October 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Gavin Newsom is a hack
- Trump's best day ever
- Columbus day!
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
A woman in Tennessee broke a hospital record after giving
birth to a thirteen pound baby. It's the first baby
to ever bust out saying oh.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, wow, yeah, hey, kool Aid, bring on my life.
So let's talk for a moment or two about leading
presidential candidate Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, the first US governor
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to lock down his state of forty million people at
the beginning of COVID, ordered home canfinement, mandatory masking, ridiculous
social distancing, closed schools, and kept him closed.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Had sex with his best friend's wife. Well, that story, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Got nothing to do with all short Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's got nothing to do with governing. I shouldn't bring
that up.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Gavin and his party managed to turn a ninety eight
billion dollar surplus into a thirty two billion dollar deficit.
Oh great, Gavin newsom Our friend Katie Grimes of The
California Globe, writing about Newsom, says California breeds disastrous and
dangerous Democratic politicians here's the short list, and she lists
a bunch of folks.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh du.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Most of these Democrats in a politically well balanced state
couldn't get elected as city cemetery trustee or mosquito controlled
district board member. Majority of them have failed up in
California's one party state, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Cemetery trustee. I wonder what the responsibilities are.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There to keep it mode. I guess, you know, make
sure people won't speed through.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It, unlock the gate in the morning, close it at night.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Right, Mostly that's most of it anyway. A majority of
them have failed up in California's one party state, where excellence, brilliance, expertise, virtue,
and common sense are shunned, not required for the job
of governing, lawmaking and diplomacy. Democrats get elected as card carrying,
water carrying, useful idiots for special interest groups, labor unions,
environmental justice try lawyers, the National Democratic Party, and a
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myriad of other activist organizations. Many of them cut their
teeth as community organizers, the fake grifting profession made infamous.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
By Barack Obama. But she's I don't know if that's fair.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
She's leading up to an analysis of the bitter meanness
a snake angry Katie Porter, and she points out that
Gavin Newsom himself.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Has had a similar history.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But Gavin was lucky because when a lot of what
we're about to play happened, the Internet and memes and
virality hadn't gotten to where it is right now. And
so Gavy is he's a little different. He's a little slicker,
a little more reserved than Katie Porter, but he is
a male Katie Porter. This is Newsome being questioned gently
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and gentlemanly Lee by a CBS News reporter, Hank Platt
in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Michael will start with thirty.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Mister, wey are good to see you.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Let me start by asking you, where have you been
five hundred and twenty two point two million dollars shortfall
last year we had a five hundred and seventy five
point six Hank. I'm here to talk about tomorrow, today
and tomorrow now yesterday. I've been working my tail off.
I've been out. I think I had sixty nine public
events in the last two and a half weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know, I heard him.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Say that on the radio today and then I asked
your staff, well, where's the print out?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Where are these events?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He's and you're press person said, well, this is stuff
he just go to.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
These are all public events.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, so that's interesting. He's obviously way better than he
was back then. That's kind of like listening to tapes
of me when I was on the radio when I.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Was much younger.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You know, it was not a good at it. He
sounds like someone who's bad at that sort of thing,
didn't he. But there's more.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But look, you know the criticism that you have been dodging,
not just the press but also the public, that you
have been sulking after dropping out of the governor's race,
that you're having a temper tantrum.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What do you want to say about it?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I want to say that I've been working my tail off.
I've been here focused in San Francisco. I think I
was gone two days out of the city. In the
last three weeks, We've done sixty nine public events. I've
been as engaged or more engaged than ever. I don't
read the press. It is comical some of the things
that have been written.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah, to press, this too hard on Democrats in California.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Let's let's enjoy one more of newsom V plat thirty three.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Michael, I don't know where you come up with this,
and it sort of misleads people and creates a sense
of something that really doesn't exist, and so it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But again, if that is exactly what happened, mister mayor,
the press secretary he.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Gave me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And then resigned.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yes, yeah, curiously he resigned.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah after this.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I don't know that this is much. This has
much to do about nothing. My chief of staff was aware,
in the extent that my chief of staff apparently that
morning didn't communicate it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There was one that that was really enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's where, uh, the same reporter was asking him questions
and Gavy would blast him and walk away, then like
turn and blast back again, then walk down a set
of stairs and then continue the conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
He just couldn't stop.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, you are right that if it seems confrontational taking
in local media in San Francisco when you're the Democratic
mayor San Francisco, wait till you get out into the
rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right right now, you're right, because Gavin has improved his
game to some extent, but because that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Was all that was really horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's all intersquad scrimmaging in California,
because again, you're you're not elected for being capable, you're
intellected for being You're elected rather for being a prostitute
for labor unions and try lawyers in the Democratic Party. Yeah,
I'd use a stronger word, but I'm a general changing
sex for money. Good, Uh, yeah, exactly, exchanging governance for money. Yeah,
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they're absolutely the prostitutes of those special interests. But yeah,
when he gets like serious questioning at the national level,
I'm telling you he's gonna he's gonna disappear, like, you know,
like a number of other governors who thought they had
the jobs he does not.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, i'll be fun to watch. I hope it happens.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I hope so too. Yeah, if he makes it
that far.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I didn't know if we needed to do this or not,
so I haven't dug it up yet. Day, but I
came across a clip of a Kambla Harris who could
be running and gets Gavin for the nomination. Her shpiel
about what's so awful about Columbus from a couple of
years ago. Oh my god, is this that whole that
whole world. So let them all fight it out for
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for the woke vote. Yeah, for the woke vote, exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Rapidly vanishing woke vote. I have a feeling you're Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I have a feeling you're going to get trounced by
somebody who is who shuns the woke vote. I think
what's gonna happen? I hope that's Ram Emmanuel. Yeah, who
can mop up the floor with Cavin Newsom? How good
is our our friend Sean Farash? The Trump imitator there, Katie?
Pretty strong, hu Aweso. I'm speaking of Columbus Day. Let's
enjoy this together. Thirteen Michael, this.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Is your favorite president, or as they called me, Chief
Golden Eagle, and I wanted to wish you a very
happy Columbus Day. But the radical left wing, crazy Democrats
what to call it Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I get a look very.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Well of the Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They love me.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
They call me Chief Golden Eagle. They say, Chief, what
are we going to do about these crazy radical left
wing democrats like lion Liz Warren. I call a Pocahontas.
She's a horrible person at a loser. And the only
woman who has ever failed a DNA test. Nobody ever
thought that was possible, but she failed a DNA test.
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What a disgrace. Jiggily belly Pritzker. I call him Chief
each too much, Chief broken scale. Every scally steps on
says ouch, you're hurting me, please get off el Lakimo,
Chief tiny tpe. He has a very small TP. I
have a huge TP. Everybody knows about it. But we
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are sending out an executive order via smoke signal commemorating
today as Columbus Day. We're making it Columbus Day again,
celebrating my tremendous friend Christopher Columbus and all of his
incredible achievements.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So Happy Columbus Day.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
God bless you, God bless America, and thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You know, one of the reasons it's so funny is
it's just like it's only one click off of could
be real.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, yeahs it's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For instance, I've got this truth social post of Donald
Trump today. So I don't know if you saw you
was on the cover of Time magazine. Okay, say what
you always say? What's a magazine a website that they
print on paper. For some reason. Time magazine used to
be a really big deal, and to be on the
cover of it was always, you know, something people wanted
to do. He's on the cover of it today and
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Trump just put out this post. Time Magazine wrote a
relatively good story about me, but the picture may be
the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and
then had something floating on top of my head that
looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Really weird.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this
is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What are they doing and why.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's from the President of the United States and all
the things he's got to do commenting on the picture
on the cover of Time magazine, which one no one.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Will see, all right, and now I'm off to you
try to bring peace to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's a classic example of why bother nobody cares about
Time dot com?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But it's Trump and Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
More serious Trump analysis from Mark Halpern's newsletter today about
why and how Trump got the whole Middle East thing
to come together.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's pretty danged.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Interesting, Uh, I think from a I don't know, geopolitical,
political science, sort of standpoint, and a whole bunch of
other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Stay here, may Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
God bless you, God bless the United States of America,
and God bless the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Thank you, everybody, good luck, Thank you very much, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Was that the high point maybe of Trump's life? Yesterday?
Standing there in front of the Government of Israel, people
chanting Trump inside the hall outside in Israel, in Gaza,
getting credit from Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe
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Scarborough and everybody middle and right might be the high
point of his entire career.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So far.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Mark Alvirin writing about it today. If you're a Trump fan,
you're gonna like this. If you're not a Trump fan,
I think you have to at least respect some of
the points he makes here. Strip away the theater and
you find not luck, not bluster, but skills from Donald Trump.
Seven of them. In fact, I won't go through all
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the skills he lists. It's The Apprentice Abram Accord's edition,
except except this time the guy who got fired was Amas.
So he goes through some of the skills here, and
I thought this one was really good. Trump reads egos
like a briefing book. He reads people, not policy memos.
The Middle East runs on face and pride, and Trump
is fluent in both. He knows who needs to be
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called visionary and who wants to look taller in the photo.
He treats geopolitics like casting and always finds the actor
willing to play himself. The Beltway calls it manipulation. Trump
calls it literacy. I thought that was really good. That
is probably very true that he is better at reading
different people's personalities and what they need to feel good
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about themselves, as opposed to, you know, policy memos bluring
business and diplomacy. This can get very trouble someone. I'm
sure we'll learn more about this and coming weeks, months,
and years. Critics say it's corruption. Trump views it as synergy.
The man treats the globe like it's a zoned for
mixed use.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
For him.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Capitalism and statecrafter cousins both about perception, persuasion, and the
art of walking away. If a diplomat promises, Trump proposes
its foreign policy with bottle service and the check is
always in another currency.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I thought that was really good. Some fancy pants, right, Yeah,
it does.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
As I listen to that, it occurs to me that
if you were to talk about the results of successful diplomacy, peace, prosperity, life,
et cetera, all.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Of that's super great for business. Yeah. Yeah, so they
do go hand in hand in a way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
He has a little thing here about how every insult
against Trump becomes a protein shake that seems to make
him stronger. That might be true. That is, that's what
needs to be studied at the end of this all,
how he and he thrives on and stays confident in
the face of just withering criticism.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Anyway, tactical ambiguity clarity is overrated. Trump is a poker
player who wins by keeping you guessing think I might
do it, and then they call the Saudis and Israelis
learned that when Trump is in play, the game is
his mystery cells. I think that's definitely true.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And how well Yeah, I mean, weeks after the taco
thing got you know, picked up by various people and
news outlets, Trump always chickens out. He bombs the fod
oh plant. I'm hoping he surprised aes Vladimir Putin in
a similar way, because there's been a real lack of
pressure there. Yeah, but yeah, uncertainty, yeah, unpredictably.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have a comment on the whole Russia thing versus
this thing in a second. But the last two talents
that Trump seems to have, according to Mark Alprin today,
mastery of spectacle. He knows the show is the state craft,
the lighting, the backdrop, the Golden Hour perfect. The headline
becomes the history. If you can make the world stop
scrolling for twelve seconds, you've already negotiated.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Half the deal. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And then finally this framing the story before the facts settle.
He doesn't wait for historians. He dictates the chiron on
the cable news. The man trademarked his narrative before the
ink dried. He knows people remember how something felt, not
what was said. It's not shallow, it's physics. He doesn't
study Kissinger so much as he studies himself. The others
read history, he rewrites it with one of his beloved sharpies,
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and all the applause today belonged to him. I think
he does understand that also. But to the Russia deal,
mentioned this quote that I heard over the weekend from
I believe poet writer George bnard Shaw. But it was
something along the lines of the two kinds of men,
men who accept reality for what it is, accept facts
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for what they are, and move on, or people who
ignore reality and the facts and go forward anyway. And
it's that second group that drives history. And I thought
that was really interesting because that's exactly what Trump did,
and he did it in both case. It obviously wouldn't
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always work out to ignore facts in reality and just
take a shot at it. It didn't with Russian Ukraine
at least, not that whole summit up in Alaska thing,
all the stuff, all the stuff. Halprin just talked about
the you know, ignoring policy papers and going trying to
read people trying to read Putin, you know, the stage
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craft with the carpet and the planes and everything like that.
It didn't work in that case. In this case, in
the Middle East, it succeeded incredibly well.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's so much of conventional thinking that looks like facts,
but it's like mannekin versions of facts, and your you know,
your policy your think tanks and your you know, halls
of academia and the rest of it. They act as
if their conventional thinking must be and will always be.
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But if you just put it aside, sometimes it just
goes away. It melts, it dissolves, certainly has in this case.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
If this sticks, even sort of sticks, it is one
of the biggest things that's happened in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh yeah, halfway there would be a miracle. Yeah, it's
truly quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We got a lot more on the way if you
missed this segment with the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yesterday was the Big Chicago Marathon.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
It's the only race where the starter pistol gets return fire.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Chicago. That's pretty funny. That is funny.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Just saw this headline before we get to something else.
So gold has hit four thousand dollars an ounce record high,
and looking for gold has become a hot thing. And
we broadcast from Sacramento, California, which, if you remember your
grade school history, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill and
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that's what caused the gold rush that happened in eighteen
forty eight, and the big rush came in forty nine,
thus the forty nine ers. But anyway, it's right here
near here where gold was discovered and they still think
of Golden gate Bridge. Of course, there's still a fair
amount of gold out there. And they got this guy
in this article. He was hiking up at Mount Shasta,
which is northern farther northern California, and he found a
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tiny little gold nugget. But at the current price of gold,
it was still worth one hundred and seventy five bucks,
so he decided to start making that his hobby. I think,
really really panning for gold, and lots of people are
doing it right now, and there's stores around here you
can go buy gold panning stuff, but it's the price
of gold is so high you don't need to find
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a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
To make it with your towel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I remember when the drought was crazy bad and rivers
were down to levels that they hadn't been in decades.
People were finding gold because they could get you way
down deeper into the river beds.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I just always picture myself, like Daniel day Lewis at
the bottom of that mine shaft, my leg's broken, trying
to pull myself out.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Could happen? Could happen?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So yesterday was a Columbus Day, and Columbus Day is
a dumb thing, and if you don't know the history
of it, it was a way back in the day.
They wanted to make the Italians happy to get the
Italian vote, and so then they made it a day.
I mean, it's honoring Columbus for discovering and am using
my finger quotes. America is kind of weird, but it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Even in the Bahamas, right. A lot of people here already.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
People had been here for tens of thousands of years.
There were major, complex civilizations of all different kinds.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It reminded Europeans that there was a lot of land
this way and it might be worth checking out.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It was not nothing, no, no, no, It had a
long tail to it as many people started coming this
direction and being settled by Europe and all that sort
of stuff, which is what Kamala Harris wanted to point
out in her little screed about Columbus Day.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
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the Americas.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But that is not the whole story.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered
in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence,
stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away
from this shameful past, and we must shed light on
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it and do everything we can to address the impact
of the past on Native communities today.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
How freaking annoying was that counterpoint? Shut up bonehead her
when she goes into sanctimonious mode. I mean, that's when
she said her most off putting to me?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Who is that for?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And I know some people who dig that, but I
just I do not get what's the point of that today?
Is there a point other than just feeling bad? I
just want to feel bad. I would want to spend
the day feeling bad that four hundred years ago a
one particular group of people started moving over to this
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land mass, just like all the people from Africa and
the Middle East that moved up to Europe and settled it,
or the Mayans who moved north and took over those
tribes land.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, what is the point of this?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It's the only point is that hatred of one's own
country and culture is the highest level of the lefty
intellectual you know pyramid. It's like you're a scientologist, you
hit that eleventh Thetan level or whatever. You get to
see l Ron Hubbard's I don't know sock drawer. It's
very similar. Until you truly loathe your own people, you
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are not respected as a progressive.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's what happens. That's what Tom Cruise got to see.
Is you go in there and they show you Elron
Hubbard's sock drawer.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's a that's a paraphrase.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Would be disappointed. I was hoping for more the drawers.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's just so damned annoying.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And so what, Kamala and so what, so what and
what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I know?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And do you think that that's not the way the
entire globe was settled, every.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bit of it China.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
One group of Chinese got more powerful and moved north
across China or south across China or whatever direction, and
took the land from the other Chinese that had been
there before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's the whole damned world.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and the very people she was talking about, specifically,
the you know, native American tribes killed the hell out
of each other, of curtured each other in unspeakable ways.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They were, in a word, savages. They were not as uh.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Thanks a lot to Christianity and civilization and the Enlightenment. Eventually,
in all these different sorts of things, we weren't quite
as brutal Western civilization.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
As the native people that were here.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, but even if it were the other way around,
it's still it's just the history of the world. What
do you want to do? Get a different planet? I
don't understand your point. It makes me so crazy. We
need to speak truth to who for what reason? And
just to you know, you don't need to memorize this
whole screen. Just remember the phrase, what about the people
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before that? Yeah? No kidding, that's the only stops in
their tracks? What about the people before that?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
No kidding.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I talked about this couple of weeks ago, the very
brief version. If you didn't hear it. My son was
in his American history class and the teacher made him
write a Land acknowledgment before they started history class. And
they had to write a Land acknowledgement saying, we recognize
that we are learning American history on the land that
once belonged to the starts with the Pea pot Twain
Indian tribe or something like that. Anyway, our friend Tim Sandifer,
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who's really into the California history and this sort of stuff,
hit me with a bunch of research on how that
tribe had taken the land from previous tribes and the
awful things they had done to them. I mean, you
talk about genocide, that's what those tribes would do or
you know, different kinds of Indians. It would come upon
land just why but kill all the women and children,
enslaved the men. That's what they did over and over again.
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So do you having land acknowledgement going back to the
tribe that got you know, was on the wrong end
of the genocide, or the group before that that probably
was on the wrong end of the genocide from that group,
I mean, where what is again?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What is the point? What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And then perhaps the world's greatest committe the ends are
the descendants of these Spanish conquistadors who claim that America's
settler colonialists and how we didn't cross the border of
the border acrossed us. You people are hilarious, Absolutely, you're
killing me.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'll tell you what's not funny this story.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
You got cut me off in a truck, a garbage truck.
I made a garbage truck the size of a whale.
I've never seen a garbage truck. It must have done
something commercial for like it's taking away it's material for constructions.
To me, it was the biggest garbage truck I've ever seen.
To avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I had
a big fat tree and.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Crushed my car, my wife's car. I crushed my wife's car.
I feel that.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I thought, that's all fine, and I'm fine in my
brother's fine.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So that's Alec Baldwin who had his untalented brother, Stephen
Baldwin in the passenger seat.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Who avoided a wag and hang hang on the usual suspects, right, Ah, okay,
so not completely untalented.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He's a poor man's Alec Baldwin. I'll tell you that's
fair enough.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We can agree.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Alec Baldwin trying to avoid a garbage truck. Very very
It's funny you did Trump so many years on Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You talk like, in.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The biggest garbage truck I've ever seen, I've never seen
a garbage truck's little big.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's big as well. I had a tree, a big,
fat tree, as big as an elephant.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
In my wife's car. I feel bad about that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
His fake Spaniard wife.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tucking.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
That's his fake Spaniard wife.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There, say that again, Michael Tucking.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So Alec Baldwin then feels that because he had crashed
her range rover into a tree. I mean, and it's
up against the tree with the hood all bent up.
It's like a classic cartoon looking car wreck. And he
he's on the phone and he makes an Instagram post
to try to I don't know what, talk to his
fans who were worried about it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It part of that idiotic reality show that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
For so reason.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Is that still happening? If it is, that's absolutely what
was going on there. Maybe he crashed the car into
the tree for the reality show.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Did he spend all of his money settling with crew
members he shot?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
How is? How does he have? How does he how.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Does he need so much money that he's prostituting himself
doing a stupid reality show.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He just couldn't stop shooting members of movie crews.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Maybe he got used to the lifestyle he was living
when he was drawn that thirty rock paycheckers.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He got like eight kids, all of them with a
fake Spaniard mom. Any who, We're glad to know the
bald ones, the talented ones, and the untalented ones are okay.
We will finish strong.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Next.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I was just about to introduce Margaret Brennan talking to
Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Some questions about to shut down? What he said about
shutdowns in the passed and off the air jack hit
me with some very exciting Chris Murphy news.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think it's Canadian in one of those tiny Northeast countries.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
National Review considers him America's worst center, and he's the
worst of the bomb chuckers on the left in the
US Senate, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh yeah, yeah. He is utterly, without principle, a bad man.
Here he is talking to Mags Brennan.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
You have been critical in the past of the tactic
of choosing to shut down the government. You weren't twenty eighteen.
You were back in twenty thirteen when it was a
discussion over healthcare. This is what you said in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
The future of the American healthcare system was a legitimate
public policy issue, as is.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
The security of our borders.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
But we shouldn't be having the discussion amidst a government
shutdround trying to use our nation security and all of
these federal workers in the work that they.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do as hostages.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
Aren't you doing today exactly what you were criticizing? Then?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No, that was a fight over sort of the long term.
All right, weasel talking, weasel. How do they teach a
weasel to talk? That's amazing, so tiring.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I could never be I could never be a politician
the whole I would say to my boss, didn't we
say the same thing they're saying when it was us?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Shut up? And he slap you? Wake up, you child?
Right right?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Speaking of the media, let's the media be clowns itself.
Let's let him be clown themselves. Michael, play the theme music.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Clown music. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
In twenty nineteen, CNN actual headline, Democrats want to offer
healthcare to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Here's what that means. Now.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
In twenty twenty five, a very important fact check from
CNN fact Check, Trump falsely claims Democrats want to give
free healthcare to illegal aliens in government shut down battle.
CNN is threading the needle to say that Dems aren't
asking for free healthcare for immigrants in this particular bill,
(30:01):
because it was in the bill that's ending now they
want to continue. It gets mundy around state budget, state
saying they pay for this healthcare only with local dollars,
but the Fed say that's not true. We subsidize it
all and have matching funds, excuse me, funds for God's sake.
And then this one's even better. Thanks for the fact check, though, CNN.
(30:26):
You remember I brought you the story from the Washington
Post last week about a thirty eight year old straight
woman who's pregnant with a child she organically conceived with
her gay husband.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
They live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Obviously, our gluten free would have turned their marriage into
a career.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
What does organic mean in this sense? They did the
horizontal bop.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
She had sex with the gay man or gay man
had sex with her her husband, her husband who's gay.
How dare you judge that? Yes, yes, it was a
story about modern marriage. And they picked.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And try to pretend like these so called lavender marriages
are common. They saw a spiritual healer who told him
they shared a spiritual umbilical cord, and then in a
story that examined how so, here's the theme is how
hard the mainstream media is trying to normalize all sorts
of abnormal stuff in a story about how gen z
(31:23):
couples are dealing with divorce. Seems like a reasonable premise
for an article, right, Who does the New York Times feature.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I Will read to you?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
In twenty twenty one, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle,
knew it was time to get a divorce, but ending
their two year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But the musician had a supportive ally.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
If you have to dump your ex husband, co dump
him with his mistress, that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They were in a thropple before the breaks, miss.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But he's gay and has a mystery. So you've got
to use a different couple. This is a totally different couple.
This is a different outlet. I'm gonna ask you try
to hang with me here. Okay, So this twenty seven
year old Seattle violinist and her husband and her husband's
mistress who is in their throutle with them, checked in
with their therapist, who said a divorce would be a
(32:19):
good choice.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Out of queer solidarity.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They informed their husband's mistress, which was not a legal
marriage but a domestic partnership, about their shared partner's troubling behavior.
On the night of the breakup mix Benson, who uses
the pronoun They and the mistress spent a cozy evening together.
We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a
lot of animal crossing. What the f that's in the
(32:46):
New York Times article about how gen Z is dealing with.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Divorce, right, a very aberrant doesn't represent maybe anybody, let
alone mainstream America.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Seriously, one out of how many thousand married couples in
gen Z are in a thruple, one in fifty thousand,
one in one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, my theory on this has been true for a
long time and it's just growing is that those probably
written by people who aren't married and their friends aren't married,
and they always have to have a negative spin on marriage,
right because they don't for whatever reason, participate, Right, Yeah,
(33:39):
she always have to have a negative spin on it
and why it's a bad thing or complicated.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
And evidently like the plus in the LGBTQIA LP plus
means just whatever the hell else there's something called polycules,
which is like you got seven or eight people and
a dog involved.
Speaker 11 (34:00):
I guess I'm strong, strong, You're ready and.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Strong, reminds me.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I saw that they're now four months in Katie Perry
and Justin Trudeau as a couple who know even like chicks.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I wonder who uh is a pitching in that situation.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
When they play softball that one? Okay, let's get a
final out from everybody on the crew to wrap things
up for the day. There he is pressing the buttons
in the control room are technical director Mike Langelow Michael, Yeah.
Something that's Katie mentioned early in the show about malware
that if you surf porn, I'll take your picture.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Uh, there's a lot of people that will stop surfing
porn if they know their picture is being taken.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
The camera is videoing you or taking pictures of you.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Cover up your.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Katie Greener, a steamed newswoman, has a final thought, Katie,
that clip of.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Kamala we played earlier, just reminded me of how much
I miss not hearing her.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, no kidding, how annoying was that? She is astoundingly annoying? Jack.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
A final thought for us, if you do buy some
sort of mannekin like we did for Halloween, that you
can dress up in funny poses, don't leave it sitting
around the house. I swear to God you'll come around
the corner and scare the crap out of yourself. We've
done it like ten times.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oof.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
My final thought is if the ball hits on any
surface in the park, including the wall, it is a
live ball.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
You cannot trap a flyball against the wall.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All runners may advance that crazy crazy baseball play last night.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
She didn't think that was a double place. Oh no,
it was.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
It was.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
It was a live ball. Okay Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so.
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God bless America.
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
A woman in Tennessee broke a hospital record after giving
birth to a thirteen pound baby. It's the first baby
to ever bust out saying oh.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Yeah, wow, yeah, hey, kool Aid, bring on my life.
So let's talk for a moment or two about leading
presidential candidate Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, the first US governor
(00:54):
to lock down his state of forty million people at
the beginning of COVID, ordered home canfinement, mandatory masking, ridiculous
social distancing, closed schools, and kept him closed.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
Had sex with his best friend's wife. Well, that story, that's.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Got nothing to do with all short Sometimes.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
That's got nothing to do with governing. I shouldn't bring
that up.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Gavin and his party managed to turn a ninety eight
billion dollar surplus into a thirty two billion dollar deficit.
Oh great, Gavin newsom Our friend Katie Grimes of The
California Globe, writing about Newsom, says California breeds disastrous and
dangerous Democratic politicians here's the short list, and she lists
a bunch of folks.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh du.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Most of these Democrats in a politically well balanced state
couldn't get elected as city cemetery trustee or mosquito controlled
district board member. Majority of them have failed up in
California's one party state, Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Cemetery trustee. I wonder what the responsibilities are.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There to keep it mode. I guess, you know, make
sure people won't speed through.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
It, unlock the gate in the morning, close it at night.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Right, Mostly that's most of it anyway. A majority of
them have failed up in California's one party state, where excellence, brilliance, expertise, virtue,
and common sense are shunned, not required for the job
of governing, lawmaking and diplomacy. Democrats get elected as card carrying,
water carrying, useful idiots for special interest groups, labor unions,
environmental justice try lawyers, the National Democratic Party, and a
(02:28):
myriad of other activist organizations. Many of them cut their
teeth as community organizers, the fake grifting profession made infamous.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
By Barack Obama. But she's I don't know if that's fair.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
She's leading up to an analysis of the bitter meanness
a snake angry Katie Porter, and she points out that
Gavin Newsom himself.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Has had a similar history.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But Gavin was lucky because when a lot of what
we're about to play happened, the Internet and memes and
virality hadn't gotten to where it is right now. And
so Gavy is he's a little different. He's a little slicker,
a little more reserved than Katie Porter, but he is
a male Katie Porter. This is Newsome being questioned gently
(03:21):
and gentlemanly Lee by a CBS News reporter, Hank Platt
in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Michael will start with thirty.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Mister, wey are good to see you.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Let me start by asking you, where have you been
five hundred and twenty two point two million dollars shortfall
last year we had a five hundred and seventy five
point six Hank. I'm here to talk about tomorrow, today
and tomorrow now yesterday. I've been working my tail off.
I've been out. I think I had sixty nine public
events in the last two and a half weeks.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know, I heard him.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Say that on the radio today and then I asked
your staff, well, where's the print out?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Where are these events?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
He's and you're press person said, well, this is stuff
he just go to.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
These are all public events.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Yeah, so that's interesting. He's obviously way better than he
was back then. That's kind of like listening to tapes
of me when I was on the radio when I.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Was much younger.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You know, it was not a good at it. He
sounds like someone who's bad at that sort of thing,
didn't he. But there's more.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But look, you know the criticism that you have been dodging,
not just the press but also the public, that you
have been sulking after dropping out of the governor's race,
that you're having a temper tantrum.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
What do you want to say about it?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I want to say that I've been working my tail off.
I've been here focused in San Francisco. I think I
was gone two days out of the city. In the
last three weeks, We've done sixty nine public events. I've
been as engaged or more engaged than ever. I don't
read the press. It is comical some of the things
that have been written.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Oh yeah, to press, this too hard on Democrats in California.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Let's let's enjoy one more of newsom V plat thirty three.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Michael, I don't know where you come up with this,
and it sort of misleads people and creates a sense
of something that really doesn't exist, and so it's unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
But again, if that is exactly what happened, mister mayor,
the press secretary he.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Gave me.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And then resigned.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Yes, yeah, curiously he resigned.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah after this.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Yeah, I don't know that this is much. This has
much to do about nothing. My chief of staff was aware,
in the extent that my chief of staff apparently that
morning didn't communicate it.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
There was one that that was really enjoyable.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
It's where, uh, the same reporter was asking him questions
and Gavy would blast him and walk away, then like
turn and blast back again, then walk down a set
of stairs and then continue the conversation.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
He just couldn't stop.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, you are right that if it seems confrontational taking
in local media in San Francisco when you're the Democratic
mayor San Francisco, wait till you get out into the
rest of the country.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right right now, you're right, because Gavin has improved his
game to some extent, but because that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Was all that was really horrible.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Oh yeah, it's it's it's all intersquad scrimmaging in California,
because again, you're you're not elected for being capable, you're
intellected for being You're elected rather for being a prostitute
for labor unions and try lawyers in the Democratic Party. Yeah,
I'd use a stronger word, but I'm a general changing
sex for money. Good, Uh, yeah, exactly, exchanging governance for money. Yeah,
(06:35):
they're absolutely the prostitutes of those special interests. But yeah,
when he gets like serious questioning at the national level,
I'm telling you he's gonna he's gonna disappear, like, you know,
like a number of other governors who thought they had
the jobs he does not.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, i'll be fun to watch. I hope it happens.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Yeah, I hope so too. Yeah, if he makes it
that far.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
I didn't know if we needed to do this or not,
so I haven't dug it up yet. Day, but I
came across a clip of a Kambla Harris who could
be running and gets Gavin for the nomination. Her shpiel
about what's so awful about Columbus from a couple of
years ago. Oh my god, is this that whole that
whole world. So let them all fight it out for
(07:18):
for the woke vote. Yeah, for the woke vote, exactly.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Rapidly vanishing woke vote. I have a feeling you're Columbus Day.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
I have a feeling you're going to get trounced by
somebody who is who shuns the woke vote. I think
what's gonna happen? I hope that's Ram Emmanuel. Yeah, who
can mop up the floor with Cavin Newsom? How good
is our our friend Sean Farash? The Trump imitator there, Katie?
Pretty strong, hu Aweso. I'm speaking of Columbus Day. Let's
enjoy this together. Thirteen Michael, this.
Speaker 6 (07:44):
Is your favorite president, or as they called me, Chief
Golden Eagle, and I wanted to wish you a very
happy Columbus Day. But the radical left wing, crazy Democrats
what to call it Indigenous People's Day.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And I get a look very.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
Well of the Indigenous people.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They love me.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
They call me Chief Golden Eagle. They say, Chief, what
are we going to do about these crazy radical left
wing democrats like lion Liz Warren. I call a Pocahontas.
She's a horrible person at a loser. And the only
woman who has ever failed a DNA test. Nobody ever
thought that was possible, but she failed a DNA test.
(08:22):
What a disgrace. Jiggily belly Pritzker. I call him Chief
each too much, Chief broken scale. Every scally steps on
says ouch, you're hurting me, please get off el Lakimo,
Chief tiny tpe. He has a very small TP. I
have a huge TP. Everybody knows about it. But we
(08:42):
are sending out an executive order via smoke signal commemorating
today as Columbus Day. We're making it Columbus Day again,
celebrating my tremendous friend Christopher Columbus and all of his
incredible achievements.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
So Happy Columbus Day.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
God bless you, God bless America, and thank you for
your attention to this matter.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
You know, one of the reasons it's so funny is
it's just like it's only one click off of could
be real.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, yeahs it's funny.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
For instance, I've got this truth social post of Donald
Trump today. So I don't know if you saw you
was on the cover of Time magazine. Okay, say what
you always say? What's a magazine a website that they
print on paper. For some reason. Time magazine used to
be a really big deal, and to be on the
cover of it was always, you know, something people wanted
to do. He's on the cover of it today and
(09:33):
Trump just put out this post. Time Magazine wrote a
relatively good story about me, but the picture may be
the worst of all time. They disappeared my hair and
then had something floating on top of my head that
looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Really weird.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this
is a super bad picture and deserves to be called out.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
What are they doing and why.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
It's from the President of the United States and all
the things he's got to do commenting on the picture
on the cover of Time magazine, which one no one.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Will see, all right, and now I'm off to you
try to bring peace to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
Uh yeah, you know.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
That's a classic example of why bother nobody cares about
Time dot com?
Speaker 2 (10:16):
But it's Trump and Trump.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
More serious Trump analysis from Mark Halpern's newsletter today about
why and how Trump got the whole Middle East thing
to come together.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
It's pretty danged.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Interesting, Uh, I think from a I don't know, geopolitical,
political science, sort of standpoint, and a whole bunch of
other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Stay here, may Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
God bless you, God bless the United States of America,
and God bless the Middle East.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Thank you, everybody, good luck, Thank you very much, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Was that the high point maybe of Trump's life? Yesterday?
Standing there in front of the Government of Israel, people
chanting Trump inside the hall outside in Israel, in Gaza,
getting credit from Barack Obama, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joe
(11:21):
Scarborough and everybody middle and right might be the high
point of his entire career.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
So far.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Mark Alvirin writing about it today. If you're a Trump fan,
you're gonna like this. If you're not a Trump fan,
I think you have to at least respect some of
the points he makes here. Strip away the theater and
you find not luck, not bluster, but skills from Donald Trump.
Seven of them. In fact, I won't go through all
(11:53):
the skills he lists. It's The Apprentice Abram Accord's edition,
except except this time the guy who got fired was Amas.
So he goes through some of the skills here, and
I thought this one was really good. Trump reads egos
like a briefing book. He reads people, not policy memos.
The Middle East runs on face and pride, and Trump
is fluent in both. He knows who needs to be
(12:13):
called visionary and who wants to look taller in the photo.
He treats geopolitics like casting and always finds the actor
willing to play himself. The Beltway calls it manipulation. Trump
calls it literacy. I thought that was really good. That
is probably very true that he is better at reading
different people's personalities and what they need to feel good
(12:34):
about themselves, as opposed to, you know, policy memos bluring
business and diplomacy. This can get very trouble someone. I'm
sure we'll learn more about this and coming weeks, months,
and years. Critics say it's corruption. Trump views it as synergy.
The man treats the globe like it's a zoned for
mixed use.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
For him.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Capitalism and statecrafter cousins both about perception, persuasion, and the
art of walking away. If a diplomat promises, Trump proposes
its foreign policy with bottle service and the check is
always in another currency.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I thought that was really good. Some fancy pants, right, Yeah,
it does.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
As I listen to that, it occurs to me that
if you were to talk about the results of successful diplomacy, peace, prosperity, life,
et cetera, all.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Of that's super great for business. Yeah. Yeah, so they
do go hand in hand in a way. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
He has a little thing here about how every insult
against Trump becomes a protein shake that seems to make
him stronger. That might be true. That is, that's what
needs to be studied at the end of this all,
how he and he thrives on and stays confident in
the face of just withering criticism.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Anyway, tactical ambiguity clarity is overrated. Trump is a poker
player who wins by keeping you guessing think I might
do it, and then they call the Saudis and Israelis
learned that when Trump is in play, the game is
his mystery cells. I think that's definitely true.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
And how well Yeah, I mean, weeks after the taco
thing got you know, picked up by various people and
news outlets, Trump always chickens out. He bombs the fod
oh plant. I'm hoping he surprised aes Vladimir Putin in
a similar way, because there's been a real lack of
pressure there. Yeah, but yeah, uncertainty, yeah, unpredictably.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
I have a comment on the whole Russia thing versus
this thing in a second. But the last two talents
that Trump seems to have, according to Mark Alprin today,
mastery of spectacle. He knows the show is the state craft,
the lighting, the backdrop, the Golden Hour perfect. The headline
becomes the history. If you can make the world stop
scrolling for twelve seconds, you've already negotiated.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Half the deal. That's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
And then finally this framing the story before the facts settle.
He doesn't wait for historians. He dictates the chiron on
the cable news. The man trademarked his narrative before the
ink dried. He knows people remember how something felt, not
what was said. It's not shallow, it's physics. He doesn't
study Kissinger so much as he studies himself. The others
read history, he rewrites it with one of his beloved sharpies,
(15:17):
and all the applause today belonged to him. I think
he does understand that also. But to the Russia deal,
mentioned this quote that I heard over the weekend from
I believe poet writer George bnard Shaw. But it was
something along the lines of the two kinds of men,
men who accept reality for what it is, accept facts
(15:41):
for what they are, and move on, or people who
ignore reality and the facts and go forward anyway. And
it's that second group that drives history. And I thought
that was really interesting because that's exactly what Trump did,
and he did it in both case. It obviously wouldn't
(16:02):
always work out to ignore facts in reality and just
take a shot at it. It didn't with Russian Ukraine
at least, not that whole summit up in Alaska thing,
all the stuff, all the stuff. Halprin just talked about
the you know, ignoring policy papers and going trying to
read people trying to read Putin, you know, the stage
(16:23):
craft with the carpet and the planes and everything like that.
It didn't work in that case. In this case, in
the Middle East, it succeeded incredibly well.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
There's so much of conventional thinking that looks like facts,
but it's like mannekin versions of facts, and your you know,
your policy your think tanks and your you know, halls
of academia and the rest of it. They act as
if their conventional thinking must be and will always be.
(16:52):
But if you just put it aside, sometimes it just
goes away. It melts, it dissolves, certainly has in this case.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
If this sticks, even sort of sticks, it is one
of the biggest things that's happened in my lifetime.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
Oh yeah, halfway there would be a miracle. Yeah, it's
truly quite amazing.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We got a lot more on the way if you
missed this segment with the podcast Armstrong and Getty on
demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yesterday was the Big Chicago Marathon.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
It's the only race where the starter pistol gets return fire.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Chicago. That's pretty funny. That is funny.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Just saw this headline before we get to something else.
So gold has hit four thousand dollars an ounce record high,
and looking for gold has become a hot thing. And
we broadcast from Sacramento, California, which, if you remember your
grade school history, gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill and
(17:56):
that's what caused the gold rush that happened in eighteen
forty eight, and the big rush came in forty nine,
thus the forty nine ers. But anyway, it's right here
near here where gold was discovered and they still think
of Golden gate Bridge. Of course, there's still a fair
amount of gold out there. And they got this guy
in this article. He was hiking up at Mount Shasta,
which is northern farther northern California, and he found a
(18:19):
tiny little gold nugget. But at the current price of gold,
it was still worth one hundred and seventy five bucks,
so he decided to start making that his hobby. I think,
really really panning for gold, and lots of people are
doing it right now, and there's stores around here you
can go buy gold panning stuff, but it's the price
of gold is so high you don't need to find
(18:39):
a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
To make it with your towel. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I remember when the drought was crazy bad and rivers
were down to levels that they hadn't been in decades.
People were finding gold because they could get you way
down deeper into the river beds.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Yeah, cup of coffee.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
I just always picture myself, like Daniel day Lewis at
the bottom of that mine shaft, my leg's broken, trying
to pull myself out.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Could happen? Could happen?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
So yesterday was a Columbus Day, and Columbus Day is
a dumb thing, and if you don't know the history
of it, it was a way back in the day.
They wanted to make the Italians happy to get the
Italian vote, and so then they made it a day.
I mean, it's honoring Columbus for discovering and am using
my finger quotes. America is kind of weird, but it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Even in the Bahamas, right. A lot of people here already.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
People had been here for tens of thousands of years.
There were major, complex civilizations of all different kinds.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
It reminded Europeans that there was a lot of land
this way and it might be worth checking out.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
It was not nothing, no, no, no, It had a
long tail to it as many people started coming this
direction and being settled by Europe and all that sort
of stuff, which is what Kamala Harris wanted to point
out in her little screed about Columbus Day.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of
(20:22):
the Americas.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
But that is not the whole story.
Speaker 8 (20:27):
That has never been the whole story. Those explorers ushered
in a wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence,
stealing land, and spreading disease. We must not shy away
from this shameful past, and we must shed light on
(20:50):
it and do everything we can to address the impact
of the past on Native communities today.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
How freaking annoying was that counterpoint? Shut up bonehead her
when she goes into sanctimonious mode. I mean, that's when
she said her most off putting to me?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Who is that for?
Speaker 3 (21:16):
And I know some people who dig that, but I
just I do not get what's the point of that today?
Is there a point other than just feeling bad? I
just want to feel bad. I would want to spend
the day feeling bad that four hundred years ago a
one particular group of people started moving over to this
(21:39):
land mass, just like all the people from Africa and
the Middle East that moved up to Europe and settled it,
or the Mayans who moved north and took over those
tribes land.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
I mean, what is the point of this?
Speaker 1 (21:55):
It's the only point is that hatred of one's own
country and culture is the highest level of the lefty
intellectual you know pyramid. It's like you're a scientologist, you
hit that eleventh Thetan level or whatever. You get to
see l Ron Hubbard's I don't know sock drawer. It's
very similar. Until you truly loathe your own people, you
(22:19):
are not respected as a progressive.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's what happens. That's what Tom Cruise got to see.
Is you go in there and they show you Elron
Hubbard's sock drawer.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
That's a that's a paraphrase.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Would be disappointed. I was hoping for more the drawers.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
It's just so damned annoying.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
And so what, Kamala and so what, so what and
what do you want me to do?
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:42):
I know?
Speaker 3 (22:42):
And do you think that that's not the way the
entire globe was settled, every.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
Bit of it China.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
One group of Chinese got more powerful and moved north
across China or south across China or whatever direction, and
took the land from the other Chinese that had been
there before.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
It's the whole damned world.
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Well, and the very people she was talking about, specifically,
the you know, native American tribes killed the hell out
of each other, of curtured each other in unspeakable ways.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
They were, in a word, savages. They were not as uh.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Thanks a lot to Christianity and civilization and the Enlightenment. Eventually,
in all these different sorts of things, we weren't quite
as brutal Western civilization.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
As the native people that were here.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah, but even if it were the other way around,
it's still it's just the history of the world. What
do you want to do? Get a different planet? I
don't understand your point. It makes me so crazy. We
need to speak truth to who for what reason? And
just to you know, you don't need to memorize this
whole screen. Just remember the phrase, what about the people
(23:51):
before that? Yeah? No kidding, that's the only stops in
their tracks? What about the people before that?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
No kidding.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
I talked about this couple of weeks ago, the very
brief version. If you didn't hear it. My son was
in his American history class and the teacher made him
write a Land acknowledgment before they started history class. And
they had to write a Land acknowledgement saying, we recognize
that we are learning American history on the land that
once belonged to the starts with the Pea pot Twain
Indian tribe or something like that. Anyway, our friend Tim Sandifer,
(24:20):
who's really into the California history and this sort of stuff,
hit me with a bunch of research on how that
tribe had taken the land from previous tribes and the
awful things they had done to them. I mean, you
talk about genocide, that's what those tribes would do or
you know, different kinds of Indians. It would come upon
land just why but kill all the women and children,
enslaved the men. That's what they did over and over again.
(24:42):
So do you having land acknowledgement going back to the
tribe that got you know, was on the wrong end
of the genocide, or the group before that that probably
was on the wrong end of the genocide from that group,
I mean, where what is again?
Speaker 2 (24:55):
What is the point? What are we doing here?
Speaker 1 (24:57):
And then perhaps the world's greatest committe the ends are
the descendants of these Spanish conquistadors who claim that America's
settler colonialists and how we didn't cross the border of
the border acrossed us. You people are hilarious, Absolutely, you're
killing me.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
I'll tell you what's not funny this story.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
You got cut me off in a truck, a garbage truck.
I made a garbage truck the size of a whale.
I've never seen a garbage truck. It must have done
something commercial for like it's taking away it's material for constructions.
To me, it was the biggest garbage truck I've ever seen.
To avoid hitting him, I hit a tree. I had
a big fat tree and.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
Crushed my car, my wife's car. I crushed my wife's car.
I feel that.
Speaker 5 (25:42):
I thought, that's all fine, and I'm fine in my
brother's fine.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:45):
So that's Alec Baldwin who had his untalented brother, Stephen
Baldwin in the passenger seat.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
Who avoided a wag and hang hang on the usual suspects, right, Ah, okay,
so not completely untalented.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
He's a poor man's Alec Baldwin. I'll tell you that's
fair enough.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
We can agree.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
Alec Baldwin trying to avoid a garbage truck. Very very
It's funny you did Trump so many years on Saturday
Night Live.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
You talk like, in.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
The biggest garbage truck I've ever seen, I've never seen
a garbage truck's little big.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
It's big as well. I had a tree, a big,
fat tree, as big as an elephant.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
In my wife's car. I feel bad about that.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
His fake Spaniard wife.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Tucking.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
That's his fake Spaniard wife.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
There, say that again, Michael Tucking.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
So Alec Baldwin then feels that because he had crashed
her range rover into a tree. I mean, and it's
up against the tree with the hood all bent up.
It's like a classic cartoon looking car wreck. And he
he's on the phone and he makes an Instagram post
to try to I don't know what, talk to his
fans who were worried about it.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
I don't know. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It part of that idiotic reality show that they're doing.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
For so reason.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Is that still happening? If it is, that's absolutely what
was going on there. Maybe he crashed the car into
the tree for the reality show.
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Did he spend all of his money settling with crew
members he shot?
Speaker 9 (27:12):
Or what?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
How is? How does he have? How does he how.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Does he need so much money that he's prostituting himself
doing a stupid reality show.
Speaker 3 (27:23):
He just couldn't stop shooting members of movie crews.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Maybe he got used to the lifestyle he was living
when he was drawn that thirty rock paycheckers.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
He got like eight kids, all of them with a
fake Spaniard mom. Any who, We're glad to know the
bald ones, the talented ones, and the untalented ones are okay.
We will finish strong.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
Next.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
I was just about to introduce Margaret Brennan talking to
Chris Murphy, Senator from Connecticut.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
Is that right?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Some questions about to shut down? What he said about
shutdowns in the passed and off the air jack hit
me with some very exciting Chris Murphy news.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think it's Canadian in one of those tiny Northeast countries.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
National Review considers him America's worst center, and he's the
worst of the bomb chuckers on the left in the
US Senate, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Oh yeah, yeah. He is utterly, without principle, a bad man.
Here he is talking to Mags Brennan.
Speaker 10 (28:22):
You have been critical in the past of the tactic
of choosing to shut down the government. You weren't twenty eighteen.
You were back in twenty thirteen when it was a
discussion over healthcare. This is what you said in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 7 (28:33):
The future of the American healthcare system was a legitimate
public policy issue, as is.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
The security of our borders.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
But we shouldn't be having the discussion amidst a government
shutdround trying to use our nation security and all of
these federal workers in the work that they.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Do as hostages.
Speaker 10 (28:52):
Aren't you doing today exactly what you were criticizing? Then?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
No, that was a fight over sort of the long term.
All right, weasel talking, weasel. How do they teach a
weasel to talk? That's amazing, so tiring.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I could never be I could never be a politician
the whole I would say to my boss, didn't we
say the same thing they're saying when it was us?
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Shut up? And he slap you? Wake up, you child?
Right right?
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Speaking of the media, let's the media be clowns itself.
Let's let him be clown themselves. Michael, play the theme music.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Clown music. Let's see.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
In twenty nineteen, CNN actual headline, Democrats want to offer
healthcare to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Here's what that means. Now.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
In twenty twenty five, a very important fact check from
CNN fact Check, Trump falsely claims Democrats want to give
free healthcare to illegal aliens in government shut down battle.
CNN is threading the needle to say that Dems aren't
asking for free healthcare for immigrants in this particular bill,
(30:01):
because it was in the bill that's ending now they
want to continue. It gets mundy around state budget, state
saying they pay for this healthcare only with local dollars,
but the Fed say that's not true. We subsidize it
all and have matching funds, excuse me, funds for God's sake.
And then this one's even better. Thanks for the fact check, though, CNN.
(30:26):
You remember I brought you the story from the Washington
Post last week about a thirty eight year old straight
woman who's pregnant with a child she organically conceived with
her gay husband.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
They live in Los Angeles.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Obviously, our gluten free would have turned their marriage into
a career.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
What does organic mean in this sense? They did the
horizontal bop.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
She had sex with the gay man or gay man
had sex with her her husband, her husband who's gay.
How dare you judge that? Yes, yes, it was a
story about modern marriage. And they picked.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
And try to pretend like these so called lavender marriages
are common. They saw a spiritual healer who told him
they shared a spiritual umbilical cord, and then in a
story that examined how so, here's the theme is how
hard the mainstream media is trying to normalize all sorts
of abnormal stuff in a story about how gen z
(31:23):
couples are dealing with divorce. Seems like a reasonable premise
for an article, right, Who does the New York Times feature.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
I Will read to you?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
In twenty twenty one, Kira Benson, a violinist living in Seattle,
knew it was time to get a divorce, but ending
their two year lavender marriage wasn't an easy decision.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
But the musician had a supportive ally.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
If you have to dump your ex husband, co dump
him with his mistress, that's right.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
They were in a thropple before the breaks, miss.
Speaker 1 (31:58):
But he's gay and has a mystery. So you've got
to use a different couple. This is a totally different couple.
This is a different outlet. I'm gonna ask you try
to hang with me here. Okay, So this twenty seven
year old Seattle violinist and her husband and her husband's
mistress who is in their throutle with them, checked in
with their therapist, who said a divorce would be a
(32:19):
good choice.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
Out of queer solidarity.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
They informed their husband's mistress, which was not a legal
marriage but a domestic partnership, about their shared partner's troubling behavior.
On the night of the breakup mix Benson, who uses
the pronoun They and the mistress spent a cozy evening together.
We were eating a lot of comfort food, playing a
lot of animal crossing. What the f that's in the
(32:46):
New York Times article about how gen Z is dealing with.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Divorce, right, a very aberrant doesn't represent maybe anybody, let
alone mainstream America.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Seriously, one out of how many thousand married couples in
gen Z are in a thruple, one in fifty thousand,
one in one hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 3 (33:19):
Well, my theory on this has been true for a
long time and it's just growing is that those probably
written by people who aren't married and their friends aren't married,
and they always have to have a negative spin on marriage,
right because they don't for whatever reason, participate, Right, Yeah,
(33:39):
she always have to have a negative spin on it
and why it's a bad thing or complicated.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
And evidently like the plus in the LGBTQIA LP plus
means just whatever the hell else there's something called polycules,
which is like you got seven or eight people and
a dog involved.
Speaker 11 (34:00):
I guess I'm strong, strong, You're ready and.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
Strong, reminds me.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
I saw that they're now four months in Katie Perry
and Justin Trudeau as a couple who know even like chicks.
Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I wonder who uh is a pitching in that situation.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
When they play softball that one? Okay, let's get a
final out from everybody on the crew to wrap things
up for the day. There he is pressing the buttons
in the control room are technical director Mike Langelow Michael, Yeah.
Something that's Katie mentioned early in the show about malware
that if you surf porn, I'll take your picture.
Speaker 6 (34:51):
Boy.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
Uh, there's a lot of people that will stop surfing
porn if they know their picture is being taken.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
The camera is videoing you or taking pictures of you.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Cover up your.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Katie Greener, a steamed newswoman, has a final thought, Katie,
that clip of.
Speaker 3 (35:05):
Kamala we played earlier, just reminded me of how much
I miss not hearing her.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, no kidding, how annoying was that? She is astoundingly annoying? Jack.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
A final thought for us, if you do buy some
sort of mannekin like we did for Halloween, that you
can dress up in funny poses, don't leave it sitting
around the house. I swear to God you'll come around
the corner and scare the crap out of yourself. We've
done it like ten times.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
Oof.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
My final thought is if the ball hits on any
surface in the park, including the wall, it is a
live ball.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
You cannot trap a flyball against the wall.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
All runners may advance that crazy crazy baseball play last night.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
She didn't think that was a double place. Oh no,
it was.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
It was.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
It was a live ball. Okay Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so.
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