May 15, 2024 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Link.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Inflation has gone slightly up. This wasn't nine percent when
I came in, and it is now down around three percent.
But the fact is that I think people are just
uncertain now.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Inflation was just one point four percent when President Biden
took office and skyrocketed to forty year highs while the
rate of increase has slowed. Yes, as our viewers know
when they go shopping, inflation is compounding. You have to
add all these months together, which is how we've arrived
at goods costing twenty percent more than the day when
Biden took office.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Things cost twenty percent more on average since Joe Biden
took office. And you can't put it all on him.
He can put a lot of it on him. We'll
talk more about that later. I didn't mean to get
into the inflation thing, but man, that's depressing. You start
thinking about whatever savings you had, it's got twenty percent
(01:08):
less value than it had just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Correct. That's inflation is a tax, and the higher it is,
the higher tax you're paying.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The main point of that was, for the second time
in a week, Joe Biden claimed that inflation was at
nine percent when he came into office, and it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
It was one point four. Is nobody telling him that? Okay?
So that leads us to this.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Joe Biden is way behind in the polls because a
crap like that you just heard. He needs something that
could change the momentum of this race. Well here's that something.
A TikTok video, a tweeter Twitter video. He released this
everywhere today.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in twenty twenty
cents that he hadn't shown.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Up for debate.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Will make my day, Pal, I'll even do it twice.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So let's pick the dace Donald I heard on Wednesdays.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
The rumble in the geriatric jungle is on they are
going to debate. And as Joe pointed out, that last
joke about that hear you're free on Wednesdays is a
little crass given the fact that about sixty percent of
the country thinks this is a sham. This trial in Manhattan, Yes,
(02:22):
trial in Manhattan. So and it's designedly purely for politics.
I mean, Farid Zakari has set on CNN. If his
last name wasn't Trump, this trial wouldn't be happening. So
even as CNN liberal analyst believes that, yet the president
gets to make a joke like Trump, such a criminal
brought this upon himself.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
That's pretty that's pretty sickening. I would say it's sickening.
I think it's tone deaf too. I mean, his young
followers might like it, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Back to the debate challenge, the Biden campaign sent a
letter to Donald Trump, and it was obtained by Axios
in the New York Times, saying they want two debates.
Here's the outline of what they want. They want to
cut out the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is the
organization that has run the debate since the eighties. Every
debate you've seen in your life was run by that commission.
(03:12):
For a variety of reasons.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Who knows what.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Biden doesn't want them involved. They want the first debate
in late June, so i'd be in a month second
debate in early September. This is way earlier than we've
had presidential debates. In the past, strict rules, including microphones
that are automatically cut off when candidates violate time limits,
and they are again cutting out the oh and no
(03:36):
RFK Junior or any other independent candidate, just the two
of them on stage.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
And then maybe the.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Main thing that Biden is wanting is no audience, just
the studio, the moderator and the cameras. So Trump has
already responded to that. He said, telling reporters in print,
(04:03):
I'm ready to go. The dates that they proposed are fine.
Let's see if Joe can make it to the stand
up podium. The proposed June and early September dates are
fully acceptable to me. I will provide my own transportation.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I don't know why he said that.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He also told the reporter crooked Joe Biden is the
worst debater I've ever faced. He can't put two sentences
together and is the worst president in the history of
the United States by far. And then he went on
to say it is time for a debate to take place,
even if it has to be held through the offices
of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which are totally controlled
by Democrats, and who, as people remember, got caught cheating
with me with debate sound levels. I don't remember that story.
(04:43):
So why is Joe Biden wanting to cut out the
commission that most conservatives feel like has always screwed the
Republican If anything.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I think he might be terrified of the alternate candidates
being up there and makes him.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Sense that's the only way you can cut out somebody
that's polling as high as RFK Junior is if you
go around the Commission on Debates, right, if.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You make your own debate up, you know. And so
that's clear to me. Ah, Trump doesn't care. I don't
think he wants to take Biden on and give him
a good whack. And he doesn't really benefit from RFK
getting air either.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
No, I'm in the comfortable position of agreeing with I
think every part of what Joe Biden wants. I'm fine
with cutting out the Commission on Debates. I think they've
been freaking horrible. I've hated the moderators, i have hated
the questions, I've hated the way they handle crowds. I've
hated everything about the way they do debates. So cutting
them out fine. We've been saying no crowd forever, even
(05:40):
though I think it'll be a lot less entertaining. The
cutting out the third candidates. I'm fine with that. I
think I'm fine with that, certainly for at.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Least one of the debates. The only thing that we don't.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Like it as an American. Honestly, there's nothing that can
be done about it. But I don't like the feel
of it because the duopoly is so bad in mygree
DC already.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yet at the same time, one of those two guys
is going to be president, and I don't want a
time being eaten up with somebody who's got a zero
chance of being president.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
But yeah, that's that's the that's the real world, hardcore
way to look at it. And you're not wrong. Besides,
if I declare, hey, I'm going to get in a
room and argue with this guy, there's certain there's no
like arguing police that can say no, no, no, You've
got to have a third fellow argue with you too.
That's not the way the First Amendment works.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
The arguing police.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Oh hey, I thought this was interesting. In terms of moderators,
which you mentioned. Uh, each campaign gets to pick one
of the moderators from among news organizations that moderated primary debate,
So the Republicans will almost certainly go with Fox News
and the Democrats can choose who they want for the
other one.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
I'm a little.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Conflicted on the no audience. It's going to be so
dull with no audience. Better for the country, better conversation,
been wanting it for years, but way less entertaining.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, I don't know if I agree. I don't disagree.
I just don't know if I agree. Because a show
like Curb Your Enthusiasm is hilarious, it doesn't have a
laugh track. There are a lot of great examples of that.
You don't miss it when it's not there. If Biden,
you know, gets confused and unleash, is a bad I
had of keft care. I don't need, no need to say, oh,
we see it all all. I think it'll it'll stick anyway.
(07:37):
Now that might reduce the ratings, though the viewership. I
don't know. I don't know. I almost want to just
see it. Let me try it on, see how it feels.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
So is Joe Biden being pretty clever? First of all,
he has to do something to change the momentum. It's
not an accident that three days after that New York
Times poll came out. He's saying, hey, dude, quit hiding
from me. We need to get hilarious. He's got to
change the trajectory of this thing because they're they're they're
(08:07):
flipping losing, They're just absolutely losing.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Did he propose things that Trump can't agree to? Though?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
The no crowd. I think that's the only thing Trump
will have a problem with. He wants a crowd.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah, m hm.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The timing of it is interesting too, June, that's really early.
The Biden campaign says they want to make sure the
debates happened before early voting happens.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
But early voting doesn't happen till October.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Well, and in two months before the Democratic Convention, you're
having a presidential debate. That just doesn't make it make
any sense. On the other hand, again, if two guys
want to get together and argue in a room in
front of TV cameras, they get to well, what's what
seems odd to me? Yes, Michael Biden also wants hard
candy and a walk in tub in his dressing room.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
The tub, Michael, can I heard have you ever used
a walk in tub? I heard somebody explaining how what
a pain those things are. I can understand how you
can be in his situation where it's the only way
you can bathe yourself, but you have to if not, no,
you have to fill him up with water. And well,
you have to get in to him first and then
(09:11):
fill it up with water. So you got to sit
there for like a really long time as the water
and then you got to drain the whole thing out
before you can open the door and get out. So
the whole process is really slow. I never thought about that.
It always kind of appealed to me. The sitting there
part looks great, but I just don't know about the
beginning and end.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Hey, you don't have to wait until the thing is
emptied open the door, but you should.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
If you need to walk in tubb, you probably are
going to.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
So you don't understand the theory behind the early But
Joe Biden wants this for some reason. Why do his
strategists want the debate in June? What's the thinking there?
Because because he needs a game changer now he needs
to arrest the decline fast.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Yeah. I think that's the obvious answer is that he
is looking more more like a loser and he wants
to take a stab at changing that narrative as quickly
as he can and reconnect with voters. I think the
less discussed aspect of it, but I'm more than willing
to discuss it, is that he knows his cognition is declining.
He is getting worse and worse and worse. Oh, of
(10:19):
course it is.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You really think you think he thinks he's gonna be
he thinks he's going to be that much worse in
a couple of months, that he's got a debate.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Now, I mean, that's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
If you actually think that you've got to resign, we well.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You should, Yes, senile and can't possibly make it through
a second term. He got to resign already. But no,
I don't know that he thinks that, but his handlers
think that. And if he convinced him that, no, we
want to alter the trajectory of it, so we want
to have it as soon as possible. It's just good politics,
mister president. And by the way, he's just senile as
hell and getting worse.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I'm told by the booth we have a couple of
good clips on the debate topic.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Let's hear those.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
One of the big questions, Hey, over this rematch is
are they going to debate? It's I think if President
Biden had his brothers, he may not. He would be
a sitting president in a position of strength like Reagan
only agreed to one debate. But that's not the case
as we see the polls out there. So what the
White House is clearly trying to do is take charge
of this situation while the Trump campaign and the former
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president is a distracted trying to put this proposal out
saying we want to debate and soon late June, early September.
The reason for that is clearly the Biden campagne wants
to flip the script, if you will. They want to
start showing that President Biden is more in charge, in
command and seeing that head to head matchup is something
his advisors believe will do it.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Okay, that answers a question a little bit. Maybe they
want to have him looking presidential on the stage. God,
but you gotta gotta, you gotta roll the dice that
he comes off looking presidential and doesn't come off looking
like a doddering old man. Although, as I've already said,
he's risen to all the big occasions that I thought
(12:01):
he couldn't rise to whatever the go go juice is
that they give him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
So far, it's worked every time.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Right. I thought he came off as a little mannikin
craze during the State of the Union address, but it
was good enough. But he didn't come to give him
an excuse to say he looked fine.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I think they'll get it with mannikin crazed as long
as he doesn't come off as senile.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And he didn't come off as senile.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Right, So they got a jab and full of the
go go juice, as you so charmingly put it, And
they have some of the finest undertakers in America. Do
his makeup for him otherwise under the glare of those lights.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You're used to working with dead bodies, give him a
little color?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Can you make him look a little more life like?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Just saying, oh geez, god, that is going to be
some musty, musty TV. And it's not very far away.
We're in mid mid May into June. They say, if
it happens.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, so let's see his his trial will surely be
over the next week, right, is what everybody's predicting. Correct. Yeah,
I'd say let's get.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
It on so that an analysis that they want to
catch Trump while he's distracted.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
The trial is going to be over, so that doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Trump has agreed to debate Biden on CNN on June
twenty seventh. The agreement does not ensure that a debate
will happen CNN, June twenty seventh. Yeah, it's one of
those pending agreement on the details things. But he said
he's accepted the invitation.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
That's a Thursday night. Well, if you're Trump, you're willing
to give a little bit, aren't you to make sure
this happens because you believe you can best him? And
Biden embears himself.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Oh yeah, Because for the longest time, the narrative was
Biden might not debate him at all. He was going
to use the excuse that, well, Trump is rude, out
of control, so I'm not going to debate him. I'm
not going to dig Well that was before the polls
enters in reversed. Now Biden's desperate. Man.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
This is a huge development. What do you think?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Text line four one, five, two, nine KFTC.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Are strong?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He Getty?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
The Best in Show winner at the one and forty
eighth Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is the miniature poodle.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yes, the miniature poodle kicks.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Crowd goes wild. The moodle is fan favorite, James, there's
herds of all change the miniature puddle coming up big.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
But as what clos has put so much of his
life into this breed. He came to this country, dedicated
his whole tier into.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
The hot on these dogs.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Maybe a little piper that's gonna have my goal. So
why is the crowd go so wild?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
For Well, part of it is if you're really into
the dog world, which I'm not. This whole purebred dog
thing is sick and in many ways evil if you
learn enough about it. But Manty, the giant Schnauzer, was
the top ranked dog in the United States and was
considered the by far overwhelming favorite to win.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Didn't even make it into the top two. Oh so
Manty with a letdown when it counted the most.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Well, right, that's what I like the commentary, And when
it mattered, most came through. Well, the dog doesn't know
that it mattered. Most didn't do anything different than it
ever does. It pranced around next to its owner's heels.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
And I trotted around and tried not to mess with
my coff it was.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
A good day.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Sage the miniature poodle named the best in Show, beating
out twenty five hundred dogs, two hundred breeds pared down
to a field of seven group champions. The best in
show Sage beat out Mercedes, German Shepherd. Don't give your dog,
don't give you dog a stripper name. Come at the
(16:06):
shitso excuse my language. Lewis the Afghan, Mietcha the Block
Cocker Spaniel, Black Docker Spaniel, I'm sorry now, Mika the BCS,
and Monty the giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Oh, and also the Frankie the colored bull terrier.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Still quick with the racial terms terrier of color exactly.
Good lord, this is terrible. You're right, this is this
is an ugly thing. This this Westminster show, Westmins, which
I guess I'm getting old, But it seems like this
happens every six.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Weeks, right, I think maybe it's gotta happen more than
once a year. For sure, feels like it happens more
than most year. Westminster is considered the apex of canine achievement.
I'd like to know how the US champion who's built
exactly the same as he was, and all the other
dog shows that he won. Doesn't even the top two
at this one. It's not like his hind legs got
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too short all of a sudden, there's snout too stubby
or something.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Start pooping everywhere. Yeah, I wouldn't give you a nickel
for that dog. I'll take my dogs, thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh boy, we got to talk a little more about
the debate. What a great story.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
We'll get this.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Seafood chain, Red Lobster is struggling and they just abruptly
closed ninety nine of their restaurants around the country. The
news is kind of shocking. Red Lobster was doing well.
They were like, how are we closing? Meanwhile, Long John
Silver's like, how are we still open?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
That's a good question. So they closed. How many Red
Lobsters six hundred and fifty?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Quite a few?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's something. Well, the things come and go.
It's just and I don't know why. It feels like
yesterday's Villa Man, but Red Lobster just then. I used
to go to Red Lobster and liked it, but it
just doesn't seem in style anymore, whatever that means. So
the news of the day a couple more quick things
on that, the fact that there are going to be debates.
It looks like between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I
(18:08):
hate that. I'm agreeing with everything that's coming out of
the Biden campaign on this, but they bypass the Debate Commission.
They want to line up two debates that he and
Trump just come up with the terms on and said
the problem with the Debate Commission is they've been structuring
these like an entertainment spectacle. We've been complaining about that
our entire talk radio career, and also said that the
(18:30):
commission doesn't even enforce their own rules. That's the other
thing we've been complaining about forever. They open the debate
and say you're not allowed to talk unless spoken to,
and dope over the time, and then they let people
do whatever they want and everybody gets rewarded for breaking
the rules until it's just utter, exhausting chaos.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I remember a couple of those debates that were just unwatchable.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Right, And so Trump has responded that yes, he will debate,
and there are going to be two. First one June
twenty seventh on CNN, so it's six weeks away, six
weeks from tomorrow, actually, but Trump has said that he
wants more than two debates, and he said for excitement purposes,
I want a very large venue. He's right about that,
(19:11):
and he's a TV host who has gotten great ratings
throughout his life. But excitement is not which should not
be the goal of figuring out what candidate we want
to be president.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I think if Trump pushes hard for one of the
debates has an audience, one does not. If he offers
that compromise, it's going to be impossible for the Biden
team to turn that down. I mean, it's just not
a big enough issue to justify not debating him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Mind, I'm not sure the audience has always been the
problem anyway. I'm fine with no audience, but the problem
has been what the Biden campaign mentioned, they never enforced
the rules.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
If you're Chris Christie or.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
A vag Ramaswami, or you name lots of candidates over
the years, the person who butts in and talks over
the other person and gets in the one liner always
is rewarded in the polls or by the crowd for
their behavior. If you enforce the rules, like turn off
their mics, I don't think the crowd would be a problem.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
So I can't believe I didn't come up with this myself.
I'm off my game. I've got some sort of bug.
But my old buddy Steve texted that the Democrats are
sending Joe out in June so that if he crashes
and burns, they still have time to come up with
to solidify Plan B in time for the convention in August.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Wow, it's a pass fail test.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Oh, I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
They're doing a pass fail in June to give him
enough time to replace him. That makes more sense than
anything else we've speculated. Let's go ahead and take the
look at the alternative. Wait until after the convention, because
I was saying earlier, this is ridiculous. You don't have
a presidential debate before the convention. But the alternative is
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wait until after the convention when it's irrevocable that Joe
Biden is going to be your candidate, and then watch
him crash and burn and display himself as an utterly senile,
old husk of a man. They're already scheduled the Presidential
Commission debate and they're in September, so he has September October.
So yeah, he crashes and burns then and drops twenty
(21:17):
points in the poll polls that he's already losing in. Yeah,
it's too late, that is exactly it. So they're spinning
it as well. We want to get ahead of early voting,
but early voting doesn't start till October, so that doesn't
make any sense now, Batch.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And there is I think there's one proposed vice presidential
debate between mister or ms X on the Republican side
and the moron Kamala Harris. But the other aspect of
the if he crashes and burns in the first debate
thing is the talk will turn aggressively toward can we
deal with a president Kamala Harris? And that conversation will
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go the way it has to go, and that'll be
horrifying for the Democrats. I tell you what, I think
there may be some truth to that.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I didn't think Biden could debate last time four years ago,
and I was wrong. They pumped him full of the
whatever they give him rhinoceros steroids, and he was fine.
He was passable, He was good enough, but his brain
was way better back then than it is now.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I would agree, Will Trump be disciplined and will he
be prepared.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
If I'm Joe Biden, I turned to him at one
point and say who won the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
I bait him.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I let Trump go off on his tangent of talking
about the stolen election. I might do it multiple times
in a ninety minute debate.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I think bring up January sixth somehow or other suck
him in discussion of that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, if I'm Trump, I'm wearing a shock collar that
my handler's put on me, And anytime I'm talking about
anything that's not the economy or the border or crime,
I get shocked.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
With increasing voltage.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
He should do the classic, you know, answer the question
you wish they'd ask, no matter what they asked Donald Trump,
he should talk about the border of the economy, no
matter what they ask him.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yeah, crime and the woke stuff in schools. Of course,
Trump is not really up on that stuff much. He's
better than he used to be. He's just he doesn't
have enough different songs that he sings for my taste.
But it'll be a spectacle one way or the other.
I will be on the edge of my couch right.
(23:37):
In fact, I might have to have a viewing party. Yes,
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna invite a bunch
of my politically active and aware buds and.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It'll be like a focus group. We did that in
twenty sixteen. Hillary Trump, We're at a bar in San Diego,
if I remember correctly, that was fun.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Oh my gosh, yeah wow. Okay, yeah, I'm down for
that June twenty seventh, Thursday Night, Little Friday. If they
can settle their minor differences, and surely they can. Both
both guys want the debate.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That's what's interesting. Well, for different reasons. Trump wants a
debate because he's pretty good at it. He's really good
at it, actually, uh, and he thinks Biden's mind is shot.
Biden wants it because I'm gonna lose if I don't
do something different.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Right, Yeah, exciting. Now, May God strike me dead from
the sins against the audience. I'm going to bring up
the vice residential debate again. God, Doug, I know, I
know they're helping me. Won't you start your own podcast Veepsteaks.
(24:44):
Nobody would listen, that's why. But it's important to me
that Kamala Bee completely humiliated in that debate. Okay, that's
that's my top priority. Ah. Doug Bergham is a good, decent,
intelligent and earnest man. I'm not sure he's the hatchet
(25:07):
man we need for the gig.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
He's good.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
I thought he was the most impressive guy in the
debates to me, so I think Doug Burgham will be awesome.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
So you think he could put the beatdown on Kamla?
Is he mean enough? That's my question.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
He's not mean at all, but he is incredibly knowledgeable
and is good at presenting it as a lot of
successful businessmen are. Politicians aren't always, but a lot of
businessmen are. He's a billionaire. He sums things up very nicely.
I think he'd be great. He's definitely not mean though, if.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
You want me, But I see we need just a
little mean. We need a guy who can say, after
Kamala unleashes one of her word salads, a little bit
of I have no idea what you just said? That
didn't make any sense? Did anybody understand what the hecks
she was trying to say?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
And we get an English teacher to diagram that sentence.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I'd like to see where the nouns, verbs, jerns are
in that sense, because that's a little hard to follow.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
That would be all yeah, can I use Google translates
to figure out what the hell's he's trying to say?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I have no idea we should send those lines to
whoever the candidate is. Here's what I do in the
negotiation for the vice presidential debate. Okay, I'll give you
no audience if you give us no cackling.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
No cackling allowed.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Oh please, she couldn't language. What a jackass.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Ah, the future of the world depends on this decision,
you realize in large measure.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yes, yes, God help the world freaking' ah. Yeah, I know,
I know, I know exactly what you're saying. I uh, well,
I think everybody knows what we're saying. It's all summed
up by Biden is the least popular president to have
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a run for reelection. I think his numbers are subterranean.
He is ten to twenty points below Trump on all
of the critical issues really with maybe one exception, and
yet they're tied right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Well, this could be, this could move the needle.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I know there are a lot of great Trump fans
out there, and I get you, I get you. I
can respect it. But I really feel like the Westminster
Dog Show came down to, you know, a bit of
a three legged mutt with the mange and then President
Biden's dog. That's bit twenty five Secret Service guys. It's
just this is not a good dog show. Do we
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have other dogs?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
The winner's commander of the German Shepherd because everybody's afraid
of him.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Ow ow ow he's biting me. He's fighting me right now.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You won.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
You said you'd stop biting me if you won. So
some good news, I guess.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Statistics came out that for the first time in five years,
drug dead's went down. We can talk about that and
other things on the way stay with us.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Going is hard.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
But when you know that something stays back, that your
legacy is staying in the volved and is available for
your children, grandchildren, for the generations after this gives you
a kind of at least this gave me a kind
of closure.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That's a guy talking about he made an AI copy
of himself so that future generations would have him to
talk to I guess or something. Yeah, I'm looking at
the website right now, which they think might be the future,
so it'd be your voice kind of trained on your
personality creepy uses your voice to share your knowledge and
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build future generations and guide future generations for eternity. All right, Anyway,
I was going to use that as a tease, which
we'll talk about later, of the dating app Bumble has
brought AI into it to help you bypass a lot
of people that wouldn't normally be matches, and we'll explain
all that later.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah, I'm gonna look into this a little more because
I some of you may recall we lost my mom
three years ago, and if I had a resource where
I could hear her talking about her principles, her experiences,
that sort of thing, like an interview archive or something
like that, I don't think that's crazy. That'd be really cool.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I guess I am only I'm pretty skeptical as it's
to its accuracy or it is AI.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
It's not a recording, it's an extrapolation of what they
actually said. Yeah wow, So I'd be like, hey, AI, Mom,
I'm conflicted whether to help the kids out or let
them struggle on their own to get stronger. Well, Joe,
as you may recall in her.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Voice, oh yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I don't know about interacting with that. Hearing the voice
is one thing, but having a conversation with it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I love the idea of hearing my dad's voice after
he's gone. He's still alive, he's listening right now, but
not a fake version of him saying things he not
actually didn't actually say.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Well, especially because AI has those phantom incidents where they
just make stuff up, so he'd say, well, I tell
you Jack. As I learned when I was captain of
the Titanic, there are times that I mean, it'd be
like Joe Biden, he making crap up all the time.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
Right, or like that time that a I bought, fell
in love with that guy.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Right right right, wanted him to kill his wife or something,
to leave his wife. Yes, she money, all right. You
want to hear about overdose deaths. I actually don't know,
do you. I think I've lost my I think I
ruined it. I think Katie nailed it. There is a
small but significant drop in opioid deaths, including fentanyl. Partly well,
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it's almost got to be damn near entirely because in
twenty twenty three, guess how many doses of narcan were
distributed in the United States and Canada. America's please twenty
two million.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
No, if I guess if I guessed a crazy number,
I would have guessed two million, twenty two million.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
So the number of overdose deaths dropped over all by
like thirty five hundred, which was like three point seven percent.
And yes, I believe those twenty two million doses in
narcan could be responsible for that thirty five hundred fewer
course overdose deaths.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Of course it is so for the first time in
five years. The headline is deaths from drug overdoses went
down for the first time five years. But as a
Joe's pointing out, doesn't mean people are trying less hard.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Yeah, the subhead should be twenty two million dos if narcan.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Distributed, Yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's alazing.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And then the sub subhead is the numbers are only
slightly down from utterly horrific, unthinkable totals there. They were
almost one hundred and eight thousand right this past year,
and that's down slightly from one hundred and eleven thousand,
but it's still nightmares. And even as opioid deaths fell,
deaths from stimulants such as cocaine and meth rose some states,
including Oregon and Washington. Gosh, what did they have in common?
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Hum They continue to experience sharp rises in overall overdose fatalities.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Even with the availability of Narcan.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Yeah. Yeah, Now, to their credit, Oregonians have rescinded the
disastrous let's decriminalize our drugs law. It was well meaning,
but disastrous.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I always like to point this out.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
And you're too young, Katie to know when the whole
crack cocaine epidemic was sweeping the nation, like the eighties,
the early nineties or to to like have lived through it.
But nation went nuts over the number of deads and
it was like twenty five thousand a year compared to
one hundred some thousand. Why we went nuts over all
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the crack cone cane deaths. Like, this is an epidemic.
We need to change federal law. We need to talk
about this every day, we need to Congress was constantly
debating it. But we're so blase about four or five
times that number of a different kind of drug. I'm
not exactly sure if we just became numb to the
idea of the number of people want to numb themselves.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Out or what.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Yeah, I just think culturally there's been a transition. It's
it's fairly subtle, I guess, but from the idea that
hard drugs are something pushers bring into the community and
convince people to take, and people get addicted and they
die and it's terrible, as opposed to a cultural view that, well, people,
if they want to take drugs, they're going to take drugs,
and it's on them what happens to them.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Did the crack cocaine epidemic affect high school kids or
like younger kids, like this falls.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Only in the inner inner city, Yeah, it was definitely
something wasn't going to happen to you most likely.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Okay, because I mean I'm every day when I'm going
through the headlines, there's some story about a kid getting
a hold of their parents' ventanyl or a kid taking
an adderall from a friend that was laced. But it's
it's getting younger and younger.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Yeah, that was not happening in just like regular suburban
high schools.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yeah, it's not like you were thinking you were taking
an adderall and ended up on crack. I mean, it's
just never happened.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yeah, Yeah, that's uh, that's rough.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Twenty two million doses of the you took too much
ventanyl pill dr.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah. Yeah, over one hundred and seven thousand overdose deaths
in this country last year.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
That with that number, twenty two million doses of that.
That that explains why it's now part of first aid
kids at schools. Remember we had that story a year
a week or so ago. Yeah, all yeah, every night
club in America, every bar has it. The first aid
kid I got for wrapping up my motorcycle wreck wounds.
Should have had the stuff it had, all the bandages
and ointments and tape. Should have had a little nor
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can in there in case I decided to take some fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Right Yeah, wow, eh boy, I just we got a problem. Yeah,
we have a huge problem. And it's sprawling and complicated
and runs into various ideas of liberty and adults doing
what they want. And yet that's a hell of a
lot of people dying. Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Link.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Inflation has gone slightly up. This wasn't nine percent when
I came in, and it is now down around three percent.
But the fact is that I think people are just
uncertain now.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Inflation was just one point four percent when President Biden
took office and skyrocketed to forty year highs while the
rate of increase has slowed. Yes, as our viewers know
when they go shopping, inflation is compounding. You have to
add all these months together, which is how we've arrived
at goods costing twenty percent more than the day when
Biden took office.
Speaker 5 (00:46):
Things cost twenty percent more on average since Joe Biden
took office. And you can't put it all on him.
He can put a lot of it on him. We'll
talk more about that later. I didn't mean to get
into the inflation thing, but man, that's depressing. You start
thinking about whatever savings you had, it's got twenty percent
(01:08):
less value than it had just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (01:11):
Correct. That's inflation is a tax, and the higher it is,
the higher tax you're paying.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
The main point of that was, for the second time
in a week, Joe Biden claimed that inflation was at
nine percent when he came into office, and it wasn't.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
It was one point four. Is nobody telling him that? Okay?
So that leads us to this.
Speaker 5 (01:32):
Joe Biden is way behind in the polls because a
crap like that you just heard. He needs something that
could change the momentum of this race. Well here's that something.
A TikTok video, a tweeter Twitter video. He released this
everywhere today.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Donald Trump lost two debates to me in twenty twenty
cents that he hadn't shown.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Up for debate.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again.
Speaker 6 (01:54):
Will make my day, Pal, I'll even do it twice.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So let's pick the dace Donald I heard on Wednesdays.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
The rumble in the geriatric jungle is on they are
going to debate. And as Joe pointed out, that last
joke about that hear you're free on Wednesdays is a
little crass given the fact that about sixty percent of
the country thinks this is a sham. This trial in Manhattan, Yes,
(02:22):
trial in Manhattan. So and it's designedly purely for politics.
I mean, Farid Zakari has set on CNN. If his
last name wasn't Trump, this trial wouldn't be happening. So
even as CNN liberal analyst believes that, yet the president
gets to make a joke like Trump, such a criminal
brought this upon himself.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
That's pretty that's pretty sickening. I would say it's sickening.
I think it's tone deaf too. I mean, his young
followers might like it, but I don't know.
Speaker 5 (02:51):
Back to the debate challenge, the Biden campaign sent a
letter to Donald Trump, and it was obtained by Axios
in the New York Times, saying they want two debates.
Here's the outline of what they want. They want to
cut out the Commission on Presidential Debates, which is the
organization that has run the debate since the eighties. Every
debate you've seen in your life was run by that commission.
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For a variety of reasons.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Who knows what.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
Biden doesn't want them involved. They want the first debate
in late June, so i'd be in a month second
debate in early September. This is way earlier than we've
had presidential debates. In the past, strict rules, including microphones
that are automatically cut off when candidates violate time limits,
and they are again cutting out the oh and no
(03:36):
RFK Junior or any other independent candidate, just the two
of them on stage.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
And then maybe the.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Main thing that Biden is wanting is no audience, just
the studio, the moderator and the cameras. So Trump has
already responded to that. He said, telling reporters in print,
(04:03):
I'm ready to go. The dates that they proposed are fine.
Let's see if Joe can make it to the stand
up podium. The proposed June and early September dates are
fully acceptable to me. I will provide my own transportation.
Speaker 7 (04:14):
I don't know why he said that.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
He also told the reporter crooked Joe Biden is the
worst debater I've ever faced. He can't put two sentences
together and is the worst president in the history of
the United States by far. And then he went on
to say it is time for a debate to take place,
even if it has to be held through the offices
of the Commission on Presidential Debates, which are totally controlled
by Democrats, and who, as people remember, got caught cheating
with me with debate sound levels. I don't remember that story.
(04:43):
So why is Joe Biden wanting to cut out the
commission that most conservatives feel like has always screwed the
Republican If anything.
Speaker 6 (04:52):
I think he might be terrified of the alternate candidates
being up there and makes him.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Sense that's the only way you can cut out somebody
that's polling as high as RFK Junior is if you
go around the Commission on Debates, right, if.
Speaker 6 (05:07):
You make your own debate up, you know. And so
that's clear to me. Ah, Trump doesn't care. I don't
think he wants to take Biden on and give him
a good whack. And he doesn't really benefit from RFK
getting air either.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
No, I'm in the comfortable position of agreeing with I
think every part of what Joe Biden wants. I'm fine
with cutting out the Commission on Debates. I think they've
been freaking horrible. I've hated the moderators, i have hated
the questions, I've hated the way they handle crowds. I've
hated everything about the way they do debates. So cutting
them out fine. We've been saying no crowd forever, even
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though I think it'll be a lot less entertaining. The
cutting out the third candidates. I'm fine with that. I
think I'm fine with that, certainly for at.
Speaker 7 (05:53):
Least one of the debates. The only thing that we don't.
Speaker 6 (05:56):
Like it as an American. Honestly, there's nothing that can
be done about it. But I don't like the feel
of it because the duopoly is so bad in mygree
DC already.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
I agree.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
Yet at the same time, one of those two guys
is going to be president, and I don't want a
time being eaten up with somebody who's got a zero
chance of being president.
Speaker 6 (06:15):
But yeah, that's that's the that's the real world, hardcore
way to look at it. And you're not wrong. Besides,
if I declare, hey, I'm going to get in a
room and argue with this guy, there's certain there's no
like arguing police that can say no, no, no, You've
got to have a third fellow argue with you too.
That's not the way the First Amendment works.
Speaker 7 (06:34):
The arguing police.
Speaker 6 (06:37):
Oh hey, I thought this was interesting. In terms of moderators,
which you mentioned. Uh, each campaign gets to pick one
of the moderators from among news organizations that moderated primary debate,
So the Republicans will almost certainly go with Fox News
and the Democrats can choose who they want for the
other one.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
I'm a little.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Conflicted on the no audience. It's going to be so
dull with no audience. Better for the country, better conversation,
been wanting it for years, but way less entertaining.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Yeah, I don't know if I agree. I don't disagree.
I just don't know if I agree. Because a show
like Curb Your Enthusiasm is hilarious, it doesn't have a
laugh track. There are a lot of great examples of that.
You don't miss it when it's not there. If Biden,
you know, gets confused and unleash, is a bad I
had of keft care. I don't need, no need to say, oh,
we see it all all. I think it'll it'll stick anyway.
(07:37):
Now that might reduce the ratings, though the viewership. I
don't know. I don't know. I almost want to just
see it. Let me try it on, see how it feels.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
So is Joe Biden being pretty clever? First of all,
he has to do something to change the momentum. It's
not an accident that three days after that New York
Times poll came out. He's saying, hey, dude, quit hiding
from me. We need to get hilarious. He's got to
change the trajectory of this thing because they're they're they're
(08:07):
flipping losing, They're just absolutely losing.
Speaker 7 (08:10):
Did he propose things that Trump can't agree to? Though?
Speaker 5 (08:13):
The no crowd. I think that's the only thing Trump
will have a problem with. He wants a crowd.
Speaker 6 (08:19):
Yeah, m hm.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
The timing of it is interesting too, June, that's really early.
The Biden campaign says they want to make sure the
debates happened before early voting happens.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
But early voting doesn't happen till October.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
Well, and in two months before the Democratic Convention, you're
having a presidential debate. That just doesn't make it make
any sense. On the other hand, again, if two guys
want to get together and argue in a room in
front of TV cameras, they get to well, what's what
seems odd to me? Yes, Michael Biden also wants hard
candy and a walk in tub in his dressing room.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
The tub, Michael, can I heard have you ever used
a walk in tub? I heard somebody explaining how what
a pain those things are. I can understand how you
can be in his situation where it's the only way
you can bathe yourself, but you have to if not, no,
you have to fill him up with water. And well,
you have to get in to him first and then
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fill it up with water. So you got to sit
there for like a really long time as the water
and then you got to drain the whole thing out
before you can open the door and get out. So
the whole process is really slow. I never thought about that.
It always kind of appealed to me. The sitting there
part looks great, but I just don't know about the
beginning and end.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
Hey, you don't have to wait until the thing is
emptied open the door, but you should.
Speaker 7 (09:34):
If you need to walk in tubb, you probably are
going to.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (09:37):
So you don't understand the theory behind the early But
Joe Biden wants this for some reason. Why do his
strategists want the debate in June? What's the thinking there?
Because because he needs a game changer now he needs
to arrest the decline fast.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Yeah. I think that's the obvious answer is that he
is looking more more like a loser and he wants
to take a stab at changing that narrative as quickly
as he can and reconnect with voters. I think the
less discussed aspect of it, but I'm more than willing
to discuss it, is that he knows his cognition is declining.
He is getting worse and worse and worse. Oh, of
(10:19):
course it is.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
You really think you think he thinks he's gonna be
he thinks he's going to be that much worse in
a couple of months, that he's got a debate.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
Now, I mean, that's horrifying.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
If you actually think that you've got to resign, we well.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
You should, Yes, senile and can't possibly make it through
a second term. He got to resign already. But no,
I don't know that he thinks that, but his handlers
think that. And if he convinced him that, no, we
want to alter the trajectory of it, so we want
to have it as soon as possible. It's just good politics,
mister president. And by the way, he's just senile as
hell and getting worse.
Speaker 5 (10:54):
I'm told by the booth we have a couple of
good clips on the debate topic.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Let's hear those.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
One of the big questions, Hey, over this rematch is
are they going to debate? It's I think if President
Biden had his brothers, he may not. He would be
a sitting president in a position of strength like Reagan
only agreed to one debate. But that's not the case
as we see the polls out there. So what the
White House is clearly trying to do is take charge
of this situation while the Trump campaign and the former
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president is a distracted trying to put this proposal out
saying we want to debate and soon late June, early September.
The reason for that is clearly the Biden campagne wants
to flip the script, if you will. They want to
start showing that President Biden is more in charge, in
command and seeing that head to head matchup is something
his advisors believe will do it.
Speaker 5 (11:41):
Okay, that answers a question a little bit. Maybe they
want to have him looking presidential on the stage. God,
but you gotta gotta, you gotta roll the dice that
he comes off looking presidential and doesn't come off looking
like a doddering old man. Although, as I've already said,
he's risen to all the big occasions that I thought
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he couldn't rise to whatever the go go juice is
that they give him.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
So far, it's worked every time.
Speaker 6 (12:07):
Right. I thought he came off as a little mannikin
craze during the State of the Union address, but it
was good enough. But he didn't come to give him
an excuse to say he looked fine.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
I think they'll get it with mannikin crazed as long
as he doesn't come off as senile.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
And he didn't come off as senile.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Right, So they got a jab and full of the
go go juice, as you so charmingly put it, And
they have some of the finest undertakers in America. Do
his makeup for him otherwise under the glare of those lights.
Speaker 5 (12:34):
You're used to working with dead bodies, give him a
little color?
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Can you make him look a little more life like?
Speaker 5 (12:45):
Just saying, oh geez, god, that is going to be
some musty, musty TV. And it's not very far away.
We're in mid mid May into June. They say, if
it happens.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Yeah, so let's see his his trial will surely be
over the next week, right, is what everybody's predicting. Correct. Yeah,
I'd say let's get.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
It on so that an analysis that they want to
catch Trump while he's distracted.
Speaker 7 (13:11):
The trial is going to be over, so that doesn't
make sense.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Trump has agreed to debate Biden on CNN on June
twenty seventh. The agreement does not ensure that a debate
will happen CNN, June twenty seventh. Yeah, it's one of
those pending agreement on the details things. But he said
he's accepted the invitation.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
That's a Thursday night. Well, if you're Trump, you're willing
to give a little bit, aren't you to make sure
this happens because you believe you can best him? And
Biden embears himself.
Speaker 6 (13:47):
Oh yeah, Because for the longest time, the narrative was
Biden might not debate him at all. He was going
to use the excuse that, well, Trump is rude, out
of control, so I'm not going to debate him. I'm
not going to dig Well that was before the polls
enters in reversed. Now Biden's desperate. Man.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
This is a huge development. What do you think?
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Text line four one, five, two, nine KFTC.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Are strong?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
He Getty?
Speaker 1 (14:15):
The Best in Show winner at the one and forty
eighth Annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is the miniature poodle.
Speaker 5 (14:26):
Yes, the miniature poodle kicks.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Crowd goes wild. The moodle is fan favorite, James, there's
herds of all change the miniature puddle coming up big.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
But as what clos has put so much of his
life into this breed. He came to this country, dedicated
his whole tier into.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
The hot on these dogs.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
Maybe a little piper that's gonna have my goal. So
why is the crowd go so wild?
Speaker 5 (14:59):
For Well, part of it is if you're really into
the dog world, which I'm not. This whole purebred dog
thing is sick and in many ways evil if you
learn enough about it. But Manty, the giant Schnauzer, was
the top ranked dog in the United States and was
considered the by far overwhelming favorite to win.
Speaker 6 (15:19):
Didn't even make it into the top two. Oh so
Manty with a letdown when it counted the most.
Speaker 5 (15:25):
Well, right, that's what I like the commentary, And when
it mattered, most came through. Well, the dog doesn't know
that it mattered. Most didn't do anything different than it
ever does. It pranced around next to its owner's heels.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
And I trotted around and tried not to mess with
my coff it was.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
A good day.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Sage the miniature poodle named the best in Show, beating
out twenty five hundred dogs, two hundred breeds pared down
to a field of seven group champions. The best in
show Sage beat out Mercedes, German Shepherd. Don't give your dog,
don't give you dog a stripper name. Come at the
(16:06):
shitso excuse my language. Lewis the Afghan, Mietcha the Block
Cocker Spaniel, Black Docker Spaniel, I'm sorry now, Mika the BCS,
and Monty the giant Schnauzer.
Speaker 7 (16:22):
Oh, and also the Frankie the colored bull terrier.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
Still quick with the racial terms terrier of color exactly.
Good lord, this is terrible. You're right, this is this
is an ugly thing. This this Westminster show, Westmins, which
I guess I'm getting old, But it seems like this
happens every six.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Weeks, right, I think maybe it's gotta happen more than
once a year. For sure, feels like it happens more
than most year. Westminster is considered the apex of canine achievement.
I'd like to know how the US champion who's built
exactly the same as he was, and all the other
dog shows that he won. Doesn't even the top two
at this one. It's not like his hind legs got
(17:04):
too short all of a sudden, there's snout too stubby
or something.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Start pooping everywhere. Yeah, I wouldn't give you a nickel
for that dog. I'll take my dogs, thank you.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Oh boy, we got to talk a little more about
the debate. What a great story.
Speaker 7 (17:18):
This is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6 (17:24):
We'll get this.
Speaker 8 (17:24):
Seafood chain, Red Lobster is struggling and they just abruptly
closed ninety nine of their restaurants around the country. The
news is kind of shocking. Red Lobster was doing well.
They were like, how are we closing? Meanwhile, Long John
Silver's like, how are we still open?
Speaker 7 (17:40):
That's a good question. So they closed. How many Red
Lobsters six hundred and fifty?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Quite a few?
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, that's something. Well, the things come and go.
It's just and I don't know why. It feels like
yesterday's Villa Man, but Red Lobster just then. I used
to go to Red Lobster and liked it, but it
just doesn't seem in style anymore, whatever that means. So
the news of the day a couple more quick things
on that, the fact that there are going to be debates.
It looks like between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I
(18:08):
hate that. I'm agreeing with everything that's coming out of
the Biden campaign on this, but they bypass the Debate Commission.
They want to line up two debates that he and
Trump just come up with the terms on and said
the problem with the Debate Commission is they've been structuring
these like an entertainment spectacle. We've been complaining about that
our entire talk radio career, and also said that the
(18:30):
commission doesn't even enforce their own rules. That's the other
thing we've been complaining about forever. They open the debate
and say you're not allowed to talk unless spoken to,
and dope over the time, and then they let people
do whatever they want and everybody gets rewarded for breaking
the rules until it's just utter, exhausting chaos.
Speaker 6 (18:48):
I remember a couple of those debates that were just unwatchable.
Speaker 5 (18:50):
Right, And so Trump has responded that yes, he will debate,
and there are going to be two. First one June
twenty seventh on CNN, so it's six weeks away, six
weeks from tomorrow, actually, but Trump has said that he
wants more than two debates, and he said for excitement purposes,
I want a very large venue. He's right about that,
(19:11):
and he's a TV host who has gotten great ratings
throughout his life. But excitement is not which should not
be the goal of figuring out what candidate we want
to be president.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
I think if Trump pushes hard for one of the
debates has an audience, one does not. If he offers
that compromise, it's going to be impossible for the Biden
team to turn that down. I mean, it's just not
a big enough issue to justify not debating him.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Mind, I'm not sure the audience has always been the
problem anyway. I'm fine with no audience, but the problem
has been what the Biden campaign mentioned, they never enforced
the rules.
Speaker 7 (19:46):
If you're Chris Christie or.
Speaker 5 (19:48):
A vag Ramaswami, or you name lots of candidates over
the years, the person who butts in and talks over
the other person and gets in the one liner always
is rewarded in the polls or by the crowd for
their behavior. If you enforce the rules, like turn off
their mics, I don't think the crowd would be a problem.
Speaker 6 (20:06):
So I can't believe I didn't come up with this myself.
I'm off my game. I've got some sort of bug.
But my old buddy Steve texted that the Democrats are
sending Joe out in June so that if he crashes
and burns, they still have time to come up with
to solidify Plan B in time for the convention in August.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Wow, it's a pass fail test.
Speaker 6 (20:30):
Oh, I think that's right.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
They're doing a pass fail in June to give him
enough time to replace him. That makes more sense than
anything else we've speculated. Let's go ahead and take the
look at the alternative. Wait until after the convention, because
I was saying earlier, this is ridiculous. You don't have
a presidential debate before the convention. But the alternative is
(20:55):
wait until after the convention when it's irrevocable that Joe
Biden is going to be your candidate, and then watch
him crash and burn and display himself as an utterly senile,
old husk of a man. They're already scheduled the Presidential
Commission debate and they're in September, so he has September October.
So yeah, he crashes and burns then and drops twenty
(21:17):
points in the poll polls that he's already losing in. Yeah,
it's too late, that is exactly it. So they're spinning
it as well. We want to get ahead of early voting,
but early voting doesn't start till October, so that doesn't
make any sense now, Batch.
Speaker 6 (21:31):
And there is I think there's one proposed vice presidential
debate between mister or ms X on the Republican side
and the moron Kamala Harris. But the other aspect of
the if he crashes and burns in the first debate
thing is the talk will turn aggressively toward can we
deal with a president Kamala Harris? And that conversation will
(21:52):
go the way it has to go, and that'll be
horrifying for the Democrats. I tell you what, I think
there may be some truth to that.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I didn't think Biden could debate last time four years ago,
and I was wrong. They pumped him full of the
whatever they give him rhinoceros steroids, and he was fine.
He was passable, He was good enough, but his brain
was way better back then than it is now.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
I would agree, Will Trump be disciplined and will he
be prepared.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
If I'm Joe Biden, I turned to him at one
point and say who won the twenty twenty election.
Speaker 7 (22:33):
I bait him.
Speaker 5 (22:34):
I let Trump go off on his tangent of talking
about the stolen election. I might do it multiple times
in a ninety minute debate.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
I think bring up January sixth somehow or other suck
him in discussion of that.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Yeah, if I'm Trump, I'm wearing a shock collar that
my handler's put on me, And anytime I'm talking about
anything that's not the economy or the border or crime,
I get shocked.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
With increasing voltage.
Speaker 5 (23:06):
He should do the classic, you know, answer the question
you wish they'd ask, no matter what they asked Donald Trump,
he should talk about the border of the economy, no
matter what they ask him.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Yeah, crime and the woke stuff in schools. Of course,
Trump is not really up on that stuff much. He's
better than he used to be. He's just he doesn't
have enough different songs that he sings for my taste.
But it'll be a spectacle one way or the other.
I will be on the edge of my couch right.
(23:37):
In fact, I might have to have a viewing party. Yes,
that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna invite a bunch
of my politically active and aware buds and.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
It'll be like a focus group. We did that in
twenty sixteen. Hillary Trump, We're at a bar in San Diego,
if I remember correctly, that was fun.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Oh my gosh, yeah wow. Okay, yeah, I'm down for
that June twenty seventh, Thursday Night, Little Friday. If they
can settle their minor differences, and surely they can. Both
both guys want the debate.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
That's what's interesting. Well, for different reasons. Trump wants a
debate because he's pretty good at it. He's really good
at it, actually, uh, and he thinks Biden's mind is shot.
Biden wants it because I'm gonna lose if I don't
do something different.
Speaker 6 (24:24):
Right, Yeah, exciting. Now, May God strike me dead from
the sins against the audience. I'm going to bring up
the vice residential debate again. God, Doug, I know, I
know they're helping me. Won't you start your own podcast Veepsteaks.
(24:44):
Nobody would listen, that's why. But it's important to me
that Kamala Bee completely humiliated in that debate. Okay, that's
that's my top priority. Ah. Doug Bergham is a good, decent,
intelligent and earnest man. I'm not sure he's the hatchet
(25:07):
man we need for the gig.
Speaker 7 (25:09):
He's good.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
I thought he was the most impressive guy in the
debates to me, so I think Doug Burgham will be awesome.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
So you think he could put the beatdown on Kamla?
Is he mean enough? That's my question.
Speaker 5 (25:20):
He's not mean at all, but he is incredibly knowledgeable
and is good at presenting it as a lot of
successful businessmen are. Politicians aren't always, but a lot of
businessmen are. He's a billionaire. He sums things up very nicely.
I think he'd be great. He's definitely not mean though, if.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
You want me, But I see we need just a
little mean. We need a guy who can say, after
Kamala unleashes one of her word salads, a little bit
of I have no idea what you just said? That
didn't make any sense? Did anybody understand what the hecks
she was trying to say?
Speaker 7 (25:55):
And we get an English teacher to diagram that sentence.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
I'd like to see where the nouns, verbs, jerns are
in that sense, because that's a little hard to follow.
Speaker 6 (26:03):
That would be all yeah, can I use Google translates
to figure out what the hell's he's trying to say?
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I have no idea we should send those lines to
whoever the candidate is. Here's what I do in the
negotiation for the vice presidential debate. Okay, I'll give you
no audience if you give us no cackling.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
No cackling allowed.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Oh please, she couldn't language. What a jackass.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
Oh my god.
Speaker 5 (26:30):
Ah, the future of the world depends on this decision,
you realize in large measure.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
Yes, yes, God help the world freaking' ah. Yeah, I know,
I know, I know exactly what you're saying. I uh, well,
I think everybody knows what we're saying. It's all summed
up by Biden is the least popular president to have
(27:00):
a run for reelection. I think his numbers are subterranean.
He is ten to twenty points below Trump on all
of the critical issues really with maybe one exception, and
yet they're tied right.
Speaker 7 (27:16):
Well, this could be, this could move the needle.
Speaker 6 (27:21):
I know there are a lot of great Trump fans
out there, and I get you, I get you. I
can respect it. But I really feel like the Westminster
Dog Show came down to, you know, a bit of
a three legged mutt with the mange and then President
Biden's dog. That's bit twenty five Secret Service guys. It's
just this is not a good dog show. Do we
(27:42):
have other dogs?
Speaker 5 (27:43):
The winner's commander of the German Shepherd because everybody's afraid
of him.
Speaker 6 (27:47):
Ow ow ow he's biting me. He's fighting me right now.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
You won.
Speaker 7 (27:51):
You said you'd stop biting me if you won. So
some good news, I guess.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
Statistics came out that for the first time in five years,
drug dead's went down. We can talk about that and
other things on the way stay with us.
Speaker 7 (28:10):
Going is hard.
Speaker 9 (28:11):
But when you know that something stays back, that your
legacy is staying in the volved and is available for
your children, grandchildren, for the generations after this gives you
a kind of at least this gave me a kind
of closure.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
That's a guy talking about he made an AI copy
of himself so that future generations would have him to
talk to I guess or something. Yeah, I'm looking at
the website right now, which they think might be the future,
so it'd be your voice kind of trained on your
personality creepy uses your voice to share your knowledge and
(28:50):
build future generations and guide future generations for eternity. All right, Anyway,
I was going to use that as a tease, which
we'll talk about later, of the dating app Bumble has
brought AI into it to help you bypass a lot
of people that wouldn't normally be matches, and we'll explain
all that later.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Yeah, I'm gonna look into this a little more because
I some of you may recall we lost my mom
three years ago, and if I had a resource where
I could hear her talking about her principles, her experiences,
that sort of thing, like an interview archive or something
like that, I don't think that's crazy. That'd be really cool.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
That would be awesome.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
I guess I am only I'm pretty skeptical as it's
to its accuracy or it is AI.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
It's not a recording, it's an extrapolation of what they
actually said. Yeah wow, So I'd be like, hey, AI, Mom,
I'm conflicted whether to help the kids out or let
them struggle on their own to get stronger. Well, Joe,
as you may recall in her.
Speaker 7 (30:01):
Voice, oh yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I don't know about interacting with that. Hearing the voice
is one thing, but having a conversation with it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
I love the idea of hearing my dad's voice after
he's gone. He's still alive, he's listening right now, but
not a fake version of him saying things he not
actually didn't actually say.
Speaker 7 (30:21):
I don't know about that.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
Well, especially because AI has those phantom incidents where they
just make stuff up, so he'd say, well, I tell
you Jack. As I learned when I was captain of
the Titanic, there are times that I mean, it'd be
like Joe Biden, he making crap up all the time.
Speaker 10 (30:37):
Right, or like that time that a I bought, fell
in love with that guy.
Speaker 6 (30:41):
Right right right, wanted him to kill his wife or something,
to leave his wife. Yes, she money, all right. You
want to hear about overdose deaths. I actually don't know,
do you. I think I've lost my I think I
ruined it. I think Katie nailed it. There is a
small but significant drop in opioid deaths, including fentanyl. Partly well,
(31:07):
it's almost got to be damn near entirely because in
twenty twenty three, guess how many doses of narcan were
distributed in the United States and Canada. America's please twenty
two million.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
No, if I guess if I guessed a crazy number,
I would have guessed two million, twenty two million.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
So the number of overdose deaths dropped over all by
like thirty five hundred, which was like three point seven percent.
And yes, I believe those twenty two million doses in
narcan could be responsible for that thirty five hundred fewer
course overdose deaths.
Speaker 5 (31:43):
Of course it is so for the first time in
five years. The headline is deaths from drug overdoses went
down for the first time five years. But as a
Joe's pointing out, doesn't mean people are trying less hard.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Yeah, the subhead should be twenty two million dos if narcan.
Speaker 5 (32:00):
Distributed, Yeah yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's alazing.
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And then the sub subhead is the numbers are only
slightly down from utterly horrific, unthinkable totals there. They were
almost one hundred and eight thousand right this past year,
and that's down slightly from one hundred and eleven thousand,
but it's still nightmares. And even as opioid deaths fell,
deaths from stimulants such as cocaine and meth rose some states,
including Oregon and Washington. Gosh, what did they have in common?
(32:28):
Hum They continue to experience sharp rises in overall overdose fatalities.
Speaker 7 (32:35):
Even with the availability of Narcan.
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Yeah. Yeah, Now, to their credit, Oregonians have rescinded the
disastrous let's decriminalize our drugs law. It was well meaning,
but disastrous.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
I always like to point this out.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
And you're too young, Katie to know when the whole
crack cocaine epidemic was sweeping the nation, like the eighties,
the early nineties or to to like have lived through it.
But nation went nuts over the number of deads and
it was like twenty five thousand a year compared to
one hundred some thousand. Why we went nuts over all
(33:08):
the crack cone cane deaths. Like, this is an epidemic.
We need to change federal law. We need to talk
about this every day, we need to Congress was constantly
debating it. But we're so blase about four or five
times that number of a different kind of drug. I'm
not exactly sure if we just became numb to the
idea of the number of people want to numb themselves.
Speaker 7 (33:28):
Out or what.
Speaker 6 (33:29):
Yeah, I just think culturally there's been a transition. It's
it's fairly subtle, I guess, but from the idea that
hard drugs are something pushers bring into the community and
convince people to take, and people get addicted and they
die and it's terrible, as opposed to a cultural view that, well, people,
if they want to take drugs, they're going to take drugs,
and it's on them what happens to them.
Speaker 10 (33:50):
Did the crack cocaine epidemic affect high school kids or
like younger kids, like this falls.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Only in the inner inner city, Yeah, it was definitely
something wasn't going to happen to you most likely.
Speaker 10 (34:02):
Okay, because I mean I'm every day when I'm going
through the headlines, there's some story about a kid getting
a hold of their parents' ventanyl or a kid taking
an adderall from a friend that was laced. But it's
it's getting younger and younger.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
Yeah, that was not happening in just like regular suburban
high schools.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
Yeah, it's not like you were thinking you were taking
an adderall and ended up on crack. I mean, it's
just never happened.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
Yeah, Yeah, that's uh, that's rough.
Speaker 7 (34:33):
Huh.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Twenty two million doses of the you took too much
ventanyl pill dr.
Speaker 6 (34:41):
Yeah. Yeah, over one hundred and seven thousand overdose deaths
in this country last year.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
That with that number, twenty two million doses of that.
That that explains why it's now part of first aid
kids at schools. Remember we had that story a year
a week or so ago. Yeah, all yeah, every night
club in America, every bar has it. The first aid
kid I got for wrapping up my motorcycle wreck wounds.
Should have had the stuff it had, all the bandages
and ointments and tape. Should have had a little nor
(35:07):
can in there in case I decided to take some fentanyl.
Speaker 6 (35:11):
Right Yeah, wow, eh boy, I just we got a problem. Yeah,
we have a huge problem. And it's sprawling and complicated
and runs into various ideas of liberty and adults doing
what they want. And yet that's a hell of a
lot of people dying. Armstrong and Getty
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