WEBVTT - Quit Chewing On Rocks 0:00:01.850 --> 0:00:05.690 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:05.730 --> 0:00:10.750 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:10.830 --> 0:00:18.240 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:18.340 --> 0:00:25.420 You know, there's going to be a new sheriff in town. 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.140 We're going to have to scrub a lot. High-speed rail 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:32.360 authorities are going to have to look really different if 0:00:32.380 --> 0:00:34.700 we're going to continue this project. I want it to continue. 0:00:35.460 --> 0:00:36.739 But I've got to be able to tell people how 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.340 we're going to pay for it. And we're not going 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.340 to be doing this. Wait a second. You can't come 0:00:41.450 --> 0:00:44.830 out of eight years of Gavin Newsom as a hack 0:00:44.950 --> 0:00:47.690 Democrat and say there's going to be a new sheriff 0:00:47.750 --> 0:00:49.690 in town. That's not how it works. 0:00:50.659 --> 0:00:50.979 What? 0:00:51.180 --> 0:00:51.540 Javier Becerra. 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:53.980 Something about a great deal of scrubbing. Apparently, he's going 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:55.160 to clean the state as well. 0:00:55.560 --> 0:01:02.030 That's too much. It's all too much. We need change. Exactly. 0:01:02.490 --> 0:01:06.250 A new sheriff in town. Oh, my God. The same sheriff, 0:01:06.310 --> 0:01:08.530 only not even as good as the last one. 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:09.960 Oh, crap. 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.319 Wow, wow. Have we secured the line? Yes, indeed. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.280 Please welcome to the show, one final time before Election Day, 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.980 Steve Hilton, who is running for the governor of the 0:01:20.020 --> 0:01:23.380 great state of California. Steve, how's it looking out there? 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.820 How's the campaign going? It's a final stretch, huh? 0:01:27.370 --> 0:01:30.410 Well, we've got an amazing amount of energy. I mean, 0:01:30.430 --> 0:01:32.650 since we last spoke, we've done rallies up and down 0:01:32.690 --> 0:01:38.369 the state, San Diego, Orange County, L.A., Fresno, Sacramento, everywhere 0:01:38.450 --> 0:01:43.020 we go, the really massive crowds coming out. And this campaign, 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.220 there's an energy behind it that no one's seen on 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.500 the Republican side in at least 20 years. We've got 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:53.660 a whole team of Fantastic candidates running. We're working together. 0:01:53.700 --> 0:01:56.340 We call it the golden ticket. We're on the road together. 0:01:56.390 --> 0:01:59.490 We're working with our colleagues in the state legislature, friends 0:01:59.530 --> 0:02:02.030 like Carl DeMaio, David Tangipa. I mean, some of these 0:02:02.090 --> 0:02:04.590 names may not be familiar to people, but what you've 0:02:04.650 --> 0:02:10.079 got in California is a united Republican effort that's focused 0:02:10.139 --> 0:02:13.200 on what people really care about and captured by the 0:02:13.260 --> 0:02:17.120 simple election. pledges that I'm making. $ 3 gas, your first 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:23.190 $ 150, 000 tax-free, $ 73 car registration, ending mass homelessness by the 0:02:23.230 --> 0:02:25.389 end of my first year in office. And the new 0:02:25.510 --> 0:02:27.950 one that's really resonating, I saw it yesterday at the 0:02:28.310 --> 0:02:31.780 tailgate at the Rams-Chargers game. And it's interesting how many 0:02:31.820 --> 0:02:34.339 people Just, you know, it wasn't a rain. I just went, 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.160 you know, walking around the tailgate. And so many people, 0:02:37.180 --> 0:02:39.639 you can watch the video just, you know, saying, come on, 0:02:39.960 --> 0:02:42.359 save us, Steve. We're with you. We're with you. And 0:02:42.460 --> 0:02:46.459 it's very interesting how those simple messages have resonated. People 0:02:46.500 --> 0:02:48.560 saying back to me, yeah, $ 3 gas, $ 73 car registration, 0:02:48.620 --> 0:02:52.709 a new one. we announced a few a couple of 0:02:52.730 --> 0:02:55.989 months ago something called off the office of fun and 0:02:56.050 --> 0:02:59.269 freedom and this was part of my plan to get 0:02:59.310 --> 0:03:02.230 rid of stupid regulations a particular version of that i 0:03:02.270 --> 0:03:06.929 wanted people to tell us the stupid killjoy bureaucratic regulations 0:03:07.310 --> 0:03:08.809 they want us to get rid of and we would 0:03:08.850 --> 0:03:11.690 act on it well the big the overwhelming top of 0:03:11.710 --> 0:03:15.230 the list was flavored zin if you can uh believe 0:03:15.290 --> 0:03:17.070 it that was the number one so we made that 0:03:17.110 --> 0:03:20.370 plan in other states you can buy flavored zin Not 0:03:20.410 --> 0:03:24.500 in California. It's just another example of the stupidity of 0:03:24.540 --> 0:03:27.140 this bureaucratic rule that we've got in California. 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:31.299 I wonder if you're a governor, maybe you could cancel 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:32.970 the rest of the Chargers season. I don't know if 0:03:32.990 --> 0:03:35.890 you have the power to do that as governor. Hey, 0:03:36.190 --> 0:03:38.630 what kind of balls does it take for Becerra to 0:03:38.670 --> 0:03:41.090 go out there and say a new sheriff is in 0:03:41.130 --> 0:03:43.180 town if he wins? What the hell is that? 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:46.760 But here's the thing. So that came from this interview 0:03:47.220 --> 0:03:50.400 last week, Ashley Zavala, and it shows you why they've 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:53.520 kept him hidden for all this campaign. Every time he 0:03:53.580 --> 0:03:57.840 says anything, it's an absolute disaster. Not just the insult 0:03:57.860 --> 0:04:00.660 to our intelligence of saying a new sheriff when he's 0:04:00.700 --> 0:04:05.820 a 36-year career politician, the puppet of the machine that's 0:04:05.860 --> 0:04:09.300 run this state into the ground. As you said, he's 0:04:09.460 --> 0:04:10.440 worse than Newsom. 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:11.420 Much worse. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.470 And he will make things worse. And he revealed in 0:04:15.530 --> 0:04:18.490 that interview where he came out in favor of a 0:04:18.930 --> 0:04:22.089 mileage tax. This is a huge, huge winner for us 0:04:22.470 --> 0:04:26.610 in these last days. People are absolutely fired up about this. 0:04:27.630 --> 0:04:30.490 If Becerra is the governor, he's going to go along 0:04:30.529 --> 0:04:33.479 with this scheme. They are going to track you every 0:04:33.650 --> 0:04:37.200 mile you drive and charge you for it. Our calculation 0:04:37.260 --> 0:04:41.580 is that for the average Californian, that's $ 1, 000 a year extra. 0:04:41.820 --> 0:04:45.260 Becerra said it. This is on top of the gas tax, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.890 the highest gas prices in the country, the highest car registration. 0:04:48.990 --> 0:04:51.710 On top of all of that, our calculation is that 0:04:51.730 --> 0:04:55.349 for the average Californian, just to drive around it would 0:04:55.390 --> 0:04:59.710 be an extra $ 2, 856 under Becerra. On top of what 0:04:59.740 --> 0:05:02.740 you're paying now, if people want to work out exactly 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:06.360 how much they would save with me as governor compared 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.160 to Becerra, we added the mileage tax to our cost calculator. 0:05:10.180 --> 0:05:14.460 It's called savewithsteve.vote. You can look it up yourself and 0:05:14.490 --> 0:05:19.070 then send it to your friends because we've got nearly two. 0:05:19.110 --> 0:05:22.730 They've got today, we've got tomorrow. If you haven't voted yet, 0:05:23.210 --> 0:05:25.090 This is the moment. You've got to get it done. 0:05:25.490 --> 0:05:27.320 Don't assume someone else is going to do it. And 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:31.520 don't assume this election is over. You saw Becerra, Kamala Harris, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.950 Gavin Newsom last night in L.A. yucking it up at 0:05:34.970 --> 0:05:38.210 this smug party where they've assumed everything's going to go 0:05:38.270 --> 0:05:41.190 their way again. Let's wipe that smug smile off their faces. 0:05:41.690 --> 0:05:45.260 Our event yesterday was at the Pacific Palisades in the 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:50.050 ruins of the disaster that they created and haven't done 0:05:50.290 --> 0:05:53.470 anything to rebuild from as a symbol of the failure 0:05:53.850 --> 0:05:57.150 of 16 years of one-party rule. Honestly, there are enough 0:05:57.190 --> 0:05:59.820 of us who want change. to kick these people out, 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:01.760 but we've got to go and vote for it. And 0:06:01.779 --> 0:06:03.360 I think what they want is for us to be 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:07.080 demoralized and give up and not bother because it's all over. 0:06:07.460 --> 0:06:09.940 It's not. If we all go out and vote, and 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.190 then once you voted, you harassed 10 other people to 0:06:13.250 --> 0:06:14.210 go and vote as well. 0:06:14.710 --> 0:06:18.190 Every election is decided by the people who show up. 0:06:18.210 --> 0:06:19.110 You've got to show up. 0:06:19.170 --> 0:06:21.870 Steve, can you and will you end the bullet train 0:06:21.910 --> 0:06:23.190 debacle when you're elected? 0:06:25.150 --> 0:06:28.560 It's today, actually very shortly, we'll be publishing my day 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:33.460 one plan. And number one is cutting the gas prices 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.080 by suspending the rules that give us the highest gas 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.070 prices in the country. Number two, cut your taxes. It's 0:06:39.089 --> 0:06:44.090 called Operation Zero Waste. Number one item we're cutting, high-speed rail, 0:06:44.430 --> 0:06:47.989 cancelled on day one. It is part of our plan 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:53.360 to get to your first $ 150, 000 tax-free, no state income tax. 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.479 We're going to cut the budget, and it starts with 0:06:55.520 --> 0:07:00.420 cancelling high-speed rail. That's another example. This is what a 0:07:00.460 --> 0:07:04.640 ridiculous— in the words of Susan Rice— idiot this guy is. 0:07:04.980 --> 0:07:08.560 He actually went to Fresno in the primary, and he 0:07:08.620 --> 0:07:11.470 made an announcement that he was going to, I'm quoting 0:07:11.510 --> 0:07:15.510 him now, finish high-speed rail on time and on budget. 0:07:16.090 --> 0:07:20.150 On time was six years ago. I mean, they said 0:07:20.190 --> 0:07:23.910 it would be open in 2020. And then on budget, 0:07:24.130 --> 0:07:26.250 what are you talking about? It was supposed to be 0:07:26.250 --> 0:07:30.950 $ 30 billion. They've already spent $ 15 billion It's gone. And 0:07:30.970 --> 0:07:33.770 there's not a single mile of track laid. Their new 0:07:33.810 --> 0:07:39.170 budget estimate is $ 230 billion. It's just absolutely obscene. 0:07:39.310 --> 0:07:42.890 No way. Stick your thumb in the eye of the machine. 0:07:44.210 --> 0:07:44.730 That's right. 0:07:44.770 --> 0:07:46.510 Stick your thumb in the eye of the machine. Vote 0:07:46.530 --> 0:07:48.940 for Steve Hilton. Turn out, turn out, turn out. Steve, 0:07:49.150 --> 0:07:50.540 good to talk to you. We know you're busy. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:50.940 Go get them. 0:07:52.510 --> 0:07:53.980 Fantastic. Thank you, guys. See you soon. 0:07:54.540 --> 0:07:54.980 You got it. 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:55.180 Yep. 0:07:56.980 --> 0:07:59.480 It is so clearly what needs to happen. 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.960 So clearly, this is a measuring stick, this election, and 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:09.350 I was sincere, turn out and vote. My, you know, 0:08:10.130 --> 0:08:13.690 I was half surprised my daughter's registered in a different, well, 0:08:13.990 --> 0:08:18.050 it's a long story involving our address and her temporary address. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:18.710 At school and blah, blah, blah. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:24.700 She's going to drive for a long time to the 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.700 district where she's registered to vote and Just one person's vote. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.580 I'm not holding up my kid as a hero. She's 0:08:30.620 --> 0:08:32.640 a sweetheart and I'm proud of her show up and 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:37.120 freaking vote. But tomorrow is going to be a real 0:08:37.300 --> 0:08:41.080 measure of where the power of the machine is in California, 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.920 because the idea that, wow, things are going great status 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:44.679 quo for me. 0:08:44.700 --> 0:08:48.250 I mean, come on. It's just absurd. 0:08:48.260 --> 0:08:49.010 Yeah. 0:08:49.610 --> 0:08:55.680 I'm too pretty for this world. I, uh, Every election 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:58.439 does it. Maybe this one more than others. Just makes 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.880 me think the whole govern yourself thing might be over. 0:09:03.380 --> 0:09:07.080 It's just it's just it's just it's for how bad 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.119 would things have to be? The fact that Becerra is 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.540 going to get elected governor tomorrow running as an idiot, 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:18.220 as a hack Democrat idiot that other Democrats who worked 0:09:18.280 --> 0:09:21.730 with him call him a hack Democrat idiot. is going 0:09:21.750 --> 0:09:23.370 to end up being governor of the biggest state in 0:09:23.390 --> 0:09:26.910 the country, running on a new sheriff's in town. It's 0:09:26.980 --> 0:09:33.059 just so demoralizing. I seriously can understand people who just 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.719 check out and think, whatever, whatever. I'm going to live 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:39.120 my life. You only get so many days on earth. 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:39.920 I'm not going to worry about it. 0:09:40.460 --> 0:09:40.640 Right. 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.240 Yeah, I get it. I get it. Unbelievable. New sheriff 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.000 in town. Are you freaking kidding me? It's actually hilarious. 0:09:49.540 --> 0:09:51.099 It's so stupid. It's hilarious. 0:09:52.540 --> 0:09:53.880 You laugh. I laugh. 0:09:56.260 --> 0:09:58.480 And I wish I knew inside their souls what they 0:09:58.540 --> 0:10:02.840 all believe. Does he think the best thing for California 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.780 is to keep on the same direction, keep trying to 0:10:06.820 --> 0:10:09.320 build a bullet train? Do these people have no conscience? 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:13.080 Don't they at some level care about taxpayer money or, 0:10:13.460 --> 0:10:15.060 you know, see all the homeless people in the street 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.940 and think, man, we should try to make sure some 0:10:16.980 --> 0:10:20.090 of those billions of dollars Actually get those drug addicts 0:10:20.150 --> 0:10:21.689 off the street. I wouldn't want to live in a 0:10:21.710 --> 0:10:25.360 neighborhood with all those drug addicts. How do you get 0:10:25.380 --> 0:10:27.319 to where you can ignore all that sort of stuff? 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:29.260 They're cynical. 0:10:30.900 --> 0:10:31.560 Look up the word. 0:10:32.660 --> 0:10:37.380 They don't value anything that we consider important. They just 0:10:37.420 --> 0:10:39.670 get what's theirs. Everybody's trying to get that. You know, 0:10:39.690 --> 0:10:42.430 I've known people. Everybody's trying to just get theirs. So 0:10:42.550 --> 0:10:43.250 I'm getting mine. 0:10:43.910 --> 0:10:47.050 Period. I'm better at it than you. So get better 0:10:47.090 --> 0:10:50.590 if you want to be better. You can call me 0:10:50.610 --> 0:10:52.689 a hack, do-nothing politician all you want, but I'm about 0:10:52.710 --> 0:10:55.670 to be governor of the biggest state in the country, bitches, 0:10:55.690 --> 0:10:56.730 is what he might be thinking. 0:10:56.750 --> 0:10:58.430 I'm part of a system, and it's belched me up. 0:10:58.490 --> 0:11:01.310 It's my turn, because I've been a loyal lackey. So 0:11:02.130 --> 0:11:02.490 there you go. 0:11:02.809 --> 0:11:08.150 Again, it's a measure. It's a measuring stick. We should 0:11:08.170 --> 0:11:10.770 probably touch on that big Michigan race again that's had 0:11:10.830 --> 0:11:15.829 quite the development in the last 24 hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:11:15.910 --> 0:11:18.230 Plus, we need to have an on-air meeting about the 0:11:18.470 --> 0:11:20.730 viral video and audio of the day. 0:11:21.890 --> 0:11:23.929 Oh, the plane crash. We should talk about that. Let's 0:11:23.970 --> 0:11:26.480 do that coming up before we get into it. Yep, 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.940 that's a good conversation that should be had more often 0:11:28.980 --> 0:11:37.040 in newsrooms across America. Stay tuned. Armstrong and Getty. You 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.199 know what we should promise people at the bottom? The 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:43.290 hilarious Kid Rock story about playing golf with Trump. Because 0:11:43.309 --> 0:11:46.660 that's really good. Okay. Hit me with your favorite joke 0:11:46.750 --> 0:11:49.010 real quick, Michael. And that's going to get very serious 0:11:49.090 --> 0:11:54.050 after that. Funny one. If you got one. New York 0:11:54.070 --> 0:11:55.390 city marathon is Sunday. 0:11:55.450 --> 0:11:57.870 Many people have already started running tonight so they could 0:11:57.890 --> 0:11:59.270 try to catch the guy from Kenya. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.840 The guy who won it was a Swede. It was 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.300 his first marathon. Ran it in 206 and change. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:09.380 Hmm. 0:12:10.040 --> 0:12:15.849 PEDs. Some sort of PED. Um, So we're going to 0:12:15.910 --> 0:12:18.910 start out non-judgmental, at least at the beginning, perhaps getting 0:12:18.950 --> 0:12:21.739 more judgmental as we go. So there's all kinds of 0:12:21.780 --> 0:12:26.180 clickbait out there over this plane crash, video and audio. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.660 Here's one of the clickbait pieces. This is one from 0:12:28.700 --> 0:12:31.380 the Daily Mail. It's got the video and the audio. 0:12:31.420 --> 0:12:36.410 The clickbait headline is this. Chilling final screams from female 0:12:36.510 --> 0:12:40.620 pilot inside private jet that crashed near Mar-a-Lago. So that 0:12:40.670 --> 0:12:43.420 is to entice you to click on the video. If 0:12:43.460 --> 0:12:47.380 you want to hear people screaming right before they die. 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:49.100 Yes. 0:12:49.179 --> 0:12:52.020 Now you're either the sort of person that clicks on that. 0:12:52.340 --> 0:12:54.579 I have not, I've not seen it or listened to it. 0:12:54.660 --> 0:12:57.679 And I'm not going to, because I don't want this 0:12:57.760 --> 0:13:01.040 in my life, but apparently enough people do that. It 0:13:01.059 --> 0:13:02.360 gets clicked on over and over again. 0:13:02.380 --> 0:13:08.500 Um, I'd argue it might be the biggest clickbait of 0:13:08.540 --> 0:13:09.870 the day globally. 0:13:10.010 --> 0:13:14.230 Easily. Easily. I saw it teased on the news a 0:13:14.270 --> 0:13:16.840 bunch of different times with various phrases like, what you 0:13:16.890 --> 0:13:18.179 hear will chill you. 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:18.940 What? 0:13:19.100 --> 0:13:22.900 Hearing somebody scream right before they die? Yeah, probably would 0:13:22.940 --> 0:13:23.320 chill me. 0:13:24.190 --> 0:13:26.790 Realizing they'd never see their loved ones, their kids would 0:13:26.830 --> 0:13:28.290 grow up without them, etc. 0:13:28.330 --> 0:13:28.610 Yes. 0:13:28.890 --> 0:13:34.670 How that isn't just violence porn, I do not know. Now, 0:13:35.070 --> 0:13:37.770 is the only reason we didn't run this sort of 0:13:37.809 --> 0:13:41.170 stuff back in the day is because it didn't exist 0:13:41.290 --> 0:13:46.810 very often? Or did we have different journalistic standards back 0:13:46.870 --> 0:13:49.840 in the day? I don't feel like... I've always been against, 0:13:51.380 --> 0:13:54.920 for the most part... Video or audio of the worst 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.780 moment in somebody's life, unless it's got some sort of 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:58.640 news value. 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.760 Yeah, the pitch is, this is what people sound like 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:06.750 when they're about to die. 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:09.270 I have a good idea of what it sounds like. Yeah, 0:14:09.350 --> 0:14:13.270 I don't need that. It's terrible. I feel bad for 0:14:13.309 --> 0:14:13.750 those people. 0:14:13.809 --> 0:14:16.130 And look, if you want to listen to it, if 0:14:16.770 --> 0:14:21.710 it helps you appreciate something or other, Uh, Jack promised nonjudgmental. 0:14:21.870 --> 0:14:24.290 I'm going to deliver it. That's fine. I said we 0:14:24.310 --> 0:14:26.770 would start nonjudgmental. I'm not sure. 0:14:26.810 --> 0:14:30.870 I think I'm blanked and missed that part, but, um, Oh, 0:14:30.990 --> 0:14:34.020 I just, for me, I would rather not do that 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:34.700 for a living. 0:14:34.860 --> 0:14:37.420 No, no, I don't get it. I don't get clicking 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:39.900 on that. I don't get on wanting to spread that around. 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.720 I don't understand teasing that on the evening newscast. We're 0:14:43.740 --> 0:14:45.160 going to make you wait for this. Cause you want 0:14:45.210 --> 0:14:47.430 to hear what people sound like when they're scared to death, 0:14:47.490 --> 0:14:51.330 literally scared to death. Um, not literally scared to death. 0:14:51.370 --> 0:14:55.070 The scare is not, the gravity is what killed. But, yeah, 0:14:56.270 --> 0:14:56.610 I don't know. 0:14:56.650 --> 0:14:59.010 I try not to judge because I think we all 0:14:59.050 --> 0:15:02.640 have a fascination with, maybe fascination is the wrong word, 0:15:02.660 --> 0:15:06.680 but with death and how we will confront our own 0:15:06.780 --> 0:15:10.120 and accepting it and edging toward accepting it and What's 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.940 it like to be confronted with I'm absolutely going to die? 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:15.200 I don't blame people for being curious. I just don't 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.100 want to play that sort of thing for a living. 0:15:17.140 --> 0:15:18.880 That's my only stance. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:22.000 We grew up with a different sensibility out there in 0:15:22.020 --> 0:15:24.510 the world, though, than my kids. My kids are all 0:15:24.670 --> 0:15:28.430 in on everything. Just everybody at high school watches and 0:15:28.470 --> 0:15:32.430 listens to everything all the time. And the terrifying part 0:15:32.450 --> 0:15:35.050 to me is it hardly leaves a mark because of 0:15:35.090 --> 0:15:39.560 the obvious desensitized brain that they've got, mind that they've got, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.980 from having heard or seen so much of this in 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.960 their lives. Somebody's screaming because they know they're about to die. 0:15:45.980 --> 0:15:47.640 That's not going to make a mark with a high 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.270 school kid because they've heard this sort of stuff a 0:15:49.300 --> 0:15:49.990 thousand times. 0:15:50.450 --> 0:15:53.090 Yeah, so they are having a different experience than you 0:15:53.390 --> 0:15:54.950 are having when you listen to them, which is why 0:15:54.990 --> 0:15:56.550 I'm like, you figure it out for yourselves. 0:15:56.850 --> 0:15:58.910 I just don't particularly want to promote it. But that 0:15:58.990 --> 0:16:01.810 being desensitized to that, that can't be good, can it? 0:16:02.890 --> 0:16:03.210 Can it? 0:16:03.310 --> 0:16:04.850 Or does it not matter? 0:16:07.350 --> 0:16:10.290 You know, I would say read Dave Goodman. I think 0:16:10.330 --> 0:16:14.110 that's his name, his book on killing. Absolutely fascinating to read. 0:16:14.150 --> 0:16:16.729 It's one of my favorite books. Didn't agree with everything 0:16:16.750 --> 0:16:19.650 he said, but I'll give you the very, very short 0:16:19.690 --> 0:16:23.030 version of his premise was, for a very long time 0:16:23.050 --> 0:16:26.570 among human beings, like our entire history, when our loved 0:16:26.650 --> 0:16:28.970 ones died, they died at home with us. If we 0:16:29.010 --> 0:16:31.290 wanted meat, we would have to kill an animal and 0:16:31.410 --> 0:16:35.090 skin it and butcher it for meat, etc. And we 0:16:35.130 --> 0:16:37.930 were familiar with death and the end of life and 0:16:37.970 --> 0:16:40.070 the rest of it and could relate to it in 0:16:40.110 --> 0:16:44.530 a way that was realistic. Now we're so separated from death. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:49.080 Our meat's at the grocery store, people die in the hospital, 0:16:49.100 --> 0:16:51.500 a sheet over the head, et cetera, and we just 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:57.120 don't deal with it. We fetishize death instead. We're fascinated 0:16:57.180 --> 0:16:59.320 by it. We look at it from a distance and 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.700 kind of watch faces of death or listen to these 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.510 videos and think, oh, my God, death. It's not a 0:17:06.570 --> 0:17:10.649 healthy thing. That's the extremely short version. We're out of time. 0:17:11.230 --> 0:17:16.560 Ironically, the death of this segment... Armstrong and Getty. So 0:17:17.930 --> 0:17:20.149 who knew there were going to be last-minute developments in 0:17:20.210 --> 0:17:22.830 any of the races across the country? Everybody kind of thought, well, 0:17:22.850 --> 0:17:25.390 apparently October surprises is a thing of the past because 0:17:25.410 --> 0:17:28.720 we all start voting a month early and everything is 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.520 known all the time and et cetera, et cetera. But 0:17:30.540 --> 0:17:32.080 there have been a couple in the last 48 hours. 0:17:33.380 --> 0:17:36.160 Including a former, well, I guess she's a current congresswoman, 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.250 Haley Stevens, deciding she is not with Abdul El-Sayed. She's 0:17:40.290 --> 0:17:42.129 always kind of held him at arm's length, and she 0:17:42.150 --> 0:17:46.210 came out and endorsed his opponent, Mike Rogers, mostly over 0:17:46.250 --> 0:17:49.970 the fact that he refused to disavow, ultimately, I guess, 0:17:50.290 --> 0:17:53.430 because he refused to disavow that awful commercial in which 0:17:53.830 --> 0:17:58.000 Jews were blamed for, indirectly, for causing high prices, which 0:17:58.060 --> 0:17:59.980 is just straight out of 1930s Germany. 0:18:01.060 --> 0:18:03.060 You can be forgiven for not knowing who she is 0:18:03.100 --> 0:18:04.840 if you don't live in Michigan, but she ran against 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:08.600 El-Sayed to be the Democratic nominee, and their debates and 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.770 battle was pretty personal. So it's not hard to imagine 0:18:11.790 --> 0:18:15.330 that she's—I don't think you can run one-on-one against anybody without— 0:18:15.810 --> 0:18:18.050 I've heard people say this before. You will hate your 0:18:18.090 --> 0:18:20.470 opponent by the end of the race. It's just the 0:18:20.490 --> 0:18:20.770 way it works. 0:18:20.790 --> 0:18:23.550 Yeah, he went heavily that she was a running dog 0:18:23.609 --> 0:18:25.760 of the Jews in Israel and that sort of thing 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:29.400 in the campaign, and he won by an eyelash. and 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:32.480 initially she was with him, but she announced that she 0:18:32.619 --> 0:18:33.200 is no longer. 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:34.350 We'll start with 40, Michael. 0:18:34.369 --> 0:18:36.990 Here's what she said in her car, which is the 0:18:37.050 --> 0:18:38.890 way you communicate with the world these days. 0:18:39.410 --> 0:18:40.030 Hey, Michigan. 0:18:40.390 --> 0:18:44.410 As you may have seen, our Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, Abdul, 0:18:44.910 --> 0:18:47.970 said that I was no longer welcome in his campaign 0:18:48.330 --> 0:18:52.310 and that I should stay away. And he's right. And 0:18:52.350 --> 0:18:57.070 that's why I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United 0:18:57.090 --> 0:19:01.609 States Senate. Today, I don't belong in Abdul's campaign. I 0:19:02.470 --> 0:19:06.000 do not stand with Hassan Piker, who gets trafficked on 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:10.840 our college campuses. A dear friend of mine earlier today 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:15.480 was saying that education is on the ballot. And she's 0:19:15.540 --> 0:19:19.889 absolutely right. And what our students see, what our children see, 0:19:20.730 --> 0:19:25.290 and who we are as Michiganders is not hate. 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:28.859 Well, you can't accuse her of just reading a pre-written 0:19:28.940 --> 0:19:30.760 speech put together by professionals. 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.119 Yeah, it was from the heart, somewhat rambling, but I 0:19:34.180 --> 0:19:39.030 got her point. She went on with a little Andy 0:19:39.109 --> 0:19:43.030 Cooper there on CNN to discuss her move. 0:19:43.030 --> 0:19:44.450 41, Michael. 0:19:44.890 --> 0:19:48.109 Your fellow Michigan congresswoman, Debbie Dingell, said that she talked 0:19:48.150 --> 0:19:50.970 to you at midnight last night and that you told 0:19:51.040 --> 0:19:54.300 her you were not going to endorse Mike Rogers. If 0:19:54.340 --> 0:19:56.840 that is true, what changed between then and this morning? 0:19:58.450 --> 0:20:01.490 Well, look, this is just a weight off my shoulders, okay? 0:20:01.950 --> 0:20:05.369 Abdul has been getting angrier and angrier. I was trying 0:20:05.390 --> 0:20:09.890 to help, and I endorsed him. That ad was very painful. 0:20:09.950 --> 0:20:12.909 There are so many Democrats who wanna vote for our 0:20:12.950 --> 0:20:18.090 Democratic nominee. And they're just being told, hey, this is 0:20:18.150 --> 0:20:20.770 a party you don't belong in, or this is a 0:20:20.790 --> 0:20:24.399 campaign you don't belong in. And I've never cast a 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:29.740 present vote in the Congress. I'm making a decision here. 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.200 And, you know, that's just where I landed on this. 0:20:33.260 --> 0:20:38.100 I woke up this morning clear-eyed, fresh, and, you know, 0:20:38.200 --> 0:20:39.620 focused on what was in my heart. 0:20:39.869 --> 0:20:41.650 And that's that, you know. 0:20:41.710 --> 0:20:44.629 And there's a lot of incredible things going on around 0:20:44.710 --> 0:20:47.370 Michigan and, frankly, this country with these elections here. 0:20:49.420 --> 0:20:52.560 Yeah, I get her point just because I know what 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:55.780 she's talking about, that more and more people thought this 0:20:55.900 --> 0:20:59.399 campaign doesn't include me because it's hateful and anti-Jewish and 0:20:59.440 --> 0:20:59.960 the rest of it. 0:21:01.010 --> 0:21:03.250 But next clip, Michael. 0:21:03.609 --> 0:21:06.690 And it's just an interesting change, and I think a 0:21:06.750 --> 0:21:11.750 lot of people are curious to try to understand it. 0:21:17.540 --> 0:21:18.840 Was that a question, Anderson? 0:21:19.820 --> 0:21:21.220 No, I wanted to see if you wanted to fill 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:22.220