October 25, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- C.O.W. Clips of the Week & Harris is giving undecided voters absolutely nothing
- Hey...Cool!
- Some polling & Hillary Clintons ridiculous comments
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and getty and he I'm strong and yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So a few more editors have quit at the LA
Times over the refusal of the owner to allow them
to endorse Kamala Harris, or to have an endorsement at all,
be more fair way to say it, but they wanted
to endorse Kamala Harris and their belief is at the
LA Times, this is an important election. We're dealing with
the fascists here. This is a different situation. We have
to listen to me the last election over lifetimes and
(00:42):
the owner had this crazy idea at the LA Times.
How about you list to all the positive and negatives
of both candidates from their terms and then let people decide.
And the editors are staunchly against that. Talking about Hitler
here it's Hitler versus some mother Teresa.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So the head person quit and now more people have quit.
But I got I got more on that. The national
mental health crisis that is coming our way, I don't
think can be overstated.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Because Trump is gonna win more on that in a minute.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But first, let's take a fond look back at the
week that was. It's the Friday tradition cow clips of
the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So here it goes. I'm kind of a nerd, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Given like a gift.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Those whips of the Vice president.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Kamala Harris is calling Donald Trump increasingly unhinged.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Increasingly unhinged and unstable. Do you think Donald Trump is
a fascist?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I do.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals, And Trump said, yeah, yeah,
Hitler's generals.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Leo Nazis fascists in America.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
People, so follow this fascist pig. Then, I don't know
what else to say.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Spring time for hip Lo and Germany.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Donald Trump's dissension into madness. I had a lot of
fun here, everybody.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
No tax on tips, no tax on over time, no
tax on social Security benefits.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But the way Trump is talking about cutting social Security
is crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Meanwhile, here's Harris leading a rally that apparently came with
free vodka.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
What I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
About renewed and intense push to possibly get two of
the nation's most infamous convicted killers out of prison.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We're gonna recommend to the court that the life without
the possibility of parole be removed.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
There will be eligible for parole immediately.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Is the talk of the baseball world in English and
Spanish and any other language that's close at hand. Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The Dodgers have captured the national legue pennant and they're
headed to the World Series.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Can I go back? Can I go back?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Please? Prosy I got.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
How is that? Even for Hospitalian? That didn't even make
any sense?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Topsy Turvy whirlwind, So h could you dig up that
Kimberly Stressll thing that you had earlier that I said
was such a great quote inside, because I really thought
it was kind of fixing with war about the talk
about here I, as I've been mentioning, I take in
both of Mark Halprin's zoom two way calls. It's a
(04:11):
form called two way, but it's like a zoom every
day where he has all these different insiders, strategists, Republican
and democraties really really trying to be down the middle, nonpartisan,
well not even down the middle, just report what all
the smart people are telling him, and then you know,
do what you want with the information.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But I find it fascinating.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But I will tell you this, the Democrats on that
show are they seem to be just resigned to the
fact that unless there's some craziness going on in all
the polls that we don't see, Trump is going to win.
It's just it's hard to look at it any other way.
(04:51):
Right now, I'm looking at the Hills ride up today.
The Hill No Right linging publication, their interpretation of the
New York Times Siena pole that came out today bad
news for Harris campaign because it's tied forty eight to
forty eight. And more than that, Trump's got his highest
approval in that poll, just like the Wall Street Journal
poll yesterday that he's ever had. He's more popular than
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he's ever been. It's just it's shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, I'm really persuaded by the number of congress people
and senators or candidates for those offices who have hastily
produced ads. These are Democrats saying I've worked across the
aisle with Trump and I'll do it again. I'm very moderate,
He's okay with me, so it's okay to vote for
him and me too. They're not doing that accidentally.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well, the guy that is on the Mark Alprin Show
to boost to speak for the Democrats, said democrats he
was talking to after town hall performance on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
We played the highlights yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That was the last straw for a lot of them
of having any hope that she could turn this around,
because there she was on the CNN town hall being
asked for the fifteenth time, you know, how would you
be different than Joe Biden? Well, I'm not Joe Biden,
you know. Okay, that joke is not landing the way
you think. And people have been looking for an answer
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and they still don't get one, and so people are
just Democrats are just given up on like the high
level strategists are given up on her being a good campaigner,
like why would it change at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Which brings us quite beautifully to the Kimstrecel piece that
we referenced unless you have something else, you got more
about and it is okay fine. Kim is making the
point that essentially Kamala's repraising Hillary Clinton's campaign basketed aplorables,
and she goes through in very amusing fashion a recent
rally where Kamala and Liz Cheney ran through the list
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of what's wrong with Trump, depravity, misogyny, vicious, vitriolic, erratic, unstable, fascist, hitler, venom, dangerous, cruel,
on and on and on and on to the point
of hilarity, near hilarity. But then she gets to her
point that we've all heard this thousands of times, every
voter has for going on a decade. And I love
(07:05):
this sentence. This is so familiar by now that the
definition of an undecided voter is someone who is aware
of mister Trump's problems yet unpersuaded to vote for his opponent.
I thought that was beautifully simple. And then she goes
on to say, miss Harris is giving them nada. Undecided
participants in this week's CNN town hall pleaded with her
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for details. She responded with the barest of platitudes, and
Kim goes through half a dozen examples of questions and
answers of undecided voters begging for something to hang on to,
and Kamala responding with pablem with nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That seems so incredibly obvious that it's hard to imagine
why the really top notch strategist Kamala Harris has working
for have gone the direction they've gone. Everybody knows this argument,
and it clearly didn't work on these people. So you
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got to come up with some different and as turn
unless it's turnout, because turnout can change everything.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
As we head for the first game of the World Series,
or as I'm calling it, the Payrolls.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Series, Hey, now it's the rich kid richer.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean, if a sports fan is sitting there yelling
at their TV asking of the picture, throw the breaking ball,
why doesn't he throw the breaking ball?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You know why? Probably because he's got a bad breaking ball.
He's not good at it. He would go to it
if he could.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why isn't Kamala wowing us all with the specifics of
her transcendent policies?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well answer, you know, at home or in your car
wherever you happen to be listening.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh, I loved this conversation they had on the call
yesterday with all the strategists with Mark Alpern asking. So
there are really only two choices here on her answering
the questions at the CNN town hall. Either inexplicably they're
not coaching her up on these answers like why didn't
(09:09):
you do this stuff on the border earlier? How would
you be different than Joe Biden, you know, fracking whatever
the obvious ones that she still hasn't nailed down. They
either inexplicably aren't coaching her on this stuff, or the
are and she forgets them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, those are your only two. There are two
choices total. There's not a third option.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
They're either and again, it would be inexplicable that these
are some of the best campaign people in the history
of modern politics have failed to prepare her for questions
that much of America is I wondering, scratching their heads,
wondering I did not have an answer for that, or.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
When the lights come on? She forged What was I
supposed to say about how I'm different than Joe Biden? Again,
I just I know I had sure.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Somewhere in America, David Pluff has his head in his
hands and he's rubbing his forehead. He's listening to our show.
Appreciate it, David, and he's saying, I tell you, what,
how about you train your dog to preheat your oven
so you can throw dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
In as soon as you get there. All right, great,
We'll have a race.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'll train Kamala up to deliver incisive policy prescriptions, and
you do the dog, preheat the oven thing.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We'll see who wins.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it's gotta be because he ran Barack Obama's campaign,
so he was working with Barack Obama. So it's got
to be like whoever Tiger Woods coach was, Like if
he had Tiger Woods all those years coaching them up
and then you had me, you're doing the same stuff,
but you aren't getting the same results. And listen, I
got under different clay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I can hear myself talking. And and if you're a
person of the left or whatever, I can hear you saying,
all right, listen to mister big right wing ye talk
show guy saying Kamala is dumb and dismissing her and
the rest of it would challenge you, my friend, and
we can absolutely still be friends. Can you come up
(11:05):
with another answer as to why, especially especially given Kim
Chris Strassell's excellent point that an undecided voter is someone
well aware of Trump's flaws but has not yet been
persuaded to vote for his opponent. Can you come up
with a solid answer for why she has not offered
that reason or set of reasons why you should vote
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for her in terms of policy? And I mean for instance,
to get back to Kim's thing, what specific actions would
you take to bridge the partisan divide was one of
the questions asked.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And that's a man that is a softball.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
But she just babbled something about I'll be a president
for all Americans with common sense and practical solutions. Okay, well,
one policy goal would be your priority in Congress.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There's not just one.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We need to get past this era of politics and
partisan politics.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh yeah, that one, I'd forgoten. We didn't play that one.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's unbelievable after four years of Biden.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Please please please differentiate your policies from him, I said
one of the questioners. He didn't say please, please, please,
but she responded, I represent a new generation with new approaches.
I will bring my experience actually taking care of my mother.
A pardon me, who ordered a bag full of nothing burgers?
(12:25):
Nothing burgers?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, so again, then this mythical person you're talking to
who's on Comma's side, do you have another option other
than those two They are either not coaching or the
answers for these obvious questions where she's incapable of remembering them.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We're saying a third possibility and I'm not saying this
because I believe it. I'm just trying to be fair.
Is that they've done enough internal polling.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
She has a warm eating or brain. No, that's RFK.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, that they've done a polling that shows that a
virtually any answer she gives just detracts from her.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm new Joy Joy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Saying you're losing. I mean, well, yeah, you could make
you can say that two months ago, but now you'd
have to say, well, it's not working. Maybe if that
was your theory, fine, but it's not worked. I mean
you've got Anderson Cooper and people on the left slapping
their heads like, are you ever going to answer this question?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, with all due respect to Madame Vice President, you
didn't answer the question. That is hard hitting right winger
Andy Cooper.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
One interesting thing about how election Day could turn out
from Nate Silver and an op ed in the New
York Times.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Worth passing along and then we'll move on to something else.
Stay here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
A woman in Bangladesh recently said the Guinness World Record
for most grains of rice eating one at a time
using chopsticks.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Cool, said the couple waiting for the table. I like that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've come across that with comedians. John Oliver does it
now and then as a response to things. When they
do things, people do something of a certain like that
reresponses cool. I felt that way yesterday I saw I
wanted to do that to a guy. I saw a
guy in the parking lot wearing a foxtail. I don't
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know he was a furry in the tail of position,
or on a hat or on.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Mab He's not in her head coming out the back
of his pants.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yes, Ka, you spotted a furry in the wild jack. Yeah,
and so it's a big fox tale. And I wanted
to say him, hey, cool, wow, I told my son
I really was cracking him up. I want to say, hey,
like your foxtail, really like your fuck? Is that a
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fox or a lemur?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Cool? What the hell? Yeah? Yeah? So many wackeddoodles? Oh
my god?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Are we at peak wackadoodle in America? I hope, jeez,
I hope.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What are the chances when I was my son's age,
my dad and I walking through the parking lot of
the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Seeing a grown man with an animal tale zero.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Because that was a time of oppression and harsh judgment
over alternate lifestyles e racist or something.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh my god, is fox a race? I don't know.
Oh my god, certainly a species. Do we have time
for this? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's we mentioned the allegation, So let's mention the response.
Mark Poletta, who was the chief of staff for Mike
Pence and Mike pens and his people have more than
enough for reason to hate Donald Trump, said of General
Kelly's allegations that Trump was a Hitler fan, which came
out in a bunch of articles two years ago, it's
worth mentioning, Uh, Polticist, I worked in the White House
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with John Kelly. I don't believe of a word he
says is a terrible chief of staff who dishonestly kept
information from the president to pursue his own agenda. An
unelected former military official substituting his judgment for.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The duly elected president.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Heir two examples, and he gives several pretty good examples
of Kelly being blatantly dishonest. And then this is Martha
McCallum and Nick Airs, who's a different aid sixty.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Please, Michael, so tell me why have you decided to
speak out?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Well, I know the President personally, Martha, he is my
friend and I know his heart, and this unequivocally did
not happen, full stop. John Kelly was never to shy to,
you know, to point out the senior staff when he
differed with the president, often behind President Trump's back. So
I can assure you had those comments been made, the
national media would have known, all of us would have
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known instantly.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's interesting. I'm sorry. That was Pence's chief of staff.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Pouletta has been a White House counsel involved in white
houses going back to Bush forty one.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
One of his other chiefest as, Mick mulvaney, says, he
did a bunch of phone calls this week around other
people that were in a lot of rooms of Trump,
said did you ever hear anything like that? And they
all said they didn't, and he's not really a Trump fan.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Did not yet. Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in nineteen
thirty nine. Neo Nazis fascists in America.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We have a new winner, that's Hillary Clinton, and we
got eleven days to go, so there's plenty of running
room left in this race. But that is so far
the craziest ass anybody has said, and that is saying something.
Hillary Clinton claiming that Trump's Madison Square Garden rally tonight
is reenacting the famous I you've ever seen. The pictures
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are amazing nineteen thirty nine Nazi rally and Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So just out of curiosity, is Hillary going to accuse
the New York Knickerbockers of recreating the nineteen thirty nine
Nazi rally or the or that known fascist Billy Joel
every time he plays MSG is he re enacting the
Nazi rally?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That is so unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nate Silver, the polster who I'm about to talk about,
tweeted out yesterday, in the last two weeks of a
presidential election, everybody's IQ drops by twenty five points, and
that seems to be true of like people I know.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Pundits, journalists, everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Hillary's main problem, and she would have been at least
one term president if this were not her problem, is
that she doesn't know any normal people. She hasn't hung
out with normal people for probably fifty years and has
no idea how they think. And I'm sure the last
probably ten years that she was around quote unquote normal people,
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which probably when Bill was the governor of Arkansas, she
had nothing but contempt for them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Trump's going to reenact the Nazi rally from nineteen thirty
nine at Madison Square Garden a night. I mean, that
is full on basket of deplorables talk right there.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh, it's beyond it. I mean it's it's unhinged. Speaking
of being unhinged. Oh, and I was thinking about something
you said last segment or so ah, Democratic operatives who
are about to be part of a losing campaign against
the unhinged Nazi Trump, an unlosable election which you're about
to lose, Well, what do we have?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The walls cut from yesterday where he talks about Trump
descending into madness.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Honey, wow, right, yeah, yes, an unhinged fascist do you have?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think for many of us, the last twenty four
hours certainly have been a bit shaking with the reporting
coming out in the Atlantic Donald Trump's dissension into madness.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah wow wow. And just when you think something's over
the top of the a new top. Anyway, what I
was about to say is, as you pointed out, the
moment is coming for the Democratic operatives to start finger
pointing and blaming others so they don't come off as
the loser, not only because it'd be embarrassing, but that
would impact their careers absolutely. So the backbiting and blame
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gaming and the rest of it is about to begin.
And the message I have for democratic operatives is, I
don't care whether you're like doing a murder podcast or
videos on guitar stumpboxes, effects or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
First in matters, Oh yeah, no doubt, First.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
In matters, draw your gun first, David Pluff, any of
you other ones who's to blame?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Even Brock Brock. You don't want to be tied to
a loser. Start blaming.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
So poster Nate Silver used to run five thirty eight.
He's since left it, and he ran in five thirty eight.
Now he got his own thing. But anyway, he wrote
a guest essay the New York Times Nate Silver, here's
what my gut says about the election, And he talks
about how incredibly close it is, and he says it's
it's kind of ridiculous to make a prediction with the
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polls diff close. He said, Yet, when I deliver this
unsatisfying news to people, because I'm sure, can you imagine
being him. It's like this guy in town who's the
TV weatherman, the best known TV weather man you're.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Telling me about.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
One night when we're drinking, he's telling me about how
his life is hell because everybody asks him what the
weather's going to be like, and then they're mad at
him if it doesn't turn out to be the same way.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Hey, I had a soccer game with my kids, and
you said it wouldn't write. You know that sort of.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Stuff, like, yes, sometimes it does, or there are things
I'd like to talk about other than what the weather
is going to be believe it or not.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes, but imagine if you're Nate Silver, could you ever
be at a dinner party or anything without having to
talk about current polling on something Anyway? He said, when
I deliver this unsatisfying news that it's too close to predict,
I get a question, Come on, Nate, what's your gut say? So, okay,
I'll tell you. My gut says Donald Trump. And my
guess is that that's true for many anxious Democrats. So
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that's what Nate Silver said. He said, here's another counterintuitive finding.
It's surprisingly likely that the election will not be a
photo finish with polling averages so close, even a small
systematic polling error like the one the industry experienced in
sixteen or twenty could produce a comfortable electoral college victory
for Harris or Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
According to my models.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
And he runs all the numbers and through a computer
model thingy, and you believe it or you don't. He said,
there's about a sixty percent chance that one quantity candidate
will sweep at least six of the seven battleground states. Wow,
that's interesting. Isn't so sixty percent chance that somebody will
win six of the seven, in which case we'll have
a clear winner.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Although if the.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Numbers are small enough in the individual states, you can
still get into some real difficult you know, law fair.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Especially given and this is worth considering, but people don't
want to for whatever reason, especially considering the huge number
of mail in ballots, which are much more prone to
being questioned. You gotta have the postmark and this date
and this and the signature, and the signature's got a
match and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So if they the Pennsylvania doesn't start counting until that morning,
so it'd be it would have to be a blowout
for Trump for them to be able to call it
that day. Although the way the early voting's going in
the turnout, it could be a blowout. But if they
were able to call, say Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, all
East coast states, it's over, it's over. It doesn't matter
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what happens anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Trump is one.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm glad you brought that up, and I wish I'd
thought of this earlier. I really need to make notes
or more notes. Brett Baer last night on Special Report
had his what is it the reaching across the aisle
or whatever?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Both sides now, the segment body language segment.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, no, no, it's like the bipartisan thinging. But he
had a couple of former governors of North Carolina on
to refute the idea that the voting was going to
be fast and loose or crooked or whatever, and they
did a very very nice job. And one of my
favorite parts, Roy Cooper's the fairly moderate left Democrat governor
of the purple state of North Carolina right now, and
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the former Republican governor said that the Secretary of State's Office,
whoever's in charge of North Carolina, I'm not really familiar
with it, but whoever's in charge of voting under the
Democratic administration has done a whale of a job making
sure that the people in all those battered red counties
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from Hurricane Helene. They've done fabulous work in making sure everybody's.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Vote is counted.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Heroic work in those red counties. That's America. Friends, Let's
not forget that you still exists. Yeah, that's the way
most people are. The vast majority of people.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
As you saw when Trump was trying to you overturn
the twenty twenty election, there were all kinds of Republicans
and Republican states, some of them been appointed by him
and said, no, it's just not happening, dude.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I mean, it's just those things didn't happen, right, right.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And remember there are foreign agents, primarily Russia and Iran
and China as well, who are going to take every
single rumor of a problem with the vote and amplify
that and supply you video that may or may not
be real, or may or may not be related, and
try to whip us up into hatred of each other.
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That is their fondest goal. To not be a tool
of the Communists or the Russians or the Mullahs, please.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Speaking of the Russians, I woke up to the headline
that Elon Musk has been in contact directly with Putin,
So I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
About that in just a second.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But a couple other Elon Musk for you things real quick,
and man, I like a lot about Elon. There's a
bunch of stuff Elon does that I think I wish
you wouldn't do. But you know whatever, it'd be cool
to be able to just do whatever the hell you want,
wouldn't it. He might be that he seems like among
the more carefree people in public life.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm just I just do my thing.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Man. I say what I want, I do what I want.
I pursue what I want. Sometimes I fail, sometimes to succeed.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I just move on. It's really quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But anyway, Musk, the world's richest man spending huge sums
to help elect Trump, says CNN.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But here's here's the numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
He's donated so far one hundred and twenty million to
Trump and forty four million just this month. So the
closing months he's into it for forty four million dollars
already of his own money, although, as Charlie Cook pointed,
out today for whatever reason, obvious reasons. Actually, the Democrats
(26:51):
have their own crew of billionaires. Yeah, lots of them,
and they.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Spend tons of money all the time, and nobody pays
the attention. No, that's not worthy of report.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Billionaires mony on a Republican all of a sudden, Oh
my god, oligarchy, fascism, something or other. But anyway, so
Trump's Elon's in for a lot of money. And today
given a speech, he said, disinformation is a propaganda word
that is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, so as it.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Presumes that there is one side that is capable of
defining what is true and what is not, and that
you must trust them because they will be godlike in
their wisdom.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, plenty of the things called disinformation were just facts
during the whole COVID thing. So it's a propaganda word.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Reminds me of the term fact check, which is not
at all what it claims to be in practice.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So I didn't click on the headline Elon Musk and
direct talks with Putin.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What is that story? It's interesting? It's should I be scared?
Should it be very alarmed?
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, only if you're alarmed by fascism and Nazis.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, it's there. It's mostly just interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Elon Musk is one of the leading figures in space
exploration as obviously, and if you want to talk about
he is the leading figure, right And if you want
to talk about robust space programs, it's the United States
and Russia. And so yeah, he's in contact with the
Russians from time to time. He also was asked by
Putin on behalf of shijin Ping not to.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Fire up starlink around Taiwan. Oh wow, the way he
did around Ukraine in the early days.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Right, So there are at least troubling entanglements that he
could find himself in, Oh, no doubt, given the fact
that he's a multinational player in technology.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, that's something that Ian Bremer's written a lot about.
There's never been a situation where an individual could weigh
in on world events like this, whether it's Zuckerberg in
an election with Facebook or Elon. You know, beginning of
the war, Russia knocks out all the communications, I'll drop
a bunch of my starlink stuff so Ukraine can talk
to each other, which may have, according to David sangerbook,
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may have been the difference.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And whether or not.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Ukraine fell in those first few days, Elon jumping in
with the starlink.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And so he could play the same role or not
in Taiwan, and who knows what pushes in what direction.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think he would. I think he's a freedom guy.
So yeah, like you, I'm mostly a big fan of Elon.
But it is, without questioning, a new paradigm. Forgive me
for using the word to paradigm to have individuals with
a nation state like state like influence over events.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
True, and it's interesting that it's one person's decision, but
in terms of doing the right thing or the wrong thing,
I mean, when we were sanctioning Sadam Hussein and France
was claiming to be on our side, they were doing
business with them behind the scenes like their own personal reasons,
So it wasn't one person's decision.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But you know, did you know this Elon has deep
ties with US military intelligence agencies and has top secret
security clearance.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I did know that only from reading David Sanger's book. Yeah,
oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We can talk more about this in the days to
come if you like. It's it's intriguing. I don't see
any like obvious wrongdoing or anything. But again it's a
it's a new paradigm and one that we must consider
these significance of a.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah and just a tech world in general. It was
it was Microsoft people that alerted our government to Russia's
going Now our military Pentagon government found out when the
Ukraine Russia was starting to work against Ukraine from Microsoft
because they had the ability to get that information that
nobody else could.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wow, it is interesting. Well, we'll finished strong coming up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Reminding you that fact checker David Muir during the obnaxious
ABC debate said President Trump, as you know, the FBI
says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.
We fact checked the fact check and I just wanted
to throw in this that we were absolutely right. Crime
is on the rise according to the National Crime Victimization Survey,
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which is a much much more thorough way of looking
into crime than the FBI statistics for reasons that we've
described in the past. But as that survey has now
been published and more and more stats come out, this
is so interesting. Most troublingly, perhaps a smaller percentage of
robbery victims were reported to police, down twenty two percent
(31:37):
over the last couple of years, sixty four percent reported robbery,
which is taking your stuff from your person like a
burglary had it went from sixty four percent to forty
two percent in a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Who've been remote.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Vehicle thefts being even reported went from eighty one percent
to seventy two percent. Americans have been comes so cynical
and discouraged that law enforcement will do anything about crime.
They don't even bother to call dad.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You're you get robbed at gunpoint or knife point, or
however they threaten you to take your stuff, and you
don't even call the police.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's a rough way to live.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, well, the highest crime areas of America which frequently
have minority victims. If that sort of thing matters to you,
there's no point in calling the cops. You'd probably create
more trouble for yourself by getting the law involved because
your area is lawless.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
David Mure You, Well, there's Jack Gan, there's Joe Man.
It's time to put the show with that couple. Kadie
Green and Michael Langelo. They're re friends. They're like dad,
they're on my radio, so let's here. They're clowning class
people or they have to go.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Well, if you've never had stabbed by a clown nightmares,
you're about to right.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night
screaming with that in my head. Hell that well, why
was that so frightening? I don't know, I'm chilled. Here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap up the show in the week.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Mike Langelower, technical director, will lead the way. Michael Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
What got into me this year, but I win.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I bought full size candy bars to give out to Halloween.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
So nice. Yep, I'm gonna be that house this year.
That's the big big bars.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
My kids still remember the old grandma who gave out
full size Snickers.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Wow, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
As a final thought, Katie, I am participating in a
costume contest tomorrow and I will be going as a
giant pickle, so wish me luck coolow and thanks to Hanson,
I'm gonna be handing out the little miniature the Gerkins.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
As a nice performance art touch Jack a final thought.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
For us, I'm a little late, but we're putting out
our Halloween stuff this weekend, so much of it is
quite macabb I mean, if you ever saw Spider that
you'd be horrified, or a guy crawling up out of
the ground who appears to have been dead for quite
some time.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Why do we do this? I don't know, terrible.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
My final thought is, with the World Series beginning this evening,
as a twenty five year New York or San Francisco
Giants fan, it's very difficult for me to root for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
It's really hard to not like shoey Otani though, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
To root for the Yankees, he's to side with a
self congratulatory East Coast media elite.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
And that I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
There's gonna be a lot of annoying celebrities in both crowds.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
No doubt that's it. I'm going to root for the Umpires,
call a good game, fellas.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Armstrong and Getty wrapic about the grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So many people who think so little time go to
Armstrong and Getty dot com pick up a hot Dogs
Are Dogs T shirt, stand Up for Women's Rights, women's
sports in.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
Women's spaces, and hilarity. See them Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I am proudly my vote from Armstrong and Getty. I
can't imagine a more beautiful thing, he said, and boom
goes to dynamite.
Speaker 1 (35:08):
What now, My pro tip of the day is this,
let's go in particularly and you know why.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
And by the way, I'm kind of a nerd sometime.
Speaker 3 (35:21):
Fire, get out of here.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
That's great Friday Mother, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and getty and he I'm strong and yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
So a few more editors have quit at the LA
Times over the refusal of the owner to allow them
to endorse Kamala Harris, or to have an endorsement at all,
be more fair way to say it, but they wanted
to endorse Kamala Harris and their belief is at the
LA Times, this is an important election. We're dealing with
the fascists here. This is a different situation. We have
to listen to me the last election over lifetimes and
(00:42):
the owner had this crazy idea at the LA Times.
How about you list to all the positive and negatives
of both candidates from their terms and then let people decide.
And the editors are staunchly against that. Talking about Hitler
here it's Hitler versus some mother Teresa.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
So the head person quit and now more people have quit.
But I got I got more on that. The national
mental health crisis that is coming our way, I don't
think can be overstated.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Because Trump is gonna win more on that in a minute.
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But first, let's take a fond look back at the
week that was. It's the Friday tradition cow clips of
the week.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So here it goes. I'm kind of a nerd, sometimes.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
Given like a gift.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Those whips of the Vice president.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Kamala Harris is calling Donald Trump increasingly unhinged.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Increasingly unhinged and unstable. Do you think Donald Trump is
a fascist?
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I do.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Surely you can't mean Hitler's generals, And Trump said, yeah, yeah,
Hitler's generals.
Speaker 6 (01:52):
Leo Nazis fascists in America.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
People, so follow this fascist pig. Then, I don't know
what else to say.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Spring time for hip Lo and Germany.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Donald Trump's dissension into madness. I had a lot of
fun here, everybody.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
No tax on tips, no tax on over time, no
tax on social Security benefits.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But the way Trump is talking about cutting social Security
is crazy.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Meanwhile, here's Harris leading a rally that apparently came with
free vodka.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
What I'm talking.
Speaker 5 (02:40):
About renewed and intense push to possibly get two of
the nation's most infamous convicted killers out of prison.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
We're gonna recommend to the court that the life without
the possibility of parole be removed.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
There will be eligible for parole immediately.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
Is the talk of the baseball world in English and
Spanish and any other language that's close at hand. Fernando Valenzuela.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
The Dodgers have captured the national legue pennant and they're
headed to the World Series.
Speaker 8 (03:23):
Can I go back? Can I go back?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Please? Prosy I got.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Come in?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
How is that? Even for Hospitalian? That didn't even make
any sense?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Topsy Turvy whirlwind, So h could you dig up that
Kimberly Stressll thing that you had earlier that I said
was such a great quote inside, because I really thought
it was kind of fixing with war about the talk
about here I, as I've been mentioning, I take in
both of Mark Halprin's zoom two way calls. It's a
(04:11):
form called two way, but it's like a zoom every
day where he has all these different insiders, strategists, Republican
and democraties really really trying to be down the middle, nonpartisan,
well not even down the middle, just report what all
the smart people are telling him, and then you know,
do what you want with the information.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
But I find it fascinating.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
But I will tell you this, the Democrats on that
show are they seem to be just resigned to the
fact that unless there's some craziness going on in all
the polls that we don't see, Trump is going to win.
It's just it's hard to look at it any other way.
(04:51):
Right now, I'm looking at the Hills ride up today.
The Hill No Right linging publication, their interpretation of the
New York Times Siena pole that came out today bad
news for Harris campaign because it's tied forty eight to
forty eight. And more than that, Trump's got his highest
approval in that poll, just like the Wall Street Journal
poll yesterday that he's ever had. He's more popular than
(05:13):
he's ever been. It's just it's shocking to me.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Well, I'm really persuaded by the number of congress people
and senators or candidates for those offices who have hastily
produced ads. These are Democrats saying I've worked across the
aisle with Trump and I'll do it again. I'm very moderate,
He's okay with me, so it's okay to vote for
him and me too. They're not doing that accidentally.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well, the guy that is on the Mark Alprin Show
to boost to speak for the Democrats, said democrats he
was talking to after town hall performance on Wednesday night.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
We played the highlights yesterday.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
That was the last straw for a lot of them
of having any hope that she could turn this around,
because there she was on the CNN town hall being
asked for the fifteenth time, you know, how would you
be different than Joe Biden? Well, I'm not Joe Biden,
you know. Okay, that joke is not landing the way
you think. And people have been looking for an answer
(06:09):
and they still don't get one, and so people are
just Democrats are just given up on like the high
level strategists are given up on her being a good campaigner,
like why would it change at this point.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Which brings us quite beautifully to the Kimstrecel piece that
we referenced unless you have something else, you got more
about and it is okay fine. Kim is making the
point that essentially Kamala's repraising Hillary Clinton's campaign basketed aplorables,
and she goes through in very amusing fashion a recent
rally where Kamala and Liz Cheney ran through the list
(06:45):
of what's wrong with Trump, depravity, misogyny, vicious, vitriolic, erratic, unstable, fascist, hitler, venom, dangerous, cruel,
on and on and on and on to the point
of hilarity, near hilarity. But then she gets to her
point that we've all heard this thousands of times, every
voter has for going on a decade. And I love
(07:05):
this sentence. This is so familiar by now that the
definition of an undecided voter is someone who is aware
of mister Trump's problems yet unpersuaded to vote for his opponent.
I thought that was beautifully simple. And then she goes
on to say, miss Harris is giving them nada. Undecided
participants in this week's CNN town hall pleaded with her
(07:26):
for details. She responded with the barest of platitudes, and
Kim goes through half a dozen examples of questions and
answers of undecided voters begging for something to hang on to,
and Kamala responding with pablem with nothing.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
That seems so incredibly obvious that it's hard to imagine
why the really top notch strategist Kamala Harris has working
for have gone the direction they've gone. Everybody knows this argument,
and it clearly didn't work on these people. So you
(08:03):
got to come up with some different and as turn
unless it's turnout, because turnout can change everything.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
As we head for the first game of the World Series,
or as I'm calling it, the Payrolls.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Series, Hey, now it's the rich kid richer.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I mean, if a sports fan is sitting there yelling
at their TV asking of the picture, throw the breaking ball,
why doesn't he throw the breaking ball?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You know why? Probably because he's got a bad breaking ball.
He's not good at it. He would go to it
if he could.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Why isn't Kamala wowing us all with the specifics of
her transcendent policies?
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well answer, you know, at home or in your car
wherever you happen to be listening.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Oh, I loved this conversation they had on the call
yesterday with all the strategists with Mark Alpern asking. So
there are really only two choices here on her answering
the questions at the CNN town hall. Either inexplicably they're
not coaching her up on these answers like why didn't
(09:09):
you do this stuff on the border earlier? How would
you be different than Joe Biden, you know, fracking whatever
the obvious ones that she still hasn't nailed down. They
either inexplicably aren't coaching her on this stuff, or the
are and she forgets them.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
I mean, those are your only two. There are two
choices total. There's not a third option.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
They're either and again, it would be inexplicable that these
are some of the best campaign people in the history
of modern politics have failed to prepare her for questions
that much of America is I wondering, scratching their heads,
wondering I did not have an answer for that, or.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
When the lights come on? She forged What was I
supposed to say about how I'm different than Joe Biden? Again,
I just I know I had sure.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Somewhere in America, David Pluff has his head in his
hands and he's rubbing his forehead. He's listening to our show.
Appreciate it, David, and he's saying, I tell you, what,
how about you train your dog to preheat your oven
so you can throw dinner.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
In as soon as you get there. All right, great,
We'll have a race.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
I'll train Kamala up to deliver incisive policy prescriptions, and
you do the dog, preheat the oven thing.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We'll see who wins.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it's gotta be because he ran Barack Obama's campaign,
so he was working with Barack Obama. So it's got
to be like whoever Tiger Woods coach was, Like if
he had Tiger Woods all those years coaching them up
and then you had me, you're doing the same stuff,
but you aren't getting the same results. And listen, I
got under different clay. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
I can hear myself talking. And and if you're a
person of the left or whatever, I can hear you saying,
all right, listen to mister big right wing ye talk
show guy saying Kamala is dumb and dismissing her and
the rest of it would challenge you, my friend, and
we can absolutely still be friends. Can you come up
(11:05):
with another answer as to why, especially especially given Kim
Chris Strassell's excellent point that an undecided voter is someone
well aware of Trump's flaws but has not yet been
persuaded to vote for his opponent. Can you come up
with a solid answer for why she has not offered
that reason or set of reasons why you should vote
(11:25):
for her in terms of policy? And I mean for instance,
to get back to Kim's thing, what specific actions would
you take to bridge the partisan divide was one of
the questions asked.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
And that's a man that is a softball.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
But she just babbled something about I'll be a president
for all Americans with common sense and practical solutions. Okay, well,
one policy goal would be your priority in Congress.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
There's not just one.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
We need to get past this era of politics and
partisan politics.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Oh yeah, that one, I'd forgoten. We didn't play that one.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's unbelievable after four years of Biden.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Please please please differentiate your policies from him, I said
one of the questioners. He didn't say please, please, please,
but she responded, I represent a new generation with new approaches.
I will bring my experience actually taking care of my mother.
A pardon me, who ordered a bag full of nothing burgers?
(12:25):
Nothing burgers?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Well, so again, then this mythical person you're talking to
who's on Comma's side, do you have another option other
than those two They are either not coaching or the
answers for these obvious questions where she's incapable of remembering them.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
We're saying a third possibility and I'm not saying this
because I believe it. I'm just trying to be fair.
Is that they've done enough internal polling.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
She has a warm eating or brain. No, that's RFK.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
No, that they've done a polling that shows that a
virtually any answer she gives just detracts from her.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
I'm new Joy Joy.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Saying you're losing. I mean, well, yeah, you could make
you can say that two months ago, but now you'd
have to say, well, it's not working. Maybe if that
was your theory, fine, but it's not worked. I mean
you've got Anderson Cooper and people on the left slapping
their heads like, are you ever going to answer this question?
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Yeah, with all due respect to Madame Vice President, you
didn't answer the question. That is hard hitting right winger
Andy Cooper.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
One interesting thing about how election Day could turn out
from Nate Silver and an op ed in the New
York Times.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Worth passing along and then we'll move on to something else.
Stay here.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
A woman in Bangladesh recently said the Guinness World Record
for most grains of rice eating one at a time
using chopsticks.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Cool, said the couple waiting for the table. I like that.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I've come across that with comedians. John Oliver does it
now and then as a response to things. When they
do things, people do something of a certain like that
reresponses cool. I felt that way yesterday I saw I
wanted to do that to a guy. I saw a
guy in the parking lot wearing a foxtail. I don't
(14:25):
know he was a furry in the tail of position,
or on a hat or on.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Mab He's not in her head coming out the back
of his pants.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Yes, Ka, you spotted a furry in the wild jack. Yeah,
and so it's a big fox tale. And I wanted
to say him, hey, cool, wow, I told my son
I really was cracking him up. I want to say, hey,
like your foxtail, really like your fuck? Is that a
(14:53):
fox or a lemur?
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Cool? What the hell? Yeah? Yeah? So many wackeddoodles? Oh
my god?
Speaker 7 (15:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Are we at peak wackadoodle in America? I hope, jeez,
I hope.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
What are the chances when I was my son's age,
my dad and I walking through the parking lot of
the grocery store.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Seeing a grown man with an animal tale zero.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Because that was a time of oppression and harsh judgment
over alternate lifestyles e racist or something.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Oh my god, is fox a race? I don't know.
Oh my god, certainly a species. Do we have time
for this? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
It's we mentioned the allegation, So let's mention the response.
Mark Poletta, who was the chief of staff for Mike
Pence and Mike pens and his people have more than
enough for reason to hate Donald Trump, said of General
Kelly's allegations that Trump was a Hitler fan, which came
out in a bunch of articles two years ago, it's
worth mentioning, Uh, Polticist, I worked in the White House
(15:59):
with John Kelly. I don't believe of a word he
says is a terrible chief of staff who dishonestly kept
information from the president to pursue his own agenda. An
unelected former military official substituting his judgment for.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The duly elected president.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
Heir two examples, and he gives several pretty good examples
of Kelly being blatantly dishonest. And then this is Martha
McCallum and Nick Airs, who's a different aid sixty.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
Please, Michael, so tell me why have you decided to
speak out?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
Well, I know the President personally, Martha, he is my
friend and I know his heart, and this unequivocally did
not happen, full stop. John Kelly was never to shy to,
you know, to point out the senior staff when he
differed with the president, often behind President Trump's back. So
I can assure you had those comments been made, the
national media would have known, all of us would have
(16:48):
known instantly.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
That's interesting. I'm sorry. That was Pence's chief of staff.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Pouletta has been a White House counsel involved in white
houses going back to Bush forty one.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
One of his other chiefest as, Mick mulvaney, says, he
did a bunch of phone calls this week around other
people that were in a lot of rooms of Trump,
said did you ever hear anything like that? And they
all said they didn't, and he's not really a Trump fan.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Did not yet. Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden rally in nineteen
thirty nine. Neo Nazis fascists in America.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
We have a new winner, that's Hillary Clinton, and we
got eleven days to go, so there's plenty of running
room left in this race. But that is so far
the craziest ass anybody has said, and that is saying something.
Hillary Clinton claiming that Trump's Madison Square Garden rally tonight
is reenacting the famous I you've ever seen. The pictures
(17:49):
are amazing nineteen thirty nine Nazi rally and Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
So just out of curiosity, is Hillary going to accuse
the New York Knickerbockers of recreating the nineteen thirty nine
Nazi rally or the or that known fascist Billy Joel
every time he plays MSG is he re enacting the
Nazi rally?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
That is so unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Nate Silver, the polster who I'm about to talk about,
tweeted out yesterday, in the last two weeks of a
presidential election, everybody's IQ drops by twenty five points, and
that seems to be true of like people I know.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Pundits, journalists, everyone.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Hillary's main problem, and she would have been at least
one term president if this were not her problem, is
that she doesn't know any normal people. She hasn't hung
out with normal people for probably fifty years and has
no idea how they think. And I'm sure the last
probably ten years that she was around quote unquote normal people,
(18:52):
which probably when Bill was the governor of Arkansas, she
had nothing but contempt for them.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Trump's going to reenact the Nazi rally from nineteen thirty
nine at Madison Square Garden a night. I mean, that
is full on basket of deplorables talk right there.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
Oh, it's beyond it. I mean it's it's unhinged. Speaking
of being unhinged. Oh, and I was thinking about something
you said last segment or so ah, Democratic operatives who
are about to be part of a losing campaign against
the unhinged Nazi Trump, an unlosable election which you're about
to lose, Well, what do we have?
Speaker 3 (19:32):
The walls cut from yesterday where he talks about Trump
descending into madness.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
Honey, wow, right, yeah, yes, an unhinged fascist do you have?
Speaker 7 (19:43):
I think for many of us, the last twenty four
hours certainly have been a bit shaking with the reporting
coming out in the Atlantic Donald Trump's dissension into madness.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
Yeah wow wow. And just when you think something's over
the top of the a new top. Anyway, what I
was about to say is, as you pointed out, the
moment is coming for the Democratic operatives to start finger
pointing and blaming others so they don't come off as
the loser, not only because it'd be embarrassing, but that
would impact their careers absolutely. So the backbiting and blame
(20:17):
gaming and the rest of it is about to begin.
And the message I have for democratic operatives is, I
don't care whether you're like doing a murder podcast or
videos on guitar stumpboxes, effects or whatever.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
First in matters, Oh yeah, no doubt, First.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
In matters, draw your gun first, David Pluff, any of
you other ones who's to blame?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Even Brock Brock. You don't want to be tied to
a loser. Start blaming.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
So poster Nate Silver used to run five thirty eight.
He's since left it, and he ran in five thirty eight.
Now he got his own thing. But anyway, he wrote
a guest essay the New York Times Nate Silver, here's
what my gut says about the election, And he talks
about how incredibly close it is, and he says it's
it's kind of ridiculous to make a prediction with the
(21:11):
polls diff close. He said, Yet, when I deliver this
unsatisfying news to people, because I'm sure, can you imagine
being him. It's like this guy in town who's the
TV weatherman, the best known TV weather man you're.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Telling me about.
Speaker 3 (21:23):
One night when we're drinking, he's telling me about how
his life is hell because everybody asks him what the
weather's going to be like, and then they're mad at
him if it doesn't turn out to be the same way.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Hey, I had a soccer game with my kids, and
you said it wouldn't write. You know that sort of.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
Stuff, like, yes, sometimes it does, or there are things
I'd like to talk about other than what the weather
is going to be believe it or not.
Speaker 8 (21:44):
Right.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
Yes, but imagine if you're Nate Silver, could you ever
be at a dinner party or anything without having to
talk about current polling on something Anyway? He said, when
I deliver this unsatisfying news that it's too close to predict,
I get a question, Come on, Nate, what's your gut say? So, okay,
I'll tell you. My gut says Donald Trump. And my
guess is that that's true for many anxious Democrats. So
(22:08):
that's what Nate Silver said. He said, here's another counterintuitive finding.
It's surprisingly likely that the election will not be a
photo finish with polling averages so close, even a small
systematic polling error like the one the industry experienced in
sixteen or twenty could produce a comfortable electoral college victory
for Harris or Trump.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
According to my models.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
And he runs all the numbers and through a computer
model thingy, and you believe it or you don't. He said,
there's about a sixty percent chance that one quantity candidate
will sweep at least six of the seven battleground states. Wow,
that's interesting. Isn't so sixty percent chance that somebody will
win six of the seven, in which case we'll have
a clear winner.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Although if the.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Numbers are small enough in the individual states, you can
still get into some real difficult you know, law fair.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Especially given and this is worth considering, but people don't
want to for whatever reason, especially considering the huge number
of mail in ballots, which are much more prone to
being questioned. You gotta have the postmark and this date
and this and the signature, and the signature's got a
match and the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
So if they the Pennsylvania doesn't start counting until that morning,
so it'd be it would have to be a blowout
for Trump for them to be able to call it
that day. Although the way the early voting's going in
the turnout, it could be a blowout. But if they
were able to call, say Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, all
East coast states, it's over, it's over. It doesn't matter
(23:36):
what happens anywhere else.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Trump is one.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I'm glad you brought that up, and I wish I'd
thought of this earlier. I really need to make notes
or more notes. Brett Baer last night on Special Report
had his what is it the reaching across the aisle
or whatever?
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Both sides now, the segment body language segment.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
No, no, no, it's like the bipartisan thinging. But he
had a couple of former governors of North Carolina on
to refute the idea that the voting was going to
be fast and loose or crooked or whatever, and they
did a very very nice job. And one of my
favorite parts, Roy Cooper's the fairly moderate left Democrat governor
of the purple state of North Carolina right now, and
(24:19):
the former Republican governor said that the Secretary of State's Office,
whoever's in charge of North Carolina, I'm not really familiar
with it, but whoever's in charge of voting under the
Democratic administration has done a whale of a job making
sure that the people in all those battered red counties
(24:40):
from Hurricane Helene. They've done fabulous work in making sure everybody's.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Vote is counted.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
Heroic work in those red counties. That's America. Friends, Let's
not forget that you still exists. Yeah, that's the way
most people are. The vast majority of people.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
As you saw when Trump was trying to you overturn
the twenty twenty election, there were all kinds of Republicans
and Republican states, some of them been appointed by him
and said, no, it's just not happening, dude.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
I mean, it's just those things didn't happen, right, right.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
And remember there are foreign agents, primarily Russia and Iran
and China as well, who are going to take every
single rumor of a problem with the vote and amplify
that and supply you video that may or may not
be real, or may or may not be related, and
try to whip us up into hatred of each other.
(25:34):
That is their fondest goal. To not be a tool
of the Communists or the Russians or the Mullahs, please.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Speaking of the Russians, I woke up to the headline
that Elon Musk has been in contact directly with Putin,
So I want to talk.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
About that in just a second.
Speaker 3 (25:49):
But a couple other Elon Musk for you things real quick,
and man, I like a lot about Elon. There's a
bunch of stuff Elon does that I think I wish
you wouldn't do. But you know whatever, it'd be cool
to be able to just do whatever the hell you want,
wouldn't it. He might be that he seems like among
the more carefree people in public life.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
I'm just I just do my thing.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Man. I say what I want, I do what I want.
I pursue what I want. Sometimes I fail, sometimes to succeed.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
I just move on. It's really quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
But anyway, Musk, the world's richest man spending huge sums
to help elect Trump, says CNN.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
But here's here's the numbers.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
He's donated so far one hundred and twenty million to
Trump and forty four million just this month. So the
closing months he's into it for forty four million dollars
already of his own money, although, as Charlie Cook pointed,
out today for whatever reason, obvious reasons. Actually, the Democrats
(26:51):
have their own crew of billionaires. Yeah, lots of them,
and they.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Spend tons of money all the time, and nobody pays
the attention. No, that's not worthy of report.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
Billionaires mony on a Republican all of a sudden, Oh
my god, oligarchy, fascism, something or other. But anyway, so
Trump's Elon's in for a lot of money. And today
given a speech, he said, disinformation is a propaganda word
that is one hundred percent true.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, so as it.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
Presumes that there is one side that is capable of
defining what is true and what is not, and that
you must trust them because they will be godlike in
their wisdom.
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah, plenty of the things called disinformation were just facts
during the whole COVID thing. So it's a propaganda word.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Reminds me of the term fact check, which is not
at all what it claims to be in practice.
Speaker 3 (27:38):
So I didn't click on the headline Elon Musk and
direct talks with Putin.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
What is that story? It's interesting? It's should I be scared?
Should it be very alarmed?
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (27:49):
Well, only if you're alarmed by fascism and Nazis.
Speaker 2 (27:52):
No, it's there. It's mostly just interesting.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
Elon Musk is one of the leading figures in space
exploration as obviously, and if you want to talk about
he is the leading figure, right And if you want
to talk about robust space programs, it's the United States
and Russia. And so yeah, he's in contact with the
Russians from time to time. He also was asked by
Putin on behalf of shijin Ping not to.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Fire up starlink around Taiwan. Oh wow, the way he
did around Ukraine in the early days.
Speaker 1 (28:27):
Right, So there are at least troubling entanglements that he
could find himself in, Oh, no doubt, given the fact
that he's a multinational player in technology.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Yeah, that's something that Ian Bremer's written a lot about.
There's never been a situation where an individual could weigh
in on world events like this, whether it's Zuckerberg in
an election with Facebook or Elon. You know, beginning of
the war, Russia knocks out all the communications, I'll drop
a bunch of my starlink stuff so Ukraine can talk
to each other, which may have, according to David sangerbook,
(29:01):
may have been the difference.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
And whether or not.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Ukraine fell in those first few days, Elon jumping in
with the starlink.
Speaker 2 (29:08):
It's amazing.
Speaker 3 (29:09):
And so he could play the same role or not
in Taiwan, and who knows what pushes in what direction.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
I think he would. I think he's a freedom guy.
So yeah, like you, I'm mostly a big fan of Elon.
But it is, without questioning, a new paradigm. Forgive me
for using the word to paradigm to have individuals with
a nation state like state like influence over events.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
True, and it's interesting that it's one person's decision, but
in terms of doing the right thing or the wrong thing,
I mean, when we were sanctioning Sadam Hussein and France
was claiming to be on our side, they were doing
business with them behind the scenes like their own personal reasons,
So it wasn't one person's decision.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
But you know, did you know this Elon has deep
ties with US military intelligence agencies and has top secret
security clearance.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
I did know that only from reading David Sanger's book. Yeah,
oh okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
We can talk more about this in the days to
come if you like. It's it's intriguing. I don't see
any like obvious wrongdoing or anything. But again it's a
it's a new paradigm and one that we must consider
these significance of a.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Yeah and just a tech world in general. It was
it was Microsoft people that alerted our government to Russia's
going Now our military Pentagon government found out when the
Ukraine Russia was starting to work against Ukraine from Microsoft
because they had the ability to get that information that
nobody else could.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Wow, it is interesting. Well, we'll finished strong coming up.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Reminding you that fact checker David Muir during the obnaxious
ABC debate said President Trump, as you know, the FBI
says overall violent crime is coming down in this country.
We fact checked the fact check and I just wanted
to throw in this that we were absolutely right. Crime
is on the rise according to the National Crime Victimization Survey,
(31:11):
which is a much much more thorough way of looking
into crime than the FBI statistics for reasons that we've
described in the past. But as that survey has now
been published and more and more stats come out, this
is so interesting. Most troublingly, perhaps a smaller percentage of
robbery victims were reported to police, down twenty two percent
(31:37):
over the last couple of years, sixty four percent reported robbery,
which is taking your stuff from your person like a
burglary had it went from sixty four percent to forty
two percent in a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Who've been remote.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Vehicle thefts being even reported went from eighty one percent
to seventy two percent. Americans have been comes so cynical
and discouraged that law enforcement will do anything about crime.
They don't even bother to call dad.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
You're you get robbed at gunpoint or knife point, or
however they threaten you to take your stuff, and you
don't even call the police.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
That's a rough way to live.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yeah, well, the highest crime areas of America which frequently
have minority victims. If that sort of thing matters to you,
there's no point in calling the cops. You'd probably create
more trouble for yourself by getting the law involved because
your area is lawless.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
David Mure You, Well, there's Jack Gan, there's Joe Man.
It's time to put the show with that couple. Kadie
Green and Michael Langelo. They're re friends. They're like dad,
they're on my radio, so let's here. They're clowning class
people or they have to go.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Well, if you've never had stabbed by a clown nightmares,
you're about to right.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
I'm gonna wake up in the middle of the night
screaming with that in my head. Hell that well, why
was that so frightening? I don't know, I'm chilled. Here's
your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Hey, let's get a final thought from everybody on the
crew to wrap up the show in the week.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Mike Langelower, technical director, will lead the way. Michael Well,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
What got into me this year, but I win.
Speaker 5 (33:20):
I bought full size candy bars to give out to Halloween.
Speaker 2 (33:24):
So nice. Yep, I'm gonna be that house this year.
That's the big big bars.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
My kids still remember the old grandma who gave out
full size Snickers.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
Wow, Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
As a final thought, Katie, I am participating in a
costume contest tomorrow and I will be going as a
giant pickle, so wish me luck coolow and thanks to Hanson,
I'm gonna be handing out the little miniature the Gerkins.
Speaker 2 (33:48):
Yes, I love that.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
As a nice performance art touch Jack a final thought.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
For us, I'm a little late, but we're putting out
our Halloween stuff this weekend, so much of it is
quite macabb I mean, if you ever saw Spider that
you'd be horrified, or a guy crawling up out of
the ground who appears to have been dead for quite
some time.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Why do we do this? I don't know, terrible.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
My final thought is, with the World Series beginning this evening,
as a twenty five year New York or San Francisco
Giants fan, it's very difficult for me to root for
the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
It's really hard to not like shoey Otani though, Yeah, but.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
To root for the Yankees, he's to side with a
self congratulatory East Coast media elite.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
And that I don't know.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
There's gonna be a lot of annoying celebrities in both crowds.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
No doubt that's it. I'm going to root for the Umpires,
call a good game, fellas.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Armstrong and Getty wrapic about the grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:46):
So many people who think so little time go to
Armstrong and Getty dot com pick up a hot Dogs
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Speaker 3 (34:53):
Women's spaces, and hilarity. See them Monday. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I am proudly my vote from Armstrong and Getty. I
can't imagine a more beautiful thing, he said, and boom
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Speaker 1 (35:08):
What now, My pro tip of the day is this,
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Speaker 2 (35:17):
And by the way, I'm kind of a nerd sometime.
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Fire, get out of here.
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