October 21, 2024 • 27 mins
Trump talks about the size of Arnold Palmers 'Club' at Pennsylvania rally. Elon Musk is offering $1 million daily prize for signing his petition. Sinwars death changes nothing. Crisis at Boeing and intel are a national emergency.
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You're listening to KAPI AM six forty. The Bill handles
show on demand on the iHeartRadio. FLA Trow, Pennsylvania is
where Arnold Palmer was born and grew up. And the
airport there is the Arnold Palmer Airport and named the
airport after him. In the rally, as many of Trump
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rallies are there at the airport, he flies in and boy,
let me tell you, the visuals are really terrific. He
flies in on the Trump plane. It is you've seen
those letters nineteen feet high on the plane, comes in,
goes off the plane front of Electron at the bottom
of the stairs, does his thing and leaves. And it's
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a very effective way to campaign. And even though there
were from what's being reported by the New York Times,
several hundred people there and that was it. It's really
not for those hundreds of people or thousands of people.
It's because it's covered like crazy. National news covers it,
certainly local news, and it is just a neat way
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to get the message across. So twelve minutes of his
rally and he goes on forever. At most of his rallies,
he got into describing Arnold Palmer and the size of
his Palmer, that Arnold Palmer has a very large fontz
or did and that was twelve minutes of it. Also
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well included a bunch of remarks about it and gave
him a lot of accolades, and then went on to
talk about Harris and use the four letter word for crap.
Am I even allowed. I don't think I'm allowed to
say the actual word. Am I, No, I can't. Anyway,
he does that, and he goes, she is, and then
the crowd screams the word. And anyway, the point of
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this one is the backlash he is getting for talking
about Arnold's schwantz and in a big way literally and figuratively.
He said that when Arnold Palmer Palmer would go into
the shower, the other golfers would come out and they go, wow,
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look at that. That's my god, that's unbelievable. Went on
to say, I refuse to say it, but then of
course he went on to say it, and Trump chuckles.
I mean it was funny, and he said later on,
I have to tell you about the shower part because
it's true. What can I tell you? We want to
be honest, any other politician talking about someone else's Schwantz
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would go down in a heartbeat. The problem is among
those that are anti Trump, this does not hurt him,
it doesn't help him. There were interviews all through the
weekend where staunch Republicans would say, Hey, I don't like it,
but let's talk about the issues even if Trump does
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not talk about a lot of the issues. And I'll
tell you why this one doesn't. I don't know what
the outrage is. This is Donald Trump. This is the
kind of stuff that he says. He has a pass.
He is teflon in that regard. He can just keep
on going. And for those people that are pro Trump,
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that's going to change anybody's mind. For those people that
are anti Trump, is that going to change anybody's mind?
Everybody knows who he is now. There is some stuff
that he has ordered, that he has uttered that I
think is dangerous. Beside a dead Arnold Palmer's fonse, I
don't care. The argument that Barack Obama, for example, was
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not born in the United States and was ineligible to
be the president, that one I have a problem with.
Also arguing about the election. You know how I feel
about the election. The lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, arguing
that the election was rigged. That's problematic the rest of
this stuff. Frankly, I just think it's who cares really now?
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The independence is these people are going to decide the
presidency in the battleground states. Most of the electorate, the
thinking is already baked in. Either your four or you're not.
And unfortunately, there are a lot of Democrats that refuse
to vote, period. And that's what's scaring the Democrats. This
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is why Barack Obama is going out and hard, hard
pressing for Democrats to go out and vote, particularly black men.
For some reason, they are just not coming out in droves,
far less terms of the polls than they did so
for Joe Biden. But when it comes to all of this,
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I mean, who cares even the independence. Let's say I'm independent,
I am not. You know my position as far as
Donald Trump, and I'm not even talking policy, I believe
he's just unfit to be the president. That's it. It's
just that simple. I hold the presidency in such high
regard that I do not want someone of this ilk
to be president. And in many cases I agree. Policy wise,
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I think Kamala Harris is crazy in a lot of places, well,
she's going to stop the overcharging, the gouging. I don't
even know what that means from the food companies, particularly
the supermarkets. I don't know what gouging is at what price?
Ten percent profit, twenty percent profit. So in many ways
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I think she's out of her mind. But when it
comes to this sort of stuff, come on, guys, this
is Trump and this is what he does. And by
the way, Arnold Palmer, from what I understand, did have
a big schwantz. Now, as I said earlier when we
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were doing the news, he was noted for doing rope
tricks and he didn't have a rope. I mean, the
guy was you know, Oh my god, look at the
size of that thing. He was a man's man, as
far as Trump was concerned. A real man's man basically
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look like a baby's arm with an apple in its fist. Okay,
I don't want to describe it. God, I don't know
what you're I just wanted to make sure that you
understood the visual here. Now there's a story. Oh, before
I get into that, I'm gonna remind you or tell
you coming up at eight o'clock. As you know today,
I've just come back from my vacation and I was
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overseas in Europe, Ireland and Italy, and I talked to
a whole lot of people about the presidential election. I'm
going to share with you what I got from it
amongst dozens of people. I'll share that coming up at
eight o'clock in the meantime, talking about the presidential coming
up in a couple of weeks, Elon Musks. Musk has
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announced that he is warning a million dollars a day
to a randomly chosen voter who has signed his petition
pledging to uphold the rights to free speech and to
bear arms. And this is like almost saying register to vote.
Not quite. The argument is that this may be illegal,
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and a lot of Democrats are saying nope, this may
be illegal. Why because federal law does not allow anything
of value to be given to anybody to either vote
or to register to vote. And the argument is for
him to say, if you sign this petition that is
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from his American pack, his America pack, and it's clearly
to boost Donald Trump in his presidential election, if you
sign this, We're going to at random pick someone that
gets a million dollars whoever signs his petition. And somebody
has already done that and made a made a video
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the winner. You can see him and the boy. It's
all over the social sat on as on a sofa
and this oversized version of his million dollar check and
urges people to head to the polls. So is what
he has done legal? Yeah, because he's not actually asking
people to register. He is saying sign this petition that
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talks about Second Amendment rights and free speech. And that's
one of the prime platform statements that Donald Trump and
the conservatives, the evangelicals even have said. Freedom of speech
means that the separation of church and state, which has
been sacrisyanct in the US since the liberal courts have
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said so, is now coming back. Prayer in school, silent prayer.
The Supreme Court even talked about how you cannot have silence.
Let's take a moment of silence that was considered religion.
I mean, the court really went pretty far. It was
I mean, there was a lawsuit about and it was
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a father who fould lawsuit against forcing students to stand
up and say the Pledge of Allegiance because it says
under God. Therefore, people who are not religious are being
stigmatized and are actually being forced to accept the fact
that they're teaching God. Well, basically lost. The Supreme Court said,
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you know, too bad on that one. Same thing with
money in God we trust, which by the way, started
I think in the fifties. A court after court said nah,
and the Supreme Court said, nah, we're going to accept
that one, too bad, even though the argument was violation
of separation of church and state. Now you're going to
see a lot more religion because the courts have gone
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to that point. It's a very conservative court and Elon
Musk has jumped all over this, and what he is
saying is prayer in school effectively freedom of religion. That's
what it means today. Second Amendment rights, well, we all
know what that is. And therefore you can win a
million bucks if all you do is sign this petition,
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and it's to engage the electorate to get them. And
by the way, I think you have to when you
sign the petition, your email goes on there and tell
me you're not getting anything inundated with emails from the
Trump campaign and other Republican campaigns. And this is just
another way for and it's a clever way of doing this.
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By the way, it's when you think about Elon Musk
throwing at this point seventy five million dollars into his
pack to push for Trump. You know, in the battleground states,
you can't buy any more airtime. You can't. They're completely
sold out. You cannot buy a television commercial, you cannot
buy a radio commercial. You can't. So where do you go.
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You have to find out different ways of doing it.
Boots on the ground, for example, knocking on doors. That's
where most of the money is being spent. Right now,
Elon Musk has gone from I think Donald Trump Donald
Trump is a jerk, to just an awesome supporter and
throwing his money. He truly believes that Donald Trump is
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the end all be all, And there was talk about
does he get a position in the administration if he
supports Trump? If you remember that initial talk, he will.
It'll be a non paid position. It'll be some kind
of commission in terms of technology, but he will be
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a member of the administration. If Donald Trump gets elected.
And he came out, god, really weird. I mean, Musk
is a weird guy. You've got a weird guy in
a weird presidential candidate. So Musk comes out at one
of the rallies and starts dancing and the same thing
that Trump does, starts dancing. By the way, have you
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seen Trump dance? Boy? Can that man dance? Oh yeah,
you talk about rhythm? Who can he dance? That is?
You think there were a few memes on that one.
All right, guys, we're done with that. Coming up the
death of Yeah Yah Sinwar, the head of Haramas. We're
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going to talk a little bit about how the hamasnik
has died, as well as other high end members of
Hamas and the hierarchy, and Wyatt means is basically nothing.
And everybody thought, oh my god, they killed them. Therefore
were on our way to some kind of negotiation. No, no,
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and it's both side's fault, and I will tell you
why that is. And then coming up at eight o'clock,
my conversation with people overseas, Ireland and Italy about this
presidential election and two themes. Two themes were going through
all of it, and I'll share that with you now.
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The other thing is a little international in scope, and
I was listening to the news as I was overseas,
and that is the death of Yeah Yah Sinwar, the
Kamas leader who was in jail, by the way, for
twenty years in Israel for and convicted of a terrorist attack.
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And during one of the negotiations, particularly it was when
Guy shild Or she had Guy Leel, the Israeli soldier
was picked up and held for six years and there
was a ransom where there was an agreement. A thousand
Palestinian prisoners were released for this one Israeli and among
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them was Sinwar and he's the one that actually masterminded
the October seventh attack. So this is a bad guy
that Israel desperately wanted to either capture, which was never
going to happen, or killed, and he was killed sort
of in a fluke way. Israel just got lucky. It
was a regular wasn't an attack on him, it was
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it wasn't a military move to kill him. It was
just a regular fight with the Hamas fighters and Israel
and Israel patrol and boom, they got him. So he's
now dead. So what happens because he was a hard
hard liner, We keep on this war no matter what. Well,
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I'll tell you why, nothing's going to change because the
Hamas leadership, we don't even know who's in the leadership,
because Israel has taken out the hierarchy completely, and so
there's a vacuum, but it's going to be filled. But
what the thinking is among Hamas leadership is that we
just keep the war going. It's good for Hamas to
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keep the war going. Why because they're going to lose
in the short run. I mean, look what's happening to Gaza.
But when this is over, they will declare victory because
we were able to fight the Israelis and off they
go and Gaza is now once again its own state
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without Israeli occupation. And the fact that forty two thousand
Palestinians have been killed and I only count about two
thirds of that because a third of those are Hamas
militants and I don't view them as being killed in
innocence in any way. And more are going to be killed.
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And two point two million have been displaced, which is
ninety something percent of the entire population of Gaza, and
two thirds of Gaza has been decimated. I mean two
thirds of the entire country has been effectively wipe out
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in terms of infrastructure, in terms of homes and buildings
and roads. Even getting humanitarian aid has been cut off Israel,
says oh we're allowing humanitarian aid. That's just not true.
It is a croc nitianna who is and I'm going
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to say this, this guy believes in this war and
for personal reasons too. I don't think it has much
to do with global geopolitics. I think he just wants
to stay in power. Because let me tell you what
happens once he is out of power. His trial for
corruption moves on. Right now, he can't be tried because
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he is head of state. That sound familiar. Once he
leaves office, he's just a guy who is accused of
total corruption and I think he's going to be convicted.
So for him to stay in power is everything. And
how do you stay in power a war? Nobody removes
ahead of state during a war, and that's what's going
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on with him. And then you have Hamas that they'd
rather have the war than not. And why is that?
Because when the war is over all of a sudden,
Hamas has to look at everyone in the country that
has been displaced, everyone that ever owned a building or
drove on the streets, or was involved in helping people
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eat or deal with the medical issues as in doctors, nurses,
because all the hospitals have effectively been wiped out. And
here's what Hamas has done. It has taken the entire
population of Gaza and made everyone a martyr without their agreement,
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without consultations with them. Because when you look at martyrs,
these are people who jump into it and they do
it with open eyes. So there's a lot of reckoning
to be done on both sides, and both sides do
not want this war over Israel. I think has a
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hell of an argument in that this is a government
in Gaza that they're and they've admitted this. The most
important thing for Hamas is the destruction of Israel. More
important than governance, will, more important than sustaining infrastructure. It's
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the destruction of Israel. And Israel says, hey, we can't
take that. And by the way, look what's happening in Lebanine.
They've got the same issue. Israel is not screwing around anymore.
You attack Israel, you're going to get it right back.
Five times as much, ten times as much. Twelve hundred
Israelis were killed in October seventh. Now when you talk
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about when you compare forty two thousand to twelve hundred,
it seems really off, doesn't it. I mean, that's not proportional,
although I don't know anybody who's using the word proportional anymore.
It just so happens, though, that those twelve hundred that
were massacred was the worst massacre of Israelis of Jews
since the Holocaust. So that means a whole lot to
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the people of Israel. So both sides at this point
want the war to continue. Israel has lost in the
hundreds of soldiers and there's been some damage. Gaza has
lost its entire population in terms of being displaced, and
eighty or seventy five percent of the buildings are gone. Lebanon,
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Hisbelah has done the same thing. Israel wasn't interested in
occupying Lebanon, not since two thousand and six when Israel invaded.
Now Israel says, you just leave us alone. Well Hasbolah
said no? So as soon as the fight starts October eighth,
when Israel invades Gaza, then you have Hisbela Southern Lebanon
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decide they're going to launch the missiles in solidarity with
the Palestinians. Well, Israel's taken out whole sections of whole
sections of Lebanon. Southern Lebanon and now you have how
many people displaced. I don't know how many, hundreds of thousands.
You know, it's gotten to the point now where it's
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no longer tit for tat. It is tat tat tat,
tat tat, tat, tat for tit. Does that make sense?
You can take that the wrong way, Neil. I know
you gave me that weird look, but I think you
can take that the wrong way. And even though I
would go into that rabbit hole, I didn't on that one. Okay,
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moving on, Boeing, of course, you know is in huge,
huge trouble, and Intel is in sort of the same category.
And I'll tell you what's happening with that. And this
more than just a couple of companies that have real trouble.
It affects every one of us in America. And I'll explain.
And then eight o'clock my conversations with people overseas about
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the presidential election, and two themes that I heard over
and over again, the Yankees and the Dodgers. That's pretty
big news. And of course some geopolitical news that I
talked about World War three. It doesn't matter. You've got
North Korea saying it's going to launch an atomic weapon.
And yeah, yah sinowar and what happened in the Middle
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East that keeps ongoing, but nothing like the Dodgers. And
I don't think I'm far wrong on that one. I
really don't. Amy is wearing her Dodger jersey that looks
like a Disneyland jersey with a big d. Amy. It's
sort of a hybrid. Oh okay, sorry to interrupt you
while you're eating I that's okay, Yeah, no, I understand.
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That's what this show is all about. Breakfast. I'm just
trying to be like you, Bill, I know you. We
should call it Breakfast in the morning, you know, one
of those breakfast shows. Okay, moving on to what's happening
internationally and certainly domestically, And this is where both parties
are heavily involved. Harris as well as Trump are basically
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on the same page on this one, and that is
manufacturing has gone to hell in this country. And to
give you an idea of Boeing and Intel, two of
the biggest manufacturers in the US, are worth about half
of what they were in the last five years. Wow.
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And why is that? Well, because the bean counters have
come in to play here. That's what's happening. Boweing used
to be one of the most engineering, not just friendly,
but engineering based companies in the world. Profits were secondary
to engineering. You have good engineering, face, you have great airplanes,
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money follows. So well that's not the case. Let's save
money no matter what. And look at the crashes. Look
what's been happening. Boeing lost eighteen months seven thirty seven Max.
The Max eight was just stop production and they're simply
not selling airplanes. Air Bus is going crazy. Intel. Here
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is a little factoid. Do you know that Intel turned
down making the major chip for the iPhone? They said, no,
we don't want it, We're not going to make enough money.
Well that's brilliant, isn't it. So here's what's happening. We're
still at the top of the heap, American American technology.
The problem is manufacturing. The top of the heap has
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been outsourced. For example, do you know where all the
chips are made that are used in the US with
the phones other than the iPhone? I think even the
iPhone in Taiwan. The biggest chip manufacturer on the planet
is in Taiwan. And if China takes over Taiwan, and
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that's only a question of time. Can you imagine they
are going to control the international market for chips, of
which nothing we do we cannot do without chips, these
computer chips. I mean, it is getting really rough. I
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was flying overseas and the first question is I go
up to the gate and throw my baggage in? Is
I always ask what aircraft are we flying? And when
I'm told it's Airbus, huh, I have a relief flying back.
I flew on at American Airlines Boeing, and I'm going, Oh,
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the good news. It was a Boeing that was manufactured
fifteen twenty years ago. It was the Triple seven, and
those were the days when manufacturing excellence was simply part
of what Boeing was all about. A new Boeing airliner,
I've got big problems. Airbus fantastic. And you know who's
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up and coming in the world world of airlines, in
the worlds of the big ones, the jumbos. Right now,
it's Airbus and it is Boeing. Those are the two
coming up very quickly. Is China. The state owned company
Comac now is delivering a competition to the seven thirty
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seven and the Airbus A three twenty, which is effectively
the Airbus's version of the seven thirty seven. So are
we gonna do anything about it? Well, right now it's
tariffs and subsidies. Does that work? No? Not really, that's
gonna make prices go up. It has to be a
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different mindset. It has to be get the bean counters
out of there. I mean, keep them, but don't run
and run the company, especially when you're talking about something
like computer chips or airplanes coming up. Talking about airplanes,
which of course I had to fly because I went
to Europe. I spent a lot of time talking to people,
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I mean taxi drivers, people at hotels, sitting in airports,
asking folks what they thought of the presidential election coming up.
And there were two ongoing themes that they talk about.
And it's not Donald Trump being crazy either, the stuff
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that he says that we're all going, oh my god,
they don't care. I'll tell you what they really do
care about, and I'll do that segment coming right up.
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show on demand on the iHeartRadio. FLA Trow, Pennsylvania is
where Arnold Palmer was born and grew up. And the
airport there is the Arnold Palmer Airport and named the
airport after him. In the rally, as many of Trump
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rallies are there at the airport, he flies in and boy,
let me tell you, the visuals are really terrific. He
flies in on the Trump plane. It is you've seen
those letters nineteen feet high on the plane, comes in,
goes off the plane front of Electron at the bottom
of the stairs, does his thing and leaves. And it's
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a very effective way to campaign. And even though there
were from what's being reported by the New York Times,
several hundred people there and that was it. It's really
not for those hundreds of people or thousands of people.
It's because it's covered like crazy. National news covers it,
certainly local news, and it is just a neat way
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to get the message across. So twelve minutes of his
rally and he goes on forever. At most of his rallies,
he got into describing Arnold Palmer and the size of
his Palmer, that Arnold Palmer has a very large fontz
or did and that was twelve minutes of it. Also
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well included a bunch of remarks about it and gave
him a lot of accolades, and then went on to
talk about Harris and use the four letter word for crap.
Am I even allowed. I don't think I'm allowed to
say the actual word. Am I, No, I can't. Anyway,
he does that, and he goes, she is, and then
the crowd screams the word. And anyway, the point of
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this one is the backlash he is getting for talking
about Arnold's schwantz and in a big way literally and figuratively.
He said that when Arnold Palmer Palmer would go into
the shower, the other golfers would come out and they go, wow,
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look at that. That's my god, that's unbelievable. Went on
to say, I refuse to say it, but then of
course he went on to say it, and Trump chuckles.
I mean it was funny, and he said later on,
I have to tell you about the shower part because
it's true. What can I tell you? We want to
be honest, any other politician talking about someone else's Schwantz
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would go down in a heartbeat. The problem is among
those that are anti Trump, this does not hurt him,
it doesn't help him. There were interviews all through the
weekend where staunch Republicans would say, Hey, I don't like it,
but let's talk about the issues even if Trump does
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not talk about a lot of the issues. And I'll
tell you why this one doesn't. I don't know what
the outrage is. This is Donald Trump. This is the
kind of stuff that he says. He has a pass.
He is teflon in that regard. He can just keep
on going. And for those people that are pro Trump,
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that's going to change anybody's mind. For those people that
are anti Trump, is that going to change anybody's mind?
Everybody knows who he is now. There is some stuff
that he has ordered, that he has uttered that I
think is dangerous. Beside a dead Arnold Palmer's fonse, I
don't care. The argument that Barack Obama, for example, was
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not born in the United States and was ineligible to
be the president, that one I have a problem with.
Also arguing about the election. You know how I feel
about the election. The lawsuit after lawsuit after lawsuit, arguing
that the election was rigged. That's problematic the rest of
this stuff. Frankly, I just think it's who cares really now?
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The independence is these people are going to decide the
presidency in the battleground states. Most of the electorate, the
thinking is already baked in. Either your four or you're not.
And unfortunately, there are a lot of Democrats that refuse
to vote, period. And that's what's scaring the Democrats. This
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is why Barack Obama is going out and hard, hard
pressing for Democrats to go out and vote, particularly black men.
For some reason, they are just not coming out in droves,
far less terms of the polls than they did so
for Joe Biden. But when it comes to all of this,
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I mean, who cares even the independence. Let's say I'm independent,
I am not. You know my position as far as
Donald Trump, and I'm not even talking policy, I believe
he's just unfit to be the president. That's it. It's
just that simple. I hold the presidency in such high
regard that I do not want someone of this ilk
to be president. And in many cases I agree. Policy wise,
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I think Kamala Harris is crazy in a lot of places, well,
she's going to stop the overcharging, the gouging. I don't
even know what that means from the food companies, particularly
the supermarkets. I don't know what gouging is at what price?
Ten percent profit, twenty percent profit. So in many ways
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I think she's out of her mind. But when it
comes to this sort of stuff, come on, guys, this
is Trump and this is what he does. And by
the way, Arnold Palmer, from what I understand, did have
a big schwantz. Now, as I said earlier when we
(05:57):
were doing the news, he was noted for doing rope
tricks and he didn't have a rope. I mean, the
guy was you know, Oh my god, look at the
size of that thing. He was a man's man, as
far as Trump was concerned. A real man's man basically
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look like a baby's arm with an apple in its fist. Okay,
I don't want to describe it. God, I don't know
what you're I just wanted to make sure that you
understood the visual here. Now there's a story. Oh, before
I get into that, I'm gonna remind you or tell
you coming up at eight o'clock. As you know today,
I've just come back from my vacation and I was
(06:46):
overseas in Europe, Ireland and Italy, and I talked to
a whole lot of people about the presidential election. I'm
going to share with you what I got from it
amongst dozens of people. I'll share that coming up at
eight o'clock in the meantime, talking about the presidential coming
up in a couple of weeks, Elon Musks. Musk has
(07:12):
announced that he is warning a million dollars a day
to a randomly chosen voter who has signed his petition
pledging to uphold the rights to free speech and to
bear arms. And this is like almost saying register to vote.
Not quite. The argument is that this may be illegal,
(07:33):
and a lot of Democrats are saying nope, this may
be illegal. Why because federal law does not allow anything
of value to be given to anybody to either vote
or to register to vote. And the argument is for
him to say, if you sign this petition that is
(07:55):
from his American pack, his America pack, and it's clearly
to boost Donald Trump in his presidential election, if you
sign this, We're going to at random pick someone that
gets a million dollars whoever signs his petition. And somebody
has already done that and made a made a video
(08:16):
the winner. You can see him and the boy. It's
all over the social sat on as on a sofa
and this oversized version of his million dollar check and
urges people to head to the polls. So is what
he has done legal? Yeah, because he's not actually asking
people to register. He is saying sign this petition that
(08:41):
talks about Second Amendment rights and free speech. And that's
one of the prime platform statements that Donald Trump and
the conservatives, the evangelicals even have said. Freedom of speech
means that the separation of church and state, which has
been sacrisyanct in the US since the liberal courts have
(09:05):
said so, is now coming back. Prayer in school, silent prayer.
The Supreme Court even talked about how you cannot have silence.
Let's take a moment of silence that was considered religion.
I mean, the court really went pretty far. It was
I mean, there was a lawsuit about and it was
(09:27):
a father who fould lawsuit against forcing students to stand
up and say the Pledge of Allegiance because it says
under God. Therefore, people who are not religious are being
stigmatized and are actually being forced to accept the fact
that they're teaching God. Well, basically lost. The Supreme Court said,
(09:49):
you know, too bad on that one. Same thing with
money in God we trust, which by the way, started
I think in the fifties. A court after court said nah,
and the Supreme Court said, nah, we're going to accept
that one, too bad, even though the argument was violation
of separation of church and state. Now you're going to
see a lot more religion because the courts have gone
(10:12):
to that point. It's a very conservative court and Elon
Musk has jumped all over this, and what he is
saying is prayer in school effectively freedom of religion. That's
what it means today. Second Amendment rights, well, we all
know what that is. And therefore you can win a
million bucks if all you do is sign this petition,
(10:33):
and it's to engage the electorate to get them. And
by the way, I think you have to when you
sign the petition, your email goes on there and tell
me you're not getting anything inundated with emails from the
Trump campaign and other Republican campaigns. And this is just
another way for and it's a clever way of doing this.
(10:55):
By the way, it's when you think about Elon Musk
throwing at this point seventy five million dollars into his
pack to push for Trump. You know, in the battleground states,
you can't buy any more airtime. You can't. They're completely
sold out. You cannot buy a television commercial, you cannot
buy a radio commercial. You can't. So where do you go.
(11:19):
You have to find out different ways of doing it.
Boots on the ground, for example, knocking on doors. That's
where most of the money is being spent. Right now,
Elon Musk has gone from I think Donald Trump Donald
Trump is a jerk, to just an awesome supporter and
throwing his money. He truly believes that Donald Trump is
(11:40):
the end all be all, And there was talk about
does he get a position in the administration if he
supports Trump? If you remember that initial talk, he will.
It'll be a non paid position. It'll be some kind
of commission in terms of technology, but he will be
(12:03):
a member of the administration. If Donald Trump gets elected.
And he came out, god, really weird. I mean, Musk
is a weird guy. You've got a weird guy in
a weird presidential candidate. So Musk comes out at one
of the rallies and starts dancing and the same thing
that Trump does, starts dancing. By the way, have you
(12:24):
seen Trump dance? Boy? Can that man dance? Oh yeah,
you talk about rhythm? Who can he dance? That is?
You think there were a few memes on that one.
All right, guys, we're done with that. Coming up the
death of Yeah Yah Sinwar, the head of Haramas. We're
(12:48):
going to talk a little bit about how the hamasnik
has died, as well as other high end members of
Hamas and the hierarchy, and Wyatt means is basically nothing.
And everybody thought, oh my god, they killed them. Therefore
were on our way to some kind of negotiation. No, no,
(13:08):
and it's both side's fault, and I will tell you
why that is. And then coming up at eight o'clock,
my conversation with people overseas, Ireland and Italy about this
presidential election and two themes. Two themes were going through
all of it, and I'll share that with you now.
(13:30):
The other thing is a little international in scope, and
I was listening to the news as I was overseas,
and that is the death of Yeah Yah Sinwar, the
Kamas leader who was in jail, by the way, for
twenty years in Israel for and convicted of a terrorist attack.
(13:52):
And during one of the negotiations, particularly it was when
Guy shild Or she had Guy Leel, the Israeli soldier
was picked up and held for six years and there
was a ransom where there was an agreement. A thousand
Palestinian prisoners were released for this one Israeli and among
(14:13):
them was Sinwar and he's the one that actually masterminded
the October seventh attack. So this is a bad guy
that Israel desperately wanted to either capture, which was never
going to happen, or killed, and he was killed sort
of in a fluke way. Israel just got lucky. It
was a regular wasn't an attack on him, it was
(14:36):
it wasn't a military move to kill him. It was
just a regular fight with the Hamas fighters and Israel
and Israel patrol and boom, they got him. So he's
now dead. So what happens because he was a hard
hard liner, We keep on this war no matter what. Well,
(14:58):
I'll tell you why, nothing's going to change because the
Hamas leadership, we don't even know who's in the leadership,
because Israel has taken out the hierarchy completely, and so
there's a vacuum, but it's going to be filled. But
what the thinking is among Hamas leadership is that we
just keep the war going. It's good for Hamas to
(15:20):
keep the war going. Why because they're going to lose
in the short run. I mean, look what's happening to Gaza.
But when this is over, they will declare victory because
we were able to fight the Israelis and off they
go and Gaza is now once again its own state
(15:42):
without Israeli occupation. And the fact that forty two thousand
Palestinians have been killed and I only count about two
thirds of that because a third of those are Hamas
militants and I don't view them as being killed in
innocence in any way. And more are going to be killed.
(16:04):
And two point two million have been displaced, which is
ninety something percent of the entire population of Gaza, and
two thirds of Gaza has been decimated. I mean two
thirds of the entire country has been effectively wipe out
(16:24):
in terms of infrastructure, in terms of homes and buildings
and roads. Even getting humanitarian aid has been cut off Israel,
says oh we're allowing humanitarian aid. That's just not true.
It is a croc nitianna who is and I'm going
(16:46):
to say this, this guy believes in this war and
for personal reasons too. I don't think it has much
to do with global geopolitics. I think he just wants
to stay in power. Because let me tell you what
happens once he is out of power. His trial for
corruption moves on. Right now, he can't be tried because
(17:09):
he is head of state. That sound familiar. Once he
leaves office, he's just a guy who is accused of
total corruption and I think he's going to be convicted.
So for him to stay in power is everything. And
how do you stay in power a war? Nobody removes
ahead of state during a war, and that's what's going
(17:33):
on with him. And then you have Hamas that they'd
rather have the war than not. And why is that?
Because when the war is over all of a sudden,
Hamas has to look at everyone in the country that
has been displaced, everyone that ever owned a building or
drove on the streets, or was involved in helping people
(17:58):
eat or deal with the medical issues as in doctors, nurses,
because all the hospitals have effectively been wiped out. And
here's what Hamas has done. It has taken the entire
population of Gaza and made everyone a martyr without their agreement,
(18:20):
without consultations with them. Because when you look at martyrs,
these are people who jump into it and they do
it with open eyes. So there's a lot of reckoning
to be done on both sides, and both sides do
not want this war over Israel. I think has a
(18:43):
hell of an argument in that this is a government
in Gaza that they're and they've admitted this. The most
important thing for Hamas is the destruction of Israel. More
important than governance, will, more important than sustaining infrastructure. It's
(19:03):
the destruction of Israel. And Israel says, hey, we can't
take that. And by the way, look what's happening in Lebanine.
They've got the same issue. Israel is not screwing around anymore.
You attack Israel, you're going to get it right back.
Five times as much, ten times as much. Twelve hundred
Israelis were killed in October seventh. Now when you talk
(19:27):
about when you compare forty two thousand to twelve hundred,
it seems really off, doesn't it. I mean, that's not proportional,
although I don't know anybody who's using the word proportional anymore.
It just so happens, though, that those twelve hundred that
were massacred was the worst massacre of Israelis of Jews
since the Holocaust. So that means a whole lot to
(19:51):
the people of Israel. So both sides at this point
want the war to continue. Israel has lost in the
hundreds of soldiers and there's been some damage. Gaza has
lost its entire population in terms of being displaced, and
eighty or seventy five percent of the buildings are gone. Lebanon,
(20:15):
Hisbelah has done the same thing. Israel wasn't interested in
occupying Lebanon, not since two thousand and six when Israel invaded.
Now Israel says, you just leave us alone. Well Hasbolah
said no? So as soon as the fight starts October eighth,
when Israel invades Gaza, then you have Hisbela Southern Lebanon
(20:39):
decide they're going to launch the missiles in solidarity with
the Palestinians. Well, Israel's taken out whole sections of whole
sections of Lebanon. Southern Lebanon and now you have how
many people displaced. I don't know how many, hundreds of thousands.
You know, it's gotten to the point now where it's
(21:01):
no longer tit for tat. It is tat tat tat,
tat tat, tat, tat for tit. Does that make sense?
You can take that the wrong way, Neil. I know
you gave me that weird look, but I think you
can take that the wrong way. And even though I
would go into that rabbit hole, I didn't on that one. Okay,
(21:28):
moving on, Boeing, of course, you know is in huge,
huge trouble, and Intel is in sort of the same category.
And I'll tell you what's happening with that. And this
more than just a couple of companies that have real trouble.
It affects every one of us in America. And I'll explain.
And then eight o'clock my conversations with people overseas about
(21:52):
the presidential election, and two themes that I heard over
and over again, the Yankees and the Dodgers. That's pretty
big news. And of course some geopolitical news that I
talked about World War three. It doesn't matter. You've got
North Korea saying it's going to launch an atomic weapon.
And yeah, yah sinowar and what happened in the Middle
(22:15):
East that keeps ongoing, but nothing like the Dodgers. And
I don't think I'm far wrong on that one. I
really don't. Amy is wearing her Dodger jersey that looks
like a Disneyland jersey with a big d. Amy. It's
sort of a hybrid. Oh okay, sorry to interrupt you
while you're eating I that's okay, Yeah, no, I understand.
(22:36):
That's what this show is all about. Breakfast. I'm just
trying to be like you, Bill, I know you. We
should call it Breakfast in the morning, you know, one
of those breakfast shows. Okay, moving on to what's happening
internationally and certainly domestically, And this is where both parties
are heavily involved. Harris as well as Trump are basically
(22:58):
on the same page on this one, and that is
manufacturing has gone to hell in this country. And to
give you an idea of Boeing and Intel, two of
the biggest manufacturers in the US, are worth about half
of what they were in the last five years. Wow.
(23:18):
And why is that? Well, because the bean counters have
come in to play here. That's what's happening. Boweing used
to be one of the most engineering, not just friendly,
but engineering based companies in the world. Profits were secondary
to engineering. You have good engineering, face, you have great airplanes,
(23:42):
money follows. So well that's not the case. Let's save
money no matter what. And look at the crashes. Look
what's been happening. Boeing lost eighteen months seven thirty seven Max.
The Max eight was just stop production and they're simply
not selling airplanes. Air Bus is going crazy. Intel. Here
(24:03):
is a little factoid. Do you know that Intel turned
down making the major chip for the iPhone? They said, no,
we don't want it, We're not going to make enough money.
Well that's brilliant, isn't it. So here's what's happening. We're
still at the top of the heap, American American technology.
The problem is manufacturing. The top of the heap has
(24:26):
been outsourced. For example, do you know where all the
chips are made that are used in the US with
the phones other than the iPhone? I think even the
iPhone in Taiwan. The biggest chip manufacturer on the planet
is in Taiwan. And if China takes over Taiwan, and
(24:47):
that's only a question of time. Can you imagine they
are going to control the international market for chips, of
which nothing we do we cannot do without chips, these
computer chips. I mean, it is getting really rough. I
(25:09):
was flying overseas and the first question is I go
up to the gate and throw my baggage in? Is
I always ask what aircraft are we flying? And when
I'm told it's Airbus, huh, I have a relief flying back.
I flew on at American Airlines Boeing, and I'm going, Oh,
(25:36):
the good news. It was a Boeing that was manufactured
fifteen twenty years ago. It was the Triple seven, and
those were the days when manufacturing excellence was simply part
of what Boeing was all about. A new Boeing airliner,
I've got big problems. Airbus fantastic. And you know who's
(25:57):
up and coming in the world world of airlines, in
the worlds of the big ones, the jumbos. Right now,
it's Airbus and it is Boeing. Those are the two
coming up very quickly. Is China. The state owned company
Comac now is delivering a competition to the seven thirty
(26:18):
seven and the Airbus A three twenty, which is effectively
the Airbus's version of the seven thirty seven. So are
we gonna do anything about it? Well, right now it's
tariffs and subsidies. Does that work? No? Not really, that's
gonna make prices go up. It has to be a
(26:38):
different mindset. It has to be get the bean counters
out of there. I mean, keep them, but don't run
and run the company, especially when you're talking about something
like computer chips or airplanes coming up. Talking about airplanes,
which of course I had to fly because I went
to Europe. I spent a lot of time talking to people,
(27:01):
I mean taxi drivers, people at hotels, sitting in airports,
asking folks what they thought of the presidential election coming up.
And there were two ongoing themes that they talk about.
And it's not Donald Trump being crazy either, the stuff
(27:21):
that he says that we're all going, oh my god,
they don't care. I'll tell you what they really do
care about, and I'll do that segment coming right up.
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