September 10, 2025 • 36 mins
Featured within the Wednesday September 10, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show...
- Russian drones shot down over Poland...
- Jensen Rader brings us Headlines...
- Jack's Prune Update...
- A dramatic reading of excerpts from Kamala's new book...
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Armsrongt live from Studio C.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
See Senior.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We are in a dimly lit room deeper in the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'all,
today midwee come day Wednesday, that's when we bring a
camel into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I hate Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Donald Donald Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland. Russian
drone shot down by NATO aircraft deep deep into Polish airspace,
a test by vlad Putin perhaps of NATO defenses. Any
(01:14):
shocking escalation. Well, he had been testing that for a
while now. I was following my Telegraph podcast I listened
to every day about Ukraine last week, and they were
talking about various Russian drones that had crossed the corner,
caught the corner of Poland, and there were warnings and
so Putin was just pushing further and further, and apparently
(01:36):
he pushed too far last night with what a dozen
drones well into Poland that were shot down, and it's
a pretty big deal in that Poland had to shut
down their Warsaw's the capitol of the Warsaw airport and
all the airports in the area. I mean, you have
to shut down the capital of your country's airport because
of this. It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And so they've invoked Article four of the NATO Treaty,
which is we got to have a meeting about this,
and that will happen today.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Dutch F thirty five's, Polish F sixteen's Italian refueling planes,
and there's one other country involved in the direct response.
But yeah, this is Putin's thing. He does this sort
of thing a lot, testing defenses, flying right up to
(02:27):
or even into various countries' airspaces. But this is by
far the boldest and deepest and is pretty shocking.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well, I'm glad to hear it, as opposed to previous
days when he was getting away with just a little bit,
just a little bit more, just a little bit more. Yeah,
and yeah, we'll see where this goes, what comes out
of the meaning. Of course, Russia made a statement over
the night saying that Poland has shown no proof that
these are Russian made drones and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This sort of shut up. Yeah, stop it, nobody, nobody
believes you, right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And then the other war that's getting so much attention
is Israel strike on hopefully Hamas leaders. They're in Dohak, Qatar,
and the Kataris are angry, and Trump claims he's angry,
although you never exactly know he might actually be angry.
(03:18):
He sounded angry, he said angry things, but you never
actually know. I mean, when Israel took out the nuclear
reactor in Iraq or Syria wherever, way back in the day,
we acted very very angry, then years later gave a
medal to monocka beacon for doing it. So, yeah, it's
what's called tutting in some diplomatic circles, where a country
(03:42):
does what it has to do and you're secretly kind
of glad and or you realize, of course they had
to do that, but you just say, I was highly irregular, provocative.
This will not aid the peace process.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It does not further the goals of Israel or the
United States. Then that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You get, You get diplomatic cover, and on we go,
where the strong do what they will in the week
do what they must well. David Ignatius, writing in The
Washington Post, said this was the only path for a
possible ceasefire peace solution. This was the only path that existed,
and it now is obliterated. So apparently question for David Ignacious, well,
(04:24):
go ahead, do you finish if you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Likes Apparently the only option now is for Israel to
uh occupy Gozen.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The other side of that argument would be and then
you get to have the last word. Uh. The Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Crew said many will try to distinguish between Hamas's political
and military leaders, but both are terrorists operating in suits
from luxury hotels.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Doesn't change the moral calculus.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Right, of course not.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So my question to David Ignatius would be, David, is
Israel still absolutely insisting on Hamas laying down their arms
disarmed as an organization.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes, it's absolutely not negotiable. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Is Hamas still, for their part, insisting that they will
never ever lay down their arms?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yes, yes, that's huss correct.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So these peace talks you say have been derailed exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
How rosy do you think their future was?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Or were they like every other single waste of time, ridiculous,
once again giving diplomatic cover to say, look at it,
we're trying at least or having peace talks. It's just
it's so phony. Well and more immediately, was there a
terrorist attack in Israel the day before that these very
Hamas leaders took credit for and cheered on right right now?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
The National Review believes that, specifically, I forget which one
of their writers believes that. So Trump put out a
pretty stern warning on Sunday to the Hamas leaders, saying,
this is your last chance.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm serious, this is your last chance. And similar to
when he gave a ram their last chance.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
A couple days later, they get blowed up because they
didn't talk serious about a peace deal.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So that might be what happened. Tell you what, we
have several excerpts from an interview Brett Bear did with
the Israeli ambassador to the United States in which the
ambassador lays out, in remarkably frank terms, israel state of mind.
(06:32):
And I was not really surprised to hear it's more
or less exactly what I have been describing it as being.
But it is unequivocal, and everybody's just got to understand
it and quit with their phony David ignacious New York
Times style two state solution peace process horsecrap? What are
(06:53):
you talking about? Did they give us the heads up
or not? We're claiming they did or did but not
in time to warn Qatar?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Would we warn Qatar?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Would Trump actually warn them and say, yeah, Israel is
about to strike, so shoot their planes down? Or I mean,
I can't imagine that we would have warned Quitar. Look,
I'm like, not a half wit, maybe a two thirds wit.
And if I know this, the President of the United
States and the security team know this. You tell BB Look, dude,
(07:27):
we know you're gonna do what you gotta do. Give
us a heads up, but too late for us to
do anything about it, too late for us to call
the Kataris. Give us some cover so the Qataris can't
say it us.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Why didn't you warn us? Make it super short?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's like you're talking about what is it called strategic ignorance,
where you make sure the boss doesn't hear the stuff
the boss shouldn't hear so he can deny it and
be a sincere.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, and Trump is saying today that he has told
the leaders of guitar that this will not happen again.
He gains andantees it. So I don't know what that's
all about. If he's gonna actually tell him that, yeah, who,
you don't get to do that again. If he's actually upset,
I don't know. Who knows it'll take. It could take
fifty years before we find.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Out, right, Yeah, as he said, you know, the Israelis
will adapt and do something new and new and exciting way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Maybe they've they've infiltrated those new Apple iPhones, and any Katari,
any Hamas leader who buys one might be lacking their
mid sections soon.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I forgot that was gonna be my opening joke, that
joke this morning. I was going to be breathing hard
and saying sorry, I'm exhausted from carrying my heavy, heavy
iPhone up the stairs. Can't wait till those new, thin,
lighter iPhones get here, right, so exhausting carrying these things around.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know if this will be a hit or not.
The new thinner iPhones, I don't know. They they come,
you can buy a scrap for them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So apparently even Apple thinks they're kind of so thin
and light. They're gonna be hard to hold on to
because that's about that. You know, if they're really thin,
would you'd have to very carefully hold them with your
fingers in a way that you don't your current phone. Yeah,
like a credit card or something. And so they it
comes with a strap you can put on them to
wear around your neck.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Gota.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, there was no giant leap forward iPhone wise, and
Apple's had very modest growth in sales last several years
and it's expected that will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But a lot of people have older.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
More people have older iPhones than was true like five
years ago. Really, so the thing thinking just by sheer
dint of time passing, people want to up.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
But that's not the seventeen. That's a different thing. The
iPhone Air is thinner. But then the seventeen is like
my current phone, the sixteen. And they've increased the camera capability,
the cameras four times better. How much better can the
camera get? But they claim the camera's gonna be four
times better than the current one.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You can now take close ups of insects on mars.
I mean, it's it's really really good.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It is fantastic, and I'm surprised more people don't use
the technology that exists in iPhones and Google phones. I
guess to clean up backgrounds. I do this for people
all the time. They'll send me a picture and I'll say,
that's a great picture. Here, let me do something for it,
and like, I pick up the dirty clothes in the
background and send the picture back to them and say, hey,
(10:21):
I done that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's so easy.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Do not send a picture of your kid in front
of the Washington Monument with somebody walking behind him.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Get that person out of there. It takes like one.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Press of your finger. Wow, it's amazing. I've gone back
and cleaned up photos from my kids that I took
when they were little that I've made much much better.
There's no pile of dirty laundry behind them when they're
taking their first step. Now, Oh, I don't know that.
To me, that's that feels dishonest. I mean, Orwell warned
us about this manipulating history. In some cases, you would,
(10:53):
you'd be right, because you would like to see what
the living room look like in those days. But in
some cases, like it's a first day of.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
School, but you know, I don't know there's a smashed
up coke can down by their feet or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know, there's no need for that, but it's cool.
I just absolutely love that feature. It's so amazing. Yeah,
I got to use that. So you just open up
the edit and dive in. Huh yeah, show very easy.
Del was I gonna say?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Oh, the other thing that Apple mentioned, and they mentioned
this every year and it means nothing to me, the
new processor speed.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Does anybody feel like their phones are too slow in
doing anything? I've never felt that way, like even starting
with the first one. So yeah, I'm kind of a
believer in a slower life these days.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So I can't imagine what sort of computing you're doing
on your phone that needs to be slightly faster.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I don't know, you're launching spaceships or something. Things I'm
not doing. And the headline, the final headline on Apples,
there's still are way behind in the AI game, way
behind your Googles and uh and androids and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I saw the list. I'll have to dig that up.
Who's spending what this year on AI? It was quite shocking.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'll have to dig that up, dang it, because there's
there's actually an interesting angle to that. How much various
people are spending, but companies are still obviously believe it's
something because they're spending tons of money on it.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Kamala Harris is out with Well, her book's not out,
but excerpts her out from the Atlantic or she blaming
Joe Biden and her staff and all kinds of things
as opposed to anything she did, and some good juicy
stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Her speeches were too good. She was told she needed
to back off. Wow, anyway, we're gonna start to show
officially we're getting ourselves into trouble. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty. On this Wednesday, September tenth,
the year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong and getting we
approve of this program. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mark, did you get the targets you were seeking? If
we didn't get them this time, we'll get them the
next time. The Israeli ambassador.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, the orthopedics in their shoes will blow up or something.
We're gonna hunt you down. We are going to hunt you.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
We've got headlines on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I think it's funny that.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Only Fox is talking about Kamala Harris's book excerpts that
are out in the Atlantic.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So the networks of that party, which she was the
nominee for, have no interest in what she has.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
To say, but Fox does because she embarrasses herself every
time she writes or opens her mouth.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I think that's funny. Hmm.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Before we get to Jensen's headlines, we got to get
do it quick because we're running out time. But what
is that baked good you brought in?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I'm calling it a caramel apple bar.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Oh my god, that looks fantastic.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
It's like an experiment. It's kind of like a blondie
on the bottom with brown sugar and apples on top
of awesome.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I don't think I can, Michael, I don't think we
can say no to this.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Probably not.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Yeah, I needed them out of my house, get rid
of them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There's your cooking section. Let'sigure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
It's the lead story, Tenson Raider filling in for Katie.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yes, we're going to start with CNN pulland shoots down
Russian drones in its airspace for the first time, accuses
Moscow of act of aggression.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, I'd say it'd be interesting to see how this
plays out throughout the Day.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Then the Washington Times Federal charges brings chance of death
penalty for suspect in Charlotte light rail attack.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, I just read the best commentary I've come across
about that from the fabulous Nelly Bowls of the Free Press,
or assertion every lunatic in America, America gets one free murder. Wow,
I'll let him do anything up to that first free murder.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That does?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That seem to be the case.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Then a couple different headlines on the same subject. I'll
start first with NBC News. RFK Junior's new MA Hall
report gives roadmap to improving kids' health but stops short
of action.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
All right, I got comments on that I heard on
End this morning.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
AP also says RFK Junior's latest Make America Healthy Again
report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
MPR is making a big deal out of how the
schools need more money so we can eat more healthy
blah blah blah more that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And then The New York Times has six takeaways from
Kennedy's Childhood Health report, calls out over medicalization, doubts of
fluoride in the drinking water, and then changes more on vaccine.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Like a lot of things involved with the Trump administration,
I think the report from what I've seen, ranges from
the very solid and important to the completely cuckoo and
stuff in between.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Right. And then the next one from CBS cruise ship
passenger jumps overboard allegedly to avoid sixteen thousand dollars in
gambling debt.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh, can worth be like out to sea.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Or att So he they were close to port, they
had just left I believe it was Puerto Rico, and
then someone on a jets he picked him up, brought
him to shore.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh okay wow.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And then on shore he was found with fourteen thousand,
six hundred in cash, two phones, and five IDs.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So had he done the gambling on the boat?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Okay, yes, So once authorities on land found him, figured
out his real name, put him back to the cruise ship.
It was a Royal Caribbean cruise and then they pulled
up his account and he had racked that up during
his cruise.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
He must have been sloppy once he got to the land,
because it seems like a pretty Darrond plot to make gooding. Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
And then finally from the Babylon Bee ice enforcement action
at chocolate factory nabs four hundred and seventy five illegal
oopa luopas.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That's funny, and you send them back to Wonka Land.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's right, it's your orange butts on this plane.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, you imported uh Kamala harrison'sn excerption, among other things
we got on the way for you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Stay here, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We got this text. Prunes are dried plums. There is
no prune fruit. Prunes are plums. Now you might think
that was obvious to people, it wasn't obvious to me.
I didn't know that. I thought a prune was great.
That's right, like a raisin is a dried grape.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I've only heard about prunes as a joke from sitcoms
my whole life.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'd never looked for one or sought one out.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
They always used as a joke as something disgusting on
sitcoms when I was a kid. My doctor told me
recently I should eat prunes because I have a regularity problem.
He said, start with one or two and then add in.
Just keep adding them in until you're a regular. Yesterday
I went four, Still no results. Today we'll go with five.
I guess Wow, I'm been the ante. Now when I
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walk through the sales area as I did yesterday, people say, hey,
how many prunes are you on?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I said I was three today. Let us know how
it goes. Everybody said prune watched they got to put
up a big board with the you know the number
of prunes up there in graphics.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh it has them now, Wow, fantastics. Shout it again, Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now kind of a pop diva sound to that one,
thinking about your brunes.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I don't know how they're rolling out this book. I
feel like we had excerpts from Kamala Harris's book weeks
ago that we read. Is this the same book? There's
another book already Anyway. The Atlantics out with a whole
bunch of excerpts today, and uh, Joe is looking through
it because he actually subscribes to the Atlantic as a intellectual.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'm a closeted progressive, that's right, and uh, but deeply closeted.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
They were going through some of the highlights on MSNBC today.
I've seen scant coverage on the non Fox networks, which
I think is interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It's the story on Fox.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
You would think the lead story, it would more likely
be a lead story on the networks where it was
your candidate.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, unless the author is a jackass.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And what really amuses me is you pointed out earlier
that Fox and Friends is having great fun with it. Yeah,
and the other networks are ignoring it. But here comes
a twist. MSNBC. Actually Morning Joe has started to touch
on it because especially Mika doesn't understand how.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Funny it is, which is the funniest part to me.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Little Mika thinks this is just an inspiring tome that
will lift people up across the land. Here is Mika
reading from Kamala Harris's book.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
During all those months of growing panic. Should I have
told Joe to consider not running? Perhaps it's Joe and
Jill's decision. We all said that like a mantra, as
if we'd all been hypnotized. Was it grace or was
it recklessness? In retros, I think it was recklessness. The
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stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that
should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition.
It should have been more than a personal decision.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So she's to get no credit for saying that now.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
And also, maybe I picked up on this because Mark
Alprin has been talking. He's known Kama Harris for a
very very long time as a political reporter, and one
of his main complaints about her was that she can't
make a decision.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
She just can't make a decision.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And that statement right there from her book was that
maybe I should have done this, Maybe we went too far.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I don't know. I mean, she still can't just come
to a solid conclusion about something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right in retrospect, I guess it was reckless.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Right, yeah, so you know, make a statement, have an opinion,
But she she struggles with that.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
And even if she comes to that conclusion, like you said,
you get no credit at this point for that.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm enjoying meek as dramatic readings. Can we hear the
next one?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I was well aware of my delicate status. Lore has
it that every outgoing chief of staff always tells the
incoming president's chief of staff rule number one. Watched the VP,
I often learned that the president's staff was adding fuel
to negative narratives that sprang up around me when the
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stories were unfair or inaccurate. The president's inner circle seemed to.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Fine with it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be
knocked down a little bit more. Their thinking was zero sum.
If she's shining, he's dimmed. None of them grasped that
if I did well, he did well, that given the
concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice
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president was vital. It would serve as a testament to
his judgment in choosing me, and reassurance that if something happened,
the country was in good hands.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Meow.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
So we're talking about this sort of thing with Charlie
Sheen's new memoir that's out and the way Charlie Sheen
talks about his addiction versus the way Hunter Biden talks
about his addiction, and Hunter Biden still blames others all
the time when he talks about it, and Charlie Sheen
was much more. I can't believe how to control I was.
I did this, I did that. You know, I'm responsible.
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Kamala Harris, she is with all her many failures. I mean,
she was so bad, so often in so many different ways,
and she's going to write a book blaming Biden and
his staff and the press and everyone else for the
fact that I know, at one point, because I heard
him reading this on Fox and Friends this morning, she
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talks about how heavy the responsibility was of being the
first female president vice president. Give me a freaking preak.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Come on, I mean, seriously, job ain't worth a bucket
a war mess.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
As it was Rilliemously, you felt extra pressure being the
first female vice president, then you're a nut.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I mean Biden's only been out of office for
it's not even eight months, it seems like eight years.
But to have a book come out from the VEEP
saying yeah, President undercut me all the time, and his
cabal they're just trying to make me look bad, totally
screwedin me.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I mean, that's remarkable.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
She says at one point in the book, she'd given
a speech and that the staff talked to her and
said the speech was too good and that she needed
to tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Wow, just too smart and intellectual riker or too brilliant,
and it made the president look dim by.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, that's what she is saying. But when was she
giving these great speeches. I must have missed them.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, they quashed it, the dirty bastards.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
She also says that they never gave you anything to do,
which is very common for presidents to do vice presidents,
not just her, and that she would show up to
events and there was nothing written for her.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
And I have no idea the way it's supposed to work.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
If there was supposed to be how it normally works
in a white house, seems like her people would do that.
But anyway, she certainly made it sound like it was
her understanding that she would show up to this event
and somebody would, you know, have a speech written for
and she dhow up there'd be nothing written.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Explaining the when you think about the passage of time,
you have to think about the passage of time. But
come on now, really again, I thought she had staff,
but so she would show up, there would be what
blank pages in the Kamala's speech hard you know, fold
her things.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
If she waited until she walked up to the podium
to open up the little book and there's blank pages,
I think that's on her.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Wow, So there's a lot in the Atlantic. Here is
one of my favorite parts. She's describing giving that speech
in front of the Divine Nine traditionally black aroor Aties.
I remember that. In fact, one one particular sorority she's
talking to on this day, there was a new energy
in the room.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
As I walked down to the stage.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
A black woman was slated to be the Democratic nominee
for president. It was us, and everyone there understood what
it meant that this would be a journey of both
joy and pain. I was in a room full of
people with whom, because of our shared experience, certain words
did not need to be said. There is an emotion
that comes from being in a place where people see you,
support you, know you. The kindness and love in that
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room penetrated the armor I usually wore, armor I'd need
to put back on as soon as I left that room.
The biggest applause came when I started to say what
I would do to restore the rights of Roe V.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Wade when I am president.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Aurora erupted that drowned out the rest of that sentence.
The Aurora told me they could see it clearly for
the first time, this could be, and it should be.
And it was not because of gender or because of race,
but despite those things.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
She had to really put on the armor to go
out there and go into a compliant media lions den
where they would throw her softball questions and overlook all
of her flaws.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
The entire campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
She had to put on her suit of armor for
that because as a black woman, you know, the New
York Times and CBS was really really hard on her.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Just beating the crap out of her all the time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, man, look for that in your own life.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I tried to look forward in my life where any
of your failures, you're looking for all the different people
and things to blame as opposed to anything you did.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So freaking weak eyep.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
A long time ago, wise Man said to me, Joe,
you just told me about the hurdles you could have
jumped over but didn't. I thought, Wow, that's a metaphor.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'll remember too much.
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Speaker 5 (28:04):
As we have mentioned, maybe the biggest story going on
in the world right now is the fact that Russia
tested NATO by flying a whole bunch of drones deep
into Poland overnight. Poland had their fighter jets up there
and shot them all down. And they're going to have
a big meeting of NATO today and we'll see where
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it goes from there. But putin obviously not afraid to escalate.
This is an enormous escalation. God, I would say, as
we've been saying since this whole thing started, we spend
all our time worrying about escalating. How about they were
put in worries about NATO or the United States escalating
for a change. Anyway, Joe's got mailbag and a lot
(28:44):
of stuff on the way.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Stay here.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Sarah Huckebye Sanders, governor of Arkansas, on TV right now,
talking about success they've had in Arkansas since they've banned
phones in schools. My son was telling me a story
yesterday about a couple of girls in his science class who.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Are on their phones all the time in class.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I can't believe that. Yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
They just look at their phones. The teacher says, you
should put them away. Sometimes they put them away, but
then they get them right back.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Out of How is that a thing? I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean, ah, it makes my head explode. You know
two reactions. Number one, Jack, they're just cheating themselves. But
number two, the entire structure of education, like since it
was invented, is no, you don't get to do what
you want.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You're here to learn, You're gonna learn.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
So now you're a child, you don't get to make
that decision that society needs you to not be an
ignoramus in a ward of the state. So put your
damn phone away. Yeah, these are odd times.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Are you not allowed to just walk up and say,
heym me your phone? You can have it back after class?
Are you not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Do that in the same place as Yes, you are,
That's what I would do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Ah, unless the principal and the school board aren't behind you,
then you wouldn't dare do that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Here's your fit for your your free and loving quote
of the day, skipping away from our British authors for
the moment because we like this from Paul with the
debt sealing looming France's debt woe. I was not sure
if you've used this one in your Cicero quotes. Probably have,
but this is the great Roman statesman Cicero. Yeah, the
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budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public
debts should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands by
the aid of our own resources should be curtailed. The
fiscal sense has been around for millennia, we just can't
seem to exercise it.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Did you verify that that's not an Internet made up quote?
The assistance of our foreign lands should be curtailed sounds
almost almost.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
A little too perfect. It borders on too perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I will take a look at that, but we will.
You know, nonetheless, whether Cicero said it or not, it's right, Yeah, true,
good point. Yeah, and the Roman Empire was absolutely drained
of its finances by becoming too widespread.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It Sarah mail bag a rare single topic mail bag.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
WHOA, what's the topic?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Great?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Great, great email from a teacher about the failures of
our educational system.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We'll get to that later.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The single topic is the Philly Karen and the Ball
surrendering Dad. Oh my god. Great variety of reactions to
our coverage yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
We'll begin with this one for Maria.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
You gotta do it, guys, you gotta call her Cruella diff.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Phil Lol, that's my email, that's all. Yeah, I can
tell that's all because you're no longer writing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
If you missed yesterday's episode, Joe was not kind to
the Dad.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Oh I don't think I was fairly reasonable and even handed.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Let's see. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Connie, who is a fan, says, I feel less judgmental
about the dad who playcated the lunatic at the ballpark
than you, Maybe because I have an adult son who's
high functioning autistic. He's always been meek by nature. Fortunately,
he doesn't have to be a tough guy to be
a good dad who's twelve year old son.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
All that is great. Let's see, though your lunch money
bully is a better comparison. Does Jack in hindsight think
he could have responded to the homeless man who terrorized
him and his kids differently? Could have knocked the guy
down and gone Derek Chauvin on him. Certainly would have
made his kids feel safer than the cops did. It's
easy to hypothesize about being defiant.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I would have had to, but right, let's see, this
is from Paddy hero to zero. A better example would
be is like if he demanded my iPhone or something,
I wouldn't have given it to it right, hero to zero.
The dad could have been a hero to his son,
a real man. Instead, he whimped out the crowd would
have backed him up. He sees himself as a hero
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for de escalation, but will his son remember it as
the time his dad failed to protect his family. I
have horror violence, but with a bully, you have to
stand your ground. Now, the internet trolls have instituted vigilante justice,
so much for de escalation. Well, interesting to quote Joe Getty,
who impregnated your wife? It couldn't have been you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Oh wait, I didn't say that. That's crazy. I think
you did.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Eric in Oregon. Not do is the prude of the
incident to death. But a review of the video shows
the notorious Phillies fan Karen putting her hand on the father. First,
Queensbury rules call for breaking her wrist, clocking her orbital socket,
then spinning her und to choke her out Gracie style,
But seriously, we were taught not to hit women, and
she's maniacal, possibly mentally disturbed as well. I can't defend
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the man's Poncey Dunn style pugilistic stance, but I can
understand that he was in a very weird position, all
with a child being present. He did the right thing,
and if I'm being honest, I'm still not sure what
I would have done in the same situation. That's a
really funny note, Thank you. How about Mike in Missouri.
Based on responses to Matt Walsh's video agreeing with your
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view of the lympress dad, it appears one hundred percent
of women think the dad as a hero, one hundred
percent of the man thinking is fake illed as a
father and a man well on in the trended army email. Okay, yeah, no,
definitely not. And of women I've talked to about it,
that's interesting. Indeed, Uh, let's see this is I believe. Well,
we'll just say, w a big freedom and this will
(34:16):
be awesome. I thought you guys were a bit harsh
on the dad, a bit too harsh As for his
initial reaction, he was focused on his son, so I
had no idea who grabbed his arm. Not sure what
my startled face looks like, but I hope my mad
is not judged by it. As for giving up the ball,
I interpreted it as if you're so pathetic that this
ball means so much to you, by all means have it.
(34:37):
My only problem with that reasoning is it was the boys, right, Yeah,
like I said, yes, if it was mine. I might
to hear you a lunatic and let her have it
because I don't care. But he took the ball from
his son. Yeah, all right, let's see Wayne. Frequent correspondent, Wayne.
Most of the time, I really like your show, but
not today. Both of you came off as first class
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a holes your negative comments about the dad and the
Phillies baseball incident. I think his reaction to the crazy
woman coming up from behind, grabbing his arms, starting a
screen profanities right in his face was completely normal. I
don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
It caught him so off guard. I don't I'd be interesting.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
You run that experiment a thousand times with random people.
I don't think you usually get that response.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And here's my favorite part.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
I seriously doubt that either one of you had had
the macho man reaction you claim you would have had,
But you would have been just as startled as the
dad was. I'm less surprised by Jack's comments than I
am yours.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Jack is usually the more cranky one, and now he's
so constipated, he's probably crankier than usual. But you, Joe,
are usually the voice of reason and compassion. Maybe you
should have a few prunes. Also, you're somewhat disappointed, fan Wayne.
That's a good point about your startled look, though none
of us know what our own started look as like, like,
sometimes my son will come up by me. I got
EarPods in. I'm like, I don't know what I look
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like when that happens. Yeah, I'm not a big baseball fan,
but I would have thrown the ball back on the field.
Everyone loses, especially the Karen writes John, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But just for the record, I meant directionally what I
said yesterday, but I was mostly just being silly. For
those who miss.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Joe, Getty walks it back, Oh that's disappointing.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
Having fun and Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty and he.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Armsrongt live from Studio C.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
See Senior.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
We are in a dimly lit room deeper in the
bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And hey y'all,
today midwee come day Wednesday, that's when we bring a
camel into the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I hate Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
And today we're under the tutelage of our general manager,
Donald Donald Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland. Russian
drone shot down by NATO aircraft deep deep into Polish airspace,
a test by vlad Putin perhaps of NATO defenses. Any
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shocking escalation. Well, he had been testing that for a
while now. I was following my Telegraph podcast I listened
to every day about Ukraine last week, and they were
talking about various Russian drones that had crossed the corner,
caught the corner of Poland, and there were warnings and
so Putin was just pushing further and further, and apparently
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he pushed too far last night with what a dozen
drones well into Poland that were shot down, and it's
a pretty big deal in that Poland had to shut
down their Warsaw's the capitol of the Warsaw airport and
all the airports in the area. I mean, you have
to shut down the capital of your country's airport because
of this. It's a big deal.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
And so they've invoked Article four of the NATO Treaty,
which is we got to have a meeting about this,
and that will happen today.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Dutch F thirty five's, Polish F sixteen's Italian refueling planes,
and there's one other country involved in the direct response.
But yeah, this is Putin's thing. He does this sort
of thing a lot, testing defenses, flying right up to
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or even into various countries' airspaces. But this is by
far the boldest and deepest and is pretty shocking.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
Well, I'm glad to hear it, as opposed to previous
days when he was getting away with just a little bit,
just a little bit more, just a little bit more. Yeah,
and yeah, we'll see where this goes, what comes out
of the meaning. Of course, Russia made a statement over
the night saying that Poland has shown no proof that
these are Russian made drones and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
This sort of shut up. Yeah, stop it, nobody, nobody
believes you, right.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
And then the other war that's getting so much attention
is Israel strike on hopefully Hamas leaders. They're in Dohak, Qatar,
and the Kataris are angry, and Trump claims he's angry,
although you never exactly know he might actually be angry.
(03:18):
He sounded angry, he said angry things, but you never
actually know. I mean, when Israel took out the nuclear
reactor in Iraq or Syria wherever, way back in the day,
we acted very very angry, then years later gave a
medal to monocka beacon for doing it. So, yeah, it's
what's called tutting in some diplomatic circles, where a country
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does what it has to do and you're secretly kind
of glad and or you realize, of course they had
to do that, but you just say, I was highly irregular, provocative.
This will not aid the peace process.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It does not further the goals of Israel or the
United States. Then that's it.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You get, You get diplomatic cover, and on we go,
where the strong do what they will in the week
do what they must well. David Ignatius, writing in The
Washington Post, said this was the only path for a
possible ceasefire peace solution. This was the only path that existed,
and it now is obliterated. So apparently question for David Ignacious, well,
(04:24):
go ahead, do you finish if you.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
Likes Apparently the only option now is for Israel to
uh occupy Gozen.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
The other side of that argument would be and then
you get to have the last word. Uh. The Wall
Street Journal.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
Crew said many will try to distinguish between Hamas's political
and military leaders, but both are terrorists operating in suits
from luxury hotels.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Doesn't change the moral calculus.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Right, of course not.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
So my question to David Ignatius would be, David, is
Israel still absolutely insisting on Hamas laying down their arms
disarmed as an organization.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Yes, it's absolutely not negotiable. Okay.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Is Hamas still, for their part, insisting that they will
never ever lay down their arms?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Yes, yes, that's huss correct.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So these peace talks you say have been derailed exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
How rosy do you think their future was?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Or were they like every other single waste of time, ridiculous,
once again giving diplomatic cover to say, look at it,
we're trying at least or having peace talks. It's just
it's so phony. Well and more immediately, was there a
terrorist attack in Israel the day before that these very
Hamas leaders took credit for and cheered on right right now?
Speaker 5 (05:43):
The National Review believes that, specifically, I forget which one
of their writers believes that. So Trump put out a
pretty stern warning on Sunday to the Hamas leaders, saying,
this is your last chance.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
I'm serious, this is your last chance. And similar to
when he gave a ram their last chance.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
A couple days later, they get blowed up because they
didn't talk serious about a peace deal.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
So that might be what happened. Tell you what, we
have several excerpts from an interview Brett Bear did with
the Israeli ambassador to the United States in which the
ambassador lays out, in remarkably frank terms, israel state of mind.
(06:32):
And I was not really surprised to hear it's more
or less exactly what I have been describing it as being.
But it is unequivocal, and everybody's just got to understand
it and quit with their phony David ignacious New York
Times style two state solution peace process horsecrap? What are
(06:53):
you talking about? Did they give us the heads up
or not? We're claiming they did or did but not
in time to warn Qatar?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Would we warn Qatar?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Would Trump actually warn them and say, yeah, Israel is
about to strike, so shoot their planes down? Or I mean,
I can't imagine that we would have warned Quitar. Look,
I'm like, not a half wit, maybe a two thirds wit.
And if I know this, the President of the United
States and the security team know this. You tell BB Look, dude,
(07:27):
we know you're gonna do what you gotta do. Give
us a heads up, but too late for us to
do anything about it, too late for us to call
the Kataris. Give us some cover so the Qataris can't
say it us.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Why didn't you warn us? Make it super short?
Speaker 4 (07:41):
It's like you're talking about what is it called strategic ignorance,
where you make sure the boss doesn't hear the stuff
the boss shouldn't hear so he can deny it and
be a sincere.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah, and Trump is saying today that he has told
the leaders of guitar that this will not happen again.
He gains andantees it. So I don't know what that's
all about. If he's gonna actually tell him that, yeah, who,
you don't get to do that again. If he's actually upset,
I don't know. Who knows it'll take. It could take
fifty years before we find.
Speaker 4 (08:11):
Out, right, Yeah, as he said, you know, the Israelis
will adapt and do something new and new and exciting way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Maybe they've they've infiltrated those new Apple iPhones, and any Katari,
any Hamas leader who buys one might be lacking their
mid sections soon.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Who knows.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
I forgot that was gonna be my opening joke, that
joke this morning. I was going to be breathing hard
and saying sorry, I'm exhausted from carrying my heavy, heavy
iPhone up the stairs. Can't wait till those new, thin,
lighter iPhones get here, right, so exhausting carrying these things around.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
I don't know if this will be a hit or not.
The new thinner iPhones, I don't know. They they come,
you can buy a scrap for them.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
So apparently even Apple thinks they're kind of so thin
and light. They're gonna be hard to hold on to
because that's about that. You know, if they're really thin,
would you'd have to very carefully hold them with your
fingers in a way that you don't your current phone. Yeah,
like a credit card or something. And so they it
comes with a strap you can put on them to
wear around your neck.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Gota.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, there was no giant leap forward iPhone wise, and
Apple's had very modest growth in sales last several years
and it's expected that will continue.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
But a lot of people have older.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
More people have older iPhones than was true like five
years ago. Really, so the thing thinking just by sheer
dint of time passing, people want to up.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
But that's not the seventeen. That's a different thing. The
iPhone Air is thinner. But then the seventeen is like
my current phone, the sixteen. And they've increased the camera capability,
the cameras four times better. How much better can the
camera get? But they claim the camera's gonna be four
times better than the current one.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
You can now take close ups of insects on mars.
I mean, it's it's really really good.
Speaker 5 (09:59):
It is fantastic, and I'm surprised more people don't use
the technology that exists in iPhones and Google phones. I
guess to clean up backgrounds. I do this for people
all the time. They'll send me a picture and I'll say,
that's a great picture. Here, let me do something for it,
and like, I pick up the dirty clothes in the
background and send the picture back to them and say, hey,
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I done that.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's so easy.
Speaker 5 (10:24):
Do not send a picture of your kid in front
of the Washington Monument with somebody walking behind him.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Get that person out of there. It takes like one.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Press of your finger. Wow, it's amazing. I've gone back
and cleaned up photos from my kids that I took
when they were little that I've made much much better.
There's no pile of dirty laundry behind them when they're
taking their first step. Now, Oh, I don't know that.
To me, that's that feels dishonest. I mean, Orwell warned
us about this manipulating history. In some cases, you would,
(10:53):
you'd be right, because you would like to see what
the living room look like in those days. But in
some cases, like it's a first day of.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
School, but you know, I don't know there's a smashed
up coke can down by their feet or whatever.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
You know, there's no need for that, but it's cool.
I just absolutely love that feature. It's so amazing. Yeah,
I got to use that. So you just open up
the edit and dive in. Huh yeah, show very easy.
Del was I gonna say?
Speaker 5 (11:17):
Oh, the other thing that Apple mentioned, and they mentioned
this every year and it means nothing to me, the
new processor speed.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Does anybody feel like their phones are too slow in
doing anything? I've never felt that way, like even starting
with the first one. So yeah, I'm kind of a
believer in a slower life these days.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
So I can't imagine what sort of computing you're doing
on your phone that needs to be slightly faster.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
I love.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
I don't know, you're launching spaceships or something. Things I'm
not doing. And the headline, the final headline on Apples,
there's still are way behind in the AI game, way
behind your Googles and uh and androids and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
I saw the list. I'll have to dig that up.
Who's spending what this year on AI? It was quite shocking.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
I'll have to dig that up, dang it, because there's
there's actually an interesting angle to that. How much various
people are spending, but companies are still obviously believe it's
something because they're spending tons of money on it.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Kamala Harris is out with Well, her book's not out,
but excerpts her out from the Atlantic or she blaming
Joe Biden and her staff and all kinds of things
as opposed to anything she did, and some good juicy
stuff in there.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Her speeches were too good. She was told she needed
to back off. Wow, anyway, we're gonna start to show
officially we're getting ourselves into trouble. Here.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
I'm Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty. On this Wednesday, September tenth,
the year twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong and getting we
approve of this program. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Mark, did you get the targets you were seeking? If
we didn't get them this time, we'll get them the
next time. The Israeli ambassador.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
Yeah, the orthopedics in their shoes will blow up or something.
We're gonna hunt you down. We are going to hunt you.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
We've got headlines on the way.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
I think it's funny that.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Only Fox is talking about Kamala Harris's book excerpts that
are out in the Atlantic.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
So the networks of that party, which she was the
nominee for, have no interest in what she has.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
To say, but Fox does because she embarrasses herself every
time she writes or opens her mouth.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
I think that's funny. Hmm.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Before we get to Jensen's headlines, we got to get
do it quick because we're running out time. But what
is that baked good you brought in?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
I'm calling it a caramel apple bar.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Oh my god, that looks fantastic.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
It's like an experiment. It's kind of like a blondie
on the bottom with brown sugar and apples on top
of awesome.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
I don't think I can, Michael, I don't think we
can say no to this.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Probably not.
Speaker 6 (13:55):
Yeah, I needed them out of my house, get rid
of them.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
There's your cooking section. Let'sigure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
It's the lead story, Tenson Raider filling in for Katie.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
Yes, we're going to start with CNN pulland shoots down
Russian drones in its airspace for the first time, accuses
Moscow of act of aggression.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
Yeah, I'd say it'd be interesting to see how this
plays out throughout the Day.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Then the Washington Times Federal charges brings chance of death
penalty for suspect in Charlotte light rail attack.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
Yeah, I just read the best commentary I've come across
about that from the fabulous Nelly Bowls of the Free Press,
or assertion every lunatic in America, America gets one free murder. Wow,
I'll let him do anything up to that first free murder.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That does?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
That seem to be the case.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Then a couple different headlines on the same subject. I'll
start first with NBC News. RFK Junior's new MA Hall
report gives roadmap to improving kids' health but stops short
of action.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
All right, I got comments on that I heard on
End this morning.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
AP also says RFK Junior's latest Make America Healthy Again
report calls for more scrutiny of vaccines and autism.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
MPR is making a big deal out of how the
schools need more money so we can eat more healthy
blah blah blah more that's the problem.
Speaker 6 (15:18):
And then The New York Times has six takeaways from
Kennedy's Childhood Health report, calls out over medicalization, doubts of
fluoride in the drinking water, and then changes more on vaccine.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Like a lot of things involved with the Trump administration,
I think the report from what I've seen, ranges from
the very solid and important to the completely cuckoo and
stuff in between.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Right. And then the next one from CBS cruise ship
passenger jumps overboard allegedly to avoid sixteen thousand dollars in
gambling debt.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Oh, can worth be like out to sea.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Or att So he they were close to port, they
had just left I believe it was Puerto Rico, and
then someone on a jets he picked him up, brought
him to shore.
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Oh okay wow.
Speaker 6 (16:10):
And then on shore he was found with fourteen thousand,
six hundred in cash, two phones, and five IDs.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
So had he done the gambling on the boat?
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (16:18):
Okay, yes, So once authorities on land found him, figured
out his real name, put him back to the cruise ship.
It was a Royal Caribbean cruise and then they pulled
up his account and he had racked that up during
his cruise.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
He must have been sloppy once he got to the land,
because it seems like a pretty Darrond plot to make gooding. Hey.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
And then finally from the Babylon Bee ice enforcement action
at chocolate factory nabs four hundred and seventy five illegal
oopa luopas.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
That's funny, and you send them back to Wonka Land.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
That's right, it's your orange butts on this plane.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah, you imported uh Kamala harrison'sn excerption, among other things
we got on the way for you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Stay here, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
We got this text. Prunes are dried plums. There is
no prune fruit. Prunes are plums. Now you might think
that was obvious to people, it wasn't obvious to me.
I didn't know that. I thought a prune was great.
That's right, like a raisin is a dried grape.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
I've only heard about prunes as a joke from sitcoms
my whole life.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
I'd never looked for one or sought one out.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
They always used as a joke as something disgusting on
sitcoms when I was a kid. My doctor told me
recently I should eat prunes because I have a regularity problem.
He said, start with one or two and then add in.
Just keep adding them in until you're a regular. Yesterday
I went four, Still no results. Today we'll go with five.
I guess Wow, I'm been the ante. Now when I
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walk through the sales area as I did yesterday, people say, hey,
how many prunes are you on?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Now?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I said I was three today. Let us know how
it goes. Everybody said prune watched they got to put
up a big board with the you know the number
of prunes up there in graphics.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh it has them now, Wow, fantastics. Shout it again, Michael.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Now kind of a pop diva sound to that one,
thinking about your brunes.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
I don't know how they're rolling out this book. I
feel like we had excerpts from Kamala Harris's book weeks
ago that we read. Is this the same book? There's
another book already Anyway. The Atlantics out with a whole
bunch of excerpts today, and uh, Joe is looking through
it because he actually subscribes to the Atlantic as a intellectual.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
I'm a closeted progressive, that's right, and uh, but deeply closeted.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
They were going through some of the highlights on MSNBC today.
I've seen scant coverage on the non Fox networks, which
I think is interesting.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
It's the story on Fox.
Speaker 5 (18:59):
You would think the lead story, it would more likely
be a lead story on the networks where it was
your candidate.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, unless the author is a jackass.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
And what really amuses me is you pointed out earlier
that Fox and Friends is having great fun with it. Yeah,
and the other networks are ignoring it. But here comes
a twist. MSNBC. Actually Morning Joe has started to touch
on it because especially Mika doesn't understand how.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Funny it is, which is the funniest part to me.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
Little Mika thinks this is just an inspiring tome that
will lift people up across the land. Here is Mika
reading from Kamala Harris's book.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
During all those months of growing panic. Should I have
told Joe to consider not running? Perhaps it's Joe and
Jill's decision. We all said that like a mantra, as
if we'd all been hypnotized. Was it grace or was
it recklessness? In retros, I think it was recklessness. The
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stakes were simply too high. This wasn't a choice that
should have been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition.
It should have been more than a personal decision.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
So she's to get no credit for saying that now.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
And also, maybe I picked up on this because Mark
Alprin has been talking. He's known Kama Harris for a
very very long time as a political reporter, and one
of his main complaints about her was that she can't
make a decision.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
She just can't make a decision.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
And that statement right there from her book was that
maybe I should have done this, Maybe we went too far.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I don't know. I mean, she still can't just come
to a solid conclusion about something.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Right in retrospect, I guess it was reckless.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Right, yeah, so you know, make a statement, have an opinion,
But she she struggles with that.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:55):
And even if she comes to that conclusion, like you said,
you get no credit at this point for that.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
I'm enjoying meek as dramatic readings. Can we hear the
next one?
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I was well aware of my delicate status. Lore has
it that every outgoing chief of staff always tells the
incoming president's chief of staff rule number one. Watched the VP,
I often learned that the president's staff was adding fuel
to negative narratives that sprang up around me when the
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stories were unfair or inaccurate. The president's inner circle seemed to.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Fine with it.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Indeed, it seemed as if they decided I should be
knocked down a little bit more. Their thinking was zero sum.
If she's shining, he's dimmed. None of them grasped that
if I did well, he did well, that given the
concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice
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president was vital. It would serve as a testament to
his judgment in choosing me, and reassurance that if something happened,
the country was in good hands.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
Meow.
Speaker 5 (22:04):
So we're talking about this sort of thing with Charlie
Sheen's new memoir that's out and the way Charlie Sheen
talks about his addiction versus the way Hunter Biden talks
about his addiction, and Hunter Biden still blames others all
the time when he talks about it, and Charlie Sheen
was much more. I can't believe how to control I was.
I did this, I did that. You know, I'm responsible.
(22:26):
Kamala Harris, she is with all her many failures. I mean,
she was so bad, so often in so many different ways,
and she's going to write a book blaming Biden and
his staff and the press and everyone else for the
fact that I know, at one point, because I heard
him reading this on Fox and Friends this morning, she
(22:46):
talks about how heavy the responsibility was of being the
first female president vice president. Give me a freaking preak.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Come on, I mean, seriously, job ain't worth a bucket
a war mess.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
As it was Rilliemously, you felt extra pressure being the
first female vice president, then you're a nut.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:06):
And I mean Biden's only been out of office for
it's not even eight months, it seems like eight years.
But to have a book come out from the VEEP
saying yeah, President undercut me all the time, and his
cabal they're just trying to make me look bad, totally
screwedin me.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
I mean, that's remarkable.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
She says at one point in the book, she'd given
a speech and that the staff talked to her and
said the speech was too good and that she needed
to tone it down a little bit.
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Wow, just too smart and intellectual riker or too brilliant,
and it made the president look dim by.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Well, that's what she is saying. But when was she
giving these great speeches. I must have missed them.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Well, they quashed it, the dirty bastards.
Speaker 5 (23:48):
She also says that they never gave you anything to do,
which is very common for presidents to do vice presidents,
not just her, and that she would show up to
events and there was nothing written for her.
Speaker 4 (24:00):
And I have no idea the way it's supposed to work.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
If there was supposed to be how it normally works
in a white house, seems like her people would do that.
But anyway, she certainly made it sound like it was
her understanding that she would show up to this event
and somebody would, you know, have a speech written for
and she dhow up there'd be nothing written.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Explaining the when you think about the passage of time,
you have to think about the passage of time. But
come on now, really again, I thought she had staff,
but so she would show up, there would be what
blank pages in the Kamala's speech hard you know, fold
her things.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
If she waited until she walked up to the podium
to open up the little book and there's blank pages,
I think that's on her.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (24:47):
Wow, So there's a lot in the Atlantic. Here is
one of my favorite parts. She's describing giving that speech
in front of the Divine Nine traditionally black aroor Aties.
I remember that. In fact, one one particular sorority she's
talking to on this day, there was a new energy
in the room.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
As I walked down to the stage.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
A black woman was slated to be the Democratic nominee
for president. It was us, and everyone there understood what
it meant that this would be a journey of both
joy and pain. I was in a room full of
people with whom, because of our shared experience, certain words
did not need to be said. There is an emotion
that comes from being in a place where people see you,
support you, know you. The kindness and love in that
(25:28):
room penetrated the armor I usually wore, armor I'd need
to put back on as soon as I left that room.
The biggest applause came when I started to say what
I would do to restore the rights of Roe V.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Wade when I am president.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Aurora erupted that drowned out the rest of that sentence.
The Aurora told me they could see it clearly for
the first time, this could be, and it should be.
And it was not because of gender or because of race,
but despite those things.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
She had to really put on the armor to go
out there and go into a compliant media lions den
where they would throw her softball questions and overlook all
of her flaws.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
The entire campaign.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
She had to put on her suit of armor for
that because as a black woman, you know, the New
York Times and CBS was really really hard on her.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Just beating the crap out of her all the time.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Yeah, man, look for that in your own life.
Speaker 5 (26:22):
I tried to look forward in my life where any
of your failures, you're looking for all the different people
and things to blame as opposed to anything you did.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
So freaking weak eyep.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
A long time ago, wise Man said to me, Joe,
you just told me about the hurdles you could have
jumped over but didn't. I thought, Wow, that's a metaphor.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
I'll remember too much.
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Speaker 5 (28:04):
As we have mentioned, maybe the biggest story going on
in the world right now is the fact that Russia
tested NATO by flying a whole bunch of drones deep
into Poland overnight. Poland had their fighter jets up there
and shot them all down. And they're going to have
a big meeting of NATO today and we'll see where
(28:24):
it goes from there. But putin obviously not afraid to escalate.
This is an enormous escalation. God, I would say, as
we've been saying since this whole thing started, we spend
all our time worrying about escalating. How about they were
put in worries about NATO or the United States escalating
for a change. Anyway, Joe's got mailbag and a lot
(28:44):
of stuff on the way.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
Stay here.
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Sarah Huckebye Sanders, governor of Arkansas, on TV right now,
talking about success they've had in Arkansas since they've banned
phones in schools. My son was telling me a story
yesterday about a couple of girls in his science class who.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
Are on their phones all the time in class.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I can't believe that. Yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 4 (29:13):
They just look at their phones. The teacher says, you
should put them away. Sometimes they put them away, but
then they get them right back.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
Out of How is that a thing? I just I can't.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
I mean, ah, it makes my head explode. You know
two reactions. Number one, Jack, they're just cheating themselves. But
number two, the entire structure of education, like since it
was invented, is no, you don't get to do what
you want.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
You're here to learn, You're gonna learn.
Speaker 4 (29:33):
So now you're a child, you don't get to make
that decision that society needs you to not be an
ignoramus in a ward of the state. So put your
damn phone away. Yeah, these are odd times.
Speaker 5 (29:43):
Are you not allowed to just walk up and say,
heym me your phone? You can have it back after class?
Are you not allowed to.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Do that in the same place as Yes, you are,
That's what I would do. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
Ah, unless the principal and the school board aren't behind you,
then you wouldn't dare do that.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Anyway.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Here's your fit for your your free and loving quote
of the day, skipping away from our British authors for
the moment because we like this from Paul with the
debt sealing looming France's debt woe. I was not sure
if you've used this one in your Cicero quotes. Probably have,
but this is the great Roman statesman Cicero. Yeah, the
(30:19):
budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, public
debts should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be
tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands by
the aid of our own resources should be curtailed. The
fiscal sense has been around for millennia, we just can't
seem to exercise it.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Did you verify that that's not an Internet made up quote?
The assistance of our foreign lands should be curtailed sounds
almost almost.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
A little too perfect. It borders on too perfect. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:49):
I will take a look at that, but we will.
You know, nonetheless, whether Cicero said it or not, it's right, Yeah, true,
good point. Yeah, and the Roman Empire was absolutely drained
of its finances by becoming too widespread.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
It Sarah mail bag a rare single topic mail bag.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
WHOA, what's the topic?
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Great?
Speaker 4 (31:09):
Great, great email from a teacher about the failures of
our educational system.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
We'll get to that later.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
The single topic is the Philly Karen and the Ball
surrendering Dad. Oh my god. Great variety of reactions to
our coverage yesterday.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
We'll begin with this one for Maria.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
You gotta do it, guys, you gotta call her Cruella diff.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Phil Lol, that's my email, that's all. Yeah, I can
tell that's all because you're no longer writing.
Speaker 5 (31:44):
If you missed yesterday's episode, Joe was not kind to
the Dad.
Speaker 4 (31:47):
Oh I don't think I was fairly reasonable and even handed.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Let's see. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Connie, who is a fan, says, I feel less judgmental
about the dad who playcated the lunatic at the ballpark
than you, Maybe because I have an adult son who's
high functioning autistic. He's always been meek by nature. Fortunately,
he doesn't have to be a tough guy to be
a good dad who's twelve year old son.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
That's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
All that is great. Let's see, though your lunch money
bully is a better comparison. Does Jack in hindsight think
he could have responded to the homeless man who terrorized
him and his kids differently? Could have knocked the guy
down and gone Derek Chauvin on him. Certainly would have
made his kids feel safer than the cops did. It's
easy to hypothesize about being defiant.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
Hmm.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I would have had to, but right, let's see, this
is from Paddy hero to zero. A better example would
be is like if he demanded my iPhone or something,
I wouldn't have given it to it right, hero to zero.
The dad could have been a hero to his son,
a real man. Instead, he whimped out the crowd would
have backed him up. He sees himself as a hero
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for de escalation, but will his son remember it as
the time his dad failed to protect his family. I
have horror violence, but with a bully, you have to
stand your ground. Now, the internet trolls have instituted vigilante justice,
so much for de escalation. Well, interesting to quote Joe Getty,
who impregnated your wife? It couldn't have been you.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Oh wait, I didn't say that. That's crazy. I think
you did.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
Eric in Oregon. Not do is the prude of the
incident to death. But a review of the video shows
the notorious Phillies fan Karen putting her hand on the father. First,
Queensbury rules call for breaking her wrist, clocking her orbital socket,
then spinning her und to choke her out Gracie style,
But seriously, we were taught not to hit women, and
she's maniacal, possibly mentally disturbed as well. I can't defend
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the man's Poncey Dunn style pugilistic stance, but I can
understand that he was in a very weird position, all
with a child being present. He did the right thing,
and if I'm being honest, I'm still not sure what
I would have done in the same situation. That's a
really funny note, Thank you. How about Mike in Missouri.
Based on responses to Matt Walsh's video agreeing with your
(33:54):
view of the lympress dad, it appears one hundred percent
of women think the dad as a hero, one hundred
percent of the man thinking is fake illed as a
father and a man well on in the trended army email. Okay, yeah, no,
definitely not. And of women I've talked to about it,
that's interesting. Indeed, Uh, let's see this is I believe. Well,
we'll just say, w a big freedom and this will
(34:16):
be awesome. I thought you guys were a bit harsh
on the dad, a bit too harsh As for his
initial reaction, he was focused on his son, so I
had no idea who grabbed his arm. Not sure what
my startled face looks like, but I hope my mad
is not judged by it. As for giving up the ball,
I interpreted it as if you're so pathetic that this
ball means so much to you, by all means have it.
(34:37):
My only problem with that reasoning is it was the boys, right, Yeah,
like I said, yes, if it was mine. I might
to hear you a lunatic and let her have it
because I don't care. But he took the ball from
his son. Yeah, all right, let's see Wayne. Frequent correspondent, Wayne.
Most of the time, I really like your show, but
not today. Both of you came off as first class
(34:57):
a holes your negative comments about the dad and the
Phillies baseball incident. I think his reaction to the crazy
woman coming up from behind, grabbing his arms, starting a
screen profanities right in his face was completely normal. I
don't know about that.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
It caught him so off guard. I don't I'd be interesting.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
You run that experiment a thousand times with random people.
I don't think you usually get that response.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And here's my favorite part.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
I seriously doubt that either one of you had had
the macho man reaction you claim you would have had,
But you would have been just as startled as the
dad was. I'm less surprised by Jack's comments than I
am yours.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
Joe.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
Jack is usually the more cranky one, and now he's
so constipated, he's probably crankier than usual. But you, Joe,
are usually the voice of reason and compassion. Maybe you
should have a few prunes. Also, you're somewhat disappointed, fan Wayne.
That's a good point about your startled look, though none
of us know what our own started look as like, like,
sometimes my son will come up by me. I got
EarPods in. I'm like, I don't know what I look
(35:50):
like when that happens. Yeah, I'm not a big baseball fan,
but I would have thrown the ball back on the field.
Everyone loses, especially the Karen writes John, that's an interesting idea.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But just for the record, I meant directionally what I
said yesterday, but I was mostly just being silly. For
those who miss.
Speaker 4 (36:07):
Joe, Getty walks it back, Oh that's disappointing.
Speaker 6 (36:10):
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