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May 16, 2024 35 mins

Hour 1 of the Thursday May 16, 2024 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show features...

  • Trump on Trial, and did Biden get the upper hand in the debate announcement...
  • Mailbag...
  • The presidential debate--how significant is mic control...
  • Katie Green has The Lead Story! 

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, Armstrong and
Getty and Key.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Armstrong and Getty.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Is everything okaying?

Speaker 3 (00:33):
There?

Speaker 1 (00:35):
I hear weird things, everything all right? Live from studio
ce see senor.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
It's a dimly lit room where deeper from the bowels
of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. And on little Friday,
we're under the tutelage of our general manager, the prosecution.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Which might be ending in the Trump trot. Then what
happens is anybody guests is that back on today? Yes, sir,
you're gonna have to explain that to me.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
I'm delighted to yes, I believe the prosecution may call
for I'm sorry, the defense may call for a summary dismissal.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Okay, let's end this crap year, honor.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
They haven't proved dead least squat okay, big finish here
on the music.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Then I got important questions.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Here we go, come on, punch it, punch it.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So this is this is what I brought up yesterday
because on I was watching CNN the day before yesterday,
and all the legal analysts said, I think the defense
should just say they didn't prove their case, so we're.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Not gonna do anything. Is that what you're talking about?

Speaker 4 (01:46):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
You can just rest the defense or they can call
for a summary dismissal.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I think that's the uh the term.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
Just say to the judge, look, I think we can
all agree we're wasting our time here. They didn't make
their case. And in the case ken say you know what,
you're right and.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Then if if you take that shot and the judge
disagrees what happens, then you launch your defense or you
can rest your defense. That would be, you know, kind
of playing the same card twice, I guess, but again
I'm not an expert.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
Jake Layman and ensues Layman.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Jake Tapper on CNN said that would be a baller
move to just rest your case, say they didn't prove it.
And the idea there is that the jury thinks, Wow,
they're so unimpressed they're not even gonna offer a defense.
That's the way you hope it lands.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah, Baller is a good way to describe it. Seems
it seems risky to me, I mean, sticking your neck
way out. Why not just call a couple of defense witnesses,
throw whatever shade you can on the prosecution case, and
there's plenty to be thrown.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Then go into final arguments.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
Okay, so the trial is back on today, and if
anything exciting happens, we will have that for you.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And that is that'd be an interesting development, There's no
doubt about that.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
The other development on that topic that I found just
so distasteful and shocking is the Biden campaign is doubling
down on the whole. Yeah, he has Wednesdays off thing.
They're selling t shirts that say, uh, free Wednesdays or
something like that, free on Wednesdays.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, the joke being that trials don't happen on Wednesday,
and Trump's always in a courtroom.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
And uh, I don't know. I took in a lot
of punditry yesterday.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
The left side of the media thinks it's clever and
uh and and a good shot.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
So I don't know. We'll see how it lands on
the electorate.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I think it's quite untoward, but of course we're dealing
with modern politics and Donald Trump, so lots of untoward
things are set all around.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
But uh, yeah, I think I think.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Mocking your opponent for being in a courtroom when the
majority d three percent of Americans said this is political
not the justice Systemyeah, damn, near two thirds of people
think this is a political move.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I don't know see how that lands. Well, you know
what I think.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
I think it's a land based on that number, not
based on the tiny freakish America hating lefty media you're
talking about. They represent such a small number of people. Yeah,
I hope, so, I hope you hate them with all
my hate. So here's here's a question for you.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
After all the debate news of the last twenty four hours,
roughly tell me how Joe Biden didn't mostly win this
entire thing, this entire debate battle. It looks to me
like Joe Biden really really got his way in so
many different ways. What did Trump get out of it?
Other than debates? And maybe that's all he wanted.

Speaker 4 (04:39):
It came speaking of ball or moves. It came off
to me like I don't care what what's your rules are?
You can impose any rules you want. Let's go, let's
do this.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
So you're willing to give to let them pick the dates,
the venues, the networks, and the moderators. You're gonna have
Jake Tapper and someone else. As Mark Alprin said in
his special podcast yesterday, it'll be three on one against
Trump in the CNN debate.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
With CNN. So why would you agree to that so quickly?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
I've got to admit it is wildly out of character
for the great grinding negotiator Trump to do that.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
And at least the early reporting is and I don't
know if this has been got settled while I was sleeping,
but the reporting at eleven.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
O'clock last night was that.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
Part of the agreement is going to be the CNN
debate will start with them either both seated or standing
by the podiums.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Joe Biden doesn't have to walk in.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
It's I just every aspect of this to me looks
like Joe Biden got his way. He and he and
he got to look like I call the shots. By
putting out that video challenging Trump, even though Trump said sure,
I feel like it makes Joe Biden look like I'm
the one in charge of how this thing works.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, I would agree for the moment.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
I don't think that's going to have any lasting significance really,
But the if indeed the deck is ACKed in a way,
that's going to materially change the way the debate unfolds.

Speaker 1 (06:03):
I think that could happen, right, So that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
He won on the optics, but cleverly, I think and
and and then the specifics of who's who's running the debate,
and like if they actually agreed to Okay, you don't
have to walk in because you look old walking in.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
Okay, what did Trump get?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I want to hear some things Trump got out of
this unless he just thinks having debates, the debates is
so worth it.

Speaker 1 (06:30):
But then you got to hope you perform like you
I think you're going to perform. I guess.

Speaker 4 (06:34):
Well, on the other side of it is he's got
to believe. He clearly believes that Biden is so weak
that it will be, you know, a one foot pot.
You can Biden can take any advantages he wants. It's
not going to be enough.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I would hope that that's the case.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
But man, I've been hoping that for a long time,
and so far he's always risen to the occasion. As
I heard, it was pointed out when he has a
date on the calendar that they can whoever's in charge,
if it's him, his wife, a team of doctors or whatever.
If they have a date, State of the Union, big debate,
they get him enough rest, they get him the right

(07:11):
go go juice, and he so far has always been
way able to show up and be way better than
we see him on a daily basis.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
Yeah, So, I just I don't understand what Trump got
out of this. It's it's it's it's it's confusing to me.
But uh, you know that's the way it goes, the
art of the deal. Okay, what part of the deal
did you get on this? That's That's what I'm wondering.

Speaker 4 (07:34):
Yeah, I I've got to admit it's odd. It's it's odd,
especially for Trump. Yeah, I'm wondering whether he will speak
to that question.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh and then the the the the no crowd favors Biden,
even though those these things, as we talked about yesterday,
we agree with a lot of these rules, but the
no crowd favors Biden, the turning off the MIC's favors Biden,
the moderator's favor favor Biden. I just I don't know,
I don't know what you got out of this. You'd
think if Biden wants this early. For whatever the reasons are,

(08:05):
we conjected it on yesterday, you would get something in return.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, maybe we're just missing it. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Getty on this it is Thursday? Are are we glad it's Thursday?
You can smell the weekend from here. I think that's
what that smell is. May sixteenth or twenty twenty four,
Life will not be a boor?

Speaker 1 (08:25):
In twenty four? Were armstrong in getting we approve of
this program?

Speaker 4 (08:28):
All right, let's begin officially now according to SEC rules
and regulations. Here we go at Mark, I'm mister president.

Speaker 6 (08:34):
After President, Stop, mister President.

Speaker 1 (08:39):
No, mister President, Can I be honest?

Speaker 4 (08:41):
It's a very important I stood no.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
The answer to the question that's no. Hey, So what
was the point of that clip? We're trying to make?
What point?

Speaker 2 (08:53):
That was the way it went last time? So that's
why we like the microphones being shut off or I.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Don't know, take whatever point you want.

Speaker 4 (09:02):
For a minute's an entertaining clip of three men talking
over each other.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
So we we have been saying for a long time
we don't like the mic the why don't they shut
off the microphones. But I think I believe that more
in the multi person debate. I think in a two
person debate, let them let them handle themselves.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
Well, Trump's obnoxiousness in debate number one is said by
many who have really screwed up his chances of winning
in twenty twenty because that was I can't remember what
order they unfolded in, and that was the Chris Wallace.

Speaker 1 (09:32):
Debate obviously, Yeah, but he toned it down for the
second debate and did great. Yeah, the one.

Speaker 4 (09:38):
So yeah, you've got to you gotta give him enough
rope to hang themselves.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I would agree.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think.

Speaker 2 (09:42):
I just think in a two person debate, I don't
have any problem with if one person interrupts the other person, Well,
you risk coming off a certain way for interrupting too much.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
I mean I would, I would let that fly.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
But if if they actually cut the mics on these guys, boy,
I don't know how people are going to react to that.
That's gonna have a bad feeling, especially if they're cutting
off the mic and Trump's trying to get in regularly.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
People are gonna react poorly to that.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
I know I am, and I could easily see it
not being even handed, uh Jake Tapper or whatever saying
all right, mister president, if you'd like to finish briefly,
go ahead, but then not granting that same latitude to Trump.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
That's the thing that bothers me the most.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Why did you let to the CNN debaters who have
it in for you, who are gonna fact check you
but not Biden?

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Why would you agree to that? Yes, sir Michael.

Speaker 5 (10:29):
Let's say they say, okay, mister Trump, you got sixty
seconds to talk, go and then like at fifty five
seconds they cut the mics just enough that people don't
notice it, but enough to make.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
You are right, The difference between fifty eight and sixty
or sixty and sixty one if you're going the other
direction is the dandy.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
Do you make your point? Do you get in the
middle of the word. I don't know.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
I think people will react horribly to that, people's sentences
getting cut off. That'll that's gonna be weird. And not
very far away. What five weeks away? Yeah, how does
mail bag look? It's okay, it's a good start, awesome.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
That is all on the way.

Speaker 2 (11:04):
Here's our text line four one, five two nine five
KFTC I is highly annoyed as usual, by the coverage
of the inflation numbers as they continue to talk about

(11:24):
inflation like their prices good news for consumers. They're gonna
notice at the grocery store with inflation slowing, you don't
notice the rate of inflation going down.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's not something you notice.

Speaker 4 (11:36):
It doesn't make any Prices are higher, but not as
much higher as they could have been.

Speaker 1 (11:40):
Kids that this doesn't make any sense. Yes, it that's idiotic.
It's unbelievable, it really is.

Speaker 4 (11:46):
Here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Patrick Henry,
once again continuing the series. From that great patriot governor
of Virginia. I believe I said Massachusetts yesterday. I apologized
to both Virginians and Massiachusetts an horrible mistake.

Speaker 1 (12:00):
Yeah, this is a horrible quote. You're not gonna like
this one.

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is what people
forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state
of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom.
He goes on, and SA's some length on that same theme.
No free government or the blessings of liberty can be
preserved to any people but by affirm adherents to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality,

(12:25):
and virtue.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Okay, I want you to hang on to that quote
because I've got a conversation that fits with that perfect
for later, and it actually is around that whole portal
between New York City and Dublin.

Speaker 1 (12:37):
Story.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh, I'm going to tie those two things together. And
I have a question, so we'll get to that later.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Fascinating mail bag, drop us a note mail bag at
armstrong e getdy dot com. Doctor Jeff and Hawaii, says Joe,
why don't you since Jack was in a motorcycle wreck
and is having trouble getting dressed in the morning, Yes,
why don't you loan sleeve voy to Jack to assist
in his early morning bathing and dressing. He's probably getting
bored as you are now just wearing short sleeve shirts.

Speaker 1 (13:04):
That's right, doctor Jeff.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
This time of year, I don't need sleeve boy fastening
that difficult little button there near the cuff.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
Sleeve boy, I say, sleeve boy, assist mister Armstrong. Which, yes,
I know, the sun is bright. I really should let
you out into the sun more off. Oh my god,
but I need you to make you wait at.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
Mister Armstrong's house to put my socks on exactly.

Speaker 1 (13:23):
Thank you, sleeve boy.

Speaker 4 (13:25):
Moving along, Jack needs an intern He needs either a
male order Ukrainian bride or a mail order Japanese robot.

Speaker 1 (13:32):
Either way. Ratings gold. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:33):
I can't believe nobody's taking me up on this internship.
Your opportunity to put the socks on for a minor
celebrity and people let it go could.

Speaker 4 (13:42):
Have been a pressures greatness. Probably could have gotten a
book deal out of it. Oh, let's see alnanimous rites.
Two things real quick. I got to see President Biden
speak in person yesterday.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
Al was in DC.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
My first thought after he began to speak was, wow,
he sounds old, really old. Also, I was at the
White House and played ang very quietly on my phone
in my pocket. One of your anti Marxist rants from
Monday's show is played briefly in the Blue room of
the White House. You'd get a kick out of that.
That is cool, and I do to get a kick
out of that. We do, Thank you, my friend.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
When will this be known to history? What the hell
do they pump that guy up with the president so
that he acts the way he does on debates in
the State of the Union to dress, but every other
day of the year. He's yeah, yeah, We've gotten the
answer to that question a couple of times, but I

(14:36):
haven't memorized the name of the drug. Well, you can't
use it a lot because it has side effects, and
particularly for an old fella, you just you can't play
with it, so you.

Speaker 4 (14:46):
Only bring it out for special occasions. Let's see Burbank.
Luke writes Trump's quip about providing his own transportation was
in the context of Biden struggling to walk to the podium.
They don't want that on camera. I just revisited the
twenty twenty debates, he writes. The audiences were present but quiet,
and the contrast between Biden then and Biden now is

(15:08):
something you just have to see for yourselves.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it up.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
There's something I'm not sure the President himself appreciates how
much different he is than he was four years ago.

Speaker 4 (15:21):
Yeah, yeah, loaded up with drugs. Biden is barely okay
with a teleprompter. He's gonna bring note cards. He's not
capable of winging it. This will devolve into Joey Baby
and cannibal talk.

Speaker 1 (15:31):
I'm telling you thanks for Cannibal talk. Michael got eaten
by Cannibal.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
JT and Livermore with some incisive commentary as usual on
the topic of Michael Cohen as a witness. Yeah, there
are many knowners, suspected liars, and convicted felons who testify effectively.
But the piece everyone seems to be leaving out is
that in the case of Cohen, you have a convicted
perjurer and a vindictive witness rolled into one. A convicted
felon with no emotional or financial tie to a defect
that can indeed be a believable witness, But Cohen is

(16:02):
not that.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
How much time do we have, Michael, And.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
To say, for the one million time plus, they just
haven't proven the actual crime, which is at the root
of the case, which is different than the other stuff and.

Speaker 4 (16:18):
A completely different topic that I want to get into
in more depth later. Powell on the topic of high
interest rates and inflation that sort of thing, and he
points out the number one comment on an article about
inflation high interest rates in the New York Times. It
would be great if the paper of record would practice journalism,

(16:39):
specifically the role that corporate America is playing in what
is generalized as inflation. The food industry alone is controlled
by a handful of corporations that are clearly gouging prices
with impunity. Why isn't Biden shooting campaign ads and supermarkets
pointing out this gouging.

Speaker 1 (16:52):
The supply chain issues are gone.

Speaker 4 (16:54):
There is little to justify the price increases other than
pure corporate greed.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
They won't stop until they're called out on it.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
Well, that's something Joe Biden, you know, is pushing on
the campaign trail a lot that it's company's gouging you.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
It's not inflation.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
So hey, you know what, if the truth isn't convenient,
go with a lie. That is ridiculous. I will point
out why later on in the show. But if you
fall for that.

Speaker 1 (17:16):
You're a dope.

Speaker 2 (17:18):
In the wake of the inflation news or for whatever reason,
all three stock indexes hit record highs yesterday, record highs
for all of them.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
That is something. Armstrong Pngetti.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
Man Ukraine's in a bad spot, Israel Moss still at
war stories we'll get into a little bit later. The
Prime Minister of Slovakia and tempted assassinate scene yesterday. It's
amazing he's not dead. How do he gets shot five
times from close range and lived through that?

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yipes?

Speaker 4 (17:53):
But it looks like he was a lone warf crazy person.
Yeah that's what they're saying. I really don't like this guy,
Harris Policies who got shot.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
But he's a pro putin guy. Yeah, he got elected.
You can't be shooting people down.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, But when I first heard the story, I thought, Okay,
it's somebody you know, it's Putin reaching out and getting
somebody he doesn't like.

Speaker 1 (18:14):
But no, it's a pro putin guy. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Yeah, So we've got a lot of good stuff to
get to, including an update on the Israel situation. We
have boots on the pier or will within a day
or two, not on the ground, but on the pier
attached to the ground in Gaza.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
So stay with us so that peer is done. It
would appear. Yes, yes, it's an apparent peer peer. It appears.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
H We want to do the late night joke off Yes,
we have. We don't offen that early in the show.
This is a president breaking.

Speaker 2 (18:44):
Whenever there's a really big story, all the late night
hosts do a joke about it, and we like to
have at least three of them take on each other
and then see how they fare.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
Yeah, we'll grade each one of them in the bottom grade.
Getter will be banned from comedy for life.

Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah that's well, they deserve it. Let's go, Michael, let's
do this.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Another condition from Biden is that he wants microphones that
automatically cut off when a candidate hits their time limit,
which which will work right up until Trump walks over
to Biden's podium.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
And that's why, as it was saying, over there more wall, okay.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
President Biden and former President Trump are set to face
off in two presidential debates. Biden is looking forward to
laying out his twenty twenty four agenda, while Trump is
just happy to go somewhere where nobody will draw him
while he sleeps.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
Biden had some conditions and willing to debate, saying that
he wanted no audience and that it should occur inside
a TV studio with microphones that automatically cut off when
a speaker's time living last.

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Oh wow, yeah, that's good. No, Mike, that's it.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Bio Man's imagine Trump with his mic cut He's gonna
look like the world's angriest mime.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
I do wonder. Well, I'll let you grade the jokes first. Well,
I got a tie between Fallon and Colbert. They're both
solid beasts. World's angriest mime is a funny thing to say,
it is, uh myers.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
I wonder how.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
The country will react to if Trump is trying to
talk and his MIC's cut off, And because of the
way we know how microphones work, there's a decent chance
there's a little bleed through. See you kind of hear
a little of Trump's voice in the background coming through
Joe Biden's mic.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
I just wonder how that's gonna land. I. I don't
willing to give it a try. Let's see how it goes.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
People aren't gonna universally react of thank god they cut
off Trump's mic. You're gonna have at least half the country,
if not more, wanting to know what he was going
to say.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
Yeah, I would agree.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
I also think Biden is going to struggle to make
coherent points in a concise way too. I think that
he may get to the end of his time and
be left to.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
Well, right, Yeah, I watched I did watch a podcast
with a whole bunch of political heavyweights that had an
emergency podcast.

Speaker 1 (21:09):
Yes, they have video.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
Cats and an emergency podcast whenever there's breaking news. I
know it's hilarious, but anyway, that was one of their
somebody's point was Biden will have to finish his thoughts.
In previous debates. He didn't have to finish thoughts. Trump
jumped in and saved him. If he has to use
his entire two minutes and just kind of trail off
or the lose track, or you know, circle back around

(21:34):
and say the same thing twice like he often does,
that might do it more harm than good.

Speaker 4 (21:38):
I think that's a real possibility. Yeah, I'm intrigued by
the just different tone of it. Let's find out.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
I do like the idea, I guarant I'm not sure
about the turning the MIC's off with two guys. I
think you'll let them handle it on their own. So,
but no crowd, I'm one hundred percent for it. As
somebody pointed out, there is a crowd. It's the United States.
It's all one hundred million people watching at home. That's
your crowd.

Speaker 1 (22:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (22:05):
Yeah, that you've tantalized or amused or excited twenty four
jackasses in a.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Stadium or in a theater, What do I care. What
does that have to do with anything.

Speaker 4 (22:15):
I don't need other people to tell me what to think,
and I'll bet you folks don't either.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
So one thing that happens when the Presidential Commission runs
the debates is they let everybody grab the feed so
it airs everywhere. Every channel, Every cable news channel airs
the same debate. ABC has agreed to do that with
their debate in September, but CNN, as of yet, at
least when I went to bed last night, had not
agreed to allow it anywhere else but on CNN they

(22:40):
might come under pressure to do that.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (22:43):
Yeah, well, it's easy to understand they're desperate for revenue.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
They've been struggling hard.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
Thing to give up because you're gonna get an enormous audience,
like most people are predicting the biggest debate audience of
all time.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
How do you turn down the revenue?

Speaker 2 (22:58):
I mean, you're gonna have Super Bowl ad like money
involved in the ads leading up to it and afterwards.

Speaker 4 (23:04):
Right, and if you don't have an exclusive, that's going
to be watered down badly.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
I think a fair number of people.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
May hear that CNN is hosting the debate and think, Okay,
I better watch it on CNN, not realizing it's available elsewhere.
But even having said that, no, they'll they'll make a
fraction of what they could make and they're desperate for revenue.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
But whatever, do whatever you like. I'll tune in, right conscience,
damn right in.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
One of your big TV execs came out yesterday and
said he expects one hundred million people to tune in.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
I think the record is eighty. I would wouldn't surprise me.

Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yeah, I'm going to have a viewing party, not a party,
but a viewing focus group.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
One question I don't know the answer to, because we're
in this business so we are really not in touch
with the average person is how much regular people are
paying attention to this. I've heard a number of people
punditing around how normal people aren't paying attention to anything

(24:04):
that's going on politically right now. They kind of hear
about it and think Trump won't actually be the candidate.
Willie or Biden's too old, isn't he? But they aren't
paying any attention at all to any of this stuff.
And this will be their first introduction to the thing
where and that might be part of Biden's strategy. Hey,
Trump's the candidate. Did you all realize that he's running again?

(24:24):
That a lot of people haven't really grasped this yet.
So I don't know. I don't know if that's true
or not. Like I said, because I'm in this business,
it seems crazy to me, but right.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
Yeah, it's difficult to put yourself in the place of
the non news junkie. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I look back to my earlier life, though, and I
wouldn't have I wouldn't have been aware of any of
this stuff that we talk about every day.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
None of it.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
I think vast majority of Americans don't buy it's Biden v.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
Trump. I'll it it's eighty plus. But how even be
ninety anymore on any of the issues? I doubt it.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
Oh no, not really, Well, well, it depends what issue.

Speaker 1 (25:00):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
I'm looking at an immigration story here that's actually quite
an interesting More than half of immigrants in the US
are unemployed.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
So much for the whole weather boon to the economy,
they had to take jobs. Americans wont too.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
I was switching around and I was on Fox this morning,
and they had a live camera at the border with
a bunch of people running across and Brian Kilmead said, hey,
look some future lifeguards.

Speaker 4 (25:23):
Has anybody explained that meant bizarre and inexplicable.

Speaker 1 (25:27):
Eric Adams quote.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
That why do we have all these migrants who were
so skilled at swimming and we need lifeguards.

Speaker 1 (25:36):
I don't have any talking about it.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yeah, yeah, so as long as I brought it up.
More than half of the foreign born immigrant population in
the United States under President Joe Biden's administration is I'm unemployed,
according to a recent report Center for Immigration Studies released
aport Monday that showed just forty six percent of migrants
who arrived in the US in the last two and
a half years were employed as the beginning of twenty four. Well,

(26:02):
there are some there. Activists would argue they need permits.

Speaker 1 (26:06):
They're eating something.

Speaker 4 (26:09):
Who's paying for the food, taxpayer, the gumments and NGOs.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
Report found that also found that since Biden took office
in January twenty one, the migrant population why are we
using the term migrant Breitbart, the immigrant population in the
United States increased by roughly six point six million over
the course of thirty nine months. Six point six million
in less than four years. See, I ended up in
the shower last night. This is what I do for fun,

(26:38):
and this makes me a crazy person. And the shower
last night, I was like talking out loud as if
I were Donald Trump in the debate with Joe Biden
on how I would handle this whole thing. I guess
because I'd just taken in so much information about it,
but make some sort of speech about I agreed to.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
All your rules. You wanted all these different rules.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
You picked the moderators, you picked the place, you said,
no audience, you want the mics.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Fine, nothing is going to get you.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
To cover up the fact that the three main issues,
according to every poll in America for months and months
and months, the economy, immigration, and inflation, you have failed
on like nobody has ever failed before. Then you lay
out some statistics and you just hit that like five times.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Yeah, yeah, I would love to see that. I get
the idea.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Trump is listening a bit more to his advisors, a
bit more disciplined than he's been in the past. But
whether he will go in loaded for bearer in that way,
I do not know. I did never know with him.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
He's got to have the stats at hand on the
immigration stuff, the numbers, percentages, are the wraw numbers to
let people know. I mean, getting back to the course,
immigration is been the number one or two issue in
all the polling, so people are paying attention enough to
know that.

Speaker 4 (27:53):
Right, I would agree, That's actually why I brought it up.
I think people are acutely aware of that, even if
they're not terribly politically active. They're seeing it around them.
They're local towns and schools and emergency rooms and the
rest of it. My frustration with Trump is that he'll
probably come to the debate with like one statistic on immigration,
seven million immigrants Joe, and then somebody will fact check

(28:16):
it and cast a little doubt on whether seven is
an accurate number or not. And since that's all he
leans on, it'll be easy to dismiss it.

Speaker 1 (28:22):
But I don't know. We'll all find out together.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
The inflation thing again, the news coverage of it yesterday.
Good news for consumers is they'll notice inflation slowing. Good
news when you go to the grocery store. No, no,
that's not the way inflation works. You don't notice the
inflation rates slowing. That's not something you feel people are
going to continue to for a long time. To feel

(28:49):
shocked by prices when we go and buy stuff, and
the fact that the Democrats don't get that, so he
needs to have some answer for that. I don't know
if Joe Biden is going to go with the it's
the corporation sticking it to you, gouging you. But he's
gotta have some answer for inflation. Yeah, right, Please, At
the very least, I'm putting my hands together in traditional prayer.

Speaker 4 (29:12):
Style praying to Donald Trump ooh a cultiste.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
One fact to at least be ready to rebut Donald
is if Joe Biden comes out there and once again says, hey,
when I came into office, inflation was nine percent, thanks
to you, because he said that in two interviews in
two weeks now, and it's just as wrong as wrong
could be. Please Donald, be ready to rebut that.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah, they hit little KJP with that yesterday in the
press room, and it was that job will cost you
a bit of your soul.

Speaker 1 (29:44):
She had to say.

Speaker 4 (29:45):
What the president is seeking to emphasize is that the
American people are feeling the effects of inflation.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
So she didn't go there. Huh No, she just dodged it.
Of course, what's she gonna say?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Well, he lied, He made it, or East senile and
doesn't know fact from fiction anymore, or you repeat the
easily checked lying number again and embarrass yourself even more.

Speaker 1 (30:09):
Right. So, yeah, it's a tough situation to be in.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
More on inflation and what's causing it, and a really
interesting bit of wisdom on corporate taxes. I think you'll
really enjoy Next hour cool. Lots of stuff on the way,
including Katie's headlines.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
Next one headline I've heard five times today is this
new streaming bundle that they announced yesterday, so you'll be
able to bundle together. I'll do this one for certain Netflix,
Apple TV, which I both have, and Peacock which I have,

(30:45):
will bundle together is one. Currently I'm paying for all
those individually, like a lot of you are, and it's
that's over twenty five dollars a month, but it's going
to be they haven't put the price out yet, but
they said it will be vastly reduced wow to And
so there are a couple of their bundles like that,
which is making a lot of people point out that
so Cable went away, then we started buying channels individually.

(31:07):
Now they're being bundled back together kind of like cable
used to be or satellite.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
So and I've got to admit Netflix one hundred percent
Apple TV. Yeah, yeah, definitely peacock So that's kind of
a version of cable TV. Well, this stuff just keeps evolving,
and we'll continue to evolve quickly. I suspect just ran

(31:33):
across this meme. Sorry, I got sucked into a string
of memes. It's a friendly looking old fellow looking at
his computer then looking up at you in the second frame.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
First frame is.

Speaker 4 (31:43):
Governments can't solve homelessness, but they can change the Earth's
temperature if you pay more taxes.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
That is awesome, That just really really good.

Speaker 4 (31:55):
Yeah, they can change the earth temperature if you more
to taxes.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
Right, I can't get the almost thing.

Speaker 4 (32:03):
Yeah, you can't get junkies off of that street corner
right there.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
I'm standing looking at them.

Speaker 4 (32:09):
But you can change the Earth's temperature by three quarters
of a degree.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
Okay, yeah right, Hey, let's.

Speaker 4 (32:15):
Figure out who's reporting what it's lead story with Katie Green.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
Katie, thank you.

Speaker 5 (32:19):
Guys from ABC News US to send additional two billion
dollars in Ukraine.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
Aid Blencoln says, yeah, they need it.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
We're gonna talk to one of our military analysts about
how that whole thing is going with rushaan Ukraine. According
to most people, they're in the worst spot they've been
since the Dang War started, which ain't good.

Speaker 5 (32:39):
From the Associated Press, US military says Gaza Strip peer
project is completed, aid to soon flow to Israel Hamas.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
War and how good a job can we do of
protecting that from Hamas rockets or MAS attacks.

Speaker 1 (32:53):
We'll see, Wait a.

Speaker 4 (32:55):
Minute, are you suggesting that Hamas would attack aid shipments
to the Palestinian people.

Speaker 1 (33:00):
They've never done that, have they?

Speaker 4 (33:02):
Or have they done it many many times?

Speaker 5 (33:05):
From Fox News CNN's Jake Tapper, who called Trump's presidency
a nightmare tap to moderate presidential debate.

Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, yeah, Tapper is better than some but yeah he
is what he is.

Speaker 1 (33:21):
Hey, back to the peer thing.

Speaker 4 (33:22):
If there's a significant loss of American lives on that peer,
they come under attack from some proxy group and that
is going to be a disaster of historic proportions for Biden.
Plus you know, our poor young people in the loss
of life.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Oh yes, but how would we not be in the
war at that point?

Speaker 5 (33:42):
From CNN, Biden asserts executive privilege over her audio files
ahead of House contempt proceedings against Met Garland.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Yeah, I need to read more about this. This is
breaking news today. So the Republicans are trying to get
a hold of those audio tapes where apparently it's made
very very very clear. You remember the transcripts where you're
reading that The New York Times got where he brought
up his son dying and couldn't figure out when it
happened and all that sort of stuff, then yelled at everybody,
how dare you bring up my son?

Speaker 1 (34:12):
Anyway?

Speaker 2 (34:12):
It made him look really old and dimension ridden, and
he's fighting to keep those tapes secret.

Speaker 1 (34:21):
From the New York Post.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
Anti sex beds have arrived at Paris Olympics after horny
athletes at mid to Orgies amid competition.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Okay, you used a term there. I'm not familiar with.
What's an anti sex bed? Well, money married beds or
anti syx beds. It would sleep the bed. What's an
anti sex bed?

Speaker 5 (34:40):
The beds that are being provided to the athletes have
cardboard bases.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
So if you try to knock boots, the'll fall apart.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
Basically, oh, if you can't find your way around that,
you don't want it bad.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
You are not that interested, You are not nearly horny
enough to be an Olympian.

Speaker 5 (34:58):
And finally the be Nancy Pelosi begins dressing as a
hobo after learning San Francisco is giving away free vodka.

Speaker 2 (35:07):
Shots to the homeless. I saw that what is this
a drunk shot? Is that an implication she drinks? I've
never heard that before.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Com on, you've heard her slur and all over the news,
all over the years.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
I missed this. Is that a thing? It's not true.
Is that a thing? People think Nancy is a drunk?
I'll find a montage. Really, I'll find the montage.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah, I was aware of this meme. There you go,
it's it's another meme Thursday. We have so many things
to take care of today. I hope you can stay
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