October 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Newsom's $20 minimum wage for fast food isn't working
- Jack almost pukes in front of tourists
- US highly confidential information on Israeli strikes leaked... how?!
- Elon Musk VS Taylor Swift
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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.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Katty Armstrong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I'm looking for a job and I've always wanted to
work at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I never did. I'm running against somebody that said she did.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
But it turned out to be a totally phony story.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So that's a good looking group. Hello, everybody. I'm having
a lot of fun here, everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Thank you, Javin. That's from their actual campaign ad that
they put together out of his McDonald's. I don't know,
called a stunt, called a campaign whatever, I mean, it's
no different than some are calling it a staged event. Jack,
as opposed to what b me these I mean, give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Got the mainstream media's truck so hard. Yeah, it was
a staged event. They all are right, exactly. Think he
wandered in the McDonald's spontaneously and told the fry guy
to get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And as someone who's almost been assassinated and Iran currently
has a bounty on his head, he just hangs out
at McDonald's for hours at a time with the general
public everywhere Yeah. Any who, Uh, he is good at that,
shockingly good at hanging out with regular people. How he
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has that talent as a guy who's been wealthy his
whole life, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Some people just think it's that he famously loved being
on construction sites for all of his projects. He loved
talking to the foreman about how it was going and
getting into the nitty gritty and the details. And he
used to bring his kids there too. I'm sure that
has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So it was to relate to well one, it was
to drive home the point that Kamala Harris says she
worked at McDonald's, and nobody can find any actual record
of that occurring.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I don't know if she did or not.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I assume she did, and they just I mean, I
worked a bunch of places when I was that age,
same year as her, because we're the same age, and
I don't think there's any documentation you could find that
I did.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, no, I have no doubt she worked at McDonald's.
And I don't care well to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Think about your job you had when you were I
think she says she was seventeen or something like that.
How would you even possibly come up with documentation that
I did that there isn't any so anyway that aside,
The topic of minimum wage was the lead story on
ABC News last night, and it came up on I
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saw it on Morning Joe on MSNBC today.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So Trump was asked at the.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
McDonald's after running the friar in which he says fry
is never touched by human hands. I asked, Trump, says
this CBS News reporter, if he thinks the minimum wage
should be raised, Well, I think this. Trump said, these
people work hard, they're great, and I just saw something
a process that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That was his answer. Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So when I first heard that, I thought, why didn't
he just pander? And then I thought, you know why?
Because there are so many conservatives slash Republicans different things,
often who hate the idea of raising the minimum wage
and understand the economics behind it. So if he pandered,
you do more harm than good, possibly among people on
the right. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, took his
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answer and tried to show that that's how you can
tell he doesn't care about the little man, and said
this about minimum.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Wage, I think everyone knows that the current federal minimum
wage is seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour,
which means that the person who's working a full day
and working full weeks will make fifteen thousand dollars a year,
which is essentially poverty wages. So there is a big
difference between Donald Trump and me on a numbers.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There is not a single person in America working for
the federal minimum wage. It is a meaningless statistic. How
do we.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
On the right and correct side of this issue, right politically,
correct and logically, how do we convince people that you
gotta be able to have jobs that pay very little.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They have to be able to exist.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And if you raise the wage enough, you've outlawed any
job at that lower wage. So you're saying, I either
have to overpay for this stupid job a monkey could do,
or figure out how to make a machine do it
or something, because you've outlawed me paying someone a little
bit for the for a high school get to do
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on weekends or after school, or a senior to do
for a little extra pocket money or whatever, or just.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Get diapers on the monkeys so they don't throw their
feces at the customers. I mean, you've got to find
a solution. As a business person, I think you know,
language is powerful. I think continually using terms like starter
jobs would help because that has a paragraph worth of
information in a single word or two words, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, one of the great language tricks in the left
has always been better at language than the right, with
a compliant.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Media to help.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They regularly use the term living wage in place of
minimum wage, and the minimum wage wasn't designed to be
a living wage, particularly, and then when they start to
extrapolate it into a family not only getting by and
living on your own a minimum wage, but supporting a family.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You are not right, or it's never existed, it's not
intended to exist.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
How would a restaurant stay open where the fry flipper
can support their family on that wage.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
There's no way the restaurant could stay open.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Right in the fact that so few people understand or
so many people misunderstand that principle is is a little
frightening and overwhelming to those of us who would have
more sane politics. You hate that you have to explain
that that if you can barely do anything, but you
can do this, and somebody's willing to pay you to
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do that, and you're willing to take that amount of
pay to do that task.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The idea that that.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Is wrong because you're not making enough to raise a
family of four is just it's it's counterintuitive. It's like
saying that every I don't know, every item I sell
at a garage sale should be equal to when I
sell my car or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
There are different values attached.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
People need to learn to recognize labor as a product
that they are selling, and there are different levels of labor.
You know, a gifted, truly gifted CEO is a different
product than a sixteen year old who's never had a
job before. And again, it's a it's a little discouraging
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that that has to be explained to people, but apparently
it does well.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Combined with the fact that businesses can't just absorb those
higher wages. Even though it might be nice if all
sixteen year olds or people with no skills or whatever
made more money, businesses can't just absorb those higher wages
and continue on. It doesn't make any sense, as we've
seen in California with the twenty dollars minimum wage for
fast food workers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right well, and that goes to the again, the widespread
perception that every business owner is rich and chooses the
wage based on their own greed.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
God, were you here when we did the thing? I
can't remember if you were here or not. It was
a great Twitter feed by a guy who owned the
owner operator of a subway sandwich shop, because that's the
way subways work.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You are the you know, you buy the franchise and
you run it yourself. Oh yeah, yeah, I was part
of that.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was fantastic him explaining how many hours he works,
what it costs to have all the ingredients, what the
rent is, what his electricity bill is, all the various
things he has to pay, and he was just working
himself to death to barely make anything as the owner
of a subway sandwich shop.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think he had one employee.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And the number of businesses that make x amount of
profit and they plow it all back into the business
and they just make enough to live on barely hoping
to grow the business and sell it someday or when
it gets big enough then they'll start to draw profit
from it. But yeah, the anti business, anti success, anti
it's cool to start at the bottom and work your
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way up mentality. That's changed so much over last I
don't know, forty years in the US. It's discouraging. It's
a very collectivist French view of life.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean so I hate it from that standpoint
you were just describing also kind of culturally and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But just from a.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Math standpoint, it doesn't work. That's what bothers me so much.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It doesn't. You can't somebody has to make fries.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You can't pay somebody twenty dollars an hour to flip fries,
and and then and to charge what you'd like to charge.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
For your burgers to have customers show up. It just
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
As Tim Sanderfer has made clear through the years, and
a couple of his books are apropos to this discussion,
including the right to earn a living, which is just terrific.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
But and again.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We need to use more words than the demagogues on
the left.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's just what we're up against.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But if someone can only bring twelve dollars of value
to a business per hour, then paying them more than
or insisting that they be paid fifteen dollars an hour,
that makes hiring them illegal or too expensive to do.
You've made them in eligible to work because you've made
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a person like them too expensive to hire.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But it's too easy to demogogue the issue.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
In fact, I'm looking at this chart from ballot Pedia,
which shows election outcomes from minimum wage increase ballot measures
from nineteen ninety six to twenty twenty two, and there
are they're not numbered. It appears to be about thirty
of them, spanning quite a number of states.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They're all on the state level.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And every single one but two got approved by voters.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And not to bring up polls, but so as looking
at this from one of your top pollsters, state poles
currently show a closer electoral college finish than final polls
in any campaign in over fifty years, which is how
long polling has been around. So in the history of
presidential polling, we've never had a race in the only
states that could swing this thing be this close. And
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when you're in that situation, demogobbing, demogogging a you know,
a populism issue like this could be the whole difference.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, and this is fishing and barrel because
I remember the stats and I was so annoyed by this,
But among Republicans, minimum wage laws poll very well.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That's why I was kind of surprised that Trump just didn't,
you know, go with the easy answer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh. Absolutely, but he must know that turns off an
awful lot of people too.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah. Yeah, well, plus in you know, in his heart,
he understands, and I think it'd be very difficult for
him to to advocate something that he finds abhorrent.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But yeah, if she, if she wins on minimum wage,
and Trump's trying to take away your social security, which
I hate the fact that he doesn't want to do
something about social security, but he doesn't. Uh, then that's
I don't know, I don't know. What you say about
democracy doesn't work. We gotta go with the mar That's what.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You say right there, what you just said, That's what
you said.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Let's pick a wise and benevolent king and hope they
live a monarchy.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now how long have I been saying that we live
the king?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, if you haven't heard that social Security ad, the
lying social Security ad, we'll have to play that again later.
But we've got a lot of this hour good stuff.
Hope you can stay here. We have sartorial related breaking news.
But while we're on the topic of clothing and how
you look, which is what that fancy word means. We
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Our new hot Dogs are Dog's T shirt which is
flying off the shelves. We don't actually have shelves, they're
ordered in their print up. But assuming we did. What
an odd slogan for a T shirt?
Speaker 1 (12:46):
What does it mean? Well, it's a response to the
assertion by radical gender theorists that trans women are women.
No no, and hot dogs aren't dawu.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
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Speaker 4 (13:13):
So, speaking of clothing, this story is only good if
my memory is correct. If my memory is not correct,
it's not that interesting. The former CEO of Abercrombie and
Fitch was arrested today in connection with a federal sex
traffic and an interstate prostitution investigation. Law enforcement sources told
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CBS in New York and all kinds of different sex stuff.
Isn't Abercrombie and Fitch the magazine, the catalog that would
come out every year with like underage mostly naked girls
and it would get all this attention, and we always
thought it was just like a really dumb political pr
stunt that got a bunch of attention.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But the guy turns out to be an actual PERV.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, well no, it doesn't shock me, but yeah, you're right.
They had very very young looking models in very provocative
semi nude posts.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Way too sexy for selling clothes to teenagers, and now
it turns out he's a PERV.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Katie Now, a friend of mine was an Abercrombie and
Fitch model who they had walk around the store in
his underwear at like seventeen.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wow, a live live Oh yeah, this sexy model.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They used to do that all the time in the stores.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
They would have the models at the front of the
store there to greet you, almost like the greeters for
when you would come in.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh oh, that reminds me, and we need to get
to this at some point. Squeeze it in. But Fox
News had a really good report last night about the
horrifying number of underage girls, young girls who are being
brought across the border and then forced into child rape slavery.
(14:53):
Because there's no such thing as a child prostitute. There's
no consent involved. It's by the thousands. The cartels are
sending these young girls over to be illegal immigrant child
rape slaves in the United States. That's part of in fact,
that's second only to drug trafficking for profit for the
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cartels right now, and the Open Borders is allowing it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's reprehensible. Well, you're just racist, that's why you want
the borders control.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So I've got some sort of illness that makes me
feel like I'm about to vomit all the time, and
it reminds me it has started two days ago. I
was in a touristy locale over the weekend and like,
was so close to vomiting, you know how you're like
your mouth is filling with civil life and your spitting.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, you're like moments from vomiting. Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And I was over this trash can on this city
street that was just bustling with people like tourists, you know,
families and stuff like that. And I'm leaning over this
trash can, spitting endlessly thinking about the vomit, and I thought, Man,
this is really going to be something when it actually happens.
It ended up not happening for some reason. Rarely did
get that close and it doesn't happen. But I thought,
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you got these people, everybody's gonna recoil in horror. There's
a bunch of people walking around with like their ice
creams and their hot dogs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're gonna watch. No. I thought, this is almost gonna be.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Interesting as an experiment to see how people react to
me throwing up in this trash gang.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But what's time a day? Was it like a ten
thirty eleven in the morning? Mmm?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, Because I was gonna say, if it was in
the afternoon, I'd assume you were just hammered. You're just
some boohoo who's hammered drunk.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Could be after a rough night, I suppose, But it
was not. Yes, Katie, Oh, I know I have nothing.
I'm trying not to vomit listening to you at the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
There are people that when you see someone vomit, you vomit.
I'm not one of those, thank god.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But no more the sound for me.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
But this was in front of the boys, Babel prices
and ice cream and crepes and it was just food everywhere,
And I thought, how are people going to react to
this if I lose it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And I very nearly did.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They're gonna come out of the stores and put the
night stick to you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Move you along.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You're ruining business.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
There's a touristy place. I was actually thinking, people tell
the story for the rest of our lives. You remember
when we were in San Francisco. We came out of
that grape place and the old guy was vomiting at
the dragon.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7 (17:13):
As the Israeli military ready's a retaliatory attack for Iran's
massive ballistic missile barrage on Israel earlier this month, highly
classified US intelligence on Israel's preparations have ended up online.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Are we concerned? We are very concerned, and so are
the Israelis well.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Such a lake as of a considerable concern from our perspective.
When we have an operational.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Plan, I'm hoping this is the old switcheroo and some
sort of creative counterintelligence operation and not what it looks like,
which is our own government leaking an Alli's battle plans
to try to discourage them from doing something we don't
want them to do.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Right, Yeah, it's almost certainly the second. I learned ages
ago during the Reagan administration that one of his greatest
challenges was to get the State Department to go along
with his policies and his administration's policies. The State Department
is thousands of people, many many of them of a
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leftword bent, who are a career government employees who when
a conservative comes in and wants to run foreign policy
and conservative way, they stand in his way every single
chance they can.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I remember Dick Morris, if you remember that political guy
who ran the part of Clinton's campaign way back in
the day. But Dick Morris telling us in studio that
the State Department is the most entrenched bureaucracy in the world.
And I always stuck in my head there's so many
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permanent employees and thoughts there that just keep on keeping on,
which makes your argument. So then a president comes in
that they think you're going to be here for four years,
we'll do what we want.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, because we'll be here for the rest of our curse.
So yeah, you're trying to force policy through I don't
know what's the right to metaphor like a completely clogged pipe,
your ref clogged with no no, no, no no, seemed
like a good one.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Oh lord.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Anyway, moving along, here's more. Rich Edson from Fox news.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
The New York Times reports these compromised documents detail recent
Israeli exercises and weapons deployments to potentially prepare for an
Iranian response. The White House says the administration is trying
to figure out how that information ended up a topic
of discussion on Iran linked telegram accounts. Is there a
problem safeguarding sensitive information?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
What I will say is the President continues to have
complete confidence in his in the agency.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, well, he does complete confidence that that's that's odd
given your track record.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, one of the troubling things with this is there
is a pattern. The Biden administration released Russia's battle plans
before they launched their invasion Ukraine to dry it dissuade them. Look,
we know what we're up to, and here is exactly it.
They tried to do the same thing with Iran because
we were inside Iran and we released their plans before
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they did it to try to dissuade them. And now
it looks like we did exactly the same thing to
one of our allies.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And the pattern has been, as we've discussed plenty of times,
to tell Israel don't just don't don't go in there.
I've studied the maps and there's nowhere for the people
to go. So just let Hamas have the win, let
Hesbala have the win, and don't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
We don't want to escalate.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So yeah, the entire track record of the Administration and
the State Department that they have one hundred percent confidence
in is well, it would lead you in the opposite direction.
And speaking of that track record, last clip.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
This case follows the leak of a private letter from
Secretary of State Antony Blincoln and Secretary of Defense Lloyd
Austin to their Israeli counterparts, and the suspension of a
senior State Department official over allegations he mishandled sensitive materials.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can tell you things peripheral to this that tells
us there are unfortunately some leaky ships out there. We
know that we had in the past. Robert Malley, chief
envoy to Iran, lost his security clearance.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Mali is on leave from the State Department. The FBI
and Congressional Republicans are investigating whether he moved classified materials
to a personal email account that a foreign adversary potentially breached.
There's also the Air National guardsman who pleaded guilty for
posting American intelligence on Russia's war on Ukraine to the
Discord messaging server.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, that last one I think is kind of an outlier.
But the Malle topic, Yeah, he's suspected of putting his
classified information on a private email account. No, he's known
to have done that. The DOJ just doesn't want to
prosecute during an election year. But I will tell you
this with one hundred percent confidence, given the influence of
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the Obama eight years and the team assembled there and
their influence over the State Apartment for a long time,
and they're utter bitter desire to form a historic agreement
with Iran. The Iran deal was his greatest witch wish,
the great academic who could persuade anybody to do anything
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through his intelligence and charm at the bargaining table, the
great overconfident Barak. Well, those policies are just they've soaked
into the State Department, And I promise you there are
plenty of people, including people who are high up in State,
who are very sympathetic to the Iranian cause and harshly
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critical of Israel.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I saw on CBS News this morning. I didn't listen
to this story, but it's set up on the TV
Israel continues war against Hamas and Hesbolah. Yeah, all right,
how about you're gonna mention that Hamas and Hesbela are
continuing the war against Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's not a one sided thing, you see. Yeah, yeah, man,
our media is twisted.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Well yeah, and run by the crowd you're just talking about,
probably in the State Department that wants to curtail.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Israel for some reason. Oh you know that that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Reminds me just the bloat and permanence of the State Department.
In some of the promos we call them in the
business that run on perhaps your local radio station, talking
about what we're going to be talking about tomorrow, I
characterized in clever, clever fashion. Everybody agrees it was very clever,
the cleverest promo that the election's all about man.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
One man, and one woman.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That would be Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Ah. And
I thought of that just because Elon Musk is he's
bidding to become the Secretary of Cost Cutting. Also he
wants to run the Department of Government Efficiency, which of
course spells out doge, which is a silly online term
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for dog and is evocative of doze coin et cetera.
Everything with Elon, it's got to be a joke anyway,
Elon v. Taylor Swift coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, interesting and they can wear it fast like that.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I did just come across this some publication how Trump
mocking Harris's laugh tells a story of America's racism.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You're either the sort of person that can't wait to
click on that story or there's.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Every everybody mocks her laugh because it's stupid and ill
placed and has nothing to do with race, and you're
a race baiting liar.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Another headline I just came across. Target is lowering prices
on more than two thousand items across an array of categories.
I hope it in includes all the sexual toys they
have right over there by the vitamins, but in a
bid to offer more discounts to cash strapped customers as
the holiday season approaches. I think that is a nod
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frump strang if Target feels they got to lower the
price in two thousand things because people are suffering so much,
because it's difficult to figure out where people are on
the whole economy thing based on polling, and you know
the stock market has been set in a record all
the time, but most people don't feel that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, definite signs of consumer spending softening, without question.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I had one more thing I wanted to mention that
I thought was really good. Do I have time for it?
I think I do, yes, I say yes. Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So this is from Mark Alprin's newsletter today. He was
kind of trying to stay away from the polls and
take in more of just information from strategists and pundits
that he trusts.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And he said this.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
If Trump wins, and that's where he says, it's currently
leaning either a little or a lot if Trump wins.
The data suggests that the election was indeed a multi
racial working class revolt against inflation, and that's what caused it.
I think that's that's caused Number one, he said, for
all the talk about everything in all caps, these analysts
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see the election in simple terms. All the people he
talks to, Republicans and Democrats, a multiracial working class revolt
against inflation, which would get to the whole target having
the low prices. It's just everybody is still shocked regularly
when they buy stuff. I know I am, or as
I've been putting it. When inflation is high, nothing else matters.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I did a little avocado toast thing the other day
with bacon. Okay, you know, it's kind of a stop
in a little bagel Scott promant on.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
There and I spent like thirty bucks. It was like, what,
how abut? I? How'd you? But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I didn't even get up.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You know, crazy, And everybody reacts that way all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And so there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
A multi racial revolt against inflation will be the one
sentence description of why Trump got elected if he wins,
If only it were known that pouring trillions of dollars
of borrowed government money into an already hot economy, would
he's inflation if only we knew that going in. Oh well,
the Inflation Reduction Act, yeah, which which absolutely exacerbated inflation. Okay,
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So Taylor Swift versus Elon among other things on the way.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Meanwhile, here's Harris leading a rally that apparently came with
free vodka.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Just your name for a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's what I'm talking about, because it's about you, it's
about your family, It's about you.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's what I'm talking about. Tell me that's not a
woman loaded with alcohol.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Some might say she's more combustible than a hes bulla pager.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Like jokes.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But I don't like the anytime Trump gets wound up,
its dementia, or she gets wound up, she's drunk.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I just I don't like that. Oh that was.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Just a step shy of the Dean scream, infamous Howard
Dean's scream.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I find her personality off putting.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I just don't think she's got a drinking problem.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Vice President.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
There you go, Oh harsh criticism. Lolgar language, that's a
sign of dementia, right, SHERYLO.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Sure it is okay.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So Elon Musk versus Taylor Swift, it's not as stupid
as it sounds. I find it very interesting Elon Musk
is criss crossing the battleground states to tout Trump's candidacy and.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Also his.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Potential role in a department of government efficiency or whatever
you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yes, I just nailed it down.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
So Taylor Swift has ninety five million Twitter followers, Elon
has two hundred million.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, you've nailed down nothing, old man. I'll give you
that in a moment or two. Was that overly harsh.
I've had a bit of vodka myself anyway. So Elon
is criss crossing the battleground states talking about this government
efficiency thing, how to make your tax dollars much more effective,
get rid of government bloat.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yeah, I wish just got more attention because it's a
great idea.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's also a forceful advocate for the first Amendment, which
I appreciate more than I can say in this second Amendment.
Interestingly enough, and you've probably heard the story, he's trying
to get to millions of people to sign this petition
in favor of the first two amendments and their support
of it, and as a publicity stunt, because he said,
we can't get any regular news coverage on this. As
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a publicity stunt, he's given out a million dollars a
day to a randomly seglected person who who signs the petition.
And the Left is pretending that this is troublesome and
is it buying votes or something like that. No, it's
just a publicity stunt, and this story will go away
in a big hurry. Trust me, or call me at
home and gloat if I'm wrong. I'm not wrong, and
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the final aspect of the Elon thing I want to
talk about before I get to trust me. An interesting
aspect of the Taylor Swift deal is that one of
the Elon's primary messages and the speeches I've heard and
I've seen written about, is about achieving and getting ahead
and an opportunity a country that's all about opportunity, which
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is a very traditional American message. Elon, of course an
African American, an immigrant to our land who has found
great success here, obviously, but it's a very very positive,
empowering message that young men in particular seem to be
really interested in. So I thought that was an interesting dynamic.
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There is more to be said about Elon and his
role in the government and campaign, but let's move along
for now. I thought the Wall Street Journal had a
really interesting, even hand look at swifties, Taylor Swift endorsement
of Kamala Harris and what it actually means. And it's
very easy to be knee jerk cynical and say, who
(31:13):
cares what a pop star thinks? But I don't think
you understand swifties, which is a word that pains me
every time it passes my lips.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't like hearing you say it. It makes me
think less of you.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It makes me think of less of meate. But anyway,
the journal talks about how Swift last month endorsed Kamala
Harris in a post featuring her with one of her
cats trollings, obviously, which was pretty good trolling as trolling
goes Swift September post to her, Now, I ask you
to remember when I mocked Jack as it all man
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a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is what I was driving.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
At Swift September tenth, post to her two hundred and
eighty three million Instagram fos. Instagram's all about the gram Baby,
all about the Graham.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It sent four hundred and six thousand people to a
government website with information on how to register to vote. Wow,
it's impossible to argue that's not a big deal, right,
four hundred and six thousand people. If a quarter of
those were in swing states, lookout. Sociologically speaking, this is
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where it got really interesting to me. It also energized
swifties to use her music, cover art, and folklore to
get out the vote in battleground states and beyond. They
are phone banking, canvassing, crafting, sending postcards, wearing their gear
as a sign of support, and finding each other through
online groups like Swifties for Kamala and Swifties for Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
There's no brushing that off, Joe.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Brushing that off?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Is that? Oh oh that's hit song? Right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, I'm not. They're not like top of mind for me.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was a fine joke and well crafted. Anyway. I
want to point out that the women quoted in this
article ere in their twenties through late fifties, but says
this one woman who happens to be in her fifties.
We're this silent, little silent army. We wear pearls, we
wear the Chuck Taylor All Stars. People are painting their
fingernails blue. They're wearing friendship bracelets. It's just all these
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little things, but it seems to be bringing people together.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Hold on a second, I gotta get the trash man.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh he's going to vomit folks. Oh oh no, right
on the air. Oh this is disgusting. Harris take a
weight nap and the hair's campaign embraced the endorsement selling
Harris Walls Friendship bracelets for twenty dollars, Tim Walls War
two and mentioned swift during blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Wearing Swifty braces. You gotta go so far with the whole.
I'm not toxic masculine guy. I'm feminine guy enough.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I know enough, more than enough, but says Jeff Harden,
a professor of political science at Notre Dame who co
wrote a paper on how Swifties took on Ticketmaster effectively
after they botched the rollout of pre sale tickets for
the Eras Tory said, Swifties are very good at solving
collective action problems. They network like maniacs. And the scheiological
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part that's interesting to me is it's and this is
such a female thing, and I think this is at
the heart of why so many young women on college
campuses are so angry and radicalized. That's how you belong,
that's how you fit in all this article, all the quotes,
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and again it's very even handed and very respectful of
the power that these people have collectively.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All of the quotes are about it feels so good.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We're all coming together, we all have a community, we
all recognize each other, and we see each other and
we hug each other, and it's just so wonderful, and
it doesn't even touch on policy, It doesn't even sniff policy.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Maybe Trump and the White House are never ever getting
back together again.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh god, he won't stop for me. That's an hour.
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I'm looking for a job and I've always wanted to
work at McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I never did. I'm running against somebody that said she did.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
But it turned out to be a totally phony story.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
So that's a good looking group. Hello, everybody. I'm having
a lot of fun here, everybody.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Thank you, Javin. That's from their actual campaign ad that
they put together out of his McDonald's. I don't know,
called a stunt, called a campaign whatever, I mean, it's
no different than some are calling it a staged event. Jack,
as opposed to what b me these I mean, give
me a break.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Got the mainstream media's truck so hard. Yeah, it was
a staged event. They all are right, exactly. Think he
wandered in the McDonald's spontaneously and told the fry guy
to get out of the way.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
And as someone who's almost been assassinated and Iran currently
has a bounty on his head, he just hangs out
at McDonald's for hours at a time with the general
public everywhere Yeah. Any who, Uh, he is good at that,
shockingly good at hanging out with regular people. How he
(01:35):
has that talent as a guy who's been wealthy his
whole life, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Some people just think it's that he famously loved being
on construction sites for all of his projects. He loved
talking to the foreman about how it was going and
getting into the nitty gritty and the details. And he
used to bring his kids there too. I'm sure that
has a lot to do with it.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
So it was to relate to well one, it was
to drive home the point that Kamala Harris says she
worked at McDonald's, and nobody can find any actual record
of that occurring.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I don't know if she did or not.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
I assume she did, and they just I mean, I
worked a bunch of places when I was that age,
same year as her, because we're the same age, and
I don't think there's any documentation you could find that
I did.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
I mean, no, I have no doubt she worked at McDonald's.
And I don't care well to.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Think about your job you had when you were I
think she says she was seventeen or something like that.
How would you even possibly come up with documentation that
I did that there isn't any so anyway that aside,
The topic of minimum wage was the lead story on
ABC News last night, and it came up on I
(02:44):
saw it on Morning Joe on MSNBC today.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
So Trump was asked at the.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
McDonald's after running the friar in which he says fry
is never touched by human hands. I asked, Trump, says
this CBS News reporter, if he thinks the minimum wage
should be raised, Well, I think this. Trump said, these
people work hard, they're great, and I just saw something
a process that's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
That was his answer. Wow.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
So when I first heard that, I thought, why didn't
he just pander? And then I thought, you know why?
Because there are so many conservatives slash Republicans different things,
often who hate the idea of raising the minimum wage
and understand the economics behind it. So if he pandered,
you do more harm than good, possibly among people on
the right. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, took his
(03:32):
answer and tried to show that that's how you can
tell he doesn't care about the little man, and said
this about minimum.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Wage, I think everyone knows that the current federal minimum
wage is seven dollars and twenty five cents an hour,
which means that the person who's working a full day
and working full weeks will make fifteen thousand dollars a year,
which is essentially poverty wages. So there is a big
difference between Donald Trump and me on a numbers.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
There is not a single person in America working for
the federal minimum wage. It is a meaningless statistic. How
do we.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
On the right and correct side of this issue, right politically,
correct and logically, how do we convince people that you
gotta be able to have jobs that pay very little.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
They have to be able to exist.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
And if you raise the wage enough, you've outlawed any
job at that lower wage. So you're saying, I either
have to overpay for this stupid job a monkey could do,
or figure out how to make a machine do it
or something, because you've outlawed me paying someone a little
bit for the for a high school get to do
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on weekends or after school, or a senior to do
for a little extra pocket money or whatever, or just.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Get diapers on the monkeys so they don't throw their
feces at the customers. I mean, you've got to find
a solution. As a business person, I think you know,
language is powerful. I think continually using terms like starter
jobs would help because that has a paragraph worth of
information in a single word or two words, if you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Well, one of the great language tricks in the left
has always been better at language than the right, with
a compliant.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Media to help.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
They regularly use the term living wage in place of
minimum wage, and the minimum wage wasn't designed to be
a living wage, particularly, and then when they start to
extrapolate it into a family not only getting by and
living on your own a minimum wage, but supporting a family.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
You are not right, or it's never existed, it's not
intended to exist.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
How would a restaurant stay open where the fry flipper
can support their family on that wage.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
There's no way the restaurant could stay open.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Right in the fact that so few people understand or
so many people misunderstand that principle is is a little
frightening and overwhelming to those of us who would have
more sane politics. You hate that you have to explain
that that if you can barely do anything, but you
can do this, and somebody's willing to pay you to
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do that, and you're willing to take that amount of
pay to do that task.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
The idea that that.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Is wrong because you're not making enough to raise a
family of four is just it's it's counterintuitive. It's like
saying that every I don't know, every item I sell
at a garage sale should be equal to when I
sell my car or something like that.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
There are different values attached.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
People need to learn to recognize labor as a product
that they are selling, and there are different levels of labor.
You know, a gifted, truly gifted CEO is a different
product than a sixteen year old who's never had a
job before. And again, it's a it's a little discouraging
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that that has to be explained to people, but apparently
it does well.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Combined with the fact that businesses can't just absorb those
higher wages. Even though it might be nice if all
sixteen year olds or people with no skills or whatever
made more money, businesses can't just absorb those higher wages
and continue on. It doesn't make any sense, as we've
seen in California with the twenty dollars minimum wage for
fast food workers.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right well, and that goes to the again, the widespread
perception that every business owner is rich and chooses the
wage based on their own greed.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
God, were you here when we did the thing? I
can't remember if you were here or not. It was
a great Twitter feed by a guy who owned the
owner operator of a subway sandwich shop, because that's the
way subways work.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
You are the you know, you buy the franchise and
you run it yourself. Oh yeah, yeah, I was part
of that.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It was fantastic him explaining how many hours he works,
what it costs to have all the ingredients, what the
rent is, what his electricity bill is, all the various
things he has to pay, and he was just working
himself to death to barely make anything as the owner
of a subway sandwich shop.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
I think he had one employee.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And the number of businesses that make x amount of
profit and they plow it all back into the business
and they just make enough to live on barely hoping
to grow the business and sell it someday or when
it gets big enough then they'll start to draw profit
from it. But yeah, the anti business, anti success, anti
it's cool to start at the bottom and work your
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way up mentality. That's changed so much over last I
don't know, forty years in the US. It's discouraging. It's
a very collectivist French view of life.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Yeah, I mean so I hate it from that standpoint
you were just describing also kind of culturally and everything
like that.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
But just from a.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Math standpoint, it doesn't work. That's what bothers me so much.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
It doesn't. You can't somebody has to make fries.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You can't pay somebody twenty dollars an hour to flip fries,
and and then and to charge what you'd like to charge.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
For your burgers to have customers show up. It just
doesn't work.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
As Tim Sanderfer has made clear through the years, and
a couple of his books are apropos to this discussion,
including the right to earn a living, which is just terrific.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
But and again.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
We need to use more words than the demagogues on
the left.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
That's just what we're up against.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
But if someone can only bring twelve dollars of value
to a business per hour, then paying them more than
or insisting that they be paid fifteen dollars an hour,
that makes hiring them illegal or too expensive to do.
You've made them in eligible to work because you've made
(10:03):
a person like them too expensive to hire.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
But it's too easy to demogogue the issue.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
In fact, I'm looking at this chart from ballot Pedia,
which shows election outcomes from minimum wage increase ballot measures
from nineteen ninety six to twenty twenty two, and there
are they're not numbered. It appears to be about thirty
of them, spanning quite a number of states.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
They're all on the state level.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
And every single one but two got approved by voters.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
And not to bring up polls, but so as looking
at this from one of your top pollsters, state poles
currently show a closer electoral college finish than final polls
in any campaign in over fifty years, which is how
long polling has been around. So in the history of
presidential polling, we've never had a race in the only
states that could swing this thing be this close. And
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when you're in that situation, demogobbing, demogogging a you know,
a populism issue like this could be the whole difference.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, and this is fishing and barrel because
I remember the stats and I was so annoyed by this,
But among Republicans, minimum wage laws poll very well.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
That's why I was kind of surprised that Trump just didn't,
you know, go with the easy answer.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Oh. Absolutely, but he must know that turns off an
awful lot of people too.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Yeah. Yeah, well, plus in you know, in his heart,
he understands, and I think it'd be very difficult for
him to to advocate something that he finds abhorrent.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
But yeah, if she, if she wins on minimum wage,
and Trump's trying to take away your social security, which
I hate the fact that he doesn't want to do
something about social security, but he doesn't. Uh, then that's
I don't know, I don't know. What you say about
democracy doesn't work. We gotta go with the mar That's what.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You say right there, what you just said, That's what
you said.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Let's pick a wise and benevolent king and hope they
live a monarchy.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now how long have I been saying that we live
the king?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Yeah, if you haven't heard that social Security ad, the
lying social Security ad, we'll have to play that again later.
But we've got a lot of this hour good stuff.
Hope you can stay here. We have sartorial related breaking news.
But while we're on the topic of clothing and how
you look, which is what that fancy word means. We
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Speaker 4 (13:13):
So, speaking of clothing, this story is only good if
my memory is correct. If my memory is not correct,
it's not that interesting. The former CEO of Abercrombie and
Fitch was arrested today in connection with a federal sex
traffic and an interstate prostitution investigation. Law enforcement sources told
(13:35):
CBS in New York and all kinds of different sex stuff.
Isn't Abercrombie and Fitch the magazine, the catalog that would
come out every year with like underage mostly naked girls
and it would get all this attention, and we always
thought it was just like a really dumb political pr
stunt that got a bunch of attention.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
But the guy turns out to be an actual PERV.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Yeah, well no, it doesn't shock me, but yeah, you're right.
They had very very young looking models in very provocative
semi nude posts.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Way too sexy for selling clothes to teenagers, and now
it turns out he's a PERV.
Speaker 6 (14:10):
Katie Now, a friend of mine was an Abercrombie and
Fitch model who they had walk around the store in
his underwear at like seventeen.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Wow, a live live Oh yeah, this sexy model.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They used to do that all the time in the stores.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
They would have the models at the front of the
store there to greet you, almost like the greeters for
when you would come in.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Oh oh, that reminds me, and we need to get
to this at some point. Squeeze it in. But Fox
News had a really good report last night about the
horrifying number of underage girls, young girls who are being
brought across the border and then forced into child rape slavery.
(14:53):
Because there's no such thing as a child prostitute. There's
no consent involved. It's by the thousands. The cartels are
sending these young girls over to be illegal immigrant child
rape slaves in the United States. That's part of in fact,
that's second only to drug trafficking for profit for the
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cartels right now, and the Open Borders is allowing it.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's reprehensible. Well, you're just racist, that's why you want
the borders control.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
So I've got some sort of illness that makes me
feel like I'm about to vomit all the time, and
it reminds me it has started two days ago. I
was in a touristy locale over the weekend and like,
was so close to vomiting, you know how you're like
your mouth is filling with civil life and your spitting.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, you're like moments from vomiting. Yes.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
And I was over this trash can on this city
street that was just bustling with people like tourists, you know,
families and stuff like that. And I'm leaning over this
trash can, spitting endlessly thinking about the vomit, and I thought, Man,
this is really going to be something when it actually happens.
It ended up not happening for some reason. Rarely did
get that close and it doesn't happen. But I thought,
(16:03):
you got these people, everybody's gonna recoil in horror. There's
a bunch of people walking around with like their ice
creams and their hot dogs and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
They're gonna watch. No. I thought, this is almost gonna be.
Speaker 4 (16:16):
Interesting as an experiment to see how people react to
me throwing up in this trash gang.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
But what's time a day? Was it like a ten
thirty eleven in the morning? Mmm?
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Yeah, Because I was gonna say, if it was in
the afternoon, I'd assume you were just hammered. You're just
some boohoo who's hammered drunk.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
Could be after a rough night, I suppose, But it
was not. Yes, Katie, Oh, I know I have nothing.
I'm trying not to vomit listening to you at the moment.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
There are people that when you see someone vomit, you vomit.
I'm not one of those, thank god.
Speaker 2 (16:45):
But no more the sound for me.
Speaker 4 (16:47):
But this was in front of the boys, Babel prices
and ice cream and crepes and it was just food everywhere,
And I thought, how are people going to react to
this if I lose it?
Speaker 2 (16:56):
And I very nearly did.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
They're gonna come out of the stores and put the
night stick to you.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Move you along.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
You're ruining business.
Speaker 4 (17:03):
There's a touristy place. I was actually thinking, people tell
the story for the rest of our lives. You remember
when we were in San Francisco. We came out of
that grape place and the old guy was vomiting at
the dragon.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
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As the Israeli military ready's a retaliatory attack for Iran's
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Are we concerned? We are very concerned, and so are
the Israelis well.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Such a lake as of a considerable concern from our perspective.
When we have an operational.
Speaker 4 (17:36):
Plan, I'm hoping this is the old switcheroo and some
sort of creative counterintelligence operation and not what it looks like,
which is our own government leaking an Alli's battle plans
to try to discourage them from doing something we don't
want them to do.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Right, Yeah, it's almost certainly the second. I learned ages
ago during the Reagan administration that one of his greatest
challenges was to get the State Department to go along
with his policies and his administration's policies. The State Department
is thousands of people, many many of them of a
(18:15):
leftword bent, who are a career government employees who when
a conservative comes in and wants to run foreign policy
and conservative way, they stand in his way every single
chance they can.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I remember Dick Morris, if you remember that political guy
who ran the part of Clinton's campaign way back in
the day. But Dick Morris telling us in studio that
the State Department is the most entrenched bureaucracy in the world.
And I always stuck in my head there's so many
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permanent employees and thoughts there that just keep on keeping on,
which makes your argument. So then a president comes in
that they think you're going to be here for four years,
we'll do what we want.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, because we'll be here for the rest of our curse.
So yeah, you're trying to force policy through I don't
know what's the right to metaphor like a completely clogged pipe,
your ref clogged with no no, no, no no, seemed
like a good one.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Oh lord.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Anyway, moving along, here's more. Rich Edson from Fox news.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
The New York Times reports these compromised documents detail recent
Israeli exercises and weapons deployments to potentially prepare for an
Iranian response. The White House says the administration is trying
to figure out how that information ended up a topic
of discussion on Iran linked telegram accounts. Is there a
problem safeguarding sensitive information?
Speaker 5 (19:36):
What I will say is the President continues to have
complete confidence in his in the agency.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
Well, well, he does complete confidence that that's that's odd
given your track record.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Well, one of the troubling things with this is there
is a pattern. The Biden administration released Russia's battle plans
before they launched their invasion Ukraine to dry it dissuade them. Look,
we know what we're up to, and here is exactly it.
They tried to do the same thing with Iran because
we were inside Iran and we released their plans before
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they did it to try to dissuade them. And now
it looks like we did exactly the same thing to
one of our allies.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
And the pattern has been, as we've discussed plenty of times,
to tell Israel don't just don't don't go in there.
I've studied the maps and there's nowhere for the people
to go. So just let Hamas have the win, let
Hesbala have the win, and don't do it.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
We don't want to escalate.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
So yeah, the entire track record of the Administration and
the State Department that they have one hundred percent confidence
in is well, it would lead you in the opposite direction.
And speaking of that track record, last clip.
Speaker 7 (20:49):
This case follows the leak of a private letter from
Secretary of State Antony Blincoln and Secretary of Defense Lloyd
Austin to their Israeli counterparts, and the suspension of a
senior State Department official over allegations he mishandled sensitive materials.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I can tell you things peripheral to this that tells
us there are unfortunately some leaky ships out there. We
know that we had in the past. Robert Malley, chief
envoy to Iran, lost his security clearance.
Speaker 7 (21:13):
Mali is on leave from the State Department. The FBI
and Congressional Republicans are investigating whether he moved classified materials
to a personal email account that a foreign adversary potentially breached.
There's also the Air National guardsman who pleaded guilty for
posting American intelligence on Russia's war on Ukraine to the
Discord messaging server.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Yeah, that last one I think is kind of an outlier.
But the Malle topic, Yeah, he's suspected of putting his
classified information on a private email account. No, he's known
to have done that. The DOJ just doesn't want to
prosecute during an election year. But I will tell you
this with one hundred percent confidence, given the influence of
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the Obama eight years and the team assembled there and
their influence over the State Apartment for a long time,
and they're utter bitter desire to form a historic agreement
with Iran. The Iran deal was his greatest witch wish,
the great academic who could persuade anybody to do anything
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through his intelligence and charm at the bargaining table, the
great overconfident Barak. Well, those policies are just they've soaked
into the State Department, And I promise you there are
plenty of people, including people who are high up in State,
who are very sympathetic to the Iranian cause and harshly
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critical of Israel.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
I saw on CBS News this morning. I didn't listen
to this story, but it's set up on the TV
Israel continues war against Hamas and Hesbolah. Yeah, all right,
how about you're gonna mention that Hamas and Hesbela are
continuing the war against Israel.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
It's not a one sided thing, you see. Yeah, yeah, man,
our media is twisted.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Well yeah, and run by the crowd you're just talking about,
probably in the State Department that wants to curtail.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
Israel for some reason. Oh you know that that.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Reminds me just the bloat and permanence of the State Department.
In some of the promos we call them in the
business that run on perhaps your local radio station, talking
about what we're going to be talking about tomorrow, I
characterized in clever, clever fashion. Everybody agrees it was very clever,
the cleverest promo that the election's all about man.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
One man, and one woman.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That would be Elon Musk and Taylor Swift Ah. And
I thought of that just because Elon Musk is he's
bidding to become the Secretary of Cost Cutting. Also he
wants to run the Department of Government Efficiency, which of
course spells out doge, which is a silly online term
(24:03):
for dog and is evocative of doze coin et cetera.
Everything with Elon, it's got to be a joke anyway,
Elon v. Taylor Swift coming up a little bit later.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
Okay, interesting and they can wear it fast like that.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
I did just come across this some publication how Trump
mocking Harris's laugh tells a story of America's racism.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No, it doesn't.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
You're either the sort of person that can't wait to
click on that story or there's.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Every everybody mocks her laugh because it's stupid and ill
placed and has nothing to do with race, and you're
a race baiting liar.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
Another headline I just came across. Target is lowering prices
on more than two thousand items across an array of categories.
I hope it in includes all the sexual toys they
have right over there by the vitamins, but in a
bid to offer more discounts to cash strapped customers as
the holiday season approaches. I think that is a nod
(24:59):
frump strang if Target feels they got to lower the
price in two thousand things because people are suffering so much,
because it's difficult to figure out where people are on
the whole economy thing based on polling, and you know
the stock market has been set in a record all
the time, but most people don't feel that.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Yeah, definite signs of consumer spending softening, without question.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
I had one more thing I wanted to mention that
I thought was really good. Do I have time for it?
I think I do, yes, I say yes. Oh.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
So this is from Mark Alprin's newsletter today. He was
kind of trying to stay away from the polls and
take in more of just information from strategists and pundits
that he trusts.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
And he said this.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
If Trump wins, and that's where he says, it's currently
leaning either a little or a lot if Trump wins.
The data suggests that the election was indeed a multi
racial working class revolt against inflation, and that's what caused it.
I think that's that's caused Number one, he said, for
all the talk about everything in all caps, these analysts
(26:04):
see the election in simple terms. All the people he
talks to, Republicans and Democrats, a multiracial working class revolt
against inflation, which would get to the whole target having
the low prices. It's just everybody is still shocked regularly
when they buy stuff. I know I am, or as
I've been putting it. When inflation is high, nothing else matters.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Right.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
I did a little avocado toast thing the other day
with bacon. Okay, you know, it's kind of a stop
in a little bagel Scott promant on.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
There and I spent like thirty bucks. It was like, what,
how abut? I? How'd you? But I didn't.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
I couldn't.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I didn't even get up.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You know, crazy, And everybody reacts that way all the time.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
And so there you go.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
A multi racial revolt against inflation will be the one
sentence description of why Trump got elected if he wins,
If only it were known that pouring trillions of dollars
of borrowed government money into an already hot economy, would
he's inflation if only we knew that going in. Oh well,
the Inflation Reduction Act, yeah, which which absolutely exacerbated inflation. Okay,
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So Taylor Swift versus Elon among other things on the way.
Speaker 6 (27:18):
Meanwhile, here's Harris leading a rally that apparently came with
free vodka.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Just your name for a minute.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
That's what I'm talking about, because it's about you, it's
about your family, It's about you.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
That's what I'm talking about. Tell me that's not a
woman loaded with alcohol.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
Some might say she's more combustible than a hes bulla pager.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Like jokes.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
But I don't like the anytime Trump gets wound up,
its dementia, or she gets wound up, she's drunk.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
I just I don't like that. Oh that was.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
Just a step shy of the Dean scream, infamous Howard
Dean's scream.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
I find her personality off putting.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
I just don't think she's got a drinking problem.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Vice President.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
There you go, Oh harsh criticism. Lolgar language, that's a
sign of dementia, right, SHERYLO.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Sure it is okay.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
So Elon Musk versus Taylor Swift, it's not as stupid
as it sounds. I find it very interesting Elon Musk
is criss crossing the battleground states to tout Trump's candidacy and.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Also his.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Potential role in a department of government efficiency or whatever
you want to call it.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Yes, I just nailed it down.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
So Taylor Swift has ninety five million Twitter followers, Elon
has two hundred million.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Yeah, you've nailed down nothing, old man. I'll give you
that in a moment or two. Was that overly harsh.
I've had a bit of vodka myself anyway. So Elon
is criss crossing the battleground states talking about this government
efficiency thing, how to make your tax dollars much more effective,
get rid of government bloat.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Yeah, I wish just got more attention because it's a
great idea.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Yeah, it absolutely is.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
He's also a forceful advocate for the first Amendment, which
I appreciate more than I can say in this second Amendment.
Interestingly enough, and you've probably heard the story, he's trying
to get to millions of people to sign this petition
in favor of the first two amendments and their support
of it, and as a publicity stunt, because he said,
we can't get any regular news coverage on this. As
(29:44):
a publicity stunt, he's given out a million dollars a
day to a randomly seglected person who who signs the petition.
And the Left is pretending that this is troublesome and
is it buying votes or something like that. No, it's
just a publicity stunt, and this story will go away
in a big hurry. Trust me, or call me at
home and gloat if I'm wrong. I'm not wrong, and
(30:08):
the final aspect of the Elon thing I want to
talk about before I get to trust me. An interesting
aspect of the Taylor Swift deal is that one of
the Elon's primary messages and the speeches I've heard and
I've seen written about, is about achieving and getting ahead
and an opportunity a country that's all about opportunity, which
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is a very traditional American message. Elon, of course an
African American, an immigrant to our land who has found
great success here, obviously, but it's a very very positive,
empowering message that young men in particular seem to be
really interested in. So I thought that was an interesting dynamic.
(30:51):
There is more to be said about Elon and his
role in the government and campaign, but let's move along
for now. I thought the Wall Street Journal had a
really interesting, even hand look at swifties, Taylor Swift endorsement
of Kamala Harris and what it actually means. And it's
very easy to be knee jerk cynical and say, who
(31:13):
cares what a pop star thinks? But I don't think
you understand swifties, which is a word that pains me
every time it passes my lips.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I don't like hearing you say it. It makes me
think less of you.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
It makes me think of less of meate. But anyway,
the journal talks about how Swift last month endorsed Kamala
Harris in a post featuring her with one of her
cats trollings, obviously, which was pretty good trolling as trolling
goes Swift September post to her, Now, I ask you
to remember when I mocked Jack as it all man
(31:47):
a moment ago.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
This is what I was driving.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
At Swift September tenth, post to her two hundred and
eighty three million Instagram fos. Instagram's all about the gram Baby,
all about the Graham.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
It sent four hundred and six thousand people to a
government website with information on how to register to vote. Wow,
it's impossible to argue that's not a big deal, right,
four hundred and six thousand people. If a quarter of
those were in swing states, lookout. Sociologically speaking, this is
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where it got really interesting to me. It also energized
swifties to use her music, cover art, and folklore to
get out the vote in battleground states and beyond. They
are phone banking, canvassing, crafting, sending postcards, wearing their gear
as a sign of support, and finding each other through
online groups like Swifties for Kamala and Swifties for Harris.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
There's no brushing that off, Joe.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Brushing that off?
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Is that? Oh oh that's hit song? Right?
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Yeah, I'm not. They're not like top of mind for me.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
It was a fine joke and well crafted. Anyway. I
want to point out that the women quoted in this
article ere in their twenties through late fifties, but says
this one woman who happens to be in her fifties.
We're this silent, little silent army. We wear pearls, we
wear the Chuck Taylor All Stars. People are painting their
fingernails blue. They're wearing friendship bracelets. It's just all these
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little things, but it seems to be bringing people together.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
Hold on a second, I gotta get the trash man.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Oh he's going to vomit folks. Oh oh no, right
on the air. Oh this is disgusting. Harris take a
weight nap and the hair's campaign embraced the endorsement selling
Harris Walls Friendship bracelets for twenty dollars, Tim Walls War
two and mentioned swift during blah blah blah.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
Wearing Swifty braces. You gotta go so far with the whole.
I'm not toxic masculine guy. I'm feminine guy enough.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
I know enough, more than enough, but says Jeff Harden,
a professor of political science at Notre Dame who co
wrote a paper on how Swifties took on Ticketmaster effectively
after they botched the rollout of pre sale tickets for
the Eras Tory said, Swifties are very good at solving
collective action problems. They network like maniacs. And the scheiological
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part that's interesting to me is it's and this is
such a female thing, and I think this is at
the heart of why so many young women on college
campuses are so angry and radicalized. That's how you belong,
that's how you fit in all this article, all the quotes,
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and again it's very even handed and very respectful of
the power that these people have collectively.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
All of the quotes are about it feels so good.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
We're all coming together, we all have a community, we
all recognize each other, and we see each other and
we hug each other, and it's just so wonderful, and
it doesn't even touch on policy, It doesn't even sniff policy.
Speaker 4 (35:06):
Maybe Trump and the White House are never ever getting
back together again.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
Oh god, he won't stop for me. That's an hour.
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