Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm Strong, and
Speaker 1: Jettie and no Hee Armstrong and Yetty. I will be
Speaker 1: glued to cable news tonight for when they go to
Speaker 1: their election experts for reports like this.
Speaker 2: Ohio's important. Everyone knows, O How's important.
Speaker 3: You're gonna go down here in the valley between Columbus
Speaker 3: and Pittsburgh, and then you got.
Speaker 2: The Akron Triangle right here.
Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton carried this next to Canton, and then there's
Speaker 3: of course there's Wooster. But eighteen seventy six, it's a
Speaker 3: different story Orville. This is a problem for Orville. This
Speaker 3: is a problem for Biden. Trump carries these North Lawrence
Speaker 3: down over here, up here to Canal footin. You're gonna
Speaker 3: zoom in. You're gonna zoom in and get up here
Speaker 3: to ninety three twenty one triangle circle.
Speaker 2: That's what they call right around Nick jack Farms.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows that Nika jack Farms has always been carried
Speaker 3: Trump ever since eighteen eighty four when he only won
Speaker 3: forty two percent of the vote.
Speaker 2: We're gonna go sap, We're gonna head our way south.
Speaker 3: We're gonn and zoom in a little bit. Right there,
Speaker 3: there's a green patch. We call this Elms country Club.
Speaker 3: Back in the day, Elms Country Club is where, of
Speaker 3: course Hamilton lost the duel with Washington. Everyone knows it's
Speaker 3: a huge Republican mainstat We're gonna back up a little bit.
Speaker 3: I never stopped talking. I always just keep moving the
Speaker 3: map when you work data. Of course, there's East Canton.
Speaker 3: East Canton, of course runs east of Canton, which is
Speaker 3: just east of Masalon, and then Masalon's north of nev
Speaker 3: Never and we all know these are Republican hotspots.
Speaker 2: Perry Heights.
Speaker 3: Biden exiting polls say that the six twenty seven is
Speaker 3: backed up here all the way down to seventy seven.
Speaker 2: I never stopped talking.
Speaker 3: I was told to keep talking, never stop talking, keep
Speaker 3: moving the map.
Speaker 1: So and there will be a lot of that on
Speaker 1: the cable news channel tonight. And really the king of
Speaker 1: that might be one of the more respected people in
Speaker 1: that arena, Steve Kornacki of NBC News. He may have
Speaker 1: invented the super fast talking zoom in, zoom out, and
Speaker 1: then like all the other channels decided, I guess you
Speaker 1: have to do it at this speed.
Speaker 4: I mean, I understand why, just because he's a fast talker.
Speaker 1: I know, he's a trendset. He's like the most popular
Speaker 1: kid at high school. Yeah, but I don't know why
Speaker 1: it has to be at that speed. I mean, you
Speaker 1: got hours and hours with very little information coming out
Speaker 1: that you have to kill So why do we have
Speaker 1: to do it so fast? Why do we have to
Speaker 1: zoom in and out? But it's amazing. I saw Steve
Speaker 1: Karnaky on a couple of different podcasts over the weekend.
Speaker 1: Or listen to him and men those guys and women
Speaker 1: that they know every county in America. That's amazing and
Speaker 1: like neighborhoods and stuff like that. And I often wonder why,
Speaker 1: I mean, I would get if you're working for a campaign.
Speaker 1: Campaigns want to know that stuff because they put resources
Speaker 1: into it. Here's a county that could go either way,
Speaker 1: and we want to get our door knockers out there
Speaker 1: to like sway him. But man is like a journalist.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine dedicating my life to knowing all that
Speaker 1: because you could just wait till the end of the
Speaker 1: day see who won, and it doesn't really matter if
Speaker 1: Madison county went three percent for Trump or Harris.
Speaker 4: Sure, yeah, I don't know Karnaki's bio, but a lot
Speaker 4: of those guys they are campaign geniuses, the experts about
Speaker 4: the districts and the way they go and who to target,
Speaker 4: blah blah blah, And they make a hell of a
Speaker 4: lot more money talking about it than they did doing it.
Speaker 4: It's like the opposite of Tom Brady becoming a broadcaster. Now,
Speaker 4: It's like if a prime of his life football player
Speaker 4: could make more money in the booth.
Speaker 1: That's what the Karnakis of the world are doing, right,
Speaker 1: That makes sense. I had another point on that, but
Speaker 1: the county's coming in. I don't know. I'll probably pop
Speaker 1: back into my head later.
Speaker 4: You want to hear an hilarious yet nightmarish scenario, Sure
Speaker 4: love this. It is unlikely but plausible enough to noodle
Speaker 4: through the idea that there is a two seven that
Speaker 4: neither gets to two seventy, and there's a tie, an
Speaker 4: electoral college tie referred to as a content engine election.
Speaker 4: The House selects the president and the Senate the vice president,
Speaker 4: producing the unity ticket that nobody on earth wants Trump
Speaker 4: and Walls, which is what.
Speaker 1: You would imagine.
Speaker 4: Of course, you know, the vice presidency is worth a
Speaker 4: bucket arm pos it was famously said once, and Walls
Speaker 4: would be relive.
Speaker 1: They might he might be imprisoned. Trump might put him
Speaker 1: in Leffenworth.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, every Democrat in America would wake
Speaker 4: up every day checking the newspaper to see if Trump
Speaker 4: had died.
Speaker 1: No kidding, I know what I was gonna mention as
Speaker 1: I meant to get the audio I should have Maybe
Speaker 1: in four years, will we still be doing this? In
Speaker 1: four years? Won't be any more elections? If Trump wins,
Speaker 1: That's the end of voting. I was listening to the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four broadcast of ABC News on the night
Speaker 1: that Reagan beat Mondale forty nine states to one, and
Speaker 1: it was pretty funny to listen to for a variety
Speaker 1: of reasons. One just a different era of They would
Speaker 1: not call it. They just went state by state by
Speaker 1: state by state for hours. I mean, with the and
Speaker 1: the pace. For one thing, there's no that go to
Speaker 1: this state, go to that county. But everything was very slow.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us this evening election night nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 1: pitting the Republican Ronald Reagan, the current president, against Walter
Speaker 1: Mondale of minutes. I mean just the pace, and we
Speaker 1: all know that the pace of everything has just increased
Speaker 1: so much, but it just was somewhat relaxing. I didn't
Speaker 1: my kids that pace. It makes them insane. For me,
Speaker 1: it's like, ugh, I find it so relaxing. But yeah, yeah, interesting.
Speaker 1: But they wouldn't call it then they would go I mean,
Speaker 1: this is like two hours into the broadcast, and it
Speaker 1: looks like the votes from Utah in and that gives
Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan currently a lead with two hundred and forty
Speaker 1: electoral votes with zero for mister Monday. I think you
Speaker 1: can call it. I am seeing a trend develop it
Speaker 1: Whereas now, man, there is such a rush to be
Speaker 1: the cable news channel that calls it first, because I
Speaker 1: think a lot of us, including me, have an inclination
Speaker 1: to switch to the channel that's calling them for some reason.
Speaker 4: All right, here's my prediction, nothing to do with the election,
Speaker 4: except tangentially, you know, referencing the discussion we've just had.
Speaker 4: There will arise soon in America or elsewhere, a massive
Speaker 4: Amish like movement to decouple from the frantic pace of
Speaker 4: the tech driven world.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it will look like it. Will
Speaker 1: it be driven by the younger end or the that's
Speaker 1: a great question, if there's any desire for the younger end.
Speaker 1: Like I just said, they don't know what they're missing,
Speaker 1: well right, but they never will because their brains are
Speaker 1: ruined by their smartphones. But like I, like I said,
Speaker 1: I found it calming and like just oh, it's like
Speaker 1: slipping into a warm bath to hear that pace. Whereas
Speaker 1: my kids we watch a movie from the nineties and
Speaker 1: it's just so slow. It's just dad, does anything happen
Speaker 1: in this movie? Right?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 1: I have the same feeling when I watch Older Fair.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, unless the kids are so screwed
Speaker 4: up they become convinced that it's a good idea, because
Speaker 4: you can convince kids of anything. Please witness the it's
Speaker 4: fine for men to be in women's sports because they
Speaker 4: said they're a woman movement. Anyway, h I could really
Speaker 4: see that happening. It wouldn't be religion religious based.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is a burgeoning, as you know,
Speaker 1: movement towards that, like the what do they call that
Speaker 1: slow something on YouTube videos where you just watch video
Speaker 1: of looking out the window of a train going across
Speaker 1: the country. Yeah, name for it. I forget what it is,
Speaker 1: but there's a certain crowd for it.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking about the example you gave of the
Speaker 4: nature of coverage and how every show has got to
Speaker 4: be frantically paced, because I remember it was it in
Speaker 4: the radio industry they're talking about how people will listen
Speaker 4: to something for was it seven seconds? It's probably about
Speaker 4: a three and a half now before they decide am
Speaker 4: I in or am I out?
Speaker 1: Or do it? It was with the people give the
Speaker 1: song like it was shockingly short. It was single digit seconds.
Speaker 1: They'll give a song before they hit the dial. So
Speaker 1: the song has got to crap you in that amount
Speaker 1: of time, which is practically impossible. Yeah, and and the
Speaker 1: idea that to geek out on music a little bit.
Speaker 1: The bridge has disappeared in songs. You got a lil intro,
Speaker 1: then you got verse chorus, verse chorus. Then usually there's
Speaker 1: a bridge which is like it goes to the minor
Speaker 1: relative minor key and it's a different part of the song.
Speaker 1: Then you come back to the chorus again the song ends. Well.
Speaker 4: Now in the Go Go twenty first century, nobody's got
Speaker 4: any time for the dam bridge.
Speaker 1: First course, first chorus, song's over.
Speaker 4: It's like our turn to the sixties, where songs had
Speaker 4: to be three minutes or less. It's ah, not good,
Speaker 4: not good for the brain. I think there's plenty of
Speaker 4: evidence in so anyway, I don't know. Maybe that's my
Speaker 4: zillion dollar idea.
Speaker 1: I would watch that if I knew there were a
Speaker 1: channel tonight that was gonna go at a slow pace.
Speaker 1: We're only gonna bring you stuff that's real information. We're
Speaker 1: not gonna rejoin with any music. We're not gonna have
Speaker 1: a really bright crazy lights. We don't have a really
Speaker 1: complicated board to look at m H, just like this,
Speaker 1: like a chalkboard and somebody talking slow. I would watch
Speaker 1: that coverage.
Speaker 4: I wasn't actually thinking of media, but that's a really
Speaker 4: intriguing idea. I was thinking more of a like a
Speaker 4: civilization and encampman. I'm not gonna go Jim Jones here.
Speaker 4: This is not gonna be the branch Davidians wow. But
Speaker 4: something maybe we can colonize, like a large swath of
Speaker 4: eastern Washington, for instance, pretty country, practically nobody there, and
Speaker 4: a lot of Eastern Washington Tonians would think. I love
Speaker 4: that idea, So I'll tell you what I'm watching tonight.
Speaker 1: I don't even I don't know if it's available to
Speaker 1: people or not. So we subscribe to Mark Hauprin's site,
Speaker 1: which is ridiculously expensive but very very very good. But
Speaker 1: he's doing a thing on his two way platform where
Speaker 1: he's going to be watching all the channels with a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of his best experts and they're going to
Speaker 1: flip around. And he said, I'm a really good flipper.
Speaker 1: I know what to flip to, what's important, what's not.
Speaker 1: I'll explain things that are worthwhile, explain things are worthless.
Speaker 1: And when nothing's happening, we're going to go away and
Speaker 1: we'll send an email when something's happening and you can
Speaker 1: come back, he said, because there are hours of coverage
Speaker 1: that are just nothing. They're just killing time, and I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do that. I thought, yeah, okay, that
Speaker 1: might be what I tune into tonight. Well, I love
Speaker 1: that idea. I got to hit you up for the password.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, if Trump is winning, I need
Speaker 1: to watch all my cable and network news hosts because
Speaker 1: I want to see how sad they are. I'm looking
Speaker 1: you gotta go. That's the highest priority. I know. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to a really sad little George Stephanopolis, his
Speaker 1: feet dangling in his chair and just tears welling up
Speaker 1: in his eyes.
Speaker 4: That's what I'm looking an apoplectic Rachel Maddow, a suicidal
Speaker 4: Mika Brazinski, a weeping Lady Gaga, imagine the pleasures.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that is what I need. I need a
Speaker 1: joy Read actually has her head in an oven while
Speaker 1: she's talking. Oh, that's what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 4: This will be the last coverage I watched before my
Speaker 4: Slow Life commune opens up outside of Olympia, Washington.
Speaker 1: We're in Waco, Texas, on the other.
Speaker 4: Hand, and I vow this I will not be sexing
Speaker 4: up all the young women because this is not a cult,
Speaker 4: and we will establish a constitutional form of government.
Speaker 1: Just need a little break.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna We're gonna gather in the evening and
Speaker 4: like play cards and board games and talk and and
Speaker 4: not constantly scold anybody's caught walking around looking at their phone,
Speaker 4: summing it gonna be thrown a hell out of Joville.
Speaker 1: All right, you're gonna name your commune jovill I like, I'm.
Speaker 4: Still working on the name of it, then you'd be
Speaker 4: excommunicated in a hell of a hurry.
Speaker 1: You gotta get banished, banished. What are you gonna be wearing? Sweats?
Speaker 1: Probably warm ups, that sort of thing, loose T shirt
Speaker 1: like I like that. We've got more on the way
Speaker 1: you can Texas. Anytime have you been to a voting
Speaker 1: booth or polling place or whatever you call them? How
Speaker 1: are the lines? What was it like? Text line four
Speaker 1: one KFTC.
Speaker 6: There is a there's something for four more long lasting
Speaker 6: than just Donald Trump the candidate. There is a sort
Speaker 6: of Russian embrace of disinformation, a radical disvaluing, devaluing of
Speaker 6: truth over the last nine to ten years. You've got
Speaker 6: to be kind of complete ignorance on civics.
Speaker 1: H You've got to be freaking kidding me. I've got
Speaker 1: more here. From Joe Scarborough's rant on MSNBC today. I
Speaker 1: just again, I asked the same question every time. Do
Speaker 1: you actually believe that are you so into your silo
Speaker 1: of Trump derangement syndrome that you only think there's misinformation
Speaker 1: happening on the right? You think when you say he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a dictator on day one and he promises
Speaker 1: blood and the blood a blood bath and all the
Speaker 1: different sort of stuff that you're being honest? Are you
Speaker 1: freaking kidding me?
Speaker 4: Do you think one of the leaders of the Russian
Speaker 4: collusion hoax and the fine laptop cover up comes they
Speaker 4: don't regard the truth?
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I mean, seriously, Joe Scarborough, I
Speaker 1: listened to you yesterday. He said he was gonna line
Speaker 1: Liz Cheney up against the wall and a firing squad
Speaker 1: and shooter. No he didn't, you freaking liar, or.
Speaker 4: You don't know professional Pandora. Sure he can't be that deluded.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it reading from a somebody who feels
Speaker 1: the same way as I do about it. Who watched
Speaker 1: the whole Scarborough thing today? I didn't. Scarborough lashes out
Speaker 1: at Trump supporters again Americans who didn't go to Civics
Speaker 1: class didn't learn the basics of the Constitution. After rattling
Speaker 1: off a series of debunked Trump hoaxes, including the Trump
Speaker 1: wants to execute Liz Cheney oaks, Scarborough focuses ire on
Speaker 1: Trump voters. The thing you just heard about the last
Speaker 1: ten years of lies. How do we as a nation
Speaker 1: even how do we as a nation even post Trump.
Speaker 1: How do we reach those Americans who apparently didn't go
Speaker 1: to Civics class, apparently didn't learn the basics of constitution,
Speaker 1: have just been overwhelmed with disinformation over the past nine years.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we come out of this if
Speaker 1: if we're not going to have more people who could
Speaker 1: who could say should have gone with the Hunter laptop?
Speaker 1: It was real. Trump didn't say there'd be a bloodbath.
Speaker 1: He was talking about the car industry. It's an economic start.
Speaker 1: I mean, and then say, and Trump led about this
Speaker 1: and shouldn't have said that? Is there's just nobody that
Speaker 1: can do that at a high level. Is it impossible?
Speaker 1: Is there no audience for it? And if there is
Speaker 1: no audience for it, if there's not money to be
Speaker 1: made from it, maybe it can't exist and you can't
Speaker 1: have a country. I don't know.
Speaker 4: There are hm there are plenty of examples of people
Speaker 4: calling balls and strikes and being reasonably successful, whether it's
Speaker 4: US or a Rogan or I think the free press
Speaker 4: does a great job. I think the National Review is
Speaker 4: absolutely open about what they believe, but they're.
Speaker 1: Fair, They're always fair.
Speaker 4: But in terms of the mass media, the household names media,
Speaker 4: they have either decided that's not where the money is
Speaker 4: or they've lost their minds. And honestly, I'm not sure
Speaker 4: which it is, because sometimes I listen to the rantings.
Speaker 4: I got a pretty good crap detector, and it seems
Speaker 4: to me these people are being sincere their minds, but sincere.
Speaker 1: Of course, maybe you should always give a pass to
Speaker 1: Mika and Joe on MSNBC, because Trump did claim that
Speaker 1: Scarboro killed his secretary or something like that out their affair, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that'll make you mad. Yeah, claimed that he killed
Speaker 1: his intern. Oh my god. It's like when you see
Speaker 1: Adam Schiff talking about we need to move beyond the dishonesty.
Speaker 4: It's like, God, I'm sorry, I can't even find I'm out.
Speaker 4: I'm back to wanting to establish my alternate civilization in
Speaker 4: eastern Washington.
Speaker 1: I know, North Carolina and Georgia come in early West
Speaker 1: Coast time four and four thirty. If one or both
Speaker 1: goes to Harrison's over, she's won. If both go to
Speaker 1: Trump hasn't determined anything, but at least you have some idea.
Speaker 1: That's the way I'm gonna look at it this afternoon.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I just read part of a piece by
Speaker 4: a Galloho emigrated from Russia, talking about how this incredibly
Speaker 4: flawed election is so far better than no choice at all,
Speaker 4: living in a totalitarian system, which is the way.
Speaker 1: Most people on earth live. So maybe keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Armstrong and getty. No, but these
Speaker 1: are bad people.
Speaker 7: These are bid Adam shifty shift. I call him pencil Neck.
Speaker 7: He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen. He's got
Speaker 7: about a four and he's got the biggest head, So
Speaker 7: I don't know how the neck can hold the head.
Speaker 7: He's an unattractive guy, both inside and out.
Speaker 5: And it just came over the wires that Joe Rogan
Speaker 5: just endorsed me.
Speaker 1: Is that that oh Joe, No, that's not a crowd.
Speaker 1: That's so nice and he doesn't do that. I'm David
Speaker 1: Broder of the Washington Post, and it seems the closing
Speaker 1: argument from the Republican candidate is that his opponent's neck
Speaker 1: is not big enough to hold his head. Jim. Now,
Speaker 1: it's a powerful argument to thank you back to me.
Speaker 4: By the way that the Joe Brogan reference reminds me.
Speaker 4: You know, the whole flap that Kamala was supposed to
Speaker 4: do Rogan. Then she said, you can only have an
Speaker 4: hour and you gotta fly to me, And he said
Speaker 4: about pass did there's a story out now there's this
Speaker 4: Muslim social media influencer who set up an interview with Kamala,
Speaker 4: but her people insisted that it all be cleared and
Speaker 4: planned in advance, there could be no spontaneity. He wanted
Speaker 4: to ask about the war in Gaza, which is he says,
Speaker 4: is interesting and compelling to every Muslim on earth, which
Speaker 4: tells you something about the way teams form and how
Speaker 4: allegiances go. But anyway, I won't get off on that tangent.
Speaker 4: But she said, no, you absolutely cannot talk about anything
Speaker 4: like that. Instead, she will offer a hot take on
Speaker 4: what was something stupid?
Speaker 1: I can't remember a hot Oh.
Speaker 4: She would offer a hot take against people taking off
Speaker 4: their shoes on airplanes. And the guy's like, well, because
Speaker 4: the show's premise, I guess is people come on and
Speaker 4: defend an unpopular opinion or perspective, okay, And anyway, So
Speaker 4: the guy's like, well, all right, I guess if that's
Speaker 4: what it takes to have her, we're gonna talk about
Speaker 4: taking off your shoes on.
Speaker 1: Her, all right? Fine?
Speaker 4: But she shows up, and instead of the hot take
Speaker 4: on the airplane thing, she launches into a hot take
Speaker 4: on how great bacon is.
Speaker 1: On a Muslim show. Oh okay, gotcha.
Speaker 4: Pork is religiously forbidden her Muslims. And she goes off
Speaker 4: on this rant and he's like, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's just like, seriously, bacon is a spice.
Speaker 1: It's the best. And he was taken aback. Think about it,
Speaker 1: it's pure flavor, she said. And then he said, you know,
Speaker 1: I really can't agree. As Muslims, we can't eat pork
Speaker 1: and so, and he tried to redirect her, what about
Speaker 1: the airplanes? Anything bother you on airplanes? But instead she
Speaker 1: doubles down starts doing this take on anchovies on pizza.
Speaker 1: This guy got done, he said, thanks a lot.
Speaker 4: And he just didn't it didn't air it at all.
Speaker 4: But how do you go on a Muslim influencer show
Speaker 4: and do your hot hot isn't bacon great?
Speaker 1: Take? Wow? Uh? I'm going to be like a human
Speaker 1: being dipped in a vat a shadenfreud if Trump ends
Speaker 1: up winning tonight for all kinds of different reasons. I
Speaker 1: talked about all the all the TV hosts I want
Speaker 1: to see sad and probably makes me a bad person
Speaker 1: that I get so much enjoyment out of watching other humans. Said,
Speaker 1: but I will get a tremendous amount of enjoyment out
Speaker 1: of it. But the circular firing squad of the Democrats
Speaker 1: if she loses, is gonna be awesome. The various you know,
Speaker 1: you're David Axelrod's and all your very certain people have
Speaker 1: run old campaigns, beaten up on the current campaign. The
Speaker 1: Biden people, beaten up on Harris. Harris people beaten up
Speaker 1: on Biden. I mean, he's just gonna be never ending.
Speaker 1: It's ah, everybody beating up on the candidate for sucking. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna enjoy it so much. It's gonna be so
Speaker 1: much fun. It will be very very nice.
Speaker 4: On the other hand, Jack, you're not going to be
Speaker 4: suffering like's America's college students.
Speaker 1: More on that to come. I just learned something very
Speaker 1: interesting that I didn't know so I was watching during
Speaker 1: the commercial break. Actually Mark Halprin's zoom call this morning
Speaker 1: with the Sean Spicer if you remember him, he was
Speaker 1: a press secretary for Trump back in the day. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they were.
Speaker 4: Talking about Housily, the most entertaining press secretary in the
Speaker 4: history of the nation and a.
Speaker 1: Super smart guy who is portrayed obviously as a dunce
Speaker 1: by the media because he was Trump's press secretary. But
Speaker 1: now that I've seen him on a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: really really smart guy. But I didn't know this. But
Speaker 1: on election day they're talking about tells you can get
Speaker 1: from the campaign for how things are going on election day.
Speaker 1: And it's all the sending out surrogates or robo calls
Speaker 1: or interviews or stuff on election day when they see
Speaker 1: results coming back in a certain way. For instance, if
Speaker 1: they see they're not getting a good black mail turnout
Speaker 1: in Atlanta like well below what they were expecting. Barack
Speaker 1: Obama might be on a radio show this afternoon, or
Speaker 1: they'll be blowing in robo calls from Kama or whatever.
Speaker 1: Or you might see like rural ag vote in Wisconsin
Speaker 1: not showing up, so all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: somebody's on whatever radio station whatever you would do there
Speaker 1: the same day. I didn't realize that that happened. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't either. It makes perfect sense, it does. I
Speaker 1: didn't know they had information at that level though, that
Speaker 1: they've got people at the polling places. They would say, oh, no,
Speaker 1: man down, you know on farmers coming to the polls.
Speaker 1: So jump on the air and can.
Speaker 4: Giant fifty thousand AM station in Iowa. All of a sudden,
Speaker 4: you got to well, whoever it would be on the line.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio DeSantis, whoever talking for Trump. Yeah, that's great
Speaker 1: men right day. Jimmy Dean, Yeah, gonna be upset. You say,
Speaker 1: I got to how fabulous is this? Uh?
Speaker 4: And this I'm gonna quote a little bit from Franny
Speaker 4: Block wrote a piece. So the day after the election,
Speaker 4: most of us are kind of, you know, have breakfast.
Speaker 1: Roll out of bed, whatever, go to work and just
Speaker 1: do our thing.
Speaker 4: But students at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy,
Speaker 4: this is like the cream of the crop. That's where
Speaker 4: your future diplomats and policymakers are being molded. At the
Speaker 4: Georgetown University's grad School of Public Policy, they're gonna play
Speaker 4: with legos seriously. In an email to McCourt students, Jacqueline Clevenger,
Speaker 4: the school's director of student Engagement, introduced the school's post
Speaker 4: election self care Suite in recognition of these stressful times.
Speaker 4: All the Court community members are welcome together in the
Speaker 4: third floor commons to take a much needed break, joining
Speaker 4: us for mindful inness activities and snacks throughout the day.
Speaker 1: You either react to self care suite with a oh,
Speaker 1: that sounds nice, I could use that, or you're repulsed
Speaker 1: by the very term, like I am whatever. Good Lord,
Speaker 1: here's the agenda. I did not make this up.
Speaker 4: From ten to eleven am t Coco and self care
Speaker 4: self eleven to twelve legos station you top to one
Speaker 4: healthy treats and healthy habits, one to two coloring and
Speaker 4: mindful exercises. That's coloring books, two to three milk and cookies.
Speaker 4: I'm not kidding three to four legos and coloring, because
Speaker 4: by that point in the afternoon the kids can probably
Speaker 4: handle the complexity of deciding between legos or coloring, and
Speaker 4: then from five to six snacks and self guided meditation.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask Clevenger.
Speaker 4: She writes why college and grad students needed milk and
Speaker 4: cookies to recover from their stress, and now being coddled
Speaker 4: in college might someday affect American diplomacy. But she didn't
Speaker 4: respond to my calls or emails. But Georgetown is obviously
Speaker 4: not the only place at Missouri State the Counseling Center
Speaker 4: has set up a post election self care no phone
Speaker 4: zone space with calm jars. Somebody helped me with that.
Speaker 4: Mm the hell's a calm jar, coloring pages and sensory fidgets.
Speaker 4: And just last week, The New York Times reported that Fieldston,
Speaker 4: the elite New York City private school, was making attendance
Speaker 4: the day after election day optional for students who feel
Speaker 4: too emotionally distressed.
Speaker 1: Again, you react with this one of two ways. If
Speaker 1: your kids go in to one of these schools and
Speaker 1: you find that out that they went to the coloring
Speaker 1: room and played with legos, you either think, oh, that's
Speaker 1: so fantastic, I'm glad I'm sending them that to that school,
Speaker 1: or you think, how are they ever gonna make it
Speaker 1: in the world? How have I failed? Right? Which is
Speaker 1: the way I write?
Speaker 4: May I quote Jerry Seinfeldt, who told The New York
Speaker 4: Times that he found policies and decisions like that so
Speaker 4: aggravating they withdrew their son from that Fieldstone school and
Speaker 4: switched them to a different school. He says, quote what
Speaker 4: kind of lives of these people led that makes them
Speaker 4: think this is the right way to handle young people
Speaker 4: to encourage them to buckle. This is the lesson they're
Speaker 4: providing from godly sums of money.
Speaker 1: That is telling damned good question. As we always say,
Speaker 1: the kids didn't raise themselves. Who are the adults that
Speaker 1: think that's what the kids need? That's crazy? Katie, Katie,
Speaker 1: what's a calm jar? A calm jar is filled with
Speaker 1: water and a little bit of glue, and then you
Speaker 1: put glitter in it and you shake it up and
Speaker 1: watch the glitter settle to the body. No, I know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't do that. You know why because
Speaker 1: I'm an adult, because I just escaped from a concentration
Speaker 1: camp during the Holocaust and after years and years of this,
Speaker 1: I've got so much PTSD. No, No, the election didn't
Speaker 1: go the way you wanted. That's why you need a
Speaker 1: calm jar.
Speaker 4: Gee, and kids, here's your old uncle Joe again. Word
Speaker 4: to the wise. We hold these bitches every four years
Speaker 4: and will every single four years of your life. So
Speaker 4: maybe you'd like to, you know, get a little tougher.
Speaker 4: You're in government grad school in DC and you're going
Speaker 4: to be so upset by an election you have.
Speaker 1: To color for a day. You were a child you
Speaker 1: can't blame the kids. So again, you really to the
Speaker 1: wrong place to look. You're right, you're right. You know what,
Speaker 1: what's what's her name?
Speaker 4: Jacqueline Clevenger and Deans and people like that around America.
Speaker 4: You were a child abuser. You're a psychopath, you are
Speaker 4: a monster. Punch yourself in the face right now, as
Speaker 4: hard as you can now. Nobody lift hand against these people.
Speaker 4: We must convince them not to assault them. But if Jacqueline,
Speaker 4: you are listening right now, ball up your little fist,
Speaker 4: punch yourself right in the face.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure you could take them in a fight.
Speaker 1: I'm confident of that. Here's another one of those things,
Speaker 1: similar but a little different. The New York Times Tech
Speaker 1: staff was threatening to go on strike right now this
Speaker 1: week because they thought they had a lot of leverage,
Speaker 1: because you know, it's election time and the tech staff
Speaker 1: runs everything everywhere. The New York Times techs Staff Guild
Speaker 1: proposed a ban on This is what they're demanding in
Speaker 1: their strike. Obviously, more money and a ban on scented
Speaker 1: products and break rooms, unlimited breakdow time, accommodations for pet bereavement,
Speaker 1: as well as mandatory trigger warnings and company meetings. When
Speaker 1: discussing events in the news, you are joking. You're in
Speaker 1: the news business and you want a trigger warning. Hey,
Speaker 1: you can't just jump into some topic about the news
Speaker 1: without a trigger warning. You should have let me know
Speaker 1: we're about to talk about the Middle East. Anybody that's
Speaker 1: going to be triggered by that, We're just letting you know.
Speaker 1: If you need to leave the room and go to
Speaker 1: an uncented breakroom, I'd be fine. Good times make for
Speaker 1: soft people. I don't know that there's any escaping the cycle.
Speaker 1: I don't think there is. Unfortunately, we're going to live
Speaker 1: through the other end of that cycle. We will finish strong,
Speaker 1: coming up strong.
Speaker 8: If we don't show up tomorrow, it is entirely possible
Speaker 8: that we will not have the opportunity to ever cast
Speaker 8: a ballot again.
Speaker 1: I hope you're pandering, which is kind of evil. But
Speaker 1: if you have actually believe that, you're stupid, and I
Speaker 1: don't think Obrah Winfrey's stupid, but give me a break again,
Speaker 1: I'd be happy to hear you write or whatever anybody's
Speaker 1: logical path of how we go from Trump being elected
Speaker 1: to never voting again. That could actually happen right in
Speaker 1: the United States of America currently.
Speaker 4: Drop us an email mail bag at Armstrong and Giddy
Speaker 4: dot com. There's a fifty to fifty chance we'll have
Speaker 4: to reckon with that horrifying possibility, except that it will
Speaker 4: never happen.
Speaker 1: So my kid said, who's probably gonna run in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty eight? And I said, there's a decent chance. You've
Speaker 1: never heard of him before. But then I came across
Speaker 1: this witch is in You punished him for even asking
Speaker 1: the question. Yeah, right, how dare you start the conversation
Speaker 1: about the next presidential election? Go to your room. This
Speaker 1: is the first presidential election since nineteen seventy six, before
Speaker 1: many of you were born where a Bush, Clinton or
Speaker 1: Biden won't be on the ballot. And I thought about
Speaker 1: that for a second. It's clearly you wouldn't think that'd
Speaker 1: be possible in a democracy, that three names could be
Speaker 1: on the ballot, three family names, but could be on
Speaker 1: the ballot for that many years. Well, actually, it's just
Speaker 1: it's not even I was thinking of Hillary, but Hillary,
Speaker 1: It wasn't Hillary, or was it? Yeah? It was Hillary
Speaker 1: the one year, but Biden, Biden, Biden President Biden Vice
Speaker 1: President Bill for two terms George for two terms, his
Speaker 1: dad for three terms essentially right vice vice and then president,
Speaker 1: but that that shouldn't be possible. That's too much, too
Speaker 1: few names involved in elections for too long. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would agree.
Speaker 4: The whole question of political legacies is it's anti democratic.
Speaker 4: Although you know, HW was a brilliant man and a
Speaker 4: good man, I think, and then w was a two
Speaker 4: term governor of Texas and popular, so I don't see
Speaker 4: anything particularly untoward about it.
Speaker 1: But I get it. One other thing I think is
Speaker 1: interesting fact that Biden's ever been on the any ticket
Speaker 1: at all is kind of an embarrassment. Is it's jackass pressure?
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's not done being president after tonight if
Speaker 1: we choose a new winner, he's president for all of
Speaker 1: the rest of November, December, and most of January, which
Speaker 1: is a long time in a crazy world for a
Speaker 1: completely dementia addled old man to be in charge of anything.
Speaker 1: So I was looking up at CNN and they got
Speaker 1: their big table there with like nine experts on one
Speaker 1: conservative representing conservatives, and that is Jonah Goldberg, who hates Trump,
Speaker 1: and I thought other than Fox, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if this has happened in US history. Well, they haven't
Speaker 1: had TV that long. But the idea that the guy
Speaker 1: who wins might not have a single human being on
Speaker 1: any of the newscasts outside of Fox that have anything
Speaker 1: positive to say about him whatsoever. It's kind of interesting
Speaker 1: because I guarantee you ABC this week, I know who
Speaker 1: they're going to have on there. It'll be Stephanopolis, It'll
Speaker 1: be Donna Brazil, It'll be the Conservative week Chris Christy couldn'
Speaker 1: hat Trump, Moore, and then a whole bunch of other liberals.
Speaker 1: It'll be the same on NBC, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS,
Speaker 1: all of them. And so you might have the guy
Speaker 1: who wins the presidency and outside of Fox not a
Speaker 1: single human being with anything positive to say about him.
Speaker 1: That's kind of weird.
Speaker 5: I have some final thoughts, and some people say they
Speaker 5: are the greatest final thoughts they've ever heard. But if
Speaker 5: you look at what's happening, I would have to say
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty have some wonderful final thoughts. They are
Speaker 5: right up there with Abraham Lincoln and everybody knows it.
Speaker 1: I just saw this one of the chiefs, one of
Speaker 1: the big chief stars from last night on Monday Night
Speaker 1: football were a MAGA hat and photobombed in the post
Speaker 1: game conference. Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty's
Speaker 1: get a final thought from everybody on the crew. To
Speaker 1: wrap things up for the day, there is our technical director,
Speaker 1: Mike Lingelow. Michael lead us off. As long as this
Speaker 1: doesn't violate any laws. If you're a poll worker, let
Speaker 1: us know what the funniest write end votes are for president.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking there's got to be some funny ones
Speaker 1: out there. Why not? Katie Green Aer esteemed newswoman your
Speaker 1: final thought. I am so exhausted of all of this
Speaker 1: and I can't wait for it to be in a way,
Speaker 1: don't start get a calming jar, Jackie final thought for us.
Speaker 1: Never got to this conversation, but there'll be plenty of
Speaker 1: time for it. We are going to learn a lot
Speaker 1: one way or the other. There's some major realignments going
Speaker 1: on with the parties, working class, college educated women, men,
Speaker 1: Hispanic black that have not occurred in my lifetime. That
Speaker 1: could be the future going forward. So that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 4: And my final thought will be it's gonna be fine.
Speaker 4: There will be things that suck and suck bad, but
Speaker 4: that's part things being fine, always has been, will be fine.
Speaker 1: Easy for you to say. I've got a Lego set
Speaker 1: to put together. I've got some coloring books, I've got
Speaker 1: my calming jars, I've got some Plato to ned with
Speaker 1: my hands. I like this.
Speaker 4: The Missouri State announcement of this on Twitter. The one
Speaker 4: comment is Becky somebody or other whose comment is oh,
Speaker 4: dear God.
Speaker 1: It armstrong in Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people, thanks so little time, good Armstrong and
Speaker 1: giddy dot com for the hot links. Of course, we
Speaker 1: will be here manyana with whatever results are known. Plus
Speaker 1: our expert commentary Election Night twenty sixteen. I declared the
Speaker 1: greatest night of my life. Could tonight topic it might? Oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait.
Speaker 4: So you do?
Speaker 1: Oh I do see you tomorrow. God bless America. I'm
Speaker 1: strong and getty.
Speaker 2: You're gonna zoom me.
Speaker 3: You're gonna zoom in and get up here to ninety
Speaker 3: three twenty one triangle circle.
Speaker 2: That's what they call it. Right around Nick Jack Farms.
Speaker 3: Everyone knows that Nick Jack Farms has always been carried
Speaker 3: Trump ever since eighteen eighty four, when he only won
Speaker 3: forty two percent of the vote. We're gonna go south.
Speaker 3: We're gonna head our way south. We're gonna zoom in
Speaker 3: a little bit. Right there, there's a green patch. We
Speaker 3: call this Elms Country Club. Back in the day, Elms
Speaker 3: Country Club is where, of course, Hamilton lost the duel
Speaker 3: with Washington. Everyone knows it's a huge Republican mainsteat. We're
Speaker 3: gonna back up a little bit. I never stopped
Speaker 1: Talking Armstrong and Getty