Word Salad

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Nine twenty. Now on the Great WRKO, everybody is now
weighing in. Is it's like my family at Thanksgiving? Everybody
it's it's a free for all. So Grace's younger sister Laurie,
my sister in law, Grace's younger sister Champ by nickname

(00:20):
for his Champ. This is what Champ wrote to me
as I was discussing with Grace going back and forth
over last night's debate. I agree with you, Koonerman. People
now will listen to what Vance has to say. He
needed to debunk the media caricature. Now that he did,
he can hit harder moving forward. He also reassures people

(00:44):
who are not for Trump that there is a voice
of reason to this ticket. He is an excellent foil
to Trump. If Vance came out swinging headlines would all
be about two angry men threatening demock. So Grace's own
sister disagrees with her, then my sister had to weigh in.

(01:07):
So this is what my sister texted me.

Speaker 2 (01:09):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
This is from her Tucson, Arizona Jeff. I rarely disagree
with Grace, but I think JB. Vance did a great job,
and he came across as someone who is willing to
come to common ground with the other side. People are
fed up with the divisiveness in our government and how
it cripples any governance. I think that some people are

(01:34):
afraid to vote for Trump and jd Vance just walked
him through the front door last night. Now, I also
have a very good friend Bill, I mean Bill saying
he loved Grace. He agrees with Grace, loved Grace. Jeff,

(01:54):
you certainly married up Cooonerman. Grace is on fire. So everybody,
it's a pick aside, pick aside six one seven two six, six,
sixty eight, sixty eight. Okay, I want to play two cuts.
And speaking of picking sides, I don't want to be

(02:16):
you right now, I really don't because I'm telling you
I don't know how I'm going to vote in this poll.
I don't know how I'm going to do it. I'm
asking you now to make an impossible choice. But it's
a question now we have to ask, So let me
just play. Here was Tim Waltz last night, temp on

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Tim his first first answer to the very first question,
roll cut one. Mike, would you support or oppose a
preemptive strike by Israel on Iran?

Speaker 2 (02:51):
You have two minutes.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Well, thank you, and thank you for those joining at
home tonight. Let's keep in mind where this started. October seventh,
Hamas terrorists massacred over fourteen hundred Israelis and took prisoners.
I ran our Israel's ability to be able to defend
itself as absolutely fundamental, getting its hostages back fundamental, and

(03:14):
ending the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. But the expansion of
Israel and its proxies is an absolute fundamental necessity for
the United States to have the steady leadership there you
saw it experience. Today we're along with our Israeli partners
and our coalition, able to stop the incoming attack. But

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what's fundamental here is that steady leadership is going to matter.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
All right. I don't know if you can understand what
he said. Nobody can.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Do.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
You want to talk about a word salid holy Shumoli. Okay,
but hold on listen now to Kamala Harris. Now I
want you to compare. Now, this is Tim Waltz. That's
one of his word salads. Here's Kamala, comrade, Kamala World
cut thirty six.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
So I think it's very important, as you have heard
from so many incredible leaders for us at every moment
in time, and certainly this one. To see the moment
in time in which we exist and are present, and
to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we

(04:27):
exist in the history and in the moment as it
relates not only to the past but the future.

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Huh again, can you understand what she's saying? Now? You
know what's coming, now you can see it. You don't
know what now, you don't know what to do? I
understand the Cooner country Pole Question of the Day sponsored
by Marios Mario's Quality Roofing, Siding and Windows. Who makes

(05:03):
the worst word salads? Who's worse?

Speaker 4 (05:07):
Really?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
In a way, I'm kind of asking who's stupid or
who's dumber? Okay, but let's not put it that you
know that rudely or that crudely? So who do you
think makes worse word salads? A comrade? Kamala b tamp
On Tim? Basically, who's dumber? I don't know? I just

(05:38):
I don't know. You go wand and you there, you
go buy. I mean, all all Mike has to do
now is play. I'm you know, I'm friends with school shooters,
and I was gonna go Kamala, and now I gotta
go Tim and I back and forth, so.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
I become friends with school.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
Shoot, there you go. I mean that one that's an
all that's the all time record right there. Then you
but just play Kamala kackling, and then you know I'm
back day so.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
A or B.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
I want to hear from you, Kooner Country. I'm asking
you to do the impossible. Please we can do it.
Six one seven two six six sixty eight sixty eight
is the number. Okay, my friends, something that Barbara and
Maryland said a couple hours ago. Again, callers have been
phenomenal today as usual, where she said that Tim Waltz

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is dangerously stupid. Okay, the temp on Tim dangerously dumb.
Just you can't have someone really that much of it,
that that much of a moron, nothing between his ears,
be a heart beat away from the presidency. You just
you can't, You just you can't. It's too dangerous. I

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want to play a cut. This is not Tim Waltz.
This is comrade Kamala. And you want to talk about stupidity.
And again I'm trying to be very charitable. It is shucking,
it is stunning. She is asked by a reporter a

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very simple question, Should you stand for the national anthem?
That's the quest. I'm telling you, that's the question. I
want you to listen to the response. Listen to how
she struggles with this easiest, most basic question. It's going
to blow your mind. Roll cut thirty five, Mike, should

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folks stand for the national anthem?

Speaker 5 (07:45):
I think that one of the beautiful things about our
country is that we were founded on certain principles that
we articulated in seventeen seventy six. We are all and
should be treated as equals. We articulated the principles in
our constitution, and part of what we decided is what
makes a fair and just and noble society and a democracy.

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A true democracy is freedom of religion, freedom, right of association,
freedom to organize, First Amendment. So that is part of
who we are as a country, and I will defend
it to the core, which is that we give people
certain choices in this country.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Ah man, all man, Yes, that's all that's the answer. Yes,
here you want to quality, I know, for the Black
Lives Matter crowd, you want to qualify a little bit.
Here's what you say.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
I mean.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Look, really, I'm talking double DIGITIQ. Now that's what I'm
you know, whatever, single No, I'm sorry, single DIGITIQ. Okay,
just above zero, just a little bit above zero. Here's
what you say. Yeah, you should stand for the national anthem.
But hey, look if some people don't feel comfortable or
don't want to do it, I understand. But I always

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stand for the national anthem. Why it's it's our anthem.
We should stand for it. Bank, that's it. Move, that's it.
That's her answer. Okay, how long did that take me?
Eight seconds? Seven seconds? This this she's not just a
far left winger. This is her problem. I'm telling you.

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She is hopelessly stupid. I'm sorry. That's the only I
can't phrase it any other way. I'm trying to be charitable.
I can't. She is this is what we see now
again and again and again, and that's why she's going down.
You take it to the bank. She's as dumb as
Joe Biden is senile. And I'm telling you, if she wins,

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if they somehow pull this off her as president, tamp
on Tim is vice president, I don't even want to
think of it. And as Mike said in the pre
show production meeting, because I played the clip to him.
He couldn't believe it, Like Mike was like, you're shaking
his head. He was just like, can somebody be that

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humanly stupid? Is it possible? And this is what he
said to me. I'm calling almost Mike verbatim. You tell
me if I misquote you, Mike, all right, I won't.
I want I'll leave out the swearing Mike. He said, Jeff,
the scary thing is this is still a very close election.
Can you believe that this election is still close? That's

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the scariest thing of all. What does this say about
the American people that it's this close? Patrick in New York,
Thanks for holding Patrick and welcome.

Speaker 6 (10:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
I think the debate did a couple of things last night. One,
it showed, uh, Tim Walts is what we always thought.
He was a somewhat appable baffoon that you know, is
not intellectually up to the position he's applying for. But
more importantly, what JD did is he cemented himself as

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the heir to MAGA, which is very good for the
MAGA movement because, uh, some I've criticized the MAGA movement
and Donald Trump for being somewhat of a one one
man movement. Now now it has depth, it has it
has a longevity that that outlasts Donald Trump's political life,
so that you know, people can vote with comfort and

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say this, this movement is going to go on. This
movement is going on beyond Donald Trump's political life. And
if something happened to Donald Trump, the you know there
there there's somebody in place to pick up the reins
and and keep the movement, keep things going in the movement.
The third thing that that happened last night is that CBS,

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which is owned by Paramount, which was which was slowly dying,
and you know, it's stock price has gone from one
hundred dollars a share to about ten dollars a share
and was dying the slow death that that death took
on speed last night. I think that the media you

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just mentioned that this race is close, even though Kamala
Harris and sim Waltz are both intellectually challenged. The media
has made that possible. But they've done it at a
tremendous cost to their stockholders. Where ABC, you know, the
ABC debate cost David Mure about twelve percent of his audience,

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which is going to hurt the Disney stock and paramount
who was already on a financial lifeline and has just
announced that they're laying off ten thousand people, you know,
probably did themselves a lot of harm last night.

Speaker 1 (13:03):
Oh, I agree. So I agree Patrick on every count. Patrick,
if you don't mind me asking, and if I'm getting
too personal, please tell me. Look, God forbid, I want
Trump to live. You know, as the Italians say, one
hundred years, okay, Chandan one hundred years. I hope he
lives to one hundred. I really do like Jimmy Carter.
But if something was to happen to Trump, okay, the

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assassination attempts, or he's in office, would you be comfortable
voting for jd Vance after what you saw last night.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
I saw a man of a superior intellect, and I
disagree with Grace, and that's not a normal occurrence for me.
I saw a man who was smart enough, who had
an opponent, who had an opponent that was punching himself
in the face, and was smart enough to realize that
he didn't have to do it too. There was no

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upside to jumping dog piling Tim wallsite last night, and
there might have been some downside. So I saw a
man that was, you know, smart enough to graduate college
in two years and then graduate from honor with honors
in one of the best law schools in the country,
and then but has the you know, but also has

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the incredible judgment to be a strategic thinker and a
good tactical thinker on his feet. So yes, I'd be
absolutely comfortable. Uh, you know, there's other people in the
conservative movement. I think Ron DeSantis is still our finest
administrative leader, but right now JD just took the reins

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as their parent.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I agree, Patrick, I agree on every single point. Patrick,
thank you very much for that call, and please don't
be a stranger. Call again. Arthur in Chestnut Hill. Arthur,
as always, thanks for holding and welcome.

Speaker 7 (14:57):
Thanks for taking my college my pleasure. Well, your other half,
your significant half, should be the collar of the century
because everything that she said was eight hundred percent. I
felt everything that she felt. And you remember when everybody
was praising Trump's performance last time I called you up

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and said to you, he came unprepared. The only thing
he prepared was I was tie.

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Looked time after time after time, I'm watching this and
I'm saying, why, why, why aren't you mentioning this, why
are you You've got so many things on your side
that you can expose without coming off as somebody who's
who's a bad guy. But he came out like a marshmallow.

(15:45):
I thought when the debate was over, they were all
going to go out for dinner together. I mean, it
was the this was the last chance for us to
get facts out there, because when you're on CBA. Yes,
you have to remember, Jeff that when you're on CBS
or ABC, you're on stations that don't show or tell

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the truth or expose what's going on at the border.
The last visit to Kamala made to the border, or
one of her five in her in her lifetime, she's
taking it in front of the wall that the wall
that Trump built was and looking down at the ground
and not one illegal within one hundred miles of the

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place that you talk about a phony photo wop. Well
that's what we saw.

Speaker 6 (16:34):
You know.

Speaker 4 (16:35):
The guy went to China thirty one times. He had
his honeymoon at thirty one times. Every time he came back,
all he did was praise China. China is a communist country.
I don't know what happened to this country. That we
that we thought we won the we won the Cold War.
We didn't win the Cold War. Look what China has
done to us, David, and this guy is one of

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the most dire ball of dangerous guys there was. There
were moments in that debate when you saw the expressions and.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Arthur, can you hang on. Let's go right back to
Arthur and Chestnut Hill. Arthur, you were saying that you
think JD left a lot of opportunities or missed opportunities
on the table. He should have gone much harder after
j after Tim Waltz, the temp on Tim and that
this may turn around to bite Trump and JD on

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election Day. Please Arthur pick up or you left off.

Speaker 4 (17:33):
Well, the reason for this, uh, Jeff, is because when
you were when these people watch CBS, you know that
that the big stories this past week was that that
a retired border agent exposed the fact that the DHS
would told them ordered them not to report the amount

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of criminals who were out there. When this leaked out,
CBS did the report on it, NBC did none of
these stations, and then none of the media reported on it.
This was his opportunity to report on it and let
American people know, you have no idea. How many people
in this country that don't have a clue as to
what's going on. They don't even know what's going on

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at the border because the only pictures they ever see
are the ones they saw with with with Kamala the
other day and when when they they for some reason
took that shot at at at a waltz there about
the Tianna when he was in China.

Speaker 6 (18:36):
Did you see how he Rehi He did not know
what to do and and and jay D didn't seize
upon that moment. It was like a fighter who gave
him a knockout punch and then turned around and then said,
I'm not going to hit him again. This isn't this
isn't about that. This is this is the this is

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the life of this country. This is the future in
this gun. You have no idea, I ever, definitely nobody
seems to understand exactly what's at stake here, or they
wouldn't be taking it so lightly. You know, I've seen
what's happened to this country, chef, and I see what's
going on today. I thought Obama and Biden with dangerous
because I saw where Obama came from but compared to

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those two, these two are the most diabolical things that
The fact that they're even running for president and vice is.

Speaker 1 (19:28):
Just it's frightening. Arthur, as always, thank you very much
for your call. Always interesting and very passionate. Chris in PBDY,
thanks for holding Chris, and welcome and Jeff first time
calling here. Welcome, I'm welcome, Chris.

Speaker 8 (19:46):
I just wanted to say that I want to get
my input on the day. Last night, I think sad
events was absolutely fantastic. I disagree slightly with their wife,
which is unusual for me, but I think maybe he's
sure to push a little hard. But at the same time,
I don't because he's going to get the hate saying
that he's They got to spin in some way, shape

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or for him. I think the respect in the way
here articulated his debate against Walt's was fantastic. And I
don't know if Walts has been sniffing too much, or
that the burning tires in Minneapolis or not, but tell
the telling the world that you know you're friends with
all the school shaters isn't a good look. So I
think I think Van said great.

Speaker 1 (20:28):
Well, you know, Chris, I think The other thing, and
I agree with you completely, is Look, I understand where
Arthur's coming from. I understand where my wife obviously is
coming from. I get it. But you know, Chris, I think, look,
how do I say this? Just because JD Vance made
it look easy? You know, it's like an NFL quarterback
or Tom Brady, It doesn't mean that it's easy. It

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was three on one, So I mean, look at it
from the guy's point of view. You're going into lions.
Then it's a high pressure debate. You've got two moderators
that are cutting you off, attacking you, trying to trip
you up every step of the way, and you've got
to deal with an opponent, and you know you're defending
not yourself but your boss. Right, You're there to defend

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Trump primarily and go after Kamala, So he had so
much on his plate. That to mean when you're it's
three on one and you beat all three of them,
and you do it in the class, the composure, the
brilliance that JD showed last night, to me, you got
to tip your hat off to the guy. Now, I agree. Look, honestly, Chris,

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I'm not waffling. I'm being perfectly Frank, if this was
one on one, if this was a fair debate, I
think everything that Grace and Arthur wanted him to bring up,
he would bring up. But the guy's under constant pressure
because the moderators are breathing down his neck. So I know,
because I've been in these kind of debates, and afterwards,

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you go, oh, I could have brought that up. I
should have brought that up. Well, you know, you're in
the thick of the moment. You know, it's it's stress,
it's pressure, it's you're dealing with multiple factors. So honestly, Chris,
he had a very almost impossible task and he did it.
He did it, and I think, to be honest with you,
he has set Trump up now for a beautiful victory

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in November. Final word to you, Chris, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (22:23):
I agree one hundred percent with I think he did great,
and he was quick with his answers, and all his
answers were everything. I mean, even I was. I was
caught off guard a few times because then when they
tried to get him on the how he used to
say this and that about Trump, and he came I
thought I thought he was finished there, and he came
in and he had an answer for that right off.

Speaker 9 (22:42):
The bed though.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
It was a masterclass. I agree Chris completely, thank you
for that call. Look super quick as I want to
squeeze in, Mike. You know, think of an NFL quarterback. Well,
he's under constant pressure, right, They're trying to sack them.
You've got defensive lineman breathing down the person's neck, You've
got blitzes coming after you. So you know, it's easy
to say, oh, I should have passed there, he should
have done this. Yeah, if he had no pressure, you know,

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if they weren't breathing down his neck and trying to
take his head off, and he had a few more seconds. Yeah.
But what I'm saying is it was same thing with Vance.
He was a quarterback under pressure three on one and
it was completion after completion after completion. So I think, honestly,
people are being a little hard on the guy. Okay,

(23:24):
Mike in Brighton, I hate to do this to you.
Thirty seconds go all right.

Speaker 9 (23:30):
I agree with your wife, Grace in the fact that
this experience in red meat that could have been brought
out in this But the reality is the liarate is,
as I like to call him, We're going to interrupt
him like they did Trump. JD didn't take the bait

Speaker 1 (23:49):
No he didn't, and he was cool, calm and composed,