Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arms Strong and Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: The last debate between Kamala and Trump, ABC got heat
Speaker 3: for live fact checking the whole dogs and cats thing,
Speaker 3: so tonight CBS took a different approach.
Speaker 4: CBS says there will be no live fact checking by
Speaker 4: the moderators, but the broadcast will feature a QR code
Speaker 4: on the screen, which will link to a real time
Speaker 4: fact check being done by CBS journalists.
Speaker 3: Yes, a QR code perfect journalism. When a candidate tells
Speaker 3: a lie, why correct it for the fifty million people
Speaker 3: watching live, just have a link for the twelve nerds who.
Speaker 2: Bother scanning it.
Speaker 3: Am I supposed to be impressed if they.
Speaker 2: Have a QR code. We even have one right here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just it's just a menu.
Speaker 3: For a Mexican restaurant I went to during the pandemic.
Speaker 3: But still you can scan this if you want.
Speaker 1: It's interesting that that's his take. That's the problem. Of course,
Speaker 1: lefties believe this because the fact checks always go their direction,
Speaker 1: that there can be such a thing as fact checking.
Speaker 2: Clearly, there cannot just it's not a doable thing.
Speaker 5: It's a dressing my opinion up as a fact check.
Speaker 1: Right, and you only fact check one side, and you
Speaker 1: only fact check when it's a handy Yes, Michael.
Speaker 2: What do you think about using the QR code?
Speaker 6: That's actually why I pulled that was I just thought
Speaker 6: it was a strange way of doing things.
Speaker 2: It's an interesting idea, I must say.
Speaker 5: It's a different way to access a completely biased so
Speaker 5: called fact check.
Speaker 2: That's just opinion.
Speaker 1: I'll bet it becomes a thing, though not for this,
Speaker 1: but like football games will say, hey, if you'd like
Speaker 1: to see real time stats or blah blah blah, you know,
Speaker 1: here's a QR code. You hit on it and you
Speaker 1: go to the website. They get on the website they're
Speaker 1: excited about. So we're talking a little bit about the
Speaker 1: debate last night, which Joe things mattered. I didn't think
Speaker 1: it did, and other people are in between. So looking
Speaker 1: at the Washington Post pundits on the opinion page, here's
Speaker 1: some of the headlines. I didn't actually read their pieces
Speaker 1: at debate. Vance whines you weren't supposed to fact check me?
Speaker 1: By Dana Milbank that's whining. If they announced they're not
Speaker 1: going to fact check, and then they start fact checking
Speaker 1: you and not the other guy, it's whining to point
Speaker 1: that out.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, thanks Dana for that nugget you. It's an
Speaker 5: unfortunate term for less than masculine man. E. J.
Speaker 1: Deonn of The Washington Post writes Vance's debate performance was
Speaker 1: a breathtaking exercise insane washing.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, I saw Van Jones using that term sane washing,
Speaker 5: where he comes off as a sane and reasonable fellow
Speaker 5: expressing the horrific policies of Trump.
Speaker 1: Well, you know what, the interesting thing about JD. Vance is,
Speaker 1: if you've actually been following his career, he is sane
Speaker 1: and smart. He was crazy washing, maga washing his reasonableness
Speaker 1: over these last couple of years when he realized, don't
Speaker 1: you think when he realized which direction the wind was
Speaker 1: bowling politically the last night him was more of the
Speaker 1: real hymn than the maga him.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh yeah, yeah, beyond question.
Speaker 1: Dan Balls wrote in The Washington Post, we had him
Speaker 1: on when we were in Chicago.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that exciting?
Speaker 1: Vice presidential debates rarely matter much in presidential campaigns this
Speaker 1: one may matter less than ever, not because of what
Speaker 1: was said or not said, but because events have suddenly
Speaker 1: interceded in the ways. It could affect the election in
Speaker 1: the closing weeks much more than what's happening on stage.
Speaker 1: And that is a thing I read from another pundit
Speaker 1: that like, you got Iran an Israel going to war,
Speaker 1: you got this doc strike that if it drags on,
Speaker 1: is going to become a giant political issue.
Speaker 2: And then the.
Speaker 1: Handling of the hurricane, which is not done yet, which
Speaker 1: are just are bigger things yesterday, probably politically than anything
Speaker 1: jd Vance or Walls could say.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say definitely the dock worker thing in
Speaker 5: Israel are going to be more significant. I disagree with
Speaker 5: the confessional wisdom. I think there's so much concern with
Speaker 5: both of the top of the ticket candidates that people
Speaker 5: will let something like well that Veep seems a lot
Speaker 5: more steady than the other VIEP affect their vote in
Speaker 5: the way that's unprecedented. You can believe me, or you
Speaker 5: can believe the people who told you there's zero chance
Speaker 5: Joe Biden drops out. Having said that smugly and really
Speaker 5: enjoying it, to.
Speaker 2: The debate proper.
Speaker 5: I thought this stuff on the economy was pretty good,
Speaker 5: and that was definitely the case that Trump advance must
Speaker 5: press and that Donald is thus far floundered terribly at
Speaker 5: pressing it. I love this. I think this is the
Speaker 5: right answer, Tim Walls, I tell you, why don't we
Speaker 5: go ahead and play sixty one and then we'll get
Speaker 5: to my favorite sixty three.
Speaker 2: My pro tip of the day is this.
Speaker 7: If you need heart surgery, listen to the people at
Speaker 7: the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Not Donald Trump, Governor. You say, trust the experts.
Speaker 8: But those same experts for forty years said that if
Speaker 8: we shipped our manufacturing base.
Speaker 2: Off to China, we'd get cheaper goods. They lied about that.
Speaker 8: They said if we shipped our industrial base off to
Speaker 8: other countries, to Mexico and elsewhere, it would make the
Speaker 8: middle class stronger.
Speaker 2: They were wrong about that. They were wrong.
Speaker 8: About the idea that if we made America less self reliant,
Speaker 8: less productive in our own nation, that would somehow make
Speaker 8: us better off.
Speaker 2: And they were wrong about it.
Speaker 8: And for the first time in a generation, Donald Trump
Speaker 8: had the wisdom and the courage to say, to that
Speaker 8: bipartisan consensus, we're not doing it anymore.
Speaker 5: Speaking of smugly annoying arguments, you get that from the
Speaker 5: left a lot. You need to trust that, you need
Speaker 5: to ask the experts, trust the science. I believe in science,
Speaker 5: and then they pick these three people out of ten
Speaker 5: that happen to agree with them and pretend that that's
Speaker 5: the only quote unquote experts that ought to be consulted.
Speaker 5: But then JD I thought, really laid the wood to
Speaker 5: that question in sixty three, Michael.
Speaker 8: If you notice what Governor Waltz just did is he said,
Speaker 8: first of all, Donald Trump has to listen to the experts,
Speaker 8: and then when he acknowledged that the experts screwed up,
Speaker 8: he said, well, Donald Trump didn't do nearly as good
Speaker 8: of a job as this, that's general as he did.
Speaker 8: So what Tim Waltz is doing. And I honestly, Tim,
Speaker 8: I think you got a tough job here because you've
Speaker 8: got to.
Speaker 2: Play whack a mole.
Speaker 8: You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver rising
Speaker 8: take home pay, which.
Speaker 2: Of course he did.
Speaker 8: You've got to pretend that Donald Trump didn't deliver lower inflation,
Speaker 8: which of course he did. And then you've simultaneously got
Speaker 8: to defend Kamala Harris's atrocious economic record, which has made gas,
Speaker 8: groceries and housing unaffordable fair American citizens.
Speaker 2: I was raised by a woman who would.
Speaker 8: Sometimes go into medical debt so that she could put
Speaker 8: food on the.
Speaker 2: Table in our household.
Speaker 8: I know what it's like to not be able to
Speaker 8: afford the things that you need to afford.
Speaker 2: We can do so much better to all of you watching.
Speaker 8: We can get back to in America that's affordable again.
Speaker 8: We just got to get back to common sense economic principles.
Speaker 1: They all leaves park, touch them all. Yeah, that's some
Speaker 1: good vegetable eating right there. We got some dessert coming
Speaker 1: up here in a second. But I like it's I
Speaker 1: hate to admit that this is true, but policy debates
Speaker 1: are not as much fun as a name calling.
Speaker 2: Name calling is more fun. It's easier to watch.
Speaker 5: Wow, Wow, I am a serious man, folks. Can you
Speaker 5: imagine my frustration working in this clown factory?
Speaker 2: It's like being stuffed clo. Can I get a second
Speaker 2: take on that? What was I going to say?
Speaker 1: It reminded me of something, that thing dessert And this
Speaker 1: came up after the Trump Haaris debate. All statistics mean
Speaker 1: nothing to me. These debates because they regularly turn out
Speaker 1: to be either completely the opposite of what's happening, or
Speaker 1: cherry picked or massaged. I mean, maybe the best thing
Speaker 1: Mark Twain ever said was the whole three kinds of lies, lies,
Speaker 1: damned lies, and statistics, because you can make statistics be anything.
Speaker 1: And that's why even if there's stuff I like hearing
Speaker 1: about how are this lowered it eight thousand and six
Speaker 1: thousand up and forty percent, it's just eh, maybe maybe not.
Speaker 1: I need I need a philosophy. I need to hear
Speaker 1: the philosophy that that I can buy into. You know,
Speaker 1: I believe rent control doesn't work, so like, if that's
Speaker 1: a philosophy, I can hang on to that. You say
Speaker 1: it doesn't work, you say it does, you're wrong, you're right.
Speaker 1: But when you start getting into percentages and dollars and
Speaker 1: stuff like that, they're so easy to massage. And the
Speaker 1: perfect example is Kamala Harris brought it up in the
Speaker 1: last debate about how they lowered the price of insulin
Speaker 1: from five hundred dollars to thirty dollars or whatever the
Speaker 1: heck it was she threw out there, and I thought, Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a pretty good one.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know think about it anyway.
Speaker 1: I heard a somebody who knows about it run it
Speaker 1: down the next day, and it was a situation where
Speaker 1: there was like, there's like six people in America paying
Speaker 1: that original price, and the applied to almost nobody because everybody.
Speaker 2: Qualifies for other plans.
Speaker 1: So it was just it was a completely meaningless thing,
Speaker 1: and he got thrown out again.
Speaker 2: Walls mentioned it again last night, the whole insulin thing
Speaker 2: coming down.
Speaker 1: But nobody you talk about fact checking, nobody ever digs
Speaker 1: into that stuff.
Speaker 5: Really, I can't believe any moderator ever lets anybody get
Speaker 5: away with well, I guess it'd be Democrats, but we
Speaker 5: created more job any advance. Well, well, well there's a
Speaker 5: freaking global pandemic and you shut down the businesses you
Speaker 5: can't get credit for when they opened again, next question,
Speaker 5: I know it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you talk about a fact check, and they did
Speaker 1: that on the Trump debate too. Let him get away
Speaker 1: with claiming that they create we hated jobs when we
Speaker 1: started letting people go back to work. It is absolutely amazing. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: like I said, you got through the vegetables.
Speaker 2: Here's you desert.
Speaker 1: Because I really enjoy this this is probably not important
Speaker 1: other than let's stretch out, let's do it all. I
Speaker 1: love this too. It shows him to be kind of
Speaker 1: a nut. So here's this original claim about being in
Speaker 1: China during the big upheaval there in China in eighty nine.
Speaker 2: When did you live in China about late eighties?
Speaker 9: Okay, so you know I was there. I see this
Speaker 9: happening in Hong Kong. As a more serious note, I
Speaker 9: was in Hong Kong on June fourth, nineteen eighty nine, when,
Speaker 9: of course Tianneman Square appened. Then I was in China
Speaker 9: after that. It was very strange because of course all
Speaker 9: outside transmissions were blocked Voice of America and of course
Speaker 9: there was no phones or email or anything, so I
Speaker 9: was kind of out of touch. It took me a
Speaker 9: month to know the Berlin Wall had fallen when I
Speaker 9: was living there.
Speaker 1: Okay, it seems like a lot of specifics there. I
Speaker 1: don't know why he was claiming it in the I
Speaker 1: guess it just sounds exciting.
Speaker 2: To their credit.
Speaker 1: After all the complaining we've done about the biased moderators,
Speaker 1: Margaret Brennan brought it up and even followed up.
Speaker 2: But here's the question and answer.
Speaker 10: We want to ask you about your leadership qualities, Governor Walls,
Speaker 10: you said you were in Hong Kong during the deadly
Speaker 10: Teneman Square protests in the spring of nineteen eighty nine.
Speaker 10: The Minnesota Public Radio and other media outlets are reporting
Speaker 10: that you actually didn't travel to Asia until August of
Speaker 10: that year. Can you explain that discrepancy?
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, and the folks out there didn't get at
Speaker 7: the top of this.
Speaker 2: Look. I grew up in small, rural Nebraska.
Speaker 7: What town of four hundred town that you rode your
Speaker 7: bike with your buddies, still the street lights come on,
Speaker 7: and I'm proud of that service. H I joined the
Speaker 7: National Guard at seventeen, worked on family farms, and then
Speaker 7: I used.
Speaker 2: The gibill to become a teacher. Passion about it. A
Speaker 2: young teacher.
Speaker 7: My first year out, I got the opportunity in the
Speaker 7: summer of eighty nine to travel to China thirty five
Speaker 7: years ago. Be able to do that, I came back
Speaker 7: home and then started a program to take young people there.
Speaker 7: We would take basketball teams, we would take baseball teams,
Speaker 7: we would take dancers, and we would go back and
Speaker 7: forth to China. The issue for that was was to
Speaker 7: try and learn. Now, Look, my community knows who I am.
Speaker 7: They saw where I was at they look. I will
Speaker 7: be the first to tell you I have poured my
Speaker 7: heart into my community.
Speaker 2: I've tried to do.
Speaker 7: The best I can, but I've not been perfect, and
Speaker 7: I'm a knucklehead at times. But it's always been about that.
Speaker 7: Those same people elected me to Congress.
Speaker 5: Wow, Wow, I just thank you for your service to
Speaker 5: the country riding your bike until the street lights came on,
Speaker 5: and I'm proud of that service.
Speaker 1: Yes, why did you make up a story about being
Speaker 1: somewhere you weren't and it's approvable. Look, I grew up
Speaker 1: in a small rural Nebraska town. A tell that you
Speaker 1: rode your bike with your buddies till the street lights
Speaker 1: come on, and I'm proud of that service.
Speaker 9: It's like.
Speaker 5: The random word generator, stuck or something. That was odd.
Speaker 1: Problem with wine is it often gets very difficult to
Speaker 1: keep everything together when you try to explain it because
Speaker 1: it's inexplainable. And then, well, what was so odd was
Speaker 1: that he he had the phrase I'm proud of that
Speaker 1: service in his head to parry the hole he came
Speaker 1: to rank.
Speaker 5: He didn't deserve thing right in the military. But that's
Speaker 5: just odd.
Speaker 2: You can't to bike riding. You know, I too.
Speaker 5: Served our country in that very same way Clarendon Hills, Illinois, seventies.
Speaker 2: Look it up.
Speaker 1: I was there on like teon min tampon, Tim Dang.
Speaker 1: The follow up is just as good, but we got
Speaker 1: to take a break. We'll get that next. So in
Speaker 1: last we joined Tim Walls. Ah dang it here comes
Speaker 1: my COVID to.
Speaker 2: Get Oh no, it's everywhere now it's the new variant.
Speaker 2: Remember when that used to be all the talk?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, variant nine from outer space.
Speaker 1: So when last we joined Tim Wallas, he was asked
Speaker 1: by Margaret Brennan. To her credit, as biased as they were,
Speaker 1: they brought up this topic of him claiming he had
Speaker 1: been in China during the Tieneman Square massacre and you know,
Speaker 1: one of the biggest events in world's history and the
Speaker 1: heck of a thing to be around for and get
Speaker 1: to experience, you know, up close.
Speaker 2: Turns out he wasn't there during that period of time.
Speaker 5: He was serving his country by riding his bike or something.
Speaker 2: And when I asked.
Speaker 1: About that, he said, Look, I grew up in a
Speaker 1: small world Nebraska town right off the bat, What the
Speaker 1: hell did she did?
Speaker 5: His long rambling answer involving baseball players and dancers or something.
Speaker 1: Did he and his boss Kamala go to some sort
Speaker 1: of seminar where they said, look, if you ever get
Speaker 1: pinned down, you say you grew up in middle class,
Speaker 1: you say you're from a small rural town.
Speaker 2: I don't care what the topic is, it's just how
Speaker 2: you get started. Just go with it. I grew up
Speaker 2: in a small world Nebraska.
Speaker 1: To tell me, you rode your bike with your buddies
Speaker 1: till the street lights come on, and I'm proud of
Speaker 1: that service.
Speaker 2: And then he goes up. He goes on with a
Speaker 2: whole bunch.
Speaker 1: Of other stuff about the National Guard, being a teacher
Speaker 1: and all these different things that also are extraneous to
Speaker 1: the whole topic of the whole thing, And so he
Speaker 1: doesn't answer the question, and to Margaret Brenman's credit, she
Speaker 1: doesn't let him.
Speaker 2: Get away with it. Governor.
Speaker 10: Just to follow up on that, the question was, can
Speaker 10: you explain.
Speaker 7: They All I said on this was is I got
Speaker 7: there that summer and misspoke on this, So I will
Speaker 7: just that's what I've said.
Speaker 2: So I was.
Speaker 7: In Hong Kong and China during the democracy protests went
Speaker 7: in and from that I learned a lot of what
Speaker 7: needed to be in governance.
Speaker 2: Thank you, governor.
Speaker 5: So if they are protesters, you roll in the tanks
Speaker 5: and machine gun them.
Speaker 2: Is that what you learned?
Speaker 1: What I like that he stopped hoping it was over,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. There's still time left, and Margaret Bretten
Speaker 1: just let it hang.
Speaker 5: Everybody's like, go on, go on, that's flying.
Speaker 1: You need a He's thinking in his head, I need
Speaker 1: a natural conclusion.
Speaker 2: To this statement.
Speaker 5: Nothing's coming.
Speaker 2: And that's what I learned about governance.
Speaker 5: Because as I as I said before, what's so odd
Speaker 5: about that?
Speaker 1: Should that?
Speaker 5: Why didn't he just say, yeah, that was thirty years ago.
Speaker 5: I thought I was there and June. Turns out it
Speaker 5: was August, right after the protest. But the point was
Speaker 5: the country was still raw with emotion about it, and
Speaker 5: holy cow, would a historic.
Speaker 2: I mean that you could have bull pooped your way
Speaker 2: out of that without trying.
Speaker 1: Oh, you grew up in a small town and you
Speaker 1: rode your bikes and you're proud of that service.
Speaker 2: And the street lights are on, the street lights were all.
Speaker 2: That's when you stopped bike I don't think we're riding
Speaker 2: around in the dark.
Speaker 1: We were not. No, no, because that's what they do
Speaker 1: in China. They ride their bikes in the dark. And
Speaker 1: we won't put up with hair in rural Nebraska.
Speaker 5: And we took the oaths when we signed up for
Speaker 5: the bike riding squad.
Speaker 1: My service was a child bike rider.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 11: President Biden over the weekend, wrote a letter to former
Speaker 11: President Jimmy Carter for his one hundredth birthday. The letter,
Speaker 11: no disrespect, but I think when someone's about to turn
Speaker 11: one hundred, you want to pick up the phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see, Yeah, could beany day sort of.
Speaker 2: That's the joke.
Speaker 5: I guess Jimmy Carter left office forty forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Correct. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Wow, And you saw something on TV about it, Katie.
Speaker 12: Well, So they did a ceremonial flyover for his one
Speaker 12: hundredth birthday and they wheeled him out and the paparazzi
Speaker 12: where they and they got a picture of him quote
Speaker 12: watching it happen.
Speaker 2: He doesn't look like he's alive in the photo. His eyes.
Speaker 12: His eyes are closed, his eyes are closed, and he's
Speaker 12: doing the head back, mouth wide open.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, yeah, you don't know what his communications
Speaker 1: like or whatever, but.
Speaker 5: Yeah, don't trot him out like.
Speaker 2: I have been.
Speaker 1: I have been involved in not with my family members,
Speaker 1: but I've been involved with a few.
Speaker 2: Are we rolling her out.
Speaker 1: Here into the living room for this birthday party for
Speaker 1: us or for her because she doesn't seem like she
Speaker 1: even knows what's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now, I'm a firm believer in, you know, continuing to
Speaker 5: communicate with people because they can hear if they can't answer,
Speaker 5: and that sort of thing. Maybe rolling them out and
Speaker 5: taking pictures with the five that just seems unfortunate to me.
Speaker 5: But yeah, anyway, Katie brought us a story during a
Speaker 5: brief local segment for our home station about Gabby Newsome
Speaker 5: and a new law. Go ahead and hit that and
Speaker 5: then we'll go from there. Because this is some classic ridiculous,
Speaker 5: populous nonsense California phoniness.
Speaker 12: A plan to quote stop California gas prices from spiking
Speaker 12: is headed to the Senate after the Assembly approved Governor
Speaker 12: Newsom's proposal in the special session yesterday. He wants refineries
Speaker 12: to keep a specific amount of fuel on hand to
Speaker 12: avoid a supply shortage if they go down for maintenance
Speaker 12: or experience an outage.
Speaker 5: Okay, So, the great Dan Walters, who has been a
Speaker 5: reporter and commentator on affairs governmental in California for many,
Speaker 5: many years, staunchly non partisan, very very fair guy, wrote
Speaker 5: the following, It's time to blow the whistle on the
Speaker 5: farcical efforts of California's politicians, especially Governor Gavin Newsom, to
Speaker 5: reduce the state's high gasoline prices. Newsom's demand that the
Speaker 5: legislature reconvening the special Session on gas prices continues this
Speaker 5: crusade against the oil in industry, charging it with price gouging. However,
Speaker 5: Newsome has never offered to any persuasive evidence of such behavior,
Speaker 5: nor has it been confirmed by those who have seriously
Speaker 5: examined the factors that cause California gas prices to be
Speaker 5: at the highest or nearly the highest of any state.
Speaker 5: And he goes into a great deal of detail about
Speaker 5: the various studies and the experts that have done them,
Speaker 5: and y, California gas prices are more expensive, and a
Speaker 5: lot of it is just the almost dollar a gallon,
Speaker 5: which is seventy cents higher than the national average of taxes.
Speaker 5: But there is a forty three cent a gallon mystery
Speaker 5: gasoline surcharge.
Speaker 2: That ex jects have talked about.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's what Gave is trying to claim that
Speaker 5: it's gouging, but at least some of it reflects the
Speaker 5: relatively high costs of doing any kind of business in California. Rents, electricity,
Speaker 5: the other utilities, wages, regulatory overhead.
Speaker 2: Run a tire store in.
Speaker 5: Texas and run one in California and tell me whether
Speaker 5: the tires aren't a few it's more expensive in California.
Speaker 1: Just because we try to open a coffee shop. How
Speaker 1: much more expensive it is it in California than anywhere
Speaker 1: else for all kinds of different reasons.
Speaker 5: Getting back to Dan Walters, Newsom's latest forays and demand
Speaker 5: that the legislature or order refineries to put more fuel
Speaker 5: into storage as a buffer against price spikes caused by
Speaker 5: refinery outages or other factors. So perficially that sounds plausible,
Speaker 5: but it assumes that refiners have storage capacity to comply
Speaker 5: with such a law, or can he easily expand.
Speaker 2: Storage obvious point that's escaped me.
Speaker 5: But yeah, of course, but storage is not without its costs,
Speaker 5: which could drive retail prices even higher. The State Energy
Speaker 5: Commission declared in recent analysis that Newman's Newsom's proposal has
Speaker 5: the potential to quote artificially create shortages in downstream markets
Speaker 5: and increase average prices. That's the State Energy Commission. The
Speaker 5: Commission says, and I quote there may be a case
Speaker 5: for additional storage as a matter of maintaining supply resiliency
Speaker 5: for the next two decades, but such investments do a
Speaker 5: stranded assets risk. More analysis is needed to determine whether
Speaker 5: the benefits of enhanced supply resiliency are worth the investment
Speaker 5: in the near term. But Newsom, of course wants the
Speaker 5: legislature to act immediately without more analysis, which is the
Speaker 5: antithesis of prudent lawmaking. And you know, we could get
Speaker 5: into more detail on that, but I think we've made
Speaker 5: the case. And then this from the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 5: The headline is California's tax on Arizona and Nevada. The
Speaker 5: cost of California's energy regulations are rolling into neighboring states,
Speaker 5: and guess who's unhappy. Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and
Speaker 5: Nevada Republican Governor Joe Lombardo, the two Western governors wrote
Speaker 5: to California Governor Gavin Nussolini, warning that his new plan
Speaker 5: to mitigate rising gas prices will backfire and harm their citizens.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 5: It is evident that increased regulatory burdens on refiners and
Speaker 5: forced supply shortages will result in higher costs for consumers
Speaker 5: in all our states, they write, because California Andary supply
Speaker 5: nearly ninety percent of the vadi's gasoline in about half
Speaker 5: of Arizona's. It's like rent control. It's just it's populist nonsense.
Speaker 5: And you know, it reminds me of one of my
Speaker 5: favorite principles. I may have come up with this, I
Speaker 5: don't know. People don't offer terrible arguments because they're keeping
Speaker 5: their really good ones safe for tomorrow. People don't make
Speaker 5: weird and when Weasley denials of having done something because
Speaker 5: they didn't do it, and Gavin Newsom isn't going to
Speaker 5: idiotic populist lengths to cover up the prices of doing
Speaker 5: business in California because he's blameless.
Speaker 2: I think you did invent that, and that's a good one.
Speaker 1: I actually thought about it last night during the debate
Speaker 1: because one of the examples Tim Walls threw out of
Speaker 1: a poor woman dying because she wasn't allowed to get
Speaker 1: an abortion when she wanted to.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's absolutely not true.
Speaker 1: And I've been I've been meaning to do that story,
Speaker 1: but like I said earlier, I'm just never in the
Speaker 1: mood to get in to these kind of stories. But
Speaker 1: it's just not true. And I thought that's what Joseo
Speaker 1: is saying. If he's got lots of really good examples,
Speaker 1: why would he throw out one that has been proven
Speaker 1: to be not true?
Speaker 5: Right right the whole This lady died because she couldn't
Speaker 5: get care. This woman had a miscarriage and died because
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. People have looked into that. It has
Speaker 5: nothing to do with what he's saying.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 1: Right back to California, briefly, we all like Adam Schiff
Speaker 1: right finnishneck I've ever seen he is going to be
Speaker 1: one of our senators. How exciting is that if you're
Speaker 1: a Californian he's going to be one of our two senators. God,
Speaker 1: that disgusts me that he got to raise his profile
Speaker 1: and rise to fame on the back of just lie
Speaker 1: after lie after lie after lie on MSNBC and now
Speaker 1: he's going to be a freaking senator.
Speaker 5: But anyway, it's a real victory for equality. He's the
Speaker 5: first weasel to attain high office.
Speaker 1: And he'll be a Senator forever because that's the way it works.
Speaker 1: He wrote a long letter yesterday with a bunch of
Speaker 1: co signers. Representative Adam Schiff demands social media companies ramp
Speaker 1: up censorship of misinformation and disinformation ahead of the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four election.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 1: Yes, government pro censorship, government pressuring companies that they regulate
Speaker 1: or certainly could regulate more.
Speaker 2: If they want to to.
Speaker 1: Ramp up censorship of misinformation as determined by who Adam like.
Speaker 5: Misinformation like that lady died because of abortion laws and
Speaker 5: not the abortion pill, for instance. That's misinformation and disinformation.
Speaker 1: Good one or some other medical problem that occurred in
Speaker 1: the hospital, which is the case of that Georgia woman.
Speaker 1: They're not exactly sure why she died, but it wasn't
Speaker 1: because of that. It was something else, like in the
Speaker 1: way that tens of thousands of people die in the
Speaker 1: hospital every single year from a variety of mistakes and complications.
Speaker 5: Disinformation likes do the kids need the COVID vaccine? Misinformation
Speaker 5: speaking of the COVID vaccine. Yes, sang it clearly. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: we could go down the list. Oh my god, please folks,
Speaker 5: please please please, somebody says, I'll tell you I am
Speaker 5: justified in censoring your free speech.
Speaker 2: Just it's over, it's over.
Speaker 5: Then, don't even listen to the well misinformation can influence
Speaker 5: the lections. Well with COVID about we can't let people
Speaker 5: bah blah blah. Don't even let them finish their sentence.
Speaker 9: Please.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that a vice presidential debate bumped Iran
Speaker 1: Israel off the front page yesterday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Like hours after it happened. Hours have the.
Speaker 1: Biggest ballistic missile attack in world history against one of
Speaker 1: our closest allies, which we are committed to defending, got
Speaker 1: bumped off the entire and everything by last night because
Speaker 1: the vice presidents were debating. That's how into our own
Speaker 1: soap opera of whose president we are are true?
Speaker 2: True?
Speaker 5: Quite myself included. Although here is my excuse. The whole
Speaker 5: Israel Iran thing is going to be back in front
Speaker 5: of us within a week or so.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, Garan, when do you think
Speaker 2: Israel is going to strike? When they blank and feel
Speaker 2: like sooner the better.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've got, you've got, you know, the whole
Speaker 1: everybody understands why you're doing it. Closer to the event
Speaker 1: of being attacked, I wouldn't wait around too long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but with Israel, they will serve revenge cold
Speaker 5: when necessary.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do feel like because I heard this from Hesbaala
Speaker 1: a week or so ago. Now they're all dead, and
Speaker 1: heard this from Israel, and we say it all the time,
Speaker 1: the whole phrase at a at a at a time
Speaker 1: of our choosing, and it's just I think it's lost.
Speaker 1: It's whatever may have once had. And we'll respond at
Speaker 1: a time of our choosing. Yeah, of course you will,
Speaker 1: as opposed to what I just I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't think it sounds as tough as I think it does.
Speaker 2: I disagree. I think it's cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, what's the alternative. We'll respond when we
Speaker 5: get around to it. No, that's the wrong tone. We
Speaker 5: will respond when the time is right. It's kind of
Speaker 5: just as good as the other one.
Speaker 1: I don't just we will respond, which everybody believes they are.
Speaker 1: I haven't come across anybody who doesn't think Israel is
Speaker 1: going to respond hard directly at Iran.
Speaker 5: How soon will you respond and in what way?
Speaker 1: None? Y, there you go, No, wait and see, we'll
Speaker 1: finish strong.
Speaker 2: We have a lot to.
Speaker 10: Get to ahead, gentlemen, on many.
Speaker 5: Topics we're trying to break Margaret.
Speaker 2: How you doing. We played a clip earlier of.
Speaker 1: Representative from Israel quite angry on CNN yesterday about something
Speaker 1: the UN Secondcretary General said about the broadening of the
Speaker 1: war needs to end. There needs to be a ceasefire
Speaker 1: and a cease of aggression all the way around. Did
Speaker 1: not condemn Iran for attacking Israel anyway. Israel's foreign minister
Speaker 1: has just named the UN Secretary General Antonio Guta's persona
Speaker 1: non grata, meaning he no longer is allowed to enter
Speaker 1: the country of Israel.
Speaker 5: Israel won't love that audio you want to play it?
Speaker 1: Sure, Israel will not let the guy who runs a
Speaker 1: UN into their country anymore.
Speaker 2: How about that.
Speaker 5: Eighteen Michael, If you have that handy.
Speaker 13: The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guteris today posted this comment.
Speaker 13: Let me read it for you.
Speaker 2: This is what he said.
Speaker 13: I condemned the broadening of the Middle East conflict with
Speaker 13: escalation after escalation this must stop. We absolutely absolutely need
Speaker 13: a ceasefire. I mean, sir, what's your response to him?
Speaker 2: Shame on him. This guy is a clown.
Speaker 14: He's a clown because he cannot even bring him to
Speaker 14: utter the words I condemned the Islamic Republic of Iran
Speaker 14: for shooting two hundred ballistic missiles on the Jewish state.
Speaker 14: He's condemning the broadening. What is the broadening? Have you
Speaker 14: ever met the broadening? I've never seen a broadening walk
Speaker 14: on the street.
Speaker 2: He's a coward.
Speaker 14: It's time for him to quit. The UN is a
Speaker 14: farce if the United Nations cannot stand up and do
Speaker 14: what's necessary when one country is attacked by another.
Speaker 2: We did nothing to Iran.
Speaker 14: And for the past year, they've been making our lives miserable,
Speaker 14: not only ours, the entire Middle East. And instead of
Speaker 14: standing up for what's right, this coward cannot even bring
Speaker 14: himself to condemn Iran.
Speaker 2: Well, it's time for him to quit.
Speaker 1: That is not beating around the bush. And he's right
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, So what the hell is the point
Speaker 1: of the UN If Iran attacks a democracy like Israel
Speaker 1: with the biggest ballistic mill attack in world history, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't condemn it at all.
Speaker 5: No, just the broadening in the escalations, all of the escalations.
Speaker 5: How many escalations is Israel supposed to take before they
Speaker 5: get to escalate, mister Biden, mister guitaraz kamala.
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's going to happen in the next couple of
Speaker 1: days or weeks, and that's going to be quite the
Speaker 1: event and could have an effect on our presidential election,
Speaker 1: although thus far nothing has.
Speaker 2: Caused anything to move.
Speaker 5: Oil, nukes or military installations. What's your guess all of these?
Speaker 1: I think they got to take out that nuclear weapons,
Speaker 1: male plant enrichment, whatever, whatever, whatever's going to set them
Speaker 1: back or destroy their chance of getting a nuclear weapon,
Speaker 1: because otherwise they are they are absolutely Iran will have
Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon and that will make the world a
Speaker 1: different place.
Speaker 5: Having vowed to wipe Israel off the face of the map, Yeah,
Speaker 5: that would be really uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: Well, and we see how we react to are Ukraine
Speaker 1: in Russia out of the fear of Russia using a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon. Imagine if Aran has a nuclear weapon.
Speaker 5: How many times have we gotten attacked and we never say, hey,
Speaker 5: we might Nukia. We've got a hell of an arsenal.
Speaker 5: But it's funny that never comes up. Nobody ever says
Speaker 5: to the Housies, Hey, you realize the US has nukes, right,
Speaker 5: that's true. They know your Boco Harams or I could
Speaker 5: name a dozen other bad actors.
Speaker 2: They know. We're restrained by decency, I guess, or.
Speaker 5: Whether you're trying to leave a sports stadium or conduct
Speaker 5: foreign policy. Donald Trump knows this. You gotta convince the
Speaker 5: other guy you're crazier than they are. It's really a
Speaker 5: useful car.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump's case. That should be quite easy.
Speaker 5: It comes by a fairly natural I guess.
Speaker 2: Allows the time. Look what do we have?
Speaker 5: Time still?
Speaker 2: Time to go?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: We got about twenty seconds and I'm twenty seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead and ate it. Let's have long final thoughts.
Speaker 1: We can really stretch out, ponder a variety of things.
Speaker 3: Check you, Clark, GISs time stop, Jack and Joe go go.
Speaker 2: And if they don't give candlp bats in my road.
Speaker 1: This happens every now and then, Katie, we do a
Speaker 1: four hour show, but we only had three hours and
Speaker 1: fifty six minutes planned.
Speaker 2: It happens. Here's your host.
Speaker 1: For final thoughts, Joe Getty's.
Speaker 5: Kitty Final thought from everybody in the crew. To wrap
Speaker 5: things up for the day, Michael Agelo, our technical director,
Speaker 5: will lead the way.
Speaker 6: Michael, I grew up in a small town and rowed
Speaker 6: until the street lights came in. I didn't have a
Speaker 6: final thought, but I thought that would be a good
Speaker 6: as good as an answer and anything.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Katie Green are esteemed to us woman.
Speaker 12: As a final thought, Katie Joe, I just want to
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Speaker 5: Also with the link to Lonhi Chen's event tonight, do
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Speaker 2: We should. My final thought is I.
Speaker 5: Grew up in a small Midwestern town in Illinois where
Speaker 5: we'd ride our bikes to the community pool and swim
Speaker 5: for a long time and then buy a bag of
Speaker 5: barbecue potato chips with the quarter our parents gave us.
Speaker 5: Then we'd ride our bikes home. And I'm proud of
Speaker 5: that service. And that's why you went to China.
Speaker 2: Yes, because of the baseball players and dancers. Haven't you
Speaker 2: been listening?
Speaker 1: Became sympathetic to communism, all fits together.
Speaker 5: I learned everything I need to do about governing or something.
Speaker 1: That was the single worst answer, maybe ever in a debate.
Speaker 2: I would just.
Speaker 5: Saying, since Joe Biden announced he'd killed Medicare.
Speaker 1: Yeah he ran out of things, and say, uh, and
Speaker 1: we killed melicary, Yeah, that's it. Armstrong and Getty wraping up.
Speaker 1: But are they're grueling four hour workday?
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Speaker 1: Whether it's cracking down on misinformation or the so called
Speaker 1: fact checking. Can we all learn the lesson that it's
Speaker 1: one percent in the eye of the beholder, so it
Speaker 1: just needs to not exist. Obviously, we'll see tomorrow. God
Speaker 1: bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty. They laugh at us all over
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 5: They're laughing at us.
Speaker 2: But they are who we thought they were about the
Speaker 2: do it anymore. You do it anymore. You can have
Speaker 2: problems or do what every want. What the hell do
Speaker 2: I care?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: Let's not even talk about the silliness of it all. Crap, Wow, dammit,
Speaker 2: that's the ball game. Thank you, Armstrong and Getty.