Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jettie I know he.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: We are a country that has been voting against We
Speaker 3: voted against Hillary Clinton at sixteen and got Trump. We
Speaker 3: voted against Trump and twenty and got Biden. I think
Speaker 3: this is another vote against election out of vote four.
Speaker 3: This isn't we sit here we think it's about all
Speaker 3: these issues. This is really a cultural like this is
Speaker 3: people believe they're voting for a way of life. A
Speaker 3: good chunk of both sides of this, which is why
Speaker 3: nothing gets resolved after Tuesday Night.
Speaker 4: I thought that was a pretty good point for Chuck
Speaker 4: Todd and clearly where we are. And Joe explained why
Speaker 4: it is that way in America in our two I guess.
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Speaker 4: Since Congress, since Congress doesn't do their job anymore, and
Speaker 4: the President takes the reins of so many different parts
Speaker 4: of government, and government's more involved in our life than
Speaker 4: it's ever been. And then you add in the weird
Speaker 4: obsession with attaching yourself to the personality of whichever candidate. Yeah,
Speaker 4: people are voting feel like they're voting for a way
Speaker 4: of life and they didn't get their way of life
Speaker 4: choice if the other person wins.
Speaker 1: So no, we'll not worry, right, right, And you know,
Speaker 1: in at least a partial defense of people who are
Speaker 1: going nuts over the election, it was not many years
Speaker 1: ago at all that there was a huge overlap in
Speaker 1: terms of policies and attitudes between Democrats and Republicans. I
Speaker 1: mean a huge overlap. Now there's very very little, and
Speaker 1: to my mind, the outward end of the Democratic Party,
Speaker 1: the out to the left end, is utterly insane in
Speaker 1: a way that a Bill Clinton, that Jimmy Carter never were.
Speaker 1: They were wrong about some stuff, but they weren't out
Speaker 1: of their minds. Men should play in women's sports if
Speaker 1: they say they're a girl, that's freaking crazy. Tax Payers
Speaker 1: ought to pay for sex change surgeries for illegal immigrant murderers.
Speaker 2: That's looney to you.
Speaker 1: Ought to be locked up with the aforementioned confused, you know,
Speaker 1: murderer if you think that's a good idea in my opinion.
Speaker 4: Well, and obviously having our border this open for the
Speaker 4: last couple of years is unprecedented. Also, yeah, so the
Speaker 4: whole polling thing, and not individual polls, but just polling
Speaker 4: in general.
Speaker 2: I hope we're all learning a lesson.
Speaker 4: This polling isn't it's being portrayed or has been portrayed
Speaker 4: in recent years and is something it's not. And everybody
Speaker 4: got off track. So there is this all this the
Speaker 4: polls are wrong. I don't even believe the polls and
Speaker 4: pulls are wrong. They're not. Nobody ever said that they
Speaker 4: could be right. Really, it's not a thing. I was
Speaker 4: listening to Chris Steierwaldt, formerly a Fox Now of News Nations.
Speaker 4: Pulling guy said works for stuff like opinions of how
Speaker 4: do you like the new Coke zero can? And if
Speaker 4: you get like sixty five percent of people in a
Speaker 4: focus group like the new can or not, then you
Speaker 4: keep it. If you don't, but if it's off by
Speaker 4: five percent, it doesn't matter. You got the general direction
Speaker 4: of people who like the new can or not. That's
Speaker 4: that's the best pretty much you can do with asking
Speaker 4: people questions. It's not designed to drill down to a percentage,
Speaker 4: like the single percentage of whether or not it's right
Speaker 4: or not. It's just like in general, do people like, uh,
Speaker 4: you know the state of Arizona or Audi Cars or
Speaker 4: whatever your example.
Speaker 1: Is, and too hot and sandy by the way, Arizona.
Speaker 4: But when you get down to you know, close elections,
Speaker 4: it's not even it's not even supposed to. They would
Speaker 4: never the good pulling organizations never even claim that they
Speaker 4: can do that.
Speaker 1: Right, As I've said, it's a shotgun, not a not
Speaker 1: a rifle, which Trump would probably point at Liz Cheney
Speaker 1: from what I understand. More on that to come.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But so we started talking last weekend as Christyle
Speaker 4: or Chris Steyerwalt Nate Silver and some of the other
Speaker 4: good poles are start talking about the herding that they
Speaker 4: think is going on. Herding as in like a cattle herd,
Speaker 4: it's just either on purpose to influence the polls a
Speaker 4: certain direction, or more likely you just kind of a
Speaker 4: little bit out of cowardice. Nobody wants to put out
Speaker 4: a pole that's way out of what everybody else is doing.
Speaker 4: And so kind of like with herding, you don't know
Speaker 4: exactly know which cow started the herd run in that direction,
Speaker 4: but some cows did, and then the other cow started
Speaker 4: following it, and that's way it is with this the
Speaker 4: super close poles, and nobody wants to come out and be,
Speaker 4: you know, and say our pole has Trump up by
Speaker 4: seven or behind by seven, because you're just gonna get
Speaker 4: killed all day long by one side or the other.
Speaker 2: Nobody wants to do that.
Speaker 4: And Nate Silver believes that they're they're they're adjusting their
Speaker 4: polls to try to keep them really close. And he says,
Speaker 4: they ran the numbers on the averages of the big poles.
Speaker 4: Even if all seven swing states are actually tied, there's
Speaker 4: only a one to nine point five trillion chance that
Speaker 4: so many poles would show such a close race at
Speaker 4: any one time.
Speaker 2: So, in other words, it's impossi it's impossible.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's impossible that all the poles would show, you know,
Speaker 4: every poll say yep, we've got it less than one
Speaker 4: percent in every state to US today, US two.
Speaker 1: It's impossible, which follow them, okay, okay, And yet they
Speaker 1: are claiming that very thing, wow, right, which is interesting.
Speaker 4: And then you have and don't need to belabor this,
Speaker 4: but then you had the Iowa poll come out yesterday
Speaker 4: with the single most respected in America, this woman that
Speaker 4: everybody trusts, and one of the reasons she's been doing
Speaker 4: it for so long and getting so much attention is
Speaker 4: you know, I was the first date in all the primaries,
Speaker 4: so they got more polling going on there than anywhere else.
Speaker 2: In the country for ever since I always been the
Speaker 2: first state.
Speaker 4: AnyWho, they had a giant, giant swing, and she was
Speaker 4: just explaining the Polster all day long. That's that's what
Speaker 4: we got. That's the way polls should work. You get
Speaker 4: big swings and you have to take them all in
Speaker 4: and look for trends and this and that.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, so the fix is clearly in. And
Speaker 1: I don't think it's partisanship all the way it could.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I know that it's not. But to me,
Speaker 1: it's like other industries, including the one we're in, where
Speaker 1: you will never get fired for doing the same thing
Speaker 1: everybody else is doing. If, on the other hand, you
Speaker 1: take a chance and it doesn't work out, or you
Speaker 1: publish a poll that says Trump's ahead by seven and
Speaker 1: then maybe he loses or something like that, you take
Speaker 1: a risk of losing your If you just you know,
Speaker 1: run along mooing with the rest of the herd, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: Right, So Nate Silver, the great respected pollster, tweeting about
Speaker 4: this lot, and he's gotten in a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: fights with a lot of other polling organizations over this
Speaker 4: over the last four or five days. But he said,
Speaker 4: waiting is a your polls to try to bring them
Speaker 4: in the line. Is a form of hurting. It's a
Speaker 4: way to ensure your polls never get too far out
Speaker 4: of line with the consensus at any time or the
Speaker 4: previous election. And it's just, you know, it's like what
Speaker 4: you just described, it's just it keeps you out of trouble.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And I don't think anybody cares. But just
Speaker 1: very briefly, the point is that the rub is trying
Speaker 1: to predict turnout who's actually going to turnout? And if
Speaker 1: using your turnout algorithm, you have Trump ahead by seven
Speaker 1: like just coming out, you'll think, oh, our turnout algorithm
Speaker 1: must be wrong. Let's go ahead and tweak that. And
Speaker 1: nobody accuses you of tweaking the ultimate result. But that's
Speaker 1: what you've done. You've seen the ultimate result and you've
Speaker 1: reverse engineered a more run of the mill numbers so
Speaker 1: you don't lose your job. So quit obsessing with holes.
Speaker 4: America well, yeah, we have to because they're not actually
Speaker 4: giving us information, is the thing. So, as Brett Behar
Speaker 4: said on Fox This Morning, there are four results that
Speaker 4: are possible. Trump by a little Harris, by a little Trump,
Speaker 4: and a landslide, Harrison a landslide.
Speaker 2: Those are really your four. I mean, it's just that
Speaker 2: it's gonna be those things.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be like a solid win for one of
Speaker 4: the other or really close for one of the other.
Speaker 4: In other words, we haven't got the slightest idea going
Speaker 4: into tomorrow how it's going to turn out. I know,
Speaker 4: I don't feel any more like it's one way or
Speaker 4: the other. I will be surprised if Trump loses, but
Speaker 4: I don't know if I've got a solid reason for.
Speaker 2: Why I think that.
Speaker 1: No, I've feeled that question many many times in real
Speaker 1: life lately. Joe, what do you think is going to happen?
Speaker 1: I say, I think Trump's gonna win, but my level
Speaker 1: of certainty is roughly fifty two forty eight.
Speaker 2: There is you can make the argument like we did
Speaker 2: last week.
Speaker 4: I mean, he can make the argument that women continue
Speaker 4: to be so motivated by the Dobbs decision that you
Speaker 4: get some really crazy turnouts and results like have happened
Speaker 4: in a whole bunch of states in the last couple
Speaker 4: of years, including my home state of Kansas, which has
Speaker 4: always been pretty red. But man, they had a heck
Speaker 4: of a turnout on the blue side for the last
Speaker 4: go around of abortion voting.
Speaker 2: So that could happen.
Speaker 1: Fellas, if your wife is really fired up about that issue,
Speaker 1: is going to vote for Kamala Harris, here's what you do.
Speaker 1: Tell her Calm down, Calm down, because that always works
Speaker 1: with women.
Speaker 4: Or it's really oversimplify it. Trump could win easily and
Speaker 4: it'll be Yeah, because my freaking groceries costs one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty bucks the other day the end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, How was he How was she gonna
Speaker 1: win with that? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Were getting some text about that. I don't think it
Speaker 4: is biased. I don't think it's poles that really want
Speaker 4: Common to win. I think is what Joe described and
Speaker 4: what Nate Silver is describing. It's just we don't want
Speaker 4: to stick our necks out. If everybody's saying it's close,
Speaker 4: we're going to say it's close to then continue to
Speaker 4: be a viable organization in the world of polling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're like other people. They just want to keep
Speaker 1: their jobs. Yeah, well, I had a charming anecdote, but
Speaker 1: we don't really have time.
Speaker 2: We've got an hour and forty two minutes.
Speaker 1: What wait a minute, show me the contract. He's right,
Speaker 1: all sorts of great stuff, gender bending, madness, California's crumbling.
Speaker 1: What do you want out of me? I got it
Speaker 1: all for you? Do you got it?
Speaker 4: What do you think of Trump having that entire a
Speaker 4: women's sports team up with him on the I thought
Speaker 4: it was brilliant. That is boy, you talk about an
Speaker 4: issue that is an easy win.
Speaker 1: And granted I am a zealot on the issue of
Speaker 1: protecting women, protecting women's spaces, protecting women's sports. But it
Speaker 1: is growing and growing and growing. It's powerful and it's primal.
Speaker 1: You don't have to explain tax rates to people. Dudes
Speaker 1: are playing in girls' sports and beating the hell out
Speaker 1: of them. It's pretty easy to grasp. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: an update on the San Jose State women's volleyball thing too,
Speaker 1: that continues to grow. That could be the no offense
Speaker 1: intended on any level, but the Rosa Parks awareness growing
Speaker 1: test case that makes people think, hey, this isn't right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely could be a lot on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4: Kamala herself shows up on Saturday Night Live in the
Speaker 4: open and then the FCC commissioner came out and said
Speaker 4: equal time.
Speaker 2: You can't do that, it's against rules.
Speaker 4: NBC had to give Trump some time during Sunday Night
Speaker 4: Football last night, which I think is a bigger gift
Speaker 4: than Saturday Night Live and the NASCAR too, and so
Speaker 4: I think that's a win for Trump there. Anyhow, they
Speaker 4: did their usual impersonations. Maybe we'll play the Trump impersonation later.
Speaker 4: It's pretty funny Dana Carvey doing Biden here.
Speaker 5: Oh there, it's me.
Speaker 2: No Joe thank you for coming here to support me.
Speaker 5: Marsh my train was stopping here, so I'm being serious
Speaker 5: right now. And by the way, just good to be
Speaker 5: back on my home turf. Guess what, As you know,
Speaker 5: I'm from the part of Pennsylvania, there's a part of
Speaker 5: the state of Delaware.
Speaker 1: Well, so thank you so much for all you've done
Speaker 1: for my campaign.
Speaker 5: I can still do more and get out there and
Speaker 5: I can say more things.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, astralume time for my campaign.
Speaker 2: All right, I get it.
Speaker 5: Come on, let's get real proud of you.
Speaker 1: You got nothing to worry about. Come on, thanks Joe.
Speaker 5: All right, you know what, I saw a bunch of
Speaker 5: reporters and cams out there. I'm gonna go raf.
Speaker 4: The fact that the current president is being portrayed as
Speaker 4: a guy who just locks up and stairs at the
Speaker 4: camera and everybody laughs because it's true is an interesting
Speaker 4: moment in history.
Speaker 1: I read something really delicious about the finger pointing that's
Speaker 1: going on before the election has decided about who lost
Speaker 1: it for Harris, which is, you know, interesting in itself.
Speaker 1: But one of the signs of that fracas is the
Speaker 1: Biden loyalists who are complaining that they should have used
Speaker 1: him more and gotten them out there, and I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: what are you talking about. Well, he came out like
Speaker 1: saying the you know the the Cowboys would have won
Speaker 1: if they utilized the drop kick. What.
Speaker 4: Well, he came out twice in the last several days.
Speaker 4: One he made the they're all garbage comment that got
Speaker 4: her in trouble, and then this one.
Speaker 6: But I'm serious, these are the kind of guys you're
Speaker 6: like to smacking.
Speaker 2: Ass I've got portrayed.
Speaker 4: I think that actually was good Biden stuff for his
Speaker 4: crowd that hates Trump and everything. I think that was
Speaker 4: typical Joe Biden, tough guy talking to union people's stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't think that was a little homo erotic for me.
Speaker 1: I don't see that as a whichever way you swing right, No, no,
Speaker 1: it just seems silly to me. The idea that this
Speaker 1: guy would be the candidate at this point, it's horrifying.
Speaker 1: In a couple of months ago, they were telling us, no,
Speaker 1: it's absolutely I can't even keep up with him. Just idiotic.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Joe Biden and the Bidenomics, at least at Finley,
Speaker 1: one of the trio of absolutely terrific female columnists for
Speaker 1: The Wall Street journal with a great takedown not only
Speaker 1: of the media, but the explanation of something that the
Speaker 1: lefty media just can't comprehend. And that's what the economists
Speaker 1: called the irrational gloominess of the American voter in terms
Speaker 1: of economics, what Yes, Yeah, outpouring of similar commentary, the
Speaker 1: economy is glorious, as communist columnist Paul Krugman of The
Speaker 1: New York Times, if you disagree, you're a dense partisan,
Speaker 1: refuses to give prize in Briden credit for anything, And
Speaker 1: Alicia Finley says, yeah, I've gotten a lot of emails
Speaker 1: to that effect too. But then she points out, and
Speaker 1: this should be known, economy Biden's economy has been glorious
Speaker 1: for affluent liberals. It's been awful for the working class.
Speaker 1: Socioeconomic disparities have grown owing to the policies that were
Speaker 1: supposed to shrink them. The well to do got wealthier
Speaker 1: while the rest got poorer. Long and short of it,
Speaker 1: and it's proved out by many statistics is if you
Speaker 1: are on the wealthier end of things, all of your
Speaker 1: stocks and four oh one k's and investments and the
Speaker 1: value of your home they've all skyrocketed. But if you're
Speaker 1: just living paycheck to paycheck, even reasonably well, paycheck to paycheck.
Speaker 1: All you know is that your prices are up like
Speaker 1: twenty percent, your pays up half that well.
Speaker 4: I sent Joe a thing from the inflation calculator yesterday
Speaker 4: about salaries and how much they've gone down since twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2: What your salaries were?
Speaker 4: You want to depress yourself, Take your cup salary or,
Speaker 4: assuming it hasn't changed much like a lot of people's
Speaker 4: in the last three years, plug it into an inflation calculator,
Speaker 4: and see how much less you make now than you
Speaker 4: did just a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: It's shocking. It's shocking.
Speaker 1: So spending among folks making less than sixty thousand dollars
Speaker 1: is up eight percent. If you make more than one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars, it's up seventeen percent. In short, the
Speaker 1: more money you have, the more you're throwing it around
Speaker 1: and living a pretty good life and doing fine. But
Speaker 1: working class in america's absolutely not and lefty journalism doesn't
Speaker 1: have any friends in that world, so they're unaware of it.
Speaker 1: It's amazing.
Speaker 4: We've got a lot more to catch you up on
Speaker 4: with the election tomorrow, when will we know what to.
Speaker 2: Result arm Strong and Getty. So on election night, don't
Speaker 2: expect to know the winner.
Speaker 4: We probably will have a pretty good idea who won
Speaker 4: the presidency, maybe around Thursday or Friday.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 4: Okay, if that's the way it starts to unfold tomorrow,
Speaker 4: I might just turn off the TV because you will,
Speaker 4: you will, I think, literally be taking in no useful
Speaker 4: information about the presidential election. I mean, it'll all be
Speaker 4: just conjecture and the you know, the the what if
Speaker 4: this happens, this could happen, If this happens there, you know,
Speaker 4: just and if you enjoy that, fine, but there's no
Speaker 4: point in it.
Speaker 2: So I'm it might be a.
Speaker 4: Really early night for for turning off the coverage if
Speaker 4: unless it's going to be a blowout one way or another.
Speaker 2: Here's something I just came across I hadn't thought of though.
Speaker 4: As we know, this could be a hell of a
Speaker 4: legal battle if Harris loses or is losing. The Democrats
Speaker 4: are the party of lawyers and lawsuits, and they could
Speaker 4: really turn this up to eleven in terms of never
Speaker 4: ending challenges all over the place.
Speaker 1: Election deniers, Oh, what was I watching last night?
Speaker 4: Was that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That was the that was the sixty minutes piece.
Speaker 4: So they went the entire time as far as I
Speaker 4: could tell, because that segment was actually about trying to
Speaker 4: convince people that the election is secure and how difficult
Speaker 4: it would be to cheat and everything like that, and
Speaker 4: what to do about all the people who claim it
Speaker 4: was stolen, and they kept going with example after example
Speaker 4: of Republicans, never once mentioned all the times Democrats have
Speaker 4: claimed stolen elections. Freaking Stacy Abrams became the Democrat at
Speaker 4: rock Star by claiming in Georgia that she was the
Speaker 4: true governor.
Speaker 2: Right for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, says if they're shameless liars.
Speaker 2: And they didn't even mention that.
Speaker 1: Wow, well they're crappy and I hate them. So a
Speaker 1: few stories that are not election related, but I thought
Speaker 1: you might find interesting. There's been a giant scam four
Speaker 1: point two billion dollars ripped off of Medicare by a
Speaker 1: variety of insurers who offer private plans under Medicare, known
Speaker 1: as Medicare Advantage. They send nurses to people's homes to
Speaker 1: just check them out, and then in astounding numbers, the
Speaker 1: nurses come back and say, yeah, yeah, Joe, Gitty's got
Speaker 1: a sore left elbow syndrome. So yeah, Medicare is gonna
Speaker 1: pay an extra nineteen hundred dollars a year for us
Speaker 1: to take care of Joe Getty. And in thousands and
Speaker 1: thousands of these cases, there's never any treatment, there's never
Speaker 1: any medication.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, just.
Speaker 1: That mystery diagnosis by the nurse who swings by the house.
Speaker 1: And again, billions of dollars of your dollars are disappearing
Speaker 1: in this scam. But it's not your money. Why did
Speaker 1: they care? Oh? In a related story, and this is
Speaker 1: you know, hell, this is a classic. But the Air
Speaker 1: Force paid eighty times the going rate for a soap
Speaker 1: dispenser that they put on bunches of their airplanes they're
Speaker 1: big airplanes, eighty times the retail because the procurement officers
Speaker 1: look at the invoice and say, yeah, all right, whatever,
Speaker 1: it's not my money. They just sign off on it
Speaker 1: over and over again. Meanwhile, you know, our troops do
Speaker 1: need advanced new weapons systems and there's no money for it.
Speaker 1: But anyway, just to generalize criticism of big fat, stupid government,
Speaker 1: another bingo bango bongo story. It's true to the point
Speaker 1: of being a cliche. Nobody wants to hear it anymore,
Speaker 1: that today's mariaguuana is much much stronger than the marijuana
Speaker 1: of days past. Anybody who consorts with marijuana addicts knows that. Certainly.
Speaker 4: I got into a conversation with someone about this the
Speaker 4: other day. They said, that's not true for the legal
Speaker 4: store bought stuff. It's very true for the illegal people
Speaker 4: are grown and stuff. Do you know, No, that's not true.
Speaker 1: That's not the lawful stuff from dispensaries in California, for instance,
Speaker 1: it's very strong marijuana. Now the street stuff could be
Speaker 1: even stronger. But for instance, because we're not you know,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about I got kind of wasted, and
Speaker 1: then the other night I got really really wasted. No,
Speaker 1: there are scientific ways to approach to this stuff. It
Speaker 1: has to do with concentration of THCHC.
Speaker 2: Well, and then well we got on it last week.
Speaker 4: It was the number of places in the country where
Speaker 4: they have people coming into the emergency room from marijuana
Speaker 4: that just never used to happen, and now it's right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's yeah, oh yeah, And they go into
Speaker 1: a lot of different problems that are health problems, and
Speaker 1: more pregnant women are taking the drug to ease the
Speaker 1: symptoms of morning sickness, only to discover that the souped
Speaker 1: up pot leads to pre term births, low birth weight,
Speaker 1: getsens in developmental delay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's horrible.
Speaker 1: But anyway, So Switzerland has legal pot. The THCHC content
Speaker 1: in cannabis has to be less than one percent. In France,
Speaker 1: the limits point three percent, which is like almost exactly
Speaker 1: the same as what they call woodstock weed sixties and seventies,
Speaker 1: you know, pot that the hippies were smoking zero point
Speaker 1: three percent. Compare this with Florida's Amendment three, which would
Speaker 1: decriminalize recreational marijuana, and they debated how high the THC
Speaker 1: concentration of marijuana should be one proposal. One proposal allowed
Speaker 1: for products containing up to sixty percent THCHC content, and
Speaker 1: that's again the old stuff was like one to three percent. Wow, yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: crazy strong.
Speaker 4: So you're talking about a different thing. It shouldn't even
Speaker 4: have the same name. Yeah, as Yeah, Sheech and Chong
Speaker 4: were smoking in the movies.
Speaker 1: Right, It's as if ever Clear was as easy to
Speaker 1: sip his diet coke because your lungs don't know the difference.
Speaker 1: The only thing that's going to offend your lungs. Is
Speaker 1: the smoke, not the THHC content. So you can take
Speaker 1: a big old hit of what we used to call
Speaker 1: vulcan mind eraser the current pot and just and cause
Speaker 1: yourself some severe neurological problems.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And again, as a guy who was playing rock and
Speaker 1: roll for years and took walks on the wild side,
Speaker 1: kids the idea that hey, I'll mess with my brain
Speaker 1: chemistry and then it'll go back to normal. That works
Speaker 1: when you're young, and it works if you do it
Speaker 1: a little. Usually, trust me when I tell you you
Speaker 1: can't do that over and over again, your brain starts
Speaker 1: to say no, I can't, and not to mention the
Speaker 1: fact that if you're you're talking pills or hard drugs,
Speaker 1: it's almost certainly got fentanyl in it or trank or worse. Anyway,
Speaker 1: moving along a lot of just the great story's worth
Speaker 1: a minute or two. No matter who wins the election,
Speaker 1: who wins the state that I'm sorry the Senate to
Speaker 1: the House. The salt deduction is going to be a
Speaker 1: huge war. That's the state and local taxes deduction. All
Speaker 1: the poor bastards in blue states playing in paying enormous
Speaker 1: high local taxes, state tax state income taxes, property taxes
Speaker 1: is huge in the Northeast.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in California used to be able. I used to
Speaker 4: be able to duct my ridiculously high state taxes right now,
Speaker 4: and I haven't been able to since the Trump tax cuts,
Speaker 4: which I actually agree with from a fairness standpoint, but
Speaker 4: wasn't good for my pocketbook.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they caped it at ten thousand dollars, that's all
Speaker 1: you can deduct. And you know, a blue state or
Speaker 1: for years and years and years and years. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's awful, and it was cool that the fence let
Speaker 1: you deduct that. But the other like forty states in
Speaker 1: America are saying, why are we subsidizing you who are
Speaker 1: like pouring billions of dollars into fake homeless programs that
Speaker 1: just make junkies lives easier to be junkies, and you're
Speaker 1: given sex changes to murderers in your prisons. Why am
Speaker 1: I paying for that?
Speaker 4: Sure, New Jersey and California, you vote for high taxes
Speaker 4: and then get to deduct it off federal taxes and
Speaker 4: make other states pick up the slack.
Speaker 2: That's crazy.
Speaker 1: Three more stories real quick, the final two from the
Speaker 1: Animal Kingdom, But first PayPal knows your pant size, and
Speaker 1: it's telling everyone if you shop using PayPal, the payments
Speaker 1: company is about to start sharing your personal data, including
Speaker 1: everything including your pants size.
Speaker 2: Am I worried about? Am I worried about people knowing
Speaker 2: my pants?
Speaker 1: Sides? Well, I try to dress in a way that
Speaker 1: minimizes my body flaws. Don't. I don't need it being
Speaker 1: on the frontage in the New York Times, Joe Gettyweer's
Speaker 1: be size forty six pance I don't. By the way,
Speaker 1: Beginning November twenty seventh, it will start compiling its trove
Speaker 1: of customer purchase data offer to retailers sell to them
Speaker 1: so they can target their advertising to you. Now, twenty
Speaker 1: five percent of large banks said they share at least
Speaker 1: some of your data with non affiliated third parties, and
Speaker 1: they go into the list of all sorts of companies
Speaker 1: and credit card companies. Everybody is selling your data all
Speaker 1: the time to advertisers. Yeah, yeah, so two more real quickly,
Speaker 1: and this is so crazy. Move over, Neil Armstrong, Jack's
Speaker 1: cousin or uncle. The real Space Pioneer might just be
Speaker 1: a tiny insect with a ball of poop. The dung
Speaker 1: beetle they figured out navigates around the world by somehow
Speaker 1: citing the the milk, the Big Dipper, the Milky Way.
Speaker 1: What does it say? I can't remember. I read this
Speaker 1: like days ago. The dung beetle uses the Milky Way
Speaker 1: for navigation. These insects need to move in straight lines
Speaker 1: away from competitors while rolling balls up poop, a task
Speaker 1: that requires a fixed orientation point in the sky.
Speaker 2: Good work if you can get it.
Speaker 1: And scientists have figured out you can base navigation systems
Speaker 1: on the same principles in a way that I guess
Speaker 1: the dung beetles have made clear they you don't have
Speaker 1: time to get into it in detail. Do they have.
Speaker 4: Tremendous eyesight the dung beetle to be able to see
Speaker 4: the stars?
Speaker 1: No, they have superpower powerful telescopes obviously. No, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But anyway, we will post this at
Speaker 1: armstrong e geddy dot com. If you are scientifically inclined
Speaker 1: you can you can read it under hot links. And
Speaker 1: then finally, this and this is not some sort of
Speaker 1: justification for the way I lived my weekend. Lions, tigers
Speaker 1: and beer, lions and tigers and beers. Oh my yes,
Speaker 1: even animals seek out alcohol in the wild. There are
Speaker 1: a number of animal species, from monkeys to lions and
Speaker 1: tigers that love fermented fruit because it gives them a
Speaker 1: buzz humh and.
Speaker 4: It makes that other tiger a little more attractive, or
Speaker 4: the boring tiger more interesting. You think, Stripe, he's not
Speaker 4: so bad a guy. He's all right, Stripe, he's not
Speaker 4: a bad guy.
Speaker 1: He's just a little goofy.
Speaker 2: He's all right.
Speaker 1: So if you got it, got after it a little
Speaker 1: bit over the weekend, it's only natural.
Speaker 2: Or you wake up in the den in the morning
Speaker 2: and you think you looked better last night. I don't
Speaker 2: know what was going on.
Speaker 1: Wow, I got to choose my mates more carefully. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So we'll have those last two scientific studies, especially under
Speaker 1: hot links at Armstrong and getty dot com.
Speaker 4: For you, what's browning? Sounds like a bell dung a
Speaker 4: class a classic if you're a child. Another stupid election
Speaker 4: story just came out. One good thing about starting at
Speaker 4: six o'clock tomorrow night. Those will kind of end, I guess, Oh,
Speaker 4: please lord, he please stay with us.
Speaker 2: This week.
Speaker 4: The whole Liz Cheney guns trained at her face thing,
Speaker 4: So the whole clip where Trump's explaining what he's talking
Speaker 4: about is like a minute ten. We're not going to
Speaker 4: play that whole thing, but you should go listen to
Speaker 4: the whole thing or read the whole thing. It's so
Speaker 4: obvious what he's talking about. He's making an argument. I
Speaker 4: don't agree with it, by the way. I don't think
Speaker 4: you need to necessarily be serving in combat to have
Speaker 4: an opinion on whether or not, you know, we should
Speaker 4: get involved in a conflict or not. But Trump was
Speaker 4: making the point that chicken hawks, as they're called, people
Speaker 4: like Liz Cheney and your dad are always for all
Speaker 4: the wars, but never fight them themselves. And he said,
Speaker 4: how about if you know, she's got a gun in
Speaker 4: her hand and she goes out there, now she's got
Speaker 4: nine guns trained at her face. The media just took
Speaker 4: the clip of I'd like to see nine guns trained
Speaker 4: at her face and made it sound like he was
Speaker 4: threatening violence against lace jus Cheney or suggesting she put
Speaker 4: in front of a firing squad over supporting Harris over him.
Speaker 4: And I was watching Mark Hauprin's zoom cast on Saturday
Speaker 4: as a unbiased reporter, just trying to follow what's going
Speaker 4: on and not choose a side. And Mark Halprin thought
Speaker 4: this was the most egregious example and dangerous example of
Speaker 4: media bias that he has ever seen. He said, this
Speaker 4: close to election day and flat out lying about what
Speaker 4: Trump said, because it's a flat out lie to edit
Speaker 4: out the context, just a flat out lie det out
Speaker 4: the context, especially this close to an election day. He
Speaker 4: couldn't believe it was actually happening, and that we've reached
Speaker 4: a new low in terms of mainstream media willing to
Speaker 4: put their thumb on the scale. He was beside himself
Speaker 4: as a journalist with just how bad the coverage was.
Speaker 2: Happened again yesterday on Facination.
Speaker 4: So Margaret Brennan on facin Nations plays the little edited
Speaker 4: clip of Trump saying that about guns trained at Liz
Speaker 4: Cheney's face without the context, and she's either pretending she
Speaker 4: doesn't understand the context or actually doesn't know. I don't
Speaker 4: know which, But she had Marco Rubio, Republican senator from
Speaker 4: Florida who's a Trump surrogate, on the show, and he
Speaker 4: pushed back, Thank goodness, well in.
Speaker 7: Terms of safety and security, that sounded a moment ago
Speaker 7: from Donald Trump talking about training guns on the face
Speaker 7: of Liz Cheney. The Trump campaign says that was about
Speaker 7: foreign policy. Well, we just played it for our viewers
Speaker 7: and listeners who heard it. Isn't it possible to make
Speaker 7: the case without using rhetoric like that?
Speaker 6: But Donald Trump doesn't talk like someone who's been in Washington.
Speaker 2: Years the way I were to face.
Speaker 6: No, but that's not what he said. Murray, you guys
Speaker 6: know that. Come on, I mean, everybody knows exactly what
Speaker 6: he was saying. What he was saying is you're so
Speaker 6: much in favor of war. Yeah, you know, you played
Speaker 6: a piece of the sound bite because in another piece
Speaker 6: of it he said he would give her a gun
Speaker 6: to go stand in conflict as well, you don't normally
Speaker 6: give a gun to someone that's going to be facing
Speaker 6: a firing squad, which was what much of the medium
Speaker 6: made it sound like. The point he was making is
Speaker 6: not a new point. It is a point that has
Speaker 6: been made by people in both parties for decades, and
Speaker 6: that is, you're.
Speaker 1: All for war.
Speaker 6: And it's easy to be for war when you're in
Speaker 6: some fancy building and you're safe and.
Speaker 1: Sound in Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: Let's see how much you are for war when you yourself
Speaker 6: get deployed into combat. That's the point that he was making.
Speaker 4: H Yeah, And again, does Margaret Brennan actually not know
Speaker 4: the full context. I suppose it's possible that her producers
Speaker 4: brought her the clip and they just and she just
Speaker 4: assumed they were being honest with her about Bigcom or
Speaker 4: she's got such a negative view of Trump, she just
Speaker 4: assumes that that he was calling for a firing squad
Speaker 4: with Liz Cheney.
Speaker 2: But again, it's just a flat out.
Speaker 4: Lie to present it that way, which politicians have been
Speaker 4: doing forever but always portrayed in the media as if
Speaker 4: Trump's a liar, and the mainstream media and Kamala Harris's campaign,
Speaker 4: they're playing it straight up.
Speaker 2: Trump lies.
Speaker 4: They don't you got a fact check, Trump, you don't
Speaker 4: have fact It's just so freaking frustrating, drives me nuts.
Speaker 4: I hope it doesn't actually affect the election. Like Mark
Speaker 4: Alpern is concerned. So the time changed over the weekend.
Speaker 4: More articles in some of my favorite newspapers, including in
Speaker 4: the Washington Post. Why do we change the clocks Anyway?
Speaker 4: The twice yearly ritual has roots and cost cutting strategies
Speaker 4: of the late nineteenth century. A recent effort to end
Speaker 4: it has stalled in Congress. Well once again an article
Speaker 4: about trying to nail down why we started with why
Speaker 4: we started doing this in the first place, with different
Speaker 4: experts disagreeing as to when we started doing it, why
Speaker 4: we start doing it? Most people hate it. It's just week,
Speaker 4: every six months we go through this. I did come
Speaker 4: across this. Benjamin Franklin is often credited as the first
Speaker 4: to suggest daylight savings time, after realizing he was wasting
Speaker 4: his mornings by staying in bed.
Speaker 1: So it was Benjamin Franklin who first prepared that who
Speaker 1: first proposed that the kaiser could save money during the
Speaker 1: fall harvest if American school children could conserve gas during
Speaker 1: the nineteen seventies, therefore are we have daylight savings time?
Speaker 4: He actually proposed that they fired cannons at sunrise to
Speaker 4: wake people up and reduce candle consumption at night.
Speaker 1: Sue the Great Ben Franklin sometimes hit, sometimes miss. It
Speaker 1: is time for us to do what we have been
Speaker 1: doing in that time as every day.
Speaker 4: One of the paragraphs in the New York Times was okay,
Speaker 4: if it wasn't the farmers whose idea was this?
Speaker 2: Which is just it's funny that we go.
Speaker 4: Through this, every insect whose idea is this, and everybody
Speaker 4: says nobody really knows, And then you argue about it
Speaker 4: for a while, and then we just forget about it.
Speaker 1: Get half a dozen different explanations from various points, and
Speaker 1: just leave me alone.
Speaker 4: Leave me alone, Armstrong and Getty