May 15, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 1 of the Wednesday May 15, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...
- Blinken in a bar, singing a Neil Young song...
- Mailbag...
- Biden announces his intent to debate Trump...
- Katie brings us The Lead Story!
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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 Getty Armstrong and Getty,
and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Is Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Stilling on that intern to help me get dressed in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Live from Studio C see signor a dimly lit room
deep up in the bowels the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And today on a Wednesday or under the tutelage of our.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
General manager, inflation, the numbers out, I haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Wis inflation are general managers? The monthly inflation numbers are
two out today, Jack, analysts are expecting. I don't care
what they're expecting. Just tell me what it comes out.
Headline from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Is Inflation eases as core index hits lowest level since
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, widen nomics finally bearing fruits and always our favorite.
And we'll get into the details of it because the
details are always big finish here.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But we're always big fans of met expectations or fell
short of expectations or exceeded expectations. Is just a weird
I don't I don't you know, I'm not an economist,
but I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Maybe the expectations were wrong. For some reason.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Expectations for financial stuff has always taken as completely gospel
everything else about economics. You know, you ask one hundred economists,
you get one hundred different answers. But the expectations are
solid as if from the word mouth of God himself.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And if it's expectors, what do we think of them?
They've been vetted? Right? I take in place it's kett
a quadruple. I mean, I don't care what that guy thinks.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I need your opinion on this because I saw the
video before I left for home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Left home today.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Uh, Anthony Blincoln in a bar in Kiev last night
in Ukraine playing his guitar with a band singing Neil
Young's Keep on Rocking in the Free World, which I
think he thought was a cool gesture or something, But man,
I found it off putting.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It made my skin crawl. It was super uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And not because you know, I don't anything against dad bands.
It's the idea that Ukraine is in the worst situation
they've been in since the war started. They're getting their
asses kicked. People are dying left and right, plea people
are fleeing their homes and the secrety or a state,
be it playing in a bar, playing in a band.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Just just thought it was a bad look.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And the way it hit me, honestly was after months
and months of delays getting critical munitions to Ukraine because
of some really odd and difficult to explain domestic political scrabbling,
and the incredible impact of that withholding arms. I mean,
they're they're losing territory in a frightening fashion at this point.
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But on the other hand, we held out on you
for six months. But the other hand, here's a groovy
song about the free world. Two three four play a song?
What was that, Michael? Yeah, that's blink and singing just
like a two second Yeah, okay, I'll take your word
for it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah yeah, uh yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That bothered me. No, no artillery shells, but a song instead?
How would a song be?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oooh wow?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, I don't know it was.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's what they call tone deaf, oddly enough, since he
seems to have decent tone listening to him sing anyway,
that'd be like if I don't know, if Biden lectures
bb Netanya who doesn't send the to the bobs and
goes to Tel Aviv to play golf or something.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't know, it just seems weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So we got more from the Trump trial yesterday. Old
Cohen got cross examined for a while. And what's your
take on that? Brief take before we get into analysts
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It was an okay day for him ultimately for Trump
charges or so for a Cohen? Oh, I don't care
about him. How to do for Trump? The personal secure? Duh?
Come on, now, if it was a good day for
a prosecution witness, what does that mean? Don't you give
me the rough side of your tongue, sir? That was
the rough side on the rough Yes, rough side sounds
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much worse than that, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh oh, so you mean you think it was a
good day. So so you say it was a good
day for Cohen, So it was a bad day for Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, theoretically, except none of it's going to matter because
the chargers are stupid and Alvin Bragg has no jurisdiction
to enforce federal election law. This whole thing is a farce.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I still say the best show to take in
that if you're into the trial at all. Is Jake
Tapper's show on CNN it seems to have the most
on this hand, or on the other hand, if I
watch Fox Remories in MSNBC, I seem to get a
completely different picture of the trial and it's all one sided. AnyWho,
all of his analysts who have been all over the
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place just think it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The whole thing is ridiculous. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Interesting, But I heard presented the worst case scenario yesterday
and I thought it was so interesting. So I was
taken in the Dispatches legal podcast on this that features
David French from The New York Times, and I hadn't
heard anybody bring this up before. But here's your worst
case scenario for the whole thing, and it could happen.
Trump is found It's actually it doesn't really matter. But
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anyway he's found guilty, he loses a close election, and
and then the appeal the next court says this is
a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh boy, and.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Then we have pretty solid evidence that you kept a
guy from being elected president with a sham court case.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I could see that unfolding in that way. It's
certainly that's clearly what the effort is right now, and
the mere effort, never mind whether it's successful or not,
the mere effort is obscene.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's terrible. But can you imagine that if on the appeal,
the next level of court, when you don't have this
judge and that prosecutor involved, where they decide no, this
is not even close to a real thing, and the
guy lost. What is that going to do to the
American electorate? There will be unrest, well, to say the
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very least. Even without unrest, cynicism at a level of
it'll take decades to get to overcome that. Yes, cynicism
and anger and resentment. Maybe we're all yeah, maybe we're
already there. But I do think that is the worst
case scenario and a decent chance that that happens. I
hope that's not what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, I really I continue to think that jury's going
to reject this, but you just never know.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
With Jerry's more I think about it, the more I
think people are already that cynical anyway, we should start
the show officially so we don't get in trouble with
the FCC. I know I'm that cynical already, So why
wouldn't everybody else be I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is Wednesday, May fifteenth, the year twenty
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twenty four. Life will not be a bore in twenty
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Speaker 1 (07:48):
Let's begin that officially, according to FCC rules regulations, the
show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
rope to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That just doesn't make sense. Wow, that's what May Adams
in New York City there, suggesting that the illegals become
their lifeguards because they have a lifeguard shortage.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Play the first part again? What was the first party
he said there? I just thought that was funny the
way he said that, how.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Do we have a large body of people that are
in our city and country that are excellent swimmers?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, so is he referring to the idea of swimming
across the rio grande?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Is that what he means? Well, one is reminded of
the old joke. Why is Mexico never won an Olympic
gold medal because all their best swimmers, runners, and jumpers
are in the US. Is that what he's saying, Well,
particularly the Cuban emigrace, let's start with them.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, are the people of Mexico known as good swimmers?
Or is it the rio grand thing? I mean, the
term wet back was decided upon is uncool many many
years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But sure, what is that what he's saying? No, I was,
I was, I was completely befuddled. I don't know what
he needs. I think there's any other way to interpret it.
There's nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't know anything else inherent reason. In fact, I
can't think of it other than Kenya and runners. I
don't know if there's are there any particular countries you
assigned particular athletic abilities to?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It just seems weird. Well, if there was some sort
of critical need for speed skaters, I might look toward
on Norwegian emmagrays. But no, I just I have no
idea what the hell he was talking about? That is something. Well,
we'll see if he pays a price for that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I do 'm I keep I'm thinking of other
lines I could use in a humorous fashion. But none
of them seem like they would keep us employed.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well, and I picture some of these immigrant lifeguards being
trained and the head lifeguards say, now, don't let the
kids jump into the pool. And the lifeguards say, why not,
it's dangerous. A kid jumping from the side of the
pool into the pool is dangerous. How is that dangerous?
Why do you have so many rules here? I thought
this was the land of the free. I'm going back
to Venezuela. This place sucks. That's pretty funny. How does
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mail bag look? Oh, it's good, very good. Little of this,
little of that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the inflation numbers are out, we can take a
look at different smart people's interpretation of them and what
they think, and then what political fallout there might be, because
that is the number one thing that's killing Biden. He
once again yesterday in an interview, claimed that inflation was
nine percent when he came into office. That is some
crazy s right there. It was one point four percent.
(10:43):
I mean, it's not like he's even close. This is
a bold, big lie that he's been called out on
multiple times that he keeps saying it, and he said
it again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does his brain not work?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Does he does he embrace the pro truth world. What
is going on there, but we can get into the
inflation numbers and other stuff. Our text line is four
one five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Getty.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I feel like we got to get this on because
this is probably the maybe the biggest news of the day.
This is from the president's own Twitter account with me,
you know, not that long ago here. Donald Trump lost
two debates to me in twenty twenty, says said he
hadn't shown up for debate.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Will make my day, pal, I'll even do it twice.
So let's pick the day, s Donald.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I hear you're free on Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So there you go. That is uh wow, a little
shot there at the fact that he's on trial because
a corrupt Democratic prosecutor has put him on truck. Joe
wooh wow. You're a good point there.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So Joe Biden posted in really fast speed TikTok style
a video acting like Trump was the one ducking the
debates but saying make my day and challenging. And it's
been confirmed by Axios and Politico and a bunch of
other they're gonna be two debates and they're already working
on the scheduling of them.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And that's that's a pretty big deal. Yeah. Yeah, it's exciting.
I want to come my Republican friends.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Get ready, Bell, you're gonna end for a problem.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. I'd like to know how many? How many?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Maybe that's why it's edited the way it is. He
did three words at a time and they had to
put it together.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I suspect.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So yeah, And also that's an excellent point. You make
that a little shot at the end. I hear you
free on Wednesdays. Yeah, because the Justice Department has twisted
itself into knots to make sure the guy's in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, and you like acting like that's cool and funny
and and you're down with it. Yeah. Great. Look, Joe Man,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Patrick Henry,
who was, among other things, the governor of I believe
message shoots right, Ah, the liberties of people. It's a
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people take two. I think I have like COVID or something. Oh,
I have a fever and everything. Oh it's terrible. Did
you take a test?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Who cares? Hmm. I'm always interested the upper respiratory thing
with a bit of a fever. I'm always interested if
I have COVID or not, but I understand that. Yeah,
me too, Me too. Honestly, I'm idly curious, but as
you know, that can create cascading effects for other people.
I have quite a few tests because the school sends
them home, but I didn't find out for a long time.
(13:33):
I'd have a lot more tests. Henry would throw them
in the trash on the way. What are you doing,
he said, I don't want to take a COVID test. Well,
they're given to you. I paid for them, so please
bring them home. Wow wow, Okay, So here's your Patrick
Henry quote. The liberties of a people never were, nor
ever will be secure when the transactions of their rulers
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may be concealed from them. For instance, where's that fifteen
billion dollars cal unicorney is spent on the so called
homeless problem? Where is that gone to whom? And what
good has it done?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
The transactions of the rulers may be concealed from them?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Hello, sound familiar? Wow, mailbag? Tell you what the founding pappus.
There's some serious thinkers. Does Patrick Henry give me liberty
or give me death? Is that so? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
as for me, right, you'd think they'd have that one
up up front anyway. Ah, oh, this is great, This
(14:36):
is so interesting. Andrew on the Left Coast rights, guys,
I heard your segments on the new GPT four. Oh
thought i'd let you know how I'm using AI from
my college courses. The newest use that it has gotten
good at is math, and I mean hard maths too.
I'm in calculus too right now. The neat thing is
that I can orally describe a complex homework problem and
just put my phone on the desk and vocally talk
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through the problems. Why don't let it give me the answer?
But I can bounce so ideas often seers me in
the right direction. This works for my physics courses as well.
It's arguably more helpful than my human tutors.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That first of all, there's a fine line between it
helps you understand the question and cheating. I think, but
that would be hard, you know, you'd have to term.
That would have been very hard. I took calculus too.
It would have been very hard to sit there at
the kitchen table like I did many a night with
this problem that's like fifteen inches long, and I'm struggling
with and not just said hey, uh hey, there, chatbot,
(15:33):
how about help me along on this a little?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
How about if you say, I'm thinking of starting here
by simplifying this part of the and you could teach
a dog a mozart before you could teach me a calculus.
Apparently by my college ecto'ld be a cool show a
dog plain mozart. Yeah, but take a while anyway. Anyway,
literature is a little more sketchy because it's harder to
differentiate between complete cheating and brainstorming. But for quick assignments,
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I can feed the thing bullet points to what my
original thoughts are, and it constructs paragraphs around them.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'm having trouble figuring out why we need to even
be able to do this as humans anymore. And I've
never been a guy who buys them.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What am I ever going to use this math for?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But at this point, when your watch is gonna have
chat GPT, they can answer complicated calculus questions.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm not sure we need to know. And then he says,
on a side note, Jack's kids and their friends would
have fun playing with the metas Imagined feature. It allows
you to create images in real time with your keystrokes
and is completely free. Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg, GISs you'd had it.
But one of the illustrations they featured was a fox
riding a pink Porsche through the sky as it explodes
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with cotton candy. So if you're into that sort of thing,
all right, we spent a lot of time on that.
I teach sixth grade, right, So, Anonymous, I want TikTok
bands so I don't have to hear effing skivity again.
Skimvity halfway through this year? Yes, skimvity toilet half way
through this year. I told him Skivvity's so twenty twenty three,
and everybody saying vivity Nebraska. Now when somebody says, don't
(17:02):
be such a skib, I quickly retort with okay, boomer.
I've managed to turn some diviividy to the point that
one asked me last week how crazy it would be
if bivity replaces the skivity other absolute crap? Are you Sigma?
That's so Sigma? Did you pray today? Is it? Drake
sized pay the phantom tax and outlining the jaw with
index finger while talking about mewing yes, what yes, I
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gotta mention that I gotta mention that what the hell
is that anyway? Stay to free losing the monstrong and
the biggest.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
News of the presidential campaign in a long time, and
it's not a coincidence that it comes three days after
that devastating New York Times poll and some analysts saying
Joe Biden needs a game changer of some sort. You
can't just ride out these poles. You need an event.
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You need to create an event like a debate to
try to change your fortunes. You're so far behind. And
Joe Biden put out this statement on Twitter today.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in twenty twenty centsidy.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He hadn't shown up for debate.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Will make my day, Pal, I'll even do it twice.
So let's pick the dace.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Donald.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I hear you're free on Wednesdays, so let it again.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Joe pointed out that the free on Wednesdays, nice little
joke about the guy being in court when like at
least half the country maybe more, since Farid Zakaria on
CNN agrees that if his name wasn't Trump, he wouldn't
be in a court room in this case, nice little
joke about law fair keeping your opponent off the campaign trail.
But any who, Nana Republic perversions of our political process.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Anyhow, the details behind this are damned interesting, and we'll
get Joe Getty's take. First of all, Biden wants to
bypass the normal organization that puts on debate and has
already thrown out the two requirements he has for the debates, gonna,
I guess, gonna debate the particulars of the debate in public,
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which is a pretty good idea, I think if I'm him.
But he's willing to debate at least twice before. He
wants to start as early as June, which is in
two weeks, Ladies and terms, and is rejecting the non
part as an organization that has managed to all presidential
debates since nineteen eighty eight. This is according to a
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letter obtained by The New York Times. This is the
letter that the Biden campaign sent to the Trump campaign overnight.
Trump has already responded and said that he agrees to
two debates. The letter by the Biden campaign lays out
the president's terms for giving mister Trump the debates. The
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proposal says that he wants them to be in a
a studio with no audience, which I actually agree with.
Trump has already responded, got to have an audience. Well,
he wants voters there. But I'm on Biden's side. I
think debates would be better. I can understand why Trump
wants an audience, but I think I think we've always
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said that we think debates would be better. And Biden
wants some microphones to be cut off as soon as
a person's.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Time is up. All right, interesting, I don't mind that.
I don't think. I don't think I do either. I mean,
we've tried the whole shouting over each other thing, and
it's just it's incredibly annoying. It's unproductive, waste of everybody's time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
He also said that he wants the debates to only
be between him and Trump and not with RFK Junior
or any of the other third party candidates.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
How do we feel about that?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You get what you have the power to get. I know,
which would you prefer? Would you prefer the other candidates
are there or not? I don't think I want them there.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I think it's really interesting and I'm having trouble
noodling through why this is. But the Commission on Presidential
Debates has famously been liberal all these years. They hire
liberal moderators, and the Republican parties hated them for it.
But it's Biden who's saying no, no, no, no, I want
to take control. Here's how it's going to be. I'm
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not quite sure. Give me a second to think about that.
That's an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, I'm trying to figure out what this angle is. Well,
that angle is part of this angle, I guess. So
the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has run debates our
whole lives. Joe Biden said he wants to bypass their
three general election debates, which are already scheduled for September sixteenth,
October first, October ninth. Biden wants the debates much earlier again,
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starting in June, which is only two weeks away. Why
does Joe Biden, He says, because he wants the debates
to happen before early voting. Another thing I can get behind.
We've talked about that in the past. You have the
debate when half the country's already voted. So I think
I can get behind all his proposals, the idea of
not having anybody in the room, the idea of cutting
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the mics off, and the idea of having him before
people start voting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
When does early voting start? I think June's ridiculous. Immediately
after the conventions, just to September one tenth and twenty third,
something like that, early enough that people haven't voted, or
very very few people have in late enough that they're
the official. Well what do you, candidates, and you're closer
to the election. It's it's obviously a my mind is degenerating,
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and I want to get this done as quickly as possible.
Wow trajectory.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, really, you think it's because he thinks I'm going
to be sharper in June than I am in October. Man,
of course, if my brain is going south that fast, like,
I better take my driving test now because in July
I'm not sure I can do it. That's something are
given certainty. It's one hundred percent certain he could not
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last a second term. The plot is to get him
in and then have him resign at some point. And
if you accept that premise, well then yeah, time is
not on his side. He's terrified of the calendar.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
The letter goes on to say a second presidential debate
should be held in early September, at the start of
the fall campaign season, early enough to influence early voting,
but not so late as to require the candidates to
leave the campaign trail and the critical late September October period.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I don't know what that's all about. You fly to
some hub town for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
They also propose one vice presidential debate to be held
in late July. I guess that's after the Republican Convention,
but man, that seems fairly early. Also, this is the
New York Times analysis. First of all, it says it
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shows that Joe Biden's willing to take chances to try
to reverse his fortunes. So that I think that's everybody's
analysis at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sure it needs to.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's got to take a home run an home run
swing at some point. Also says for the president, early
debates hold significant advantages. Early votes are crucial, especially for Democrats,
and polls show that mister Biden currently trails mister Trump
and that his messages on coor issues like the economy
are not resonating with enough voters. So Democrats vote that
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at this point. For many years, Republicans held a huge
advantage in early voting. Then Donald Trump for some reason
went hardcore anti early voting and reversed those fortunes. Now
Democrats win the early voting everywhere in America. But so,
I guess Biden is thinking, my voters need to see
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me debate and do well before they go out and
do their early voting, or I'm doomed.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I get. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Yeah,
I would guess. So he needs to stem the trends
that everybody talking about, whether it's young voters, black voters,
voters in general. It's in a it's not a bad
trajectory right now.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I didn't get that, but that it makes sense
now if Democrats vote early in much larger numbers, he's
got to get the debates in before the early voting starts.
Because his his people not voting for him, He's doomed.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right right again, When does the early voting start that
early in some places, including swing states. We'll have to
look into that. It seems odd to me that it would.
I think it's just like that month.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
But that gets you clear to October there's no way
it should be more than a week, I would agree. Huh,
so June is damned early to have the debates. Yeah,
that smacks a desperation to me. I mean before you
even have the conventions. That's just odd. How about Biden.
It's contributing to the metastasizing of the presidential campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
How about Biden?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You know this is all this is all pretty clever politics,
pretty well done on his part, even if somewhat transparent.
But how about him portraying in that video like Trump
is ducking him? Right when Trump has been howling about
a debate for months and now Biden has given into it.
But with this man, you talk about some must see TV. Yeah,
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it'll be exciting as it approaches. Whenever they decide to
have it. I hope they can come to an agreement.
I think that audience no audience could be a sticking point.
The opening solution is to one.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Of each good point.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Uh yeah, I it's more entertaining with the audience. It
benefits Trump to have the audience, I think, yeah, no, absolutely,
Even if it's an audience stacked the way they generally
are and they're booing Trump, that helps Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
With most of his voters being booed by some liberal audience.
Just the energy that you get around Trump from an audience,
I can see he'd want it there. But I'm not
going to change my position that we've had for many,
many years. No, get the audience as the hell out
of there, you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Know what you want. My overall gut prediction for this
is that it's going to be a sad and disappointing
spectacle that makes us all really discouraged about the state
of the country.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
With no audience, it's got a lot more of a
chance for that because it'll be so dead feeling compared
to debates were used to. That's what's going to be weird,
is it's just going to feel so and especially if
the if the microphone's shut off, and again that's another.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Thing that I've thought was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
But if a microphone shut off and you can't get
like the back and forth and that sort of stuff,
because when your time's up, your mic goes off with
no audience, it's just going to feel so lifeless.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
With a couple of eighty year old just Michael.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I'm thinking this debate could possibly have no effect whatsoever
because of what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
If it's so dead and feel it's like it almost
didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, that would be an interesting situation because that's a
win for Trump. No, no effect would be a win
for Trump. Yeah, I'm a little bit troubled. I need
to just get over it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But I'm a little bit troubled that we have no
time nor patience for anything, even something very very important,
unless it entertains us. I mean it's like the oncologist
comes into the room and and you know, he doesn't
have any jokes or anything open with and your space off.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You're like, he said something about cancer. I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
This is boring. This is boring. Come on, make life
more like a TikTok.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Then, so you think the oncologist or the heart doctor
they should do it like those gender of reveal parties,
like you should shoot a balloon into the air and
if it's blue, you're gonna have a heart attack, If
it's red, you're okay, right, or.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Have a laugh track and did you know an audience
cheering that sort of thing. I'm not gonna sit and
listen to a couple of candidates for the most powerful
office on earth discuss policies and the state of the
nation and what can best be done to protect the
liberty the American people? Who has time for that?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
As I'm awing, boring, I agree with you in theory,
but I think about the two of them debating with
no audience, and I think, can I even watch it?
Do you even want to watch it? Maybe I'll read
about it in the newspaper the next day. They just say, ah,
takes all the fun out of it. The Howland's screaming
crowd Man Brendon Circus.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Is all right, good luck, I'm moving to i Aguay
or fly, whichever one is the good I can never remember. Yeah,
a good one. Wow. This is a major development.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
And it shows you that Biden's internal polling matches the
poles we're seeing like that New York Times poll. Or
maybe it's even worse that he's got to do something
like this, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Depending on how big a shot at whatever it is
they give him, they give him. I hope Donald Trump
is loaded for bear. If Biden claims to have been
an eighteen wheeler driver over the road trucker taught constitutional law,
or you know, inflation was nine percent when he just
one of these many times debunked stories, right, that is,
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poor senile mind keeps it feeding to his mouth.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Gotta mention because it's true. All the big moments that
I was looking forward to with Joe Biden, they have
filled him full of go go juice, and he has
done well. A couple of State of the Unions, a
couple of big speeches. You know, they have that debate
at the right time of day, and they whatever they
do that the thing they used to do to Lance Armstrong,
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like in the Tour de France where they take out
all your blood and replace it with young person's blood
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He thinks that that's gonna stop working at some point,
but hasn't yet. I mean, he came off as like
on a meth binge on the State of the Union address.
I mean, he was a crazed, angry old man.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
They have that big fat shot in the ass.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And that Joe Biden against Donald Trump, who often seems
like he's crazed too. That could be pretty juicy. God,
no crowd, that'd be weird. Better have some bodyguards. The
too old guys might be rolling around on the floor
throwing haymakers.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
At some point they had dollar to see that. There's
that entertainment. I was looking for Katie's headlines on the
way and wrap this chain around your head. I'll look in.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Do you see if it said anything about moderators, Because
that's always a big sticking point too. Who's going to
ask the questions? What are the questions going to be,
Who's going to decide all that? If the Presidential Commission's
not involved, who's drawing up the questions? That's not a
minor point anyway. Oh, indeed, Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You're too young for this joke, Katie.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Somebody has already called the Trump Biden debate the Rumble
in the Geriatric ju Jungle. So there was a giant
boxing match in the seventies called the Rumble in the Jungle,
one of the biggest events in the history of television.
Rumber in the Geriatric Jungle. Yes, they are going to
have debates June and September, if and by and Trump
has just now agreed to both those dates June and September,
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So it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
If they can get past the impasse on the other stuff,
we'll see. It reminds me of Live Golf and the
PGA Tour announcing their merger a year ago, and they're
no closer to it than they were. But I have
a feeling it's in both of their interests to make
it happen. It'll happen. We shall see. There are a.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Couple of signs that one of the most important news
organizations in America, the New York Times, has regained some
measure of its sanity.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I hate to be too optimistic, but we'll talk about
that next hour.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
First, though, speaking of the press, let's talk about who's
reporting what it's.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
The lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Well, thank you guys from ABC News US moving forward
with one billion dollars in new weapons deal for Israel.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, so I'm very confused by this story.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
This was a breaking exclusive Wall Street Journal story yesterday
afternoon that Biden's moving forward with over a billion dollars
in military aid for Israel. The State Department walked that
back this morning and said that's not new. There's nothing
new about this, which I'm not sure what that means.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
No, I am confused.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah, from the New York Times, inflation cooled slightly, offering
some relief for.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
The Fed yeah, well, yeah, we'll have to dig into
that more.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's good. Never mind the FED, how about me Byan Bacon,
where's my relief?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The political spin on it will definitely be that. But
the number was it's basically flat, and the number was
horrifying to everyone, including economists last month, and the.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Fact that it's flat is good news. I'm not sure
that that works.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
From the Washington Post, Blincoln sits in with you Ukrainian
bar band for Rockin in the Free World.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, we talked about that earlier in the hour. I
think that was a really tone deaf move where you
got people dying one hundred miles from where you are,
fighting for their lives because we haven't given them enough stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, I'm reminded of Zelensky's line, and I don't need
a ride, I need ammunition. They didn't need rocket in
the Free World. They needed artillery in the Free world,
and it was withheld for months because of political secklessness.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
From NBC News, Ben Carson keeps his distance his other
VP contender's audition for Trump.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They're tid Carson.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Yeah, apparently his name's being thrown around, but he's kind
of staying in the shadows.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm still putting my money on Doug Burgham from USA today.
We're assuming, of course Bergham didn't strangle a cat at
some point.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Or something that will come out. He just can't.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Was disobedient. He's the same part of the country. He's
just north of that southa South Dakota puppy killer.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I could see him being a cat choker. Just saying.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
From USA today, solar storm not only unveiled Northern Lights,
it caused technology issues for farmers.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, no, this story, so.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
The tractors and other pieces of equipment that required GP.
Apparently we're dealing with a lot of glitches during the
time of the Northern Lights. And finally, the Babylon bee
Kim Jong Own attends Ivy League University to learn new
brainwashing techniques.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So we'll look into the inflation numbers and see if
anybody's saying anything important. The mood or the spin coming
out of this stuff is always so interesting. So if
it's flat, it's going to be portrayed as Yay, it
was bad. It's still bad, and I'm supposed to be
excited about that. I don't quite understand that.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty,
and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Is Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Stilling on that intern to help me get dressed in
the morning.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Live from Studio C see signor a dimly lit room
deep up in the bowels the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
And today on a Wednesday or under the tutelage of our.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
General manager, inflation, the numbers out, I haven't been paying attention.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Wis inflation are general managers? The monthly inflation numbers are
two out today, Jack, analysts are expecting. I don't care
what they're expecting. Just tell me what it comes out.
Headline from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Is Inflation eases as core index hits lowest level since
twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, widen nomics finally bearing fruits and always our favorite.
And we'll get into the details of it because the
details are always big finish here.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But we're always big fans of met expectations or fell
short of expectations or exceeded expectations. Is just a weird
I don't I don't you know, I'm not an economist,
but I don't get it.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Maybe the expectations were wrong. For some reason.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Expectations for financial stuff has always taken as completely gospel
everything else about economics. You know, you ask one hundred economists,
you get one hundred different answers. But the expectations are
solid as if from the word mouth of God himself.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
And if it's expectors, what do we think of them?
They've been vetted? Right? I take in place it's kett
a quadruple. I mean, I don't care what that guy thinks.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
I need your opinion on this because I saw the
video before I left for home.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Left home today.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Uh, Anthony Blincoln in a bar in Kiev last night
in Ukraine playing his guitar with a band singing Neil
Young's Keep on Rocking in the Free World, which I
think he thought was a cool gesture or something, But man,
I found it off putting.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
It made my skin crawl. It was super uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
And not because you know, I don't anything against dad bands.
It's the idea that Ukraine is in the worst situation
they've been in since the war started. They're getting their
asses kicked. People are dying left and right, plea people
are fleeing their homes and the secrety or a state,
be it playing in a bar, playing in a band.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Just just thought it was a bad look.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
And the way it hit me, honestly was after months
and months of delays getting critical munitions to Ukraine because
of some really odd and difficult to explain domestic political scrabbling,
and the incredible impact of that withholding arms. I mean,
they're they're losing territory in a frightening fashion at this point.
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But on the other hand, we held out on you
for six months. But the other hand, here's a groovy
song about the free world. Two three four play a song?
What was that, Michael? Yeah, that's blink and singing just
like a two second Yeah, okay, I'll take your word
for it.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah yeah, uh yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That bothered me. No, no artillery shells, but a song instead?
How would a song be?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oooh wow?
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Yeah, I don't know it was.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
That's what they call tone deaf, oddly enough, since he
seems to have decent tone listening to him sing anyway,
that'd be like if I don't know, if Biden lectures
bb Netanya who doesn't send the to the bobs and
goes to Tel Aviv to play golf or something.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I don't know, it just seems weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
So we got more from the Trump trial yesterday. Old
Cohen got cross examined for a while. And what's your
take on that? Brief take before we get into analysts
and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
It was an okay day for him ultimately for Trump
charges or so for a Cohen? Oh, I don't care
about him. How to do for Trump? The personal secure? Duh?
Come on, now, if it was a good day for
a prosecution witness, what does that mean? Don't you give
me the rough side of your tongue, sir? That was
the rough side on the rough Yes, rough side sounds
(04:52):
much worse than that, I know.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh oh, so you mean you think it was a
good day. So so you say it was a good
day for Cohen, So it was a bad day for Trump.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Yes, theoretically, except none of it's going to matter because
the chargers are stupid and Alvin Bragg has no jurisdiction
to enforce federal election law. This whole thing is a farce.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yeah, I still say the best show to take in
that if you're into the trial at all. Is Jake
Tapper's show on CNN it seems to have the most
on this hand, or on the other hand, if I
watch Fox Remories in MSNBC, I seem to get a
completely different picture of the trial and it's all one sided. AnyWho,
all of his analysts who have been all over the
(05:31):
place just think it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
The whole thing is ridiculous. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Interesting, But I heard presented the worst case scenario yesterday
and I thought it was so interesting. So I was
taken in the Dispatches legal podcast on this that features
David French from The New York Times, and I hadn't
heard anybody bring this up before. But here's your worst
case scenario for the whole thing, and it could happen.
Trump is found It's actually it doesn't really matter. But
(06:01):
anyway he's found guilty, he loses a close election, and
and then the appeal the next court says this is
a bunch of crap.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Oh boy, and.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Then we have pretty solid evidence that you kept a
guy from being elected president with a sham court case.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah, I could see that unfolding in that way. It's
certainly that's clearly what the effort is right now, and
the mere effort, never mind whether it's successful or not,
the mere effort is obscene.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
It's terrible. But can you imagine that if on the appeal,
the next level of court, when you don't have this
judge and that prosecutor involved, where they decide no, this
is not even close to a real thing, and the
guy lost. What is that going to do to the
American electorate? There will be unrest, well, to say the
(06:56):
very least. Even without unrest, cynicism at a level of
it'll take decades to get to overcome that. Yes, cynicism
and anger and resentment. Maybe we're all yeah, maybe we're
already there. But I do think that is the worst
case scenario and a decent chance that that happens. I
hope that's not what happens.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
No, I really I continue to think that jury's going
to reject this, but you just never know.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
With Jerry's more I think about it, the more I
think people are already that cynical anyway, we should start
the show officially so we don't get in trouble with
the FCC. I know I'm that cynical already, So why
wouldn't everybody else be I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
on this It is Wednesday, May fifteenth, the year twenty
(07:43):
twenty four. Life will not be a bore in twenty
four or Armstrong and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Let's begin that officially, according to FCC rules regulations, the
show starts at mark.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
How do we have a large body of people that
are in our city and country that are excellent swimmers
and at the same time we need lifeguards and the
only obstacle is that we won't give them the right
rope to become a lifeguard.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
That just doesn't make sense. Wow, that's what May Adams
in New York City there, suggesting that the illegals become
their lifeguards because they have a lifeguard shortage.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Play the first part again? What was the first party
he said there? I just thought that was funny the
way he said that, how.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Do we have a large body of people that are
in our city and country that are excellent swimmers?
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Okay, so is he referring to the idea of swimming
across the rio grande?
Speaker 1 (08:37):
Is that what he means? Well, one is reminded of
the old joke. Why is Mexico never won an Olympic
gold medal because all their best swimmers, runners, and jumpers
are in the US. Is that what he's saying, Well,
particularly the Cuban emigrace, let's start with them.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Well, are the people of Mexico known as good swimmers?
Or is it the rio grand thing? I mean, the
term wet back was decided upon is uncool many many
years ago.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
But sure, what is that what he's saying? No, I was,
I was, I was completely befuddled. I don't know what
he needs. I think there's any other way to interpret it.
There's nothing.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
I don't know anything else inherent reason. In fact, I
can't think of it other than Kenya and runners. I
don't know if there's are there any particular countries you
assigned particular athletic abilities to?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
It just seems weird. Well, if there was some sort
of critical need for speed skaters, I might look toward
on Norwegian emmagrays. But no, I just I have no
idea what the hell he was talking about? That is something. Well,
we'll see if he pays a price for that.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Yeah, I do 'm I keep I'm thinking of other
lines I could use in a humorous fashion. But none
of them seem like they would keep us employed.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Well, and I picture some of these immigrant lifeguards being
trained and the head lifeguards say, now, don't let the
kids jump into the pool. And the lifeguards say, why not,
it's dangerous. A kid jumping from the side of the
pool into the pool is dangerous. How is that dangerous?
Why do you have so many rules here? I thought
this was the land of the free. I'm going back
to Venezuela. This place sucks. That's pretty funny. How does
(10:18):
mail bag look? Oh, it's good, very good. Little of this,
little of that.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
So the inflation numbers are out, we can take a
look at different smart people's interpretation of them and what
they think, and then what political fallout there might be, because
that is the number one thing that's killing Biden. He
once again yesterday in an interview, claimed that inflation was
nine percent when he came into office. That is some
crazy s right there. It was one point four percent.
(10:43):
I mean, it's not like he's even close. This is
a bold, big lie that he's been called out on
multiple times that he keeps saying it, and he said
it again yesterday.
Speaker 1 (10:54):
Does his brain not work?
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Does he does he embrace the pro truth world. What
is going on there, but we can get into the
inflation numbers and other stuff. Our text line is four
one five KFTC.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Getty.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
I feel like we got to get this on because
this is probably the maybe the biggest news of the day.
This is from the president's own Twitter account with me,
you know, not that long ago here. Donald Trump lost
two debates to me in twenty twenty, says said he
hadn't shown up for debate.
Speaker 5 (11:33):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Will make my day, pal, I'll even do it twice.
So let's pick the day, s Donald.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
I hear you're free on Wednesdays.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
So there you go. That is uh wow, a little
shot there at the fact that he's on trial because
a corrupt Democratic prosecutor has put him on truck. Joe
wooh wow. You're a good point there.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
So Joe Biden posted in really fast speed TikTok style
a video acting like Trump was the one ducking the
debates but saying make my day and challenging. And it's
been confirmed by Axios and Politico and a bunch of
other they're gonna be two debates and they're already working
on the scheduling of them.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
And that's that's a pretty big deal. Yeah. Yeah, it's exciting.
I want to come my Republican friends.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Get ready, Bell, you're gonna end for a problem.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
Yeah. I'd like to know how many? How many?
Speaker 3 (12:25):
Maybe that's why it's edited the way it is. He
did three words at a time and they had to
put it together.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
I suspect.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So yeah, And also that's an excellent point. You make
that a little shot at the end. I hear you
free on Wednesdays. Yeah, because the Justice Department has twisted
itself into knots to make sure the guy's in the courtroom.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Yeah, and you like acting like that's cool and funny
and and you're down with it. Yeah. Great. Look, Joe Man,
here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Patrick Henry,
who was, among other things, the governor of I believe
message shoots right, Ah, the liberties of people. It's a
(13:03):
people take two. I think I have like COVID or something. Oh,
I have a fever and everything. Oh it's terrible. Did
you take a test?
Speaker 2 (13:12):
No?
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Who cares? Hmm. I'm always interested the upper respiratory thing
with a bit of a fever. I'm always interested if
I have COVID or not, but I understand that. Yeah,
me too, Me too. Honestly, I'm idly curious, but as
you know, that can create cascading effects for other people.
I have quite a few tests because the school sends
them home, but I didn't find out for a long time.
(13:33):
I'd have a lot more tests. Henry would throw them
in the trash on the way. What are you doing,
he said, I don't want to take a COVID test. Well,
they're given to you. I paid for them, so please
bring them home. Wow wow, Okay, So here's your Patrick
Henry quote. The liberties of a people never were, nor
ever will be secure when the transactions of their rulers
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may be concealed from them. For instance, where's that fifteen
billion dollars cal unicorney is spent on the so called
homeless problem? Where is that gone to whom? And what
good has it done?
Speaker 3 (14:08):
The transactions of the rulers may be concealed from them?
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Hello, sound familiar? Wow, mailbag? Tell you what the founding pappus.
There's some serious thinkers. Does Patrick Henry give me liberty
or give me death? Is that so? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
as for me, right, you'd think they'd have that one
up up front anyway. Ah, oh, this is great, This
(14:36):
is so interesting. Andrew on the Left Coast rights, guys,
I heard your segments on the new GPT four. Oh
thought i'd let you know how I'm using AI from
my college courses. The newest use that it has gotten
good at is math, and I mean hard maths too.
I'm in calculus too right now. The neat thing is
that I can orally describe a complex homework problem and
just put my phone on the desk and vocally talk
(14:56):
through the problems. Why don't let it give me the answer?
But I can bounce so ideas often seers me in
the right direction. This works for my physics courses as well.
It's arguably more helpful than my human tutors.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
That first of all, there's a fine line between it
helps you understand the question and cheating. I think, but
that would be hard, you know, you'd have to term.
That would have been very hard. I took calculus too.
It would have been very hard to sit there at
the kitchen table like I did many a night with
this problem that's like fifteen inches long, and I'm struggling
with and not just said hey, uh hey, there, chatbot,
(15:33):
how about help me along on this a little?
Speaker 1 (15:35):
How about if you say, I'm thinking of starting here
by simplifying this part of the and you could teach
a dog a mozart before you could teach me a calculus.
Apparently by my college ecto'ld be a cool show a
dog plain mozart. Yeah, but take a while anyway. Anyway,
literature is a little more sketchy because it's harder to
differentiate between complete cheating and brainstorming. But for quick assignments,
(15:57):
I can feed the thing bullet points to what my
original thoughts are, and it constructs paragraphs around them.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
I'm having trouble figuring out why we need to even
be able to do this as humans anymore. And I've
never been a guy who buys them.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
What am I ever going to use this math for?
Speaker 3 (16:12):
But at this point, when your watch is gonna have
chat GPT, they can answer complicated calculus questions.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I'm not sure we need to know. And then he says,
on a side note, Jack's kids and their friends would
have fun playing with the metas Imagined feature. It allows
you to create images in real time with your keystrokes
and is completely free. Yeah, Mark Zuckerberg, GISs you'd had it.
But one of the illustrations they featured was a fox
riding a pink Porsche through the sky as it explodes
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with cotton candy. So if you're into that sort of thing,
all right, we spent a lot of time on that.
I teach sixth grade, right, So, Anonymous, I want TikTok
bands so I don't have to hear effing skivity again.
Skimvity halfway through this year? Yes, skimvity toilet half way
through this year. I told him Skivvity's so twenty twenty three,
and everybody saying vivity Nebraska. Now when somebody says, don't
(17:02):
be such a skib, I quickly retort with okay, boomer.
I've managed to turn some diviividy to the point that
one asked me last week how crazy it would be
if bivity replaces the skivity other absolute crap? Are you Sigma?
That's so Sigma? Did you pray today? Is it? Drake
sized pay the phantom tax and outlining the jaw with
index finger while talking about mewing yes, what yes, I
(17:23):
gotta mention that I gotta mention that what the hell
is that anyway? Stay to free losing the monstrong and
the biggest.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
News of the presidential campaign in a long time, and
it's not a coincidence that it comes three days after
that devastating New York Times poll and some analysts saying
Joe Biden needs a game changer of some sort. You
can't just ride out these poles. You need an event.
(17:58):
You need to create an event like a debate to
try to change your fortunes. You're so far behind. And
Joe Biden put out this statement on Twitter today.
Speaker 5 (18:08):
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in twenty twenty centsidy.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
He hadn't shown up for debate.
Speaker 5 (18:12):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Will make my day, Pal, I'll even do it twice.
So let's pick the dace.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Donald.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
I hear you're free on Wednesdays, so let it again.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Joe pointed out that the free on Wednesdays, nice little
joke about the guy being in court when like at
least half the country maybe more, since Farid Zakaria on
CNN agrees that if his name wasn't Trump, he wouldn't
be in a court room in this case, nice little
joke about law fair keeping your opponent off the campaign trail.
But any who, Nana Republic perversions of our political process.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Yeah, that's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Anyhow, the details behind this are damned interesting, and we'll
get Joe Getty's take. First of all, Biden wants to
bypass the normal organization that puts on debate and has
already thrown out the two requirements he has for the debates, gonna,
I guess, gonna debate the particulars of the debate in public,
(19:10):
which is a pretty good idea, I think if I'm him.
But he's willing to debate at least twice before. He
wants to start as early as June, which is in
two weeks, Ladies and terms, and is rejecting the non
part as an organization that has managed to all presidential
debates since nineteen eighty eight. This is according to a
(19:31):
letter obtained by The New York Times. This is the
letter that the Biden campaign sent to the Trump campaign overnight.
Trump has already responded and said that he agrees to
two debates. The letter by the Biden campaign lays out
the president's terms for giving mister Trump the debates. The
(19:55):
proposal says that he wants them to be in a
a studio with no audience, which I actually agree with.
Trump has already responded, got to have an audience. Well,
he wants voters there. But I'm on Biden's side. I
think debates would be better. I can understand why Trump
wants an audience, but I think I think we've always
(20:16):
said that we think debates would be better. And Biden
wants some microphones to be cut off as soon as
a person's.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Time is up. All right, interesting, I don't mind that.
I don't think. I don't think I do either. I mean,
we've tried the whole shouting over each other thing, and
it's just it's incredibly annoying. It's unproductive, waste of everybody's time.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
He also said that he wants the debates to only
be between him and Trump and not with RFK Junior
or any of the other third party candidates.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
How do we feel about that?
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You get what you have the power to get. I know,
which would you prefer? Would you prefer the other candidates
are there or not? I don't think I want them there.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
Well, I think it's really interesting and I'm having trouble
noodling through why this is. But the Commission on Presidential
Debates has famously been liberal all these years. They hire
liberal moderators, and the Republican parties hated them for it.
But it's Biden who's saying no, no, no, no, I want
to take control. Here's how it's going to be. I'm
(21:22):
not quite sure. Give me a second to think about that.
That's an interesting development.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Well, I'm trying to figure out what this angle is. Well,
that angle is part of this angle, I guess. So
the Commission on Presidential Debates, which has run debates our
whole lives. Joe Biden said he wants to bypass their
three general election debates, which are already scheduled for September sixteenth,
October first, October ninth. Biden wants the debates much earlier again,
(21:49):
starting in June, which is only two weeks away. Why
does Joe Biden, He says, because he wants the debates
to happen before early voting. Another thing I can get behind.
We've talked about that in the past. You have the
debate when half the country's already voted. So I think
I can get behind all his proposals, the idea of
not having anybody in the room, the idea of cutting
(22:10):
the mics off, and the idea of having him before
people start voting.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
When does early voting start? I think June's ridiculous. Immediately
after the conventions, just to September one tenth and twenty third,
something like that, early enough that people haven't voted, or
very very few people have in late enough that they're
the official. Well what do you, candidates, and you're closer
to the election. It's it's obviously a my mind is degenerating,
(22:38):
and I want to get this done as quickly as possible.
Wow trajectory.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yes, really, you think it's because he thinks I'm going
to be sharper in June than I am in October. Man,
of course, if my brain is going south that fast, like,
I better take my driving test now because in July
I'm not sure I can do it. That's something are
given certainty. It's one hundred percent certain he could not
(23:04):
last a second term. The plot is to get him
in and then have him resign at some point. And
if you accept that premise, well then yeah, time is
not on his side. He's terrified of the calendar.
Speaker 1 (23:17):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
The letter goes on to say a second presidential debate
should be held in early September, at the start of
the fall campaign season, early enough to influence early voting,
but not so late as to require the candidates to
leave the campaign trail and the critical late September October period.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I don't know what that's all about. You fly to
some hub town for three and a half hours.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
They also propose one vice presidential debate to be held
in late July. I guess that's after the Republican Convention,
but man, that seems fairly early. Also, this is the
New York Times analysis. First of all, it says it
(23:58):
shows that Joe Biden's willing to take chances to try
to reverse his fortunes. So that I think that's everybody's
analysis at this point.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
Sure it needs to.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He's got to take a home run an home run
swing at some point. Also says for the president, early
debates hold significant advantages. Early votes are crucial, especially for Democrats,
and polls show that mister Biden currently trails mister Trump
and that his messages on coor issues like the economy
are not resonating with enough voters. So Democrats vote that
(24:26):
at this point. For many years, Republicans held a huge
advantage in early voting. Then Donald Trump for some reason
went hardcore anti early voting and reversed those fortunes. Now
Democrats win the early voting everywhere in America. But so,
I guess Biden is thinking, my voters need to see
(24:47):
me debate and do well before they go out and
do their early voting, or I'm doomed.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
I get. That's the only thing that makes sense to me. Yeah,
I would guess. So he needs to stem the trends
that everybody talking about, whether it's young voters, black voters,
voters in general. It's in a it's not a bad
trajectory right now.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
Yeah, I didn't get that, but that it makes sense
now if Democrats vote early in much larger numbers, he's
got to get the debates in before the early voting starts.
Because his his people not voting for him, He's doomed.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Right right again, When does the early voting start that
early in some places, including swing states. We'll have to
look into that. It seems odd to me that it would.
I think it's just like that month.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
But that gets you clear to October there's no way
it should be more than a week, I would agree. Huh,
so June is damned early to have the debates. Yeah,
that smacks a desperation to me. I mean before you
even have the conventions. That's just odd. How about Biden.
It's contributing to the metastasizing of the presidential campaign.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
How about Biden?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
You know this is all this is all pretty clever politics,
pretty well done on his part, even if somewhat transparent.
But how about him portraying in that video like Trump
is ducking him? Right when Trump has been howling about
a debate for months and now Biden has given into it.
But with this man, you talk about some must see TV. Yeah,
(26:22):
it'll be exciting as it approaches. Whenever they decide to
have it. I hope they can come to an agreement.
I think that audience no audience could be a sticking point.
The opening solution is to one.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Of each good point.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Uh yeah, I it's more entertaining with the audience. It
benefits Trump to have the audience, I think, yeah, no, absolutely,
Even if it's an audience stacked the way they generally
are and they're booing Trump, that helps Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
With most of his voters being booed by some liberal audience.
Just the energy that you get around Trump from an audience,
I can see he'd want it there. But I'm not
going to change my position that we've had for many,
many years. No, get the audience as the hell out
of there, you.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Know what you want. My overall gut prediction for this
is that it's going to be a sad and disappointing
spectacle that makes us all really discouraged about the state
of the country.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
With no audience, it's got a lot more of a
chance for that because it'll be so dead feeling compared
to debates were used to. That's what's going to be weird,
is it's just going to feel so and especially if
the if the microphone's shut off, and again that's another.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Thing that I've thought was a good idea.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
But if a microphone shut off and you can't get
like the back and forth and that sort of stuff,
because when your time's up, your mic goes off with
no audience, it's just going to feel so lifeless.
Speaker 1 (27:49):
With a couple of eighty year old just Michael.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
I'm thinking this debate could possibly have no effect whatsoever
because of what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
If it's so dead and feel it's like it almost
didn't happen.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
Well, that would be an interesting situation because that's a
win for Trump. No, no effect would be a win
for Trump. Yeah, I'm a little bit troubled. I need
to just get over it.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
But I'm a little bit troubled that we have no
time nor patience for anything, even something very very important,
unless it entertains us. I mean it's like the oncologist
comes into the room and and you know, he doesn't
have any jokes or anything open with and your space off.
Speaker 3 (28:21):
You're like, he said something about cancer. I wasn't paying attention.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
This is boring. This is boring. Come on, make life
more like a TikTok.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Then, so you think the oncologist or the heart doctor
they should do it like those gender of reveal parties,
like you should shoot a balloon into the air and
if it's blue, you're gonna have a heart attack, If
it's red, you're okay, right, or.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
Have a laugh track and did you know an audience
cheering that sort of thing. I'm not gonna sit and
listen to a couple of candidates for the most powerful
office on earth discuss policies and the state of the
nation and what can best be done to protect the
liberty the American people? Who has time for that?
Speaker 3 (28:55):
As I'm awing, boring, I agree with you in theory,
but I think about the two of them debating with
no audience, and I think, can I even watch it?
Do you even want to watch it? Maybe I'll read
about it in the newspaper the next day. They just say, ah,
takes all the fun out of it. The Howland's screaming
crowd Man Brendon Circus.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
Is all right, good luck, I'm moving to i Aguay
or fly, whichever one is the good I can never remember. Yeah,
a good one. Wow. This is a major development.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
And it shows you that Biden's internal polling matches the
poles we're seeing like that New York Times poll. Or
maybe it's even worse that he's got to do something
like this, you know.
Speaker 1 (29:39):
Depending on how big a shot at whatever it is
they give him, they give him. I hope Donald Trump
is loaded for bear. If Biden claims to have been
an eighteen wheeler driver over the road trucker taught constitutional law,
or you know, inflation was nine percent when he just
one of these many times debunked stories, right, that is,
(30:02):
poor senile mind keeps it feeding to his mouth.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Gotta mention because it's true. All the big moments that
I was looking forward to with Joe Biden, they have
filled him full of go go juice, and he has
done well. A couple of State of the Unions, a
couple of big speeches. You know, they have that debate
at the right time of day, and they whatever they
do that the thing they used to do to Lance Armstrong,
(30:27):
like in the Tour de France where they take out
all your blood and replace it with young person's blood
or something like that.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
He thinks that that's gonna stop working at some point,
but hasn't yet. I mean, he came off as like
on a meth binge on the State of the Union address.
I mean, he was a crazed, angry old man.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
They have that big fat shot in the ass.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
And that Joe Biden against Donald Trump, who often seems
like he's crazed too. That could be pretty juicy. God,
no crowd, that'd be weird. Better have some bodyguards. The
too old guys might be rolling around on the floor
throwing haymakers.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
At some point they had dollar to see that. There's
that entertainment. I was looking for Katie's headlines on the
way and wrap this chain around your head. I'll look in.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Do you see if it said anything about moderators, Because
that's always a big sticking point too. Who's going to
ask the questions? What are the questions going to be,
Who's going to decide all that? If the Presidential Commission's
not involved, who's drawing up the questions? That's not a
minor point anyway. Oh, indeed, Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
You're too young for this joke, Katie.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
So uh.
Speaker 3 (31:33):
Somebody has already called the Trump Biden debate the Rumble
in the Geriatric ju Jungle. So there was a giant
boxing match in the seventies called the Rumble in the Jungle,
one of the biggest events in the history of television.
Rumber in the Geriatric Jungle. Yes, they are going to
have debates June and September, if and by and Trump
has just now agreed to both those dates June and September,
(31:57):
So it's going to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
If they can get past the impasse on the other stuff,
we'll see. It reminds me of Live Golf and the
PGA Tour announcing their merger a year ago, and they're
no closer to it than they were. But I have
a feeling it's in both of their interests to make
it happen. It'll happen. We shall see. There are a.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
Couple of signs that one of the most important news
organizations in America, the New York Times, has regained some
measure of its sanity.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
I hate to be too optimistic, but we'll talk about
that next hour.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
First, though, speaking of the press, let's talk about who's
reporting what it's.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
The lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
Well, thank you guys from ABC News US moving forward
with one billion dollars in new weapons deal for Israel.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Okay, so I'm very confused by this story.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
This was a breaking exclusive Wall Street Journal story yesterday
afternoon that Biden's moving forward with over a billion dollars
in military aid for Israel. The State Department walked that
back this morning and said that's not new. There's nothing
new about this, which I'm not sure what that means.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
No, I am confused.
Speaker 5 (33:03):
Yeah, from the New York Times, inflation cooled slightly, offering
some relief for.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
The Fed yeah, well, yeah, we'll have to dig into
that more.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's good. Never mind the FED, how about me Byan Bacon,
where's my relief?
Speaker 3 (33:21):
The political spin on it will definitely be that. But
the number was it's basically flat, and the number was
horrifying to everyone, including economists last month, and the.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Fact that it's flat is good news. I'm not sure
that that works.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
From the Washington Post, Blincoln sits in with you Ukrainian
bar band for Rockin in the Free World.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Yeah, we talked about that earlier in the hour. I
think that was a really tone deaf move where you
got people dying one hundred miles from where you are,
fighting for their lives because we haven't given them enough stuff.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Yeah, I'm reminded of Zelensky's line, and I don't need
a ride, I need ammunition. They didn't need rocket in
the Free World. They needed artillery in the Free world,
and it was withheld for months because of political secklessness.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
From NBC News, Ben Carson keeps his distance his other
VP contender's audition for Trump.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
They're tid Carson.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Yeah, apparently his name's being thrown around, but he's kind
of staying in the shadows.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
I'm still putting my money on Doug Burgham from USA today.
We're assuming, of course Bergham didn't strangle a cat at
some point.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Or something that will come out. He just can't.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
Was disobedient. He's the same part of the country. He's
just north of that southa South Dakota puppy killer.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
I could see him being a cat choker. Just saying.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
From USA today, solar storm not only unveiled Northern Lights,
it caused technology issues for farmers.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
No, no, this story, so.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
The tractors and other pieces of equipment that required GP.
Apparently we're dealing with a lot of glitches during the
time of the Northern Lights. And finally, the Babylon bee
Kim Jong Own attends Ivy League University to learn new
brainwashing techniques.
Speaker 1 (35:14):
Oh, I get it.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
So we'll look into the inflation numbers and see if
anybody's saying anything important. The mood or the spin coming
out of this stuff is always so interesting. So if
it's flat, it's going to be portrayed as Yay, it
was bad. It's still bad, and I'm supposed to be
excited about that. I don't quite understand that.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
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