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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Ketty.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Armstrong and Getty, He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
He had more grizzly details of Plattner's behavior emerged, including
one ex who claims Plattner would slip his condom off
during sex without asking permission, but his defenders claimed that
this practice only shows Graham's relentless passion for recycling.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I hadn't caught that story, one of the many stories
about this peach of a candidate, former senatorial candidate Graham
Plattner from up in Maine, and he not shockingly got
out of the race. But there is there's more to
say about this, the coverage of it, who was backing him,
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He's done. I think he's done.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
When we talked to Lon Heechen earlier, he thinks that
there might be another act in Graham Platner's life.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I just don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean, I feel like Spencer Pratt's having a hard
time keeping his newfound stardom going. And he didn't have
to get out of the race because of a scandal.
Spencer Pratt just lost in Los Angeles because it's a
town full of communists who want to vote for communists,
and he wasn't close enough to being a communist. Graham
Platner got out of the race because he's all kinds
of a scumbag and maybe a rapist. He put out
(01:39):
an eleven minute video yesterday which was about eleven minutes
more than you needed, talking about getting out and why
got out and all these different sorts of things. Let's
hear a little bit from him.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
There is a reason that this is happening now. I
only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee.
This was the last week to try to get me
off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring.
It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us
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to where we are. It's the fact that they are
being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure
on us. We live in a political system that is
not built for normal people. It is a system that
is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours
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cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can
be crushed.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is true, and a good message. That is exactly
what Donald Trump ran into when he was an outsider,
and the Republican Party tried to crush him hard, tried
as hard as they could to crush him. If you
don't remember this way back in twenty fifteen, and he
jumped to the top of the poles immediately, and then
they had to all get on board where they were
(03:04):
going to get steamrolled very quickly. It is what the
Democratic Party did to Bernie Sanders. They crushed Bernie Sanders.
They do not want anybody who is on the outside
of the big decision makers in either party.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The difference with you, mister Plattner, though, is that Bernie
turned against you, Zorn Mom, Donnie turned against you. In
that crowd. They're the outsiders that have won races. When
they've turned on you, like they did in the last
forty eight hours because of the rape allegations, that's when
you're done. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC had an interesting take
on this.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Why do I say this because there's a conspiracy? No,
not at all. Go back to what I said at
the beginning, a warning to Washington Democrats.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You do need to listen.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
To Graham Platner because whether it's true or not, rank
and file Democrats who have been supporting Platiner from the
very beginning think that this was cooked up in Washington, DC,
with a lot of money behind it to find anything
that could be found to get Graham Black Platner off
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the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's super interesting. I don't know if Scarborough is right
about that. But if the average main voter or a
lot of Democrats across the country think, here's the old
boy network, here's the power structure of the Democrats finding
a way to get this guy out of the race.
If that's what they believe, that's a force to be
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reckoned with, as we've seen with Trump and other candidates.
I don't know how that could be in this case, though,
because the guy had a Nazi tattoo and then he
didn't deny it, he talked about it so and he
tried to hook up with chicks like the week after
his honeymoon, and he doesn't deny that either, So that's
(05:01):
not cooked up. So I don't know if a bunch
of Democrats out there are thinking this is all contrived
by the rich and powerful to keep an outsider away
from politics, or if you just recognize the Democratic Party
got out over their skis on this one. And this
(05:22):
guy is a bad candidate from the beginning, with a
you know, too many girlfriends and awful behavior and Nazi
tattoos and lots of Reddit posts that were cringing and
all that different sort of stuff. So there's that angle
of it, trying to decide which I'll go this direction next.
This guy Tony Kennett, he's a strategist. He was on
News Nation today. Let me go with let's hear his
(05:50):
explanation for this video clip fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Three that right now we're looking at a weird, very strange,
eleven minute video and the case made by Graham Plattner.
About four different times he blamed this establishment crew for
pulling their support of him, and that's why he's stepping down.
But it is Zorn Mamdani, of course, the socialist mayor
of New York. It would be Bernie Sanders, the socialist
mayor of Vermont, and then it would be a Son Piker,
(06:14):
the socialist streamer, who have all three pulled their support
from him. The establishment many stayed in and said very little,
if nothing about Graham Plattner through these entire series of accusations.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, well, let's play some of the montage. I don't
know if we need the whole minute.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
We got a montage here of powerful Democrats backing Platiner
after we knew about the Nazi tattoo and the trying
to have affairs on his wife, and the Reddit posts
about up with communism and how he sharpens his acts
and talks about raping.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Intruders and all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
There's a whole bunch of Democrats who were still the
powerful that we're still standing behind him until a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're not hiring a priest, We're hiring a senator. We're
going to talk about tattoos and sexton. He gets a
hall pass. I don't give us.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
If somebody had to talk relationship, toxic relationships.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And tattoos and all of the talk about Susan Collins.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
He could be one hundred times more stuck than he is.
He'd never be as stuck as what we got in
Washington now. Anyway, what I'm more outraged about, it's stupid
Susan Collins. I asked all of you to consider the
candidacy a grand Blatiner. I asked all of you to
understand as flaw as grand.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Platner is popular even though he has fault.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He is a flawed man, just like I'm a flogged man.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
And this is the key.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Everybody is flawed at some level.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
No one's perfect. All politicians have baggage. This just happens
to be a cannon that has baggage.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He's got he's got a I am met a tattoo.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I feel like this president is saying I hate black people.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like Bram Platinum. You might cram.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
That's my kind of man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So that's the Democratic establishment standing up for the guy
even when he had a lot of baggage out there.
So Plattner going out there and saying the powerful just
one to stop me doesn't sound like It sounded like
they were willing to turn a blind eye toward all
kinds of stuff that normally would derail a candidacy until
the much more solid rape allegation came along.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
As part of the whole.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
As far as the whole toxic relationship thing, that's a
tough one because I'm a single guy and I'm out
there and I run into a lot of single people.
You know, if you date or whatever, everybody's stories about
their ex portray their ex as awful. Pretty much everybody,
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like nine out of ten people, if you go out
there and you talk to somebody who's single, and you know,
let's say you're at least in your thirties or older,
your stories about some of your exes are there are
And this can't always be true, right, I guess My
point is, if everybody you talk to's ex husband or
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ex wife was a monster, how do you just happen
and to be talking to the normal, decent person who
married a monster. Or is it the case that everybody
feels like their ex was a monster just because of
the way relationships work, or the way our own minds work,
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or the way we have to protect our own egos
and emotions or whatever whatever it is. You see what
I mean. It's kind of like the old eighty five
percent of people think they're above average looking, which doesn't
make sense, or eighty five percent of people think they're
smarter than average. Everybody thinks their ex was a monster
doesn't make sense unless we are misportraying it or misunderstanding something.
(09:43):
So that's why having an article about Graham Platner where
a bunch of relationships that didn't work out, and then
coming forward and saying he was a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That just doesn't mean much to me without more proof. Now,
this rape allegation that came out in the last couple
of days, completely different kettle of fish right there. And
he came into her house when she had told him
specifically not to, So that's forcing your way in. And then,
I mean, it sounds like a rape. I think there's
a decent chance he doesn't remember it at all, that
(10:15):
he was blackout drunk, so he is legitimately saying I
didn't do that because he thinks he didn't. So different
angle of this slightly and talked about this some yesterday.
I don't know how many weeks ago it was that
The New York Times had a big, splashy Sunday front
page story about Graham Plattner, and their headline legend to believe,
(10:40):
uh oh, here it is. Here's the expose on what
a bad guy he is. And they didn't write it
that way. They wrote it like a puff piece, buried
some ugly stuff about relationships, not super ugly, just kind
of ugly stuff like it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Parry.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I think Joe counted the paragraphs, So it was paragraph
twenty six I think when they finally got around to
mentioning him doing something that is legit bad as opposed
to leading with the legit bad stuff. So the New
York Times doing a puff piece to Joe was calling
it an inoculation. It was like, we're going to get
(11:19):
this stuff out here in the softest way possible to
inoculate him against any future stories, which obviously didn't work
when you had a solid rape allegation. But what was
going on there, Well, this has been driving Mark Hauprin
crazy for a long time on why the New York
Times did this. He talked about it on a podcast yesterday.
Here's Mark Calpern on that New York Times story that
(11:41):
deserves more scrutiny.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
I went and raver read the New York Times story yesterday,
and the whole thing is so insidious, not just as
Lindsay points out the things they didn't include, but just
based on what they included.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
This is the lead they wrote.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
This is literally the lead of a story about accusations,
as he said, of serious accusations. On Tuesday, after a
whirlwind day in Washington, Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominated for
Senate in Maine, rushed home. Rumors were spreading from Portland
to the Potomac. It's like a featury lead about how
Platner's dealing with the accusations.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I rewrote the.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Lead just based on what they put in the piece,
not the stuff that they buried.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is what have been my lead.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Democratic Senator Graham Platner is facing allegations that he physically
assaulted and held captive a former girlfriend during a vital relationship.
According to a New York Times investigation, that's the lead
and the story, and the story is written is filled
with quotes from oh, other girlfriends really liked him, said
he was a really nice guy. Can you imagine them
(12:38):
inserting that in the story about Donald Trump?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
This is this is this.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Is such a scandal, this piece. And I can see
why Lindsey feels so betrayed by cooperating with them, And
I question why she did because because it was clear
for based on her account of how they treated it,
they were not trying to write the real story. It's
just phenomenal that they tried to get away with this,
and they would have potentially had it not been for
(13:06):
someone else deciding that she needed to come forward.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, So several women that were featured in that weird
piece in the New York Times have now come forward
and say said that the New York Times left out
stuff that I told them that was worse than that.
Why did they do that? Booksterism for Graham Platnir. But
I would think that if they knew that troubling stuff
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was in the back well one, if you're a decent
journalist and you care a all about the truth, you
would put that in there. So I think it'll be
lost to history. But keep in mind that the most
important newspaper in the world did that. They soft pedaled
the piece about a guy that they knew was The
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goal was to make it seem him, make him seem
like less of a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Obviously that was the goal.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Surrounded by his helper and said there quotes from girlfriends
who said, I really enjoyed dating him. What when do
you ever do that for anybody? What's going on there?
Any theories?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Text line four one KFTC more on the way armstraw
Hetty agent checks Wall was insured.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
But she will pull fruit.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Don't call her that, but that's what she is.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
A WSB agent by choice.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It wasn't by choice.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
And I can't get into a room to check on
her because your agents won't let me an oversight.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
I'll have your name added to the list of approved visitors.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't want to be added to the list. I
want my daughter back.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Then, let me put this in language that you will understand.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That ain't gonna happen. Wow, what was that dramatic thing?
Speaker 7 (14:50):
John Oliver as a cameo on General Hospital.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So comedian John Oliver of that HBO show that he does,
he used to be on The Daily Show, was on
General Hospital.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, he's always wanted to be on a soap opera
and he finally got his.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Chance and he played it straight. Yeah, they gave him
apart and he acted. He's always wanted to be in
a soap opera. General Hospital is still on the air.
It was on the air when I was a kid.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Started April first, nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It started before I was born.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Yeah, sixty three years has been on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, he got a hospital setting. Other than that, you
can do anything you want, so it's a pretty pretty
broad category. So what would be the point of having
a new soap opera?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Did you ever get into soap operas ever in your life?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
No, but my mom did I remember as a kid?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Which one is? She into general hospital? One life to live? Yeah?
All my children? How was the days of our lives? Guy? Yep,
like sands to the hour glass.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And the reason I got into soap operas ever, was
I had a period of my life where I was
in the hospital every year for like a week or so.
Like I don't know how often I actually did it.
My memory is I was in the hospital for a
week like every year, which was true for a while,
but I don't know if it was three years or
(16:08):
five years or what, but like first grade, second grade,
third grade, fourth grade, something like that, I was in
the hospital for a week.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Never really figured out why. I would just get really
sick and I would.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Have too many white blood cells or not enough white
blood cells or I don't remember. The problem was I'd
get fevers and I'd be really sick, sick enough to
hospitalize a kid. Anyway, I'd been in the hospital for
an entire week, and several times I got hooked on
soap operas because I would have to share a room
with an old person and they would watch. This is
obviously pre smartphones and all that sort of stuff. The
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only thing you had to do is watch what it
was ever on one of the three channels. And I
got into Days of Our Lives one year, Like I
was watching it every day, and I got to the
point so when I was healthy and I went back
to school, I'd come home from school and ask my mom, you.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Know what happened.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Did Randy and Elizabeth get back together? Or are they apart?
Still sure it wore off really quickly. But as a
little kid watching Days of Our Lives with like an
eighty year old who is dying next to me in
a hospital room, that's a fun week.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Hey, I got something for you to worry about. They
may not have occurred to you. That's good. Hull, stay tuned,
Armstrong and Getty. I'm looking up at the TV.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
They're doing a segment on ABC Sizzling Summer Reads. Where
did this whole notion of summer reading come from? Maybe
it was true at some point in history, but it's
never wrung true with me that there's more. First of all,
people don't read books at all anymore, and the idea
that there's more book reading that goes on in the
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summer or beach reads. I go to the pool in
the beach, I've never noticed more people reading there than
you see it coffee shops or planes or anywhere else,
roughly the same percentage. I just I think that's a
completely made up notion. But they always but summer reading
lists for your summer reading for those of you read
during the summer, And I don't know people who actually
(18:01):
do that more than they do. You either read it
all year round or you don't. Anyway, not important. World
Cup Soccer want to hit you with a couple of things.
Down to eight teams left. So today you got France
and Morocco. A lot of people think France are gonna
win the whole thing. Then tomorrow's Spain and Belgium. That's
(18:22):
the one the United States would have been in if
they could have beaten Belgium. Wouldn't that have been awesome?
Playing powerhouse Spain in the Los Angeles make it to
the final eight, but didn't happen, didn't even come close
to happening. Argentina defending champs in Switzerland on Saturday. That
could be Messi's last game, and this is the one
I'm most excited about. On Saturday, Norway England. Why am
(18:45):
I excited about Norway England Because I've been a become
a fan, like everybody has of this.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Earling Holland guy.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
If you've been watching TV at all, you've seen him,
whether you realize it or not. Six four blonde guy
with a ponytail doing ads for everything.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Michael No, But his last name is spelled it sounded
like Holand Poland.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's got two a's in it, HAA l A n
d Eric holand Earling Holand. Rather he looks like a Viking.
He is a Viking, is from Norway. He's a giant dude.
He's second in the tournament right now and goals scored
behind Messi, and he's doing ads for everything. And he's
just an interesting character. He's got a very unique, weird look,
(19:28):
and he's got a lot of personality and he's an
amazing soccer player. But I've seen a couple of interviews
with him and a bunch of stuff on Twitter that
I found interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Seems like a really really good dude.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh I know that one I saw they had a
video of all the biggest soccer stars coming out of
the tournaments and going to their cars and rushing by fans,
and how he comes out headed toward his car and
stops and does a picture with every kid and signs
something and fist bumps and all that. So he's just
a really nice guy and good with the fans and
all that stuff. He's also super healthy, works out like crazy.
(20:06):
He sleeps ten to eleven hours a night. He looks
like he's twenty eight. I don't know how old he is,
but he's a young guy. Sleeps ten to eleven hours night.
So rather than partying, you know, in all these different cities,
they go to his big giant soccer stars and find
and chicks at the club. He sleeps ten to hours
eleven hours a night, goes to sleep night after night.
(20:27):
He goes to sleep on time, at ten o'clock every night.
He wears glasses that block blue light two hours before bedtime.
So two hours before bedtime he puts on the blue
light blocking glasses, sleeps in a dark, cool room with
no screens around, and never has a phone in the
room so he's not tempted to grab it or grab
it in the morning first thing in the morning. He's
(20:48):
got this whole process for waking up slowly for his
brain and not turning to his phone. Interesting dude, and
also an amazing soccer player. So that's one of the
reasons I'm going to be watching England Norway on Saturday.
I said, I had something else for you to worry about,
Like you need that, Like we don't worry about enough kids,
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family members, your own health, your finances. What's this mole
on my shoulders? They getting bigger? Whatever you're worried about.
Katie Kuric. Do you remember her from the She was
the Today Show? Was she a host of the.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Evening news for a while? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, she was America? Oh that's right, she was a CBS.
She left NBC the Today Show for CBS and was
the hosted evening news for a while, and she was
a cutesy little America's darling or whenever she was. She's
now sixty nine years old. She was on one of
the shows yesterday revealing that she recently experienced temporary amnesia,
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which apparently is a thing that they have no idea
what causes it, what causes it in the first place,
in why it goes away.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But listen to this.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
The actual name of it is transient global amnesia TGA,
which I feel like I've heard about before, but I've
never heard about it this specifically. She was in Aspen, Colorado,
attending the Aspen Ideas Festival. For several hours, she was
unable to form new memories. Now, on the face of it,
I don't know if I would notice. Would I notice
(22:23):
if I was not forming new memories? I mean, now,
wouldn't I have to specifically think back to what was
I talking about two hours ago? I can't remember what
we were talking about two hours ago? Do I have
that transient global amnesia? I think, would you notice if
you haven't been forming it? If people started asking you questions?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Maybe you would.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But for several hours, she was unable to form new memories,
though she remained awake, alert, and able to function. She
later discovers she had participated in two panel discussions that
she had absolutely no memory of. That would trouble you
if so somebody brought up.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Like, see, I don't know. I'm trying to come up
with an example.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I do the show every single day, and by the
middle of the day, by now I can't remember what
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So trying to think of an example.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Some of the symptoms that alarmed her husband and doctors
included she couldn't tell them what year it was that
would bother me. She believed it was twenty twenty four
instead of twenty twenty six. She thought president the current
president was Joe Biden. This was just a couple days ago.
She couldn't remember that she had recently become a grandmother.
She repeatedly asked the same questions and even reinduced herself
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to the hospital staff.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Reintroduced herself.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Eh, I'm an old person, so I forget stuff easily.
But if I said, if I introduced myself like I'd
never met you before, multiple times in the same setting,
everybody would notice that, right, And then I suppose at
some point pointed out to you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Maybe her husband did it first, Hey Katie, what's going
on there? You introduced yourself to her like three times
in a row. I did.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Because sudden memory loss can be a sign of a stroke,
doctors treated it as an emergency.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
They rushed her off to the hospital. They did an MRI.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Another testing ruled out of stroke, and neurologists diagnosed it
as transient global amnesia, which usually happens only if you're
over fifteen. It's rare for everyone, but it only happens,
particularly if you're over a certain age. You're sudden, You
suddenly lose the ability to form new memories. You repeatedly
ask the same questions. You know, you know who you
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are and could perform normal tasks, but you keep forgetting things.
The episode usually only lasts a few hours, almost always
resolves itself within twenty four hours. The memories formed are
gone permanently. They never come back, so whatever happened during
those few hours or that day are gone forever, which
in some cases would really suck. And then it goes away,
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and they they have no idea why, They have no
idea what causes it. They think it might be associated
with intense physical exertion, emotional stress, hot or cold weather,
abrupt physiological changes. But as they say, with Katie Kirk,
none of those things occurred with her that day. She
just all of a sudden couldn't remember things for a
(25:23):
couple hours, and then it went away completely, And she
was on one of the shows talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Sharing your experience.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Just in case this ever happens to you or a
loved one, I suppose you should get him to the
hospital right away, but it's quite possible.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's harmless as far as they do.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I know what I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that one
in my quiver though I'm not married anymore. But like
back when I was married, that worked. You don't remember
that we're having dinner with the Zones an ah No,
I had that temporary global amnesia thing apparently, so I
can't go because I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, one other thing before we take a break to
get this on. I don't know how recent this is.
Sometimes clips pop up on my feet and they turn
out to be old. Doesn't really make any difference. This
is Bill Maher old guy does his HBO show every
Friday night. You know is act by now he's like
I used to finding him annoying, annoyingly, annoyingly liberal, and
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he hasn't changed his politics at all. It's just that
he seems quite mainstream compared to today's crowd, and here
he is talking about that on his HBO show.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging
and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and
the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed.
Alyssa Slotkin's right, Liberals are weak and woke, especially the
white ones, and they indulge all sorts of nonsense from
their kids, a pattern that then continues on in the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
Last election, it was all the.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such,
and now I fear that we like the terrorists. Is
the new that Liberals need to push back on the
dumb ideas that come from their children. The Democrats problem
is the energy the parties with the young I'm the
younger with the terrorists.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's not good.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
So talk to your children and remind them you don't
really want to live like your heroes in Hamas. All
that you do all day, it was all made in America.
Your smartphone, your grub hub, your freedom to bitch about America,
it's all American stuff. You tell your phone you want
a milkshake, and a guy brings into your house.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Please.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
You couldn't survive a week living into Fataville.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So that is he's referring to a couple of different
candidates making the point that, as I said earlier, the
center of gravity and the Democratic Party, the left wing
of it not the normal people, but the crazies has
gone from the sure men can have babies. That issues over,
as we saw with Scott Wiener of San Francisco being
(27:52):
harassed at a Pride event the other day. The issue
now is are you with Israel? Or are you with
are you against Israel? The way Bill Maher put it there?
Are you with the terrorists? Which I like and I'm
perfectly comfortable with. Is there a chance anybody can be
the Democratic nominee for president in twenty twenty eight and
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that race is going to start.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Here before you know it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Is there any chance anybody can get the nomination and
be pro Israel? Or do you have to be again?
Has Bill Maher put it with the terrorists, which I
don't think is a bad way to put it? Are
you with the terrorists or not? That's gonna be something
to watch if they nominate one of your I don't
believe Israel has the right to exist people. I don't
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think there's a chance in hell they get elected president.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Not a chance. Been wrong before, could be wrong again.
We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
A government official says he's confident and under construction Manhattan
skyscrap paper is finally stable. Experts claim that the building
now curves to the right, but it's still erect, so.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
They're renaming it the Bill Clinton Tower.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
My parents watched that show every single night, and he
makes jokes that I wouldn't make on this show about
Bill Clinton's erections.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I mean, just yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So I wanted to touch on this briefly again I
mentioned earlier in the show, and this is an important story.
There's something out there in convenience stores called Kratum seven
zero or it is Cretum seven oh. I think seven
oh is the brand. It gets you hooked on it.
It reacts like an opioid. It leads you to morphine
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and heroin. I know people personally that this has happened to.
In fact, we got this text when I was talking.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
About it earlier.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I first to create him through a podcast interview with
Brian Setzer, the guitar player who got addicted to it
after being recommended it to it by a doctor for
an autoimmune disease. You see, there's this Kretum is a
naturally occurring plant and it's fine in certain doses, but
the stuff they're selling at the convenience stores fifty times
(30:20):
more potent and it's getting young people hooked. And I
mentioned this that this buddy of mine who had to
put his kid in a rehab. The people at the
rehab said, oh my god, another one. About fifteen percent
of the people we currently have coming into the rehab
started on cretum. This was in the Los Angeles area, anyway.
I just wanted to react to getting tons of texts
from those of you. You crowd have voids existed, the
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Creatum's naturally occurring and it's actually fine. Blah blah blah.
It's the same crowd that always anytime you say anything
bad about pot. Pot is perfectly fine, and the medicinal
that it helps people who got cancer eaten.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
What is it with you?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You can't admit that some drugs can be used in
a way that's bad for your health or bad for
your body or ruin your life. Why can't you admit
that this kratim stuff. The people the rehab said, fifteen
percent of the people currently coming in started on kreatim
and the next thing you knowing on aarum.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It happens. It's real. I don't care if your personal
experience or you got a buddy who did it healthily.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It doesn't deny the fact that it ruins plenty of
people's lives, and.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
The same with pot.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I have known lots of people who ruin their lives
with pot, So don't pretend that it never happens.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
What are you worried about that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Us on this radio show will have the ability to
take pot out of your life.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Smoke as much pot as you want. I don't give
a crap.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Smoke a pot until you die. Smoke pot and they die,
or do creative I don't personally care what you do.
But what is the reaction to any negative comment about
any drugs? It's weird, and it's It's been true the
decades we've.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Been doing this show.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I had an uncle who's done cancer medication and the
only way he could eat is by taking tch. Fine,
But are you pretending there's no such thing as people
who smoke too much pot and ruined their lives or
are getting hooked on this credum and becoming morphinaticts.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Weird anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Starting July first, as in seven days ago, the DEA
put this Kratum seven to zero or any product like
it on the Schedule one drug list, and in theory,
they're going to start getting it out of convenience stores
and vape shops and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
But it hasn't happened yet. In La County.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's supposedly illegal, but my buddy found shops where they
were still selling it because they didn't know it was illegal,
or nobody'd come buy yet, or you're allowed to sell
the supply you still have before you buy.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A new supplier. I don't know how it works. I'm
just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Your teenager can still go into a vape shop probably
or a convenience store, and then right next to the
five hour energy or other things that aren't going to
ruin their lives, is this thing that can pretty quickly
make them an opioid addict and turn your world upside down?
How did this stuff ever get into stores? I guess
talking about earlier. We're so careful on yogurt and salami,
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and you can't sell goat milk unless it's blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
These different sort of things.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Be allow something that's gonna make people a heroin addict,
you allow that to be sold in convenience stores.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
How does this happen?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It makes me suspicious that there's like some sort of
conspiracy behind it, not the conspiracy some of you believe
about the Jews getting it in there for Epstein reasons
or something.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
But anyway, horrible story.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It wouldn't be appropriate for me to tell the whole
thing of this buddy of mine, but it's just it's amazing.
It's amazing that this happened to their son and their
family and it started this way.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Ready to.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Again, Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, me and
there's only two of us on the show until Katie
gets back from maternity leave and Joe comes back from
his vacation, which could be any minute.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Let's get a final thought from.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Our board operator or pretze and the buttons, flip of
the boggles, pull the believers.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How are you this morning, Michael?
Speaker 7 (34:26):
This is my advice for the teenagers. When you go
to convenience steor just get yourself a large slurpiece some
beef jerky, then go home and read a good book
old school.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, absolutely right, Maybe I'll finish with this. Every now
and then I get a little bit tired of listening
to the sound of my tears. Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous that the best of
all the years have gone by. Every now and then
I get a little bit terrified, and then I see
the look in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Turn around, bright eyes.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Bonnie Tyler dead it age of seventy five, but her
music will live on and again, I say, if you're
out drinking tonight or this weekend at a karaoke bar,
dial up some turn around, bright eyes and screaming at
the top of your lungs with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
A beer in your hand.
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The whole crowd will sing along in honor of the
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Speaker 2 (35:19):
What an overwrought song.
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Speaker 2 (35:56):
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Speaker 3 (36:02):
In Caddy Jack's Flying solo while Show is drinking gin
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Speaker 2 (36:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:25):
He had more grizzly details of Plattner's behavior emerged, including
one ex who claims Plattner would slip his condom off
during sex without asking permission, but his defenders claimed that
this practice only shows Graham's relentless passion for recycling.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
I hadn't caught that story, one of the many stories
about this peach of a candidate, former senatorial candidate Graham
Plattner from up in Maine, and he not shockingly got
out of the race. But there is there's more to
say about this, the coverage of it, who was backing him,
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
He's done. I think he's done.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
When we talked to Lon Heechen earlier, he thinks that
there might be another act in Graham Platner's life.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
I just don't think so.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I mean, I feel like Spencer Pratt's having a hard
time keeping his newfound stardom going. And he didn't have
to get out of the race because of a scandal.
Spencer Pratt just lost in Los Angeles because it's a
town full of communists who want to vote for communists,
and he wasn't close enough to being a communist. Graham
Platner got out of the race because he's all kinds
of a scumbag and maybe a rapist. He put out
(01:39):
an eleven minute video yesterday which was about eleven minutes
more than you needed, talking about getting out and why
got out and all these different sorts of things. Let's
hear a little bit from him.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
There is a reason that this is happening now. I
only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee.
This was the last week to try to get me
off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring.
It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us
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to where we are. It's the fact that they are
being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure
on us. We live in a political system that is
not built for normal people. It is a system that
is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours
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cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can
be crushed.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
That is true, and a good message. That is exactly
what Donald Trump ran into when he was an outsider,
and the Republican Party tried to crush him hard, tried
as hard as they could to crush him. If you
don't remember this way back in twenty fifteen, and he
jumped to the top of the poles immediately, and then
they had to all get on board where they were
(03:04):
going to get steamrolled very quickly. It is what the
Democratic Party did to Bernie Sanders. They crushed Bernie Sanders.
They do not want anybody who is on the outside
of the big decision makers in either party.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
The difference with you, mister Plattner, though, is that Bernie
turned against you, Zorn Mom, Donnie turned against you. In
that crowd. They're the outsiders that have won races. When
they've turned on you, like they did in the last
forty eight hours because of the rape allegations, that's when
you're done. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC had an interesting take
on this.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
Why do I say this because there's a conspiracy? No,
not at all. Go back to what I said at
the beginning, a warning to Washington Democrats.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
You do need to listen.
Speaker 5 (03:54):
To Graham Platner because whether it's true or not, rank
and file Democrats who have been supporting Platiner from the
very beginning think that this was cooked up in Washington, DC,
with a lot of money behind it to find anything
that could be found to get Graham Black Platner off
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the ballot.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
That's super interesting. I don't know if Scarborough is right
about that. But if the average main voter or a
lot of Democrats across the country think, here's the old
boy network, here's the power structure of the Democrats finding
a way to get this guy out of the race.
If that's what they believe, that's a force to be
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reckoned with, as we've seen with Trump and other candidates.
I don't know how that could be in this case, though,
because the guy had a Nazi tattoo and then he
didn't deny it, he talked about it so and he
tried to hook up with chicks like the week after
his honeymoon, and he doesn't deny that either, So that's
(05:01):
not cooked up. So I don't know if a bunch
of Democrats out there are thinking this is all contrived
by the rich and powerful to keep an outsider away
from politics, or if you just recognize the Democratic Party
got out over their skis on this one. And this
(05:22):
guy is a bad candidate from the beginning, with a
you know, too many girlfriends and awful behavior and Nazi
tattoos and lots of Reddit posts that were cringing and
all that different sort of stuff. So there's that angle
of it, trying to decide which I'll go this direction next.
This guy Tony Kennett, he's a strategist. He was on
News Nation today. Let me go with let's hear his
(05:50):
explanation for this video clip fifty.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Three that right now we're looking at a weird, very strange,
eleven minute video and the case made by Graham Plattner.
About four different times he blamed this establishment crew for
pulling their support of him, and that's why he's stepping down.
But it is Zorn Mamdani, of course, the socialist mayor
of New York. It would be Bernie Sanders, the socialist
mayor of Vermont, and then it would be a Son Piker,
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the socialist streamer, who have all three pulled their support
from him. The establishment many stayed in and said very little,
if nothing about Graham Plattner through these entire series of accusations.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, well, let's play some of the montage. I don't
know if we need the whole minute.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
We got a montage here of powerful Democrats backing Platiner
after we knew about the Nazi tattoo and the trying
to have affairs on his wife, and the Reddit posts
about up with communism and how he sharpens his acts
and talks about raping.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Intruders and all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
There's a whole bunch of Democrats who were still the
powerful that we're still standing behind him until a couple
of days ago.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're not hiring a priest, We're hiring a senator. We're
going to talk about tattoos and sexton. He gets a
hall pass. I don't give us.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
If somebody had to talk relationship, toxic relationships.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
And tattoos and all of the talk about Susan Collins.
Speaker 8 (07:07):
He could be one hundred times more stuck than he is.
He'd never be as stuck as what we got in
Washington now. Anyway, what I'm more outraged about, it's stupid
Susan Collins. I asked all of you to consider the
candidacy a grand Blatiner. I asked all of you to
understand as flaw as grand.
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Platner is popular even though he has fault.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
He is a flawed man, just like I'm a flogged man.
Speaker 7 (07:25):
And this is the key.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Everybody is flawed at some level.
Speaker 7 (07:28):
No one's perfect. All politicians have baggage. This just happens
to be a cannon that has baggage.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
He's got he's got a I am met a tattoo.
Speaker 7 (07:35):
I feel like this president is saying I hate black people.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I like Bram Platinum. You might cram.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
That's my kind of man.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So that's the Democratic establishment standing up for the guy
even when he had a lot of baggage out there.
So Plattner going out there and saying the powerful just
one to stop me doesn't sound like It sounded like
they were willing to turn a blind eye toward all
kinds of stuff that normally would derail a candidacy until
the much more solid rape allegation came along.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
As part of the whole.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
As far as the whole toxic relationship thing, that's a
tough one because I'm a single guy and I'm out
there and I run into a lot of single people.
You know, if you date or whatever, everybody's stories about
their ex portray their ex as awful. Pretty much everybody,
(08:32):
like nine out of ten people, if you go out
there and you talk to somebody who's single, and you know,
let's say you're at least in your thirties or older,
your stories about some of your exes are there are
And this can't always be true, right, I guess My
point is, if everybody you talk to's ex husband or
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ex wife was a monster, how do you just happen
and to be talking to the normal, decent person who
married a monster. Or is it the case that everybody
feels like their ex was a monster just because of
the way relationships work, or the way our own minds work,
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or the way we have to protect our own egos
and emotions or whatever whatever it is. You see what
I mean. It's kind of like the old eighty five
percent of people think they're above average looking, which doesn't
make sense, or eighty five percent of people think they're
smarter than average. Everybody thinks their ex was a monster
doesn't make sense unless we are misportraying it or misunderstanding something.
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So that's why having an article about Graham Platner where
a bunch of relationships that didn't work out, and then
coming forward and saying he was a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
That just doesn't mean much to me without more proof. Now,
this rape allegation that came out in the last couple
of days, completely different kettle of fish right there. And
he came into her house when she had told him
specifically not to, So that's forcing your way in. And then,
I mean, it sounds like a rape. I think there's
a decent chance he doesn't remember it at all, that
(10:15):
he was blackout drunk, so he is legitimately saying I
didn't do that because he thinks he didn't. So different
angle of this slightly and talked about this some yesterday.
I don't know how many weeks ago it was that
The New York Times had a big, splashy Sunday front
page story about Graham Plattner, and their headline legend to believe,
(10:40):
uh oh, here it is. Here's the expose on what
a bad guy he is. And they didn't write it
that way. They wrote it like a puff piece, buried
some ugly stuff about relationships, not super ugly, just kind
of ugly stuff like it.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Parry.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I think Joe counted the paragraphs, So it was paragraph
twenty six I think when they finally got around to
mentioning him doing something that is legit bad as opposed
to leading with the legit bad stuff. So the New
York Times doing a puff piece to Joe was calling
it an inoculation. It was like, we're going to get
(11:19):
this stuff out here in the softest way possible to
inoculate him against any future stories, which obviously didn't work
when you had a solid rape allegation. But what was
going on there, Well, this has been driving Mark Hauprin
crazy for a long time on why the New York
Times did this. He talked about it on a podcast yesterday.
Here's Mark Calpern on that New York Times story that
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deserves more scrutiny.
Speaker 9 (11:43):
I went and raver read the New York Times story yesterday,
and the whole thing is so insidious, not just as
Lindsay points out the things they didn't include, but just
based on what they included.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
This is the lead they wrote.
Speaker 9 (11:54):
This is literally the lead of a story about accusations,
as he said, of serious accusations. On Tuesday, after a
whirlwind day in Washington, Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominated for
Senate in Maine, rushed home. Rumors were spreading from Portland
to the Potomac. It's like a featury lead about how
Platner's dealing with the accusations.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I rewrote the.
Speaker 9 (12:13):
Lead just based on what they put in the piece,
not the stuff that they buried.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
This is what have been my lead.
Speaker 9 (12:17):
Democratic Senator Graham Platner is facing allegations that he physically
assaulted and held captive a former girlfriend during a vital relationship.
According to a New York Times investigation, that's the lead
and the story, and the story is written is filled
with quotes from oh, other girlfriends really liked him, said
he was a really nice guy. Can you imagine them
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inserting that in the story about Donald Trump?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
This is this is this.
Speaker 9 (12:43):
Is such a scandal, this piece. And I can see
why Lindsey feels so betrayed by cooperating with them, And
I question why she did because because it was clear
for based on her account of how they treated it,
they were not trying to write the real story. It's
just phenomenal that they tried to get away with this,
and they would have potentially had it not been for
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someone else deciding that she needed to come forward.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Yeah, So several women that were featured in that weird
piece in the New York Times have now come forward
and say said that the New York Times left out
stuff that I told them that was worse than that.
Why did they do that? Booksterism for Graham Platnir. But
I would think that if they knew that troubling stuff
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was in the back well one, if you're a decent
journalist and you care a all about the truth, you
would put that in there. So I think it'll be
lost to history. But keep in mind that the most
important newspaper in the world did that. They soft pedaled
the piece about a guy that they knew was The
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goal was to make it seem him, make him seem
like less of a bad guy.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Obviously that was the goal.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Surrounded by his helper and said there quotes from girlfriends
who said, I really enjoyed dating him. What when do
you ever do that for anybody? What's going on there?
Any theories?
Speaker 2 (14:10):
Text line four one KFTC more on the way armstraw
Hetty agent checks Wall was insured.
Speaker 10 (14:22):
But she will pull fruit.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Don't call her that, but that's what she is.
Speaker 10 (14:26):
A WSB agent by choice.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It wasn't by choice.
Speaker 6 (14:29):
And I can't get into a room to check on
her because your agents won't let me an oversight.
Speaker 10 (14:34):
I'll have your name added to the list of approved visitors.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I don't want to be added to the list. I
want my daughter back.
Speaker 8 (14:39):
Then, let me put this in language that you will understand.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
That ain't gonna happen. Wow, what was that dramatic thing?
Speaker 7 (14:50):
John Oliver as a cameo on General Hospital.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
So comedian John Oliver of that HBO show that he does,
he used to be on The Daily Show, was on
General Hospital.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
Yeah, he's always wanted to be on a soap opera
and he finally got his.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Chance and he played it straight. Yeah, they gave him
apart and he acted. He's always wanted to be in
a soap opera. General Hospital is still on the air.
It was on the air when I was a kid.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
Started April first, nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It started before I was born.
Speaker 7 (15:18):
Yeah, sixty three years has been on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Well, he got a hospital setting. Other than that, you
can do anything you want, so it's a pretty pretty
broad category. So what would be the point of having
a new soap opera?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Did you ever get into soap operas ever in your life?
Speaker 7 (15:37):
No, but my mom did I remember as a kid?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Which one is? She into general hospital? One life to live? Yeah?
All my children? How was the days of our lives? Guy? Yep,
like sands to the hour glass.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
And the reason I got into soap operas ever, was
I had a period of my life where I was
in the hospital every year for like a week or so.
Like I don't know how often I actually did it.
My memory is I was in the hospital for a
week like every year, which was true for a while,
but I don't know if it was three years or
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five years or what, but like first grade, second grade,
third grade, fourth grade, something like that, I was in
the hospital for a week.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Never really figured out why. I would just get really
sick and I would.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Have too many white blood cells or not enough white
blood cells or I don't remember. The problem was I'd
get fevers and I'd be really sick, sick enough to
hospitalize a kid. Anyway, I'd been in the hospital for
an entire week, and several times I got hooked on
soap operas because I would have to share a room
with an old person and they would watch. This is
obviously pre smartphones and all that sort of stuff. The
(16:39):
only thing you had to do is watch what it
was ever on one of the three channels. And I
got into Days of Our Lives one year, Like I
was watching it every day, and I got to the
point so when I was healthy and I went back
to school, I'd come home from school and ask my mom, you.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Know what happened.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Did Randy and Elizabeth get back together? Or are they apart?
Still sure it wore off really quickly. But as a
little kid watching Days of Our Lives with like an
eighty year old who is dying next to me in
a hospital room, that's a fun week.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
Hey, I got something for you to worry about. They
may not have occurred to you. That's good. Hull, stay tuned,
Armstrong and Getty. I'm looking up at the TV.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
They're doing a segment on ABC Sizzling Summer Reads. Where
did this whole notion of summer reading come from? Maybe
it was true at some point in history, but it's
never wrung true with me that there's more. First of all,
people don't read books at all anymore, and the idea
that there's more book reading that goes on in the
(17:40):
summer or beach reads. I go to the pool in
the beach, I've never noticed more people reading there than
you see it coffee shops or planes or anywhere else,
roughly the same percentage. I just I think that's a
completely made up notion. But they always but summer reading
lists for your summer reading for those of you read
during the summer, And I don't know people who actually
(18:01):
do that more than they do. You either read it
all year round or you don't. Anyway, not important. World
Cup Soccer want to hit you with a couple of things.
Down to eight teams left. So today you got France
and Morocco. A lot of people think France are gonna
win the whole thing. Then tomorrow's Spain and Belgium. That's
(18:22):
the one the United States would have been in if
they could have beaten Belgium. Wouldn't that have been awesome?
Playing powerhouse Spain in the Los Angeles make it to
the final eight, but didn't happen, didn't even come close
to happening. Argentina defending champs in Switzerland on Saturday. That
could be Messi's last game, and this is the one
I'm most excited about. On Saturday, Norway England. Why am
(18:45):
I excited about Norway England Because I've been a become
a fan, like everybody has of this.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Earling Holland guy.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
If you've been watching TV at all, you've seen him,
whether you realize it or not. Six four blonde guy
with a ponytail doing ads for everything.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 7 (19:00):
Michael No, But his last name is spelled it sounded
like Holand Poland.
Speaker 1 (19:04):
It's got two a's in it, HAA l A n
d Eric holand Earling Holand. Rather he looks like a Viking.
He is a Viking, is from Norway. He's a giant dude.
He's second in the tournament right now and goals scored
behind Messi, and he's doing ads for everything. And he's
just an interesting character. He's got a very unique, weird look,
(19:28):
and he's got a lot of personality and he's an
amazing soccer player. But I've seen a couple of interviews
with him and a bunch of stuff on Twitter that
I found interesting.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Seems like a really really good dude.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh I know that one I saw they had a
video of all the biggest soccer stars coming out of
the tournaments and going to their cars and rushing by fans,
and how he comes out headed toward his car and
stops and does a picture with every kid and signs
something and fist bumps and all that. So he's just
a really nice guy and good with the fans and
all that stuff. He's also super healthy, works out like crazy.
(20:06):
He sleeps ten to eleven hours a night. He looks
like he's twenty eight. I don't know how old he is,
but he's a young guy. Sleeps ten to eleven hours night.
So rather than partying, you know, in all these different cities,
they go to his big giant soccer stars and find
and chicks at the club. He sleeps ten to hours
eleven hours a night, goes to sleep night after night.
(20:27):
He goes to sleep on time, at ten o'clock every night.
He wears glasses that block blue light two hours before bedtime.
So two hours before bedtime he puts on the blue
light blocking glasses, sleeps in a dark, cool room with
no screens around, and never has a phone in the
room so he's not tempted to grab it or grab
it in the morning first thing in the morning. He's
(20:48):
got this whole process for waking up slowly for his
brain and not turning to his phone. Interesting dude, and
also an amazing soccer player. So that's one of the
reasons I'm going to be watching England Norway on Saturday.
I said, I had something else for you to worry about,
Like you need that, Like we don't worry about enough kids,
(21:10):
family members, your own health, your finances. What's this mole
on my shoulders? They getting bigger? Whatever you're worried about.
Katie Kuric. Do you remember her from the She was
the Today Show? Was she a host of the.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Evening news for a while? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Yeah, she was America? Oh that's right, she was a CBS.
She left NBC the Today Show for CBS and was
the hosted evening news for a while, and she was
a cutesy little America's darling or whenever she was. She's
now sixty nine years old. She was on one of
the shows yesterday revealing that she recently experienced temporary amnesia,
(21:52):
which apparently is a thing that they have no idea
what causes it, what causes it in the first place,
in why it goes away.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
But listen to this.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
The actual name of it is transient global amnesia TGA,
which I feel like I've heard about before, but I've
never heard about it this specifically. She was in Aspen, Colorado,
attending the Aspen Ideas Festival. For several hours, she was
unable to form new memories. Now, on the face of it,
I don't know if I would notice. Would I notice
(22:23):
if I was not forming new memories? I mean, now,
wouldn't I have to specifically think back to what was
I talking about two hours ago? I can't remember what
we were talking about two hours ago? Do I have
that transient global amnesia? I think, would you notice if
you haven't been forming it? If people started asking you questions?
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Maybe you would.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
But for several hours, she was unable to form new memories,
though she remained awake, alert, and able to function. She
later discovers she had participated in two panel discussions that
she had absolutely no memory of. That would trouble you
if so somebody brought up.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
Like, see, I don't know. I'm trying to come up
with an example.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
I do the show every single day, and by the
middle of the day, by now I can't remember what
we talked about.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
So trying to think of an example.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Some of the symptoms that alarmed her husband and doctors
included she couldn't tell them what year it was that
would bother me. She believed it was twenty twenty four
instead of twenty twenty six. She thought president the current
president was Joe Biden. This was just a couple days ago.
She couldn't remember that she had recently become a grandmother.
She repeatedly asked the same questions and even reinduced herself
(23:38):
to the hospital staff.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Reintroduced herself.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Eh, I'm an old person, so I forget stuff easily.
But if I said, if I introduced myself like I'd
never met you before, multiple times in the same setting,
everybody would notice that, right, And then I suppose at
some point pointed out to you.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Maybe her husband did it first, Hey Katie, what's going
on there? You introduced yourself to her like three times
in a row. I did.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Because sudden memory loss can be a sign of a stroke,
doctors treated it as an emergency.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
They rushed her off to the hospital. They did an MRI.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Another testing ruled out of stroke, and neurologists diagnosed it
as transient global amnesia, which usually happens only if you're
over fifteen. It's rare for everyone, but it only happens,
particularly if you're over a certain age. You're sudden, You
suddenly lose the ability to form new memories. You repeatedly
ask the same questions. You know, you know who you
(24:38):
are and could perform normal tasks, but you keep forgetting things.
The episode usually only lasts a few hours, almost always
resolves itself within twenty four hours. The memories formed are
gone permanently. They never come back, so whatever happened during
those few hours or that day are gone forever, which
in some cases would really suck. And then it goes away,
(24:59):
and they they have no idea why, They have no
idea what causes it. They think it might be associated
with intense physical exertion, emotional stress, hot or cold weather,
abrupt physiological changes. But as they say, with Katie Kirk,
none of those things occurred with her that day. She
just all of a sudden couldn't remember things for a
(25:23):
couple hours, and then it went away completely, And she
was on one of the shows talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Sharing your experience.
Speaker 1 (25:28):
Just in case this ever happens to you or a
loved one, I suppose you should get him to the
hospital right away, but it's quite possible.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
It's harmless as far as they do.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
I know what I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that one
in my quiver though I'm not married anymore. But like
back when I was married, that worked. You don't remember
that we're having dinner with the Zones an ah No,
I had that temporary global amnesia thing apparently, so I
can't go because I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Weird.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Okay, one other thing before we take a break to
get this on. I don't know how recent this is.
Sometimes clips pop up on my feet and they turn
out to be old. Doesn't really make any difference. This
is Bill Maher old guy does his HBO show every
Friday night. You know is act by now he's like
I used to finding him annoying, annoyingly, annoyingly liberal, and
(26:22):
he hasn't changed his politics at all. It's just that
he seems quite mainstream compared to today's crowd, and here
he is talking about that on his HBO show.
Speaker 10 (26:31):
If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging
and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and
the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed.
Alyssa Slotkin's right, Liberals are weak and woke, especially the
white ones, and they indulge all sorts of nonsense from
their kids, a pattern that then continues on in the
Democratic Party.
Speaker 7 (26:49):
Last election, it was all the.
Speaker 10 (26:51):
Gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such,
and now I fear that we like the terrorists. Is
the new that Liberals need to push back on the
dumb ideas that come from their children. The Democrats problem
is the energy the parties with the young I'm the
younger with the terrorists.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
That's not good.
Speaker 10 (27:08):
So talk to your children and remind them you don't
really want to live like your heroes in Hamas. All
that you do all day, it was all made in America.
Your smartphone, your grub hub, your freedom to bitch about America,
it's all American stuff. You tell your phone you want
a milkshake, and a guy brings into your house.
Speaker 7 (27:25):
Please.
Speaker 10 (27:25):
You couldn't survive a week living into Fataville.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
So that is he's referring to a couple of different
candidates making the point that, as I said earlier, the
center of gravity and the Democratic Party, the left wing
of it not the normal people, but the crazies has
gone from the sure men can have babies. That issues over,
as we saw with Scott Wiener of San Francisco being
(27:52):
harassed at a Pride event the other day. The issue
now is are you with Israel? Or are you with
are you against Israel? The way Bill Maher put it there?
Are you with the terrorists? Which I like and I'm
perfectly comfortable with. Is there a chance anybody can be
the Democratic nominee for president in twenty twenty eight and
(28:14):
that race is going to start.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Here before you know it.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Is there any chance anybody can get the nomination and
be pro Israel? Or do you have to be again?
Has Bill Maher put it with the terrorists, which I
don't think is a bad way to put it? Are
you with the terrorists or not? That's gonna be something
to watch if they nominate one of your I don't
believe Israel has the right to exist people. I don't
(28:38):
think there's a chance in hell they get elected president.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Not a chance. Been wrong before, could be wrong again.
We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
A government official says he's confident and under construction Manhattan
skyscrap paper is finally stable. Experts claim that the building
now curves to the right, but it's still erect, so.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
They're renaming it the Bill Clinton Tower.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
My parents watched that show every single night, and he
makes jokes that I wouldn't make on this show about
Bill Clinton's erections.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I mean, just yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
So I wanted to touch on this briefly again I
mentioned earlier in the show, and this is an important story.
There's something out there in convenience stores called Kratum seven
zero or it is Cretum seven oh. I think seven
oh is the brand. It gets you hooked on it.
It reacts like an opioid. It leads you to morphine
(29:50):
and heroin. I know people personally that this has happened to.
In fact, we got this text when I was talking.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
About it earlier.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
I first to create him through a podcast interview with
Brian Setzer, the guitar player who got addicted to it
after being recommended it to it by a doctor for
an autoimmune disease. You see, there's this Kretum is a
naturally occurring plant and it's fine in certain doses, but
the stuff they're selling at the convenience stores fifty times
(30:20):
more potent and it's getting young people hooked. And I
mentioned this that this buddy of mine who had to
put his kid in a rehab. The people at the
rehab said, oh my god, another one. About fifteen percent
of the people we currently have coming into the rehab
started on cretum. This was in the Los Angeles area, anyway.
I just wanted to react to getting tons of texts
from those of you. You crowd have voids existed, the
(30:42):
Creatum's naturally occurring and it's actually fine. Blah blah blah.
It's the same crowd that always anytime you say anything
bad about pot. Pot is perfectly fine, and the medicinal
that it helps people who got cancer eaten.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
What is it with you?
Speaker 1 (30:55):
You can't admit that some drugs can be used in
a way that's bad for your health or bad for
your body or ruin your life. Why can't you admit
that this kratim stuff. The people the rehab said, fifteen
percent of the people currently coming in started on kreatim
and the next thing you knowing on aarum.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
It happens. It's real. I don't care if your personal
experience or you got a buddy who did it healthily.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
It doesn't deny the fact that it ruins plenty of
people's lives, and.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
The same with pot.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
I have known lots of people who ruin their lives
with pot, So don't pretend that it never happens.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
What are you worried about that.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Us on this radio show will have the ability to
take pot out of your life.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Smoke as much pot as you want. I don't give
a crap.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
Smoke a pot until you die. Smoke pot and they die,
or do creative I don't personally care what you do.
But what is the reaction to any negative comment about
any drugs? It's weird, and it's It's been true the
decades we've.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
Been doing this show.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
I had an uncle who's done cancer medication and the
only way he could eat is by taking tch. Fine,
But are you pretending there's no such thing as people
who smoke too much pot and ruined their lives or
are getting hooked on this credum and becoming morphinaticts.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Weird anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
Starting July first, as in seven days ago, the DEA
put this Kratum seven to zero or any product like
it on the Schedule one drug list, and in theory,
they're going to start getting it out of convenience stores
and vape shops and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
But it hasn't happened yet. In La County.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
It's supposedly illegal, but my buddy found shops where they
were still selling it because they didn't know it was illegal,
or nobody'd come buy yet, or you're allowed to sell
the supply you still have before you buy.
Speaker 2 (32:50):
A new supplier. I don't know how it works. I'm
just letting you know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Your teenager can still go into a vape shop probably
or a convenience store, and then right next to the
five hour energy or other things that aren't going to
ruin their lives, is this thing that can pretty quickly
make them an opioid addict and turn your world upside down?
How did this stuff ever get into stores? I guess
talking about earlier. We're so careful on yogurt and salami,
(33:17):
and you can't sell goat milk unless it's blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
These different sort of things.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
Be allow something that's gonna make people a heroin addict,
you allow that to be sold in convenience stores.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
How does this happen?
Speaker 1 (33:28):
It makes me suspicious that there's like some sort of
conspiracy behind it, not the conspiracy some of you believe
about the Jews getting it in there for Epstein reasons
or something.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
But anyway, horrible story.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
It wouldn't be appropriate for me to tell the whole
thing of this buddy of mine, but it's just it's amazing.
It's amazing that this happened to their son and their
family and it started this way.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Ready to.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
Again, Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, me and
there's only two of us on the show until Katie
gets back from maternity leave and Joe comes back from
his vacation, which could be any minute.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Let's get a final thought from.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Our board operator or pretze and the buttons, flip of
the boggles, pull the believers.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How are you this morning, Michael?
Speaker 7 (34:26):
This is my advice for the teenagers. When you go
to convenience steor just get yourself a large slurpiece some
beef jerky, then go home and read a good book
old school.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Yeah, absolutely right, Maybe I'll finish with this. Every now
and then I get a little bit tired of listening
to the sound of my tears. Every now and then
I get a little bit nervous that the best of
all the years have gone by. Every now and then
I get a little bit terrified, and then I see
the look in your eyes.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Turn around, bright eyes.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
Bonnie Tyler dead it age of seventy five, but her
music will live on and again, I say, if you're
out drinking tonight or this weekend at a karaoke bar,
dial up some turn around, bright eyes and screaming at
the top of your lungs with.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
A beer in your hand.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
The whole crowd will sing along in honor of the
great Welsh singer Bonnie Time.
Speaker 2 (35:19):
What an overwrought song.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
Armstrong and Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
You know what's kind of growing Actually, so many people
would think, you know what you could do to thank
the staff Go to Armstrong and Getdy dot com and
buy some of our merch.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
That's what we do. We pass the money along to others.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
And there's some cool stuff there by the way anyway,
all kinds of sayings and Armstrong and Getty swag and
this and that at Armstrong Geeddy dot com and also
lots of clips and other stuff. We will see tomorrow.
God bless America.
Speaker 2 (35:56):
Thank you Ti Strong.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
In Caddy Jack's Flying solo while Show is drinking gin
a sketch a bourbon.
Speaker 2 (36:10):
It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really.
Speaker 7 (36:13):
Matter because we'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
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