September 17, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features:
- Cocaine come back, fed rates & plans of Charlie Kirk's assassin
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Unhinged left reacting to the murder of Charlie Kirk & the Kash Patel hearing
- More details about the texts between Charlie Kirk's assassin & trans lover
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Techie and Key Arms who live from studio c Hey
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dimple let room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong
and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today we're under
the two ledge of l Signor Mencho, El signor Mencho.
I'll explain what that is in just a little bit.
Joe is not here. He's playing golf at some fancy,
fancy golf course. I think he's going to call in
at some point. He's playing at one of those golf
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courses that he got to know somebody special to play at,
I think. Or he's just playing Pebble Beach, which is
no minor thing either, but that is a public course.
If you don't know anything about golf, that's a very
big deal. Some of the best golf courses in the
very world. Joe's a big golfer and that's where he is,
and he will call in later. What is El sennor Mencho.
El Sennor Mencho is the biggest drug kingpin in the
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world right now. He is in Mexico, he has been
able to displace some of the bigger cartels down there
that you've heard of for a variety of reasons, partially
because the biggest cartels have been at war with each
other and the Trump administration decided to crack down on fentanyl,
as we all know, cracking down on a lot of
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drugs see boats exploding at sea, et cetera. But it
has opened up an avenue for this guy, Senor Menchow,
the biggest drug kingpin in the world for cocaine, has
made a comeback in the United States, and apparently America's
love of cocaine is driving Mexico's new drug king to
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cash in. Here's some of the stats that I thought
were interesting that I did not know anything about because
I'm not in that world. I've never been in that world,
but I'm certainly not in that world now. Cocaine sold
in the United States right now is cheaper than it
has been in forever, and more pure that it has
been forever. Consumption in the Western United States. Hey, that's
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where I live has increased one hundred and fifty four
percent since twenty nineteen. WHOA how about that? And it's
funny that I had that conversation. Did you hear that
conversation I had yesterday, Katie. I was watching Bill Mars's show.
Is actually the episode where he had on Charlie Kirk
from just a couple of months ago. And Charlie Kirk,
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if you know Charlie kirk'said act at all. He doesn't drink,
he doesn't do drugs of any kind, et cetera, et cetera.
And see he and Bill maher we're talking about that.
And Charlie Kirk was making the argument that he said,
I assume since he legalized pot that pot sales are up.
And Bill Marherson, you know what, I don't know, but
he said, when I go to Hollywood parties, the young
people don't have any interest in pot. They have interest
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in the old fashioned hard drugs like cocaine. I said
that yesterday, and Joe and I were both like, Wow,
that's interesting. I didn't think anybody was doing that sort
of thing anymore because of fentanyl and all that. Well,
here we are today with the Wall Street Journal saying
cocaine is more pure than it has been in many,
many years in the United States, and cocaine uses up
one hundred and fifty four percent since twenty nineteen, So
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throw all through the whole pandemic and everything. Ohoh, and
it's the belief that there ain't no fentanyl in that
the Trump administration and warring factions have really taken down
a lot of the fentanyl trades. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know Joe said this a few times, but I
still don't understand. And I get the fentanyls down, But
how you could even play that kind of game?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know, either you're just hoping that. I guess you
just know it's true. I mean, obviously people believe, and
a part of that is how you get to be
the world's richest drug kingpin. I guess word gets out
that your stuff is pure, and people are I don't
know how you trust your drug dealer that he's given
you this stuff from this guy and not from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh no, Kaman, he's a good guy, right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
According to The Wall Street Journal, for new users, cocaine
doesn't carry the stigma of fentnyl addiction, middle class addicts
and the tragic spectacle of homeless crack cocaine users in
the nineteen nineties helped put a lid on America's last cocaine.
Cocaine epidemic, but right now it's vaccine is like back
being seen, is like what cool successful people do as
opposed to people on the street leaning against the overpass
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with a hole in their leg from drank. So good
luck to those of you out there doing the cocaine.
So louck. I hate that news though, I mean because
I got two teenagers headed out into the world. We'll
see where this goes. The big news of the day,
and I could have made the general manager is Jerome Powell,
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the chair to the Fed, as he is going to
announce a rate cut today. The media is acting like
it's a drama. It is not one hundred percent of
economists to believe he's going to cut rates today. So
that's a done deal. The only open question is heany
give you that, Michael? The only question is how much?
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And practically all economists say a quarter point, some say
possibly a half point. But the market has already reacted
to that news. The effect on home mortgages and credit
card rates is going to be pretty dang small. It's
just it's the first step in the right direction. In
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the right direction if it continues to go those way
to where people want to get. We're never going to
get back to home interest rates that we had there
for a while. Ever, it'll never it may never happen
again in the history of capitalism. But it's tough because
I've got in my head, just like you've gotten your
that a three percent mortgage makes sense. I'm not getting
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a house until the mortgages get down to three. Well,
it's never gonna happen. Currently, a thirty year mortgage is
averaging six point three percent across the nation. That sounds
insanely high based on what we've had for quite a
few years. Historically, it's quite low. Historically you'd run out
and buy a house if you had one, you'd go
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out and buy another one to take advantage of these
six percent mortgage rates. But they feel really, really high.
If you're locked into something in the threes, you're not
going to sell your house because you go out and
buy a smaller house at six point three percent with
maybe a higher mortgage payment every month, and you're actually
making for a smaller house. Mean, why would you do
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that unless you have to move so anyway, the rate
adjustment today is not going to be enough to shake
loose the housing market. Or make much of a debt
in your credit card debt. Maybe we'll talk to some
expert a little bit later about that, but they are
going to rates today. That's almost guaranteed. Donald Trump is
in Great Britain. He's having a fancy pants dinner with
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the Prime Minister and going to meet the King later.
I keep forgetting to stun a queen anymore. She passed
long leave the King, King Charles, and so they'll meet
and whoop whoop d s. I almost said a bad word.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, I'm glad you had some restraint.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's a phrase my dad had used before, whoopd
s saying the actual which I like that as a
phrase too. Whoo whoop d s.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm gonna start using that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
In terms of yeah, big deal. And that's the way
I feel about President Trump meeting the King. Whoop d s.
So anyway, there are some news that could come out
of that, because they're probably going to they are going
to have a one on one meeting Trump and Starmer,
the Prime Minister, and they're going to talk about Ukraine, guaranteed,
and hopefully some news will leak out of that. As
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far as the Charlie Kirk assassination. The latest is all
these texts that we've learned between the killer and his
boyfriend roommate. You got to help me out on this.
I haven't been following this closely. When they say trans
roommate lover boyfriend, do they mean it was a girl
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and now it's a boy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No, it is, it's a boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It shouldn't be saying it. But this person was a
girl and is now a boy or is a boy
and his has always been a boy, but is hoping
to become a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That the latter, So it is he is still a
boy working on transitioning to be a girl.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, So anyway, the text to his boyfriend, and we'll
read him verbatim a little bit later, but man has
some rough stuff in there.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh. In the media going on and on about how
touching it was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I saw that. I saw that emotional touching moments between
the two. He's a freaking cold blooded assassin. It doesn't
the boyfriend girlfriend into it anyway. They might be a
perfectly nice person, I don't know. And they're they're cooperating
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completely with law enforcement, which is nice. But yes, some
of the texts about I just can't stand his hate anymore.
I've got to do something, and then explaining how. So
his plan was, according to the text to the boyfriend,
was he'd dropped that gun in the woods. I guess
he tried to go back and get it, but there
was too many cops around, and he was planning to
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try to go back later and get the gun. And
he said to the roommate boyfriend that if I can
get the gun, I think I'm gonna get away with this.
They won't have any way to figure out who I
am or track me. So he dropped that rifle in
the woods, thinking he could go back and get it
and then dispose of it well, and he made a
big mistake he left.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Apparently he left a screwdriver up on the roof where
he actually shot Charlie Kirk from and they got his
DNA off of that, so he would have been screwed
either way.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What did he need the screwdriver for?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Did he I think there wasn't going to be this
level of FBI manhunt action going on after he shot
as high profile of person as Charlie Kirk. And then
he planned poorly, but he thought, well, they'll just look
around a little bit to leave. People will move on.
I'll go back to the woods to get my gun.
Wasn't the best plan in the world for somebody who
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supposedly had a very, very high IQ. But we can
get into the actual details of those texts, and yeah,
we'll listen to that news reporter who talked about the
touching moments between the two. Sure, that's a sick way
to look at this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Also, Cash Btello runs the FBI, was in front of
Congress yesterday and he got into some great screaming matches
with senators in the classic clown circus way that all
of these hearings turn out to be. I think they
should ban hearings. I don't think they do any of
us any good. We'll play some highlights from that a
little bit later. Might check in with one of our
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military analysts on where things are with Israel with one
hundred and fifty strikes in Gaza. You know, Gaza is
not a very big area. I don't know if you
are aware of this, if you've ever looked on to Matt,
all of Gaza is smaller than the footprint of Chicago,
the entire area, country, whatever you want to call. It's
not a country obviously is pretty small. So one hundred
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and fifty strikes in that are oh imagine one hundred
and fifty strikes on Chicago. That would seem like a lot.
But we'll check in on that war and a whole
bunch of other stuff. Let's start the show officially before
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stat I guess who does You didn't ever know it?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Tou leg but out out he got Drake.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The rake should be much Flawa, much much Flawa. That's
Donald Trump referring to the Federal chairman that he chose
as too late. He's done a poor job. He's called
him stupid in the past and said he's like talking
to a chair anyway, Jerome Powell will lower the interest
rates a little bit later. No, we had a camel
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out at the farm for a while. Remember when I
wanted to get a giraft, Michael, That was before you
were on Katie was trying to get a giraffe. We
had a camel okay for a while, and pretty nice beast.
It walked around with the sheep and the horse and
everything else. Theypit Uh, it didn't spit on me. I'm
sure it's spit occasionally, but it never. It never spit
on me. That's a pretty decent beast. But it's harder
to get a draft than you would think once you
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really look into it. You need all new fencing and yeah,
it becomes a hole. It becomes a whole thing. When
you decide to get a.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Giraft, I can imagine that could be complicated.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, so what are you gonna do? Uh? We got
Katie's headlines on the way and we gets into some
of that news that we mentioned. Here's our text line
four one, five, two, nine five kftc art he came
across the details. So the reason the idiot murderer had
a screwdriver up there on the roof and left it behind, Well,
this isn't the reason he left it behind. That was
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an accident and had DNA on it, which will probably
be enough to convict him, and they're gonna shoot him.
So more on that later, the death penalty. But he
had the screwdriver, he had taken apart the rifle so
he could carry it in two parts in his pants
to get up there, and then had to reassemble it,
so that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Makes sense, and then he left it behind.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, well you'd probably be in a little bit of
a panic when you'd just taken someone's life. All right,
God dang it, how anybody does that? Okay, let's find
out what's going on headlines with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
All right, we'll start with Breitbart.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Older man initially arrested after Charlie Kirk shooting confessed to
distracting police from the real shooter.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I saw this story. We've got to go into the
details on this. How weird, and that is going to
help conspiracy people think that this was more than just
a lone gunman. Who would have those thoughts immediately? It
was me. It was me to distract the police to
help somebody get away. I mean that, who would think that?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, a guy who, within further investigation, was also just
busted for possessing and distributing child porn obvios.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, he's all kinds of crazy. But that's still say.
More on that coming up. That's a heck of a
story from ABC.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The Federal Reserves set to unveil its latest decision on.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The level of interest rate.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I call him too late. He's like talking to a chair.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
From The New York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Israel pounds Gaza City as fears mount for hostages and
those inside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I'm sure, and the chance of getting the hostages
out alive is very very low. The problem is, after
all of this time, Israel's made the determination, and I
think they're right. They ain't get the hostages back alive anyway,
and they.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Think there's still twenty that are a lot. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That is.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
From NBC.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto
Windsor Castle during President's UK visits.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I saw that so Joe was in England and found
this out. Epstein is a bigger story there in London
than it is here in the United States, really because
of Prince Andrew and everything like that. Oh yeah. One
of the reasons they're keeping Trump away from crowds is
there's concerns there's gonna be all kinds of people screaming.
Epstein questions at him.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
From CNN, More families sue character AI developer alleging app
played role in teams suicide and suicide attempts.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, that is wild. I haven't had conversations, and maybe
I should just to check it out. I haven't had
like heart to heart conversations with the with the chatbots
I have. It feels weird you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Have, I have, and it's it's very personable.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Like you feel like you're talking to somebody. Yeah, it
passes the Turing test. It seems like a human.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Roh.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
And you know to a kid, I mean, I'm thirty
six years old to a fourteen year old, that's a human.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
From The Washington.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
Post, Jerry leaves Ben and Jerry's saying parent company silenced
his activism.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I saw that. Man. Those ice cream dudes are crazy.
Their politics are nuts. The ice cream is delicious.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
His quote goes it's about more than just ice cream.
All right, No, it's not. You're an ice cream company.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Just be a non important hippie there in Vermont.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
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Speaker 1 (16:42):
I don't doubt that. That's why I look like the
way a lizard. That's why I look like a lizard.
Not enough sleep.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
And finally from the Babylon Bee Satan blowing up as
top influencer on Blue Sky.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
So a bunch of those stories we need to fill out,
especially that old man who distracted the cops, and he
did a good job of it. I mean that that
had all the attention there in the first fifteen twenty minutes.
If you were following the assassination on Twitter, would you
come up with that off the top of your head?
Or was he working with the numb nuts a lot
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on the way. I hope you can stay here. If
you missed a segment, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty
on demand. Armstrong and Getty. You can't lecture me.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
You can tell her Tiget.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
But I am, mister chairman, not afraid of you. Verbal
fireworks on Capitol Hill today as FBI.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Director Cash Pattel took incoming criticism from both sides of
the aisle.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He saved your plates pretty full.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I would urge you get with your people and if
you think you need more people, now's the time to
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Will you look, I will look, sir. So that's a
little bit of the hearing yesterday that had the FBI
Director Cash Pattel there in front of some Senate and
that was Senator Corey Booker yelling you can't intimidate me
or fright me or I'm not scared of you or
whatever it was. He said, I wasn't paying attention. And
we'll have more of that one because that was pretty
fiery a little bit later. But we've got a different
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one to feature this segment. I forgot I came across this.
There continues to be a lot of blowback around the
horrifying assassination for people who are either cheering it on
or taking odd views on it. Former Batman Michael Keaton
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got the rough edge of the internet yesterday as he
was given a speech somewhere where he said the irony
was he was killed with a gun, and that is
unbelievable because he believed in the Second Amendment and people's
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right to own a gun. I do not get how
that is ironic. What is that?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's nothing?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's nothing. It's a nothing, unless unless you're taking some
sort of absolutist you think there's a world we could
live in where nobody had guns, I mean a deer rifle.
Nobody has ever even considered the idea that we're gonna
outlaw deer rifles, which is what was used to kill
poor Charlie Kirk. So I don't, I don't even. I
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don't even. I don't what is your point? I guess
it makes you sound you feel like that makes you
sound enlightened or cool around this issue.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know well, and these people are unhinged. You know,
you know who Jennifer Coolidge is. She was Stiffler's mom,
an American pie. Okay, yeah, she's great. She is such
a wonderful person. I've actually had the privilege of meeting her.
What these people are doing is they're going to all
of their favorite celebrities and seeing who they follow. And
Jennifer Coolidge followed Charlie Kirk's page every single post on
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this woman's Instagram right now is flooded with comments.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You followed Charlie Kirk, You're a Nazi, and it's like, ah, yeah,
they're unhinged.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow. And part of it is the belief of and
I definitely think this is mostly the Left, that the
real world is online. That's where everything important occurs is
in the you know, the direct messages of Twitter people
or Blue Sky people, and that is not where the
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real world is. But right, okay, we'll have more on
that a little bit later. So back to the hearing
yesterday with the FBI director. There, these things always devolve
into shouting matches, with people talking over the top of
each other. I don't know if anything is ever accomplished
in these hearings. As I've pointed out many times before,
and this is true, each congressperson, senator, their goal is
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to get on the evening news in their state or
district looking like a hero, and that's that's there's really
no attempt to accomplish anything beyond that. But anyway, Adam Schiff,
who I'm embarrassed to say is my one of my
US senators. Here in one last hold on, hold on, uh,
here's Adam Scheff Scheff. He is one of the senators
here in the state of California, and I think he
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is a absolute, complete, top to bottom fraud. And they
had just got into the discussion of why was g
dog Gislaine Maxwell moved from a real prison to a
phony prison, which is a question I actually have, But
he is talking to the FBI director about it, and
then it started to go off the rails.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Let me ask you one last question, and that is,
right after she gives this testimony front of an FBI agent,
among others, she's transferred to a minimum security prison not
suitable for a sex offender like herself.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Who made that decision and why.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The Bureau of Prisons, the.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Bureau of Decisions made it in prisons, The Bureau Prisons
decided on their own, without any consultation with Blanche or
anyone else, that they were gonna suddenly, after this interview,
completely unrelated to this interview, completely unrelated to anything she said,
move her to a prison not suitable for a sex offender.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You want the American people to believe that?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Do you think they're stupid?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I think the American people believe the truth that I'm
not in the weeds on the everyday movements in what
I am.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Doing is protecting this country, providing historic affairs, and I'm
batting the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of Europe.
And we have talentlessly proven you to be a lawyer
in Russia Gate in January sixth, brought to ever since
the United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I have disgrace to this, Michael, just because my head's
gonna explode. We'll get back to this for a second.
But they're so pointless, Oh they really are. We need
to figure something out. Maybe they should do it. It
should be written you you, you send questions and then
they send a written response, and if we all want
to read the questions response, we could do that. That
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might actually be a pretty good idea because it would
it would eliminate all the showmanship and the talking over
each other and all that sort of stuff. Now, I
actually am very interested in the why did you get
moved to the lesser prison? And whose idea was that?
And everything like that, But what in the FBI director
He doesn't have anything to do with it, and then
he turns it into Russia Gate and all that sort
of stuff, which Adam Shift was the greatest proponent of
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and as a complete fraud, as I already said. But
let's get back to them talking at the same time.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
You continue to lie from your person and put on
the show so you can go raise money for your charade.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You are political buffoon at best.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Oh well, you can take the FBI protected the state
and citicize California Historic.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Order.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But all you care about is a child sex predator
that was prosecuted by a prior administration and the Obama
Justice Department and the Biden Justice Department did squad?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And what did President Trump do?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Bring new charges courageously?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And what have we done?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Transparent FBI director in history thirty three thousand pages of
information to you, I challenge you to say anything credibly.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
To the truth. Go ahead and run to the cameras
where you want to go next. Both of you'll be quiet.
Both of you be quiet, said the one hundred and
five year old Grassley of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just bang that gavel, dude.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we
break out of these hearings that turn into this all
the time. Now, Cash Mattel making a good point there,
that needs to be made over and over. I would
prefer he makes it calmly. But the Obama administration had
this information. The Biden administration had this information. If you
wanted to do anything as a bunch of Democrats around Epstein,
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you had the chance. If there's any there there, you
could have released it at the time. The whole Epstein thing,
I don't get it at all, but I guess so
at some point, maybe we don't have that or maybe
it doesn't work for audio. They Shift wouldn't stop talking.
So Grassley, who is the senior member there in the
chair of the committee, had the ability to turn off
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Adam Shift's microphone. So Adam Shift's microphone was turned off
for a while. Or maybe that's what was going on there.
Is that why Hanson? Is that okay? So that's why
Patel was going on and on and Shift stopped talking.
Ship's microphone got turned off beautiful by the chair.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now, while these things are stupid, I do appreciate the
political buffoon line.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yes, yeah, and if we could isolate that, I thought
that was really cool. You are a buffoon and the
Ship said, well, his response was, well, hell, I didn't
know what to say to that exactly. I'm a phone,
am I. I guess that's the advantage of it being
in the majority, so that it's your party that holds
the little microphone button, because obviously you could have turned
(26:04):
off either one of their microphones or both their microphones
there when they're shouting over each other, but they turned
off poor Adams Shift's microphone. Finnest neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yes, Michael, you didn't say no when you know he's
asked that question.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
He just kind of went, well, are you a bufore me?
You know you got it like you caught me. Yeah,
caught me, befu you dead. You caught me with my buffoonery.
There's my buffoonery that gave me away. I had another
point to make. What was it? When you get to
be old, your points flit out of your head now
and then I think a ton and yelling each other
and the FBI Adam Shift in his thin neck and not.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
A long hitter, Mike being turned off, Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Being turned off. I know I had a point. I
don't it'll come back. It'll come back eventually. Whether we
get anything out of those hearings, I really don't know.
Maybe the point will pop it into my head while
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on this weekend, and Joe Burrow is out for weeks
for the Bengals, which really really sucks if you're a
Bengals fan. So we got the Corey Booker and Cash
Mattel's screaming at each other. We'll separate that by a
couple hours because I can only take so much of that.
I do want to hear the Cory Burker version, but
I can't hear them back to back, so we'll separate
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that with some other stuff. We got some good guests
coming up throughout the show to talk about a whole
bunch of different things. Lahy Chen a little bit later,
who knows more about California politics than anybody I know,
talking about that ridiculous referendum that Gavin Newsom is trying
to get going in November to redistrict right. That's his
attempt to take on Texas's redistricting. It's really Gavin Newsom's
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attempt to raise his name and face above everybody else
to be the Democratic nominee. To that point, Governor Josh
Shapiro Pennsylvania came out and gave a speech yesterday guaranteed
that's funny. The first thing I thought when I saw
Josh Shapiro on one of the cable news channels given
a speech yesterday, and he was talking about the political
(28:47):
discourse in this country and how we need to tone
it down. And remember some nutjob tried to burn down
his house while he was in it, him and his wife.
That was a horrible story. It could have been really horrible. Anyway,
The reason he gave that speech yesterday was he's like,
Newsom's getting all the attention. I need to raise my
profile a little bit. Gavin Newsom is going to get
his hind end kicked on November fourth, because that prop
(29:12):
he's pushing is polling horribly, even among Democrats. But we'll
talk about that with a couple different people. And the
prospects for Gavin Newsom of being the nominee and running
against Trump in his third term or whatever it's going
to be. Please. So the story of the old man
who pretended he was the shooter to draw the attention
(29:35):
away from the actual shooter. The details on that are interesting,
and I just I don't know if I'm buying it.
That's coming up next. Stay tuned.
Speaker 7 (29:41):
You are political buffoon at best.
Speaker 9 (29:49):
Well, guys, the stock markets has hit a record high,
and there are a lot of interesting reasons why stocks
go up or down.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
I'll show you what I mean. It's time for stockwatch.
Speaker 9 (30:01):
First, up, the Spirit Halloween stock is up because they
just got a fresh shipment of Philly's Karen and Coldplay
couple costumes.
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Here's another.
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Venmo stock is down because anyone who says all venmo
U after brunch is a lying bass. And finally, Cracker
Barrel stock is holding SETI because they're afraid to change anything.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Ever again, noelb to move. If you're a woman, Philly
Karen is a pretty good costume. If you're like a
middle aged woman, that's a good and it's easy to
throw together. That's what we're all looking for, right, something
really easy. Absolutely, so you throwing a hat. This is
before I get to real important stuff. This is the
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kind of headline that I miss back when Joe and
I before the world went crazy like ten years ago
or whatever it was, and we would like be scrambling
to find things to talk about. This is the sort
of thing that would make the news. American tennis star
Taylor Townsend has apologized from the bottom of her heart
for making disparaging comments about Chinese food. See that's the
sort of controversy we need in this world. Yeah, American
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tennis star bad mouths Chinese food good or bad? Upper down?
How outraged are you? So? This is a little from
ABC News last night and their report on the latest
with the scumbag killer.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
The man accused of gunning down conservative activist Charlie Kirk
in front of hundreds of people, appearing before judge for
the first time, now charged with seven counts, including aggravated murder.
Prosecutors said they would be seeking the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So on the death penalty. They have the firing squad
there in the Utah. So gotta believe that a guy
who shot another guy to death standing there and getting
shot to death himself would be I wouldn't mind seeing
it go out that way. Here's the part that angered
people from ABC News. We have seen an.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged
murder weapon, where it was hidden, how it was placed,
what was on it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But also it was very touching in a way that
I think.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Many of us didn't expect, a very intimate tortrait into
this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself,
with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, calling
him my love and I want to protect you, my love.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh wow, it's worse hearing it than in print. In print,
I thought, yeah, that's kind of a weird angle to take,
but hearing it, it was really touching. Yeah, that's not
the focus of the story. That's a weird way to
look at that. You got a guy who at that
point had he just killed Charlie Kirk. Was this just before?
(32:41):
It depends on which text you're looking at, but you
gotta a murderous scumbag. Let's not get into how touching
his romance was with his boyfriend girlfriend. That's weird. That's
a weird thing to do.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That's just they're just reaching at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'll get into those texts a little bit later because
they are kind of interesting. So a story that we've
already alluded to, more of the details on it, and
it's weird. If you were following this on Twitter, which
is the way to follow all news stories. If there's
a big story that breaks the news and you're flipping
on cable TV or looking at the new York Times,
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you're going to be hours behind getting information. You can
get information immediately on Twitter. Now you have to be
careful because a lot of it turns out to be
fake or wrong, but the really information is usually in
there somewhere if you dig hard enough. There was a
video of an old guy being held down on the
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ground by cops and looked like maybe being cuffed. That
came out Wow, within moments of Charlie Kirk being shot.
That I saw on Twitter right and thought, okay, wow,
they got the old guy. He was right there. And
then it was later announced to know this person had
been let go. Oh, and it's like, okay, boy, that
was a heck of mistake. A poor old guy. How
did that happen to him? Well, this is how it happened.
(34:06):
I'm reading from the New York Post version. This guy
named George Zinn, elderly rabble rouser who allegedly hindered Utah authorities,
was being charged with the number of things yesterday, including
child porn. Don't get confused by the child porn. That's
a separate thing. It's awful, he's a scumbag, but that's
a separal thing. This seventy one year old man started yelling,
(34:30):
I did it, I did it. I'm the shooter, right,
I mean, immediately after Charlie Kirk gets to the bullet
in the neck and goes over backwards and dies right,
he was taken into custodeer. They grabbed him right there,
and then eventually he fessed up to not being the
shooter and said that he was just trying to He
actually said that he was just trying to help the
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shooter get away.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, which means authorities went all hands on deck with
this guy, right, the actual the other scumbag, the actual
killer got away.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Now, they grabbed his phone, you know, because they thought
he had done it. And when they were going through
his phone, they found all kinds of childborn picks. And
now he's going to prison for that because he's a
childborn wordo. But is it even conceivable? So he obviously
did not like Charlie Kirk. He was somebody who was
(35:22):
there to like hate watch Charlie Kirk. Is it even conceivable?
It'd be like if I went to I don't know,
I don't know what to be in a good example
of some lefty pundit who I can't stand, and I
just wanted to see what they had to say. But
is it even conceivable that he was there? A shot
rings out, Charlie Kirk goes over backwards and he immediately thinks,
(35:45):
I know what I'll do. I'll yell it was me,
I'm the shooter, so that the person who did it
can get away. I just find that very difficult to
believe that anybody, especially a seventy one year old man,
would have the presence of mind to up with that
plan immediately with one second's notice.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That that's his knee jerk reaction is to start yelling that.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That just seems unlikely.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Now I'm seeing this guy is known for being kind
of a rabble rouser at political events and whatnot. He's
actually had run ends with authorities. But because of this,
but something's up here, I.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Think it's just well, like I said, it just seems
unlikely that you would have those thoughts immediately like that,
and I guarantee it helped scumback get away. Now, obviously
he didn't get away get away, but get away in
the moment. If everybody's attention was on that guy, that's very,
very weird, and certainly he's going to fuel conspiracy theories
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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Techie and Key Arms who live from studio c Hey
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dimple let room deeper than the bowels of the Armstrong
and Getty Communications Compound. And hey y'all, today we're under
the two ledge of l Signor Mencho, El signor Mencho.
I'll explain what that is in just a little bit.
Joe is not here. He's playing golf at some fancy,
fancy golf course. I think he's going to call in
at some point. He's playing at one of those golf
(00:56):
courses that he got to know somebody special to play at,
I think. Or he's just playing Pebble Beach, which is
no minor thing either, but that is a public course.
If you don't know anything about golf, that's a very
big deal. Some of the best golf courses in the
very world. Joe's a big golfer and that's where he is,
and he will call in later. What is El sennor Mencho.
El Sennor Mencho is the biggest drug kingpin in the
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world right now. He is in Mexico, he has been
able to displace some of the bigger cartels down there
that you've heard of for a variety of reasons, partially
because the biggest cartels have been at war with each
other and the Trump administration decided to crack down on fentanyl,
as we all know, cracking down on a lot of
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drugs see boats exploding at sea, et cetera. But it
has opened up an avenue for this guy, Senor Menchow,
the biggest drug kingpin in the world for cocaine, has
made a comeback in the United States, and apparently America's
love of cocaine is driving Mexico's new drug king to
(02:02):
cash in. Here's some of the stats that I thought
were interesting that I did not know anything about because
I'm not in that world. I've never been in that world,
but I'm certainly not in that world now. Cocaine sold
in the United States right now is cheaper than it
has been in forever, and more pure that it has
been forever. Consumption in the Western United States. Hey, that's
(02:22):
where I live has increased one hundred and fifty four
percent since twenty nineteen. WHOA how about that? And it's
funny that I had that conversation. Did you hear that
conversation I had yesterday, Katie. I was watching Bill Mars's show.
Is actually the episode where he had on Charlie Kirk
from just a couple of months ago. And Charlie Kirk,
(02:44):
if you know Charlie kirk'said act at all. He doesn't drink,
he doesn't do drugs of any kind, et cetera, et cetera.
And see he and Bill maher we're talking about that.
And Charlie Kirk was making the argument that he said,
I assume since he legalized pot that pot sales are up.
And Bill Marherson, you know what, I don't know, but
he said, when I go to Hollywood parties, the young
people don't have any interest in pot. They have interest
(03:06):
in the old fashioned hard drugs like cocaine. I said
that yesterday, and Joe and I were both like, Wow,
that's interesting. I didn't think anybody was doing that sort
of thing anymore because of fentanyl and all that. Well,
here we are today with the Wall Street Journal saying
cocaine is more pure than it has been in many,
many years in the United States, and cocaine uses up
one hundred and fifty four percent since twenty nineteen, So
(03:28):
throw all through the whole pandemic and everything. Ohoh, and
it's the belief that there ain't no fentanyl in that
the Trump administration and warring factions have really taken down
a lot of the fentanyl trades. You know.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I know Joe said this a few times, but I
still don't understand. And I get the fentanyls down, But
how you could even play that kind of game?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I know, either you're just hoping that. I guess you
just know it's true. I mean, obviously people believe, and
a part of that is how you get to be
the world's richest drug kingpin. I guess word gets out
that your stuff is pure, and people are I don't
know how you trust your drug dealer that he's given
you this stuff from this guy and not from somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Oh no, Kaman, he's a good guy, right.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
According to The Wall Street Journal, for new users, cocaine
doesn't carry the stigma of fentnyl addiction, middle class addicts
and the tragic spectacle of homeless crack cocaine users in
the nineteen nineties helped put a lid on America's last cocaine.
Cocaine epidemic, but right now it's vaccine is like back
being seen, is like what cool successful people do as
opposed to people on the street leaning against the overpass
(04:37):
with a hole in their leg from drank. So good
luck to those of you out there doing the cocaine.
So louck. I hate that news though, I mean because
I got two teenagers headed out into the world. We'll
see where this goes. The big news of the day,
and I could have made the general manager is Jerome Powell,
(04:59):
the chair to the Fed, as he is going to
announce a rate cut today. The media is acting like
it's a drama. It is not one hundred percent of
economists to believe he's going to cut rates today. So
that's a done deal. The only open question is heany
give you that, Michael? The only question is how much?
(05:20):
And practically all economists say a quarter point, some say
possibly a half point. But the market has already reacted
to that news. The effect on home mortgages and credit
card rates is going to be pretty dang small. It's
just it's the first step in the right direction. In
(05:42):
the right direction if it continues to go those way
to where people want to get. We're never going to
get back to home interest rates that we had there
for a while. Ever, it'll never it may never happen
again in the history of capitalism. But it's tough because
I've got in my head, just like you've gotten your
that a three percent mortgage makes sense. I'm not getting
(06:03):
a house until the mortgages get down to three. Well,
it's never gonna happen. Currently, a thirty year mortgage is
averaging six point three percent across the nation. That sounds
insanely high based on what we've had for quite a
few years. Historically, it's quite low. Historically you'd run out
and buy a house if you had one, you'd go
(06:24):
out and buy another one to take advantage of these
six percent mortgage rates. But they feel really, really high.
If you're locked into something in the threes, you're not
going to sell your house because you go out and
buy a smaller house at six point three percent with
maybe a higher mortgage payment every month, and you're actually
making for a smaller house. Mean, why would you do
(06:44):
that unless you have to move so anyway, the rate
adjustment today is not going to be enough to shake
loose the housing market. Or make much of a debt
in your credit card debt. Maybe we'll talk to some
expert a little bit later about that, but they are
going to rates today. That's almost guaranteed. Donald Trump is
in Great Britain. He's having a fancy pants dinner with
(07:06):
the Prime Minister and going to meet the King later.
I keep forgetting to stun a queen anymore. She passed
long leave the King, King Charles, and so they'll meet
and whoop whoop d s. I almost said a bad word.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Well, I'm glad you had some restraint.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, that's a phrase my dad had used before, whoopd
s saying the actual which I like that as a
phrase too. Whoo whoop d s.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm gonna start using that.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
In terms of yeah, big deal. And that's the way
I feel about President Trump meeting the King. Whoop d s.
So anyway, there are some news that could come out
of that, because they're probably going to they are going
to have a one on one meeting Trump and Starmer,
the Prime Minister, and they're going to talk about Ukraine, guaranteed,
and hopefully some news will leak out of that. As
(07:52):
far as the Charlie Kirk assassination. The latest is all
these texts that we've learned between the killer and his
boyfriend roommate. You got to help me out on this.
I haven't been following this closely. When they say trans
roommate lover boyfriend, do they mean it was a girl
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and now it's a boy.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
No, it is, it's a boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It shouldn't be saying it. But this person was a
girl and is now a boy or is a boy
and his has always been a boy, but is hoping
to become a girl.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
That the latter, So it is he is still a
boy working on transitioning to be a girl.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, So anyway, the text to his boyfriend, and we'll
read him verbatim a little bit later, but man has
some rough stuff in there.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Oh. In the media going on and on about how
touching it was.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
I saw that. I saw that emotional touching moments between
the two. He's a freaking cold blooded assassin. It doesn't
the boyfriend girlfriend into it anyway. They might be a
perfectly nice person, I don't know. And they're they're cooperating
(09:08):
completely with law enforcement, which is nice. But yes, some
of the texts about I just can't stand his hate anymore.
I've got to do something, and then explaining how. So
his plan was, according to the text to the boyfriend,
was he'd dropped that gun in the woods. I guess
he tried to go back and get it, but there
was too many cops around, and he was planning to
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try to go back later and get the gun. And
he said to the roommate boyfriend that if I can
get the gun, I think I'm gonna get away with this.
They won't have any way to figure out who I
am or track me. So he dropped that rifle in
the woods, thinking he could go back and get it
and then dispose of it well, and he made a
big mistake he left.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Apparently he left a screwdriver up on the roof where
he actually shot Charlie Kirk from and they got his
DNA off of that, so he would have been screwed
either way.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
What did he need the screwdriver for?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Did he I think there wasn't going to be this
level of FBI manhunt action going on after he shot
as high profile of person as Charlie Kirk. And then
he planned poorly, but he thought, well, they'll just look
around a little bit to leave. People will move on.
I'll go back to the woods to get my gun.
Wasn't the best plan in the world for somebody who
(10:20):
supposedly had a very, very high IQ. But we can
get into the actual details of those texts, and yeah,
we'll listen to that news reporter who talked about the
touching moments between the two. Sure, that's a sick way
to look at this.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Also, Cash Btello runs the FBI, was in front of
Congress yesterday and he got into some great screaming matches
with senators in the classic clown circus way that all
of these hearings turn out to be. I think they
should ban hearings. I don't think they do any of
us any good. We'll play some highlights from that a
little bit later. Might check in with one of our
(10:55):
military analysts on where things are with Israel with one
hundred and fifty strikes in Gaza. You know, Gaza is
not a very big area. I don't know if you
are aware of this, if you've ever looked on to Matt,
all of Gaza is smaller than the footprint of Chicago,
the entire area, country, whatever you want to call. It's
not a country obviously is pretty small. So one hundred
(11:17):
and fifty strikes in that are oh imagine one hundred
and fifty strikes on Chicago. That would seem like a lot.
But we'll check in on that war and a whole
bunch of other stuff. Let's start the show officially before
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He's Joe Getty on. This is a Wednesday up day.
That's why we have a camel in the studio. Kind
of large it is. It takes up a lot of
space soon and Michael's job is to clean up after it,
(11:41):
which is you know, another reason he doesn't like Wednesdays.
I hate him Wednesday, September seventeenth. They are twenty twenty five.
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stat I guess who does You didn't ever know it?
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Tou leg but out out he got Drake.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
The rake should be much Flawa, much much Flawa. That's
Donald Trump referring to the Federal chairman that he chose
as too late. He's done a poor job. He's called
him stupid in the past and said he's like talking
to a chair anyway, Jerome Powell will lower the interest
rates a little bit later. No, we had a camel
(12:21):
out at the farm for a while. Remember when I
wanted to get a giraft, Michael, That was before you
were on Katie was trying to get a giraffe. We
had a camel okay for a while, and pretty nice beast.
It walked around with the sheep and the horse and
everything else. Theypit Uh, it didn't spit on me. I'm
sure it's spit occasionally, but it never. It never spit
on me. That's a pretty decent beast. But it's harder
to get a draft than you would think once you
(12:43):
really look into it. You need all new fencing and yeah,
it becomes a hole. It becomes a whole thing. When
you decide to get a.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Giraft, I can imagine that could be complicated.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Yeah, so what are you gonna do? Uh? We got
Katie's headlines on the way and we gets into some
of that news that we mentioned. Here's our text line
four one, five, two, nine five kftc art he came
across the details. So the reason the idiot murderer had
a screwdriver up there on the roof and left it behind, Well,
this isn't the reason he left it behind. That was
(13:12):
an accident and had DNA on it, which will probably
be enough to convict him, and they're gonna shoot him.
So more on that later, the death penalty. But he
had the screwdriver, he had taken apart the rifle so
he could carry it in two parts in his pants
to get up there, and then had to reassemble it,
so that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Makes sense, and then he left it behind.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Yeah, well you'd probably be in a little bit of
a panic when you'd just taken someone's life. All right,
God dang it, how anybody does that? Okay, let's find
out what's going on headlines with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
All right, we'll start with Breitbart.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Older man initially arrested after Charlie Kirk shooting confessed to
distracting police from the real shooter.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
I saw this story. We've got to go into the
details on this. How weird, and that is going to
help conspiracy people think that this was more than just
a lone gunman. Who would have those thoughts immediately? It
was me. It was me to distract the police to
help somebody get away. I mean that, who would think that?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, a guy who, within further investigation, was also just
busted for possessing and distributing child porn obvios.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah, he's all kinds of crazy. But that's still say.
More on that coming up. That's a heck of a
story from ABC.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The Federal Reserves set to unveil its latest decision on.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
The level of interest rate.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I call him too late. He's like talking to a chair.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
From The New York Times.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
Israel pounds Gaza City as fears mount for hostages and
those inside.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah, I'm sure, and the chance of getting the hostages
out alive is very very low. The problem is, after
all of this time, Israel's made the determination, and I
think they're right. They ain't get the hostages back alive anyway,
and they.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Think there's still twenty that are a lot. Wow.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
That is.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
From NBC.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Four arrested after photos of Trump and Epstein projected onto
Windsor Castle during President's UK visits.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
I saw that so Joe was in England and found
this out. Epstein is a bigger story there in London
than it is here in the United States, really because
of Prince Andrew and everything like that. Oh yeah. One
of the reasons they're keeping Trump away from crowds is
there's concerns there's gonna be all kinds of people screaming.
Epstein questions at him.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
From CNN, More families sue character AI developer alleging app
played role in teams suicide and suicide attempts.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Wow, that is wild. I haven't had conversations, and maybe
I should just to check it out. I haven't had
like heart to heart conversations with the with the chatbots
I have. It feels weird you.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Have, I have, and it's it's very personable.
Speaker 1 (15:57):
Like you feel like you're talking to somebody. Yeah, it
passes the Turing test. It seems like a human.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Roh.
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Sure.
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Their politics are nuts. The ice cream is delicious.
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His quote goes it's about more than just ice cream.
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Speaker 1 (17:00):
So a bunch of those stories we need to fill out,
especially that old man who distracted the cops, and he
did a good job of it. I mean that that
had all the attention there in the first fifteen twenty minutes.
If you were following the assassination on Twitter, would you
come up with that off the top of your head?
Or was he working with the numb nuts a lot
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But I am, mister chairman, not afraid of you. Verbal
fireworks on Capitol Hill today as FBI.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Director Cash Pattel took incoming criticism from both sides of
the aisle.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
He saved your plates pretty full.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
I would urge you get with your people and if
you think you need more people, now's the time to
do it.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Will you look, I will look, sir. So that's a
little bit of the hearing yesterday that had the FBI
Director Cash Pattel there in front of some Senate and
that was Senator Corey Booker yelling you can't intimidate me
or fright me or I'm not scared of you or
whatever it was. He said, I wasn't paying attention. And
we'll have more of that one because that was pretty
fiery a little bit later. But we've got a different
(18:12):
one to feature this segment. I forgot I came across this.
There continues to be a lot of blowback around the
horrifying assassination for people who are either cheering it on
or taking odd views on it. Former Batman Michael Keaton
(18:34):
got the rough edge of the internet yesterday as he
was given a speech somewhere where he said the irony
was he was killed with a gun, and that is
unbelievable because he believed in the Second Amendment and people's
(18:54):
right to own a gun. I do not get how
that is ironic. What is that?
Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's nothing?
Speaker 1 (19:01):
It's nothing. It's a nothing, unless unless you're taking some
sort of absolutist you think there's a world we could
live in where nobody had guns, I mean a deer rifle.
Nobody has ever even considered the idea that we're gonna
outlaw deer rifles, which is what was used to kill
poor Charlie Kirk. So I don't, I don't even. I
(19:22):
don't even. I don't what is your point? I guess
it makes you sound you feel like that makes you
sound enlightened or cool around this issue.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I don't know well, and these people are unhinged. You know,
you know who Jennifer Coolidge is. She was Stiffler's mom,
an American pie. Okay, yeah, she's great. She is such
a wonderful person. I've actually had the privilege of meeting her.
What these people are doing is they're going to all
of their favorite celebrities and seeing who they follow. And
Jennifer Coolidge followed Charlie Kirk's page every single post on
(19:55):
this woman's Instagram right now is flooded with comments.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
You followed Charlie Kirk, You're a Nazi, and it's like, ah, yeah,
they're unhinged.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Wow. And part of it is the belief of and
I definitely think this is mostly the Left, that the
real world is online. That's where everything important occurs is
in the you know, the direct messages of Twitter people
or Blue Sky people, and that is not where the
(20:26):
real world is. But right, okay, we'll have more on
that a little bit later. So back to the hearing
yesterday with the FBI director. There, these things always devolve
into shouting matches, with people talking over the top of
each other. I don't know if anything is ever accomplished
in these hearings. As I've pointed out many times before,
and this is true, each congressperson, senator, their goal is
(20:50):
to get on the evening news in their state or
district looking like a hero, and that's that's there's really
no attempt to accomplish anything beyond that. But anyway, Adam Schiff,
who I'm embarrassed to say is my one of my
US senators. Here in one last hold on, hold on, uh,
here's Adam Scheff Scheff. He is one of the senators
here in the state of California, and I think he
(21:12):
is a absolute, complete, top to bottom fraud. And they
had just got into the discussion of why was g
dog Gislaine Maxwell moved from a real prison to a
phony prison, which is a question I actually have, But
he is talking to the FBI director about it, and
then it started to go off the rails.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
Let me ask you one last question, and that is,
right after she gives this testimony front of an FBI agent,
among others, she's transferred to a minimum security prison not
suitable for a sex offender like herself.
Speaker 3 (21:49):
Who made that decision and why.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
The Bureau of Prisons, the.
Speaker 6 (21:53):
Bureau of Decisions made it in prisons, The Bureau Prisons
decided on their own, without any consultation with Blanche or
anyone else, that they were gonna suddenly, after this interview,
completely unrelated to this interview, completely unrelated to anything she said,
move her to a prison not suitable for a sex offender.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
You want the American people to believe that?
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Do you think they're stupid?
Speaker 1 (22:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I think the American people believe the truth that I'm
not in the weeds on the everyday movements in what
I am.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Doing is protecting this country, providing historic affairs, and I'm
batting the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of Europe.
And we have talentlessly proven you to be a lawyer
in Russia Gate in January sixth, brought to ever since
the United States Senate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I have disgrace to this, Michael, just because my head's
gonna explode. We'll get back to this for a second.
But they're so pointless, Oh they really are. We need
to figure something out. Maybe they should do it. It
should be written you you, you send questions and then
they send a written response, and if we all want
to read the questions response, we could do that. That
(23:07):
might actually be a pretty good idea because it would
it would eliminate all the showmanship and the talking over
each other and all that sort of stuff. Now, I
actually am very interested in the why did you get
moved to the lesser prison? And whose idea was that?
And everything like that, But what in the FBI director
He doesn't have anything to do with it, and then
he turns it into Russia Gate and all that sort
of stuff, which Adam Shift was the greatest proponent of
(23:29):
and as a complete fraud, as I already said. But
let's get back to them talking at the same time.
Speaker 6 (23:34):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
I'm not surprised.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
You continue to lie from your person and put on
the show so you can go raise money for your charade.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
You are political buffoon at best.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Oh well, you can take the FBI protected the state
and citicize California Historic.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Order.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
But all you care about is a child sex predator
that was prosecuted by a prior administration and the Obama
Justice Department and the Biden Justice Department did squad?
Speaker 3 (24:11):
And what did President Trump do?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
Bring new charges courageously?
Speaker 1 (24:15):
And what have we done?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Transparent FBI director in history thirty three thousand pages of
information to you, I challenge you to say anything credibly.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
To the truth. Go ahead and run to the cameras
where you want to go next. Both of you'll be quiet.
Both of you be quiet, said the one hundred and
five year old Grassley of Iowa.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I just bang that gavel, dude.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Okay, yeah, I don't know. I don't know how we
break out of these hearings that turn into this all
the time. Now, Cash Mattel making a good point there,
that needs to be made over and over. I would
prefer he makes it calmly. But the Obama administration had
this information. The Biden administration had this information. If you
wanted to do anything as a bunch of Democrats around Epstein,
(25:00):
you had the chance. If there's any there there, you
could have released it at the time. The whole Epstein thing,
I don't get it at all, but I guess so
at some point, maybe we don't have that or maybe
it doesn't work for audio. They Shift wouldn't stop talking.
So Grassley, who is the senior member there in the
chair of the committee, had the ability to turn off
(25:23):
Adam Shift's microphone. So Adam Shift's microphone was turned off
for a while. Or maybe that's what was going on there.
Is that why Hanson? Is that okay? So that's why
Patel was going on and on and Shift stopped talking.
Ship's microphone got turned off beautiful by the chair.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Now, while these things are stupid, I do appreciate the
political buffoon line.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Yes, yeah, and if we could isolate that, I thought
that was really cool. You are a buffoon and the
Ship said, well, his response was, well, hell, I didn't
know what to say to that exactly. I'm a phone,
am I. I guess that's the advantage of it being
in the majority, so that it's your party that holds
the little microphone button, because obviously you could have turned
(26:04):
off either one of their microphones or both their microphones
there when they're shouting over each other, but they turned
off poor Adams Shift's microphone. Finnest neck I've ever seen.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Yes, Michael, you didn't say no when you know he's
asked that question.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
He just kind of went, well, are you a bufore me?
You know you got it like you caught me. Yeah,
caught me, befu you dead. You caught me with my buffoonery.
There's my buffoonery that gave me away. I had another
point to make. What was it? When you get to
be old, your points flit out of your head now
and then I think a ton and yelling each other
and the FBI Adam Shift in his thin neck and not.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
A long hitter, Mike being turned off, Mike.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Being turned off. I know I had a point. I
don't it'll come back. It'll come back eventually. Whether we
get anything out of those hearings, I really don't know.
Maybe the point will pop it into my head while
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Bengals fan. So we got the Corey Booker and Cash
Mattel's screaming at each other. We'll separate that by a
couple hours because I can only take so much of that.
I do want to hear the Cory Burker version, but
I can't hear them back to back, so we'll separate
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that with some other stuff. We got some good guests
coming up throughout the show to talk about a whole
bunch of different things. Lahy Chen a little bit later,
who knows more about California politics than anybody I know,
talking about that ridiculous referendum that Gavin Newsom is trying
to get going in November to redistrict right. That's his
attempt to take on Texas's redistricting. It's really Gavin Newsom's
(28:27):
attempt to raise his name and face above everybody else
to be the Democratic nominee. To that point, Governor Josh
Shapiro Pennsylvania came out and gave a speech yesterday guaranteed
that's funny. The first thing I thought when I saw
Josh Shapiro on one of the cable news channels given
a speech yesterday, and he was talking about the political
(28:47):
discourse in this country and how we need to tone
it down. And remember some nutjob tried to burn down
his house while he was in it, him and his wife.
That was a horrible story. It could have been really horrible. Anyway,
The reason he gave that speech yesterday was he's like,
Newsom's getting all the attention. I need to raise my
profile a little bit. Gavin Newsom is going to get
his hind end kicked on November fourth, because that prop
(29:12):
he's pushing is polling horribly, even among Democrats. But we'll
talk about that with a couple different people. And the
prospects for Gavin Newsom of being the nominee and running
against Trump in his third term or whatever it's going
to be. Please. So the story of the old man
who pretended he was the shooter to draw the attention
(29:35):
away from the actual shooter. The details on that are interesting,
and I just I don't know if I'm buying it.
That's coming up next. Stay tuned.
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kind of headline that I miss back when Joe and
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to find things to talk about. This is the sort
of thing that would make the news. American tennis star
Taylor Townsend has apologized from the bottom of her heart
for making disparaging comments about Chinese food. See that's the
sort of controversy we need in this world. Yeah, American
(31:07):
tennis star bad mouths Chinese food good or bad? Upper down?
How outraged are you? So? This is a little from
ABC News last night and their report on the latest
with the scumbag killer.
Speaker 10 (31:21):
The man accused of gunning down conservative activist Charlie Kirk
in front of hundreds of people, appearing before judge for
the first time, now charged with seven counts, including aggravated murder.
Prosecutors said they would be seeking the death penalty.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
So on the death penalty. They have the firing squad
there in the Utah. So gotta believe that a guy
who shot another guy to death standing there and getting
shot to death himself would be I wouldn't mind seeing
it go out that way. Here's the part that angered
people from ABC News. We have seen an.
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Alleged murder with such specific text messages about the alleged
murder weapon, where it was hidden, how it was placed,
what was on it.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
But also it was very touching in a way that
I think.
Speaker 5 (32:05):
Many of us didn't expect, a very intimate tortrait into
this relationship between the suspect's roommate and the suspect himself,
with him repeatedly calling his roommate, who was transitioning, calling
him my love and I want to protect you, my love.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Oh wow, it's worse hearing it than in print. In print,
I thought, yeah, that's kind of a weird angle to take,
but hearing it, it was really touching. Yeah, that's not
the focus of the story. That's a weird way to
look at that. You got a guy who at that
point had he just killed Charlie Kirk. Was this just before?
(32:41):
It depends on which text you're looking at, but you
gotta a murderous scumbag. Let's not get into how touching
his romance was with his boyfriend girlfriend. That's weird. That's
a weird thing to do.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
That's just they're just reaching at this point.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
I'll get into those texts a little bit later because
they are kind of interesting. So a story that we've
already alluded to, more of the details on it, and
it's weird. If you were following this on Twitter, which
is the way to follow all news stories. If there's
a big story that breaks the news and you're flipping
on cable TV or looking at the new York Times,
(33:21):
you're going to be hours behind getting information. You can
get information immediately on Twitter. Now you have to be
careful because a lot of it turns out to be
fake or wrong, but the really information is usually in
there somewhere if you dig hard enough. There was a
video of an old guy being held down on the
(33:44):
ground by cops and looked like maybe being cuffed. That
came out Wow, within moments of Charlie Kirk being shot.
That I saw on Twitter right and thought, okay, wow,
they got the old guy. He was right there. And
then it was later announced to know this person had
been let go. Oh, and it's like, okay, boy, that
was a heck of mistake. A poor old guy. How
did that happen to him? Well, this is how it happened.
(34:06):
I'm reading from the New York Post version. This guy
named George Zinn, elderly rabble rouser who allegedly hindered Utah authorities,
was being charged with the number of things yesterday, including
child porn. Don't get confused by the child porn. That's
a separate thing. It's awful, he's a scumbag, but that's
a separal thing. This seventy one year old man started yelling,
(34:30):
I did it, I did it. I'm the shooter, right,
I mean, immediately after Charlie Kirk gets to the bullet
in the neck and goes over backwards and dies right,
he was taken into custodeer. They grabbed him right there,
and then eventually he fessed up to not being the
shooter and said that he was just trying to He
actually said that he was just trying to help the
(34:52):
shooter get away.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, which means authorities went all hands on deck with
this guy, right, the actual the other scumbag, the actual
killer got away.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Now, they grabbed his phone, you know, because they thought
he had done it. And when they were going through
his phone, they found all kinds of childborn picks. And
now he's going to prison for that because he's a
childborn wordo. But is it even conceivable? So he obviously
did not like Charlie Kirk. He was somebody who was
(35:22):
there to like hate watch Charlie Kirk. Is it even conceivable?
It'd be like if I went to I don't know,
I don't know what to be in a good example
of some lefty pundit who I can't stand, and I
just wanted to see what they had to say. But
is it even conceivable that he was there? A shot
rings out, Charlie Kirk goes over backwards and he immediately thinks,
(35:45):
I know what I'll do. I'll yell it was me,
I'm the shooter, so that the person who did it
can get away. I just find that very difficult to
believe that anybody, especially a seventy one year old man,
would have the presence of mind to up with that
plan immediately with one second's notice.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
That that's his knee jerk reaction is to start yelling that.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
That just seems unlikely.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Now I'm seeing this guy is known for being kind
of a rabble rouser at political events and whatnot. He's
actually had run ends with authorities. But because of this,
but something's up here, I.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Think it's just well, like I said, it just seems
unlikely that you would have those thoughts immediately like that,
and I guarantee it helped scumback get away. Now, obviously
he didn't get away get away, but get away in
the moment. If everybody's attention was on that guy, that's very,
very weird, and certainly he's going to fuel conspiracy theories
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