the bandwidth as they say. Well, if
it was a clear example of letting people into the country,
either from Afghanistan or across the Mexican border without vetting them,
then that's a perfectly good issue. But the fact that
he was vetted three times and had worked for the CIA,
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and I don't know what to say about that. I'm
our vetting needs to be better, or some people are
going to slip through no matter how hard you try. Maybe, yeah,
especially when we have millions and millions who really haven't
been vetted.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
At all, or was he.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Fine at the time and got radicalized in the last
couple of years, which happens. Yeah, yep for young men,
that's horrifying though, Oh yeah, thank god it was thwarted.
What would that do to our politics that day when
we got a razor thin election going on and a
terrorist attack in the middle of the day, and there's
a lot of early voting, but there's tens of millions
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of votes that ain't early voting, And what.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was the political flavor of the quadrant that was attacked? Right?
That would explode online and elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh oh, you talk about misinformation too, What would pe
people believe when they were going to vote about that
that turns out not to be true. As we always say,
everything you learn in the first twenty four hours about
these sorts of things tends to be wrong. Oh my god,
there'd be so much information flying around on election day. Wow,
that would have been something. And it wouldn't shock me
at all that the Soviet Union and Russia and China
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aren't the only ones who understand the way to defeat
the United States is to put us at each other's throats.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's working.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You can't beat us from outside, but you can rot
us from the inside by perhaps promoting Marxism in the schools.
I don't know that one just popped to mind. President
She and Putin have to be thinking. I was listening
to Armstrong ingiddy. People can't date in the United States
until they find out what the other person's political party is, right,
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which is true. Now, yeah, I would think, Hey, we're
doing a pretty good job and driving them apart. They
can't even get together and date. They're so obsessed with Trump.
Won't even have sexes with each other. They won't do
these sex to make the no time for sex for babies.
To a busy yelling on Twitter, that's our native Russian
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speaker trying to speak English. Yes, that's what that imperson
give you our line speaking of that sort of thing.
I just came across.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
This is absolutely fabulous. This is getting retweeted. Oh, there's
a super moon tonight, Michael, super moon tonight. We have
an alarm tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Everybody overheighted moons of the modern era. When Sam was
like five, maybe there was some super harvest blue moon
or something, and I woke him up and made him
go outside and look at and he still brings that up.
Remember when we walked out to look at a regular moon.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
He woke me up. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
P T.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Barnum, Relax, it's the moon. It's the same one we
see every night. Came across this online. This is just
just precious and we got to retweet it. Everybody in
the world needs to see this. Some woke anti Israel
activist moron posted this herself of her indignantly ripping down
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Israeli flags and ranning about the genocide. Now I'm not
down with that. My only problem is they're all Greek flags.
It's a Greek restaurant. She hates Hero Sandwiches, proudly posting
this herself online. Well done, he struck a blow for
something or other. You more moron, you moron. There's too
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many morons. That's the biggest problem we got going on.
Right now, I'm gonna hit you with this amazing metastat
right before Katie's headlines that are coming up about the
election that I think you'll find quite fascinating.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Nate Silver is one of the most.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Respected pollsters in America, and he's got his own aggregate
thing where he takes all the polls he respects the
most and averagism together. So this is his average of
the polls that he respects the most. As you all know,
there are seven battleground states that will determine the All
the other states are given, so there's only seven that matter.
Of the seven, six of them are within a point
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in the average and the other one is at one
point six. Holy cow. And I say, you couldn't do
that on purpose if your goal, no, was to do that.
You couldn't spend billions of dollars to tell people how
to answer a question and get an almost exactly fifty
to fifty split like that. No, you could spend trillions
of dollars in employe hundreds of millions of people to
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achieve that result, and you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's amazing. Yeah, wow, there you go. Oh that's gonna
be spicy, I'd say.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Preview discussion of the Kamala Harrison interview with Brett Behar
coming up next hour, including some folks who are a
little skeptical of old Brett. So stay tuned or drop
us a note if you want. Mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, thank you guys,
Washington Post.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Israel strikes Southern bear Root. US demands restraint in elevenon
and aid for Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Our role is to demand restraint everywhere with all of
our allies.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, and we threatened we won't help Israel out with
any more arms unless they get more aid into Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
This is not a threat.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's just a reminder of just mealy mouthed garbage for
the domestic audience.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
CNN Small Business Administration disaster loan program is out of
money after back to back hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I I'm not exactly sure what I think of this story,
because government agencies love claiming they're out of money all
the time when they have.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
The opportunity just to increase their budget.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, and I've heard do you remember when.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The National Parks did that in California and turned out
they were hiding money. Yes, I mean, just so organizations
do that in government.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
From Politico, quote, Pennsylvania is such a mess inside Team
Harris's unusual levels of finger pointing. They're saying that top
Democrats in Pennsylvania are worried that the Kamala Harris team
is being poorly run.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
One of the biggest battleground snake. Where's that story from?
This is from Politico. Okay, that's interesting. Newsweek.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Two thirds of American Americans say no FEMA money for migrants.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Two thirds same number that are for deporting anyone who's
not documented. And if you watch the alphabet networks, you
would come to believe eighty five percent of people believe
that femal money should.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Absolutely go to illegal immigrants. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
From brightbart dot com, Nancy Pelosi has not spoken to
Joe Biden since helping.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To oust him.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Wow, that's not surprising, I guess. But man, they go
way back, I mean way back black and white film.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
This is our meme of the day. It's submitted by
our listener Michael. It's a picture of a library book
return drop box that you see on the outside and
underneath it there's a that says drop box is broken.
Please visit Kathy inside to return your books. And then
just below that note, there's another note posted that says update,
dropbox is not broken. Kathy is just super lonely and
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wants to talk to you about her nine ferrets.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And finally, from the Babylon b.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
NASA is baffled at how Elon Musk managed to succeed
without as many gay, non binary, Muslim dwarfs of color.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
As they have. That's what I've been complaining about NASA
for years.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I was saying that do you have any other goals
other than having the first this or that go into space,
because if you do, you're not mentioning.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It on the news.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I have heard from multiple high ranking military officers that
the military has become a virtue signaling social experiment ab
and frequently there are major moves done that have nothing
to do with readiness and in fact hurt it in
the name of, you know, looking modern. I hope nothing
(35:13):
changes until you're attacked Houston Church.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I hope it's not that bad, and I don't look
forward to finding out how bad it is. Dang it.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Seven battleground states. Six are within a point in all
the averages. One's one point six. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong, and Jetti
and Kee Army.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I just came across this question, what is the birthright citizenship.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Law around giant pandas?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Two Chinese pandas have a baby on us soils that pandam.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Belong to the United States. It's an anchor panda. Clearly,
we're gonna invade it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We're gonna bring in all its panda relatives, exactly one
at a time, no vetting pracon. You go to the zoo,
will be nothing butt Pandas. You want to see a draft,
good luck you had no kidding, no room for drafts.
Got too many pandas. Live from studio scene, a dimly
lit room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong You
Getty Communications Compounding Today Wednesday, we're under the tutelage of
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our general manager Bears Panda and Brett. Hello, Kamala, Harris
toe to toe with Brett Bear? Who has more to lose?
That question and an answer coming up? You mean Brett
(01:27):
or our Kamala? Oh really yeah, clearly Kamala.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
But Brett has stuff he could lose too.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
I look at Twitter. I always say social media, but
Twitter is the only thing to look at. I'm not
really on Facebook or anything else, TikTok, Instagram, any of
those on Twitter. There's a lot of Brett bears in
the tank for Kamala Harris, Fox hates Trump. They're pre
recording it, so you know it's going to be edited,
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that sort of thing. So there's a fair amount of
that floating. Of course, for all I know, those are
all Russian bots. I don't ever checked to see if
they're actual human beings, right, yeah, yeah, the old I
wouldn't put it nearly that strongly that, in fact, those
are all ridiculous things to say, But I would.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Those are ridiculous things to say.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
If you if you've ever unless you have never watched
Brett Baer, then I suppose it'd be okay.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
But if you do, that's your impression of him. Seriously.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
On the other hand, there have been a couple of
times that I thought he leaned too far the other way,
whether he was trying so hard to be fair he
over corrected or or something. We can't be the only
conservative minded people in America who thought he and Martha
McCallum utterly booted the debate they moderated.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Uh yeah, when did they get a debate that years ago?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
But anyway, I do remember the next day saying, even
Fox asks all questions from the left perspective. Yes, nobody
ever asks it from the citizen, taxpayer worker. I'm not
looking to get stuff, I'm looking to keep what I've got.
They never ask anything from that perspective, or the perspective
of the fetus. And one certain topic. Yeah, if you
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once you become aware of that, you'll notice all questions
are framed from the point of view that the progressive
remedy is the good thing, why would you want to
do it any different as opposed to perhaps the conservative
remedy is the good thing. Why would you want to
give more money to this group or that group or
blah blah blah. Right, And if you're talking about a
conservative issue like enforcement of immigration law, for instance, you
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will go immediately to the kind of hot flaws or
difficulties it might have, like when you have to have
children detained for a while while you process everybody's paperwork,
you go immediately to that. If it's a Democrat priority,
you go to why Republicans are against it. It's ridiculous
(03:58):
and Sorett Martha wa is a bad as anybody. So
I wonder true true, yeahs a slip at the top.
So well, thank you, Brett. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
It.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
He's recording it right before his show and then airing it,
I assume at the very beginning, and that's at six
eastern three Pacific, and that's that's among the biggest political
moments since she became the candidate. I'd say, yeah, it
is a as one email or characterized that. It is
a boxer who realizes their strategy winning on points is
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not working their way behind. There's two rounds left and
she's got to storm out and knock knock Trump out.
Total change in strategy. Throw the long ball. That's an
odd thing to do in boxing, but I get it.
I had switched sports in my mind, Oh, I see
to one not so swing for the fences. I'd switched
to a sport not so full of toxic masculinity.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Thank you for that, mister Walls.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I had another point on that, look at you inventing masculinity.
But so, but we were trying to figure this out yesterday.
Have you come up with a reason why why go
on Fox?
Speaker 1 (05:07):
Though?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And how does that help you even if you do well?
Is there a theory that there are a bunch of
people who watch Fox that aren't currently interested in her
that might become interested in her. I just find that
hard to believe. Yeah, I am a little perplexed by that.
As we've been discussing whether she's trying to grab anti
(05:28):
Trump moderate Republicans, which is possible. Maybe they have polling,
the internal polling that indicates people really are upset is
the wrong word, unimpressed by the fact that she will
do no tough interviews or press conferences.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
I remember in the wake of what was it that
could be it?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
That could be the debate that all sorts of undecided
voters said, yeah, Trump's an asked, but she didn't say anything.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
That is that That's almost got to be it.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
They must have polling that shows people are bothered by
her lack of press conferences and real interviews and that
sort of stuff. And if you want to like wipe
that clean with one shot, going on Fox is probably
the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
I'm often lecturing the poor folks in the audience that
our perception, meaning theirs and ours of America and Americans
is much much, much more accurate than the bizarro funhouse
mirror view of the mainstream media. And yet here I
am not giving people enough credit, I think, for noticing
the things we've noticed and having you know, contempt for
(06:38):
her for that reason being a chicken. So Brett tweeted
out yesterday in response to some journalist who said the
fact that this is being pre taped is a concern,
said some journalists, I don't know. And Brett Behar's response was,
it will run as live in its entirety. It's taped
because they gave us the time just before my shit,
(07:00):
we plan to run it uninterrupted and not edited.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I believe that. I believe that too.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Sure, I will say this again just because Mark Alpern
wrote this in his new newsletter yesterday, and he has
got a lot of internal pulling information stuff like that.
But anyway, he said, here's my Spidey sense view, and
he said this yesterday from Trump's interview with Bloomberg today,
(07:24):
which was yesterday, And we'll have some highlights from to
Harris's appearance on Fox News tomorrow by sundown Wednesday night,
we're going to know who will win the election.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
She's a hard thing to say. Yeah, so, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I think that's more about today's interview. But there's no
way that can't that can't be true. If she does well,
she's still just tied. She's not gonna win necessarily.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
She might, but it's not a loss.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
There are moderate Republicans that are wooable through a good performance.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
And I'm making my squinty face. I don't I don't
think there many.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I do think she could have a version of Joe
Biden's debate, not so overwhelmingly awful that it's just over,
like the bottom falls out. But maybe you know, a
third of that if she's just you know her. You know,
I'm impressed by the ethics of Americans and their ability
(08:21):
to work. We have mames, Americans have dreams and aspirations.
Brett and Brett should say, ma'am, this is a Wendy's
that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Boy.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, my greatest fear, well it's probably death, but my
second greatest fear locked locked in a box and buried underground.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Oh lord, now you're freaking me out.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Did you ever see that movie with Jeff Bridges and
keep her Sutherland and who is the very hot.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Chick of the nineties who is in all those movies?
A few? Sandral Bullock A few?
Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah, that was all about Jeff Bridges capturing people in
locking them under ground in a box.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
All right, that's my biggest thing. I missed that one,
and I'm sorry. Did you give us the name of
the great movie? Really? Oh, really good movie. He's still
a star power that he's sick. He was a crazy
serial killer. Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Keefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are a couple and they
go to the convenience store. She runs into the community
store to get something while he's pumping gas. She doesn't
come back out. It's like, what the heck. He goes
in there, can't find her, goes back out, wait a while,
sits in the car, goes back in there, he can't
find her. Anyway, Jeff Bridges had abducted her. And it's
a really good movie, The Vanishing. Yeah, well it's a
(09:35):
scary freaking movie anyway. So back to the biggest fear
being locked in a box underground by Jeff Bridges. Specifically,
barring that eventuality, my greatest fear is kind of a
non event.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Why is the big Lebowski Burier alive?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Just just you know, okay, not a disaster, not a triumph,
just okay, that'll be such a letdown.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Yeah, that's now. There's been a lot of that.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
It's like paying fifty bucks to watch a boxing match
that turns out boring.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
I don't think that will happen. I know, I don't
think so. I don't.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Her track record is disaster if she ever actually has
to talk.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
As long as Brett does his job, and if he doesn't,
I will be disillusioned. There will be a period of
mourning because he's one of my faves.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
But yeah, and do we have one more on the
bear theme? I believe we've got more. I know we
have more. We'll have to use them throughout the day.
We have more Bear clips. Well, let's start the show.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
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is a Wednesday, October sixteenth, year, twenty twenty four. Life
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Speaker 4 (11:02):
A special delivery at the National Zoo. Two giant pandas,
a boy bow Leet and a girl Chingbao, are DC's
newest diplomats. They touched down in a cargo plane dubbed
the Panda Express for an eight thousand mile journey from Chengdu, China.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
I've been like crying the past few days, just tears
of joy.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
I know Ken's gonna be bring joy to the people
in the district than the new pair will have a
few months to acclimate in private before they slip, slide,
and munch their way right into our hearts.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Nobody involved in that story should be allowed to vote,
including the reporter, now kidding how we do stories like
that without any word whatsoever. China is our sworn enemy
and hell bent on replacing us. Is the world superpower.
They're currently conducting an actual genocide against the Wigars.
Speaker 1 (11:54):
I have many many slaves.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
They've tested hypersonic missiles that could deliver a nuclear weapon
to any spot in the United States and up threatened
to do it. The Pandas are cute, though, what the
newest panda diplomat?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
What the hell is that?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yeah, no votes for you, that's crazy. It's nineteen thirty nine.
Hitler has sent over a couple of German beavers and
the crowd is just loving them at the zoo.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
I've just cried and cried. I'm so excited about the beavers.
Hitler's beavers are coming. How does meilbag look?
Speaker 1 (12:30):
It's fine, all right, tom Away.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I just came across the most stunning metastat about the
election that I've seen in recent days.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Way to that later.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day, sent along
by Antonio. It's from John Swinton, the former managing editor
of the New York Times and the New York Sun
back in the day, and he's referencing Martha Raddits.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
So I don't know it's appropriate or not, but here's
the quote.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth,
to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at
the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and
his race for his daily bread.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
You know it, and I know it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
And what folly is this toasting and independent press. We
are the tools and vassals of rich men. Behind the scenes.
We are the jumping jacks. They pull the strings and
we dance. Our talents, our possibilities in our lives are
all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
What year did with that? He was having a rough day?
Speaker 2 (13:30):
When did he run The New York Times? I'd have
to look it up and I have had to be
a long time ago. Yeah, and the New York Sun.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
What's his name? All Google Swinton? Okay? That interest huh.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Yeah, he was having a bad day apparently that day
in a foul mood. Drop us a note mail bag
at armstrong e geddy dot com. This is from invaluable
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Speaker 1 (13:55):
This is really more for Jack. But I've got nothing
to say today except that today was trash day. Jack.
I forgot to put the trash out. Thank you too
late crap.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Wow, I got moved and so I got a new
trash day and I been able to Uh, you gotta adjust.
I need to slow adjustment period, a transitional period, Michael,
you can kill the music. Barry in Thailand says, hey, guys,
just to follow up on the White Dudes for Harris
video or the Manly Men for Harris or whatever it
was called.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
I'm man enough to enjoy a barrel proof bourbon, meat.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Man enough to cook my steak, rare, man enough to
deadlift five hundred and bring it out of my anyway.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Barry's comment is the actors in that video remind me
of a village people.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Yeah, I heard saw several of those. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Kind of an effeminate gay guy. Your portrayal of a cop.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
You're not a cowboy, that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
The cop was straight, right, he was the only I
do not have all the trivia I know related to
the village people.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Only I could clear that out of my mind. The cowboy,
it didn't look like a cowboy exactly. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
The women, I want to talk more about the latest
college a University of Nevada who is refusing to play
San Jose State and volleyball because there's a dude on
San Jose's team and there's a development that I really
want to get to later. But Carlin Washington writes its
gender appropriation or the appropriation of women's sports.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Let's use their own terminology.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So I want to clear this up well because I
don't want to bring it up again. So it is
John Swinton quote that you had, which is really really good.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He died in nineteen o one, so he lived through
the bulk of the eighteen hundreds. And I've often wondered
if if we just grew up in a rare era
where the media actually tried to get to the truth
and be fair and media most of the rest of
the time, if you know much about history, back in
Swinton's day, it was run by powerful people who's the
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reason they had a newspaper was to put forward in
a yes, and that was the whole reason they ran it,
And all their stories were designed to promote a candidate
or a policy or whatever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
And maybe we're just moving back to that. Maybe that's
the natural state of journalism.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
And back in the day it was to the point
of utter deliberate falsehood too. They were just advocating a
case period. I wonder, And I'm curious to learn more
about Swinton. I wonder if he was one of the early,
you know, profits calling for a different sort of journalism.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Judging by that screedy unleashed, I'll bet he was right. Yeah, yeah,
Well he didn't like it that way apparently, Yeah, apparently not.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
So we don't have much time, right, Michael got about
thirty seconds or so. Okay, Yeah, we've got a couple
of emails skeptical of Brett Baar in the job he's
going to do.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
So I wouldn't mind hearing that at some point. Huh.
It does have a bit of a decisive moment, feel
no doubt. I think so. Yeah, I absolutely think so.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
China has been super aggressive with Terry X's exercises around
Taiwan the last couple of days.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
It's getting no attention in the last few days of
an election.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Well, it'd be a good time to make your move
when America's focused on an election in the final weeks.
I've been thinking the very same thing, or the transition period. Yeah,
there's been virtually zero talk about foreign policy. Yeah, even
with Israel announcing they're going to attack a Ran, it's
not getting much attention. Got a lot more on the way.
If you missing our get the podcast Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
On demand Armstrong and Getty. I don't recall Miss Vanilli.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Millie Vanilli is a couple of dudes who didn't actually sing,
and then it was out. It becaves a giant hit
song and they e won like Video Awards and Grammys
and stuff, and then it turned out they didn't actually
sing them, and it became a scandal, and now everything.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
Can be ai and who cares? Right, you might as
well just hire models to around the lip sing pre
fab anyway. I don't know why, who do we care? Anyway?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
This is back to being a hit again, apparently because
it's featured in the Menendez show that is so popular. Hey,
let's get to the hook here the fake hook for
us get to the cars.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Perfectly nice pop song.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
The other thing I find interesting about this is nice
timing by whoever put together the whole Menendez Brothers thing,
in that it's clearly nineties. It's nostalgia time we went.
You know, I'm old enough to remember seventies nostalgia. I
was quite a bit younger when that was happening. But
then eighties nostalgia, which was right in my wheelhouse, and
now nineties nostalgia is everything. Wow, it's like the clothes.
(18:33):
My son talks about the clothes and the music and everything.
He looks back on that era long before he was
born as just being must have been the coolest time
to be a lot.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh, it was amazing, son, It's funny. It's funny.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
When you get older to see that now when they
so I still I still I'm I was still young
enough in the nineties that it has some meaning to me,
the nostalgia. But when nostalgia moves into the two thousands,
they'll just be like's just an old guy going to
work at that point, there's I've got no memories for that.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, kind of went past. Yeah I was busy, but
that's just the way life worked, right. Yeah, that's kind
of funny.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
All that stuff is coming back to Milli Vanilli because
of the Menendez Show, but I think they're all part
of the nineties. Nostalgia is just a big deal right now,
Oh yeah, and will be for like half a decade
or decade or absolutely cuarly two thousands nostalgia, although you know,
pre smartphones probably worth the waxing nostalgic about right, dang it,
(19:29):
Remember when you used to talk to your friends kids,
don't that. I think about this a lot for some reason,
that I got the brand new sixteen Promax, which I
may never get another new iPhone, transferring everything over.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
I've done this.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
I've had like seven iPhones, I think, and I've always
been able to do it fairly easy.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
This one has been horrible, really horrible, so much harder.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So much like last night trying to get my Apple,
my my credit card on my watch, Like I'm so
paying for things with my watch. But anyway, and they
got this vetting process now where I got to put
my driver's license in there and take a picture and
now the picture's not clear enough in the back and
they want other documentation and everything like that. Whatever, But anyway,
it's just a pain in the ass. I'll never get
(20:13):
another one again, So I hope this one lasts.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
This iPhone. God, dang it, it's driving me nuts.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
It's that word what is that word you tried to
come up with when you're frustrated by technology and exhausted?
It is the most annoying feeling in the world, that
exhausted by technology feeling. I was laying in bed just
trying to get this to work, following their instructions getting rejected.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Is it just so maddening. There's already an account with
that name. Yet that's because it's fine. I think we
might have gone with exhausted.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I don't know, but it's it's its own unique frustration,
and I think it's because it's not a human or something.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Yeah, yeah, anyway, I had a point it.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I was thinking about.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
Elon's saying the robots will be the biggest product of
all time, and various people saying AI is going to
be the biggest thing since fire or whatever. The biggest
change in my lifetime has got to be the smartphone
showing up.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Every human being went from never ever.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
Walking around staring at something, not paying attention to all
everyone always.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
How could you have a bigger change than that?
Speaker 2 (21:20):
I know, I know, I was just reading the piece,
got a little attention about well, the tech giants are
trying to claim that the kid's anxiety and depression isn't
from social media really, and even the Wall Street Journal,
which is usually fairly reasonable about this stuff, looked purely
at the interaction with social media and what the kids
(21:41):
do and how often they do it and how much
they do it, and blah blah blah. They completely whift
on what tech has taken the place of right. It's
as if you, you know, you're talking about the people
who only eat to Snickers bars or something like that,
and you don't ever mention, of course, they're not eating
(22:02):
meat and vegetables anymore at all, you just focus on
the nutrition of a Snickers bar.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah, you're right, You're right.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
That is always left out, the assumption that that whatever
our brain was doing as we walked from the building
to my car every day, because I do this, everybody
does it.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
Or talked and laughed with our friends or whatever.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Or you stood in line at Starbucks waiting for your
coffee right pre smartphone, whatever your brain was doing at
that time probably had some value or did something to us.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
It wasn't just nothing. But now our brains never do that.
We never give it a chance to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
I'm a big believer actually in being bored certain chunks
of the day. If I'm in the doctor's waiting room,
I will deliberately not take out my smartphone for like
ten minutes and.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Just look around. Do you bite on a leather strap
while you're doing it? No, I'm missing something. I know
I am. There's a clever meme somewhere, Yeah, exactly. But
to me, I mean, that's huge.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
But to me, it's the social interaction that young people
need so desperately that breaks my heart. I think about
it all the time. Maybe I'm to the point of
being neurotic on this topic. But I live in college town,
driving by the bus stop. All the college kids standing there,
staring at their phones, nobody talking to anybody. I gotta
believe if I had a time machine and I went
(23:16):
back a full fifteen years or whenever it was, they'd
have been talking to each other. Oh yeah, one hundred percent,
including strangers. And this bus is late, you know, get
acquainted that sort of thing, And I've done it.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
It's not easy.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
You would think you're standing around waiting for something like that,
pretty good opportunity to talk to the young lady there
next day and say, you know, you'd think they'd get
more buses so they come more often. Something to start
a conversation. It's hard to do when somebody's staring at
their phone. Yeah, they give you the I'm busy staring
at my phone, look right right. You know it made
the point before Sowha'll be very brief. But the on
(23:53):
the Twitter machine, they somebody tweeted out videos of kids
in high school in the nineties and they're all talking
and looking at each other and laughing and that sort
of thing. And it was heartbreaking in this way. But anyway,
Millie Vanilli a simpler time mmmm true enough. I wanted
to get this on because we haven't talked about it yet.
This terror attack, it looks like that was thwarted. Can
(24:17):
we hear that, Michael?
Speaker 7 (24:19):
The Biden administration says Israel has thirty days to improve
the dire humanitarian situation, and gossips.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Is not the right one.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
I was I looking at yesterday's boy.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
I remember in the nineties we used to play the
right clip seventy seventy Michael.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
And now we're learning that the foiled Election Day plot
to kill Americans was part of a global terrorist attack
involving a relative from this man arrested in Oklahoma who
has arrested over the weekend his relative for a plot
to conduct the terrors attack in France. Now earlier this month,
this man, Afghan national, Messir Talhiti, who arrived in the
(24:56):
US ten days after the withdrawal of US forces was completed.
We've now learned he worked as a security guard for
the CIA in Afghanistan. Is vetting came up during the
State Department briefing yesterday.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
So it is my understanding that he did not enter
the United States on an SIV.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And I'll refer to the Department of Homeland Security to
speak to further questions about his status on the Afghan
national The vetting, no matter how he came over, is
that done by DHS.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I would really defer you to DHS.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
So this is an isis K guy that they caught
somehow that was planning to do something similar to what
happened in Russia, or they went into the theater and
shot up a whole bunch of people. But it was
specifically planned for election day for some reason. Not exactly
sure what you'd be hoping to do in unless isis
K wants Trump to win, because I think if there
(25:45):
were a terrorist attack on election Day.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I think people would swing right.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
I think it is probably just designed to yield maximum
angst and hate, probably disruption, screw up our system, get
us at each other's throats. There's a lot of on
your more right wing news of trying to make this
about the Biden administration not properly vetting people coming into
this country, which is fine, but on the particular issue
(26:12):
of the Afghanistan thing. If you remember, most people were
screaming and yelling about your stupid, thick bureaucracy of vetting
is keep getting people killed. That should have gotten out
people that helped us out right, and this guy was
working for the CIA, so I would have had the
assumption this is the kind of guy we should let in, right. Yeah,
that's one of the reasons I haven't had any great
(26:34):
desire to go big on that angle of the stories.
It's all a little confusing and muddled, and they're different.
They mentioned SIVs, the special something visa.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
That's funny. It flit it out of my head. But
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
There's so much bureaucrates going on here, and different organizations
and different vetting processes and disagreement over what this guy
went through, and all I just if it was murky,
I don't have the bandwidth as they say. Well, if
it was a clear example of letting people into the country,
either from Afghanistan or across the Mexican border without vetting them,
then that's a perfectly good issue. But the fact that
he was vetted three times and had worked for the CIA,
(27:10):
and I don't know what to say about that. I'm
our vetting needs to be better, or some people are
going to slip through no matter how hard you try. Maybe, yeah,
especially when we have millions and millions who really haven't
been vetted.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
At all, or was he.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Fine at the time and got radicalized in the last
couple of years, which happens. Yeah, yep for young men,
that's horrifying though, Oh yeah, thank god it was thwarted.
What would that do to our politics that day when
we got a razor thin election going on and a
terrorist attack in the middle of the day, and there's
a lot of early voting, but there's tens of millions
(27:45):
of votes that ain't early voting, And what.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Was the political flavor of the quadrant that was attacked? Right?
That would explode online and elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Oh oh, you talk about misinformation too, What would pe
people believe when they were going to vote about that
that turns out not to be true. As we always say,
everything you learn in the first twenty four hours about
these sorts of things tends to be wrong. Oh my god,
there'd be so much information flying around on election day. Wow,
that would have been something. And it wouldn't shock me
at all that the Soviet Union and Russia and China
(28:19):
aren't the only ones who understand the way to defeat
the United States is to put us at each other's throats.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
It's working.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
You can't beat us from outside, but you can rot
us from the inside by perhaps promoting Marxism in the schools.
I don't know that one just popped to mind. President
She and Putin have to be thinking. I was listening
to Armstrong ingiddy. People can't date in the United States
until they find out what the other person's political party is, right,
(28:45):
which is true. Now, yeah, I would think, Hey, we're
doing a pretty good job and driving them apart. They
can't even get together and date. They're so obsessed with Trump.
Won't even have sexes with each other. They won't do
these sex to make the no time for sex for babies.
To a busy yelling on Twitter, that's our native Russian
(29:09):
speaker trying to speak English. Yes, that's what that imperson
give you our line speaking of that sort of thing.
I just came across.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
This is absolutely fabulous. This is getting retweeted. Oh, there's
a super moon tonight, Michael, super moon tonight. We have
an alarm tonight.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Everybody overheighted moons of the modern era. When Sam was
like five, maybe there was some super harvest blue moon
or something, and I woke him up and made him
go outside and look at and he still brings that up.
Remember when we walked out to look at a regular moon.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
He woke me up. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
P T.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Barnum, Relax, it's the moon. It's the same one we
see every night. Came across this online. This is just
just precious and we got to retweet it. Everybody in
the world needs to see this. Some woke anti Israel
activist moron posted this herself of her indignantly ripping down
(30:08):
Israeli flags and ranning about the genocide. Now I'm not
down with that. My only problem is they're all Greek flags.
It's a Greek restaurant. She hates Hero Sandwiches, proudly posting
this herself online. Well done, he struck a blow for
something or other. You more moron, you moron. There's too
(30:28):
many morons. That's the biggest problem we got going on.
Right now, I'm gonna hit you with this amazing metastat
right before Katie's headlines that are coming up about the
election that I think you'll find quite fascinating.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
So.
Speaker 1 (30:44):
Nate Silver is one of the most.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
Respected pollsters in America, and he's got his own aggregate
thing where he takes all the polls he respects the
most and averagism together. So this is his average of
the polls that he respects the most. As you all know,
there are seven battleground states that will determine the All
the other states are given, so there's only seven that matter.
Of the seven, six of them are within a point
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in the average and the other one is at one
point six. Holy cow. And I say, you couldn't do
that on purpose if your goal, no, was to do that.
You couldn't spend billions of dollars to tell people how
to answer a question and get an almost exactly fifty
to fifty split like that. No, you could spend trillions
of dollars in employe hundreds of millions of people to
(31:29):
achieve that result, and you couldn't do it.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
It's amazing. Yeah, wow, there you go. Oh that's gonna
be spicy, I'd say.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Preview discussion of the Kamala Harrison interview with Brett Behar
coming up next hour, including some folks who are a
little skeptical of old Brett. So stay tuned or drop
us a note if you want. Mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com. Let's figure out who's reporting what
it's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, thank you guys,
Washington Post.
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Israel strikes Southern bear Root. US demands restraint in elevenon
and aid for Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
Our role is to demand restraint everywhere with all of
our allies.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
Yeah, and we threatened we won't help Israel out with
any more arms unless they get more aid into Gaza.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
This is not a threat.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
It's just a reminder of just mealy mouthed garbage for
the domestic audience.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
CNN Small Business Administration disaster loan program is out of
money after back to back hurricanes.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
I I'm not exactly sure what I think of this story,
because government agencies love claiming they're out of money all
the time when they have.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
The opportunity just to increase their budget.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Yeah, and I've heard do you remember when.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
The National Parks did that in California and turned out
they were hiding money. Yes, I mean, just so organizations
do that in government.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (32:49):
From Politico, quote, Pennsylvania is such a mess inside Team
Harris's unusual levels of finger pointing. They're saying that top
Democrats in Pennsylvania are worried that the Kamala Harris team
is being poorly run.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
One of the biggest battleground snake. Where's that story from?
This is from Politico. Okay, that's interesting. Newsweek.
Speaker 7 (33:13):
Two thirds of American Americans say no FEMA money for migrants.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Two thirds same number that are for deporting anyone who's
not documented. And if you watch the alphabet networks, you
would come to believe eighty five percent of people believe
that femal money should.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Absolutely go to illegal immigrants. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (33:32):
From brightbart dot com, Nancy Pelosi has not spoken to
Joe Biden since helping.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
To oust him.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Wow, that's not surprising, I guess. But man, they go
way back, I mean way back black and white film.
Speaker 7 (33:50):
This is our meme of the day. It's submitted by
our listener Michael. It's a picture of a library book
return drop box that you see on the outside and
underneath it there's a that says drop box is broken.
Please visit Kathy inside to return your books. And then
just below that note, there's another note posted that says update,
dropbox is not broken. Kathy is just super lonely and
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wants to talk to you about her nine ferrets.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And finally, from the Babylon b.
Speaker 7 (34:26):
NASA is baffled at how Elon Musk managed to succeed
without as many gay, non binary, Muslim dwarfs of color.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
As they have. That's what I've been complaining about NASA
for years.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
I was saying that do you have any other goals
other than having the first this or that go into space,
because if you do, you're not mentioning.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
It on the news.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
I have heard from multiple high ranking military officers that
the military has become a virtue signaling social experiment ab
and frequently there are major moves done that have nothing
to do with readiness and in fact hurt it in
the name of, you know, looking modern. I hope nothing
(35:13):
changes until you're attacked Houston Church.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
I hope it's not that bad, and I don't look
forward to finding out how bad it is. Dang it.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Seven battleground states. Six are within a point in all
the averages. One's one point six. That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
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