Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jett and now he is Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2: So right before we go on, there is a promo
Speaker 2: that mentioned the Epstein Files. Right before we go on,
Speaker 2: there is a promo that's mentioned the Epstein Files. Was
Speaker 2: that designed to demoralize me for the entire week? Or
Speaker 2: was avoid back? Michael, you just you tried to put
Speaker 2: me on my heels to begin with?
Speaker 3: No, not at all.
Speaker 2: So the implication being that if one were to remain
Speaker 2: tuned into whatever station aired, that one would hear talk
Speaker 2: of the Epstein Files, that very promise, that tantalizing promise
Speaker 2: would keep them tuned in. Yeah, well not here maybe whatever,
Speaker 2: maybe whatever comes after us wherever you are live from
Speaker 2: Studio C season your a dimly lit room deep with them,
Speaker 2: the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Kicking
Speaker 2: off a brand new week, a brand new month. Pregnant possible.
Speaker 2: This will be the greatest month of your life. Yes, Sime,
Speaker 2: mister Wright, do you win the lottery? Right? That one? Yes?
Speaker 2: That one? Or nor could go the other way? Oh oh,
Speaker 2: not feeling so good, you go to the doctor Ebola.
Speaker 2: Oh no, that would explain all the bleeding. Anyway, today
Speaker 2: we're toiling under the title of the show what is
Speaker 2: the Wounded Bear Caucus or Happy June Everyone, which sounds
Speaker 2: lame and silly, But I myself was motivated a couple
Speaker 2: of times in recent hours, yesterday and today, thinking all right,
Speaker 2: it's June, for God's sake, let's get this done. And
Speaker 2: I actually got stuff done. Wow. Well, it's an accident
Speaker 2: of the calendar. They could announce the calendar changes and
Speaker 2: three days from now would be June first. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: For some reason, humans do that, Like you had a
Speaker 2: list of things you were supposed to do this year. No,
Speaker 2: just stuff I've been putting off. Okay, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is a mess I've been saying for weeks and weeks,
Speaker 2: And I thought, all right, it's June, so you know what,
Speaker 2: it's time to get to the door work. You can
Speaker 2: put whatever that was in a bottle and give it
Speaker 2: to me. I'd like it, because I got I got
Speaker 2: such a list of things to do, just just just
Speaker 2: towering over me. It just it's so oppressive. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm afraid it only comes around about as often as
Speaker 2: the Olympics for me, that that urged, But yeah, was
Speaker 2: striking that iron's hot. Like I got so much paperwork
Speaker 2: for both kids for enrolling for school next year that
Speaker 2: I just can't make myself do because it's just so much.
Speaker 2: First of all, you got all this information from last year.
Speaker 2: Why do we have to do this again? So I
Speaker 2: have that problem where I fight things as supposed to
Speaker 2: just do them because it's not like I can change
Speaker 2: the world. But why don't we have to go through
Speaker 2: this every single time? How much? You just asked me
Speaker 2: if all that information I gave you last year is
Speaker 2: still correct like they do at the doctor's office, you know,
Speaker 2: well yeah sometimes, But you know what, it'd be interesting.
Speaker 2: I've thought about this before with uh, with whether my
Speaker 2: son going on a boy Scott trip, because I got
Speaker 2: tons of paperwork there once again we filled out these
Speaker 2: medical forms like fifty times. Why do I have to
Speaker 2: fill it out again? But I'd like to go back
Speaker 2: in time. This would be a waste of a time machine.
Speaker 2: I mean, you get a time machine, this would be
Speaker 2: a dumb thing to do with it. But I'd like
Speaker 2: to see how much paperwork, how much paperwork was there
Speaker 2: for my mom to enroll me in high school. I'm
Speaker 2: guessing little, maybe nothing. It's quite possible. Nothing other than names,
Speaker 2: phone number I might have just shown up. Wow, wow,
Speaker 2: who are you all right? Jot that down, let's start learning. Well,
Speaker 2: I remember, well, right, I remember permission slips. They're like
Speaker 2: half sheet of paper. Was the date, your name, your parents' name,
Speaker 2: and a signature, and that was it. Yeah, and those
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, we're few and far between. But
Speaker 2: now it's all, oh my god, the well every parent
Speaker 2: knows it. Just every It's like you're applying for a
Speaker 2: passport or something like that. Any who, speaking of it's
Speaker 2: a new month, maybe this is as good a place
Speaker 2: to start as any, just for the mood of the country.
Speaker 2: In the first quarter of this year, the percentage of
Speaker 2: credit card balances that were at least ninety days delinquent
Speaker 2: ROAs to over thirteen percent. That's the highest level in
Speaker 2: fifteen years. The most sensed the two thousand and eight
Speaker 2: financial crisis. Wow, and those were some unsettled days, those
Speaker 2: were some real was the biggest, one of the biggest
Speaker 2: financial crisis is probably the second biggest in our nation's history,
Speaker 2: and it's that bad for people that are ninety days
Speaker 2: delinquent on their credit cards. The Wall Street Journal headline
Speaker 2: was Americans are falling behind on their one point twenty
Speaker 2: five trillion dollar credit card saw that car Loans are
Speaker 2: in pretty bad shape too. I don't remember if they
Speaker 2: got into that in that same article, but yeah, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of financial squeezings going on. Yeah, those chickens
Speaker 2: will come home to roost at some point. Right, consumer
Speaker 2: spending is kept up pretty well, but at some point
Speaker 2: when your credit cards maxed out, I suppose people will
Speaker 2: stop after Yeah, which brings us back to the whole
Speaker 2: concept of a K shaped economy where a lot of
Speaker 2: people are cutting back a lot about the upper crust
Speaker 2: twenty percent or whatever spending like mad. It's hard to
Speaker 2: know how true that is, but there's got to be
Speaker 2: some element of truth. Yeah, Yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: just I use my own eyeballs. When there are no
Speaker 2: cars in line at the Starbucks, when the airports aren't full,
Speaker 2: when restaurants aren't full, then I will think, yeah, things
Speaker 2: have changed. But I don't know. Maybe that's the credit
Speaker 2: card thing. Any who. I feel like there's a lot
Speaker 2: of that stuff could come to a head this summer.
Speaker 2: The financial stuff where people drastically change their lives. Is
Speaker 2: that having a conversation with yesterday somebody who certainly middle
Speaker 2: class at worse, talking about things are so expensive every
Speaker 2: single thing I buy, I thought, prankly, this is somebody
Speaker 2: who doesn't really follow politics. Good for them, probably much
Speaker 2: happier than anybody else. I thought things were supposed to
Speaker 2: go go down when Trump became president. It seems like
Speaker 2: they've gone up. Well, it's because statistically they have gone up.
Speaker 2: Inflation's up the most in a while, also in three years.
Speaker 2: But so yeah, that's that's not your imagination either. If
Speaker 2: your grocery bill, I don't know what I ordered the
Speaker 2: other day, groceries or whatever, I is door dashing some
Speaker 2: groceries in in a panic, and it's like one hundred
Speaker 2: and five bucks for fourth things like, how is this
Speaker 2: even possible? Sure? Talking to a couple just last night,
Speaker 2: fairly comfortable financially went out for pizza and two soft drinks,
Speaker 2: a little tip for the waitress in there over fifty bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah oh yeah, yeah absolutely, And then uh oh, inflation
Speaker 2: is a tax and the theft fight it, fight it,
Speaker 2: fight it. How Joe, I'll explain later. Stay with us
Speaker 2: if you didn't hear this. We really like this Babylon
Speaker 2: Bee headline from last week. This is on the story
Speaker 2: that young people it's mostly young people that eat out
Speaker 2: and door dash, which is the most expensive way to eat,
Speaker 2: and young people are the poorest. But the Babylon Bee
Speaker 2: joke was the generation that put US thirty eight trillion
Speaker 2: dollars in debt. Very unhappy with the way young people
Speaker 2: spend money. Yeah, fair, fair criticism, Pretty good, it's pretty good. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we can check in on a couple of different wars
Speaker 2: for you. We obviously need to talk about the full job.
Speaker 2: Buck Biden interview came out yesterday, which was just a
Speaker 2: nothing burger of nothing burgers, which it shouldn't be. It
Speaker 2: shouldn't be. A nothing burger is one of the most disturbing,
Speaker 2: slash interesting things that's happened in our nation's history in
Speaker 2: terms of the White House, but the interviewer turned it
Speaker 2: into a nothing burger by not following up on any
Speaker 2: of the important things. More on that in moments. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 2: do we have a bear sound do? How hard will
Speaker 2: that be to come up with grizzly white brown and
Speaker 2: any bears, fine, white, polar you mean yes or no,
Speaker 2: mich I got it. This is the closest I can
Speaker 2: get to right now, sus. We need to talk about
Speaker 2: the Wounded Bear caucus. That's clearly a lion. That is
Speaker 2: clearly a lion. You are the audience. China doesn't pass
Speaker 2: it off you fair enough. Well, let's start to show officially,
Speaker 2: because this will lead us into the conversation. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, June. First,
Speaker 2: the rent is due. The rent it's too damn really is,
Speaker 2: and so is everything else, including gas and diesel. The
Speaker 2: year twenty twenty six, warm Strong and getting we approve
Speaker 2: of this program. Okay, let's leap into action. Then for
Speaker 2: the weeks, the months, the year whatever, officially according to the
Speaker 2: FCC rules, the rags here, we go at.
Speaker 1: Mark and we left the stage area, and what people
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: He had two events after that and he was fine.
Speaker 3: I mean, he was fine. It was inexplicable.
Speaker 1: But what if that had happened during a meeting with foreign.
Speaker 2: Leaders or something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to answer that.
Speaker 2: Okay, I would like to characterize that entire debacle. CBS
Speaker 2: Sunday Morning read a Braver interviewing doctor Jill Biden as
Speaker 2: one old broad who, if she ever had a prime
Speaker 2: it's far behind her interviewing another old broad who's a liar, delusional,
Speaker 2: or more likely both oof. So I took some notes.
Speaker 2: This was during the first half of the interview that
Speaker 2: aired on CBS. That's doctor Jill Biden. I heard some
Speaker 2: podcasters going through her whole doctor what that means? She
Speaker 2: doesn't even have a normal PhD. Which you know, that's
Speaker 2: a that's a fudgy line for a lot of people.
Speaker 2: Whether you need to call that sort of person a
Speaker 2: doctor or not. You got a p HD in nature
Speaker 2: of history? Do I need to call you doctor? Any
Speaker 2: Her doctor isn't even as good as that, but AnyWho.
Speaker 2: Aside from that, So I took some notes during the
Speaker 2: first half of the interview when she first the interviewer
Speaker 2: first asked doctor Joe Biden, and it took a long
Speaker 2: time to get to this. So you're sitting down with
Speaker 2: the person that has the greatest insight into one of
Speaker 2: the biggest debacles in US presidential history, and you have
Speaker 2: all kinds of conversations about different things before you get
Speaker 2: around to the only topic anybody cares about. Did you
Speaker 2: ever see your husband and mental decline? Very now? Then
Speaker 2: a very soft follow up, and immediately onto how awful,
Speaker 2: what's it like to watch them tear down the East
Speaker 2: Wing after you spent so much time there? Wow? A
Speaker 2: quick sideline into January sixth and how awful that was
Speaker 2: when the Trump supporters were storming the capitol, and then
Speaker 2: into how doctor Jill Biden kept working as a teacher.
Speaker 2: You're at a local college, even his first lady.
Speaker 4: They just they just moved on to that sort of
Speaker 4: softball stuff after that summer that we all went through
Speaker 4: that was just such turmoil with the presidents and everybody.
Speaker 2: In the country knows he's losing his mind. He's got
Speaker 2: to step down. How work blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: You ask one softball question, you pivot and the next thing,
Speaker 2: what's it like to watch the East Wing torn down? Oh?
Speaker 2: That is embarrassing. That is embarrassing. What kind of country
Speaker 2: are we? What kind of journalism do we have? It's
Speaker 2: just embarrassing. What show Welcome to two old ladies exchanging pleasantries.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's all it is. It's nothing. It's a
Speaker 2: nothing burger. Well, that's not the last interview Jill Biden's doing.
Speaker 2: She's doing Morning Joe tomorrow. Whether anybody on Morning joke,
Speaker 2: because I've seen a lot of fairly high level Democrats,
Speaker 2: like the the the pod casters I pod Save America. Yeah,
Speaker 2: those guys who are part of the whole Obama world.
Speaker 2: They're just besides themselves with disgust about this coming out
Speaker 2: and treating it like this, in the way the media
Speaker 2: is handling it, and how it's damaging the Democratic Party's
Speaker 2: brand to pretend that this is real. So I just
Speaker 2: wonder where's Joe Scarborough take it tomorrow on Morning Joe.
Speaker 2: I really could see Joe Scarborough hit it pretty hard
Speaker 2: because he's a bootlicking insider. But the Bidens are Yesterday's news. Please,
Speaker 2: They're worse than that. They're that to you know, that
Speaker 2: leftover that's been in your fridge for like a week
Speaker 2: and a half and you keep meaning to get rid
Speaker 2: of it, but you haven't yet. The Biden family is
Speaker 2: dead to democratic politics, and Joe god bless him, used
Speaker 2: to be something like a truth teller. I think he
Speaker 2: still wants to cling to a little bit of that,
Speaker 2: so I got it. I'm a little optimistic. We'll see
Speaker 2: if she's going to do a bunch of interviews. I
Speaker 2: would think at some point somebody's gonna really hit her
Speaker 2: with hard questions. We will see. We'll have any highlights
Speaker 2: when they ever come about. But that was embarrassing. All right,
Speaker 2: we've got headlines on the way. Stay here, Army Strawn
Speaker 2: and Yettie. Do you remember this is a horrifying story,
Speaker 2: but it turns out it's not true, so you don't
Speaker 2: have to be horrified because it never actually happened. Do
Speaker 2: you remember the mass grave near a Catholic school in
Speaker 2: Canada's story that became such a thing five years ago?
Speaker 2: Now completely made up, So we'll talk about that later. Yeah,
Speaker 2: completely made up on the flimsiest evidence you could possibly imagine,
Speaker 2: and the media just ran with it as clearly true.
Speaker 2: But we'll talk about that later. All right, let's figure
Speaker 2: out who's talking about what it's the lead story with
Speaker 2: Heather Myers. Heather, what's happening?
Speaker 1: Happy Monday, first day of June, Joe Jack, Good morning.
Speaker 1: Let's find out how the networks are covering the news,
Speaker 1: Starting with NBC News US and Iran trade strikes amid
Speaker 1: talks to end war from Fox News, US military attacks
Speaker 1: Iran and self defense strikes over the weekend, and from
Speaker 1: NPR US bombs Iranian military sites in Kuwait is hit
Speaker 1: by drone and missile fire.
Speaker 2: So, Joe, what's your opinion on this whole kind of ceasefires?
Speaker 2: This is not a ceasefire, is it. That's kind of
Speaker 2: likening it too. As long as you're both saying I
Speaker 2: love you in the midst of your fight before you
Speaker 2: go to bed, you know things are still okay. So
Speaker 2: when one of you stops saying I love you, that
Speaker 2: you've got a real problem. Both sides are saying it's
Speaker 2: a ceasefire. But what if one of the sides in
Speaker 2: your charming and heartwarming illustration has a history of constantly
Speaker 2: telling the others, somebody of the other sex that they
Speaker 2: love them just to get stuff out of them. I
Speaker 2: don't know, and will only bow to being bombed, not
Speaker 2: in the marital context, in the geopolitics. Don't bomb your spouse.
Speaker 2: No drones, no ICBMs, none of it. I'm confused by
Speaker 2: my own metaphor. Now back to you.
Speaker 1: From NBCLA. But Sarah Steier lead in New California governor's
Speaker 1: race pull Hilton now in close third place.
Speaker 2: WHOA what poll is.
Speaker 3: That that is from? That might be the Emerson poll that.
Speaker 2: Must have come out this morning. To talk more about
Speaker 2: that later. Oh my god, Well that's what I was
Speaker 2: talking about on Friday, though directionally the polling was screaming
Speaker 2: that direction because well, we'll talk more about it later.
Speaker 2: But dang it. If it ends up being one Democrat
Speaker 2: and one crazy old billionaire, that's quite a choice. So
Speaker 2: ia hoo.
Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt leads Karen Dass and LA Mayor's race. That's
Speaker 1: from MC California post poll better News. Yeah, yeah, parent
Speaker 1: box news ballants in La found BYRN voting center vandalized.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's a great ad that Spencer Pratt put out
Speaker 2: one of the voting drop boxes where his ad was
Speaker 2: basically Karen Bass keats writing ads for me. One of
Speaker 2: the drop off your ballot places. There were homeless people
Speaker 2: around it. You'd have had to step over the homeless
Speaker 2: people sleeping next to the ballot bank to stick your ballot.
Speaker 3: Wow from Breitbart.
Speaker 1: Outrage mounds after trans athlete ab Hernandez wins Californian girls
Speaker 1: track championship.
Speaker 2: We're going big on that later. Well done, sir, well done.
Speaker 2: Beat those girls down, show them Moo's.
Speaker 1: Boss from Katila this morning, Google wants to release up
Speaker 1: to thirty two million good mosquitos in California and Florida.
Speaker 2: Interesting. Need to know more about that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, people are saying Google, I thought.
Speaker 1: And finally from the Babylon Being Newsome designates California sanctuary
Speaker 1: state for Frond.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. As you can see, there
Speaker 2: are a bunch of stories there we need to touch on,
Speaker 2: including those new polls that came out that I haven't
Speaker 2: even seen yet because they're voting tomorrow in California, among
Speaker 2: other things. On the way, I hope you can stay.
Speaker 3: Here, Armstrong and Geddy.
Speaker 2: An interview, Madonna said that John Kennedy Junior was the
Speaker 2: best sex of her wife. What about us? Said the
Speaker 2: Detroit Pistons. My god, no boy, wow, that's uh. But
Speaker 2: people who do these tell all books or interviews or
Speaker 2: whatever and start talking about people they had sex with
Speaker 2: decades ago, What the hell is that? Have some dignity?
Speaker 2: Good lord, Hey, I'm broke. I gotta sell books. I
Speaker 2: gotta throw some sex in there or whatever. No, So
Speaker 2: there are two big races in California and uh in
Speaker 2: terms of national attention, the one that seems to be
Speaker 2: most interesting to people is the LA mayor race because
Speaker 2: he got the Trump He's not Trump uh uh in
Speaker 2: terms of his politics, but he's a trumpy style uh. Anyway.
Speaker 2: He's also got the former reality star thing too, like
Speaker 2: Trump had. I don't know that that's his biggest similarities
Speaker 2: people make it out to be. But Spencer Pratt, this
Speaker 2: guy running his Republican in LA and he's doing really well,
Speaker 2: and it really looks like that race is gonna so
Speaker 2: tomorrow that you do, you pick the top two and
Speaker 2: then those people run against it. It's going to be
Speaker 2: the sitting mayor, Karen Bass against Spencer Pratt, the up
Speaker 2: and comer, and there'll be a lot to talk about
Speaker 2: in that race leading up to the actual election. That
Speaker 2: one's almost dialed in. It seems to me, based on
Speaker 2: the polling. The governor's race, our man Steve Hilton, who
Speaker 2: was leading in the polling for a very long time.
Speaker 2: We've had Steve on a bunch of times, and he
Speaker 2: used to have a show on Fox, and we used
Speaker 2: to have him on every single week and he's got
Speaker 2: a beard now, and there's just so much going on.
Speaker 2: He's a Republican. He has fallen in the polls a
Speaker 2: little bit. Well, actually he's gone up a little, but
Speaker 2: not up near as much as Tom Steyer, the billionaire,
Speaker 2: and Javier Bessera, the former HHS secretary over Biden. And
Speaker 2: you didn't even know that because he was a non
Speaker 2: entity during the pandemic. And even people in the Biden
Speaker 2: administration say he's going to be the governor in California.
Speaker 2: He's an embarrassment. He's a do nothing hack. Anyway, he
Speaker 2: came out with something late yesterday that I really really like.
Speaker 2: You need Chevron. I need Chevron talking about the gas
Speaker 2: company that's wanting to move out of California, and the
Speaker 2: current sitting governor has been beating him up all the
Speaker 2: time because he says he's not on board with the
Speaker 2: California transitioning to Electric Vehicles mandate that Gavinism has been
Speaker 2: behind and the whole Democratic Party's been pushing and he's
Speaker 2: not on that, which, you know, the noises of politician makes.
Speaker 2: How much that reflects what they believe, I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I like him at least saying these things California,
Speaker 2: because currently in California they're going to ban new gas
Speaker 2: vehicles starting in twenty thirty five, which is hilarious, and hybrids,
Speaker 2: which is hilarious. Right. Well, we said when that was
Speaker 2: first announced, that's idiotic and it'll never happen, which was
Speaker 2: true then and is now. Yeah, that was a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago. Now that we're getting closer, it's just
Speaker 2: it's just ridiculous. They've already banned. By the way, you
Speaker 2: can't go out and buy a new mower or all
Speaker 2: kinds of different stuff that runs on gas. That's so maddening. Anyway,
Speaker 2: Bsera said California should transition from gas powered vehicles when
Speaker 2: it makes sense, when infrastructure and affordability are there for
Speaker 2: California families. That is a He told Politico that that's
Speaker 2: a very reasonable thing to say. He later elaborated in
Speaker 2: the interview, explaining that California's move away from fossil fuels
Speaker 2: hinges on unpredictable factors like federal backing, automaker collaboration, the
Speaker 2: state's financial health. We are not going to live in
Speaker 2: a world that's make believe. If you could tell me
Speaker 2: where things are, I could give you a much more
Speaker 2: precise answer, and if anyone says they can give you
Speaker 2: that answer, then they're just making a lot of inflated promises.
Speaker 4: That's a good thing.
Speaker 2: That's a that's a good thing for him to say that,
Speaker 2: that's the truth. So I could admit he's still a
Speaker 2: hack and a you know, a lackey for the unions,
Speaker 2: but at least he's of a somewhat more realistic bent
Speaker 2: than Gavey and his ilk. Maybe, well, at least the
Speaker 2: California Post is quoting a whole bunch of unions and
Speaker 2: power brokers in California that really hate him saying that,
Speaker 2: and he did, you know that was a gutsy thing
Speaker 2: to come out and say that he's trying to win
Speaker 2: the governor's race, and that gives him a better shot
Speaker 2: among people that think our party has gone way too
Speaker 2: crazy Democrats. If I were to be cynical, and I am,
Speaker 2: I would say the recent polls indicate he's clearly in
Speaker 2: the runoff. He's the leading Democrat that's supports colesd around him,
Speaker 2: So he's already tacking to the center to win the general. Gotcha,
Speaker 2: He is definitely in the runoff. So it's going to
Speaker 2: be him either against Hilton or Stire and I think
Speaker 2: the direction the polling is going, it's unfortunately going to
Speaker 2: be the billionaire nut job against Savier Bisera, which is
Speaker 2: very disappointing. Yeah, dang it, Chad Bianco has to drop out,
Speaker 2: I mean, like a week ago and tell everybody supporting
Speaker 2: him you got a vote for Steve Hilton. Hilton did
Speaker 2: a bunch of interviews over the weekend, saying that, of course,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised that some of the other Democrats haven't gotten
Speaker 2: out to make it easier for the Democrat to win,
Speaker 2: Like you know, Katie Porter ain't going anywhere, but you know,
Speaker 2: out there to make some man miserable somewhere right right,
Speaker 2: Earl Potatoes and or other side dishes at him. Ah. Right.
Speaker 2: But politics, now, as we've discussed many times, it's not
Speaker 2: it doesn't sit in people's minds and hearts the way
Speaker 2: it used to. It is who you are. And so
Speaker 2: people who have declared themselves Bianco people, with all due respect,
Speaker 2: I liked a lot of things he said. They can't
Speaker 2: change who they are as opposed to just you know,
Speaker 2: he seems like the better candidate. Oh, he can't win
Speaker 2: there's like no chance. All right, well, this guy's certainly
Speaker 2: the next best choice. I'm going with him. No, it's
Speaker 2: like uprooting yourself. It's like a divorce or or to
Speaker 2: change religion or something like that. It goes down to
Speaker 2: your soul. Politics is not supposed to be that. How's
Speaker 2: around some people yesterday because we're voting, well, California is
Speaker 2: voting tomorrow, and a bunch of different things. But then
Speaker 2: in the I live in, there's the number of different
Speaker 2: things A vote non man there on. Some people, Yes,
Speaker 2: they are so passionate about all this, and I suppose
Speaker 2: that's ultimately good. It's just I've never lived that way
Speaker 2: where I was that passionate about politics at all, let
Speaker 2: alone your June nobody's paying any attention sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, just just so into this, so many signs,
Speaker 2: so involved and everything like that. And I realize that
Speaker 2: we've been complaining, lots of people have been complaining for
Speaker 2: years that we need to get more active in politics,
Speaker 2: but we did it wrong somehow, somehow the passion is
Speaker 2: not exactly right. Right. Yeah, Yeah, that's actually kind of
Speaker 2: what I was thinking. It's great to be passionate and involved,
Speaker 2: but it depends where that energy is directed toward what
Speaker 2: things and in what way. I mean, if your passion
Speaker 2: is I think all people should have freedom of speech, okay, great.
Speaker 2: If your passion is that this guy has to get
Speaker 2: elected and if it turns out he's not the guy
Speaker 2: or gal, then I'm just turning bitter and angry and
Speaker 2: turning off the process and blah blah blah like a
Speaker 2: religious fanatic. Oh no, that's not good. I was thinking
Speaker 2: more in terms of the whole. The passion is, My
Speaker 2: entire life's identity is being involved in this. Oh, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It is very weird. It's very weird. And I'm too
Speaker 2: old to join in that crowd. And it seems to
Speaker 2: be mostly lefty young women. Is where the a lot
Speaker 2: of the passion is coming from. But we'll see how
Speaker 2: the voting turns out tomorrow and we'll have all the
Speaker 2: fallout for you. Then a touching moment, a touching your
Speaker 2: word message from our friends at rough Greens. The day
Speaker 2: you brought your pop home, you made a silent promise
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Speaker 2: Thing podcast in which I just screamed curse words for
Speaker 2: several minutes about how much I hate paperwork, in particular
Speaker 2: to paper. We still call it paperwork, even though most
Speaker 2: of it's done online, and that's where a lot of
Speaker 2: the rub comes, and the websites don't always work the
Speaker 2: way they're supposed to work when you're doing papork, Do
Speaker 2: not recognize that sign on or password? I just filled
Speaker 2: it out twenty seconds ago. What do you mean? Or
Speaker 2: you fill out all the crap and then it says
Speaker 2: can't process at this time. Try again later. Oh does
Speaker 2: that mean I got to type in all this crap
Speaker 2: again later? Yeah? I wrote an impassioned email to company management,
Speaker 2: to various corporate partners in our advertisers, decrying your obscene rant,
Speaker 2: your unhinged, angry rant. It was terrible. We got a
Speaker 2: lot of great emails about it, though that were oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: well me was door or harten that somebody was saying
Speaker 2: it out loud. It was one hundred percent from the heart. No,
Speaker 2: that was not unexploded your heart. That was not an
Speaker 2: act in any way. That was that was a glimpse
Speaker 2: at me in my I'll call it. My office doesn't
Speaker 2: look much like an office at home. And when I'm
Speaker 2: trying to do anything and websites don't work, I lose
Speaker 2: my freaking mind. It makes me insane, and I can't
Speaker 2: believe AI is going to take over the world and
Speaker 2: we're still there with trying to do stuff online. How
Speaker 2: long before that gets figured out? Especially because I think
Speaker 2: his companies become more and they're engineers who know how
Speaker 2: this stuff works and can manipulate it unlike normal people.
Speaker 2: As they become more and more confident that this is
Speaker 2: the way to go, the opportunity to reach out to
Speaker 2: a real human being will become less and less, So
Speaker 2: your only choice will be AI, phone Tree nightmare. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it practically is already anyway. So we'll get to mail
Speaker 2: bag on the way. We've got a lot of stories
Speaker 2: today that are that are pretty good. We haven't touched
Speaker 2: on Iran. There's a deal that came to Trump and
Speaker 2: he has is tinkered with it a little bit and
Speaker 2: now he's sent it back and we can get into
Speaker 2: that maybe an hour or two. Stay here six two
Speaker 2: and thirty eight pounds according to the physical Donald Trump
Speaker 2: took last week. We can get into some more of
Speaker 2: the details, and to the health of our leader and
Speaker 2: the kind of ridiculous pageantry that we go through around
Speaker 2: that whole thing, and why doctors are calling foul on
Speaker 2: the non release of some of the info that could
Speaker 2: be something. Who cares. There's your freedom loving quote of
Speaker 2: the day. You might agree with this, you might disagree
Speaker 2: with this. You might like the guy who said it,
Speaker 2: You might not, But I thought it was a really
Speaker 2: good description. Populism is progressivism in disguise. The problem with
Speaker 2: populism goes beyond policy blunders. It would replace our faith
Speaker 2: in limited government and traditional values with an agenda stitched
Speaker 2: together by opinion polls, personal grievances, and performative outrage. Populists
Speaker 2: follow urges, not principles. They would erode our commitment to
Speaker 2: the Constitution and abandon US leadership in the world. Mike
Speaker 2: Pence wrote that he was talking about Republicans need to
Speaker 2: make a choice between principles and populism. Huh. The other
Speaker 2: thing is populists seem to be particularly easily swayed by
Speaker 2: charismatic leaders. Yes, so you could, you know, you just
Speaker 2: you go with whoever is like the coolest or most
Speaker 2: entertaining or whatever at any given point or best evokes
Speaker 2: your outrage and grievances, and that sort of thing, which
Speaker 2: is not to say, reflecting the outrages and grievances of
Speaker 2: the electorate is a bad thing. Necessarily. You just have to,
Speaker 2: you know, you gotta understand the gray area of you know,
Speaker 2: what's sincere policy prescriptions and what's just whipping people up.
Speaker 2: Does populism ever, not latch onto a single individual, because
Speaker 2: it seems like it always does, and then it becomes
Speaker 2: a cult of personality thing. Yeah, to some extent. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: mail Bag, feel free to correspond. Mail Bag at armstrong
Speaker 2: and getdy dot com is the email address. H Eric
Speaker 2: from a story of Oregon writes, with regard to your
Speaker 2: recent theme of optimism, I'm reminded of this sardonic chess,
Speaker 2: not probably of Jewish Russian tradition. Pessimists says, it can't
Speaker 2: get any worse. The optimist says, oh yes it can.
Speaker 2: Laheim from Eric in Astoria, thank you, my good friend.
Speaker 2: Let's see this is from uh Anna in Sunny la
Speaker 2: mesa guys words matters talking to the media not us.
Speaker 2: Last week it was that the media and politicians need
Speaker 2: to stop using the term teen takeovers. They're riots this week.
Speaker 2: It's that they must stop calling the stuff going on
Speaker 2: in Newark, New Jersey, demonstrations and protests they're riots. And
Speaker 2: a great many people there aren't concerned protesters. They are
Speaker 2: well funded Marxist rioters. Wake up people, boy, so true.
Speaker 2: The language people are so good, that's obviously true. Whoever
Speaker 2: first decided, no, no, no, let's not call it a riot.
Speaker 2: Let's call it a teen takeover. And people are just riots,
Speaker 2: like a separate phenomenon, not like a mob crime spree.
Speaker 2: Let's call it a teen takeover. That sounds like they're
Speaker 2: going to have a sockhop down at city Hall. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: so dishonest. Here's here's Anita Jack Joe. The US will
Speaker 2: be two hundred and fifty years old is July fourth.
Speaker 2: The concert farce. That's the the whole two hundred and
Speaker 2: fiftieth birthday and the competing organizations and the Trump sponsored
Speaker 2: concerts and the musicians quitting and Trump announcing I will
Speaker 2: be the headliner. We'll talk about that a little more later,
Speaker 2: but do we have time? Know? I know, But Anita writes,
Speaker 2: the concert farce, with all the has been artists walking
Speaker 2: away seems to have turned into some sort of presidential
Speaker 2: pep rally. Like it or not, Democrats are Americans too.
Speaker 2: People who do not support the president who are actual
Speaker 2: citizens are Americans too. It would be a travesty to
Speaker 2: turn July fourth, twenty twenty six into a partisan pep
Speaker 2: rally for President Trump and his ambitions or the opposite, honestly,
Speaker 2: and I think Trump fans, big Trump fans, would respond well.
Speaker 2: The other side was to turn it into some sort
Speaker 2: of anti Trump rally. Sure, Oh, for God's sake, I'll
Speaker 2: bet you, father, he tried our best. I'll about you
Speaker 2: a shiny new two hundred and fifty dollars Trump bill
Speaker 2: that whatever happens is going to be hard to take.
Speaker 2: Oh boy. Here's a note from Joe and Honduras commenting
Speaker 2: on cal Unicornia. Guys, I'm happy to report that my
Speaker 2: father received his mail in California ballot for Tuesday's election.
Speaker 2: The problem my father left California in twenty oh five
Speaker 2: and became a resident of South Dakota. All of his
Speaker 2: official documentation was changed to reflect that move. Driver's licensed
Speaker 2: vehicle registration, voter registration, et cetera. My brother bought my
Speaker 2: father's house, so I know he continues to get ballots
Speaker 2: at his previous California address. By the way, my father
Speaker 2: passed away in twenty fifteen, so it's even worse, and
Speaker 2: every government agency was informed informed of his death. But
Speaker 2: to this day, California continues to send a mail in
Speaker 2: ballots for every election. But I'm sure no one is
Speaker 2: taking advantage of all those ballots similar to my father's.
Speaker 2: Then he mentions, having moved to Honduras in retirement, the
Speaker 2: political system here doesn't seem as corrupt as what I
Speaker 2: see in my former state of California. Keep fighting a
Speaker 2: good fight and keep enjoying the sunsets and drinking whatever
Speaker 2: you'd drink there in hontd'rs some unholy mix of sugar
Speaker 2: and medical coal or so. I don't know. Rum terrible,
Speaker 2: let's see, speaking of cal UNICORNI of voting. This is
Speaker 2: from Scott. I'm unable to vote in person, so I
Speaker 2: went to drop off my ballot at the voting box
Speaker 2: in pleasant Hill, California's city hall. I had to wade
Speaker 2: through and suffer about two hundred old loud protesters surrounding
Speaker 2: the area, some within ten feet of the box. They're
Speaker 2: blowing whistles, shouting through bullhorns, tote and signs, screaming anti
Speaker 2: Trump stuff in me and anybody who came close. Hard
Speaker 2: to believe this is the United States, Well it barely is.
Speaker 2: Let's see, on a different fare, the topic of Iran,
Speaker 2: which we'll be getting into, as there was an exchange
Speaker 2: of fire over the weekend, some fairly significant attacks going
Speaker 2: both ways. As the ceasefire barely hangs on in the
Speaker 2: negotiations allegedly continue. It is a just as JT in Livermore,
Speaker 2: it's a logical fallacy to think that a deal can
Speaker 2: be achieved with Iran without regime change. It's the same
Speaker 2: logical fallacy underpinning the thinking that economic sanctions alone can
Speaker 2: bring Iran to an honest bargaining table. In both cases,
Speaker 2: the problem is that the terrorists in Iran aka the
Speaker 2: Mullas and ir GC have all the guns, which means
Speaker 2: that any money food riches that do exist will go
Speaker 2: to them first. Well, yeah, absolutely, as we've said, and
Speaker 2: he echoes anybody old machine gun, forty two thousand of
Speaker 2: their own citizens in the streets, doesn't care if bread's
Speaker 2: a little expensive. Excellent point. David Sanger in The New
Speaker 2: York Times had a pretty good paragraph about where we are.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that an hour or two. He concludes
Speaker 2: only regime change can ensure a true end to the
Speaker 2: nuclear ambitions and terris leanings of the current Iranian leadership. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would agree with Jay too. Read some great analysis
Speaker 2: by a bloke who said, look, there are three things
Speaker 2: that need to be one hundred percent certain if this
Speaker 2: agreement holds any water whatsoever. Number One, you don't get
Speaker 2: rewarded for engaging in the diplomatic process Iran. You get
Speaker 2: rewarded if you do stuff. Okay, we've entered into negotiation,
Speaker 2: so have freed up some oil revenue. No second, has
Speaker 2: Bullah and Lebanon got nothing to do with what we're
Speaker 2: talking about. Don't try to rope your proxies in to this. No,
Speaker 2: you don't get a proxy network anymore, or we're going
Speaker 2: to pound the crap out of you. We can get
Speaker 2: to point number three next hour, but those are the
Speaker 2: two biggins. President Zelenski says, Putin's about to try to
Speaker 2: pound the crap out of Ukraine, including decapitation strikes and
Speaker 2: that sort of stuff. Like one of the biggest pushes ever,
Speaker 2: that's what he's warning the United States about. Maybe we'll
Speaker 2: talk about that later too, if he means missiles. Yeah,
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