October 30, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jettie
and Pee.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arm get it from the studio. See a dimly lit
room deeper from the bowels of the Armstrong in Getty
Communications Compound.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And today we're not our tutelage of our what.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Our general manager?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That's it? General Manager?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is the light blazing in your eyes since it's not
a dimly lit room today distracting you?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We've forgotten the dim the lights from mister Armstrong. Lord,
how's he.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Expected to work like this?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The room with Norman lighting. There's the cave. There's the cave. Look,
it's like we're doing heart surgery in here.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Our general manager is Kamala Harris, who delivered a speech
last night from the very spot where the Clan rallied
in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Look it up. Yeah, I thought that was a funny
meme yesterday, her having her rally and then showing pictures
of the Klan there back in the day. That's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And evidently six hours before she went on, someone made
an untoward knock knock jokes that we will now tie
her to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I just heard NPR talking about the Puerto Rico joke.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I thought so Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It was in the news cycle Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I
heard on the way to work, that's four days. I
don't this might be the first four day story of
the election for like one little you know, dust up.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
That's funny. I wonder if we heard the same report.
I was listening to MPR to punish myself for the
bad things I've done, and they were talking to various correspondents,
and the one who is reporting from Pennsylvania on the
Trump rally said, you know, before I describe it, it's
worth noting that this area of Pennsylvania has many Puerto
Rican Americans who are deeply offended by that. I'm like, oh,
for God's sake, Uh yeah, don't worry about the economy,
(02:18):
the borders, national security, the military.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Don't worry about any of that. That's why I don't
have my panties in a bunch about Joe Biden calling
us garbage, which will play that clip here in a
long ago Darry, my panties are you kidding me? They'll
never be unbunched. I'm not a fan when the other side,
wats they're panties. I'm not gonna watch my panties on
this side. So anyway, we'll get into that whole bust up. Also,
but this might be the first four day news cycle
(02:45):
for some crazy story of the whole election. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
The New York Times, the lefty media has flogged various
idiot stories for a very long time. I don't know,
I don't remember when lasts long. See, this is your wrongness,
is the proof of your rightness or something you you're
helping us understand the importance of the passage of time,
which is, if you think about it's so important the
(03:11):
passage of time. No, it's that these stories that they
attempt to flog for a week, week and a half,
in spite of them being just nothing burgers. The minute
they're gone, you forget about them completely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
If Kamala loses, I think there's a possibility that it's
looked back on at some point that this wouldn't wasn't
the best expenditure of your time on the last week
of the presidential election. Because the media, you know, takes
its cue from the campaign, and the media is on
this all the time. And not on the bigger stories
that I assume they'd rather talk about. There are sixty
(03:50):
thousand people at her rally last night, though, That is
an enormous crowd. Yeah, that's a big win, sixty grand.
And there's Nicky Haley on TV and I just heard
her and I thought she was absolutely right. Everybody has
decided what they think of January sixth a long time ago,
years ago, decided whether or not, you you know, that
(04:12):
disqualifies the guy or not.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's not an issue at all. People are trying to decide.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Some people still trying to decide do you want four
more years of what we just had or do you
want to, you know, do something different. That's the decision.
It's not well January sixth. How do I feel about that?
Is there anybody in America that could be nudged on
that issue?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's an excellent point, and I was reading a piece
it might have been Rich Lowry in the National Review
is pointing out that for all of the regrettable, horrible
moments and aspects of January sixth, we have had, as
you indicated, several years now, of the Harris Biden administration.
Biden Harris illustrating what we're comparing Trump to. And while
(04:54):
January sixth was a pivotal moment and an awful one
in my opinion, it was not the be all and
end all of a American existence. Once again, at the
risk of sounding like a broken record snold expression, kids,
ask your grandparents about it. The economy, national security, the border, inflation,
Trump being an a hole on January six No, no,
(05:16):
that really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's not enough. Sixty grand though. That's a big crowd.
I don't know if that means anything. It's an indication
of whatever Ginormally, it's not without support, it's you know,
roughly tied. And as they pointed out on MSNBCA, they said,
only fifty three only fifty three thousand people were at
(05:37):
Trump's rally on January that's devastating, devastating statistic. And it's
not possible that the Democratic Party in the hairs campaign
put out the word to the federal workforce, which is
almost entirely Democrat.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
HM.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That makes you stop and think, no chance they put
out the word that hey, this is like super crazy
important be there on the White House long the ellipse.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's what happened. I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So Kamala Harris the other day she started saying something
that I was really happy to hear. I think it's
a good direction, and I think it's happening, so it's
recognizing reality. Kamala Harris was talking about some of us
need to get over our idea that college is the
only path for a kid coming out of high school.
Not every job out their good job out there requires
(06:25):
a college degree. There are plenty other paths. And I thought, Okay,
I'm loving this. You know, if the party of the
over educated woman is saying college education isn't the only
way to make your way in the world, that's fantastic.
But then she said, there are many federal jobs where
I'm going to take away the restriction for you need
(06:46):
to have a college degree.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, so it's all about federal jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You're not talking about HVAC workers or whatever the hell else. Yeah.
I like the sentiment though, and I think it's true.
Let's start the show officially just so we can talk
about that dust up. Let's see if I'm gonna I'm
not actually wearing panties. I never I've never had a
pair on, but if I did, I wouldn't wab them
over this silky, very comfortable. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
(07:12):
Getty on this It is Wednesday, October the thirtieth, the
year twenty twenty four, War Armstrong and getting we.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
All right, then let's leap into action.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
According to CC rules of regulations, the show starts officially
at mark.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware.
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
floating down there is his supporters. His demonizational scene is
I'm consitable.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Please forgive him for he not knows what he said.
So that's the comment that's royal and twitter on social
media last very and so there you go. My only
amusement at this whole thing. My main amusement is that
(08:01):
they're idiotic gaff neutralized are idiotic gaff and now we
can all shut up about it, right, As a number
of people pointed out, So the surrogate, who Trump doesn't
even know, calling Puerto Rico garbage is a four day story.
(08:22):
We'll see how many days the Biden calling half the
country garbage is a story for mainstream media. President. They
both shouldn't be stories is really the point to me,
as opposed to Oh my god, he called this garbage.
I need a coloring book and a puppy.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, okay, I've got a question for you, and well
I'll just ask it. Why should the Biden comment not
be a story?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Because to me, because and a lot of this is
because I'm in the in this business business I'm in.
He came out very shortly after and said earlier, earlier today,
I refer to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed
by Trump's supporter Madison Square Garden rally as garbage, which
is the only word I can think of describe it.
His demonization of Latina is unconstable. That's all I meant
to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who
(09:17):
we are as a nation. He says, that's not what
he meant. I say things I don't mean all the
time and wish I could have phrased them differently. And
I think if you say something incorrectly and then you
go back and say that's not what I meant, we
should take you at your word, unless you say it
multiple times or not. All right, Jack Clear Kamala Harris,
supporter so did Hilary intend to say basket of adorables
(09:40):
in your world covering up for the progressives. I don't
believe she come up. I don't believe she came out
and said that's not what I meant. She stuck with
it now. I just I don't like the if you
slip up, that's nailed to you for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Don't It has never made sense to me.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I agree completely in principle. On the other hand, given
the utter unevenness of the playing field, if his idiotic
gaff neutralizes the comedian's idiotic gaff and the idea that
Trump should somehow answer for it, that then you trump
it up just because of the wildly unfair playing field.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh on the sharp elbowed game of politics, of course.
But what should have happened is the Trump campaign came
out on Sunday night and said Trump doesn't even know
the guy. We didn't know why he was going to
say that, and we disavow those remarks. We wish if
we had known he was going to say that, we
wouldn't have had him the end.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And or KJP comes out and says, look, Joe Biden
is senile af Okay, well, that's me.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You all know it, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Governor Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, said last night
on CNN. I'm giving you my fresh reaction to it.
This was like right after it had happened, and he
saw it while he was on the air. I would
never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans,
even if they chose to support a candidate that I
didn't support. That's the way you clean it up if
your brain works. Yeah, but Biden's brain doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Flown there is supporters there, you go.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's a simple declarative sentence. Despite Jack's Democrat mumbo jumbo
and an attempt to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They're claiming the apostrophe is silent. He who's saying his
supporters as in that guy as opposed to supporters half
the country support.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That's what they're not supporters, right, Wow, you're worse than KJP.
I'm shot, that's what they're claiming. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Garbage I see flowing down there is your supporters.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I think he's an old man.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lawnmowers. They're only garbage that's floating out there. Are his
supporters garbage, the garbage of his supporters. The rally is
what he meant, I think and his brain. Okay, that
doesn't work, and he doesn't know what day it is
or that he's president. Joe Biden is a dummy.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
He'd be great for a second term.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I keep up with him. As Trump said, he knoweth
not what he's say. Yes, yeah, it's a slip of
the toe. How does mailbag look? Oh, it's fine, it's
on the way text line four one five two nine
five k FTC. The fabulous Tim Carney, who we used
(12:30):
to have on the show all the time, tweeted out,
I've obtained a draft version of Biden's speech from yesterday,
and so you see the original version of the speech
where he came out and said, Puerto Rico's not trash.
Trump supporters are trash. Originally it said Puerto Rico's not trash,
Your mom is trash. Crossed that out, your face is trash?
Crossed that out? What what Trump supporters are?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Trash?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Your mom is trash. Wow, here's here's your freedom loving
quote of the.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Day from Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Why don't we go with I thought I had it,
but then I got We'll go with this.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as
to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. HM,
it's unquestionably true. I think there's a large genetic component
in that. Having had several multi decade relationships with various
friends and family members, some of them, you can try
(13:33):
to help them stay calm as much as you want,
and it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's what Henry and I are learning from watching Tracker,
the importance of staying calm. That's what he talks about
every episode Tracker. I don't know Track. No, I we'll
talk about it later. Okay, mail Bag, it's one.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of your binge watch shows right now.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I assume it involves Tracking. Yeah, he's like a like
a bounty hunter sort of guy.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Go a classic. I just started The Penguin last night
on the Max. It's compelling stuff. Gritty, Yeah, gritty.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm sure I can only watch things that my kids watch.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I don't watch that. That's not the show.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, don't watch it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
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how about the last minute Halloween costume lady again this year?
Maybe you could track her down? Do you even know
her name? What became of her?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
If she has any ideas this year, we can hire
tracker he'd find her. Yeah, infamous armstrung Getty interview in
which we were pitched a guest who would help listeners
with last minute Halloween costume ideas is what he said.
So what are what are some of the things what
folks might do last minute? And she says, oh gosh,
(14:54):
I guess you could look through your closet and like
we'd walking up her, walking her up out of bed
and with this question, like here's some sort of welding expert,
and you know, we just hit her with that out
of nowhere. Oh boy, that was uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It would have been the end of interviews in phone calls.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, most of them. Yeah, let's see a couple of
people expressed the same sentiment. Not sure I agree, but
I thought I would air it. Chris writes, Dear gentlemen
and Katie, maybe hiring that insult comedian for the msg
rally was a smart move. He attracted all the negative
media like a lightning rod, deflecting it away from anything
Trump said or did. And after it stood around Biden's
brain for two days, he conflated all the players and
(15:31):
called half the country garbage. Brilliant move. So yes, supporters, right,
it only took me eight years to level up from
deplorable to garbage.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Who says the American tream was dead? So that Chris,
that's great. So that comedian in that four and a
half hour event spoke what four hours before Trump hit
the stage for Trump was I'm sure even in that
part of Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they did a go over his script.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
His script was failing, and like a lot of comedians
do when you're dying on stage, he started ad libbing.
And that's where the Puerto Rico trash thing. He kind
of went back to his bit or his act. But
his script that they went over included Kamala being called
a sea bomb, and they said no, and they scratched
that out. If he had dropped a sea bomb, that
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might have actually lost Trump the election.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, now we understand this guy is a popular
and growing comedian slash podcast or he's big in Austin, Texas.
Fine but good Lord, what a decision. Anyway, back to
the emails, Steve from Everett, Washington. Listening to Kamala's speech
on the Ellipse and DC, I was struck by two thoughts. One,
it was kind of stupid she spoke after dark because
(16:42):
it took away any visual comparison to January sixth. That's
interesting point and to leftist view actions and consequences as
untethered concepts. The progressive might say, I choose to believe
in a world where we were under the end of
the dock and soar majestically into the sky. Or as
a person on the right would reply, if you jump
off the dock, you're going to get wet. And then
JT and livermore fabulous invaluable correspondent with an email entitled
(17:08):
I truly feel sorry for democrats. Okay, if only we
had time to share it with you. Now you'll have
to stay with us.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, the half of you that are garbage can stick around,
and the rest of us we'll all be here. If
that's all. I've got a lot of news to catch
you up on. I hope you can stay here. If
you miss an urget the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
In these United States of America, we are not a
vessel for the schemes of wanna be dictators.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
We have lots from her speech last night. That was
eight seconds, and I told Michael that's all I can handle.
I am not in the mood to hear more than that,
at least not right now.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The closing argument is I will bring Americans together, and
Donald Trump will put you in camps.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know what she said roughly, so we don't need
to play.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Clips, to which America responded to tell me more about
these camps because I can't afford my rent because of inflation.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh yeah, bacon's too expensive. Oh the rent's too damn high.
That's right. More on where the presidential election stands In
a moment, as we finish off mail bag.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I feel truly sorry for the dam's rights. JT In Livermore.
How awful it must be to be part of a
party that cherishes blind conformity over independent, critical original thinking.
How terrible it must be to filter every thought, in
every word based on how your fellow party members will
receive anything you say or don't say, anything you do
or don't do. It would be so depressing to have
your personal growth arrested because your whole bubbled worldview would
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never call you out or challenge you for saying ridiculous things.
For example, you can make a fool of yourself and
claim that Trump holding a political rally in MSG is
reminiscent of a Nazi rally eighty years ago because it
is in the same building, and it's not. By the way,
it's not even in the same building. In fact, you'd
be ostracized for point out out to the Dems that
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they have rallied.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They've had many rallies in that same building.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I think my lucky stars that my circle of family,
friends and party will actually call me out if I
say or do anything out of line, unreasonable, or in
any ways deserving to be called out. It's what helps
me grow, It's what helps me gain true confidence. I
could go on and on, but I think I've made
my point. You have, indeed, JT.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So the race is incredibly tight. You knew that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
That's not news to anyone, as I've only heard us say, though,
because I think this is interesting. If you spent gazillions
of dollars and told people, I want you to reply
to a polster with the word red, and then he
told half the other people, I want you to reply
(19:44):
to a polster with the word blue. Yes, you could
not pay people to get this close to fifty to
fifty and have it hold for a month after month
after month.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It'd be impossible. I mean, it's just it's stunning that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You can get two billion dollars in an army of volunteers.
Could you do that?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh, and prizes.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I mean, it's just it's stunning that it's this close
to fifty to fifty in the six states that determine
the election. It's just I don't even know how this happens.
It's weird. AnyWho who knows how long it'll take to
actually figure out who won on election night, that's a
different story. One thing that Mark Halprin does, though, that
I think is interesting in his newsletter. It might be
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a little bit of old manism, because he's like our
age of putting too much emphasis on newspapers when a
lot of America, including me, you know, picks up their
phone every day and gets news from one hundred different sources.
But he often talks about how the big flap that
everybody's talking about in politics is not making it into
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any of the battleground newspapers at all. He goes over
the storylines for the last twenty four hours, for instance,
the Puerto Rico Madison Square garden thing, what President said
about garbage, Kamala Harris's closing argument on the ellip all
that sort of stuff, and he said, but these storylines
are virtually nonexistent on the home pages of the battleground
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state newspapers. And he goes to the Las Vegas Sun,
the Arizona Central, the Atlanta Journal, Constitution, the Citizen Times
of whatever that's from Milwaukee Journal, Detroit News, Philadelphia Inquire.
All your big states are big newspapers, and they have
zero stories about those things. I that's interesting. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But I would have to know, you know, virtually market
by market, Where do you get your news? Right of
the voters, Yeah, I think a disturbing number would reply
TikTok or Facebook.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Right yeah, or Twitter or Instagram or whatever where they
might be talking endlessly about the Puerto Rican joke.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Can you play the Biden clip we opened with again?
Since this is the one day flap of the Final
League of Outrage, it's an insult to America.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Or Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware.
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
floating down there as his supporters. His his demonizational scene
is unconstable.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Please forgive him so. Yeah, they don't need that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
No, the incoherence of it is striking as well. The
first part, I'm not even sure what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Which helps him actually in this and that you realize
he can barely talk. But I mean, if you read it,
it sounds like he called Trump supporters garbage, which is
half the country anyway. The New York Times, with some
exclusive reporting on this. After Biden's remark, Harris campaign officials
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privately gauged whether his comments would require her to disagree
with him publicly or support his explanation that the comments
were taken out of context. That's always a bad explanation.
The whole taken out of context. Sometimes is accurate, but
very very often that's a bad dodge. Yeah, I would
go with it.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Please.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I got my words jumbled up. That's not what I
meant to at all. Here's what I meant. People either
believe you or they don't. But I mean, I can
tell you don't. Would you agree or not? I regularly
say things I didn't mean it to come out that way.
If I could get a second take, I would reword
it completely.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I did once in nineteen ninety seven. I try to
be precise in my speed. You slowly, methodically craft your sentences.
I put the jarond here, the predicate there, oh my goodness,
and the punctuation is here.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
In my mind. Uh yeah, yeah, I just he's a
senile old man again. I just love it because they're
inflating of an utterly meaningless, idiotic comment by a noun
entity dominated the news cycle for four days, and now
Republicans can neutralize it with their own ridiculousness. By the way,
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the people that told The New York Times this inside
stuff asked for anonymity to discuss the private deliberations. Some
Democrats were not waiting to distance themselves from Biden's remark.
I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania the Americans,
said Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania on CNN last night, so.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Seeking to distance himself from both Biden and Harris for
his political future.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I would actually like to have been in on that
conversation where Harris people got together and said, Joe Biden,
you know, crazy Joe Biden, the guy who's actually still president,
and she probably rolls her eyes like, I know, my god,
can you believe it? And them saying he just called
Trump supporters garbage. Oh my god, does anybody listen to
Biden anymore? They probably said, do you think this matters?
(24:30):
Do we need to come out and say something?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And he was probably sitting there during those deliberations, staring
out onto the South Lawn vacantide.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He was sound asleep while the Harris people were discussing this.
Oh my god, ah, silly season. Indeed, friends, Yeah, Barack
Obama once called the end of campaign silly season, and
that's a pretty accurate description.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You get stuff like the Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Thing and this, and it gets all blown up.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Came across something really interesting, Fred Bauer. He was talking
about the giant flap well tempest in a teapot really
at the La Times and the Washington Post, when both
of those fine newspapers decided not to endorse anyone for president.
In the case of the Wapole, going back to their tradition,
for many, many years, which they only upset in nineteen
(25:20):
seventy six, and blah.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Blah, I've got something thought on that that might help
set up what you're about to say. Yeah, go ahead.
This is from Ian Bremer yesterday, completely disagreeing with our
take on the whole thing. I thought it was awesome
and brave of Jeffrey Bezos to come out and say
that and say this is what we're going to get
back to you, and talking about how it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
For newspapers to endorse campaigns.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And it's smart business too what Bezos did. Ian Bremmer said,
I'm fine with the argument that newspapers should be independent,
shouldn't make political endorsements, But the idea that Bezos would
make that decision a week before the most consequential election
of his life in defense of the candidate who makes
unprecedented attacks on independent presses enemies of the people, is
the biggest weenie move I've ever seen from a billionaire.
(26:04):
And that's a high bar. A shot at Elon, I think,
uh wow, Yeah, I agree that well.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I agree that the timing was unfortunate because it absolutely
gives people who want to question your motives opportunity to
question it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why you would wait till
a week before the election.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Huh yeah, And although, good lord, Ian going with the
most consequential elections of our lifetime. Yeah, okay, all right, fine, Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Is a jackass. Some of this stuff he says about
media biases over the top. It's imprecise.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But the idea that Trump is the threat to media independence,
Trump is the threat to free speech and the free press.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That is hilarious if you are a student of that issue,
as i am. Ask Matt Tayeebee, who's the threat to
the First Amendment?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Ask Barry Wisse, Ask Bill Maherr. I could go on
and on. If you like has Jerry Seinfeld. Sorry, Ian,
you're a nice fella and I like you, but you're
wrong about a third of the time.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And when you're wrong, you're good and wrong. Anyway, that
was a tungue lashing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
More and more a carefully constructed one too.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
If you ever hear Joe pause, it's because he's thinking,
is that that's a dangling participle. Let me reword that.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Let me see in your head, let me see if
I can reattach that participle.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
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I'm looking at the oppressive clock and ah, yeah, I
can cry them that. I guess I can cram this in.
I don't want to wait fifteen minutes, or do I? Yes,
(28:57):
I do, I want to wait.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Let us know when you do.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I am having an internal struggle. Clearly I am going
to kick off the next hour with this analysis. So
why the Wappo freak out was so severe? I found
it very interesting and surprising and worth discussing.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The thought leaders, the real influencers in the heavy weight left.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You don't hear from them directly.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
The people whose names you know, whose faces you recognize
from TV they're marching orders come from people.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Who are behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
And this story is about a couple of them and
the incredible influence they have and how they are. And
I don't mean to make this sound too like conspiracy,
mysterious puppet mastery, but it's who the left listens to
and what they're calling for will shock you.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
What do you think of those fans in the world
series game, grabbing the ball out of the glove and
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Did you watch to see that play?
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I did.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I happen to be watching it live. What the hell
I think of them?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
What is wrong with people?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You can't butt their ass out soon enough? They should
be banned from all sporting events for the rest of
their lives. Not that anybody has the power to do that.
That was so incredibly uncool. I mean, when they were
like pounding on his arm, what the hell is wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
With you literally pulled the ball out of the guy's
glove as he struggled to retain his glove.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They need to be hit with bats draconian. Yes, that's
what the Impress would have done. Yes, say one of
the omp parts should have held the guy and said, Mookie,
go get a bat. We'll give you. We'll give you
two swings, two good licks. Anyway, we'll talk more about
the World Series Yankees one. It's now three to one
and we got Katie's headlines on the way, so stay here.
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We've had some conversations behind the scenes. What did we
used to talk about Because the election will be over tuesday, well,
the voting will be over Tuesday. Election won't be over
for twenty four hours to six months. I'm accounting, But
then then we'll go back to doing whatever people used
to do all across America. Does any remember whatever it is?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Recipes, hunting stories, I don't know, home improvement tips.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I saw a flyer yesterday Riisin Shine Zumba. Maybe I'll
do that right right near me where I live. Right now,
they got riisen Shein Zumba. I'm gonna try goat yoga.
I mentioned to somebody they have rizins Shhine Zumba near
my house. I might start doing it, And they said,
is there any sort of pay per view that I
could subscribe to to see that? Just out of curiosity?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
If there were like lamb yoga or piglet yoga, would
that be good enough for you? Or do you insist
on goat he Oh, piglet for sure. I'm asking the woman.
You're like the sexist bullies whose wives are afraid to
vote for Kamala Harris exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm the secrecy of the booth.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
According to that new ad which a lot of people
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I'm so sorry, Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Answer for me, Jack, go for it. Goat yoga is
a thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You can't have other cute animals infringing on the dominance
of goat yoga. Wrong, there's puppy yoga.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
There's all different kinds of yoga.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Really kitting yoga. Again, I suggest piglet yoga. Are you kidding?
I would love that. I would love piglet yoga. Wow,
bring some plastic sheeting. We have pigs, so it's gross.
Oh boy, this is pro tip there. All right, So
let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
From the Washington Times.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Non citizens are on the voter rolls and nobody knows
how many.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
No, boy, that's going to be one of the themes.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
If it's a super close election and we're arguing for days,
legal wrangling or whatnot, that's going to be a giant story.
I'm not looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
At the risk of beating this to death, whether it's
illegals or ballot security or ballot harvesting or mail out
or whatever, if you do not work to ensure the
belief of the American people that devoting is legitimate, you
will have a disaster. That ought to be one of
our top priorities, including getting illegals to hell off the
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rolls CNN.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Small number of North Korean troops are already inside Ukraine, according.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
To officials, and fighting.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So you're gonna have North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine. Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And Fatthead has rounded up all their families and sent
them to remote locations to live, so they're not walking
around their town saying yeah, turns out my sons in
Ukraine fighting for the Russians.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
From Fox News, Israel strike and Iran took out missile
defense systems. The Islamic Republic is quote essentially naked.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I actually have a great feature ed on that and
some related stories. But yeah, Iran has been exposed as
a military mouse. Now they're mean terrorist proxies do plenty
of damage, but around itself it's practically defenseless.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
From the Washington Post, US economy grew at two point
eight percent pace, slowing slightly ahead of the election.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's good growth, which is terrible news. Right, That is
decent growth, but we didn't mention it. From Sunday Nights
sixty minutes piece about Russia's economy, Russia's economy will grow bigger,
faster than ours this year.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
How do you like that someone?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
We've got him completely isolated with our sanctions.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
Jack from NPR walking pneumonia is spiking, especially in children.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Don't like that. How do you catch walk in pneumonia?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, it's a bacteria lingering cough. There, you wash your hands,
you guys.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
But from the New York Post, Yankees fans clot Mookie
Betts an ugly interference.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Scene was ugly? How are you the kind of person
that can afford a seat like that at a World
Series game in New York? But you're still so unhinged
he starts swinging your arms at one of the other
team's players. One, that's just cruel on its face, But two,
you don't think people can see you or that's going
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to be a problem or something you're not next to.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
A couple of beer dumpings have witnessed. That was the
worst fan interference I've ever seen in a Major League
Baseball game.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Wow from ABC.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Subway sued for allegedly shorting customers on meat.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I need more, don't go back. I don't need a
damn lawyer. I hate all these America suing the restaurant
for not enough meat. You know, yeah, your meme of
the day coming soon, scream too.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
And then underneath it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
As a movie poster featuring that woman that dropped to
her knees and screamed after Trump got elected the first time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
There you go, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
And finally the Babylon b AOC's boyfriend getting really sick
of her calling it a mini January sixth every time
he leaves his socks.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
On the floor. Now that is funny.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Every Trump rally is a mini January six right, AOC.
That one made me laugh a lot. We got a
lot more to catch up on on the way Stay
with us, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong, and Jettie
and Pee.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Arm get it from the studio. See a dimly lit
room deeper from the bowels of the Armstrong in Getty
Communications Compound.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
And today we're not our tutelage of our what.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Our general manager?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
That's it? General Manager?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Is the light blazing in your eyes since it's not
a dimly lit room today distracting you?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We've forgotten the dim the lights from mister Armstrong. Lord,
how's he.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Expected to work like this?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
The room with Norman lighting. There's the cave. There's the cave. Look,
it's like we're doing heart surgery in here.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Our general manager is Kamala Harris, who delivered a speech
last night from the very spot where the Clan rallied
in nineteen twenty.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Look it up. Yeah, I thought that was a funny
meme yesterday, her having her rally and then showing pictures
of the Klan there back in the day. That's funny.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
And evidently six hours before she went on, someone made
an untoward knock knock jokes that we will now tie
her to.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, I just heard NPR talking about the Puerto Rico joke.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I thought so Sunday night.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
It was in the news cycle Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, I
heard on the way to work, that's four days. I
don't this might be the first four day story of
the election for like one little you know, dust up.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
That's funny. I wonder if we heard the same report.
I was listening to MPR to punish myself for the
bad things I've done, and they were talking to various correspondents,
and the one who is reporting from Pennsylvania on the
Trump rally said, you know, before I describe it, it's
worth noting that this area of Pennsylvania has many Puerto
Rican Americans who are deeply offended by that. I'm like, oh,
for God's sake, Uh yeah, don't worry about the economy,
(02:18):
the borders, national security, the military.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Don't worry about any of that. That's why I don't
have my panties in a bunch about Joe Biden calling
us garbage, which will play that clip here in a
long ago Darry, my panties are you kidding me? They'll
never be unbunched. I'm not a fan when the other side,
wats they're panties. I'm not gonna watch my panties on
this side. So anyway, we'll get into that whole bust up. Also,
but this might be the first four day news cycle
(02:45):
for some crazy story of the whole election. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
The New York Times, the lefty media has flogged various
idiot stories for a very long time. I don't know,
I don't remember when lasts long. See, this is your wrongness,
is the proof of your rightness or something you you're
helping us understand the importance of the passage of time,
which is, if you think about it's so important the
(03:11):
passage of time. No, it's that these stories that they
attempt to flog for a week, week and a half,
in spite of them being just nothing burgers. The minute
they're gone, you forget about them completely.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's true.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
If Kamala loses, I think there's a possibility that it's
looked back on at some point that this wouldn't wasn't
the best expenditure of your time on the last week
of the presidential election. Because the media, you know, takes
its cue from the campaign, and the media is on
this all the time. And not on the bigger stories
that I assume they'd rather talk about. There are sixty
(03:50):
thousand people at her rally last night, though, That is
an enormous crowd. Yeah, that's a big win, sixty grand.
And there's Nicky Haley on TV and I just heard
her and I thought she was absolutely right. Everybody has
decided what they think of January sixth a long time ago,
years ago, decided whether or not, you you know, that
(04:12):
disqualifies the guy or not.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
That's not an issue at all. People are trying to decide.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Some people still trying to decide do you want four
more years of what we just had or do you
want to, you know, do something different. That's the decision.
It's not well January sixth. How do I feel about that?
Is there anybody in America that could be nudged on
that issue?
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's an excellent point, and I was reading a piece
it might have been Rich Lowry in the National Review
is pointing out that for all of the regrettable, horrible
moments and aspects of January sixth, we have had, as
you indicated, several years now, of the Harris Biden administration.
Biden Harris illustrating what we're comparing Trump to. And while
(04:54):
January sixth was a pivotal moment and an awful one
in my opinion, it was not the be all and
end all of a American existence. Once again, at the
risk of sounding like a broken record snold expression, kids,
ask your grandparents about it. The economy, national security, the border, inflation,
Trump being an a hole on January six No, no,
(05:16):
that really doesn't.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
It's not enough. Sixty grand though. That's a big crowd.
I don't know if that means anything. It's an indication
of whatever Ginormally, it's not without support, it's you know,
roughly tied. And as they pointed out on MSNBCA, they said,
only fifty three only fifty three thousand people were at
(05:37):
Trump's rally on January that's devastating, devastating statistic. And it's
not possible that the Democratic Party in the hairs campaign
put out the word to the federal workforce, which is
almost entirely Democrat.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
HM.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
That makes you stop and think, no chance they put
out the word that hey, this is like super crazy
important be there on the White House long the ellipse.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
That's what happened. I wanted to talk about that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
So Kamala Harris the other day she started saying something
that I was really happy to hear. I think it's
a good direction, and I think it's happening, so it's
recognizing reality. Kamala Harris was talking about some of us
need to get over our idea that college is the
only path for a kid coming out of high school.
Not every job out their good job out there requires
(06:25):
a college degree. There are plenty other paths. And I thought, Okay,
I'm loving this. You know, if the party of the
over educated woman is saying college education isn't the only
way to make your way in the world, that's fantastic.
But then she said, there are many federal jobs where
I'm going to take away the restriction for you need
(06:46):
to have a college degree.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Okay, so it's all about federal jobs.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
You're not talking about HVAC workers or whatever the hell else. Yeah.
I like the sentiment though, and I think it's true.
Let's start the show officially just so we can talk
about that dust up. Let's see if I'm gonna I'm
not actually wearing panties. I never I've never had a
pair on, but if I did, I wouldn't wab them
over this silky, very comfortable. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
(07:12):
Getty on this It is Wednesday, October the thirtieth, the
year twenty twenty four, War Armstrong and getting we.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Approve of this program.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
All right, then let's leap into action.
Speaker 4 (07:21):
According to CC rules of regulations, the show starts officially
at mark.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
Or Puerto Rico, where I'm in my home state of Delaware.
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
floating down there is his supporters. His demonizational scene is
I'm consitable.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Please forgive him for he not knows what he said.
So that's the comment that's royal and twitter on social
media last very and so there you go. My only
amusement at this whole thing. My main amusement is that
(08:01):
they're idiotic gaff neutralized are idiotic gaff and now we
can all shut up about it, right, As a number
of people pointed out, So the surrogate, who Trump doesn't
even know, calling Puerto Rico garbage is a four day story.
(08:22):
We'll see how many days the Biden calling half the
country garbage is a story for mainstream media. President. They
both shouldn't be stories is really the point to me,
as opposed to Oh my god, he called this garbage.
I need a coloring book and a puppy.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Well, okay, I've got a question for you, and well
I'll just ask it. Why should the Biden comment not
be a story?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Because to me, because and a lot of this is
because I'm in the in this business business I'm in.
He came out very shortly after and said earlier, earlier today,
I refer to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed
by Trump's supporter Madison Square Garden rally as garbage, which
is the only word I can think of describe it.
His demonization of Latina is unconstable. That's all I meant
to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who
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we are as a nation. He says, that's not what
he meant. I say things I don't mean all the
time and wish I could have phrased them differently. And
I think if you say something incorrectly and then you
go back and say that's not what I meant, we
should take you at your word, unless you say it
multiple times or not. All right, Jack Clear Kamala Harris,
supporter so did Hilary intend to say basket of adorables
(09:40):
in your world covering up for the progressives. I don't
believe she come up. I don't believe she came out
and said that's not what I meant. She stuck with
it now. I just I don't like the if you
slip up, that's nailed to you for the rest of
your life.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Don't It has never made sense to me.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
I agree completely in principle. On the other hand, given
the utter unevenness of the playing field, if his idiotic
gaff neutralizes the comedian's idiotic gaff and the idea that
Trump should somehow answer for it, that then you trump
it up just because of the wildly unfair playing field.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
Oh on the sharp elbowed game of politics, of course.
But what should have happened is the Trump campaign came
out on Sunday night and said Trump doesn't even know
the guy. We didn't know why he was going to
say that, and we disavow those remarks. We wish if
we had known he was going to say that, we
wouldn't have had him the end.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
And or KJP comes out and says, look, Joe Biden
is senile af Okay, well, that's me.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
You all know it, all right.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
That's the other thing.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Governor Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, said last night
on CNN. I'm giving you my fresh reaction to it.
This was like right after it had happened, and he
saw it while he was on the air. I would
never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans,
even if they chose to support a candidate that I
didn't support. That's the way you clean it up if
your brain works. Yeah, but Biden's brain doesn't work.
Speaker 5 (11:09):
Flown there is supporters there, you go.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
That's a simple declarative sentence. Despite Jack's Democrat mumbo jumbo
and an attempt to cover it up.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
They're claiming the apostrophe is silent. He who's saying his
supporters as in that guy as opposed to supporters half
the country support.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
That's what they're not supporters, right, Wow, you're worse than KJP.
I'm shot, that's what they're claiming. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Garbage I see flowing down there is your supporters.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I think he's an old man.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Lawnmowers. They're only garbage that's floating out there. Are his
supporters garbage, the garbage of his supporters. The rally is
what he meant, I think and his brain. Okay, that
doesn't work, and he doesn't know what day it is
or that he's president. Joe Biden is a dummy.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
He'd be great for a second term.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
I keep up with him. As Trump said, he knoweth
not what he's say. Yes, yeah, it's a slip of
the toe. How does mailbag look? Oh, it's fine, it's
on the way text line four one five two nine
five k FTC. The fabulous Tim Carney, who we used
(12:30):
to have on the show all the time, tweeted out,
I've obtained a draft version of Biden's speech from yesterday,
and so you see the original version of the speech
where he came out and said, Puerto Rico's not trash.
Trump supporters are trash. Originally it said Puerto Rico's not trash,
Your mom is trash. Crossed that out, your face is trash?
Crossed that out? What what Trump supporters are?
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Trash?
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Your mom is trash. Wow, here's here's your freedom loving
quote of the.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
Day from Thomas Jefferson.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Why don't we go with I thought I had it,
but then I got We'll go with this.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as
to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. HM,
it's unquestionably true. I think there's a large genetic component
in that. Having had several multi decade relationships with various
friends and family members, some of them, you can try
(13:33):
to help them stay calm as much as you want,
and it's just not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
That's what Henry and I are learning from watching Tracker,
the importance of staying calm. That's what he talks about
every episode Tracker. I don't know Track. No, I we'll
talk about it later. Okay, mail Bag, it's one.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Of your binge watch shows right now.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
I assume it involves Tracking. Yeah, he's like a like
a bounty hunter sort of guy.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Go a classic. I just started The Penguin last night
on the Max. It's compelling stuff. Gritty, Yeah, gritty.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
I'm sure I can only watch things that my kids watch.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I don't watch that. That's not the show.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
No, don't watch it.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Drop us a note nail back at armstrung and Giddy
dot com. If you get a note, or if you
if you want to drop us note listen boys, writes Patrick, Guys,
how about the last minute Halloween costume lady again this year?
Maybe you could track her down? Do you even know
her name? What became of her?
Speaker 2 (14:33):
If she has any ideas this year, we can hire
tracker he'd find her. Yeah, infamous armstrung Getty interview in
which we were pitched a guest who would help listeners
with last minute Halloween costume ideas is what he said.
So what are what are some of the things what
folks might do last minute? And she says, oh gosh,
(14:54):
I guess you could look through your closet and like
we'd walking up her, walking her up out of bed
and with this question, like here's some sort of welding expert,
and you know, we just hit her with that out
of nowhere. Oh boy, that was uncomfortable.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
It would have been the end of interviews in phone calls.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Yeah, most of them. Yeah, let's see a couple of
people expressed the same sentiment. Not sure I agree, but
I thought I would air it. Chris writes, Dear gentlemen
and Katie, maybe hiring that insult comedian for the msg
rally was a smart move. He attracted all the negative
media like a lightning rod, deflecting it away from anything
Trump said or did. And after it stood around Biden's
brain for two days, he conflated all the players and
(15:31):
called half the country garbage. Brilliant move. So yes, supporters, right,
it only took me eight years to level up from
deplorable to garbage.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Who says the American tream was dead? So that Chris,
that's great. So that comedian in that four and a
half hour event spoke what four hours before Trump hit
the stage for Trump was I'm sure even in that
part of Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And they did a go over his script.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
His script was failing, and like a lot of comedians
do when you're dying on stage, he started ad libbing.
And that's where the Puerto Rico trash thing. He kind
of went back to his bit or his act. But
his script that they went over included Kamala being called
a sea bomb, and they said no, and they scratched
that out. If he had dropped a sea bomb, that
(16:18):
might have actually lost Trump the election.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
I mean, now we understand this guy is a popular
and growing comedian slash podcast or he's big in Austin, Texas.
Fine but good Lord, what a decision. Anyway, back to
the emails, Steve from Everett, Washington. Listening to Kamala's speech
on the Ellipse and DC, I was struck by two thoughts. One,
it was kind of stupid she spoke after dark because
(16:42):
it took away any visual comparison to January sixth. That's
interesting point and to leftist view actions and consequences as
untethered concepts. The progressive might say, I choose to believe
in a world where we were under the end of
the dock and soar majestically into the sky. Or as
a person on the right would reply, if you jump
off the dock, you're going to get wet. And then
JT and livermore fabulous invaluable correspondent with an email entitled
(17:08):
I truly feel sorry for democrats. Okay, if only we
had time to share it with you. Now you'll have
to stay with us.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yeah, the half of you that are garbage can stick around,
and the rest of us we'll all be here. If
that's all. I've got a lot of news to catch
you up on. I hope you can stay here. If
you miss an urget the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
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Speaker 6 (17:30):
In these United States of America, we are not a
vessel for the schemes of wanna be dictators.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
We have lots from her speech last night. That was
eight seconds, and I told Michael that's all I can handle.
I am not in the mood to hear more than that,
at least not right now.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
The closing argument is I will bring Americans together, and
Donald Trump will put you in camps.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know what she said roughly, so we don't need
to play.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
Clips, to which America responded to tell me more about
these camps because I can't afford my rent because of inflation.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Oh yeah, bacon's too expensive. Oh the rent's too damn high.
That's right. More on where the presidential election stands In
a moment, as we finish off mail bag.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I feel truly sorry for the dam's rights. JT In Livermore.
How awful it must be to be part of a
party that cherishes blind conformity over independent, critical original thinking.
How terrible it must be to filter every thought, in
every word based on how your fellow party members will
receive anything you say or don't say, anything you do
or don't do. It would be so depressing to have
your personal growth arrested because your whole bubbled worldview would
(18:40):
never call you out or challenge you for saying ridiculous things.
For example, you can make a fool of yourself and
claim that Trump holding a political rally in MSG is
reminiscent of a Nazi rally eighty years ago because it
is in the same building, and it's not. By the way,
it's not even in the same building. In fact, you'd
be ostracized for point out out to the Dems that
(19:01):
they have rallied.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
They've had many rallies in that same building.
Speaker 4 (19:04):
I think my lucky stars that my circle of family,
friends and party will actually call me out if I
say or do anything out of line, unreasonable, or in
any ways deserving to be called out. It's what helps
me grow, It's what helps me gain true confidence. I
could go on and on, but I think I've made
my point. You have, indeed, JT.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So the race is incredibly tight. You knew that.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
That's not news to anyone, as I've only heard us say, though,
because I think this is interesting. If you spent gazillions
of dollars and told people, I want you to reply
to a polster with the word red, and then he
told half the other people, I want you to reply
(19:44):
to a polster with the word blue. Yes, you could
not pay people to get this close to fifty to
fifty and have it hold for a month after month
after month.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It'd be impossible. I mean, it's just it's stunning that.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
You can get two billion dollars in an army of volunteers.
Could you do that?
Speaker 5 (19:59):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Oh, and prizes.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
I mean, it's just it's stunning that it's this close
to fifty to fifty in the six states that determine
the election. It's just I don't even know how this happens.
It's weird. AnyWho who knows how long it'll take to
actually figure out who won on election night, that's a
different story. One thing that Mark Halprin does, though, that
I think is interesting in his newsletter. It might be
(20:22):
a little bit of old manism, because he's like our
age of putting too much emphasis on newspapers when a
lot of America, including me, you know, picks up their
phone every day and gets news from one hundred different sources.
But he often talks about how the big flap that
everybody's talking about in politics is not making it into
(20:45):
any of the battleground newspapers at all. He goes over
the storylines for the last twenty four hours, for instance,
the Puerto Rico Madison Square garden thing, what President said
about garbage, Kamala Harris's closing argument on the ellip all
that sort of stuff, and he said, but these storylines
are virtually nonexistent on the home pages of the battleground
(21:06):
state newspapers. And he goes to the Las Vegas Sun,
the Arizona Central, the Atlanta Journal, Constitution, the Citizen Times
of whatever that's from Milwaukee Journal, Detroit News, Philadelphia Inquire.
All your big states are big newspapers, and they have
zero stories about those things. I that's interesting. I'm intrigued.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
But I would have to know, you know, virtually market
by market, Where do you get your news? Right of
the voters, Yeah, I think a disturbing number would reply
TikTok or Facebook.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Right yeah, or Twitter or Instagram or whatever where they
might be talking endlessly about the Puerto Rican joke.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Can you play the Biden clip we opened with again?
Since this is the one day flap of the Final
League of Outrage, it's an insult to America.
Speaker 5 (21:53):
Or Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state of Delaware.
They're good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see
floating down there as his supporters. His his demonizational scene
is unconstable.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Please forgive him so. Yeah, they don't need that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
No, the incoherence of it is striking as well. The
first part, I'm not even sure what he was saying.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Which helps him actually in this and that you realize
he can barely talk. But I mean, if you read it,
it sounds like he called Trump supporters garbage, which is
half the country anyway. The New York Times, with some
exclusive reporting on this. After Biden's remark, Harris campaign officials
(22:38):
privately gauged whether his comments would require her to disagree
with him publicly or support his explanation that the comments
were taken out of context. That's always a bad explanation.
The whole taken out of context. Sometimes is accurate, but
very very often that's a bad dodge. Yeah, I would
go with it.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
Please.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
I got my words jumbled up. That's not what I
meant to at all. Here's what I meant. People either
believe you or they don't. But I mean, I can
tell you don't. Would you agree or not? I regularly
say things I didn't mean it to come out that way.
If I could get a second take, I would reword
it completely.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I did once in nineteen ninety seven. I try to
be precise in my speed. You slowly, methodically craft your sentences.
I put the jarond here, the predicate there, oh my goodness,
and the punctuation is here.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
In my mind. Uh yeah, yeah, I just he's a
senile old man again. I just love it because they're
inflating of an utterly meaningless, idiotic comment by a noun
entity dominated the news cycle for four days, and now
Republicans can neutralize it with their own ridiculousness. By the way,
(23:48):
the people that told The New York Times this inside
stuff asked for anonymity to discuss the private deliberations. Some
Democrats were not waiting to distance themselves from Biden's remark.
I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania the Americans,
said Governor Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania on CNN last night, so.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Seeking to distance himself from both Biden and Harris for
his political future.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I would actually like to have been in on that
conversation where Harris people got together and said, Joe Biden,
you know, crazy Joe Biden, the guy who's actually still president,
and she probably rolls her eyes like, I know, my god,
can you believe it? And them saying he just called
Trump supporters garbage. Oh my god, does anybody listen to
Biden anymore? They probably said, do you think this matters?
(24:30):
Do we need to come out and say something?
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And he was probably sitting there during those deliberations, staring
out onto the South Lawn vacantide.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
He was sound asleep while the Harris people were discussing this.
Oh my god, ah, silly season. Indeed, friends, Yeah, Barack
Obama once called the end of campaign silly season, and
that's a pretty accurate description.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You get stuff like the Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
Thing and this, and it gets all blown up.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Came across something really interesting, Fred Bauer. He was talking
about the giant flap well tempest in a teapot really
at the La Times and the Washington Post, when both
of those fine newspapers decided not to endorse anyone for president.
In the case of the Wapole, going back to their tradition,
for many, many years, which they only upset in nineteen
(25:20):
seventy six, and blah.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Blah, I've got something thought on that that might help
set up what you're about to say. Yeah, go ahead.
This is from Ian Bremer yesterday, completely disagreeing with our
take on the whole thing. I thought it was awesome
and brave of Jeffrey Bezos to come out and say
that and say this is what we're going to get
back to you, and talking about how it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
For newspapers to endorse campaigns.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
And it's smart business too what Bezos did. Ian Bremmer said,
I'm fine with the argument that newspapers should be independent,
shouldn't make political endorsements, But the idea that Bezos would
make that decision a week before the most consequential election
of his life in defense of the candidate who makes
unprecedented attacks on independent presses enemies of the people, is
the biggest weenie move I've ever seen from a billionaire.
(26:04):
And that's a high bar. A shot at Elon, I think,
uh wow, Yeah, I agree that well.
Speaker 4 (26:11):
I agree that the timing was unfortunate because it absolutely
gives people who want to question your motives opportunity to
question it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Yeah, it's hard to imagine why you would wait till
a week before the election.
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Huh yeah, And although, good lord, Ian going with the
most consequential elections of our lifetime. Yeah, okay, all right, fine, Trump.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Is a jackass. Some of this stuff he says about
media biases over the top. It's imprecise.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
But the idea that Trump is the threat to media independence,
Trump is the threat to free speech and the free press.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
That is hilarious if you are a student of that issue,
as i am. Ask Matt Tayeebee, who's the threat to
the First Amendment?
Speaker 4 (26:56):
Ask Barry Wisse, Ask Bill Maherr. I could go on
and on. If you like has Jerry Seinfeld. Sorry, Ian,
you're a nice fella and I like you, but you're
wrong about a third of the time.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
And when you're wrong, you're good and wrong. Anyway, that
was a tungue lashing.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
More and more a carefully constructed one too.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
If you ever hear Joe pause, it's because he's thinking,
is that that's a dangling participle. Let me reword that.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
Let me see in your head, let me see if
I can reattach that participle.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
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I'm looking at the oppressive clock and ah, yeah, I
can cry them that. I guess I can cram this in.
I don't want to wait fifteen minutes, or do I? Yes,
(28:57):
I do, I want to wait.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
Let us know when you do.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
I am having an internal struggle. Clearly I am going
to kick off the next hour with this analysis. So
why the Wappo freak out was so severe? I found
it very interesting and surprising and worth discussing.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
The thought leaders, the real influencers in the heavy weight left.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
You don't hear from them directly.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
The people whose names you know, whose faces you recognize
from TV they're marching orders come from people.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Who are behind the scenes.
Speaker 4 (29:42):
And this story is about a couple of them and
the incredible influence they have and how they are. And
I don't mean to make this sound too like conspiracy,
mysterious puppet mastery, but it's who the left listens to
and what they're calling for will shock you.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
What do you think of those fans in the world
series game, grabbing the ball out of the glove and
all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
Did you watch to see that play?
Speaker 5 (30:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I did.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I happen to be watching it live. What the hell
I think of them?
Speaker 3 (30:10):
What is wrong with people?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
You can't butt their ass out soon enough? They should
be banned from all sporting events for the rest of
their lives. Not that anybody has the power to do that.
That was so incredibly uncool. I mean, when they were
like pounding on his arm, what the hell is wrong.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
With you literally pulled the ball out of the guy's
glove as he struggled to retain his glove.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
They need to be hit with bats draconian. Yes, that's
what the Impress would have done. Yes, say one of
the omp parts should have held the guy and said, Mookie,
go get a bat. We'll give you. We'll give you
two swings, two good licks. Anyway, we'll talk more about
the World Series Yankees one. It's now three to one
and we got Katie's headlines on the way, so stay here.
(30:52):
We've had some conversations behind the scenes. What did we
used to talk about Because the election will be over tuesday, well,
the voting will be over Tuesday. Election won't be over
for twenty four hours to six months. I'm accounting, But
then then we'll go back to doing whatever people used
to do all across America. Does any remember whatever it is?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Recipes, hunting stories, I don't know, home improvement tips.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
I saw a flyer yesterday Riisin Shine Zumba. Maybe I'll
do that right right near me where I live. Right now,
they got riisen Shein Zumba. I'm gonna try goat yoga.
I mentioned to somebody they have rizins Shhine Zumba near
my house. I might start doing it, And they said,
is there any sort of pay per view that I
could subscribe to to see that? Just out of curiosity?
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
If there were like lamb yoga or piglet yoga, would
that be good enough for you? Or do you insist
on goat he Oh, piglet for sure. I'm asking the woman.
You're like the sexist bullies whose wives are afraid to
vote for Kamala Harris exactly.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I'm the secrecy of the booth.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
According to that new ad which a lot of people
are talking about.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I'm so sorry, Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Answer for me, Jack, go for it. Goat yoga is
a thing.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
You can't have other cute animals infringing on the dominance
of goat yoga. Wrong, there's puppy yoga.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
There's all different kinds of yoga.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
Really kitting yoga. Again, I suggest piglet yoga. Are you kidding?
I would love that. I would love piglet yoga. Wow,
bring some plastic sheeting. We have pigs, so it's gross.
Oh boy, this is pro tip there. All right, So
let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story
with Katie Green Katie.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
From the Washington Times.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
Non citizens are on the voter rolls and nobody knows
how many.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
No, boy, that's going to be one of the themes.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
If it's a super close election and we're arguing for days,
legal wrangling or whatnot, that's going to be a giant story.
I'm not looking forward to.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
At the risk of beating this to death, whether it's
illegals or ballot security or ballot harvesting or mail out
or whatever, if you do not work to ensure the
belief of the American people that devoting is legitimate, you
will have a disaster. That ought to be one of
our top priorities, including getting illegals to hell off the
(33:14):
rolls CNN.
Speaker 6 (33:17):
Small number of North Korean troops are already inside Ukraine, according.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
To officials, and fighting.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
So you're gonna have North Korean soldiers dying in Ukraine. Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
And Fatthead has rounded up all their families and sent
them to remote locations to live, so they're not walking
around their town saying yeah, turns out my sons in
Ukraine fighting for the Russians.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
From Fox News, Israel strike and Iran took out missile
defense systems. The Islamic Republic is quote essentially naked.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
That's a shame.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
I actually have a great feature ed on that and
some related stories. But yeah, Iran has been exposed as
a military mouse. Now they're mean terrorist proxies do plenty
of damage, but around itself it's practically defenseless.
Speaker 6 (34:10):
From the Washington Post, US economy grew at two point
eight percent pace, slowing slightly ahead of the election.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
That's good growth, which is terrible news. Right, That is
decent growth, but we didn't mention it. From Sunday Nights
sixty minutes piece about Russia's economy, Russia's economy will grow bigger,
faster than ours this year.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
How do you like that someone?
Speaker 4 (34:37):
We've got him completely isolated with our sanctions.
Speaker 6 (34:39):
Jack from NPR walking pneumonia is spiking, especially in children.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
Don't like that. How do you catch walk in pneumonia?
Speaker 3 (34:51):
I don't want to.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Yeah, it's a bacteria lingering cough. There, you wash your hands,
you guys.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
But from the New York Post, Yankees fans clot Mookie
Betts an ugly interference.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
Scene was ugly? How are you the kind of person
that can afford a seat like that at a World
Series game in New York? But you're still so unhinged
he starts swinging your arms at one of the other
team's players. One, that's just cruel on its face, But two,
you don't think people can see you or that's going
(35:26):
to be a problem or something you're not next to.
Speaker 4 (35:29):
A couple of beer dumpings have witnessed. That was the
worst fan interference I've ever seen in a Major League
Baseball game.
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Wow from ABC.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
Subway sued for allegedly shorting customers on meat.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I need more, don't go back. I don't need a
damn lawyer. I hate all these America suing the restaurant
for not enough meat. You know, yeah, your meme of
the day coming soon, scream too.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
And then underneath it.
Speaker 6 (36:00):
As a movie poster featuring that woman that dropped to
her knees and screamed after Trump got elected the first time.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
There you go, oh yeah.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
And finally the Babylon b AOC's boyfriend getting really sick
of her calling it a mini January sixth every time
he leaves his socks.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
On the floor. Now that is funny.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
It is hilarious.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Every Trump rally is a mini January six right, AOC.
That one made me laugh a lot. We got a
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