Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: An urgent search in New York City for this man
Speaker 3: who police say randomly murdered and set fire to an
Speaker 3: elderly couple who let him into their queen's home to
Speaker 3: charge his cell phone.
Speaker 2: The nicest neighbors you could ever ask for. That's about
Speaker 2: the worst story I've ever heard in my life.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm skipping a lot of the details because it's
Speaker 1: just too horrible.
Speaker 2: What this guy did to this poor older.
Speaker 1: Couple is unspeakable, medieval, just gut wrenching. One more clip.
Speaker 3: Police say the suspect is Jamel McGriff, an armed and
Speaker 3: dangerous career criminal out on parole for robbery.
Speaker 1: For the public, the message is clear, do not allow
Speaker 1: anyone you don't know or who you are not expecting
Speaker 1: into your home. You know, the message to the public
Speaker 1: is clear. New York lets career criminals out, over and
Speaker 1: over and over again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we Nelly Bowls.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the show, Every murderous lunatic in America gets
Speaker 1: one free murder because we won't put you in jail
Speaker 1: for good until you murder somebody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be at least the co message. We
Speaker 4: let people do bad things over and over and over again,
Speaker 4: so there's a lot of them out there. So the
Speaker 4: likelihood something something bad is going to happen to you
Speaker 4: is risen in recent years.
Speaker 2: That's the message.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which leads fairly comfortably to a discussion about Zorn Mumdani.
Speaker 2: How do you pronounce his name again?
Speaker 1: Do we have that helpful Latitia James from New York
Speaker 1: at that if it's handy Michael. But William Galston of
Speaker 1: the Wall Street Journal is one of their opinion writers.
Speaker 1: He's a longtime professor of public policy, is a Brookings
Speaker 1: Institution guy. He's I would have definitely describe him as
Speaker 1: kind of a cerebral moderate Republican as opposed to a
Speaker 1: bomb checker.
Speaker 2: And he writes about.
Speaker 4: Just year and a half is going to be the mayor,
Speaker 4: by the way, so might concentrate you on this conversation.
Speaker 4: This isn't a theoretical he is aside from some like
Speaker 4: meteor or it turns out he's got somebody buried in
Speaker 4: his backyard. He is going to be the mayor based
Speaker 4: on the polls that came out yesterday there Ron Monadni, right,
Speaker 4: that's wrong anyway.
Speaker 1: So it was about a year and a half ago
Speaker 1: that he was a member of the New York State
Speaker 1: of Assembly and he gave the keynote speech at the
Speaker 1: Democratic Socialists of America's national convention in Chicago, and he
Speaker 1: emphasized the significance of being part of the DSA. He
Speaker 1: went on on about we are special because of our organization,
Speaker 1: and our organization was different because it's of its sincerity,
Speaker 1: unlike other political group. We mean what we say. We
Speaker 1: have a socialist politic. Socialism is our theory and DSA
Speaker 1: is our practice. He'll get hammered the point, Bernie, that
Speaker 1: the Democratic Socialists of America should be taken at their word.
Speaker 1: So okay, Galston writes that you know, from FDR on
Speaker 1: people have you know, called various things socialism. A lot
Speaker 1: of Democrats are thinking about democracy like the Scandinavian countries
Speaker 1: with like a really generous safety net, and we've explained
Speaker 1: why that wouldn't have work in the US. But the DSA,
Speaker 1: though their official platform, is committed to the to socialism
Speaker 1: in the classic sense. The textbook sense public ownership of
Speaker 1: the means of production updated for the information age, and
Speaker 1: I quote from their platform, our fight is to end
Speaker 1: capitalist exploitation. In overcoming the old barbaric order of capitalism,
Speaker 1: the working class will not only liberate itself from its
Speaker 1: own shackles, but all of humanity from the paris cidic
Speaker 1: death drive of capitalism.
Speaker 2: Wow, you're you're actually socialists? Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well yeah and communist it's honest, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that is wild.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, oh, how do you look at all the
Speaker 4: statistics about capitalism and what it's done for the world?
Speaker 4: Free market is a better term, as you ways, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: how do you look at all the stats of free
Speaker 4: market and how many people it's lifted out of poverty
Speaker 4: and all that sort of stuff, and defy that.
Speaker 2: It's it's one of.
Speaker 1: The riddles of human beings that they fall for the
Speaker 1: scam of communism over and over again because it sounds
Speaker 1: good to people who don't understand how it always works.
Speaker 1: But so to end the exploitation achieve liberation, the DSA
Speaker 1: calls for the nationalization of railroads, utilities, critical manufacturing technology companies,
Speaker 1: institutions of monetary policy, insurance, real estate finance, all of
Speaker 1: it nationalized. And if that wasn't sweeping enough, the DSA
Speaker 1: calls public ownership of hospitals other healthcare providers.
Speaker 2: It urges government control of food.
Speaker 1: Production with a call to socialize the agriculture system. Wow,
Speaker 1: Stalin tried that, so did mal Finally, it calls for
Speaker 1: social ownership of all the media and internet providers.
Speaker 2: So be fair for a moment.
Speaker 4: What would they say when you if someone like you,
Speaker 4: some belligerent like yourself said, yeah, Stalin tried that, so
Speaker 4: did Mao, so did lots of other people in other
Speaker 4: countries where people start, what would their honest response be
Speaker 4: to that?
Speaker 1: Well, well, and I'll tell you, and I've been hearing
Speaker 1: it since I was a college kid, they would say
Speaker 1: they didn't do it right, they made a mistakes.
Speaker 4: So it's that old dodge. It's just nobody's actually ever
Speaker 4: tried it in an honest way.
Speaker 1: Right, We're going to do it pure socialism slash communism, okay,
Speaker 1: and we're not going to let our fat cats get
Speaker 1: too much control, and we're not going to allow people
Speaker 1: to get rich. We're going to be pure hearted about it,
Speaker 1: which is hilarious, but.
Speaker 4: We're going to be able to tell from a a
Speaker 4: single office how many acres of this or that you
Speaker 4: should plant.
Speaker 2: When how was that going to work? Right? Yeah, I
Speaker 2: know it's a nightmare.
Speaker 1: And just to reiterate my point in bringing this up
Speaker 1: is that I don't want you to hear the DSA
Speaker 1: and think, oh, they want to be slightly more like
Speaker 1: Denmark and think, you know, that seems to work for
Speaker 1: the Danes.
Speaker 2: What's so bad about the DSA. I'm going to go on.
Speaker 1: They don't stop with control of the economy to liberate society.
Speaker 1: They demand that the US work toward collapsing the criminal
Speaker 1: justice system. Among other measures, this means defunding the police,
Speaker 1: freeing all prisoners and other incarcerated people from involuntary confinement.
Speaker 1: This is their words, friends, not mine, theirs, ending policing
Speaker 1: of black and brown neighborhoods.
Speaker 2: What do you black folks think of that idea?
Speaker 1: Disarming all law enforcement officers and repealing any local ordinance
Speaker 1: that criminalizes people involved in the sex and drug trades.
Speaker 1: And there's more. They weigh in on a host of
Speaker 1: social and cultural issues. It's immigration, plant calls for the
Speaker 1: demilitarization of the border, and an end to all immigration
Speaker 1: detention and deportation. Also the abolition of the US Immigration
Speaker 1: Customs Enforcement, an immediate unconditional amnesty for all immigrants regardless
Speaker 1: of legal status, so wide, open.
Speaker 2: Border, and one hundred percent amnesty.
Speaker 4: So the polar is referencing that shows that Mam Daanami,
Speaker 4: with those views is going to be the mayor of
Speaker 4: New York.
Speaker 2: Came out yesterday.
Speaker 4: He's leading Andrew Cuomo, who shouldn't be allowed to be
Speaker 4: anything ever again forty six twenty four, wow, twenty points ahead.
Speaker 4: And then when you break it down, it's so interesting.
Speaker 4: Even a third of old people prefer mam Dami. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's running away with the young and stupid. You can
Speaker 4: give them a pass, I guess because they went to
Speaker 4: college and their college professors told them all this stuff
Speaker 4: was a good idea. But if you're old, if you're
Speaker 4: over six, you've been around, you should know better. A
Speaker 4: third of them support him.
Speaker 2: You're an idiot. You are an idiot.
Speaker 4: The more education you have, the more likely you are
Speaker 4: to support mum Dami. No degree whatsoever, thirty percent, he
Speaker 4: would still win, but you bachelor's degree are more at
Speaker 4: sixty percent or better.
Speaker 2: In climbs as you go up. That is really troubling.
Speaker 4: And then Manhattan, where you got all these rich, smart
Speaker 4: people in theory living in New York surrounded by reality.
Speaker 4: Almost sixty percent of Manhattanite support mum dami.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Good. So the idea that.
Speaker 1: The more educated you are, quote unquote, the more you
Speaker 1: support the guy. Excuse me, I would point out, and
Speaker 1: I could support this idea all day long. But when
Speaker 1: you hear educated, think indoctrinated, because, as I've said, like
Speaker 1: in most programs in universities right now, they're there to
Speaker 1: indoctrinate you. You might learn a little accounting while you're there,
Speaker 1: although like accounting programs are more you know, nuts and bolts,
Speaker 1: like engineering, But in any of the liberal arts fields,
Speaker 1: you're there to be indoctrinated, and they might teach you
Speaker 1: some political science, for instance. So yeah, the more indoctrinated
Speaker 1: the you are, the more you support Mundani.
Speaker 2: I get that. A couple more things.
Speaker 1: Their housing policy features universal rent control, universal all rents
Speaker 1: decided by the government.
Speaker 2: On health ed ah, okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well go ahead, if you want put on healthcare.
Speaker 1: It says miners should be able to obtain gender affirming
Speaker 1: care without parental consent, and advocate such treatments, including hormone
Speaker 1: replacement therapy and surgery for all prisoners who request it.
Speaker 1: So all children and all prisoners.
Speaker 4: So where do you start. So your economic policies have
Speaker 4: been tried and failed over and over again, But then again,
Speaker 4: two hundreds.
Speaker 1: Of million people have died. I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: it was mildly inconvenient and the trains ran late.
Speaker 4: But you add into that you think little kids should
Speaker 4: get to decide for themselves. I think I'm a boy,
Speaker 4: and then the doctors go to operating on them without
Speaker 4: the parents knowing, and the taxpayers pay for it. That's
Speaker 4: what makes sense to you, you freaking nut jobs.
Speaker 1: In my final note, and I'll encapsulate this, we haven't
Speaker 1: even touched on their foreign and defense policies. Complete disarmament
Speaker 1: of the United States, ending all military aid to any allies,
Speaker 1: withdrawing from NATO. We should harshly condemn Israel, but normalize
Speaker 1: relationships with Cuba, Iran, Venezuela and other countries targeted for
Speaker 1: resisting US imperialism.
Speaker 2: So let's go big picture politics on this.
Speaker 4: And the same guy Joe As quoting Bill Galston, rights
Speaker 4: this because this is what's gonna happen. If I'm a
Speaker 4: regular Democrat. I hate the idea the mom Dammi's gonna win.
Speaker 4: This is what Bill Galston rights and correct. If he's
Speaker 4: elected mayor, as seems likely, he will become a leading
Speaker 4: voice in the Democratic Party and will shape public perceptions
Speaker 4: of the party's identity. You know how it was. Nancy
Speaker 4: Pelosi was the face of the Democratic Party for so long.
Speaker 2: And she wasn't within ten miles.
Speaker 4: As a face of San Francisco as as crazy as
Speaker 4: this guy is.
Speaker 2: Oh no, Ronald Reagan is not even close.
Speaker 4: So regular Americans across the country are going to see
Speaker 4: the Democratic Party and see this guy's face. Democrats who
Speaker 4: endorse his candidacy are sending a message there's room in
Speaker 4: the party for members of an organization many of whose
Speaker 4: policies the electric the electorate rejected wholeheartedly in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 4: and whose commitment to socialism is shared by only a
Speaker 4: minority of the American people. Socialism polls very poorly, always has.
Speaker 4: Thank God, these people are radical communists in the United States,
Speaker 4: openly operating and perhaps winning one of the most critical
Speaker 4: elections in the most important city in America, right, and
Speaker 4: worth mentioning his I got the nomination. I'm moderating part
Speaker 4: of his campaign. Right, what he's doing now? Waitley, he's
Speaker 4: in office and he's won. Oh my god, so crazy.
Speaker 4: Go ahead, give it a whirl. Knock yourself.
Speaker 2: I believe I'm watching this happen. I don't live in
Speaker 2: New York, so it ain't gonna work. Tell you that.
Speaker 4: We do have a new richest man in the world,
Speaker 4: which is kind of big news. The why is the
Speaker 4: biggest news, among other things to talk about, stay.
Speaker 2: Here, Marv.
Speaker 3: President Joe Biden has decided to build his presidential library
Speaker 3: in Delaware, where it will compete with Delaware's other biggest attraction,
Speaker 3: the border with Maryland.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, that's a pretty decent joke from a
Speaker 4: lefty politician. The Joe Biden Presidential Library will not be
Speaker 4: well attended. Oh wow, the point we're just talking about socialists,
Speaker 4: socialist countries.
Speaker 2: This is breaking news.
Speaker 4: Cuba's electrical grid has collapsed, leaving the entire island without power,
Speaker 4: according to the state run power company.
Speaker 2: So there you go with that.
Speaker 1: Category for a hurricane recently hit Cuba and caused one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars worth of improvements.
Speaker 4: I mentioned bone conductive headphones earlier that I'm a big
Speaker 4: fan of now. And in case you don't know what
Speaker 4: they are, they're they're like they they lean against the
Speaker 4: bone right behind your ear, and that's how the sound
Speaker 4: is transferred.
Speaker 2: I'll just read this.
Speaker 4: They send sound vibration through your bones directly to your
Speaker 4: inner ear. The ear drum isn't involved, so there are
Speaker 4: a number of advantages to that from a you know,
Speaker 4: blasting your ear drum with those little pod things that
Speaker 4: that I have been using.
Speaker 2: Your ear's crazy. You can hear without ear ear drums. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Your ears stay open, so you can still hear traffic
Speaker 4: conversations or other sounds around you. That's why runners and
Speaker 4: cyclists often like them. I like them at the gym.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I bought the Shocks brand, which is what the New
Speaker 4: York Times wirecutter people recommended as the best one out there,
Speaker 4: and it's awesome. I like it, so I'll never go
Speaker 4: back to the buds ever. So just throwing that out
Speaker 4: there in case you don't dig the buds.
Speaker 1: Wow, you know, yeah, that'd be great to actually be
Speaker 1: able to have conversations with people at the gym because
Speaker 1: I see friends regularly. Plus, you know, have your ears
Speaker 1: open for traffic or whatever if you're on the bike.
Speaker 1: I love that idea.
Speaker 2: It's weird. Well, they can't the idea of it, but
Speaker 2: pardon me. They can't fall out of the way they're
Speaker 2: all built.
Speaker 4: They got a little strap around the back of your
Speaker 4: neck and then they lean up against the bones behind
Speaker 4: your They can't fall out. You can shake your head,
Speaker 4: you can ride your bike, you can run, you can
Speaker 4: lift weights, you can do whatever.
Speaker 2: Not gonna fall out of yours. That's what I like.
Speaker 4: You can't And they're so light you can't even tell
Speaker 4: you got them on. We got a text from somebody said, oh,
Speaker 4: I love them. You guys haven't been on these yet,
Speaker 4: he said, I leave them on all the time. I
Speaker 4: think in the future people will probably wear some device
Speaker 4: like this, he said. I forget them all the time.
Speaker 4: Asked TSA that I've got them on. I wanted to
Speaker 4: mention this. Larry Ellison is now the world's richest man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he blew past elon Musk yesterday. Because Larry Ellison's company,
Speaker 4: his tech company, Oracle, had a one hundred and one
Speaker 4: massive surge one hundred and one billion dollar surgeon one
Speaker 4: day because of their stellar quarterly results all around their
Speaker 4: AI cloud stuff. And they've got a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: different AI stuff that's supposed to be great. It's way
Speaker 4: beyond me. But in the market went nuts over the
Speaker 4: results on this stuff. To me, well, there's a couple
Speaker 4: of things here, But people with lots of money continue
Speaker 4: to believe there's money to be made in AI.
Speaker 2: Obviously, right, and it can be the gold mine of
Speaker 2: all gold mine.
Speaker 4: They're not dumb people, these people who are spending billions
Speaker 4: and billions and billions of dollars and then often making
Speaker 4: significantly more billions of dollars of if it pans out.
Speaker 4: So woy keep an eye on this. Apparently he and
Speaker 4: Elon are really good friends and they're both are big
Speaker 4: believers in AI and UH and kind of share each
Speaker 4: other's views of AI, so that that's cool.
Speaker 2: It's not a rivalry. Really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, plenty of really really smart people have been wrong
Speaker 1: in the past about various bubbles, but I certainly don't
Speaker 1: know that they are here.
Speaker 2: I just enjoyed.
Speaker 1: I kind of pep on the scenes as Jack was
Speaker 1: discussing AI cloud services. I nodded like, oh, yes, aidoud,
Speaker 1: this does must be very very helpful. Oh I don't
Speaker 1: even I don't know what that is.
Speaker 2: I heard of both of those things, but right, that
Speaker 2: is pretty funny.
Speaker 1: So Kamala Harris's book, which oh, speaking of really really
Speaker 1: smart people, I came out like months ago.
Speaker 4: We had excerpts. It's finally coming out or something, and
Speaker 4: The Atlantic had a bunch of excerpts. Everybody's talking about them.
Speaker 4: We will talk about them too, Stay.
Speaker 2: Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: So Kamala Harris is who, Nobody's ever going to read it?
Speaker 4: Book is coming out eventually. I assume I thought it
Speaker 4: came out months ago. Remember we had excerpts a while back.
Speaker 4: How many how many launches?
Speaker 2: Does she? AnyWho?
Speaker 4: The Atlantic has chunks of it and people are reading
Speaker 4: it and talking about it. Here is a little Lansleon
Speaker 4: Fox reading from the Kamala Harris book.
Speaker 5: Many people want to spin up a narrative of some
Speaker 5: big conspiracy at the White House to hide Joe Biden's infirmity.
Speaker 5: Here's the truth as I lived it. Joe Biden was
Speaker 5: a smart guy with long experience and deep conviction, able
Speaker 5: to discharge the duties of president eighty one, Joe got tired.
Speaker 5: That's when his age showed in physical and verbal stumbles.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's any surprise that the debate debacle
Speaker 5: happened right after two back to back trips to Europe
Speaker 5: and a flight to the West Coast for a Hollywood fundraiser.
Speaker 5: I don't believe it was incapacity. If I believe that,
Speaker 5: I would have said so. As loyal as I am
Speaker 5: to President Biden, I am more loyal.
Speaker 2: To my country.
Speaker 4: You know what I find ridiculous, Well, first of all,
Speaker 4: she's in a position where she can't obviously say, oh, yeah,
Speaker 4: I saw him like this all the time, so she's
Speaker 4: got to pretend she didn't see him that way. But
Speaker 4: that pushback that Hunter and others have used, he had
Speaker 4: done back to back trips and this and that, and okay,
Speaker 4: part of that was a choice. One of the trip
Speaker 4: that you're talking about, he had an official presidential duty trip,
Speaker 4: then he had to go to a fundraiser. Well, he
Speaker 4: didn't have to go to a fundraiser. He chose to
Speaker 4: go to a fundraiser in the midst of his schedule.
Speaker 4: So that was a decision he made. And you know
Speaker 4: what else could happen after a couple of trips and
Speaker 4: a bunch of other stuff. A major world event could
Speaker 4: occur where you've got to make a decision, and if
Speaker 4: you're too tired from the life you live as.
Speaker 2: President, then maybe you shouldn't be president. Too tired of
Speaker 2: strength sentences together?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well, and plus there was a week between
Speaker 1: all of that and the debate.
Speaker 2: So that's just again, it's just covering her ass.
Speaker 4: Here's some other stuff the New York Times picked out,
Speaker 4: and it's all pretty good. Former Vice presid Kamala Harri
Speaker 4: said it was a mistake not to question Joe Biden's
Speaker 4: insistence on running for reelection last year, despite his advanced age.
Speaker 4: In a new book, she writes that it was recklessness
Speaker 4: that led her and other Democrats to cede the choice
Speaker 4: to an individual's ego. You say that now, during all
Speaker 4: those months of growing panic, should should I have told
Speaker 4: Joe to consider not running? Perhaps way to take a stand.
Speaker 4: But after all this time of thinking of it, you're
Speaker 4: still a I don't know person.
Speaker 1: That's just now she's come out with a strong perhaps
Speaker 1: for the record.
Speaker 4: Maybe, but the American people had chosen him before. In
Speaker 4: the same matchup maybe he was right to believe that
Speaker 4: they would do so. Again, she described herself as being
Speaker 4: in the worst position to make the case that he
Speaker 4: should drop out. Obviously, for the vice president you could
Speaker 4: be accused of of course, you want the guy ahead
Speaker 4: of you to drop out so you could be president.
Speaker 4: At the time, she and others extended grace in allowing
Speaker 4: Joe and Jill the first lady, to make the decision
Speaker 4: on their own. But now, she wrote, she had come
Speaker 4: to believe it was a mistake not to speak up.
Speaker 4: In retrospect, I think it was recklessness. The stakes were
Speaker 4: simply too high. This wasn't a choice that should have
Speaker 4: been left to an individual's ego, an individual's ambition. It
Speaker 4: should have been more than a personal decision.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: That sounds a lot like what seventy five percent of
Speaker 1: America was saying at the time.
Speaker 4: Well, the problem, I mean, she has a number of
Speaker 4: problems with laying this out. Like I said, she can't
Speaker 4: admit that she saw him in you know, as a
Speaker 4: daughtering old man a lot, or then she's a bad American.
Speaker 4: She also can't fully embrace the oh much earlier. We
Speaker 4: should have all asked him to not run again, because
Speaker 4: they would have had some sort of primary and you
Speaker 4: would have not been the nominee guaranteed. Barack Obama and
Speaker 4: Nancy Pelosi, both it's well known, wanted some sort of primary.
Speaker 4: Joe Biden kind of ruined it by immediately coming out
Speaker 4: and endorsing you. Made it very difficult at that point,
Speaker 4: but nobody wanted you to be the candidate.
Speaker 1: And you know that, right, right, So once again she
Speaker 1: is just covering her ass, which is the opposite of
Speaker 1: what she did with Willie Brown.
Speaker 2: Wait what what?
Speaker 4: Okay, we just did the debate part she blah blah, blah,
Speaker 4: blah blah.
Speaker 2: I wanted to get to this. Oh, this is great.
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris also wrote about feeling undermined by unspecified members
Speaker 4: of mister Biden's team, but didn't take aim at the
Speaker 4: former president. However, in recalling an eleven minute speech he
Speaker 4: made from the Oval office, she wrote that her staff
Speaker 4: noted that she was mentioned only fleetingly.
Speaker 2: In the eighth minute.
Speaker 4: She lamented that throughout her time in office, mister Biden's
Speaker 4: team didn't defend her against right wing attacks about her competence,
Speaker 4: including a drumbeat of conservative commentary about her laugh nor
Speaker 4: pushback on media stories that she had that she said
Speaker 4: reported unfair and inaccurate accounts of my time as vice president. Okay,
Speaker 4: she accused the White House aids of helping fuel negative rumors.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. You should mention the New York
Speaker 1: Times mentioning that speech thing. That was a segment of
Speaker 1: it that I wanted to read to you real quick.
Speaker 1: So she's talking about she'd been to Puerto Rico blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, that she'd after witness the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Speaker 2: So oh, okay.
Speaker 1: So this is in Houston, meeting with the emergency management
Speaker 1: staff and get a briefing on recovering recovery efforts after
Speaker 1: the devastation of Hurricane Barrel that was the one that
Speaker 1: had the big storm surge and economic damage in the billions.
Speaker 1: So she talks about it was heartbreaking to see the
Speaker 1: loss blah blah blah, it was impossible, inspiring to talk
Speaker 1: to the first responders who ran toward danger, sometimes helping
Speaker 1: strangers even as their own homes were at risk. And
Speaker 1: then there were the regular people who stepped up to
Speaker 1: help whichever way they could, collecting toiletries, making sandwiches, organizing,
Speaker 1: clothing drives. In my life, I've seen over and over
Speaker 1: again that it is the most is often the people
Speaker 1: with the.
Speaker 2: Least who give the most.
Speaker 1: She as I shook hands and thanked the police and
Speaker 1: emergency workers one by one in each.
Speaker 2: I saw a hero, etc.
Speaker 4: Etc.
Speaker 1: Then somebody shouted a question about the speech this evening.
Speaker 1: It was just after five, and I waited for it. It
Speaker 1: was a good speech, but as my staff pointed out,
Speaker 1: oh h, drawing on the history of the president. As
Speaker 1: my staff pointed out, it was almost nine minutes into
Speaker 1: the eleven minute address before he mentioned me, I want
Speaker 1: to thank our great Vice President Kamala Harris. She has experienced,
Speaker 1: she's tough, she's capable, she's been an incredible partner to me,
Speaker 1: the leader.
Speaker 2: For our country. And that was it. I'm a loyal person,
Speaker 2: but perhaps was I too loyal? Sweetheart?
Speaker 1: You just spent two paragraphs explaining that what you did
Speaker 1: was shook hands with a bunch of cops and firefighters
Speaker 1: and admired the local people and how generous they are.
Speaker 2: You didn't do jackass.
Speaker 1: And I want to be able to say the S word,
Speaker 1: because it would be funnier and better.
Speaker 4: You didn't do.
Speaker 2: What did you want the president.
Speaker 1: To say about you and our brain vice president who
Speaker 1: shook twenty seven different hands today and said thank you
Speaker 1: for what you do bravely.
Speaker 2: In the face of the damage.
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, this blaming others for her failure.
Speaker 4: I mean, if she does any place in the book
Speaker 4: say she could have performed better, it hasn't been exposed yet.
Speaker 4: Everything is somebody else's fault, the media's fault, the Republican's fault,
Speaker 4: Biden's people's fault, all that sort of stuff. I mean,
Speaker 4: she is so delusional about her failed campaign. Delusional. That's
Speaker 4: why I hope she runs. I feel like she just
Speaker 4: needs another slapping down. Before I didn't think I thought
Speaker 4: she had been humbled enough, humiliated enough, But apparently she wasn't.
Speaker 4: She lost and thinks it's other people's fault. She doesn't
Speaker 4: recognize that you never did a hard interview with a
Speaker 4: real news organization. You answered questions incredibly poorly a number
Speaker 4: of time times. You know what's different between you and
Speaker 4: Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, when you'd had months to think about it.
Speaker 4: It's just embarrassing your performance and you just haven't recognized
Speaker 4: that yet. But I really like the the Biden team
Speaker 4: did not defend me against right wing attacks on my competence.
Speaker 4: You know why, because they thought you were incompetent too.
Speaker 4: That's all well, that's all well known.
Speaker 1: They had a huge comms team, they had Karen Karine
Speaker 1: Jean Pierre briefing in the press room every day, but
Speaker 1: getting anything positive said about my work or any defense
Speaker 1: against the untrue attacks was almost impossible.
Speaker 2: What a whiny, bitchy book this sounds like it is.
Speaker 4: Has anybody ever written a political narrative like this, one
Speaker 4: of these memoirs where they are all blaming someone else
Speaker 4: like this, usually because everybody seems to think she's is
Speaker 4: reporting that she's seriously considering running for president, that's why
Speaker 4: she decided not to run for governor.
Speaker 2: She's considering running for president, And instead.
Speaker 4: Of putting out a book that is all about, you know,
Speaker 4: looking forward and laying out her vision for the future
Speaker 4: and hoping like for a redo as a presidential candidate,
Speaker 4: it's all blaming all the people that held me back.
Speaker 4: I also liked the quotes about I had a special
Speaker 4: pressure on me as the first female vice president. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but what world do you live in where you think
Speaker 4: that exists. Come on, you know, of course.
Speaker 2: You identity politics people. Maybe you believe.
Speaker 1: That nobody felt any differently about you because you're a
Speaker 1: woman vice president.
Speaker 2: You just sucked. Yeah, she man.
Speaker 1: There's example after example of her blaming the president and
Speaker 1: his staff for not supporting her or just actively undermining her.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what's going to happen over the next
Speaker 4: forty eight hours or weeks. There's going to be pushback
Speaker 4: from a lot of those people in the Biden White
Speaker 4: House who didn't like her to start with and really
Speaker 4: don't like her bad mouthing them. Yeah, you're gonna hear
Speaker 4: leaks of things she did. Guaranteed by tomorrow, there'll be
Speaker 4: some leak in some story about something that she.
Speaker 2: Michael uses his drinking hand motions.
Speaker 4: I don't know about that, but there's gonna be some
Speaker 4: pushback from these people who don't like being called out
Speaker 4: in a book and The Atlantic and The New York
Speaker 4: Times as a as being on the wrong side of this.
Speaker 2: So somebody's gonna leak commenced she is.
Speaker 4: I thought she was a weak act before she is
Speaker 4: really a weak act to put out this book.
Speaker 2: The media was against the media was against you.
Speaker 4: Are you kidding me? Nobody has ever been more propped
Speaker 4: up ever in the history of running for president by
Speaker 4: the media than you. And the media was against you.
Speaker 4: Give me a break, and the Biden team was disloyal
Speaker 4: to you. The only reason you were the nominee is
Speaker 4: because he pushed that for None of the other heavyweights
Speaker 4: in the party, Nancy and Brock and others fought you should.
Speaker 2: Be the nominee at all. How do you not know that? Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: she says that.
Speaker 1: Was one of the corrosive narratives that the White House
Speaker 1: didn't push back on, that she was some sort of
Speaker 1: dei higher.
Speaker 4: Because you were, because you were a He promised that
Speaker 4: he would hire a black woman to be as vice president,
Speaker 4: which is the definition of a dei higher. You named
Speaker 4: the gender and the race before you even picked the person.
Speaker 1: Right, Wow, this is funny. This is everything I dreamed
Speaker 1: it would be.
Speaker 4: She might be Remember the great Sid Rosen. We had
Speaker 4: Rosenberg Rosen rosenbil Rosenberg Rosenberg.
Speaker 2: He's a big New York guy.
Speaker 4: We had him on our show at the at the
Speaker 4: convention and he said, she's stupid, Bengo.
Speaker 1: What's the same thing my friends in a high level
Speaker 1: law enforcement California had told me Joe, she's a dope.
Speaker 1: I'd be like, oh, come on now, she's a liberal
Speaker 1: and I know no, seriously, I've had meetings with her.
Speaker 1: She's a dope, said, had it nailed from it again.
Speaker 2: She's stupid. And then at some point when we texted
Speaker 2: me and said do you believe me? Now? Wow, that
Speaker 2: is something. Yeah, wait to write a book and draw
Speaker 2: more attention to your problems.
Speaker 4: All right, we'll finish strong next time strong.
Speaker 6: And there were a couple of clues before I walked inside. Firstly,
Speaker 6: there was no balloon on the mailbox, and uh, and
Speaker 6: then my mom stops me in the driveway and she says,
Speaker 6: do you have a gun on you? No, it's not
Speaker 6: how I normally celebrate a birthday party.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I'd like to hear that whole thing.
Speaker 1: Charlie about how his family tricked him into an intervention
Speaker 1: and reminds me how good he was on Two to
Speaker 1: half Men, which is why he was the highest paid
Speaker 1: guy in all of television.
Speaker 2: He is hilarious. Yeah, yeah, that is funny.
Speaker 4: First of all, there was no balloon on the mailbox.
Speaker 4: He gotta do that if you have a birthday party,
Speaker 4: right right, people might just drive by.
Speaker 2: Right. What was that from? Where was Tarlien? Is that
Speaker 2: part of the documentary or an interview he did a
Speaker 2: promoter or whatever, or was.
Speaker 4: He unfallon or somebody? I would like to hear more
Speaker 4: of that. That sounds charming, Yeah, a slightly serious note.
Speaker 4: People throw around the idea of being in a revolution
Speaker 4: all the time, like could just be kind of phone.
Speaker 1: Or it makes him feel brave and scary to say
Speaker 1: it at my college campus.
Speaker 4: It's like my brother talked about he got to be
Speaker 4: of a certain age show this but back in the
Speaker 4: old days, westerns were popular and it was common in
Speaker 4: a Western TV show a movie to have like a
Speaker 4: fight in a big bar room where everybody's fighting, like
Speaker 4: everybody's smashing chair on people and punching each other, like
Speaker 4: the whole room erupts in a fight. And my brother
Speaker 4: actually was involved one of those. In Germany. He was
Speaker 4: in this big what do they call bars in Germany.
Speaker 2: They got a name for him, a beer hall. Beer hall.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was in a giant beer hall and it
Speaker 4: turned into one of those everybody he's fighting everybody things,
Speaker 4: And he said it was awesome for a while. He
Speaker 4: was at Jerseys smashing people and stuff like that. He
Speaker 4: said it was fun until somebody smashed me from behind.
Speaker 1: And that that wasn't fun anymore.
Speaker 2: But what was I leading to?
Speaker 4: Oh my idea that everybody thinks a revolution would be fun,
Speaker 4: but it doesn't always work out, you know, the way
Speaker 4: you want it, and sometimes you end up to be
Speaker 4: the people that are chasing people are chasing you.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, I was watching some of the video.
Speaker 4: From Nepal where they got a revolution going on right now,
Speaker 4: burning down government buildings, burning down politicians homes. The cops
Speaker 4: are firing on them, but they're way outmanned and outnumbered
Speaker 4: by the revolutionaries.
Speaker 2: And of course where this ends up.
Speaker 1: Who knows young unemployed people with no hope equals unrest, violence, craziness,
Speaker 1: and you know, an elite that's been soaking the population.
Speaker 1: It's really an interesting story. Nobody knows anything about n Paul,
Speaker 1: including me, You know me need having read up on
Speaker 1: what led to this.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 4: I just thought it was interesting that I got kicked
Speaker 4: off by all these social media posts by the rich
Speaker 4: young people. The rich kids were bragging about their cars
Speaker 4: and their trips and their clothes and everything like that,
Speaker 4: and that was enough. We're poor and hungry and hate
Speaker 4: the government and think you're all corrupt.
Speaker 2: Screw you. That's the end of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they are corrupt, crazy crazy levels of corruption.
Speaker 2: There. Uh wow, Oh.
Speaker 4: If you didn't here, Yesterday's One More Thing podcast. We
Speaker 4: went big on Charlie Sheen and it was pretty entertaining, though.
Speaker 4: Uh you find that where you find I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you find it. Don't ask me.
Speaker 4: I'm the wrong person asking.
Speaker 3: Jecky Clark kiss Town, Stop Jack and Joe god go
Speaker 3: if they don't give candal b beats in my room.
Speaker 2: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: Let's start with our technical director, Mike Langelow. Michael, final thought.
Speaker 7: We're talking about Westerns and everybody fighting each other. That
Speaker 7: brought back a memory of my favorite memory in high
Speaker 7: school when I started a food fight in the cafeteria
Speaker 7: really accidentally.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh, accidentally.
Speaker 7: I threw a grape at me, I threw something back
Speaker 7: at him, and then another kid joined in, and pretty
Speaker 7: soon the entire school was throwing food at each other. Wow,
Speaker 7: it was great. We all got detention, but nobody cared.
Speaker 4: I've never been involved in something like that. I feel
Speaker 4: like I've missed out. It's probably not gonna well. I
Speaker 4: suppose I could end up in an old folks home
Speaker 4: where this happens. We're all throwing jello at each other.
Speaker 1: Those grapes were kind of the Lexington and Concord of
Speaker 1: the lunchroom Revolution. Katie Cretene is off Jack. Do you
Speaker 1: have a final thought for us? I did, and it
Speaker 1: flitted out of my head. That's what happens when you're old.
Speaker 1: That's wild. I was ready to talk and then it
Speaker 1: just disappeared from my Well.
Speaker 2: You're thinking about Lessington quickly, I can do it.
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris's book reminds me everybody should try hard to
Speaker 4: take good stock of your failures and figure out where
Speaker 4: you went wrong, and not blame others for your failures.
Speaker 2: Just a mad happing.
Speaker 1: My final thought is a little Kamala related to because
Speaker 1: I'm continuing to read the excerpts in the Atlanta and
Speaker 1: one thing that's notable is she absolutely equates having a
Speaker 1: meeting with doing important things.
Speaker 4: Right, which is common. Yeah, a lot of people do. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we had a meeting about that. Okay, great, good for you.
Speaker 1: I led the meeting talking about that bravely and didn't
Speaker 1: get credit.
Speaker 2: That's why there are so many meetings.
Speaker 4: Too many people believe that Armstrong and Getty wrap pick
Speaker 4: up at other grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 2: So many people to thanks, so little time. Go to
Speaker 2: Armstrong in getty dot com.
Speaker 1: For the hotlinks, pick up some swag while you're there,
Speaker 1: an ang hoodie for the fall.
Speaker 2: That would be perfect. Drops a notemail back at Armstrong
Speaker 2: in getdy dot com. She tomorrow, God bless America. It's over.
Speaker 2: It is over. It is over. Yeah, it's just complete
Speaker 2: utter nonsense.
Speaker 3: So let's just dispense with that fundamental, foundationally nonsense.
Speaker 2: That is the climax of foolishness.
Speaker 3: Figure it out or get off the podium.
Speaker 1: Does the athletes would say, we've left it all in
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 4: When it comes on for you to go, you'll have
Speaker 4: to go.
Speaker 2: I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't. I can't I can't. So which one did
Speaker 2: I say? How many times? Just the Armstrong and Getty