Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong and.
Speaker 2: Jetty and now he.
Speaker 3: Arms rang.
Speaker 2: Live from Studio C season Your are we on Little Friday? Already?
Speaker 2: We are deep within the bowels of the Armstrong Ngetty
Speaker 2: Communications compound. They were toiling under the title of the show.
Speaker 2: They were lying, they were all lying.
Speaker 4: Or Trump tries to confuse the Middle East into surrender.
Speaker 5: What's that one about?
Speaker 2: A couple of.
Speaker 4: Different things, including his kind of off the cuff proposal
Speaker 4: that all the Middle Eastern countries should sign on to
Speaker 4: the Abraham of Courts as a condition of a ceasefire
Speaker 4: with Iran, and the number of countries said we already
Speaker 4: have relations with him, or said that's not even on
Speaker 4: the tape.
Speaker 2: So Iran shot a ballistic missile, a big time missile
Speaker 2: at or on one of our bases overnight, and we
Speaker 2: shot it down. But man, if that had gotten through,
Speaker 2: that would have been a big deal. You never know
Speaker 2: what these situations. I've never known anyway of what's a
Speaker 2: legitimate attempt to try to like kill two hundred US
Speaker 2: soldiers or they know it's going to be shot down,
Speaker 2: and it's a gesture. I've never quite understood that, and.
Speaker 4: Frequently we don't find out what actually happened for a
Speaker 4: while too, So right, any conclusions, I'm highly shaky.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was listening to David French of the New
Speaker 2: York Times the other day on a podcast, and I
Speaker 2: don't know, I hadn't heard this reporting, but he said
Speaker 2: the damage that Iran has done to US military basis
Speaker 2: at the very beginning was much much greater than it
Speaker 2: was reported. So well, if that's true, I don't know
Speaker 2: why it hasn't been reported, since the media is all
Speaker 2: in on being against this war. I haven't seen that much.
Speaker 4: Reporting on New York Times had a big piece on
Speaker 4: that that I saw a week ago, week and a
Speaker 4: half ago time.
Speaker 2: Totally, I'm over.
Speaker 4: I think it probably is over on the left, although
Speaker 4: you take in plenty of lefty media.
Speaker 2: No, I don't know if it's true. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know. Well, that's the problem with what's the first uh,
Speaker 2: what's the first casualty in war? True? True, friend? And
Speaker 2: it continues during the war apparently because you know, everybody's
Speaker 2: got such a reason to want to make their argument
Speaker 2: that they exaggerate or make stuff up, and so figuring
Speaker 2: out what's actually going on because the people that are
Speaker 2: in favor of the war, I still think it was
Speaker 2: a good idea, although that seems to be a dwindling
Speaker 2: number of people out there exaggerate their position and the
Speaker 2: people who are against it exaggerate their position. So finding
Speaker 2: out what's actually happening is tough, but has some pretty
Speaker 2: heavy duty exchanging of armaments last night during a cease fire.
Speaker 4: Well, luckily we're just on the very threshold of deal.
Speaker 4: Any minute now they'll be announcing that.
Speaker 2: So Ian Bremer said he thinks we are on the
Speaker 2: threshold of a deal, and he has been mocking those
Speaker 2: statements for months now. Anytime anybody'd say that we're not
Speaker 2: even close to a deal, he would say, and he
Speaker 2: tweeted out, I think last night that we are actually
Speaker 2: close to a deal. Whether or not it's a deal
Speaker 2: people are going to like, I don't know, So we'll
Speaker 2: see on that. I thought it was interesting Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journal has two articles back to back. I don't know.
Speaker 2: In the paper version, maybe they weren't back to back,
Speaker 2: but on the online version they are back to back.
Speaker 2: The first one being how Iran is managing to still
Speaker 2: sell billions of dollars worth of oil to China and
Speaker 2: other places and getting around the sanctions and everything like that.
Speaker 5: Sanctions don't work.
Speaker 2: I've been screaming for decades. And then right after that
Speaker 2: article they have Tehran. How long can Iran withstand the
Speaker 2: economic pressure that they're about to fold under the pressure
Speaker 2: of this anction. So those two articles seem to odd
Speaker 2: back to back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, both can be true, but somebody probably ought
Speaker 4: to explain it to us.
Speaker 2: I just I have no idea what to believe. At
Speaker 2: this point, their currency is like a record low. The
Speaker 2: government is telling the regular people of the street, who
Speaker 2: were the protests back in February where they got mowed
Speaker 2: down by machine guns, were about how bad the economy was. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's why they were.
Speaker 5: Referring to it now as the good old days.
Speaker 2: They were risking their lives because the economy was so bad.
Speaker 2: They were willing to go out there and challenge the
Speaker 2: government over the economy.
Speaker 5: Before the war started.
Speaker 2: And now with the currency at record low, the government
Speaker 2: is telling the people conserve electricity, don't run your air conditioning,
Speaker 2: you know, ride your bike, don't use fuel blah, blah blah,
Speaker 2: like with these are we got to really really knuckle
Speaker 2: down here and right, that's tough.
Speaker 5: That'd be tough.
Speaker 2: It's tough to tell a population that anytime, especially tough
Speaker 2: when they hate you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we hate you.
Speaker 2: We wish you were gone. So not really into this
Speaker 2: whole conserving energy thing. Yeah, nice suggestion.
Speaker 4: Well back to the whole economic pain I am hearing
Speaker 4: from commentators. I trust that the pain is real and
Speaker 4: it is growing. And while they have that oil revenue
Speaker 4: from the what do they call it, the ghost fleet
Speaker 4: or the shadow fleet or the super Mystery Fleet or
Speaker 4: whatever it is. And it's interesting because these boats they're
Speaker 4: like junkie and old looking, and they sit low in
Speaker 4: the water intentionally and they paint over any identifying signs
Speaker 4: or numbers or names or anything like that, or just
Speaker 4: hang tarps over it. So that's very much sneaking around
Speaker 4: in the dark. Yeah, that works to get past our blockade.
Speaker 4: The ocean is very large, jack, very large. I thought
Speaker 4: our blockade was better than that. But as you know,
Speaker 4: they are getting some income. But what I would love
Speaker 4: to see a chart or a pie graph or something explaining,
Speaker 4: you know, how much money they need and how much
Speaker 4: money they're getting through. That means because they're burning through
Speaker 4: all their reserves and all their storehouses full of this,
Speaker 4: that and the other.
Speaker 2: So both can definitely be true. Speaking of pie, you
Speaker 2: can't say pie chart without my mind going that direction.
Speaker 2: I didn't hear I know that about you. That's right
Speaker 2: word you said after you said pieh We've lost him.
Speaker 5: I haven't had any pie this year.
Speaker 2: What is your favorite pie? Jack, the one that's in
Speaker 2: front of me. I haven't had any pie this year
Speaker 2: as part of my New Year's resolution, and I'm at
Speaker 2: the lowest weight I've been in a couple of years.
Speaker 2: And I almost fell for one of the oldest mistakes
Speaker 2: in the weight loss game. Because, as I've been saying,
Speaker 2: and I think everybody can relate to this, I've bean
Speaker 2: in the groove of eating right and it seems effortless
Speaker 2: right now, and I know from past experience that at
Speaker 2: some point that will end and it will be impossible
Speaker 2: to get back into the group that needs to be
Speaker 2: studying more. Why that works that way, that when you're
Speaker 2: in the groove of going to the gym or eating
Speaker 2: right or whatever your thing is, or you know, keeping
Speaker 2: your desk on cluttered or whatever it is. You get
Speaker 2: in the groove and it seems like, well, this will
Speaker 2: I'll be like this forever because this is so easy,
Speaker 2: And then when it's gone, it's all the way gone,
Speaker 2: like waking up one day and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: you can't speak French anymore.
Speaker 4: You're like, I don't know any of these words. I
Speaker 4: don't know how the verbs work. How do you I
Speaker 4: have no idea how I did that right? And then
Speaker 4: when the groove is gone, it's like.
Speaker 5: How did I ever do that? How did I ever
Speaker 5: go a whole week or weeks.
Speaker 2: Without eating this or that or getting to the gym
Speaker 2: or whatever it is you're you're talking about doing AnyWho,
Speaker 2: I almost this morning, and I laughed out loud at
Speaker 2: myself for having the notion because my pants are a
Speaker 2: little big, and I thought, I go out and get
Speaker 2: some new pants.
Speaker 4: I laughed to myself, like this, that's it, gone, buy
Speaker 4: new clothes, you idiots. That's funny that it's such a
Speaker 4: like a parallel to the old the ancient saying, if
Speaker 4: you wish to make the gods laugh, tell them your plans.
Speaker 4: If you wish to make the weight gods laugh, go
Speaker 4: out and buy new clothes.
Speaker 2: That's what they're waiting for.
Speaker 5: Get him, get him the weight. Gods, they slapped their head.
Speaker 2: I can't believe he's doing this.
Speaker 5: I got another one.
Speaker 2: We got another one. I'm looking at five person pasts
Speaker 2: like twelve shirts. Yes and then because I was I
Speaker 2: was not feeling good yesterday. I spent the entire day
Speaker 2: in bed, didn't eat or drink a thing. Yesterday. I'm
Speaker 2: feeling horrible. Feel better today. But I think I got
Speaker 2: something at a restaurant, based on a chat, GPT and
Speaker 2: everything like that. If a stomach thing comes out of nowhere,
Speaker 2: by far, the most likely explanation is food poisoning. And
Speaker 2: how often do people get food poisoning? I thought it
Speaker 2: was pretty rare. Does it happen that often? Anyway? It's
Speaker 2: almost always from food, and probably a restaurant. And I
Speaker 2: didn't know that that that was the most likely thing.
Speaker 2: And Henry was feeling poorly, and we both ate together
Speaker 2: at a restaurant that's not doing very well. There's never
Speaker 2: anybody there, and I always think, Wow, this is a
Speaker 2: cool place, but there's never anybody here. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's gonna last anyway, We're both horribly, horribly six
Speaker 2: stomach wise the next day.
Speaker 4: And I know they can't afford soap for their employees'
Speaker 4: hands anymore, So just rinse when you're in.
Speaker 2: The bathroom and that'll be good enough, I'm sure. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's generally from the hands of the people not keeping
Speaker 2: things clean more than like the food was tainted on
Speaker 2: its own, it got tainted by the person who was
Speaker 2: touching it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's I think I'm guilty of thinking of
Speaker 4: food poisoning as something severe like all the time.
Speaker 5: I think I could be.
Speaker 4: It could be ten different levels of Man, I just
Speaker 4: feel a little odd to full on. I'm in the
Speaker 4: hospital dehydrated.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I think I am too, And that's why
Speaker 2: we we don't notice a lot of it. You eat
Speaker 2: somewhere and some some guy works in the kitchen thought
Speaker 2: I better get back in there. I don't have time
Speaker 2: to wash my hands, and next thing, you know, everybody's
Speaker 2: not feeling so good the next day, right.
Speaker 5: You that's gross when you think about it. I wish
Speaker 5: I hadn't said that.
Speaker 4: Are there on hard times and there's a little mere
Speaker 4: a little uh, you know.
Speaker 5: The I don't think that. I don't think that happens
Speaker 5: a lot in the United States.
Speaker 2: Would you like our mostly beef taco today? It's unspecial.
Speaker 2: We have talkers, we have chicken pork. What was that
Speaker 2: third one? I'll have the surf and turf.
Speaker 4: Well, it's actually the litter boxing turf today, but yeah,
Speaker 4: you sure, Quint?
Speaker 2: All right, we gotta have we gotta start the show officially.
Speaker 2: I can't handle that scratching post. What would be the
Speaker 2: equival I haven't been ever good for thirty six hours
Speaker 2: and I can't handle league. Okay, sorry, Joe, sorry, my bed. Well, okay,
Speaker 2: I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Thursday,
Speaker 2: May twenty eighth. We're almost out of May people that
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty six. We are armstrong in getting we
Speaker 2: approved of this program.
Speaker 4: Okay, here we go, deep breathless begin officially according to
Speaker 4: FCC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: Here we go at Mark. Well happened.
Speaker 6: I don't know what happened. I mean when I as
Speaker 6: I watched it, I thought, oh my god, he's having
Speaker 6: a stroke, and it scared me to death.
Speaker 2: Well, she would know if he was having a stroke.
Speaker 2: That was doctor Jill Biden. She would have been able
Speaker 2: to diagnose it. Ah beautiful caught me off guard. Joe
Speaker 2: Biden out with an interview that got a lot of
Speaker 2: people's attention. She watched that debate, the debate and thought
Speaker 2: he was having a stroke. Then why was she out
Speaker 2: there like an hour later saying.
Speaker 5: Joe, yes, the questions.
Speaker 2: So we'll talk about that coming up in just a
Speaker 2: little bit title of the show. They were lying, They're
Speaker 2: all lying.
Speaker 5: And you know what's going on here.
Speaker 2: All smart people and us figured out that the real
Speaker 2: villain in the whole story all along was that woman there,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: She's the reason.
Speaker 2: You can't blame it on the guy who's got dementia
Speaker 2: for making bad decisions. It was his wife, who knew
Speaker 2: every bit how bad he was, who was trotting him
Speaker 2: out there because she wanted to keep being first lady. Right,
Speaker 2: She's the villain, And now she's trying to clean that
Speaker 2: up for history, for history, for the history books, for
Speaker 2: the way people look at this, for all eternity.
Speaker 5: She's trying to change the narrative.
Speaker 2: But I think she's gonna fail. Yeah, good luck with that.
Speaker 2: The more we learn, the more we know we were right. Wow. Okay,
Speaker 2: I wait to play some of those clips if you
Speaker 2: haven't heard of them, in lots of other stuff. We'll have,
Speaker 2: in fact, all the headlines coming up next day. Here
Speaker 2: my favorite headline of the day, which is twenty years
Speaker 2: late at least, from the New York Times. It's an
Speaker 2: opinion piece. Can America finally stop its obsession with the Kennedys.
Speaker 2: I've been saying that for thirty years. Of course, now
Speaker 2: they want to do it, now that RFK Junior's out
Speaker 2: there being a kook that has mystified me so completely
Speaker 2: for so long. No kid, the fascination. I just I'll
Speaker 2: read some of it. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, please, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd love to do that.
Speaker 4: Plus I'm excited about a handful of a pretty good
Speaker 4: handful of things we're gonna talk about today, including a
Speaker 4: study that says using AI for ten minutes can make
Speaker 4: you lazy and stupid. Whoa, and if you started out
Speaker 4: as an unmotivated half wit. You know, just I'm not
Speaker 4: thinking of anybody in particular, certainly not me. That's bad news.
Speaker 4: So stay tuned for that, won't you. It's also incredibly useful.
Speaker 4: But wow, so let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
Speaker 4: the lead story with Heather Meyers.
Speaker 2: Heather, take it away, Jack Joe.
Speaker 1: Good morning. Here's how the networks are covering the news.
Speaker 1: From CNN, Jill Biden says she was worried Joe Biden
Speaker 1: was having a stroke during the twenty twenty four debate.
Speaker 1: Fox News former First Lady ripped after stunning admission about
Speaker 1: Biden's disastrous debate, and from The New York Post, Jill
Speaker 1: Biden shockingly admits she thought Joe was having a stroke
Speaker 1: during disastrous twenty twenty four debate with Trump.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I like the way everybody just goes with that. No, Okay,
Speaker 5: she thought he was having a stroke.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to question the fact that she let
Speaker 2: him finish the debate then took him to I think
Speaker 2: nine different places over the next twenty four hours, not
Speaker 2: a doctor at any point, just where we'll go straight
Speaker 2: to the waffle house and then the airport and continue
Speaker 2: doing campaign stops even though I think he might be
Speaker 2: having a stroke, raising money.
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice, Penis Morning.
Speaker 1: The story's breaking. If federal judge refuses to block President
Speaker 1: Trump's order to create a federal voter list and limit
Speaker 1: mail voting, just.
Speaker 2: No men can vote anymore.
Speaker 4: This is outrageous, this is sexist, this is oh oh
Speaker 4: m e il.
Speaker 2: Sorry sorry, yeah, different mail.
Speaker 1: Good question though. From CNN, Republicans are poised to finish
Speaker 1: this year's redistricting, wore ten seats ahead of Democrats.
Speaker 4: Wow, okay, Yeah, it was funny Trump or somebody close
Speaker 4: to Trump accused South Carolina of being disloyal and not
Speaker 4: redistricting and blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: I was just reading about it. No, the problem is
Speaker 5: early voting.
Speaker 4: It already started, so they're looking at throwing away thousands
Speaker 4: of votes and getting into incredible legal battles over that.
Speaker 4: And they thought, we're not doing that. We're gonna wait
Speaker 4: to after the primary at least. So that's what's going
Speaker 4: on there.
Speaker 1: From the New York Times, the Justice Department said to
Speaker 1: be opening a criminal inquiry of e.
Speaker 2: Gene Carroll. Yeah. I don't like this. So that's the
Speaker 2: woman accusing Trump of she's accused him of actual rape, right, yeah, yeah, essentially,
Speaker 2: but the Justice Department going after her, Trump's Justice Department.
Speaker 5: That's not a good look.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's over a question of perjury, over whether anybody
Speaker 4: was helping pay her legal bills.
Speaker 2: That's that's it.
Speaker 1: From carscoops dot com. Florida woman ticketed for texting with
Speaker 1: a hand that doesn't exist. What Yeah, this is a
Speaker 1: weird one. She actually has it on video where the
Speaker 1: officer is accusing her of texting with her right hand,
Speaker 1: and then at one point she holds up her right
Speaker 1: arm and she doesn't have a right hand.
Speaker 4: She can pray good evidence, Yeah maybe you didn't.
Speaker 5: Notice, yes, and she holds up her stump.
Speaker 4: But they ticketed her anyway, Wow, okay, and seem short.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he cited her and then when the video went
Speaker 1: viral they retracted the citation.
Speaker 2: That's a pretty good defense.
Speaker 1: From the Babylon Bee family torn between placing grandpa in
Speaker 1: hospice and having him run for senate.
Speaker 5: Yeah, eactly, exactly. That's where we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks, Heather, appreciate it. Well done. As always.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Trump turns eighty here. Trump turns eighty here.
Speaker 2: In a couple weeks, he'll be the second oldest president
Speaker 2: in US history, following the first oldest president in US history.
Speaker 5: That's what we do now.
Speaker 2: For some reason, in how do you break out of it?
Speaker 4: I feel like there's a major change about to happen
Speaker 4: again in American politics. The way the parties, who the
Speaker 4: parties are, who they represent, their stances are. It all
Speaker 4: feels just so in flux, like everything else these days.
Speaker 2: Surely there's going to be a movement after this toward
Speaker 2: every president we have for the rest of my life
Speaker 2: will be in their fifties or sixties. I'll bet what's that.
Speaker 4: Maybe I don't know what's going to motivate that just backlash.
Speaker 2: Having observed eighty year olds as presidents, I think that's
Speaker 2: what's gonna be. What the motivation that don't work? Okay,
Speaker 2: we got a lot on the way, Jill Biden, this
Speaker 2: stuff is good. Stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7: The with the COVID, I excuse me, with dealing with
Speaker 7: everything we have to do with.
Speaker 2: Look, if we finally beat medicare, thank you, President Biden.
Speaker 5: We beat Medicare.
Speaker 2: We all know if we're watching the debate that that's
Speaker 2: from the first debate, the only debate between Joe Biden
Speaker 2: and Donald Trump. He had to get out within a
Speaker 2: week of that debate because it was a disaster and
Speaker 2: and and everybody knew it except it was exciting backstabby week.
Speaker 2: So I gotta admit sometimes I see here this stuff
Speaker 2: and I think, ah, right, So we're still beating up
Speaker 2: Joe Biden. He's no longer in office and he ain't
Speaker 2: ever gonna be again, So let's move on with our lives.
Speaker 2: But why is it back in the news.
Speaker 5: It's his wife's fault. She's got a book out.
Speaker 2: She's put out a book detailing the whole thing. And
Speaker 2: if she's got a book with her version of the story,
Speaker 2: and she's going to be doing interviews, we got to
Speaker 2: revisit it and you know, push back against some of
Speaker 2: her narrative.
Speaker 4: Indeed, indeed, so here she is. This is the only
Speaker 4: clip that's been released. She does a big interview on
Speaker 4: CBS Sunday morning, Marquee appears, and they've released this as
Speaker 4: a teaser.
Speaker 2: Were you horrified as you saw it unfold?
Speaker 6: I wasn't horrified. I was frightened because I had never
Speaker 6: ever seen Joe like that before or since?
Speaker 2: Never since? Yes, or is never seen never?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Well, why did he happen?
Speaker 6: I don't know what happened. I mean when I as
Speaker 6: I watched it, I thought, oh my god, he's having
Speaker 6: a stroke, and it scared me to death.
Speaker 2: You know, I had seen Joe like that before. Doctor
Speaker 2: so how closely were you watching it? Was? It's pretty ballsy,
Speaker 2: and unlike the first Lady of France. I don't think
Speaker 2: this first lady does have ballsy, but it is. Lord no, no,
Speaker 2: I won't have it. But go on, it is pretty
Speaker 2: ballsy to the throw in the And since because you can,
Speaker 2: you can try to say, I've never seen him like
Speaker 2: that before.
Speaker 5: None of us believe that.
Speaker 2: I think you saw him that way in the bedroom
Speaker 2: all the time, all the time you're getting ready for bed,
Speaker 2: and he's just a mess mentally, and you think, oh crap,
Speaker 2: I think you saw that all the time. You're the
Speaker 2: closest person to him. But to say, and since you're
Speaker 2: telling me, what are we two years later, he's ever
Speaker 2: had a moment like that?
Speaker 5: Sense, now, that is a hell of a thing to say.
Speaker 4: All politicians are liars, and a lot of politicians' wives,
Speaker 4: your power couples are they're politicians too, and they're liars.
Speaker 2: She's a professional liar. Two reasons for this I mentioned
Speaker 2: one earlier reason. Two reasons that she's got this book out.
Speaker 2: One she knows that she is and is about to
Speaker 2: be perpetually the villain of this whole story. I think
Speaker 2: that's why it's going to be written by historians.
Speaker 5: And two, they are broke.
Speaker 2: All the reports are the Biden family is just flat
Speaker 2: out of money. And they had been living, all of
Speaker 2: them living off of, you know, one pot of money
Speaker 2: that was brought in by the old man. They've been
Speaker 2: living a very high life for a very very long time.
Speaker 2: They are out of gas, they're out of money, and
Speaker 2: so that's part of that. So she's trying to change
Speaker 2: history and they need some money.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't care if you're Joe Biden or Joe Public.
Speaker 4: Do you know an average Joe or Jill America? If
Speaker 4: you ever find yourself thinking these good times will go
Speaker 4: on indefinitely, boy, check yourself fast.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh boy. So yeah, they had all those houses.
Speaker 4: Of course, a lot of that was from campaign contributors
Speaker 4: and hangers on and that sort of thing in the
Speaker 4: way that you know happens when you're in power.
Speaker 2: But that's it's just good advice. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, she was horrified, she was terrified, I'm sorry, and
Speaker 4: thought he was having a stroke. And in clip thirty
Speaker 4: five you can hear the terror in her voice.
Speaker 2: This is right after the debate.
Speaker 4: Four more years of stroke tests to see how much
Speaker 4: brain he's lost or I'm confused here.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure I understand and why the yelling.
Speaker 2: So so CBS only lets out that clip, But that's
Speaker 2: a pretty good clip because everybody's playing it and talking
Speaker 2: about it. So that's I'm surprised it's not the sixty
Speaker 2: minutes story Sunday night. I'm surprised they put it on
Speaker 2: that nobody watches. And it's the show before Faced the
Speaker 2: Nation that gets low rating. So, I mean, nobody watches
Speaker 2: the CBS Early show.
Speaker 5: But I want to know what the follow up is.
Speaker 2: The follow up's got to be. So you thought your
Speaker 2: beloved ancient husband was having a stroke and you took
Speaker 2: him out in public for the whole mind.
Speaker 4: Well, I you know, I loved my wife deeply, and
Speaker 4: if I was afraid she'd suffered a terrible, perhaps even
Speaker 4: catastrophic health problem, Uh, here's what I would say to her, Joe,
Speaker 4: you did.
Speaker 3: Such a great job. You answered every question, and you are.
Speaker 5: No I'd say, sweetheart, we got to get to the hospital.
Speaker 2: You did such a great job. You answered that me question,
Speaker 2: You do all the facts. I thought you just said
Speaker 2: you were terrified he'd suffered a stroke. You lie in liar.
Speaker 2: If CBS, God, if CBS doesn't play that clip, yes,
Speaker 2: then they suck. And I'm sorry, Barry Weiss, but you're
Speaker 2: making you're the people under you are making no effort
Speaker 2: to be legit journalists. If they do not play that clip,
Speaker 2: I'll bet they do. I'd be I'd be pretty surprised
Speaker 2: if they don't. I mean, you gotta you gotta play
Speaker 2: that clip.
Speaker 5: And think, well, then what about this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you did such a great job. You answered every question,
Speaker 3: you know all that.
Speaker 4: Speaking of real journalists, here's a real journalist the next
Speaker 4: day asking a question of the useless and incompetent KJP,
Speaker 4: who I miss in a weird.
Speaker 7: Way, did the president get exammed by a doctor?
Speaker 3: Or did he get a neurological scan?
Speaker 2: A neurological scan.
Speaker 7: Look, what I can say is that, just to take
Speaker 7: a step back, it was a bad night. We understand
Speaker 7: that it was a bad night, and the President has
Speaker 7: spoken to this.
Speaker 2: And he understands that. That's without that's the press without
Speaker 2: the knowledge that Joe Biden was afraid her husband was
Speaker 2: having a stroke. They were asking about a neurological exam
Speaker 2: the next day, and and KJP doing her job, which
Speaker 2: was she was instructed to do. She just bad at
Speaker 2: it to try to hide that whole thing. Hey, by
Speaker 2: the way, Joe Biden obviously said that more than once.
Speaker 2: Because that's a different clip than we've been playing for
Speaker 2: the last couple of years, which we answered all the questions.
Speaker 2: That's not the same clip. I swear to God, yeah
Speaker 2: it is. The inflection is different. Play it again, Joe.
Speaker 3: You did such a great job. You answered every question.
Speaker 6: Do you know all that?
Speaker 2: I don't think that's the same clip. I'm gonna do
Speaker 2: my own reporting on this and come up with I
Speaker 2: think she said that at more than one stop.
Speaker 4: I think you're having an event here. She was so
Speaker 4: troubled the next day. You can hear it in her voice. Michael,
Speaker 4: last clip you saw last night.
Speaker 3: On the debate stage was Joe Biden a president with
Speaker 3: integnity and character.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Wow, they're a family of liars and thieves.
Speaker 2: I think, how about the crowd. How much is the
Speaker 2: crowd diluting themselves?
Speaker 5: They all saw the debate? Yeah, integrity and kick? Whoa
Speaker 5: he kicked?
Speaker 2: I mean, who the hell are you?
Speaker 4: Everybody's performing wow all the time. I wonder if that
Speaker 4: clip that we just played. Is that the same, literally
Speaker 4: the same clip we've been playing, Michael.
Speaker 2: Or is it here's our original one?
Speaker 3: Joe, you did such a great job. You answered every question,
Speaker 3: you know all.
Speaker 5: Yes, just a different microphone. Okay, that's why.
Speaker 2: It's like the uh, this is obscure, But it's the
Speaker 2: famous Dean scream. Sounds completely different on a different microphone,
Speaker 2: the clip that everybody played all the time, and sounds
Speaker 2: hinged on a different microphone, but unhinged on the one
Speaker 2: that everybody played.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, well it's just this, this whole thing is
Speaker 4: just a great lesson that everybody needs to absorb.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 4: Look, all all parties and many many politicians engage in
Speaker 4: this show, and it's it's just it's a it's a dance,
Speaker 4: it's an act. It's a con to get you to
Speaker 4: vote them in so they can exercise power and get
Speaker 4: access to the treasury and do enough good stuff for
Speaker 4: you that you keep them around.
Speaker 2: But it's just a big game. It's the thing. What
Speaker 2: I think is interesting about it is that there's a
Speaker 2: h an entire structure that once a politician gets a
Speaker 2: certain amount of power, an entire structure that will carry
Speaker 2: that person along like they're all most secondary at that point. Sure,
Speaker 2: you just need a body that looks like that person.
Speaker 2: I'd say, with the exception of the really big strong
Speaker 2: personalities like Trump, like Obama, where they were they were
Speaker 2: the thing and other people weren't going to, like, you know,
Speaker 2: be the the the power of the whole thing, and
Speaker 2: just pointing to that person because Biddy was saying the
Speaker 2: pipe down, Barack, We've got this. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Biden was about as uh, you know, fundamental to what
Speaker 4: was happening in the White House as Colonel Sanders is
Speaker 4: to your local KFC.
Speaker 2: The old man ate.
Speaker 5: In the back cooking any chicken.
Speaker 2: All right, he's a mascot, That's what Biden was.
Speaker 4: He was a mascot and a wax dummy.
Speaker 5: That's a good one, isn't Michael.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe it's all lie.
Speaker 5: Okay, I can't wait.
Speaker 2: I will actually record to that show for the first time,
Speaker 2: the CBS Early Morning Show.
Speaker 5: It's they already recorded.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure, but if you did not play any
Speaker 2: of those clips or push back at all of it,
Speaker 2: you made no effort to be a journalist. It's possible
Speaker 2: that they made one of those deals where because the
Speaker 2: Biden's been around this game for a long time.
Speaker 5: She's got a book out.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants the first interview.
Speaker 5: They shopped it around. Here are the questions you're allowed
Speaker 5: to ask.
Speaker 2: Here's the follow ups. We might even script it for you.
Speaker 2: If you want the first interview, you gotta play ball,
Speaker 2: because that's often the way it works.
Speaker 4: CBS Sunday Morning is very soft focusy gentle.
Speaker 5: It's not hard. Yeah, trump everything.
Speaker 2: Is got the trumpet thing at the end with Wynton
Speaker 2: Marcello's playing the trumpet next Sunday Morning.
Speaker 4: That's right, it's got a very gentle you know, vaseline
Speaker 4: on the lindsay feel to.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna ask the hard questions. Please, So you
Speaker 2: don't think on that show they yell you lying bitch.
Speaker 2: You don't think they do that on that show. It
Speaker 2: seems unlikely to be.
Speaker 4: I mean, who because the point of the book, from
Speaker 4: what I've been able to discern, the view from the
Speaker 4: East wing. Uh, you know, Jill Biden in the White House,
Speaker 4: which is naked cash grab.
Speaker 2: But hey, I'm too good for her. I would say,
Speaker 2: if she was going to be completely honest, she would
Speaker 2: be the most fascinating book about that administration and the
Speaker 2: most fascinating interview about that administration. Nobody has more knowledge
Speaker 2: about the whole thing than her. But I don't suppose
Speaker 2: she's being in the listspit on it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say, I'm well going to bet you a
Speaker 4: shiny new United States dime that's their aina out of
Speaker 4: that in there. It's just going to be a dopey
Speaker 4: memoir for half witted old ladies. It was certainly the
Speaker 4: way the very small chunk of the interview came off.
Speaker 4: But you know, half witted old ladies need to do something.
Speaker 4: They might as well read.
Speaker 2: This stupid books while you knit. Right. Knitting is a
Speaker 2: fine and relaxing past, of course, it is. Wow.
Speaker 5: Okay, well, we'll find it monday.
Speaker 2: We'll have the highlights, the clips and see if they
Speaker 2: followed up at all and said, look, if you thought
Speaker 2: your husband was having a stroke up on stage, running
Speaker 2: up on stage would be I could see why you'd
Speaker 2: hesitate on that. I mean, that's you'd have to be
Speaker 2: pretty certain that something bad.
Speaker 5: Was happening to run up there, because that would end
Speaker 5: his campaign. I mean, if he turned out to be okay,
Speaker 5: it was, it's so bad.
Speaker 2: The other night his wife had to ru up on
Speaker 2: stage to make sure he was all right, would be
Speaker 2: a pretty bad look here being cynical, I say, doctor
Speaker 2: Jill has a new book out, see say Plodway, sister.
Speaker 2: But even if you didn't run up on stage to
Speaker 2: not to afterwards, to not say we we let's get
Speaker 2: back to the hotel, we can do more tomorrow. And
Speaker 2: you know, doctors travel with the president. He had doctors
Speaker 2: right there. I'm sure backstage even you'd get him looked
Speaker 2: at it if you actually thought he's having a freaking stroke. Right.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. This this crowd that gets into into
Speaker 2: power positions. That's how much they love the power, all
Speaker 2: these people. That's how much they love having your tax money.
Speaker 2: Is that they're willing to do this sort of stuff
Speaker 2: to hang on to it. Bo Okay, we've got mail
Speaker 2: bag next, stay here. So checking out the whole Iran war.
Speaker 2: To kick off hour two, there was quite an exchange
Speaker 2: of firepower overnight between the United States and Iran. They
Speaker 2: tried to hit one of our bases. We blasted them
Speaker 2: pretty hard. Israel attempted an assassination of a big time Iranian.
Speaker 2: So we'll get into that an hour or two.
Speaker 4: I have a freedom loving quote of the day for
Speaker 4: you from Abraham Lincoln. That's quite long and we don't
Speaker 4: have time for it, so I will squeeze it in tomorrow.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a Memorial Day related, so I'll go
Speaker 4: with this very short one instead. Going back to our
Speaker 4: series on optimism.
Speaker 2: Why did you stop it? Something just popped up on
Speaker 2: the screen. What day is it?
Speaker 4: Asked poo, it's today, sweet squeaked piglet, My favorite day,
Speaker 4: said pooh.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one. That that is fantastic childhood innocence.
Speaker 2: I want a giant, nicely framed version of that on
Speaker 2: my wall. That's fantastic. I love it. Yeah, what day
Speaker 2: is it? Asked pooh?
Speaker 4: It's today, squeak Piglet, My favorite day, said pooh, that's lovely.
Speaker 2: That might be the most important philosophy of all time.
Speaker 2: That's that's up there with the Buddha. That's up there
Speaker 2: with like the apostle Paul. I mean, did they tell
Speaker 2: that to that chronic depressive donkey?
Speaker 5: They tried, they were.
Speaker 4: That's cognitive behavioral therapy they tried on New York, right,
Speaker 4: but didn't take Oh boy, drop us a note mail
Speaker 4: bag at Armstrong and Geeddy dot com. Jim from Vancouver, Right,
Speaker 4: I found your commentary about people on the left hating
Speaker 4: America the best I've heard in your analogy with marriage brilliant.
Speaker 4: Another factor to add is that there's still millions of
Speaker 4: people enslaved on earth, and almost all of them in
Speaker 4: Africa and Asian countries. As a group, white people were
Speaker 4: the first group in six thousand years of slavery to
Speaker 4: condemn the practice. Additionally, the US had legalized slavery for
Speaker 4: less than a century, while most other countries allowed it
Speaker 4: for many centuries or still allow it, etc. Thank you
Speaker 4: for being the voice in the wilderness.
Speaker 2: Well, and the best stat of all time is that
Speaker 2: there are more slaves on earth now than all the
Speaker 2: slaves that were traded during that whole period. Right.
Speaker 4: And then you have this on a similar topic from
Speaker 4: John about self haters. I have one thing to say
Speaker 4: to salf hating Americans. Lick my flagpole. That's not helpful, John, iipes,
Speaker 4: that is just it's coarse, and it's just do better, John.
Speaker 4: The imagery moving along from mister Brown guys, I'm glad
Speaker 4: to hear people who don't want to have borders. I
Speaker 4: agree with them because that way, I can identify as
Speaker 4: a resident of Texas while still living in California. As
Speaker 4: a Texas resident, I don't have to pay any state taxes,
Speaker 4: and I can carry my firearm anyway anywhere I like.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. Apparently boundaries do matter for voting districts.
Speaker 4: If there are no boundaries, why are they so intent
Speaker 4: on Jeremy meandering the state? Sorry, we can't have as
Speaker 4: states since borders don't exist. Fed up Frank from who
Speaker 4: knows where without borders, and then he signs off mofa
Speaker 4: make or well fiction again.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 4: You know what, actually, mister Brown, you've you've illustrated quite
Speaker 4: beautifully that a lot of the arguments are they don't
Speaker 4: mean them, they're insincere.
Speaker 2: And or a lot of the young activists.
Speaker 4: They don't think it's through their incapable rational thought, and
Speaker 4: so they just spout what their betters have told them
Speaker 4: to spout. Let's see b from Thailand says they're desperate
Speaker 4: to make a deal. It will happen soon, says the president.
Speaker 4: I'm reminded of that line from the fine film money Ball.
Speaker 4: If he's such a good hitter, why isn't he hitting good. Yeah,
Speaker 4: let's see. Yeah, that's kind of off the top and
Speaker 4: oh me away with.
Speaker 2: That Winnie Pooh brilliance. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Full credit to the great AA Milne Poper from Ted
Speaker 4: in Livermore. I don't understand resistance to license plate readers.
Speaker 4: Anything can be abused, but it seems to me that
Speaker 4: license plate readers can be used similarly to how cell
Speaker 4: phone location data is.
Speaker 2: Used by the police.
Speaker 4: The information is only accessible after a specific police request
Speaker 4: and or subpoena.
Speaker 2: But the license plate readers is the government right. The
Speaker 2: government can access phone stuff, but that's not originating with
Speaker 2: the government. That's good distinction
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