Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Katty I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Trumb just said that billionaires Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, and
Speaker 3: the Murdocks will be involved in the deal for TikTok.
Speaker 3: Rupert Murdoch is ninety four years old. Every time he exhales,
Speaker 3: it looks like he's doing the cinnamon challenge.
Speaker 4: President Trump suggested that Mediam Mogul Rupert Murdoch will be
Speaker 4: involved in the deal for US control of TikTok. So
Speaker 4: don't worry, kids, your beloved TikTok will be perfectly safe
Speaker 4: in the hands of this ninety four year old man.
Speaker 5: I still don't quite understand the TikTok deal. Maybe it
Speaker 5: has to be completely done before we'll completely understand it.
Speaker 2: What are your questions? Is the algorithm going to be
Speaker 2: the same or not?
Speaker 5: Reporting last week there were outlets CNBC said the algorithm
Speaker 5: was going to be the same. Wall Street Journal said
Speaker 5: it is going to be different. Well, if it's a
Speaker 5: different algorithm, it's not TikTok, it's something else.
Speaker 2: You're calling TikTok.
Speaker 1: All right, it's like buying the brand of Taylor Swift,
Speaker 1: but it'll be different songs, different music, different legs.
Speaker 2: Yes, a leggy songstress.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of high flying stars of media, you got
Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom of cal Unicornia. He's the governor and he
Speaker 1: is hot for the presidency, obviously, and he's been defending
Speaker 1: his tenure in Sacramento by lauding the California Way. He's
Speaker 1: trying to sell that to America. And I am going
Speaker 1: to quote Stephen Malanga fairly extensively here. Stephen's a senior
Speaker 1: editor at City Journal, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
Speaker 1: He writes about economics a lot. But anyway, I found
Speaker 1: this very very interesting because I heard Gave the other
Speaker 1: day suggesting that California is a donor state. It gives
Speaker 1: more in taxes than it receives, and it derives from
Speaker 1: balance of payment studies done one hundred years ago, and
Speaker 1: that red states, well he actually used the or you know,
Speaker 1: he actually he quoted somebody else used the term red
Speaker 1: moucher states.
Speaker 2: Blue states pay.
Speaker 1: More in taxes and they take in and those moucher
Speaker 1: red states are free loading on the backs of the
Speaker 1: American people unbelievable, and they quote some reports that came
Speaker 1: out in the early two thousands and even before that
Speaker 1: by the Rockefeller Institute. Now quoting Milange, here's the truth
Speaker 1: some of the bigg the few politicians have ever bothered
Speaker 1: to investigate what these reports measure. Some of the biggest
Speaker 1: catagories of spending aren't discretionary programs that help finance state budgets,
Speaker 1: but cash spent by Washington to people in businesses that
Speaker 1: earned it. That California and other states come up short
Speaker 1: in receiving this money can be a function of their
Speaker 1: own failings rather than any funding bias. The biggest category
Speaker 1: these studies measure is direct payments from the federal government
Speaker 1: to individuals, like Social Security and government employee pensions. A
Speaker 1: big chunk is the money for people that have worked for
Speaker 1: and that the Feds send them when they retire. Few
Speaker 1: budget experts would classify these as subsidies from Washington and
Speaker 1: California residents annually receive about ten percent less per capita
Speaker 1: than the national average in direct payments, in part because
Speaker 1: it's a relatively young state. And Malanga gives several statistics,
Speaker 1: but it has to do with the fact that it's
Speaker 1: miserably expensive to retire in California. In fact, it's the
Speaker 1: third most expensive state to retire comfortably.
Speaker 2: Only Hawaii and Massachusetts are worse.
Speaker 5: It's hard to imagine if you lived somewhere else that
Speaker 5: you would move to California to retire right.
Speaker 1: Federal contracting dollars constitute another huge spending category. This is
Speaker 1: money that businesses and other private entities earned for work
Speaker 1: performed for the government, especially for national defense, not money
Speaker 1: Washington disperses based on the state's population or tax contributions
Speaker 1: or whatever. It's buying fighter planes and that sort of thing,
Speaker 1: and California falls short on this measure too, about twenty
Speaker 1: eight percent less than the national average, partly because California
Speaker 1: is so hostile to business now there are fewer businesses
Speaker 1: per capita for the federal government to buy from because
Speaker 1: so many have fled the state. Where California does quite
Speaker 1: well is in receipt of federal grants, some of which
Speaker 1: clearly represents spending that bolster state budgets. Second largest category
Speaker 1: tracked by moynahnd style studies include medicaid, federal highway funding, welfare,
Speaker 1: food stamps, and education subsidies, and given the very high
Speaker 1: poverty numbers in California and all of the illegal immigrants
Speaker 1: that have come into the state, California gets more significantly
Speaker 1: more per capita than other states in actual charity payments.
Speaker 1: So it's time to trade less activism in Washington in
Speaker 1: return for more revenue at home for whatever active measures
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. If Newsom is truly upset about California
Speaker 1: subsidizing other states, you might consider incorporating mister Moynihan's proposals
Speaker 1: into his presidential platform. Essentially, leave more money in the states.
Speaker 1: You know, don't send thirty billion dollars to the federal
Speaker 1: government and beg for your share back anyway, So that
Speaker 1: red mucher state thing is a complete myth. Secondly, and
Speaker 1: this one's so good. This comes from Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 1: California's great climate backfire. Sacramento Democrats are allowing dirtier air
Speaker 1: to avoid gasoline price hikes, and California's war on fossil
Speaker 1: fuels is backfiring in spectacular fashion. As gas prices, imports
Speaker 1: of foreign oil, and CO two emissions are all increasing.
Speaker 2: The response in Sacramento.
Speaker 1: Allow more oil drilling and dirtier blends of gasoline in
Speaker 1: the state. What happened to the climate emergency, you might ask,
Speaker 1: Then they go into the high high prices of gas
Speaker 1: in California nearly two bucks more in Texas. Looming refinery
Speaker 1: shutdowns and declining in state crude production could drive prices
Speaker 1: even higher.
Speaker 2: During the eighties, did you know this?
Speaker 1: Most of the oil Californians consumed was produced in California,
Speaker 1: but then state regulations regulated the oil business right out
Speaker 1: of California, so instead of most of it, California produced
Speaker 1: only twenty three percent of the crew it's refineries used
Speaker 1: last year. Almost all of the rest was imported from
Speaker 1: abroad from countries that don't give a crap about the
Speaker 1: environment and drill way more dirtily. More imports have increased
Speaker 1: CO two emissions and smog causing pollutants from tankers docking
Speaker 1: at the state's ports. Declining production is also making pipelines
Speaker 1: that carry crew to in state refineries less economically viable.
Speaker 1: If pipelines shut down, the state would have to import
Speaker 1: even more foreign crude oil. And looming shutdowns of of
Speaker 1: two larger foineries I mean the state would also have
Speaker 1: to import just gasoline we wouldn't be refining our own gas.
Speaker 1: Trouble is the state lacks the infrastructure to handle more imports.
Speaker 1: So I studied the spring by a USC business school
Speaker 1: professor trajected the gasoline prices could rise to more than
Speaker 1: eight dollars a gallon owing to constricted supply. None of
Speaker 1: this is good for Gavy, who's eyeballing the presidency. So
Speaker 1: he is now strong armed the legislature into saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: all those environmental regulations and the cleaner gas and the
Speaker 1: summer gas blend at all, let's just throw that crap
Speaker 1: out the window to.
Speaker 2: Keep the prices high.
Speaker 1: So you get high prices in spite of that, and
Speaker 1: measure super high prices, dirtier gas, dirtier your oil, more
Speaker 1: environmental damage during the drilling.
Speaker 2: For the oil.
Speaker 1: You lose in every single environmental measure, but you get
Speaker 1: to say, we don't do that dirty, dirty oil stuff
Speaker 1: in California. No, we just burn more of it than
Speaker 1: you know, any other state in the Union because the
Speaker 1: population is so big.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I take the bullet train everywhere.
Speaker 5: I took the bullet train to work, I take my
Speaker 5: kids to school, and the bullet train. We went camping
Speaker 5: this past weekend, we rode the bullet train up to
Speaker 5: our Calraians.
Speaker 1: Absolutely hilarious, laugh, I laughed, Gavy knwsome in the Democrats.
Speaker 1: Energy policy in California might be the biggest self goal,
Speaker 1: own goal they call it in soccer i've ever seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's worked so far.
Speaker 5: I wonder if it will keep working because people didn't
Speaker 5: catch on to the fact. Oh that is so admirable.
Speaker 5: You don't drill for oil in your state. Well, the
Speaker 5: gas has got to come from somewhere, so we buy
Speaker 5: it from places who would do a worse job of
Speaker 5: drilling oil, right, And it jacks up more smog and pollution, which,
Speaker 5: unlike you know CO two emissions, which is allegedly behind
Speaker 5: some climate change, the smog and pollution actually hurt people's health.
Speaker 1: They damaged lungs and it's bad for children and the
Speaker 1: rest of it. CO two is theoretical and maybe has
Speaker 1: some effect on climate change. More smog hurts people, well,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna get lots more smog.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know why we can't be grown ups
Speaker 5: around as the Keystone Pipeline, remember that was such a
Speaker 5: big deal during the Obama administration. Everything, and it finally
Speaker 5: got killed. Was obviously a good idea. It was gonna
Speaker 5: be a safer, cleaner way to transport oil around the country.
Speaker 2: But it is like a pipeline.
Speaker 5: It was like doubling down on fossil fuel so you
Speaker 5: don't have it, and then you gotta buy a more
Speaker 5: oil from more expensive places or transported in dirtier ways
Speaker 5: and trains and trucks than the pipeline.
Speaker 2: You can pretend that we're not using oil anymore. It's
Speaker 2: so childish. It's performative hundred percent.
Speaker 1: Which is fine if it's just performative. If it's performative
Speaker 1: and its squanders tax dollars, that's a problem.
Speaker 2: If it's performative.
Speaker 1: And squanders tax dollars and makes the air dirtier so
Speaker 1: they can virtue signal, that's abhorrent. But you too, America
Speaker 1: can have this sort of government and management and leadership.
Speaker 1: Vote Gavin Newsom in twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 5: I was thinking about do I want to talk about
Speaker 5: The deadline was last week for national parks to fall
Speaker 5: in line with the new regulations that the Trump administration
Speaker 5: has of not having any plaques or anything like that
Speaker 5: that bad mouth the US. And now you got all
Speaker 5: your museum are in the same situation.
Speaker 2: That whole topic.
Speaker 5: I find that topic pretty interesting since I've run up
Speaker 5: against it with my kids quite a few times. Every
Speaker 5: damn plaque everywhere it's got something about climate change that
Speaker 5: we were just talking about, or how evil.
Speaker 2: We were to the Indians, or slavery.
Speaker 1: Every single one that reminds me when I was gone.
Speaker 1: Did you do some version of your conversation with Tim
Speaker 1: Sanderfer on the air?
Speaker 5: I did, Yeah, about the Indians? Oh good, Yeah, I've
Speaker 5: read that stuff.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the Marxist indoctrination, and so many of
Speaker 1: America's kids at schools rather of the kids. If more
Speaker 1: people knew about it, there would be riots in the streets. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's astonishing to me that there aren't riots in
Speaker 1: the streets. I want not calling for riots. I'm calling
Speaker 1: for a shutdown of government schools.
Speaker 5: I want to use an example, see if this holds
Speaker 5: up of like an obituary for an individual, or if
Speaker 5: you were saluting a sixty year wedding anniversary. The way
Speaker 5: you would talk about those things versus the way we
Speaker 5: talk about our history in my son's history class or
Speaker 5: in the plaque at your local Park and see if
Speaker 5: that makes any sense anyway.
Speaker 2: I'll explain that when we come back.
Speaker 5: So I'm super sensitive this issue, as I've talked about,
Speaker 5: because my son has taken American history. My son, my
Speaker 5: eighth grader, loves history class, and he is in a
Speaker 5: public school that is apparently not going to teach American
Speaker 5: history the way you and I learned it, where you
Speaker 5: talk about the Revolution and the Founding Fathers and Constitutional Convention,
Speaker 5: all that sort of stuff, because all they've done so
Speaker 5: far is talk about how this led. They had to
Speaker 5: write a land acknowledgment about the land learned we're holding
Speaker 5: this class on used to belong to whatever tribe of Indians,
Speaker 5: which is just stupid on its own. I don't even
Speaker 5: need to go any further than that. What about the
Speaker 5: tribe that down it before that tribe? I mean, what
Speaker 5: are we doing here? This is moronic And I've since
Speaker 5: pulled my son out of this class. The other day
Speaker 5: they were talking about settler colonialism with anybody who uses
Speaker 5: that term ever is obviously a Marxist.
Speaker 2: But we're a fool who's been seduced by Marxists.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it fits in with the story of Trump
Speaker 5: is trying to get national museums and parks and all
Speaker 5: that sort of stuff around the country to stop having
Speaker 5: all these plaques that bad mouff the United States. So
Speaker 5: the NPR version of this sort of story is trying
Speaker 5: to whitewash history to try to cover up, you know,
Speaker 5: slavery and the ills of this.
Speaker 2: Country and all that sort of thing.
Speaker 5: And I have a feeling that's what my son's teacher
Speaker 5: would say, for too long, we didn't teach this. Well,
Speaker 5: now we're going to teach the bad part. And I
Speaker 5: keep wondering, well, first of all, has any country ever
Speaker 5: done this before ever?
Speaker 2: Where you focus.
Speaker 5: Practically to the exclusion of everything else on your negatives.
Speaker 2: Why, to what end? What do you try to accomplish?
Speaker 5: If you hadn't overcome the negatives, maybe you could still
Speaker 5: focus on it. But if you have overcome it, like
Speaker 5: we don't have slaves anymore, if you have overcome the negatives,
Speaker 5: do you.
Speaker 2: Need to make that the focus of everything?
Speaker 5: And I was using the example in my own mind,
Speaker 5: and I think I brought this up on the air
Speaker 5: a while back of like an obituary, and obituaries they
Speaker 5: highlight all the stuff that a human being did that
Speaker 5: were more or less positive in their lives. You don't
Speaker 5: pick out and then you know, when he was twenty
Speaker 5: eight years old he got cut speed and drunk.
Speaker 2: And spent three nights in jail or whatever. You don't
Speaker 2: do that. No, it's a distraction from the totality of
Speaker 2: the story, right right, right.
Speaker 5: And I was thinking of the example of like a
Speaker 5: sixtieth wedding anniversary, or you talk about the wedding, the
Speaker 5: marriage and everything like that, and everybody's giving care.
Speaker 2: Nobody stands up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, I don't know if you remember this,
Speaker 5: but they separated briefly when they were in their thirties
Speaker 5: because he cheated on her.
Speaker 2: We don't do that with with lives or towns or whatever.
Speaker 5: But why are we doing it with our country where
Speaker 5: we're focusing on the most negative part and acting like
Speaker 5: that's the only thing to look at?
Speaker 2: Two reasons.
Speaker 1: One, the activists want to end Western civilization as it
Speaker 1: stands and turn it into a Marxist paradise. They know
Speaker 1: precisely what they're doing, like the teacher in California who said,
Speaker 1: I have nine months to turn them into revolutionaries. Those people,
Speaker 1: that is precisely their goal. Then The other answer to
Speaker 1: your question is people have been convinced that that's how
Speaker 1: you are a good person. My health loathing is evidence
Speaker 1: of being enlightened.
Speaker 2: I got Marxists have convinced them.
Speaker 5: I got to use this example because it's so good.
Speaker 5: So the other day, the last day he was in
Speaker 5: the class since I've pulled him out, they were talking
Speaker 5: about slavery, and somebody brought up might have been Henry,
Speaker 5: but somebody brought up the idea that there were black
Speaker 5: tribes in Africa capturing, capturing other black people and selling
Speaker 5: them to Europeans in the slave trade. They weren't racist,
Speaker 5: They just were okay with slavery and making money. He
Speaker 5: actually said in the classroom. Apparently, well, they didn't know
Speaker 5: how bad slavery was in the United States. Yes, they
Speaker 5: did that, but they didn't know that what they were
Speaker 5: signing these people up was the evils of what slavery
Speaker 5: was in the United States. Oh well, he said, you
Speaker 5: were willing to capture people, sell them, take them away
Speaker 5: from their homes, but you know, you didn't know how
Speaker 5: bad it was.
Speaker 1: Right. I just read a great piece by a historian
Speaker 1: on that is one of the Because you know more
Speaker 1: and more people had become aware. Wait a minute, At
Speaker 1: that time, slavery was ubiquitous. It was everywhere on earth,
Speaker 1: every society. The Native Americans had slaves, the Arabs would
Speaker 1: enslave black people, the black people would everybody was enslaving
Speaker 1: each other, The Irish were enslaved.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It was everywhere, and so the Marxists are like, more
Speaker 1: and more people realized that okay, okay, let's go with
Speaker 1: slavery in America was extra bad. And this historian was
Speaker 1: disputing that ludicrous idea. You know, in various you know,
Speaker 1: ample of here, there and everywhere. It was a little
Speaker 1: better over there, a little worse over there, but then
Speaker 1: ten years later it changed. That is a false argument.
Speaker 1: So crazy, No, it's deliverate. It's not crazy, it's thought out,
Speaker 1: it's smart, it's vicious.
Speaker 5: Well, it's crazy that we put up with it, and
Speaker 5: a lot of our kids learn it in class, Amen.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Geeddy.
Speaker 5: So Kamala's got a book out and she's going to
Speaker 5: try to run for president. She thinks she's going to
Speaker 5: run for president. She's going to find no money lines up.
Speaker 5: None of the heavyweight people who work in campaigns are
Speaker 5: going to join her, and then she's going to quickly decide.
Speaker 5: I guess now it's not my time, that is my prediction.
Speaker 5: But she does know her as any other time back
Speaker 5: to you now, not.
Speaker 2: Your time or any other time, but now it is
Speaker 2: not my time to make it in the NBA. So
Speaker 2: I'm ill stick with the business I'm in for now.
Speaker 5: Her book One hundred and seven Days is out, and
Speaker 5: I don't know does the book ever actually come out
Speaker 5: or is it just because it seems like it's been
Speaker 5: coming out for weeks and months.
Speaker 1: It's like a lot next Monster, We'll just hear about
Speaker 1: it for the rest of our lifetimes.
Speaker 5: So she's done a couple of interviews, making the rounds,
Speaker 5: and we're going to play Eclipse in a second. But
Speaker 5: this is Mark Halprin's take on her performance so far.
Speaker 5: If the former veep and book peddler's maiden media hit
Speaker 5: on Rachel Maddow as any indication wishy washy for Mum Dami,
Speaker 5: wishy washy, semi backtracking on bootheage edge, confusing on Biden's
Speaker 5: acuity open to a twenty eight run, then there ain't
Speaker 5: gonna be much there for her, So Wishy Washy. I
Speaker 5: guess that's when it came off. Let's hear a little
Speaker 5: bit of it on Rachel Maddow last night.
Speaker 6: I guess, I guess I'd ask you to just elaborate
Speaker 6: on that a little bit. It's hard to hear with
Speaker 6: you running as you know, you're the first woman elected
Speaker 6: vice president, you're a black woman and a South Asian
Speaker 6: woman elected that high office, very nearly elected president, to
Speaker 6: say that he couldn't be on the ticket effectively because
Speaker 6: he was gay, it's hard to hear.
Speaker 7: No, No, that's not what I said that. That's that
Speaker 7: he couldn't be on the ticket because he is gay.
Speaker 7: My point, as I write in the book, is that
Speaker 7: I was clear that in one hundred and seven days,
Speaker 7: in one of the most hotly contested elections for president
Speaker 7: United States, against someone like Donald Trump, who knows no floor,
Speaker 7: to be a black woman running for president United States
Speaker 7: and as a vice presidential running mate a gay man,
Speaker 7: with the stakes being so high, it made me very sad,
Speaker 7: But I also realized it would be a real list.
Speaker 2: I had forgotten.
Speaker 5: I had forgotten forgotten her meandering, inability to ever say anything.
Speaker 1: She's a terrible liar, which is a shame because she
Speaker 1: needs to a lot. But Rachel says, it hurts for me.
Speaker 1: She's Rachel's gay. In case you don't know this, but
Speaker 1: to hear that you wouldn't have him on the ticket
Speaker 1: because he's a gay man. And after like a full
Speaker 1: word salad bar, she gets to.
Speaker 2: So it'd be too big a risk because he's a
Speaker 2: gay guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so that we're talking about Mayor Pete. We never
Speaker 5: set that up properly, Mayor Pete boudhedge Edge, who she
Speaker 5: says in the book. We read this yesterday, this portion
Speaker 5: that she liked him best but thought black woman, gay
Speaker 5: guy is too controversial a ticket, right. I think she's
Speaker 5: completely wrong because he would have been so much better
Speaker 5: than Tim Walls well as a running mate.
Speaker 1: And let me rip off. Hector Barajas, who writes for
Speaker 1: the California Globe. You pointed out that she wanted Pete
Speaker 1: as a running mate but decided America quote couldn't handle
Speaker 1: a black woman and a gay man. And then Hector writes,
Speaker 1: think about that. Harris preaches diversity, equity, and inclusion every day,
Speaker 1: but when it came time to choose, she reduced to
Speaker 1: judge to a label and dismissed him as unelectable solely
Speaker 1: because of his sexuality. That's not DEI, it's the opposite.
Speaker 1: It shows her worldviews based on boxes, not on value
Speaker 1: or worth.
Speaker 5: The Democrats are so wrong about this. I've been saying
Speaker 5: this since Barack Obama got elected. Barack Obama got more
Speaker 5: votes because he was black. Hillary Kitton gets more votes
Speaker 5: because she's a woman than you would have gotten if
Speaker 5: she was the exact same qualifications in the dude and
Speaker 5: a dude. It helps you at this point, you cannot
Speaker 5: convince me that it holds you back being a woman,
Speaker 5: even though Hillary, I guess it is out today talking
Speaker 5: about that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: Oh that's her only so she's playing it again.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if Kamala Harris had been a white guy with those.
Speaker 2: Chops, she would have come close. Oh she'd have been
Speaker 2: laughed out of that. Nobody would have even considered her.
Speaker 1: So anyway, So Rachel asks, hey, that's rough. You wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a little peak because he's gay. Jedge, that's the man, right,
Speaker 1: and Kamala hambles I almost want to hear it again.
Speaker 2: That was some unbelievable word sounding and says, but it
Speaker 2: was too high a risk. Because he's a gay fella.
Speaker 7: Then she continued, no matter how, you know, I've been
Speaker 7: an advocate and an ally of of the LGBT community
Speaker 7: my entire life. So it wasn't about it wasn't about it, right,
Speaker 7: So it wasn't about any any prejudice on my part.
Speaker 7: But we had short we had such a short period
Speaker 7: of time, and the stakes were so high. I think
Speaker 7: Pete is a phenomenal, phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Public servant, but go ahead and say.
Speaker 7: And I think America is and would be ready for that.
Speaker 2: But but at.
Speaker 7: When I had to make that decision with two weeks
Speaker 7: to go, you know, and maybe I was being too cautious.
Speaker 7: You know, I'll let our friends, we should all.
Speaker 2: Talk about that. I well, we are.
Speaker 7: But that's the decision I made, and I'm and I,
Speaker 7: as with everything else in the book, I'm being very
Speaker 7: candid about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you're not.
Speaker 7: With a great deal of sadness about also the fact, yes,
Speaker 7: that it might have been a risk.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, surely there's some punctuation around here somewhere.
Speaker 5: The greatest parenthetical speaker in the history of speaking.
Speaker 2: The whole thing is crazy.
Speaker 5: Just clauses in parentheses and then brackets and then asides.
Speaker 1: Well and just come out and say, look, I wanted
Speaker 1: to pick little Pete, but America is such a land
Speaker 1: of bigoted, you know, scumbags.
Speaker 2: That they wouldn't vote for him.
Speaker 1: So I went with a straight guy who happened to
Speaker 1: be one of the great lamemost ever appear on the
Speaker 1: American scene.
Speaker 2: Tim Walls, good lord, Well, the problem.
Speaker 5: Is Rachel Matdow says, it hurts me that you wouldn't
Speaker 5: put him on the ticket because he's gay, And then
Speaker 5: Kamala says, after three minutes, I didn't put him on
Speaker 5: the ticket because he's gay.
Speaker 2: Right, So that's where the problem is.
Speaker 5: Why rambling, Why couldn't somebody get to her, certainly her husband, somebody,
Speaker 5: somebody's got to say to her. Subject predicate subject, predicate subject, predicate.
Speaker 5: Just keep that in your head all the time when
Speaker 5: you're speaking. Craft a sentence with a beginning and an end.
Speaker 2: At a point.
Speaker 1: Let's practice, I want you to say, the dog got
Speaker 1: wet in the rain, Okay, the dog who.
Speaker 2: Is animals all animals.
Speaker 1: For many years, and who can't love dogs, and with
Speaker 1: one hundred and seven days to have a dog.
Speaker 5: Not to exclude cats, which are also in addition to
Speaker 5: horses and many other animals.
Speaker 2: But when you.
Speaker 1: Think about raining on pets and all sorts of pets,
Speaker 1: even rabbits and beginnea pigs and smaller pets, When you
Speaker 1: think about rain falling on pets, you've got to think
Speaker 1: about the dog that is getting rained on. And her
Speaker 1: husband just says, ah, that's enough, out of hair.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, look at seeing an Harris stops biting
Speaker 5: tongue as new book is released.
Speaker 2: No, she's not. She's sending her silence. She has not
Speaker 2: stopped biting her tongue. She's still doing it.
Speaker 5: I thought maybe she would with that whole I got
Speaker 5: nothing to lose at this point. I'm never running again.
Speaker 5: They rejected me. I'm pissed off about it. Biden screwed
Speaker 5: me at every turn, screw him. I thought she might
Speaker 5: actually say some things, but she she Well, because she's
Speaker 5: running again, she can't just come out and say what
Speaker 5: she wants to say.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but she has said more than people normally do.
Speaker 1: Two more thoughts from uh Hector Brahas, whose piece I
Speaker 1: really liked first of all. Kama Harris new memoir One
Speaker 1: hundred and seven Days could use a more honest title
Speaker 1: like everybody but me or one hundred and seven ways
Speaker 1: to blame someone else for my incompetence, and then his uh,
Speaker 1: his conclusion is and he talks about politics is tough.
Speaker 1: I can tell you we all win, we all lose
Speaker 1: the measure of leaders How you respond, you learn, recalibrate,
Speaker 1: and keep working.
Speaker 2: You don't torture your own party.
Speaker 1: You don't publish a score settling memoir that alienates your team,
Speaker 1: your leadership, your base. Harris has violated some of the
Speaker 1: most basic rules of politics. Lose with grace, fight back smart,
Speaker 1: and never attack your own allies.
Speaker 2: From her released excerps.
Speaker 1: One hundred and seven days as in a campaign memoir,
Speaker 1: It's a political obituary, Harris comes across as petty, insecure,
Speaker 1: and consumed with excuses that are showing leadership. She chose
Speaker 1: to air grievances and settle scores. This only reinforces whatever
Speaker 1: is already knew. She was not ready, she was not capable,
Speaker 1: She was not fit to lead then, and nothing she
Speaker 1: writes now will change that.
Speaker 2: I wonder what caused her to come across as petty
Speaker 2: and full of excuses. Perhaps perhaps because she is to
Speaker 2: her everyone knows it to her core, petty yes, and
Speaker 2: full of excuses. Yes. So I thought it was kind
Speaker 2: of interesting over the weekend.
Speaker 5: So apparently there's a little blurb in the book about
Speaker 5: why she didn't choose Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania, And
Speaker 5: she talked about the interview process and how he had
Speaker 5: brought up something about some artwork he would like to
Speaker 5: bring into the vice president's mansion, or she asked about
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 2: It's weird that it came up as a topic.
Speaker 5: He would think, Wow, of all the things you wouldn't
Speaker 5: get around until you are actually the person, It was
Speaker 5: like what artwork I can bring in? But anyway, that
Speaker 5: blurb was in the book, and he apparently did not
Speaker 5: dig it, because he said over the weekend in an
Speaker 5: interview that he hasn't read the book. But she is
Speaker 5: going to have to answer for how she was in
Speaker 5: the room and yet never said anything publicly about Biden's
Speaker 5: mental acuity. So he's already sharpening his knives in case
Speaker 5: she decides to.
Speaker 2: Run.
Speaker 5: And I think also saying, hey, you might want to
Speaker 5: back off the whole taking me on thing, like right.
Speaker 1: Now, yeah, yeah, do not mess with Joshi. Yeah, she's
Speaker 1: going around saying it would have been self serving for
Speaker 1: me to say Biden shouldn't run again, because you know,
Speaker 1: as the veep, if the guy's senile, you gotta set
Speaker 1: that aside.
Speaker 5: And again and again the quote from yesterday that David Plof,
Speaker 5: who ran Obama's campaign, one of the smartest Democrat political
Speaker 5: minds probably in America, told her people hate Joe Biden,
Speaker 5: so craftier message around that if she had broken with
Speaker 5: Joe Biden and said, look, I've seen him behind the scenes,
Speaker 5: I probably should have said something earlier. I was trying
Speaker 5: to be a good soldier, but he is not up
Speaker 5: to this job and we need to move on.
Speaker 2: She would have been in so much better position to run.
Speaker 5: It's not people would have thrown her under the bus
Speaker 5: for not being a loyalster, but they'd depended.
Speaker 2: Finally, somebody said it out loud.
Speaker 1: Who's a Democrat that I can vote for? I don't
Speaker 1: know if you've noticed in the polls eighty percent of
Speaker 1: us agree with you.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 1: I will end my comments with the title of a
Speaker 1: Charles C. W. Cook column from the election cycle. Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris is an idiot.
Speaker 2: And everyone knows it. That's right.
Speaker 1: Margie that did hold her back. Yeah, that's among her issues.
Speaker 1: That's a big one.
Speaker 2: We will finish strong next arm Strong.
Speaker 8: And that campaign that you all launched pretending that you
Speaker 8: were going to cancel Hulu while secretly racing through four
Speaker 8: seasons of only murders in the building. I really was congratulations,
Speaker 8: wasn't it? Wasn't it interesting to try and figure out
Speaker 8: all the tentacles Disney has in your daily life. It's
Speaker 8: one thing to swear off cruises, but the Avengersna, how
Speaker 8: is it possible that by getting rid of one company,
Speaker 8: I can't watch neither Pooh or Monday Night Football.
Speaker 5: It's as John Stewart making the point for for the
Speaker 5: that's for his crowd that was gonna not take in
Speaker 5: anything Disney because they had Jimmy Kimmel. Then you got
Speaker 5: the other crowd that's gonna cancel, like in a different
Speaker 5: direction for having Kimmel on.
Speaker 2: So so everybody.
Speaker 5: Who's going to cancel that stuff because you anyway Kimmel's
Speaker 5: back on, And yeah, I mean it just shows how
Speaker 5: ridiculous that whole notion is pretty much on that sort
Speaker 5: of thing.
Speaker 1: Well, and how what a sprawling octopus of a gigantic
Speaker 1: organization Disney is at this point. Yeah, it ain't Walt
Speaker 1: and a couple of parks and some quaint movies like
Speaker 1: Snow White anymore.
Speaker 2: It's a giant conglomerate.
Speaker 5: I just can't, you know, I drive a cyber truck
Speaker 5: made by Tesla. I get flipped off on a regular basis.
Speaker 5: It happened to me two days ago. Again, I mean
Speaker 5: very regularly, people flip me off for what I drive.
Speaker 5: I just I don't live my life that way. So, like,
Speaker 5: I can't not have Hulu because it's under the Disney
Speaker 5: umbrella of something else that I don't agree with politically,
Speaker 5: I mean, just it just seems like such a complicated
Speaker 5: way to live, right, right, and then you got to
Speaker 5: figure out it. Yeah, so I can't eat at that
Speaker 5: restaurant because it's owned by the conglomerate that has all
Speaker 5: of these different things and just.
Speaker 1: What yeah, including you know this subsidiary who's you know whatever.
Speaker 1: Middle manager said this awful thing on Twitter. So people
Speaker 1: are boycotting. Yeah, I just, yeah, I don't. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna choose to live my life that way. It takes
Speaker 1: too much time for one thing to keep.
Speaker 2: Track of all of it.
Speaker 5: I'm sure we'll have some clips of Jimmy Kimmel on
Speaker 5: tonight and they're gonna be hard to take. And he's
Speaker 5: gonna get a standing ovation, he's gonna get teary eyed,
Speaker 5: and he's gonna talk about how much he loves America
Speaker 5: and blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be hard to think.
Speaker 1: I was watching let us let us know how the
Speaker 1: view is up there on the cross Jimmy.
Speaker 2: How much time do I got? I have time to
Speaker 2: say anything? You got about a minute thirty? Okay?
Speaker 5: So I was watching the latest bill Maher in his basement,
Speaker 5: was with Rob Reiner, the movie director.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. Actually had a pretty interest conversation about a
Speaker 2: lot of things.
Speaker 5: Rob Reiner. I would love Rob Reiner if he didn't
Speaker 5: talk politics. Fascinating guy. Grew up in show business with
Speaker 5: his dad, Carl Reiner. Google it if you want to
Speaker 5: know it. I mean, like, but knows all the heavyweights
Speaker 5: of Hollywood of the last more than this, you know,
Speaker 5: half a century, and just knowledgeable, funny and everything like
Speaker 5: that about show business. But then whenever he talks politics,
Speaker 5: it's insufferable. Anyway, he was on there to promote spinal
Speaker 5: tap two, which is out soon. The it's the longest
Speaker 5: distance ever between a movie and a sequel, forty one years.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's been that long. But I didn't
Speaker 2: realize this. Maybe you already knew this.
Speaker 5: It was entirely ad libbed, not like they just used
Speaker 5: EdLib It was entire every word of the movie was adlibbed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was all improvs. That's crazy. Yeah, yeah, of.
Speaker 5: Course you have to have certain comedic geniuses to do it.
Speaker 1: Right, and you do multiple takes and you edit and yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Have you ever seen any of the clips that bounce
Speaker 5: around on Instagram of that sort of stuff? A lot
Speaker 5: of of a lot of them with Will Ferrell from
Speaker 5: from Anchorman. When they do it that way, they've got
Speaker 5: an idea and they just let a Will Ferrell or
Speaker 5: you know people like that, who are really funny and
Speaker 5: spontaneous riff and riff and riff and riff while their
Speaker 5: co stars stand there and try not to laugh, and
Speaker 5: they're so funny, I mean, just unbelievably well you can't
Speaker 5: stand it funny.
Speaker 2: And then they take the best clips and reactions. Yeah, wow, no,
Speaker 2: I don't recall.
Speaker 5: I'll send a couple to you that they are really
Speaker 5: really good are We can.
Speaker 2: Post them at armstrung and get Eat dot com. We
Speaker 2: could final thought Final here's your host for final thoughts,
Speaker 2: Joe Getty. Let's get a final thought from everybody on
Speaker 2: the crew. To wrap things up for the day.
Speaker 1: There is our technical director, Michael Angelo, presdent the buttons
Speaker 1: in the control room.
Speaker 2: Michael, what's your final thought?
Speaker 1: I can almost guarantee you tonight Jimmy kim will stand
Speaker 1: up there and start crying at some point, and who knows,
Speaker 1: maybe Stephen Colbert will come out on stage and give
Speaker 1: him a nice hug.
Speaker 2: That's gonna be a hard thing. Help to heal the nation? Michael?
Speaker 2: What with Trump? The new hitler in the White House.
Speaker 1: Katie Green is our esteemed newswoman. She has a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5: I have put together a Katie's Corner which is up
Speaker 5: at Armstrong Getty dot com.
Speaker 2: And there is a bear video in there just for you. Jack.
Speaker 2: I'm still traumatized. Did it destroy your kayak? Bear? Jack?
Speaker 2: Final thought for us? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I don't think Jimmy Kimmel is as smart as he
Speaker 5: thinks he is, or as he likes to portray himself.
Speaker 2: And he said something just dumb.
Speaker 5: It's just dumb, right, And and he's gonna go on
Speaker 5: tonight and just be so pompous and smug, and an
Speaker 5: audience is going to tear up cheering. I don't think
Speaker 5: the FCC should prush him off the air either, by
Speaker 5: the way, but it's gonna be hard to take.
Speaker 1: Well, you've stolen my final thought, whether it's Brendan Carr
Speaker 1: or Trump. And it's useful to rail against these people
Speaker 1: in the whole you know, populism culture, we're thing and
Speaker 1: I get that. But the marketplace, we'll do a fine
Speaker 1: job of saying for instances and Clara Nextstar have said,
Speaker 1: we don't want this jackass Hunter's TV stations and we're
Speaker 1: not gonna air him anymore.
Speaker 2: Let let private enterprise, Let the people deal with it.
Speaker 2: We don't need the government.
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday, so.
Speaker 1: Many people, thanks a little time go to Armstrong Yetty,
Speaker 1: Armstrong Eddy dot Com.
Speaker 5: See you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm strong and Juddy Show.
Speaker 5: Macron is standing there and he's arguing with the police,
Speaker 5: and apparently Trump.
Speaker 2: Just says you should walk.
Speaker 5: Yeah, tough, Croissance ma chrona, get walking. Maybe your dude
Speaker 5: wife can carry you.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh wait a minute, you're gonna get sued like canvas owns,
Speaker 1: you maniac.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and