May 20, 2024 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
President Biden and President Trump have agreed to two debates
this summer. For a preview of the debates, take a
bottle of ambient and adderall at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was surprised.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I was listening to one of my favorite Republican broadcasts podcasts,
the National Review podcast, last week, and they were talking
about your enthusiasm about the debate on a scale of
one to ten, and they were all like, I don't know, two, four,
I don't know, is there anything lower than zero. I'd
been like, what's on a scale of one to ten?
How about a hundred? I wouldn't miss it. If my
first kid was being bored, I'd tell my wife, you're
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gonna have to delivered alone. I'm not missing this debate.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Wow, that's a statement. Yes, seriously.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Actually I heard that myself phone was surprised by it.
There are times that there are commentators who I really like,
who are a bit too ensconced in their intellectual salons
and floating above those of us who live in the
real world.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
To get what I mean, well, that was my question.
Are most people like, ah, that sounds awful. I'm not
gonna watch her. Most people as excited as I am
to watch his first debate.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I think there's a weird combination of anticipation and dread,
just because both pugilists are known for various behaviors that
we don't love. Whether it's Trump's constant interjecting and interrupting
and being petulant. Sometimes Biden's just an old hack politician.
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But this is to me, it is a cognition test
for Biden past fail. It's funny we brought up the
last week, probably midweek, as soon as the announcement was made,
that it being the first of the debates being scheduled
so early was interesting in that it might be an
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attempt by the Biden team to change their trajectory of
the race before it gets embedded in the American consciousness. Right,
and a number of folks have suggested it's also a
chance for the Democrats to decide once and for all,
do we go with.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The old old warhorse.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Or do we make the emergency, last minute substitution that's
being called the Erza Klein strategy in some quarters. Because
he's been writing that, apparently in the New York Times
for quite some time, that they need to have an
event like that so they can make a decision break
glass in case of emergency sort of intervention in the party.
I don't know. I don't know if that's what they're
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actually thinking or not.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We said it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Before Ezra Frea conclined did. Why does he get the credit?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Is there any chance that they can move up the
Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight to be right to hoard
the debate? I think a fifty four year old Mike
Tyson fighting before the eighty presidential candidates just say it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
They'd be a good theme. They both have a bit
of a poop show feel to them. Rajor what is
going on here? Feel all right?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
This is not what we're going to talk about. Dam
I demand decorum. It's time for a campus madness update.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Down this road lies madness. Thank you, Jonathan Surley. A
number of headlines for you and Jack.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We can delve into them as deeply as you want,
or we can just keep moving. Harvard was unresponsive to
anti semitism. According to a House committee that was holding
hearings last week, they have a number of examples of
just utterly transparent double standards at Harvard and the other
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so called elite universities.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well that's become completely clear. Which is
that good news bad news that all that stuff about
microaggressions and words are violence, that that all turned out
to be bogus? Is that good news or bad news?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My think this kid that it was exposed as being
crap because that remember that was always just a attack,
a tool used by the neo Marxists to get you
intimidated and to shut up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I thought they actually believed that stuff, But they don't.
So some of the kids do.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, absolutely, the dopey kids who are the useful idiots
of the neo Marxists, Yeah, they believe it. So anyway,
to get to the question of a double standard, obviously,
our framework here is try this with a black kid,
or a transgender kid, or a Muslim kid, or literally
any kid in the world other than a white kid
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or a Jewish kid who, according to the idiotic, oppress
or oppressed Marxist worldview, Jews are white people. Anyway, Ah,
let's see. The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance last week published
a report that compiles testimony, much of an anonymous from
fifty current and former Jewish students and faculty.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here a handful of the things that they said.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Quote Harvard signals that Jews are only acceptable as long
as they don't fully embrace Judaism.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The only way to cope is.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To quote not dressed too Jewish, request that the university
accommodate Jewish holidays, don't speak Hebrew or God forbid, actually
support Israel's right to exist. Another quote, so much harder
for the students who are visibly Jewish. I have a
friend who wears a kippa the cap and was physically
cornered by a group of students demanding that he denounced
the so called genocide.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Wow wow quote.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Because of my Jewish and Zionist identity, people think I
am a monster. I've heard people say Zionists should be slain.
I've heard people say you can't possibly believe in ISRAELI
they're all settlers. Another quotes pretty scary to walk around campus.
Pretty much all Orthodox guys have started wearing baseball caps,
and the significantly the reports is bullying of Jewish Jewish
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students took place well before October seventh, but then became louder, prouder,
and more visible after the seventh and in many cases
before the Israeli response, What is going on there?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think I have a whole go ahead, and I
think maybe a better analogy would be.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Gay people.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You can be gay, but don't dress like you're gay,
or walk like you're gay, or talk like you're gay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If I hear a lisp, you're you know, you're gonna
get what you get.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This year one hundred and twelve Harvard faculty and staff
called for a boycott of Israel and all companies that
sustain the israel apartheid, settler colonialism, and systemic human rights abuses.
By the way, all that settler colonialism stuff that is
verbiage straight out of Marxism. That's the This is not
some sort of conspiracy theory. They've written books, they put
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their name on the cover. They've described how exactly we
get rid of Western capitalism, and that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
This is not mysterious.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
This is not some you know, I'm a Nicholas Cage
in one of those goofy movies where he discovers the
Declaration of Independence and a pot of gold or whatever.
This is not secret stuff anyway. Moving along because there's more.
Let's move out to cal Unicornia, where realism goes to
die and anti Semitism is absolutely welcome and Dei garbage
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is taught on all the campuses. In fact, California, there's
a move away from thank god these you have to
sign your diversity statement, meaning your fealty to the cult
of Dei, and all sorts of states around the country
are saying no, not only do you not have to
do that, they're now illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
California is doubling down on it. It's worth mentioning.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
But UCLA students are suing the university over leged tolerance
of quote unquote campus terrorists making it impossible to attend
class and use the campus facilities. We both despise the
over you know, laws suitification of the United States. But
this is legit, i'd say, says the crazy out there
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lawsuit usl. UCLA Jewish students and faculty members quote share
the same common interest of wanting to be safe and
free from campus terrorism and anti Semitism and safe and
free from harm including assault and battery as any other students.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And again got to use the example of I forget
which college it was, but this sort of thing has
happened many times. Somebody put Confederate flag stickers around the
campus and now the FBI is investigating and priority one
for the university. This is not letting certain students go
to class, and you're brushing it off.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I would willingly beat one thousand dollars that those
Confederate flagstickers were put up by left wing activists to
deflect the spotlight from themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They do that all the time. It's really quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Another story University of California, Irvine. The chancellor said he's
broken hearted after the campus erupted in chaos during anti
Israel protests late last week.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What a sad day for our campus.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm broken hearted, said Chancellor Howard Gilman in a letter
to the campus community. Now listen to the utter lack
of recognition that this guy has over how deliberate all
of this is, How all of the dopey college kids
are being egged on, fired up, funded and organized by
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organized neo Marxist organizations that are funded by you know,
your George Soros type, if not communist China is funding
these or the Hamas themselves or the Palestinian Students for Liberation,
whatever the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Hell it is.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
All of these are organized groups, and this guy is
still in his quote sounding like it was just a
bunch of fired up little college kids.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
The encampers assured our community that they were committed to
maintaining a peaceful and non disruptive encampment. It was terrible
to see that they would dramatically alter the situation in
a way that was a direct assault on the rights
of other students and the university mission. For the past
two weeks have consistently communicated that the encampment violates our policies,
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but didn't rise to police involvement. We used all of
you s u See's possible alternatives before resorting to the police.
I was prepared to allow to peaceful allow a police
peaceful encampment to exist on the campus without resorting to
the coppers, even though the encampment violated I communicated to
this there were violations of our rules that we would
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have to deal with them.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And then they violated our rules.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Howard, dude, the Marxists were there to stir things up
as much as possible. Howard, did you seriously you're running
a university. Miss all of those news reports from Columbia
where the kids were getting instructions. You have to occupy
a building because that ups the andes and that will
force a police reaction. You've got to occupy territory. You've
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got to defy the university. We can't have this remain peaceful. Seriously, dude,
did you miss all those news reports?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Actually, these people are completely unaware, partly because he's part
of the world of academia that's either down with the
Marxism or they're sappy lefties that think people like me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're having some sort.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Of fever dream right, exactly, fever dreams, conspiracy nuts whatever. Again,
I point out these people have written books, their names
are on the cover, and they mean it. The La
County Board of Supervisors wants taxpayers to fund legal aid
for the Prohamas octys in La who got arrested at UCLA.
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Taxpayer money to bail these people out, nice, nice, and
finally this and this is a little annoying to me,
but several people on our side of things are pointing
out that the Washington Post had an opinion state the
statement The problem with diversity statements and what to do
about them. DEI statements have too often led to self
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censorship and ideological policing. These are these loathsome DEI statements
that you have to sign to get a job at
a lot of universities, and in fact, at one point
it was something like seventy percent of university jobs required them. Well,
and the wall post saying hey, we should probably not
have these is a good step. But if you delve
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into the opinion piece, they say, now DEI and all
of its principles are extremely important, and we need to
enforce them and we need to double down on them.
But they say the statements themselves are ideological lockstep. That
is probably uncool on a college campus where ideological inquiry
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is the point of why we're there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I'll give him half credit for that half credit.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Wa po, we got to get to this hour the
speech Joe Biden gave it a Black college over the
weekend because I just thought it was appalling, absolutely appalling,
maybe the worst thing he's ever done. On what you're
saying something and is interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The Left pitting us against each other by ethnicity and
race again seems to be a theme.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So P Diddy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Apologized over the weekend. Did anybody see the p Diddy
video that came out on Friday? I think this happened
at right after we got off the air. Yes, him
beating up his girlfriend in the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, that's raw. Second, he apologized over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You want to hear his apology, and Joe's good at
grading apologies for authenticity or.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They meant it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I'd be delighted, among other things on the way. So
you saw the video Sean Puffditty Combs the rapper or
whatever he is. M I guess he's more of a
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businessman at this point. He's worth a billion dollars. He
was in a super Bowl commercial. That's how he's mainstream
and popular enough to be in a super Bowl commercial.
What is the video that came out on Friday that
you watched? I didn't watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That was from a while back, I can't remember how long.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, where he's drunk and his his woman.
His girlfriend is trying to leave the hotel room because
he's being abusive and drunk, and he chases her down
the hallway in a towel and catches her by the
elevators essentially, and kicks her and beats her and drags
her around.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
How bad is it terrible? She's okay?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
How to control is he? I guess, is a bruised up? Well,
he's yeah, he's He's beating a woman in public.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So he apologized over the weekend. What does he have
a vodka brand or a shoe? What is his money?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All of the above.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Anyway, let's hear some of his apology and judge whether
we think he means it.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in
your life.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Sometimes you gotta do that. Went and I sought out
professional help, had to go into therapy. You're going to rehad.
But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video
is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my ashes in
that video. I'm disgusted.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I was disgusted then when I did it, I'm disgusting now.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I think it's you know, a statement scode That one's
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
A couple of caveats.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Number one, he's an extremely bright man and so he
knows what needs to be said.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So whether it's sincere or not as difficult to judge.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Secondly, there was a piece I can't remember where might
have been The New York Times a couple of weeks ago,
and I saved it for a while, but that his
parties were infamous for crazy, wild, drug fueled sex stuff,
a lot of which crossed the line.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh yeah, we left out there. I left out the whole.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
They raided his home on both coasts with like one
hundred FBI agents a couple months ago.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But he's so powerful in the style of Harvey Weinstein,
that nobody's talking about it. None of the many attendees
who used to attend these parties that were whispered about,
where women did what they were told and they were
often young and messed up and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I think what we have here is a tip
of an iceberg.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
H Yeah, it seems like a long pattern of a
lifestyle to be able to just apologize that video looked bad. Hm.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, Harvey Wine did he?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I think more will be revealed when that trial comes due.
Biden with an awful speech over the weekend. If you
haven't heard it, it's so maddening arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I wish everybody could get to a place and even
if you don't like Trump. You got to admit that
Joe Biden is as big a threat to democracy in
many ways as you think Donald Trump is with these
things he goes around saying and doing. Anyway, he spoke
at Morehouse College over the weekend, which is a predominantly
black college, and plays some of this discuss and then
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read a little more of what he said, and so
many things that were to be charitable, I'll call them misconstrued.
Really just flat out wise to stoke fear and get
people angry. It's so maddening. Anyway, we're gonna just play
a little.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Political purposes obviously.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, well yeah in an election year, yeah, which is
just awful. Anyway, here's some Joe Biden over the weekend
at the at the commitment commencement at Morehouse, just.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
As George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning
on race. This notch to wonder the democracy you hear
about actually works for you? What is democracy? The black
matter man killed in the street? What is democracy? Portrayal
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of Broker promises still leave black black communities behind? What
is democracy? You have to be ten times better than
anyone else to get a fair shot. Most of all,
what does it mean, as you've heard before, to be
a black man who loves his country, it don't love
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him back in equal measure?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
What the hell? Where do you even start with that?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
How many times have I seen people criticize Donald Trump's
speeches for being dark, apocalyptic, describes America as some hellscape
that none of us recognize.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He's divisive, right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
New York Times their front page Sunday story a couple
of weeks ago was nobody has ever run for president
like this before, And they had quotes from various Trump's
speeches where he talks about.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
How awful it is in America? What was that from
Joe Biden?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Black men being killed in the street sometimes, but it's
statistically not at a greater rate than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's just true.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, if he's implying by cops, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
By other black men, that's accurate. Well, I think he's
implying by cops, so I assumed, Oh yeah, he didn't
have the balls to say it. He just kind of
suggested it. Yeah, what is it to my if you
have to be ten times better than anyone else to
get a fair shot.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, that's just not true either.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, try applying to virtually anyone of the fortune
five hundred right now as a white guy next to
a black guy with exactly the same qualifications, and you
see who gets hired.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That's not a complaint, by the way. I will complain
about it if you like.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
But that's just simply to negate that ridiculous assertion by Biden.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And to be a black man who loves his country
even if his country doesn't love him back. So the
country doesn't love black men, just the president, mean, the
president of the United States stating that in front of
a bunch of graduates. Wow, that is really horrible. That
is really horrible. The National Review, as usual, has some
great writing on this, with some more of the speech
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that didn't get as much attention. Extremists closed the door
on op opportunity. He's talking about the Supreme Court here
for striking down affirmative action. The Supreme Court is a
body who had quote attacked the values of diversity, equality
and inclusion, a national effort to ban books to erase history.
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Republicans don't see you in the future of America, he
informed the audience, a predominantly black school, So Republicans want.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
To blot out black people and murder them all? Was
that right?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And the National Review went through these point by point.
I won't go into all of it because it's kind
of long, but for instance, for instance, and I thought
this was good. I hadn't heard these stats. Biden's lament
for the fate of affirmative action by the extremist Court.
A Gallup poll produced right after the Court's decision in
June of last year to do away with a lot
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of affirmative action found that a majority of black adults
said doing away with racial preferences was mostly a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Of black adults, for the younger crowd under thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's sixty two percent, So nearly two thirds of young
Black Americans said it was mostly a good thing to
do that Joe Biden stands up there and acts like
it's the extremist racists who are trying to keep you down. Likewise,
writes the National Review, these students are unlikely to be
enlivened by the threat posed by a campaign to ban
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books in so far as the campaign to ban books
is not actually happening. And they say if Biden objects
to attempts to impose age related restrictions on sexually explicit material.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He should say so.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
If he takes offense to restricting access to literature in
whatever form it takes, he might spare a word for
people on his side who have banned the Little House
on the Prairie series, Huckleberry Finn to Kill a Mockingbird,
of mice and men, the Odyssey, et cetera, et cetera.
No kidding, it's as if what they pretend our principles
aren't principles at all.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They're just weapons.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
He went on to say about the bleakness of modern
America today.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
In Georgia, they.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Won't allow water to be available to you while you
wait in line to vote an election.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
What the hell is that all about?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's completely Once again, Biden and his spectators should take heart.
Their dour outlook on the state of the nation is
fueled by misapprehensions, as Georgia election alague does not prohibit
voters for consuming whatever they like while waiting to vote,
and it doesn't prohibit service providers from doing business with
perspective voters. Better question would be, what the hell are
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you talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Talking about?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
The SEIU is not allowed to hand out gifts, including
water to voters right before they vote.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That is it's just unbelievable that as the sitting president
of the United States, you can stand up in front
of a black crowd and talk about young black men
being gunned down and affirmative action overturned by a racist court. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Boy, that's desperation. That is ugly, ugly desperation.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So you're the grown up, you're the normalizing person after Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Gonna bring us back together? Huh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hitting people against each other by race, that's sickening. That
is really awful. But some stuff he's hit about polling
over the weekend at an event is pretty good too.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Which polls all of them.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, where's Michael Cohen, who's on the stand right now,
probably saying just.
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Speaker 3 (25:49):
So this isn't new among politicians. When you're ahead in
the polls, you tout the polls constantly. When you're behind
in the polls, you say, I don't follow polls. I mean,
that's just a pretty common thing in Paul. But Joe
Biden had a particularly good version of it yesterday.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You hear about how you know we're behind the polls, Well,
so far, the polls hadn't been right once. Now that look,
we're all we're either tie or slightly ahead or slightly behind.
But what I look at is actual election results, and
the election results are in the primaries. Well, mister Trump
has he doesn't have an opponent, but he lost one
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hundred and twenty thousand votes in Pennsylvania. Didn't vote for him.
I voted for a woman who's no longer in the race.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The crowd laughing, I know, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Nicky Haley got those votes. So clearly Trump's going to lose.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But what was his so far? The polls haven't been
right once. What is he talking about there? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Last couple of elections, I don't know. That's not right,
what he's talking about. But you know what other angle
you're going to take when you're getting trunce in the
polls like this. The most interesting poll thing that I've
seen recently is that in a lot of these states
where Trump is dominating by double digits, the Democrats are
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leading for the US Senate candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right, So there are a.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Number of people that like, I'm I'm I'm I want
the Democrats to control the Senate.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But no more Biden. That's interesting. Now, if I'm Joe Biden,
that's what worries me more than anything.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, I would say, yeah, it's it's a it's a
bad thing when your presidential candidate is underpolling the down
ballot races.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, because it's not people have given up on their
party or or whatever. It's just like I just just
you personally.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, And given our fixation as a nation on the presidency,
which is not healthy. Uh yeah, the fact that you
would underpoll rivers running for the Senate, that's a terrible sign.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's an indictment.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Right. But he's you know, he's ancient and senile. Let's
let's not forget that. That's a hell of thing to say,
Sorry to interrupt.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Uh, that's the hell of thing to say about the
presidential candid and the sitting president.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Everybody's been predicting for such a long time. The it's
just too much to take old man senior moment on
the big stage. He's avoided it so far by getting
his horse juice that they give the Preakness winner, uh
to get to get him through the State of the
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Union speech or whatever. But uh, well, his luck run
out at some point, and then what would happen. I mean,
that's I don't even know if you want Trump to
if you want Trump to win, or maybe a better
way to look at it, you don't want Biden to win.
Maybe you're better off with him kind of making his
way through the debate and Trump wins that way, because
if he has the big you know, locks up like
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Mitch McConnell did a couple of times, or just stare
straight ahead for like two minutes and doctors have to
run out. Len he ain't gonna be on the ticket now,
and then we've got a brand new presidential election going on.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Although that'll be such delicious chaos to watch, chaos at
la launch, But I think, come on, I think, don't
be trampling on my dreams.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'd be exciting, but I don't know that would be
good for Trump's chances.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
There is undeniably a watching an asscar race aspect to
the upcoming debate.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Though, Oh absolute percent of the audience is waiting for
a car What who's waiting?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So you're telling me one out of five people are
tuning in for policy discussion.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Well, no, one out of five, maybe even fifty to
fifty or praying there isn't a crash, God dang it.
Although now, let's let's face it, a shriff Democrats want
him to crash. So true, he's off the ticket because
for all of Trump's incredibly uh what to say, low
high floor, low ceiling, his support just is in a
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fairly narrow band Biden's behind. So yeah, he's an incredibly
weak candidate.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And of course Kamala problem. So if Biden crashes, if
he locks up and just stares straight ahead and doctors
have to run out, then you got to deal with
Kamala somehow.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, you'll hear phony speeches about how it's
important in this critical time that we have an open
system and an open process for choosing our nominee Vice President.
Harris has done great work for America. She's a great
leader for the future, and it's gonna be one of
several choices.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It'll be funny to watch.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I saw an Instagram video over the weekend. I decided
it was probably too much for the show, as a
woman doing a great Kamala Harrison personation, black woman shopping
for caskets and implying a lot and I would like
to you can he with a presidential seal on it?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Hah?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Then she would cackle. Let's revisit that. I'd kind of
like to hear that. Come on, anyway, we got more
on the way. This is the most election of our lifetime.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Check I got chat.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
GPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by
Scarlett Johansson's Ai character in Her which I have never
bothered to watch because without that body, what's the point
of listening.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That was the end of the year on Saturday Live,
last show the season which they Chay and Colin Jos
write each other's jokes. So Chay wrote a joke for
Colin in which he had to disparage his wife.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
She's a little close to home.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, very funny, very amusing.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
My favorite thing on that was at the Correspondence dinner
a couple of weeks ago, and Colin Joe said, and
by the way, my wife is here and she would
like to meet every single.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
One of you. Do not be shy. Just run right
up to her and start talking. That's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's a hilarious Hey, this just in from the Cohen trial,
the Stormy Daniel's trial, the Hushbunny trial, the federal election
interference trial, which would you like, what do you wand
to the sham try to keep Trump from winning trial,
That's what I'll call it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Well, they ought to settle on one of those in
the actual trial.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Anyway. Somebody's commentary on the news I'm about to tell
you was the same qualities that made Trump seek out
having Cohen as his main fixer.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Sleazy, dishonest, willing.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
To break rules because that's what you want in a fixer, right,
that's fair. Also make him a very poor witness in
a criminal case. This is breaking from MSNBC. Michael Cohen
admits he stole from the Trump organization.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Whoops.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
So you hate the guy, You've done podcasts where you
want him, you say, you want him to rot in jail.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You stole from the guy.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
You secretly recorded phone calls with him, right conversation. You're
sitting there as a juror saying, okay, all right, prosecution.
So what you're asking me to do is mentally climb
past all of that wreckage of his credibility, find a
shred or two of things he said, and convict a
guy on that basis. Yeah, I don't feel like doing
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that much more. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We'll see what else, what other developments come out of today.
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Stories you're not gonna hear, certainly from the mainstream media.
One is annoying. One is not. A Colorado woman who's
forced to subdue and restrain a peeping tom in a
department store dressing room on Saturday after noticing his creepvoid behavior.
Thanks to gender neutral fitting rooms, this man was able
to film me while trying on clothes, said this woman,
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who wrastled him to the ground, put him in a
headlike a headlock, and held him for twenty minutes, waiting
for the cops. First of all, gal not to be
messed with us. Secondly, putting aside the idiocy of dudes
being allowed into women's private spaces.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I've been on both ends of many headlocks in my
life as a wrestler. That's a long time to hold
somebody in a headlock.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But the other part that's kind of angering is she
said sadly, employees who tried to help were asked to
quote remove themselves from the situation. So employees tried to
help her in the management said back off, don't help her.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Don't help You've got to be kidding me. So that's
a society y'all want to live in. You've got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And as I've asked so many people, lawyers thinkers, how do.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We get out of this? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
How do we break out of this lawyeristic nobody's willing
to help a fellow citizen because they might get So,
how do we break out.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Of this grey to do what is clearly right out
of fear of litigation among others?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And it didn't use to exist. I don't want to
end on that note. I do not.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Harrison Butker, Kansas City chiefs. Kicker gave that controversial speech
as a Catholic at a Catholic university to Catholics, affirming
Catholic values and were expected to be outraged by the
mainstream media. For some reason, sales of his jersey have skyrocketed.
They are now among the His jersey, rather is now
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among the top selling jerseys in the NFL, and has
surpassed that of his quarterback, one of the greatest ever,
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Wow, that's pretty awesome. I like I like seeing that.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Yeah, people, normal people are stepping up.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh is it number one? Now?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Harrison Butker Nike Red Game jersey is now the number
one seller in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Unless I am misreading this, I don't think now Holmes
and who else is super popular? Everyone. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah,
that is. That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
The view of this wonderful country you get from our media,
our entertainment giants, and our academia is so twisted and
so wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's that's why why they always say the best way
to get a good view of the America for real
jersey sales. I don't recall saying that's the how you
figured it out.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I don't. That is awesome, good and you ruined it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
Armstrong and Getty
From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington
Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and Getty show.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
President Biden and President Trump have agreed to two debates
this summer. For a preview of the debates, take a
bottle of ambient and adderall at the same time.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
I was surprised.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I was listening to one of my favorite Republican broadcasts podcasts,
the National Review podcast, last week, and they were talking
about your enthusiasm about the debate on a scale of
one to ten, and they were all like, I don't know, two, four,
I don't know, is there anything lower than zero. I'd
been like, what's on a scale of one to ten?
How about a hundred? I wouldn't miss it. If my
first kid was being bored, I'd tell my wife, you're
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gonna have to delivered alone. I'm not missing this debate.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Wow, that's a statement. Yes, seriously.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Actually I heard that myself phone was surprised by it.
There are times that there are commentators who I really like,
who are a bit too ensconced in their intellectual salons
and floating above those of us who live in the
real world.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
To get what I mean, well, that was my question.
Are most people like, ah, that sounds awful. I'm not
gonna watch her. Most people as excited as I am
to watch his first debate.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
I think there's a weird combination of anticipation and dread,
just because both pugilists are known for various behaviors that
we don't love. Whether it's Trump's constant interjecting and interrupting
and being petulant. Sometimes Biden's just an old hack politician.
(01:48):
But this is to me, it is a cognition test
for Biden past fail. It's funny we brought up the
last week, probably midweek, as soon as the announcement was made,
that it being the first of the debates being scheduled
so early was interesting in that it might be an
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attempt by the Biden team to change their trajectory of
the race before it gets embedded in the American consciousness. Right,
and a number of folks have suggested it's also a
chance for the Democrats to decide once and for all,
do we go with.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
The old old warhorse.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Or do we make the emergency, last minute substitution that's
being called the Erza Klein strategy in some quarters. Because
he's been writing that, apparently in the New York Times
for quite some time, that they need to have an
event like that so they can make a decision break
glass in case of emergency sort of intervention in the party.
I don't know. I don't know if that's what they're
(02:47):
actually thinking or not.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
We said it.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Before Ezra Frea conclined did. Why does he get the credit?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Is there any chance that they can move up the
Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight to be right to hoard
the debate? I think a fifty four year old Mike
Tyson fighting before the eighty presidential candidates just say it.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
They'd be a good theme. They both have a bit
of a poop show feel to them. Rajor what is
going on here? Feel all right?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
This is not what we're going to talk about. Dam
I demand decorum. It's time for a campus madness update.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Down this road lies madness. Thank you, Jonathan Surley. A
number of headlines for you and Jack.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We can delve into them as deeply as you want,
or we can just keep moving. Harvard was unresponsive to
anti semitism. According to a House committee that was holding
hearings last week, they have a number of examples of
just utterly transparent double standards at Harvard and the other
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so called elite universities.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, Well that's become completely clear. Which is
that good news bad news that all that stuff about
microaggressions and words are violence, that that all turned out
to be bogus? Is that good news or bad news?
Speaker 4 (04:13):
My think this kid that it was exposed as being
crap because that remember that was always just a attack,
a tool used by the neo Marxists to get you
intimidated and to shut up.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I thought they actually believed that stuff, But they don't.
So some of the kids do.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yeah, absolutely, the dopey kids who are the useful idiots
of the neo Marxists, Yeah, they believe it. So anyway,
to get to the question of a double standard, obviously,
our framework here is try this with a black kid,
or a transgender kid, or a Muslim kid, or literally
any kid in the world other than a white kid
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or a Jewish kid who, according to the idiotic, oppress
or oppressed Marxist worldview, Jews are white people. Anyway, Ah,
let's see. The Harvard Jewish Alumni Alliance last week published
a report that compiles testimony, much of an anonymous from
fifty current and former Jewish students and faculty.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Here a handful of the things that they said.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Quote Harvard signals that Jews are only acceptable as long
as they don't fully embrace Judaism.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
The only way to cope is.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
To quote not dressed too Jewish, request that the university
accommodate Jewish holidays, don't speak Hebrew or God forbid, actually
support Israel's right to exist. Another quote, so much harder
for the students who are visibly Jewish. I have a
friend who wears a kippa the cap and was physically
cornered by a group of students demanding that he denounced
the so called genocide.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Wow wow quote.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Because of my Jewish and Zionist identity, people think I
am a monster. I've heard people say Zionists should be slain.
I've heard people say you can't possibly believe in ISRAELI
they're all settlers. Another quotes pretty scary to walk around campus.
Pretty much all Orthodox guys have started wearing baseball caps,
and the significantly the reports is bullying of Jewish Jewish
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students took place well before October seventh, but then became louder, prouder,
and more visible after the seventh and in many cases
before the Israeli response, What is going on there?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think I have a whole go ahead, and I
think maybe a better analogy would be.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Gay people.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
You can be gay, but don't dress like you're gay,
or walk like you're gay, or talk like you're gay.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
If I hear a lisp, you're you know, you're gonna
get what you get.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
This year one hundred and twelve Harvard faculty and staff
called for a boycott of Israel and all companies that
sustain the israel apartheid, settler colonialism, and systemic human rights abuses.
By the way, all that settler colonialism stuff that is
verbiage straight out of Marxism. That's the This is not
some sort of conspiracy theory. They've written books, they put
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their name on the cover. They've described how exactly we
get rid of Western capitalism, and that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
This is not mysterious.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
This is not some you know, I'm a Nicholas Cage
in one of those goofy movies where he discovers the
Declaration of Independence and a pot of gold or whatever.
This is not secret stuff anyway. Moving along because there's more.
Let's move out to cal Unicornia, where realism goes to
die and anti Semitism is absolutely welcome and Dei garbage
(07:39):
is taught on all the campuses. In fact, California, there's
a move away from thank god these you have to
sign your diversity statement, meaning your fealty to the cult
of Dei, and all sorts of states around the country
are saying no, not only do you not have to
do that, they're now illegal.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
California is doubling down on it. It's worth mentioning.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
But UCLA students are suing the university over leged tolerance
of quote unquote campus terrorists making it impossible to attend
class and use the campus facilities. We both despise the
over you know, laws suitification of the United States. But
this is legit, i'd say, says the crazy out there
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lawsuit usl. UCLA Jewish students and faculty members quote share
the same common interest of wanting to be safe and
free from campus terrorism and anti Semitism and safe and
free from harm including assault and battery as any other students.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
And again got to use the example of I forget
which college it was, but this sort of thing has
happened many times. Somebody put Confederate flag stickers around the
campus and now the FBI is investigating and priority one
for the university. This is not letting certain students go
to class, and you're brushing it off.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
And I would willingly beat one thousand dollars that those
Confederate flagstickers were put up by left wing activists to
deflect the spotlight from themselves.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
They do that all the time. It's really quite amazing.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Another story University of California, Irvine. The chancellor said he's
broken hearted after the campus erupted in chaos during anti
Israel protests late last week.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
What a sad day for our campus.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I'm broken hearted, said Chancellor Howard Gilman in a letter
to the campus community. Now listen to the utter lack
of recognition that this guy has over how deliberate all
of this is, How all of the dopey college kids
are being egged on, fired up, funded and organized by
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organized neo Marxist organizations that are funded by you know,
your George Soros type, if not communist China is funding
these or the Hamas themselves or the Palestinian Students for Liberation,
whatever the.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Hell it is.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
All of these are organized groups, and this guy is
still in his quote sounding like it was just a
bunch of fired up little college kids.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Here we go.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
The encampers assured our community that they were committed to
maintaining a peaceful and non disruptive encampment. It was terrible
to see that they would dramatically alter the situation in
a way that was a direct assault on the rights
of other students and the university mission. For the past
two weeks have consistently communicated that the encampment violates our policies,
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but didn't rise to police involvement. We used all of
you s u See's possible alternatives before resorting to the police.
I was prepared to allow to peaceful allow a police
peaceful encampment to exist on the campus without resorting to
the coppers, even though the encampment violated I communicated to
this there were violations of our rules that we would
(10:53):
have to deal with them.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And then they violated our rules.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Howard, dude, the Marxists were there to stir things up
as much as possible. Howard, did you seriously you're running
a university. Miss all of those news reports from Columbia
where the kids were getting instructions. You have to occupy
a building because that ups the andes and that will
force a police reaction. You've got to occupy territory. You've
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got to defy the university. We can't have this remain peaceful. Seriously, dude,
did you miss all those news reports?
Speaker 1 (11:28):
That's a good question.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Actually, these people are completely unaware, partly because he's part
of the world of academia that's either down with the
Marxism or they're sappy lefties that think people like me.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
You're having some sort.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Of fever dream right, exactly, fever dreams, conspiracy nuts whatever. Again,
I point out these people have written books, their names
are on the cover, and they mean it. The La
County Board of Supervisors wants taxpayers to fund legal aid
for the Prohamas octys in La who got arrested at UCLA.
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Taxpayer money to bail these people out, nice, nice, and
finally this and this is a little annoying to me,
but several people on our side of things are pointing
out that the Washington Post had an opinion state the
statement The problem with diversity statements and what to do
about them. DEI statements have too often led to self
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censorship and ideological policing. These are these loathsome DEI statements
that you have to sign to get a job at
a lot of universities, and in fact, at one point
it was something like seventy percent of university jobs required them. Well,
and the wall post saying hey, we should probably not
have these is a good step. But if you delve
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into the opinion piece, they say, now DEI and all
of its principles are extremely important, and we need to
enforce them and we need to double down on them.
But they say the statements themselves are ideological lockstep. That
is probably uncool on a college campus where ideological inquiry
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is the point of why we're there.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
So I'll give him half credit for that half credit.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Wa po, we got to get to this hour the
speech Joe Biden gave it a Black college over the
weekend because I just thought it was appalling, absolutely appalling,
maybe the worst thing he's ever done. On what you're
saying something and is interesting.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
The Left pitting us against each other by ethnicity and
race again seems to be a theme.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
So P Diddy.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Apologized over the weekend. Did anybody see the p Diddy
video that came out on Friday? I think this happened
at right after we got off the air. Yes, him
beating up his girlfriend in the hotel.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
Yeah, that's raw. Second, he apologized over the weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
You want to hear his apology, and Joe's good at
grading apologies for authenticity or.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
They meant it.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
I'd be delighted, among other things on the way. So
you saw the video Sean Puffditty Combs the rapper or
whatever he is. M I guess he's more of a
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businessman at this point. He's worth a billion dollars. He
was in a super Bowl commercial. That's how he's mainstream
and popular enough to be in a super Bowl commercial.
What is the video that came out on Friday that
you watched? I didn't watch it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
That was from a while back, I can't remember how long.
Speaker 4 (14:40):
Twenty sixteen, twenty sixteen, where he's drunk and his his woman.
His girlfriend is trying to leave the hotel room because
he's being abusive and drunk, and he chases her down
the hallway in a towel and catches her by the
elevators essentially, and kicks her and beats her and drags
her around.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
How bad is it terrible? She's okay?
Speaker 4 (15:04):
How to control is he? I guess, is a bruised up? Well,
he's yeah, he's He's beating a woman in public.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
It's terrible.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
So he apologized over the weekend. What does he have
a vodka brand or a shoe? What is his money?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
All of the above.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Anyway, let's hear some of his apology and judge whether
we think he means it.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
It's so difficult to reflect on the darkest times in
your life.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Sometimes you gotta do that. Went and I sought out
professional help, had to go into therapy. You're going to rehad.
But I make no excuses. My behavior on that video
is inexcusable. I take full responsibility for my ashes in
that video. I'm disgusted.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
I was disgusted then when I did it, I'm disgusting now.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
I think it's you know, a statement scode That one's
pretty good.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
A couple of caveats.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
Number one, he's an extremely bright man and so he
knows what needs to be said.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
So whether it's sincere or not as difficult to judge.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
Secondly, there was a piece I can't remember where might
have been The New York Times a couple of weeks ago,
and I saved it for a while, but that his
parties were infamous for crazy, wild, drug fueled sex stuff,
a lot of which crossed the line.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Oh yeah, we left out there. I left out the whole.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
They raided his home on both coasts with like one
hundred FBI agents a couple months ago.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
But he's so powerful in the style of Harvey Weinstein,
that nobody's talking about it. None of the many attendees
who used to attend these parties that were whispered about,
where women did what they were told and they were
often young and messed up and the rest of it.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Yeah, I think what we have here is a tip
of an iceberg.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
H Yeah, it seems like a long pattern of a
lifestyle to be able to just apologize that video looked bad. Hm.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Okay, Harvey Wine did he?
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I think more will be revealed when that trial comes due.
Biden with an awful speech over the weekend. If you
haven't heard it, it's so maddening arm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
I wish you could.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
I wish everybody could get to a place and even
if you don't like Trump. You got to admit that
Joe Biden is as big a threat to democracy in
many ways as you think Donald Trump is with these
things he goes around saying and doing. Anyway, he spoke
at Morehouse College over the weekend, which is a predominantly
black college, and plays some of this discuss and then
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read a little more of what he said, and so
many things that were to be charitable, I'll call them misconstrued.
Really just flat out wise to stoke fear and get
people angry. It's so maddening. Anyway, we're gonna just play
a little.
Speaker 1 (18:06):
Political purposes obviously.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
Yeah, well yeah in an election year, yeah, which is
just awful. Anyway, here's some Joe Biden over the weekend
at the at the commitment commencement at Morehouse, just.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
As George Floyd was murdered and there was a reckoning
on race. This notch to wonder the democracy you hear
about actually works for you? What is democracy? The black
matter man killed in the street? What is democracy? Portrayal
(18:40):
of Broker promises still leave black black communities behind? What
is democracy? You have to be ten times better than
anyone else to get a fair shot. Most of all,
what does it mean, as you've heard before, to be
a black man who loves his country, it don't love
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him back in equal measure?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
What the hell? Where do you even start with that?
Speaker 3 (19:07):
How many times have I seen people criticize Donald Trump's
speeches for being dark, apocalyptic, describes America as some hellscape
that none of us recognize.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
He's divisive, right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
New York Times their front page Sunday story a couple
of weeks ago was nobody has ever run for president
like this before, And they had quotes from various Trump's
speeches where he talks about.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
How awful it is in America? What was that from
Joe Biden?
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Black men being killed in the street sometimes, but it's
statistically not at a greater rate than anybody else.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
It's just true.
Speaker 4 (19:44):
Well, if he's implying by cops, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
By other black men, that's accurate. Well, I think he's
implying by cops, so I assumed, Oh yeah, he didn't
have the balls to say it. He just kind of
suggested it. Yeah, what is it to my if you
have to be ten times better than anyone else to
get a fair shot.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Well, that's just not true either.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, try applying to virtually anyone of the fortune
five hundred right now as a white guy next to
a black guy with exactly the same qualifications, and you
see who gets hired.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
That's not a complaint, by the way. I will complain
about it if you like.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
But that's just simply to negate that ridiculous assertion by Biden.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
And to be a black man who loves his country
even if his country doesn't love him back. So the
country doesn't love black men, just the president, mean, the
president of the United States stating that in front of
a bunch of graduates. Wow, that is really horrible. That
is really horrible. The National Review, as usual, has some
great writing on this, with some more of the speech
(20:52):
that didn't get as much attention. Extremists closed the door
on op opportunity. He's talking about the Supreme Court here
for striking down affirmative action. The Supreme Court is a
body who had quote attacked the values of diversity, equality
and inclusion, a national effort to ban books to erase history.
(21:16):
Republicans don't see you in the future of America, he
informed the audience, a predominantly black school, So Republicans want.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
To blot out black people and murder them all? Was
that right?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
And the National Review went through these point by point.
I won't go into all of it because it's kind
of long, but for instance, for instance, and I thought
this was good. I hadn't heard these stats. Biden's lament
for the fate of affirmative action by the extremist Court.
A Gallup poll produced right after the Court's decision in
June of last year to do away with a lot
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of affirmative action found that a majority of black adults
said doing away with racial preferences was mostly a good thing.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Of black adults, for the younger crowd under thirty nine.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
It's sixty two percent, So nearly two thirds of young
Black Americans said it was mostly a good thing to
do that Joe Biden stands up there and acts like
it's the extremist racists who are trying to keep you down. Likewise,
writes the National Review, these students are unlikely to be
enlivened by the threat posed by a campaign to ban
(22:22):
books in so far as the campaign to ban books
is not actually happening. And they say if Biden objects
to attempts to impose age related restrictions on sexually explicit material.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
He should say so.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
If he takes offense to restricting access to literature in
whatever form it takes, he might spare a word for
people on his side who have banned the Little House
on the Prairie series, Huckleberry Finn to Kill a Mockingbird,
of mice and men, the Odyssey, et cetera, et cetera.
No kidding, it's as if what they pretend our principles
aren't principles at all.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
They're just weapons.
Speaker 3 (22:57):
He went on to say about the bleakness of modern
America today.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
In Georgia, they.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Won't allow water to be available to you while you
wait in line to vote an election.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
What the hell is that all about?
Speaker 3 (23:09):
That's completely Once again, Biden and his spectators should take heart.
Their dour outlook on the state of the nation is
fueled by misapprehensions, as Georgia election alague does not prohibit
voters for consuming whatever they like while waiting to vote,
and it doesn't prohibit service providers from doing business with
perspective voters. Better question would be, what the hell are
(23:29):
you talking about.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
Talking about?
Speaker 4 (23:33):
The SEIU is not allowed to hand out gifts, including
water to voters right before they vote.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
That is it's just unbelievable that as the sitting president
of the United States, you can stand up in front
of a black crowd and talk about young black men
being gunned down and affirmative action overturned by a racist court. Wow.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Boy, that's desperation. That is ugly, ugly desperation.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
So you're the grown up, you're the normalizing person after Trump.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Gonna bring us back together? Huh?
Speaker 3 (24:14):
Hitting people against each other by race, that's sickening. That
is really awful. But some stuff he's hit about polling
over the weekend at an event is pretty good too.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Which polls all of them.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
Okay, where's Michael Cohen, who's on the stand right now,
probably saying just.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
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Speaker 3 (25:49):
So this isn't new among politicians. When you're ahead in
the polls, you tout the polls constantly. When you're behind
in the polls, you say, I don't follow polls. I mean,
that's just a pretty common thing in Paul. But Joe
Biden had a particularly good version of it yesterday.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
You hear about how you know we're behind the polls, Well,
so far, the polls hadn't been right once. Now that look,
we're all we're either tie or slightly ahead or slightly behind.
But what I look at is actual election results, and
the election results are in the primaries. Well, mister Trump
has he doesn't have an opponent, but he lost one
(26:25):
hundred and twenty thousand votes in Pennsylvania. Didn't vote for him.
I voted for a woman who's no longer in the race.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
The crowd laughing, I know, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (26:34):
Nicky Haley got those votes. So clearly Trump's going to lose.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
But what was his so far? The polls haven't been
right once. What is he talking about there? I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Last couple of elections, I don't know. That's not right,
what he's talking about. But you know what other angle
you're going to take when you're getting trunce in the
polls like this. The most interesting poll thing that I've
seen recently is that in a lot of these states
where Trump is dominating by double digits, the Democrats are
(27:06):
leading for the US Senate candidate.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
Right, So there are a.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Number of people that like, I'm I'm I'm I want
the Democrats to control the Senate.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
But no more Biden. That's interesting. Now, if I'm Joe Biden,
that's what worries me more than anything.
Speaker 4 (27:21):
Yeah, I would say, yeah, it's it's a it's a
bad thing when your presidential candidate is underpolling the down
ballot races.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
Yeah, because it's not people have given up on their
party or or whatever. It's just like I just just
you personally.
Speaker 4 (27:35):
Yeah, And given our fixation as a nation on the presidency,
which is not healthy. Uh yeah, the fact that you
would underpoll rivers running for the Senate, that's a terrible sign.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
That's an indictment.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Right. But he's you know, he's ancient and senile. Let's
let's not forget that. That's a hell of thing to say,
Sorry to interrupt.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
Uh, that's the hell of thing to say about the
presidential candid and the sitting president.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
Everybody's been predicting for such a long time. The it's
just too much to take old man senior moment on
the big stage. He's avoided it so far by getting
his horse juice that they give the Preakness winner, uh
to get to get him through the State of the
(28:25):
Union speech or whatever. But uh, well, his luck run
out at some point, and then what would happen. I mean,
that's I don't even know if you want Trump to
if you want Trump to win, or maybe a better
way to look at it, you don't want Biden to win.
Maybe you're better off with him kind of making his
way through the debate and Trump wins that way, because
if he has the big you know, locks up like
(28:47):
Mitch McConnell did a couple of times, or just stare
straight ahead for like two minutes and doctors have to
run out. Len he ain't gonna be on the ticket now,
and then we've got a brand new presidential election going on.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Although that'll be such delicious chaos to watch, chaos at
la launch, But I think, come on, I think, don't
be trampling on my dreams.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I'd be exciting, but I don't know that would be
good for Trump's chances.
Speaker 4 (29:08):
There is undeniably a watching an asscar race aspect to
the upcoming debate.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
Though, Oh absolute percent of the audience is waiting for
a car What who's waiting?
Speaker 3 (29:21):
So you're telling me one out of five people are
tuning in for policy discussion.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
I don't believe it.
Speaker 4 (29:27):
Well, no, one out of five, maybe even fifty to
fifty or praying there isn't a crash, God dang it.
Although now, let's let's face it, a shriff Democrats want
him to crash. So true, he's off the ticket because
for all of Trump's incredibly uh what to say, low
high floor, low ceiling, his support just is in a
(29:49):
fairly narrow band Biden's behind. So yeah, he's an incredibly
weak candidate.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And of course Kamala problem. So if Biden crashes, if
he locks up and just stares straight ahead and doctors
have to run out, then you got to deal with
Kamala somehow.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Oh yeah, yeah, you'll hear phony speeches about how it's
important in this critical time that we have an open
system and an open process for choosing our nominee Vice President.
Harris has done great work for America. She's a great
leader for the future, and it's gonna be one of
several choices.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
It'll be funny to watch.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I saw an Instagram video over the weekend. I decided
it was probably too much for the show, as a
woman doing a great Kamala Harrison personation, black woman shopping
for caskets and implying a lot and I would like
to you can he with a presidential seal on it?
Speaker 5 (30:44):
Hah?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Then she would cackle. Let's revisit that. I'd kind of
like to hear that. Come on, anyway, we got more
on the way. This is the most election of our lifetime.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
Check I got chat.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
GPT has released a new voice assistant feature inspired by
Scarlett Johansson's Ai character in Her which I have never
bothered to watch because without that body, what's the point
of listening.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
That was the end of the year on Saturday Live,
last show the season which they Chay and Colin Jos
write each other's jokes. So Chay wrote a joke for
Colin in which he had to disparage his wife.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
She's a little close to home.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Yes, very funny, very amusing.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
My favorite thing on that was at the Correspondence dinner
a couple of weeks ago, and Colin Joe said, and
by the way, my wife is here and she would
like to meet every single.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
One of you. Do not be shy. Just run right
up to her and start talking. That's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
It's a hilarious Hey, this just in from the Cohen trial,
the Stormy Daniel's trial, the Hushbunny trial, the federal election
interference trial, which would you like, what do you wand
to the sham try to keep Trump from winning trial,
That's what I'll call it.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
Well, they ought to settle on one of those in
the actual trial.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Anyway. Somebody's commentary on the news I'm about to tell
you was the same qualities that made Trump seek out
having Cohen as his main fixer.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
Sleazy, dishonest, willing.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
To break rules because that's what you want in a fixer, right,
that's fair. Also make him a very poor witness in
a criminal case. This is breaking from MSNBC. Michael Cohen
admits he stole from the Trump organization.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Whoops.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
So you hate the guy, You've done podcasts where you
want him, you say, you want him to rot in jail.
Speaker 1 (32:49):
You stole from the guy.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
You secretly recorded phone calls with him, right conversation. You're
sitting there as a juror saying, okay, all right, prosecution.
So what you're asking me to do is mentally climb
past all of that wreckage of his credibility, find a
shred or two of things he said, and convict a
guy on that basis. Yeah, I don't feel like doing
(33:14):
that much more. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
We'll see what else, what other developments come out of today.
A couple of.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Stories you're not gonna hear, certainly from the mainstream media.
One is annoying. One is not. A Colorado woman who's
forced to subdue and restrain a peeping tom in a
department store dressing room on Saturday after noticing his creepvoid behavior.
Thanks to gender neutral fitting rooms, this man was able
to film me while trying on clothes, said this woman,
(33:41):
who wrastled him to the ground, put him in a
headlike a headlock, and held him for twenty minutes, waiting
for the cops. First of all, gal not to be
messed with us. Secondly, putting aside the idiocy of dudes
being allowed into women's private spaces.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I've been on both ends of many headlocks in my
life as a wrestler. That's a long time to hold
somebody in a headlock.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
But the other part that's kind of angering is she
said sadly, employees who tried to help were asked to
quote remove themselves from the situation. So employees tried to
help her in the management said back off, don't help her.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Don't help You've got to be kidding me. So that's
a society y'all want to live in. You've got to
be kidding me.
Speaker 3 (34:22):
And as I've asked so many people, lawyers thinkers, how do.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We get out of this? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (34:28):
How do we break out of this lawyeristic nobody's willing
to help a fellow citizen because they might get So,
how do we break out.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
Of this grey to do what is clearly right out
of fear of litigation among others?
Speaker 1 (34:42):
And it didn't use to exist. I don't want to
end on that note. I do not.
Speaker 4 (34:50):
Harrison Butker, Kansas City chiefs. Kicker gave that controversial speech
as a Catholic at a Catholic university to Catholics, affirming
Catholic values and were expected to be outraged by the
mainstream media. For some reason, sales of his jersey have skyrocketed.
They are now among the His jersey, rather is now
(35:12):
among the top selling jerseys in the NFL, and has
surpassed that of his quarterback, one of the greatest ever,
Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Wow, that's pretty awesome. I like I like seeing that.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
Yeah, people, normal people are stepping up.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Oh is it number one? Now?
Speaker 4 (35:32):
Harrison Butker Nike Red Game jersey is now the number
one seller in the NFL.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Unless I am misreading this, I don't think now Holmes
and who else is super popular? Everyone. That's amazing. Yeah, yeah,
that is. That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
The view of this wonderful country you get from our media,
our entertainment giants, and our academia is so twisted and
so wrong.
Speaker 3 (36:02):
That's that's why why they always say the best way
to get a good view of the America for real
jersey sales. I don't recall saying that's the how you
figured it out.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I don't. That is awesome, good and you ruined it.
Speaker 3 (36:14):
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