Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
Speaker 1: and Dat enough He Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2: Marcus is just sleep.
Speaker 3: Biden may be keeping a strong face. The headline from
Speaker 3: Axios Harris stiff arms Biden in the final stretch. Days
Speaker 3: he's kept open to hit the trail have come and gone,
Speaker 3: the campaign reportedly saying we'll get back to you.
Speaker 1: I've done a lot of sorts. If we talk all
Speaker 1: the time, I'm they're asking me where they think I
Speaker 1: should be to help them.
Speaker 3: Most Evidently those calls aren't coming from Harris. The New
Speaker 3: York Times reports she is gingerly peppered people who are
Speaker 3: close to mister Biden. How do you think he's doing?
Speaker 1: She will ask.
Speaker 3: Biden's allies say he's concerned the campaign is underestimating his
Speaker 3: appeace among working class voters in the rust Bell.
Speaker 1: That's a non story in my opinion. It's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's an old man whose feelings might be hurt. That
Speaker 1: he no longer is relevant to the question. But George W.
Speaker 1: Bush didn't campaign with McCain back in two thousand and
Speaker 1: eight because he wasn't popular at the time, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. I realized I'd be more of a drag
Speaker 1: than a help. Maybe Biden's hurt by this, I don't know,
Speaker 1: but Biden would be a drag.
Speaker 4: Characterized it quite accurately as a sad old man who
Speaker 4: can't accept that he's now worse than irrelevant.
Speaker 1: Which has got to be tough when you've been relevant
Speaker 1: for fifty some years. But you know it happens to
Speaker 1: all of us. Trump is over an hour into a
Speaker 1: press conference. Over an hour. Can you imagine Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: standing there with major press taking questions for over an hour? No,
Speaker 1: neither can I. It'd be the end of her campaign
Speaker 1: probably if she right. Yeah, so, uh. Trump doesn't get
Speaker 1: enough credit for that. He takes on adversarial press more
Speaker 1: than anybody I can remember in modern presidential history, and
Speaker 1: has the whole time.
Speaker 4: Part of the reason is because virtually all of the
Speaker 4: press is adversarial. I saw it actually claimed the other
Speaker 4: day by CNN or somebody. The Trump has done a
Speaker 4: number of interviews almost entirely with friendly outlets, which is
Speaker 4: just given the context of Kamala that is just shame
Speaker 4: shamelessness is kind.
Speaker 1: Of their their way of doing business. So here's an
Speaker 1: interesting thing I saw develop yesterday. And Katie, you can
Speaker 1: weigh on this as the only woman or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: a chest feeding person, vagina owning person. I don't know
Speaker 1: what I'm supposed to call you. I don't want to
Speaker 1: get on the wrong side of history.
Speaker 4: That wasmit worthy. Bonus hole, that's right. I forgot that
Speaker 4: was the actual term.
Speaker 1: Ei the woke, that's right. Oh, I forgot for a
Speaker 1: cup of coffee. They seriously were saying that this emerged yesterday.
Speaker 1: I heard it a bunch of times, the hesitant Harris
Speaker 1: voter around abortion. So there's the hesidant Trump voter, which
Speaker 1: seems to be true several cycles in a roll where
Speaker 1: Trump does better than the polling, with the idea being
Speaker 1: their Trump voters are afraid to say it to pollsters
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know. I've never quite understood. It
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me that why you'd be afraid
Speaker 1: to say anything to a polster. But anyway, he has
Speaker 1: performed better than the polls. There's belief that there's a
Speaker 1: hesitant Harris voter. Women in specific. They now have ads
Speaker 1: mentioning this. It's getting mentioned in all kinds of surrogate speeches. Women,
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama. We should have the clip of this Obama
Speaker 1: saying this the other night. Women, we know your husbands
Speaker 1: might get really angry if you go and vote for Harris,
Speaker 1: but remember you need to stand up for your you know,
Speaker 1: protecting your body and women's rights and your daughter's rights
Speaker 1: and all this different sort of crap. It's basically saying,
Speaker 1: there are a whole bunch of women who are so
Speaker 1: afraid of their husbands that they're claiming they'll vote for Trump,
Speaker 1: but in secret they're Harris voters. But I guess they
Speaker 1: feel like their husband's gonna beat them.
Speaker 4: Up or something.
Speaker 1: I don't even need to stand it.
Speaker 4: We need to get the Michelle Obama clip. But what
Speaker 4: she said was, your husband isn't going to be in
Speaker 4: the booths with you, right, boyfriend won't be in the
Speaker 4: booth with you. You can tell them you voted for Trump,
Speaker 4: but you should vote for Harris to protect yourself.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: She said this Friday night. And now I've seen a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of different Sarah Goods and Kamala herself and
Speaker 1: all kinds of pundits saying Yeah, there are a bunch
Speaker 1: of women out there who, you know, if they were
Speaker 1: allowed to, they would have vote for Harris, but they're
Speaker 1: not allowed to in their household. What are you trying
Speaker 1: to say that there are thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds
Speaker 1: of thousands, of millions of Harris voters who live in
Speaker 1: households that are so oppressive. I mean, I have never
Speaker 1: had a relationship like that. I don't know if you have,
Speaker 1: where you would be scared to say your opinion out
Speaker 1: loud or how your vote. I don't even get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a specific poke at the Trump voter,
Speaker 2: not just their their relationships, but that you know, these
Speaker 2: women are married to these Trumpers, and you know, I
Speaker 2: don't know, they've been trying to paint men that are
Speaker 2: for Trump like monsters this whole time.
Speaker 1: True, That's very, very true. It might be a they
Speaker 1: might actually have this view because they have such a distorted,
Speaker 1: hateful view of anybody who would vote for Donald Trump,
Speaker 1: which has more to do with inflation and the variety
Speaker 1: of other immigration than it does any of the stuff
Speaker 1: you think racism and misogyny. But so their evil view
Speaker 1: of Trump voters as yeah, women just go along with
Speaker 1: it because they they live in a Trump household, where
Speaker 1: you have to do with the been once. Have you
Speaker 1: ever know anybody within one hundred miles of that portrayal?
Speaker 2: Have you guys seen one of these ads that they're
Speaker 2: talking about.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: As Yeah, I just I just saw one on YouTube
Speaker 2: a second ago, actually before you guys started talking about it.
Speaker 1: We'll play it at this hour. It's it's really visual.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll get the last clip, but it's it's it's
Speaker 2: definitely showing like the woman would be in some deep
Speaker 2: s if she didn't vote for Trump.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with you that it's a fairly repugnant idea,
Speaker 4: but I don't I'm not sure I can go as
Speaker 4: far as you and saying there's nothing there. I think,
Speaker 4: given the closeness of the Swing States, if you could
Speaker 4: reach a few suburban women and convince them, hey, say
Speaker 4: you voted for Trump, just vote for hers. It's it's
Speaker 4: it's perverse and sick, but I don't think it's totally crazy.
Speaker 1: But out of fear, like they're physically afraid of their husbands,
Speaker 1: or they.
Speaker 4: Just don't want to get to hear the guff they
Speaker 4: don't want to hear it. Strategically speaking, it's not insane.
Speaker 1: I think they believe it. I think they think that
Speaker 1: Trump households are like that Handsmaid's tailed, all that crap
Speaker 1: that they've been talking about for a decade now.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, craziness. You're just looking for a dozen votes
Speaker 4: wherever you can get them. At this point, it's scaring
Speaker 4: people into voting, and you know, well, I think powering
Speaker 4: them to defy their oppressive husbands.
Speaker 1: I guess I would say. I think it's another example
Speaker 1: of you're doing more harm than good. You're making me
Speaker 1: think and a lot of people who could I would
Speaker 1: never vote for Kamala Harris, but people that can't quite
Speaker 1: handle Trump, who would think? A few people and know
Speaker 1: that's what I'm like as a Trump voter. My wife
Speaker 1: doesn't have the right juice what she wants to screw you? Yes,
Speaker 1: a pattern of never ending condescension, Yes, never ending condescension.
Speaker 1: The Armstrong and Getty show. It used to be one
Speaker 1: of our liners. No, never worked for us. No, people
Speaker 1: didn't like it.
Speaker 4: Eh.
Speaker 1: So ah, what a heck of a croosing argument. You
Speaker 1: women who are so scared of your husband's vote. This way.
Speaker 4: The drumbeat of that idiot comedian's idiot joke is the
Speaker 4: most important issue in America.
Speaker 1: Continues five five stories in The New York Times Today
Speaker 1: about it. Five that seems like plenty Byron york Is
Speaker 1: taking a look at Playbook DC from Politico, which is
Speaker 1: kind of their inside the belt Way every morning. You
Speaker 1: got to check it if you're a Politico thing, And
Speaker 1: virtually the entire thing is about that stupid joke or
Speaker 1: too by that ill advised comedian who took the stage
Speaker 1: an hour and a quarter before Trump. That's that's crazy
Speaker 1: ore exit polls. Do people believe in exit polls? I
Speaker 1: don't remember eh much lately.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: I would love to know if it goes Trump way,
Speaker 1: either direction it goes, I would like to know what
Speaker 1: actually what stuff actually mattered and what didn't. I find
Speaker 1: it very hard to believe that this comedian from Sunday
Speaker 1: Night is going to be a deciding factor for anyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got this.
Speaker 4: Note from Bob that I thought was pretty good. You
Speaker 4: act as though the comment about Puerto Rico was the
Speaker 4: catalyst of something in an outrage that wouldn't have happened
Speaker 4: if they weren't set his point is the left was
Speaker 4: going to be outraged about something and this is just
Speaker 4: what they chose. But it's unquestionable, Bob, that we're just
Speaker 4: reporting on what the lefties are trying to get going.
Speaker 4: But he does point out that, you know, if you
Speaker 4: combine the two worst jokes three, there's maybe forty seconds
Speaker 4: of a six and a half hour event.
Speaker 1: It was long before Trump took the stage. It was
Speaker 1: six and a half hours long. Were you expected to
Speaker 1: be there the whole time? I don't know. Wow.
Speaker 4: Uh, the media is all in for Harris. They'll spend
Speaker 4: things no matter what media creation. The worst part is
Speaker 4: that the people from Puerto Rico agree they have a
Speaker 4: massive garbage problem, as I was describing the other day.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess Trump was asked about the
Speaker 1: rally during his press conference today. If he said anything interesting,
Speaker 1: we will we'll pass that along to you. So Joe
Speaker 1: Rogan apparently on his podcast today talked about why Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: why that interview fell apart. He was going to interview
Speaker 1: both candidates. Remember there was like a week there where
Speaker 1: the talk was she was going to do Joe Rogan.
Speaker 1: Trump ended up doing Joe Rogan for two hours. The
Speaker 1: only headline I've seen out of this is he said
Speaker 1: she wanted to limit to an hour, and he said.
Speaker 4: No, and that he had to come to her well,
Speaker 4: and she would laime an hour, but then she'd show
Speaker 4: up twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: Late, right like she did with Barbara. Ask Brett Berringer,
Speaker 1: she wouldn't travel to Austin to be on the show. Nope,
Speaker 1: what is that?
Speaker 4: Well, then she wanted it to not happen, and right,
Speaker 4: that's what. Get an hour and you got to bring
Speaker 4: your crew with you? Yeah, no's that's a poison pill.
Speaker 4: I think that the hour thing, I think could have
Speaker 4: just been a we can't have her out there for more.
Speaker 4: For that long, we're doomed, but you have to come
Speaker 4: to us. Sounds like a poison pill, Like he won't
Speaker 4: agree to that, so then we won't have to do it.
Speaker 1: I would agree.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to do Rogan as Rogan does all his guests
Speaker 4: would have been a disastrous idea. They were smart to
Speaker 4: find an excuse not to do it.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that would have been a terrible idea with a
Speaker 1: with a ten days left at the time, No, that
Speaker 1: would have been yeah, and they didn't let her. Smart
Speaker 1: strategy by David Bloof or whoever pulls the strings.
Speaker 4: And as Trump is doing an hour and a half
Speaker 4: press conference in front of the hostile media as we speak,
Speaker 4: there will be no backlash to her chickening out on
Speaker 4: Joe Rogan, not a bit.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not so. Jeff Bezos, second richest man in
Speaker 1: the world, owns the Washington Post. Kids, Jeff, that's the
Speaker 1: fellow was born in nineteen sixty four. He gives me hope,
Speaker 1: gives me hope that we might get some dominant, dominant
Speaker 1: media that tries to restore our faith in journalism. And
Speaker 1: a piece he wrote in his own paper today, we'll
Speaker 1: share that with you this hour.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: One of the few advantages of age is a little
Speaker 4: bit of wisdom, you'd like to think, including recognizing, Hey,
Speaker 4: I'm an outlier on this.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can live with that.
Speaker 4: But that's why, you know, the world doesn't go quite
Speaker 4: the way I think it should. For instance, the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal with a very good piece about where all
Speaker 4: the places where childcare is on the ballot in America,
Speaker 4: subsidies for childcare, taxpayer funded childcare, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: And it's just interesting because it is, as usual with
Speaker 4: the journal, very well written and researched in a bunch
Speaker 4: of quotes from a bunch of different people, but they
Speaker 4: never ever mention that. I think every single woman who
Speaker 4: is quoted in this piece as unable to afford daycare
Speaker 4: for their children is a single mom. Is raising their
Speaker 4: kid without a partner, without a man, or a one
Speaker 4: or I don't know, a talking dog or whatever. It
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. And the fundamental question which is unspoken, And
Speaker 4: this is not a value judgment on my part, This
Speaker 4: is me looking at it almost from a political scientists
Speaker 4: point of view, and this is one of the failings
Speaker 4: of democracy. You can't hurt people's feelings and like give
Speaker 4: them the facts. But we've gone from a society that
Speaker 4: was vastly, vastly two parents raising a child with all
Speaker 4: the benefits thereof, to a society that sends the message
Speaker 4: quite consistently. It's perfectly fine if you, as a single
Speaker 4: mom or single dad, want to have a child, and
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about a situation of divorce or being widowed.
Speaker 4: You never intended to have a partner that puts you
Speaker 4: in the situation where you cannot afford care for your
Speaker 4: child and work in many cases because you don't make
Speaker 4: enough money. Therefore tax payers should pay for that child's care.
Speaker 4: It's an interesting way to describe how society should work.
Speaker 4: Maybe it's a good idea, maybe it's not a good idea.
Speaker 4: The interesting part to me is that the questions never asked.
Speaker 4: We pretend that that's not the question that we're trying
Speaker 4: to answer.
Speaker 1: Well, how many of the journalists who would ever write
Speaker 1: a story are in the camp of not having two
Speaker 1: partners raising a kid? A lot right, right?
Speaker 4: And it reminds me of that big study that was
Speaker 4: done to ascertain whether the hormone blockers and puberty blockers
Speaker 4: helped kids, and the answer was a resounding no. So
Speaker 4: they didn't publish the study because they didn't want their
Speaker 4: enemies to quote unquote weaponize it. And I think the
Speaker 4: journalists would say, well, I don't want to see you
Speaker 4: weaponize that against single parents. I'm not weaponizing anything. I
Speaker 4: just think when a democracy isn't even asking the questions,
Speaker 4: that the policy is addressed much less answering. Though, Well,
Speaker 4: all right, you're gonna get bad policy anyway. Moving along
Speaker 4: unless you have more on that topic. Hunger crisis, food
Speaker 4: banks and key swing states reporting increase in demand all
Speaker 4: over the country. They're featuring swing states in particular Pennsylvania, Michigan,
Speaker 4: Wisconsin reporting an increase in demand from people waiting in
Speaker 4: lines for food and also being forced out of their
Speaker 4: homes because they can't afford them anymore. It's all inflation related.
Speaker 1: Because I got anything to do with the credit card
Speaker 1: limit thingy. People have maxed out their credit cards because
Speaker 1: those numbers are astounding. There's got to be some birds
Speaker 1: that come home to roost on that one. I would think, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mention that, but that makes sense. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, and then just a semi related topic to that,
Speaker 4: I was reading and I couldn't find it for some reason,
Speaker 4: it escaped me. In the Reno area, where the Armstrong
Speaker 4: e Getty Show has enjoyed a great deal of support
Speaker 4: for years and years, and we're more and pleased to
Speaker 4: be on Reno sparks, they mentioned that it's now very purple.
Speaker 4: It's a fifty to fifty metro area politically speaking, and
Speaker 4: the primary reason for that, which amuses the hell out
Speaker 4: of me, is that so many Californians have moved to Reno. Wow,
Speaker 4: now let's go through this. You left California for a
Speaker 4: reason right. It was part of it affordability. Now you're
Speaker 4: in Reno, prices are skyrocketing there, but you're voting for
Speaker 4: the same people you did in California, which you left.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't get it. Happens over and over and
Speaker 1: over again. Speaking of things, you just have to accept.
Speaker 1: People don't understand that elections bring policies, and policies bring results.
Speaker 1: Is mainstream media about to make a comeback, possibly.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1: So the Nazi rally the other night Madison Square Garden,
Speaker 1: two thirds of Israelis in the latest poll are in
Speaker 1: favor of Trump winning. It's not a very good Nazi
Speaker 1: rally if two thirds of Israelis are for Trump over.
Speaker 4: Hairis in which side has been rife with anti semitism
Speaker 4: line Okay.
Speaker 1: Also speaking of the Nazi rally, I was in the
Speaker 1: arena in Milwaukee when Hulk Hogan gave his speech and
Speaker 1: ripped his shirt off to show his Trump T shirt
Speaker 1: tanked up and the crowd went wild. It was a
Speaker 1: funny moment to be you know. Therefore, But anyway, he
Speaker 1: struggled somewhat that day. Well, I didn't see him Friday
Speaker 1: night at Madison Square Garden. But he did the same thing.
Speaker 1: When he went to rip off his shirt, he like,
Speaker 1: couldn't rip it. Dude, you're seventy one. I think you
Speaker 1: got to give up the whole ripping the shirt apart thing,
Speaker 1: unless they're gonna make it a crepe paper or something.
Speaker 1: Because he can't stand up. There's an old man trying
Speaker 1: to tear apart your little shirt. Look, you got to
Speaker 1: get a new tear away t shirt company. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: not a good look. It's just too long to struggle
Speaker 1: to rip your shirt open. Uh. You probably know if
Speaker 1: you're into talk radio and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: That the La Times decided not to endorse Kamala Harris.
Speaker 1: They didn't endorse Trump, they just failed to endorse anyone.
Speaker 1: The daughter of the owner says it's because of Harris's
Speaker 1: stance on Israel. Maybe that's true, maybe it's not. I
Speaker 1: don't know now. Then later that day, the Washington Post
Speaker 1: announced that they were not going to endorse Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: or anyone, and that caused a huge backlash among readers
Speaker 1: and people that work for the Washington Post. A bunch
Speaker 1: of people in like the uh in the editorial room
Speaker 1: quit and according to NPR today, two hundred thousand people
Speaker 1: have canceled their subscriptions of the Washington Post. That's eight
Speaker 1: percent of their subscribers have canceled over.
Speaker 4: That for just saying we don't endorse candidates anymore. We
Speaker 4: didn't used to. We did for a while, We're not
Speaker 4: going to anymore. So that's one of the reasons that
Speaker 4: there's an op ed in his own newspaper today from
Speaker 4: the owner Jeff Bezos, the world's second richest man. It
Speaker 4: says the hard truth, Americans don't trust the news media.
Speaker 4: A note from our owner, and it says underneath Jeff
Speaker 4: Bezos is the owner of the Washington Post.
Speaker 1: So this comes out on the heels of the Kerfluffel
Speaker 1: on Friday, but it sure sounds like he's been thinking
Speaker 1: about this for a while. Jeff Bezos writes in the
Speaker 1: annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists in the
Speaker 1: media have regularly fallen near the bottom, often just above Congress.
Speaker 1: But in this year's Gallup poll, we have managed to
Speaker 1: fall below Congress. Our profession is now the least trusted
Speaker 1: of all. Something we are doing is clearly not working. Man.
Speaker 1: When you're below Congress in terms of trust, you are
Speaker 1: at the bottom. Let me give under how I wonder.
Speaker 4: How the newsroom would react to that simple assertion, that
Speaker 4: simple indisputable assertion. Well, that's because Americans are stupid and
Speaker 4: they're Nazis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we need to we need to be leaders. Maybe
Speaker 1: we're not on popped, maybe we're not popular now, but
Speaker 1: we'll be leaders and convince people or something. That's a
Speaker 1: principled stand. Anyway, back to Jeff Bezos, he right impressed.
Speaker 1: Let me give an analogy. Voting machines must meet two requirements.
Speaker 1: They must count the vote accurately, and people must believe
Speaker 1: they count the vote accurately. The second requirement is distinct
Speaker 1: from and just as important as the first. Likewise, with newspapers,
Speaker 1: we must be accurate and we must be believed to
Speaker 1: be accurate. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but we
Speaker 1: are failing on the second requirement. Most people believe the
Speaker 1: media is biased. Anyone who doesn't see this as paying
Speaker 1: scant attention to reality and those who fight reality lose reality,
Speaker 1: is an undefeated champion. Love that line. It would be
Speaker 1: easy to blame others for our long and continued fall
Speaker 1: and credibility and therefore decline and impact. But a victim
Speaker 1: mentality will not help. Complaining is not a strategy. We
Speaker 1: must work harder to control what we can control to
Speaker 1: increase our credibility. By the way, he doesn't mention it
Speaker 1: in this piece, but The New York Times reports that
Speaker 1: Bezos is saying they're going to hire more Republican conservative
Speaker 1: reporters and opinion writers, which obviously has to happen.
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm interested in becoming a Wall Post subscriber already
Speaker 4: am for professional reasons, but that sounds great.
Speaker 1: To the specific about the non endorsement, here, writes, presidential
Speaker 1: endorsements do nothing to tip the scales of an election.
Speaker 1: No undecided voters in Pennsylvania are going to say, I'm
Speaker 1: going with newspaper a's endorsement. None. What presidential endorsements actually
Speaker 1: do is create a perception of bias, a perception of
Speaker 1: non independents. Ending them is a principal decision, and it's
Speaker 1: the right one. Eugene Meyer, publisher of The Wappo from
Speaker 1: thirty three to forty six, the same, and he was
Speaker 1: right by itself. Declining to endorse presidential candidates is not
Speaker 1: enough to move us very far up the trust scale,
Speaker 1: but it's a meaningful step in the right direction. I
Speaker 1: wish we had made the change earlier than we did,
Speaker 1: in a moment of further and and in a moment
Speaker 1: further from the election and the emotions around it. That
Speaker 1: was inadequate planning and not some intentional strategy. So him
Speaker 1: saying this is our new philosophy, I wish we had
Speaker 1: done it earlier is important, gets into a kerf fluffle.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know happened. Must have been an internal thing.
Speaker 1: And then I'll get to this. While I do not
Speaker 1: and will not push my personal interests, I will also
Speaker 1: not allow this paper to stay on autopilot and fade
Speaker 1: into irrelevance, overtaken by unresearched podcasts and social media barbs.
Speaker 1: Not without a fight. It's too important. The stakes are
Speaker 1: too high now more than ever. The world needs a credible, trusted,
Speaker 1: independent voice. And where better for the voice to originate
Speaker 1: than the capital city the most important country in the world. Oh,
Speaker 1: and I like this part. To win this fight, we'll
Speaker 1: have to exercise new muscles. Some changes will be a
Speaker 1: return to the past, and some will be new inventions.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I'm looking at the long list of wahpoh
Speaker 4: scribblers and editors who are screeching in indignation and have
Speaker 4: resigned or whatever. And it's just it's, you know, the
Speaker 4: bubbled left media elite utterly convinced that, well, there are
Speaker 4: folks who actually use the term my truth with a
Speaker 4: straight face because they have attempted, to, at least in
Speaker 4: their own minds, erase the line between opinion and truth,
Speaker 4: and so if it's their strong opinion, that's the truth
Speaker 4: to them. And they are saying they're deeply disappointed. What
Speaker 4: steems me is oh there it is, will not be
Speaker 4: making any endorsement. Dot dot dot were furious. I mean,
Speaker 4: if you don't have the ballstone a newspaper, don't, one
Speaker 4: Post Opinion employee told this writer. Another said an endorsement.
Speaker 4: The non endorsement was an outrageous abdication of responsibility and
Speaker 4: a form of craset consent to a fascist whims that's
Speaker 4: so crazy, I'm sure, well right, yeah, I'm sure Jeff
Speaker 4: Bezos would say, y'all and that Opinion have been in charge.
Speaker 4: You lost seventy seven million dollars last year, seventy seven
Speaker 4: million dollars. So tell me again why I ought to
Speaker 4: defer to your opinions.
Speaker 1: Why well right, and his thing about I don't want
Speaker 1: to be you know, overtaken and become irrelevant to podcasts
Speaker 1: and other social media barbs. Yeah, that's exactly the case.
Speaker 1: If nobody cares what your paper thinks, you're not actu
Speaker 1: doing anything, you weird woke reporters. So what you What
Speaker 1: apparently they'd be happy with is having a very small
Speaker 1: number of people who agree with everything they say, and
Speaker 1: then they go to cocktail parties and out to eat
Speaker 1: and congratulate themselves. They'd be perfectly happy with that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely true. Let's see, I gotta scroll down. Who's this
Speaker 1: darcy person.
Speaker 4: There's a bunch of you know, media insider heavyweight to
Speaker 4: do his name. I don't know, but I love this.
Speaker 4: This is the defense, and the prosecution will rest after
Speaker 4: the defense, which is doing a better job than I could,
Speaker 4: she said. On one side is an Adolph Hitler praising
Speaker 4: autocratic wannabee who is vowed to seek retribution against his
Speaker 4: perceived enemies should he find himself in the back in
Speaker 4: the oval office. On the other side is a relatively
Speaker 4: run of the mill democratic politician who respects the rule
Speaker 4: of law in American Democratic order, right, that is their
Speaker 4: neutraless of the race.
Speaker 1: I reach my case, your nuts if you actually believe that. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it's it's a problem the first year you don't endorse,
Speaker 1: because it's pretty easy. I don't. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is what he's doing at all. But it's pretty easy
Speaker 1: to the first year the newspapers don't endorse, to think, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're for the other side. You just don't want to
Speaker 1: say it out loud. But after a couple of years
Speaker 1: it'll become more clear. No, our policy is just we
Speaker 1: don't endorse, because that would be dumb. Our job is
Speaker 1: to report the news. If we endorse, by definition, we
Speaker 1: are more interested in one side the other than the other.
Speaker 1: How obvious is that. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Bezos himself for expressed regret that they didn't do it sooner,
Speaker 4: not only because it's a good idea, but this close
Speaker 4: to the election it feels different.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, when I when I heard the La Times
Speaker 1: didn't endorse Harris, my first thought was, Wow, they actually
Speaker 1: prefer Trump, fairly or unfairly. I think it's important that
Speaker 1: the two richest people in the world. More importantly, they're
Speaker 1: both Americans. The two richest people in the United States,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos seem to be hell bent
Speaker 1: on more free speech and trying to play it down
Speaker 1: the middle. And the people on the left think Elon's
Speaker 1: full of crap, and the people on the right are
Speaker 1: going to think Bezos is full of crap. But I
Speaker 1: think they're both closer to that than not of what
Speaker 1: they want to accomplish.
Speaker 4: People were putting out that both were men of the
Speaker 4: center left, only you know, two years ago.
Speaker 1: Right, they both recognize that the country's doomed. If we
Speaker 1: don't have some shared news sources, if we all just
Speaker 1: go to our own podcasts, radio shows, you know, social
Speaker 1: media followings and stuff like that, we're doomed. I run
Speaker 1: into people every single day left or right, who say, hey,
Speaker 1: did you hear about the whatever? And I haven't because
Speaker 1: they're following some crazy website reporting something that's not true
Speaker 1: that I haven't even heard of in the many hours
Speaker 1: of media that I take in every day.
Speaker 4: Meanwhile, back at the wah Poe, let us know that
Speaker 4: democracy dies in darkness. Karen Attiya, who's a Post columnist, said, quote,
Speaker 4: keeping in mind that the WAPO endorsed the Democrat every
Speaker 4: single time. Of course, it is since they started endorsing
Speaker 4: presidential candidates in nineteen seventy six, every single damn time.
Speaker 4: As Bezos pointed out, nobody cares anyway. She said, today
Speaker 4: has been an absolute stab in the back. What an
Speaker 4: insult to those of us who have literally put our
Speaker 4: careers and lives on the line to call out threats
Speaker 4: to human rights and democracy.
Speaker 1: You put your life on the line by writing what
Speaker 1: everybody in your newsroom and everybody who reads your paper
Speaker 1: agrees with. Yes, I'm you're.
Speaker 4: Taking the courageous stand of agreeing with everybody around you.
Speaker 1: Yes. Wow. And then you go places I'm sure where
Speaker 1: everybody pat you on the back and agrees with you. Also,
Speaker 1: how brave of you?
Speaker 4: And if you don't have the ballstone and newspaper, or
Speaker 4: don't Apparently having the balls to own a newspaper includes
Speaker 4: putting up with the suicidal policies of your employees to
Speaker 4: the tune of nearly eighty million dollars in red ink
Speaker 4: per year. I don't quite see your point, you whining communists.
Speaker 1: So what is the story? So Bezos owns the paper?
Speaker 1: So who are the guys he hired from Britain that
Speaker 1: came in. They're the Rubbisher, the publisher. Anyway, it's a
Speaker 1: ceo anyway. I remember when the CEOs came in and
Speaker 1: said that. In the newsroom was complaining and they said, look,
Speaker 1: nobody's reading your stuff. To me. That was the boo
Speaker 1: yah kill shot boom goes to dynamite. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: nothing to say beyond that. If you keep going the
Speaker 1: direction you're going, you're completely irrelevant. What's the point.
Speaker 4: And that's what's so interesting about the newspaper business. If
Speaker 4: this was a record company, there's no way that the
Speaker 4: owner would allow the producers or whatever to continue putting
Speaker 4: out records nobody wants to listen to.
Speaker 1: Or we think polka rap is the most important music.
Speaker 1: Nobody's buying it, nobody's listening to it.
Speaker 4: If it John Deere, all the shop foremen were insisting
Speaker 4: on building like bicycle tractors that you have to pedal,
Speaker 4: and the firm that keeps falling off of them, and
Speaker 4: nobody freaking wants them, and huge majorities of Americans say
Speaker 4: that's crap, that's worse than Congress.
Speaker 1: But John Deere's owners would say, well, what can we do?
Speaker 4: Our shop foremen will want to build the bicycle tractors.
Speaker 1: That one example where this could possibly exist because the
Speaker 1: employees are saying, you don't have the balls to run
Speaker 1: a tractor company. You shouldn't be doing it. Dude. You
Speaker 1: didn't get people something they don't want.
Speaker 4: This is my truth here at ja Lied. We believe
Speaker 4: in making razors that don't cut whiskers. All of us
Speaker 4: on the shop floor agree, and the owners have to say, well, okay,
Speaker 4: I guess we'll.
Speaker 1: Keep bleeding money.
Speaker 4: Seriously, sometimes I slapped my forehead. I think what colors
Speaker 4: does this kai in your world? What does reality look
Speaker 4: like in your world? So it could end up being
Speaker 4: a big deal in a turning point. I hope it
Speaker 4: is that in a matter of what two years, Elon
Speaker 4: bought Twitter and Bezos decided that at the Wappo they
Speaker 4: need to fix everything.
Speaker 1: I hope. I hope it matters. We will finish strong next.
Speaker 1: So I made steak and corn last night for me
Speaker 1: and Henry, kind of a you know, go to sad
Speaker 1: single dad sort of meal. Steaks on the grill, corn
Speaker 1: on the cob on the grill, and some bread. That's
Speaker 1: so fantastic. Yeah, it is fantastic, except if you can
Speaker 1: only make three things. It gets a little repetitious. But
Speaker 1: so we bought. We didn't have the corn holders, so
Speaker 1: we bought the cow. That's right, it's cone. We bought
Speaker 1: the corn holders. You know, the little things that are
Speaker 1: shaped like a corn. Huh, how clever is that? And
Speaker 1: they have the little metal poky things in there and
Speaker 1: you jam them in the edge of the corn.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 1: I was having trouble getting it in the narrow end
Speaker 1: of the corn, and I was pushed on it and
Speaker 1: it slipped and I jabbed it into my other hand,
Speaker 1: into my finger, deep into my finger. I still have
Speaker 1: the wood. I have blood squirting out of the two holes,
Speaker 1: and it's swollen up. Today. I got some sort of
Speaker 1: corn tetanus going on. I think corn juice tetanus. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's a thing. Oh, it can't be
Speaker 1: good for you. It hurt shockingly much. And as Henry
Speaker 1: pointed out, you have salt in your wound. I did.
Speaker 1: I'd salted the corn already, and so I got salted
Speaker 1: there good. It was just uite, the quite the off
Speaker 1: putting thing to have happened right at the dinner table.
Speaker 1: Are you up to date on your Titanus shots. I
Speaker 1: was wondering about that. How long do they last? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's been, like I know at least how long it's
Speaker 1: been because the last time I got a tetanus shot,
Speaker 1: I was drunk and tripped climbing over a rusty barbed
Speaker 1: wire fence, so I had to go get my tennis shot.
Speaker 1: But I haven't had a drink in eighteen years, so
Speaker 1: it's been at least eighty. Yeah, keep an eye on that.
Speaker 1: If my Josh Arsenal lock up and I talk like this,
Speaker 1: let me know. I don't think there's any curing you.
Speaker 1: At that point, you'll be dead. Look for the barcessities,
Speaker 1: the simple fair necessities, like final thoughts to end in
Speaker 1: the other show in the Mancessity Mother Nature's recipes, like
Speaker 1: final thoughts from our host Jack and Joe.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: That's a ukulele. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4: Let's get a final thought from everybody and the crew
Speaker 4: to wrap up the show. There is our technical director,
Speaker 4: Michael lead us Off. Jack.
Speaker 1: Is it true I saw a tweet that you ate
Speaker 1: a tower of donuts? Yeah, we got the donut tower
Speaker 1: at Red Robin the other day. That thing was freaking good.
Speaker 1: We were all shocked at how those donuts where they're
Speaker 1: hot and fresh right off the griddle.
Speaker 4: The donut tower and architectural marvel Katie Green are esteemed
Speaker 4: newswoman is final thought, Katie All.
Speaker 2: I responded to that tweet and I said, dot dot dot,
Speaker 2: but a bag of chips is a step too far.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, speaking of the donut tower at Red Robin,
Speaker 1: usually we get the ort, the onion ring tower, which
Speaker 1: we call the ORT, and it is caught on at
Speaker 1: the restaurant. Now the other waitresses called the ort. But
Speaker 1: the donut tower comes with hot caramel to dip it
Speaker 1: in or hot chocolate to dip it in. Fudge. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that's some good eating.
Speaker 4: Later today, I'm looking forward to eating a cake condominium.
Speaker 1: Wait, no, I'm not.
Speaker 4: My final thought is reading the comments on that Jeff
Speaker 4: Bezos opinion piece is so revealing. Every single one and
Speaker 4: I'm like, fifteen comments in every single one is an
Speaker 4: ad hominem attack, an attack on Bezos is a bad
Speaker 4: person or a billionaire.
Speaker 1: Not a single damn one addresses his arguments. What would
Speaker 1: that's revealing? What would your argument be? Armstrong person? Armstrong
Speaker 1: in getty rabbing him another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4: So many people who think so little time go to
Speaker 4: armstrong e giddy dot com.
Speaker 1: What a great hot lengths for you?
Speaker 4: Pick up a hot Dogs Are Dogs t shirt and
Speaker 4: wear it to the Zan Jose State Women's volleyball games
Speaker 4: where they have a dude playing.
Speaker 1: I can't keep my weight down. Must be my metabolism
Speaker 1: or something we'll see tomorrow. God bless America. I'm man
Speaker 1: enough to enjoy it. I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 3: I've been thinking that we really all need a trim
Speaker 3: and hug.
Speaker 1: About I'm gonna stop you, so let's go with a
Speaker 1: buy it. It's like a did he freak off. It's
Speaker 1: they're all.
Speaker 4: Oiled up in their own unctious lesty morality slash ideology,
Speaker 4: and they're all having like intellectual orgy sex with each.
Speaker 1: Other that I know. Thanks you all very much, Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Yetti