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 Jettie and he arm get breaking news. Speaker
Speaker 2: Johnson says, the full bill may go to the or
Speaker 2: the bill may go to the full House for a vote. Tonight.
Speaker 2: There you go, come on, Chrissy edwork. I was just
Speaker 2: reading print media that said maybe this weekend that shows
Speaker 2: you why print media is dead. Oh, tonight live from
Speaker 2: Studio C.
Speaker 1: You see signor then it goes to the Senate where
Speaker 1: they come up with something completely different than the real
Speaker 1: work begins.
Speaker 2: Anyway. Hello, a dim room deep within the bowels of
Speaker 2: the Armstrong in Getty Communications compound. And today we're under
Speaker 2: the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: To heck with politics. I say, to heck with the
Speaker 1: our general manager. Today, the Great George went norm from Cheers,
Speaker 1: a sitcom that went off the air thirty two years ago.
Speaker 1: It was a better simpler time. The eighties, Yes, were
Speaker 1: a better simpler time they were. Do you think they
Speaker 1: actually were?
Speaker 2: Yes? I do? Yeah.
Speaker 1: How about the ninety anyways? Sociologically nineties pretty solid.
Speaker 2: When did it when? When did it stop? Being a better,
Speaker 2: simpler time. That'd be my question.
Speaker 1: The twin happenings of the rise of the smartphone, which
Speaker 1: has been both a blessing indocurse about two thousand seven
Speaker 1: for that, and the rise of critical theory slash DEI
Speaker 1: in our nation's education systems, which I think really it
Speaker 1: was under cover so you didn't know it, but it
Speaker 1: was really i'd say two thousand on really gain esteem.
Speaker 2: And then they start putting skirts on the quarterbacks. Couldn't
Speaker 2: touch emxactly exactly that too, that's a good point. We
Speaker 2: used to have men in this country. Yeah, man, like
Speaker 2: George went of cheers, uh and then yeah, I don't
Speaker 2: want to talk about this either. It's just I'm so
Speaker 2: bothered by it. So that well, overnight they claim anyway
Speaker 2: that the salt deduction thing is going to happen. Now,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, it's going to be big. And the number
Speaker 2: now yeah, with with another caveat that makes it even higher,
Speaker 2: which is just insane.
Speaker 1: Absolutely so, you're insane spending blue states. The poor denizens
Speaker 1: of those states will have giant tax deductions because they're
Speaker 1: being soaked by their blue state.
Speaker 2: What could be less conservative than red states paying the
Speaker 2: taxes of blue states. I know it's obscene. So this
Speaker 2: congress person from New York, and you can't blame him.
Speaker 2: He's representing his people. I don't think he can blame him.
Speaker 1: No, he's got to be seen trying. Because people vote
Speaker 1: their self interests. They shouldn't if they're patriots, but they do.
Speaker 2: That's about him. I might change my mind in that
Speaker 2: because like, it's my self interest to have the salt
Speaker 2: deduction would save me quite a bit of money, right,
Speaker 2: like put more money in my kids pockets. But it's
Speaker 2: just so horrible. I can't. I can't. There's no way.
Speaker 2: If I was king, I would not allow it to
Speaker 2: happen anyway. This representative from New York said, New York
Speaker 2: is the highest tax burden of any state in the country.
Speaker 2: We need to raise the cap on salt to deliver
Speaker 2: relief for middle class families to my ass in which
Speaker 2: many people replied some version of why is that my fault?
Speaker 2: Or why do I have to pick up the tab please?
Speaker 2: Or this if only were there some other way for
Speaker 2: New York to lower their tax burden, as in, lower
Speaker 2: your own tax if you get too often.
Speaker 1: It's sarcasm right there, Yeah, it is so crazy, it's repugnant.
Speaker 1: It's a betrayal of everything the Republican Party claimed to
Speaker 1: have stood for. But it doesn't anymore apparently.
Speaker 2: And while you are correct that the House version, even
Speaker 2: if it does go to the full House tonight and
Speaker 2: gets passed, it goes to the Senate and then they'll
Speaker 2: have their changes and then it goes back. But it
Speaker 2: certainly directionally gives you an idea of where things are.
Speaker 2: Trump was in there yesterday, strong arm strong and strong
Speaker 2: arming people this way or that to get this thing through.
Speaker 2: And if it passes in its current form, it will
Speaker 2: set the record for the highest debt to GDP ratio
Speaker 2: that we've had since World War Two.
Speaker 1: So during prosperous times of a growing economy, that's correct.
Speaker 2: Right, Not at war with China, which will happen someday,
Speaker 2: and we'll start the war in a really bad financial
Speaker 2: position instead of World War II begins, and then you
Speaker 2: get into financial trouble because you're dealing with the crisis.
Speaker 1: Well, and remember, if there's some giant i'm a downtterm, recession, depression, whatever, generally,
Speaker 1: governments will go into debt stimulating their economy.
Speaker 2: But we're already way into that. This is like, so,
Speaker 2: I mean you're always using the family, you know, analogy
Speaker 2: of He's just like living as stretched as you can
Speaker 2: your paycheck to paycheck, with a really nice house and
Speaker 2: really nice cars, and you've already booked your vacation and
Speaker 2: everything like that, with the assumption that mom or Dad
Speaker 2: won't lose their job, nobody will have a medical problem, nothing,
Speaker 2: the air conditioner won't break down. If any of those
Speaker 2: things happen, you're screwed.
Speaker 1: And the kids have sat mom and down at the
Speaker 1: kitchen table and explained the situation to him. Unfortunately, Dad's
Speaker 1: a coke fiend and mom's psychotics. So Dad does a
Speaker 1: big line and blow and goes off to the Ferrari
Speaker 1: dealer as the children sit at their kitchen table crying,
Speaker 1: crying over their future. Good morning, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: How are you, the eight year feeling the eight year
Speaker 2: old daughter says, but what if the air conditioner broke?
Speaker 2: I'm off to get another Ferraur, says the government. I
Speaker 2: was walking my dog yesterday and I walked by his house.
Speaker 2: They had their garage door open. I've never walked by
Speaker 2: it before. He's got a I couldn't help was a
Speaker 2: Lamborghini or a Ferrari. I'm not I don't know those
Speaker 2: kind of cars that well, but it was one of
Speaker 2: those and some sort of super fancy, little tiny sports
Speaker 2: Porsche car. Those are his two cars. And then in
Speaker 2: the living room, he's got a giant drum set set up.
Speaker 2: That's got to be a divorced guy, right, A rich
Speaker 2: divorced guy has to be a rich divorced guy. Two
Speaker 2: little sports cars and your drum set in the living room,
Speaker 2: screams rich divorced guy.
Speaker 1: To me, I can't imagine any lifestyle whatsoever. Well, rich
Speaker 1: tech guy who's never been married. Could That could? But
Speaker 1: you're right, that could be. There is no household in
Speaker 1: America that includes a female partner that also includes a
Speaker 1: drum kit in the living.
Speaker 2: Room, full setup, like it's Phil Collins. I mean, yeah, wow,
Speaker 2: my kids hit me the other night with Actually I
Speaker 2: said it first, and then Sam said, I was thinking
Speaker 2: the same thing. What did we eat? Yes, I can't remember,
Speaker 2: like macaroni and cheese, and I steamed some vegetables or
Speaker 2: something like that. I said, wow, this is really a
Speaker 2: divorced dad meal right here. Sam said, Sack that you
Speaker 2: could laugh about it. Yeah, it's hilarious. Well, some laughs
Speaker 2: are different than other laughs. Maybe we need laughs. We'll
Speaker 2: go open the show with our very clip. I'm Jack
Speaker 2: Enough human despair pie God. Yes, I'm Jack Armstrong. He's
Speaker 2: Joe Getty on this. It is Wednesday, May twenty first,
Speaker 2: the year twenty twenty five. We are damn it. Whoop,
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Speaker 1: Let's begin the show officially according to CC rules and regulations.
Speaker 2: Here we go at mark. Everybody paying arm what I
Speaker 2: know enough? Anybody? Yeah, better give me a tall one
Speaker 2: case I like it. I was life treating you Norm.
Speaker 2: I just ran over its dog my nipples. It's freezing
Speaker 2: out there. How can I do well?
Speaker 3: I am gonna need something to kill time before my
Speaker 3: second beer.
Speaker 2: How about a first one? That's a good one. I
Speaker 2: like a really tall one in case I like it.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. I always liked. That's George Went, who
Speaker 2: died yesterday. He was a figure on a popular sitcom
Speaker 2: where he would walk in the bar every day and
Speaker 2: they would say something like, what's up to Norman? He'd say,
Speaker 2: my ideal weight? If I'm seven feet tall. How's life
Speaker 2: treating you, Norman like a dog treats a bone. I
Speaker 2: was watching some video with Seinfeld Jerry Sin the other night,
Speaker 2: and the question was how did Seinfeld become such a
Speaker 2: big hit? And he said ted Danson got tired of
Speaker 2: doing Cheers because they moved into the Cheers time slot.
Speaker 2: When time when Ted Danson got tired of doing Cheers
Speaker 2: and Seinfeld had been on four different time slots and
Speaker 2: not caught on zero ratings and might have died a
Speaker 2: death as a cult favorite had it not been for that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: which is an interesting thing about wife right there, It
Speaker 2: really is. That's why you just keep grinding.
Speaker 1: You never know when the ted Dancing of Fate is
Speaker 1: going to duck out of the timeslot of reality, right exactly? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in the TV schedule of your dreams, Yeah, I got one,
Speaker 1: I got one question before we take a break.
Speaker 2: So a hallmark of the Armstrong and Getty Show. There
Speaker 2: are several hallmarks, but one hallmark is the media not
Speaker 2: answering the obvious question. Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1: We've the one that pops into everybody's mind, but professional reporters,
Speaker 1: And I think that's happening today where I've heard six times.
Speaker 1: Probably the Republicans met at one am or still wrangling
Speaker 1: over the bill.
Speaker 2: The rules committee began at one am. Why did they
Speaker 2: start at one o'clock in the morning. You can't just
Speaker 2: throw that out there? Isn't that the obvious question? How
Speaker 2: did you start at one in the morning? When did
Speaker 2: that become a thing? Is that a thing?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 2: Did they start it? Well, they started at one am.
Speaker 2: They're like eight hours in. They started at one am,
Speaker 2: as I said yesterday. But I haven't heard anybody say,
Speaker 2: why isn't that isn't it? Isn't that it obvious? Why
Speaker 2: do they start at one in the morning? Who does that?
Speaker 2: Who says, be here in your suit and tie and
Speaker 2: hard shoes, park and get in here and be in
Speaker 2: your seat at one am? Because do you have any idea? Why?
Speaker 1: Probably because they they were working until roughly midnight to
Speaker 1: get to a place to have that committee meeting.
Speaker 2: I guess right. It seems like an odd way to
Speaker 2: do business to me. I don't know. I feel like
Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not suggesting anything untoward or anything. It
Speaker 2: just seems odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah. At the risk of returning to the mood of
Speaker 1: two and a half minutes, ago. I feel like I'm
Speaker 1: observing a you know, a couple of you know, like
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm in a Chinese prison camp and
Speaker 1: the two guys are discussing exactly how.
Speaker 2: They're going to torture me.
Speaker 1: And I'm listening to the process and absorbing, and the
Speaker 1: whole thing is so disappointing and disgusting to me.
Speaker 2: I just want to pretend it's not happening. You are
Speaker 2: to talk about it. If you are in a Chinese
Speaker 2: prison camp, you've got to get the maintenance worker to
Speaker 2: figure out a way to let you out. We've got
Speaker 2: more on that story, a momental genius huh, among other
Speaker 2: things on the way Katie's headlines. Next stay here. Just
Speaker 2: writing an article to the wall Sure journal about how
Speaker 2: you can make money streaming. That's what I need to do.
Speaker 2: I need to be a guy just like opens boxes.
Speaker 2: That's a big box opening box, boxing stream unboxing streamer.
Speaker 2: That's what all become. I'm gonna open up these shoes.
Speaker 2: My son was watching one of these the other day.
Speaker 2: Just got the shoes, Gonna open it. Ooh, lift off
Speaker 2: the lid. Look at this some nice crey paper. I
Speaker 2: am so mystified by This guy had like eighty million followers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you know, I try not to poop poo
Speaker 1: something before I at least a little understand it. Ah,
Speaker 1: maybe I could kill a couple of birds with one stone, Katie,
Speaker 1: what do you think of this? Let me just try that.
Speaker 1: You're young and hip garage cleaning videos?
Speaker 2: Oh what sure?
Speaker 1: That could get guy? Where will I put this rake?
Speaker 1: Let me think? And then people would be watching thinking
Speaker 1: you could put it up on that rake rack. I
Speaker 1: don't know it would work.
Speaker 2: Then you cut to Judy her saying, if I see
Speaker 2: that rake l leaning up against the car one more time,
Speaker 2: I don't know what I'm gonna do. Then back to
Speaker 2: you with the rake.
Speaker 3: There's this whole time Scot He's got millions of followers,
Speaker 3: and he does yardwork.
Speaker 2: Is he hot? Nof?
Speaker 3: He just goes through and he finds he finds houses
Speaker 3: that have completely let their front yards go, and he
Speaker 3: fixes them for him and videos it and puts it up.
Speaker 3: And this guy, he's making so much money that his
Speaker 3: niche now as he goes around and does it for
Speaker 3: free for people.
Speaker 2: I've never watched that, but I have watched things before,
Speaker 2: and this might be my least favorite emotion. I've watched
Speaker 2: things before where I'm several minutes into it, sometimes way
Speaker 2: too many minutes into it, and I think, what am
Speaker 2: I doing? Is this how I want to spend my life? Agreed?
Speaker 1: Right, It's like you on your deathbed as whispering to you,
Speaker 1: are you serious with this? This is how you're this
Speaker 1: is how you're spending our time. I'm thinking my garage
Speaker 1: cleaning videos would be great. I think Judy and I
Speaker 1: could work on a little I don't know, honeymooner's style,
Speaker 1: bickering sitcom style.
Speaker 2: I told you I pick up the rake. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: haven't picked up that ring. You know, just this sort
Speaker 2: of thing, money pit do it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, A right, Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's
Speaker 1: the lead story with Katie Green Dailey.
Speaker 3: Starting with the free Beacon quote. It could be twelve
Speaker 3: to eighteen months. Former White House doctor says biden cancer
Speaker 3: prognosis is grim.
Speaker 2: Really he might have that long to live twelve.
Speaker 3: To eighteen months, according to the Free beaconless he was
Speaker 3: one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 2: Given you know the look of him, it wouldn't be
Speaker 2: super long anyway. Yeah, wow, But God bless him. He's
Speaker 2: our fellow human being God bless him in the liar.
Speaker 2: I don't wish he had cancer, but he's a freaking
Speaker 2: liar top to bottom. And every continue to hear out
Speaker 2: of them about their cancer diagnosis is probably a lie.
Speaker 2: So where do you place your sympathy since they're lying
Speaker 2: about everything.
Speaker 3: From The New York Post, Hunter Biden told Jake Tapper
Speaker 3: to go f himself after CNN host pestered him during
Speaker 3: his brother's last days.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I heard they almost got into a fight
Speaker 2: at some point. I don't know that story.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tapper was asking him about bow and Hunter flipped.
Speaker 2: Well, hundreds of crackhead and they flip about a lot
Speaker 2: of things. I don't know if you ever see him
Speaker 2: on the corner yelling at fire hydrants.
Speaker 3: From CNN, Trump details planned to build Golden Dome missile
Speaker 3: shield by the end.
Speaker 2: Of his term. Love this story. I don't know how
Speaker 2: doable it is.
Speaker 1: And they've got to develop the technology at Notre Dame University. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the golden domes And did Trump just go with that
Speaker 1: name because he likes gold so much?
Speaker 2: Well, maybe I mean orya the plated dome. Israel has
Speaker 2: the iron dome, so it's not a huge stretch. I
Speaker 2: guess I don't know. I'm a titanium. Gold is a
Speaker 2: soft metal. It's useless as a dome.
Speaker 3: From NBC. Twenty one year old man charged with giving
Speaker 3: alcohol to twenty year old who fell two stories.
Speaker 2: At the Pirates game. O. Wow, you're twenty one and
Speaker 2: you slipped a beer to your twenty year old friend
Speaker 2: and you're in trouble bottom two beers. Thank goodness. None
Speaker 2: of my friends or I have ever done that during
Speaker 2: our coll No, God, that only happens always. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Come on, hey, Darwin, try not to flip out of
Speaker 1: your seat onto the field and break your neck.
Speaker 2: I mean, I realize the laws of law, but it's
Speaker 2: not the same as like a fifty year old buy
Speaker 2: and beer for twelve year old. Yeah right, right.
Speaker 3: From the Financial Times, Google offers AI mode in.
Speaker 2: Total re imaging of search, so they're trying to just yeah,
Speaker 2: go ahead.
Speaker 3: No, it's just they're trying to keep up with the
Speaker 3: chatbots and all of that nonsense.
Speaker 1: I was just reading about Google's challenges with AI and
Speaker 1: then competing and how it's changing the landscape of search,
Speaker 1: especially so much.
Speaker 2: But Google's doomed unless they really revamp it. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: full chat GPT for I surges. Now, yeah, Google's got
Speaker 2: some interesting stuff in the works. I wouldn't give upon
Speaker 2: him yet. In fact, I was tempted to buy some
Speaker 2: stock from the Babylon b Alarming.
Speaker 3: Thanks to public schools funding cuts, this five year old
Speaker 3: student doesn't know all of the various sexual lusts adults
Speaker 3: adults can have.
Speaker 1: Because of the funding cuts, we've had to cut our
Speaker 1: teaching perversion to kindergartener's program.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid we've got some more news of the day
Speaker 2: for you, and there's a lot as always. If you
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Speaker 1: I have to tell you direct me and personally that
Speaker 1: I regret voting for you for Secretary of State.
Speaker 2: I yield back.
Speaker 3: I respond, well, first of all, your regret for voting
Speaker 3: for me confirms I'm doing a good job.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, because you're a dumb ass. Then he took
Speaker 2: a drink of water because he's so thirsty. L Marco's
Speaker 2: too classy to throw in the dumb ass part. But
Speaker 2: that's precisely with him. And if I found myself in
Speaker 2: agreement with you, I'd be humiliated your dumbass. Okay, that
Speaker 2: was fun. So I uh, I'll speak for myself. Joe
Speaker 2: then can put in his opinion on this. I'm I'm
Speaker 2: feeling maybe people getting tired of the Hey, we get it,
Speaker 2: Joe Biden was ancient and they're covering it up. On
Speaker 2: the other hand, at the risk of wearing people out
Speaker 2: on this, it is well, I'm looking at David Harsani's tweet.
Speaker 2: He echoes what a lot of people that I like
Speaker 2: are saying. It's the biggest It's one of the biggest
Speaker 2: scandals in US history. Yes, it could potentially be the
Speaker 2: biggest scandal in US history, right, and for a number
Speaker 2: of reasons.
Speaker 1: It's a multi layered not only scandal, but opportunity I think,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure we'll miss it as a country, but
Speaker 1: the opportunity is to blow the lid off of the
Speaker 1: unbelievable dishonesty and dysfunction of the American media system. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you used to claim to be one thing while
Speaker 1: clearly behaving is another.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it depends on how you define the scandal.
Speaker 2: If the scandal is the Biden cover up like within themselves,
Speaker 2: and then the media going along with it for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: That's a very, very giant scandal, just the media's coverage
Speaker 2: in the era of Trump. The Wall Street Journal lays
Speaker 2: it out today. And when you put it in order
Speaker 2: like this, their failure to admit that Russian collusion was
Speaker 2: a lie, followed by claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian
Speaker 2: intelligence when they knew it wasn't. Then four to eight
Speaker 2: years of pretending Joe Biden wasn't senile. You put all
Speaker 2: three of those together, it's amazing they don't have a
Speaker 2: zero percent approval rating. I mean that is incredible. Oh
Speaker 2: and as they point out in the Wall Street Journal,
Speaker 2: all the while trying to claim Trump was hitler and
Speaker 2: you should be afraid, very afraid, right, Yeah, And which
Speaker 2: brings us back to the incredible, hilarious lack of self
Speaker 2: awareness that Jake Tapper displays with his whole look what
Speaker 2: I uncovered saying, the media, after each of those major
Speaker 2: betray rails of their listeners, readers, et cetera, said nothing
Speaker 2: is here. Let's talk about the next thing, thinking people
Speaker 2: didn't notice.
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute. I
Speaker 1: watch you every night and you told me something that
Speaker 1: wasn't true. Two hundred and thirty seven consecutive nights. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll keep watching, and then another one and
Speaker 1: another one occurs, and then they have no trust left
Speaker 1: in the American or the American people have no trust
Speaker 1: left in them, and they're completely mystified as to why
Speaker 1: it's It's really strange.
Speaker 2: I don't Well, they clearly don't realize, as was laid
Speaker 2: out by the Wall Street Journal there, how much damage
Speaker 2: they've done to themselves.
Speaker 1: Right right, That's what I'm saying there there. They are
Speaker 1: spectacularly unself aware. Speaking of which I said to the
Speaker 1: guys in the pre show meeting today, this is as
Speaker 1: if I created it with Ai A WHOOPI Goldberg, commenting
Speaker 1: on the scandal, dishore is always.
Speaker 4: Been a mass trust of trust issue because politicians, media
Speaker 4: nobody does what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 2: Now, I say, for me, is.
Speaker 4: It he's eighty three, so he's a little stumbling, he's
Speaker 4: a little rumbly.
Speaker 2: I can't point to.
Speaker 4: Anything that he's done as president that he did.
Speaker 2: For you.
Speaker 4: But but I'm saying, I want not you, but I
Speaker 4: want somebody to tell me, well, when did you know.
Speaker 2: It was bad? If you knew. Why did you wait?
Speaker 2: So he said that it was after moderated the debate.
Speaker 4: Yes, but that's I'm sorry, baby, that's not what I'm
Speaker 4: talking about. I'm talking about if if you're telling me
Speaker 4: that hundreds of people knew that he was not able
Speaker 4: to do his job, then where the hell was everybody job?
Speaker 2: No, it's more like one hundred million people knew, wood
Speaker 2: be two thirds of Americans knew. How were they not
Speaker 2: away of this? The bubble syndrome?
Speaker 1: It's got to be they are as bubbled as we
Speaker 1: suspected when we were at our most cynical. That's clearly true.
Speaker 1: So again, this scandal has so many different layers to it.
Speaker 1: One of them is just you know, you, us, all
Speaker 1: of us, as we observe humanity, have learned something about
Speaker 1: how delusional people can be.
Speaker 2: Right. That quote from Morewell that Jake Tapper put in
Speaker 2: the beginning of the book that he thought he was
Speaker 2: making about people around Biden was actually about himself. But
Speaker 2: it is really really good about how difficult it is
Speaker 2: for human beings sometimes to recognize the truth if it's
Speaker 2: not what they want it to be. It takes a
Speaker 2: constant effort.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and it exists, you know, all over the spectrum.
Speaker 2: I know some folks.
Speaker 1: I haven't talked to him for a little while, but
Speaker 1: it was in the wake of one of Trump's, you know,
Speaker 1: just inexplicable missteps, and they denied, as a couple up
Speaker 1: and down, that he had made any mistakes or miscalculations
Speaker 1: at all, and they thought I was nuts to say
Speaker 1: he had.
Speaker 2: And I thought, wow, okay, well we can uh, okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk about the weather. So I've got so I'm
Speaker 2: still reading the Jake Tapper book and making my way
Speaker 2: through it. But the one thing that he doesn't seem
Speaker 2: to have the answer on that I wonder if history
Speaker 2: will dig up. But he he suspects strongly, and this
Speaker 2: clearly seems to be the case somebody close to Biden,
Speaker 2: and I don't think this could be Jill. This had
Speaker 2: to be some of his handlers. They were feeding Biden
Speaker 2: fake polls. Yeah, you know the various interviews where he
Speaker 2: went on said no, no, I'm leading the polls. That's because
Speaker 2: he was being fed phony poles. As has been pointed
Speaker 2: out many, many times, there were no internal Democratic Party
Speaker 2: polls that ever showed him being ahead. Kamala Harris being
Speaker 2: ahead ever once? Right? So who I mean that? First
Speaker 2: of all, why are you doing this? And secondly, what
Speaker 2: makes you think that's a good idea to make up
Speaker 2: a poll for an old, senile man to make him
Speaker 2: think he's ahead right?
Speaker 1: Well, And that is probably the headline because it's practically
Speaker 1: become a cliche in American politics. George Bush doesn't want
Speaker 1: to run the White House. He's a puppet, Dick Cheney's
Speaker 1: in charge, blah blah blah, just every president. This was
Speaker 1: an actual example of a senile old man unable to
Speaker 1: function at some times and not function very at a
Speaker 1: very high level at others, being completely controlled and gas
Speaker 1: lit in the classic sense from the original movie by
Speaker 1: his inner circle, including his wife, that he was doing great,
Speaker 1: and the poor doddering old fool believed it. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, he was the leader of the free
Speaker 1: world at the time. But why would the The normality
Speaker 1: of that story cannot be overstated.
Speaker 2: But why were they bringing him polls showing him ahead
Speaker 2: when he wasn't? For what reason?
Speaker 1: To keep him in it? Because they thought only he
Speaker 1: could beat Trump. They shared that decision apparently.
Speaker 2: But that's not the way usually you do The opposite, like, look,
Speaker 2: our internal polls show us behind, so we need to
Speaker 2: change our messaging here, or we need to go to
Speaker 2: these states or whatever to help your strategy. What's the
Speaker 2: point telling the guy he's winning.
Speaker 1: Well, I think they had that low an opinion of
Speaker 1: his abilities to do anything about it.
Speaker 2: So you think they were running the campaign based on
Speaker 2: the real polls that they knew. Yes, he wasn't incapable
Speaker 2: of doing any he wasn't going to do anything, so
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter. Let's just keep him happy. He can
Speaker 2: eat his jello and he can watch prices right and
Speaker 2: go to bed.
Speaker 1: Well, if I were to use the football metaphor, oh
Speaker 1: the tush push soon to be outlaw jack, Oh.
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh it's a Persian. It's it's it's it's it's
Speaker 2: an American. What it's against a lot?
Speaker 1: I have a big ass, the ass, that's the operative,
Speaker 1: the factory.
Speaker 2: This was America, all right, So oh, to use a
Speaker 2: football metaphor.
Speaker 1: So the campaign is thinking, all right, can we jazz
Speaker 1: up our offense, meaning can we use our candidate more effectively?
Speaker 1: Can we alter our strategies become more aggressive?
Speaker 2: Whatever?
Speaker 1: And they looked at the senile old mummy and said no,
Speaker 1: we cannot. So they went entirely in this may ring
Speaker 1: a bell on defense. Trump is hitler, Trump is evil.
Speaker 1: Trump is coming for game people, for black people. It
Speaker 1: will come to your home and beat your children down.
Speaker 2: I still think there's a missing element to this somewhere
Speaker 2: that I don't quite understand what their end goal was
Speaker 2: they did. There's no way they thought that Biden could
Speaker 2: be president for another four years.
Speaker 1: No, no, they just wanted him to beat Trump and
Speaker 1: then they would continue to be the puppet masters a
Speaker 1: new puppet.
Speaker 2: Because there's a lot there's a fair amount of suspicion
Speaker 2: and well earned suspicion that they were as scared of
Speaker 2: Kamala Harris being president as you are. Yeah, and so
Speaker 2: that that that I mean, if if if al Gore
Speaker 2: had been the vice president, problem solved, We we make
Speaker 2: it clear the guy's got to go, and al Gore's
Speaker 2: president and we run him because he's a good politician
Speaker 2: and he would win. That that's what they would have done.
Speaker 2: But they didn't have that in their in their as
Speaker 2: a backup. But that doesn't make sense. So you want
Speaker 2: to get Biden to win, so then he has to
Speaker 2: step down after he gets elected because of his brain
Speaker 2: and Kamala Harris's president. That's is that what they wanted.
Speaker 2: I still don't understand it. I would argue that.
Speaker 1: And whether it was the super cynical version of this
Speaker 1: or the fairly cynical version, I don't know. But they
Speaker 1: either thought, we will continue to be behind the scenes
Speaker 1: puppet masters with all this enormous power when we install
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, making it clear that we engineered her rise.
Speaker 2: Trump is more you did it again yesterday. He's more
Speaker 2: leaning more into the hole who was running the auto pen,
Speaker 2: who was running the autopen And that's not a crazy
Speaker 2: conspiracy given the way things have played out over the
Speaker 2: last couple of months at all.
Speaker 1: Or the slightly less cynical version of my theory is
Speaker 1: that they actually believe Trump is the h man and
Speaker 1: that they had to save the country by keeping him
Speaker 1: out of office, and Joe Biden was his best their
Speaker 1: best bet. But either way, it was quite literally a
Speaker 1: cabal of insiders controlling a senile old man to their purposes.
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Speaker 2: I mentioned this last week. Sometimes with politicians we act
Speaker 2: like they don't have the same needs that every other
Speaker 2: human being has for employment or having their kids in
Speaker 2: school or all those different sorts of things, and make
Speaker 2: all these things out. You should have resigned, or you
Speaker 2: should quit to if you don't believe whatever, or you know,
Speaker 2: he should be honest about this or that. Whoever he
Speaker 2: works for loses the next election, you gotta move. Probably
Speaker 2: you're picking up your wife and kids, her husband and
Speaker 2: kids and moving and putting them in a different school.
Speaker 2: And now you got to figure out how to get
Speaker 2: a job. And you know it's not easy, and it
Speaker 2: might not just be you. This is what I got
Speaker 2: from Jake Tapper's book last night. They're talking about the
Speaker 2: inner circle, the very inner circle that he calls the
Speaker 2: pull up Bureau in the Jake Tapper book. The people
Speaker 2: around Biden that will protect him in the most the
Speaker 2: people that were lying to like Chuck Schumer and saying no, no,
Speaker 2: he's fine behind closed doors. The inner circle. They're immediately
Speaker 2: family members worked at the White House too. This one
Speaker 2: person's daughter was Biden's day schedule, or this other person
Speaker 2: don Len's his niece worked at the National Security Council.
Speaker 2: Rashetti's children would find found jobs in the White House
Speaker 2: Social Office, the State Department, and the Treasury Department and
Speaker 2: the Department of Transportation. So it's not just you. You
Speaker 2: and your entire family would lose their livelihoods. It's all
Speaker 2: you're is that? Okay? First of all, how was that? Okay?
Speaker 2: The Democratic Party is always worried about equity and equality
Speaker 2: and people getting a patriarchy and all this different sort
Speaker 2: of crap. You get a job in the White House,
Speaker 2: and you get all your kids different jobs in the
Speaker 2: federal government.
Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, yeah, And this Jack, I'm gonna read your
Speaker 1: mind here in case anybody's wondering.
Speaker 2: You're not making excuses.
Speaker 1: You're you're helping people understand how incredibly hollow and hilariously
Speaker 1: fake the notion of public servant right right, please, it's
Speaker 1: the gig And my gosh, that what an interesting illustration,
Speaker 1: all of those different family members. Yeah, you're gonna keep
Speaker 1: the Mummy in power if you possibly can, because if
Speaker 1: Kamala gets in there, who knows, maybe she cleans house.
Speaker 2: She probably will, probably would, because she's got her own
Speaker 2: family members and staff to get in there, got mail
Speaker 2: bag on the way. Stay here. I do want you
Speaker 2: to explain that if the NFL is going to make
Speaker 2: the tush push illegal, that's a pretty big deal. It
Speaker 2: won them the Super Bowl, right, Yeah, they're just going
Speaker 2: back to the old rule. Need an asterisk. The Chiefs won.
Speaker 2: As a Chiefs fan, Chiefs should get the trophy.
Speaker 1: Boy, it puts the ass back an asterisk, doesn't it?
Speaker 1: The tush push?
Speaker 2: I get it? Okay?
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Speaker 2: Do you plan to share more of that? Katie?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Let's see Freaquent correspondent Paolo guys budget frustration.
Speaker 2: It's tempting to give up on.
Speaker 1: The national debt, but politicians' attitudes and actions just keep
Speaker 1: getting worse. Please keep harping on this stuff. Then he
Speaker 1: sends a quote from The New York Times Has he
Speaker 1: got the Votes? As the title of the story. About
Speaker 1: three dozen Republicans deficit hawks have been strategizing in a
Speaker 1: group text and at the Capitol Hill home of one
Speaker 1: of the members. Most of them signed a letter earlier
Speaker 1: this year saying they would not vote for a bill
Speaker 1: that adds to the federal deficit. The bill's current version
Speaker 1: would add three point three trillion over the next decade.
Speaker 1: All these hawks are talking about is controlling the deficit,
Speaker 1: and they can't even muster up support for that. Have
Speaker 1: you seen the great you know, outcry and ground swell
Speaker 1: and conservative media for how we cannot possibly grow a
Speaker 1: deficit one more dime?
Speaker 2: No, you have not. No, the country doesn't care. Getting
Speaker 2: back to that last temailer, who's been listening to us
Speaker 2: since day one? That's yes, twenty seven years ago, is
Speaker 2: that right, twenty? That is twenty seven years. You've been
Speaker 2: listening for twenty seven years, Brian, Have you tried anything else?
Speaker 2: You know what you've earned.
Speaker 1: You've already earned the armstrong and getty potholders, Oven Mitz,
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Speaker 2: We came to your house one Thanksgiving in Cooke to dinner, and.
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Speaker 1: Check insh Matthew, Idaho farmhand on a similar topic, right, guys,
Speaker 1: excellent takedown to the big beautiful craft sandwich making its
Speaker 1: way through this Republican Congress. Joe, my wife and I
Speaker 1: had already said done this past election cycle when it
Speaker 1: become undeniable that the R stands for little else other
Speaker 1: than expediency and a means to power. The parties do
Speaker 1: indeed shift chameleon like to match whatever their standard bearer
Speaker 1: of the month is. We're independent Conservatives, although the f
Speaker 1: yahli Can Party certainly appeals Yeah, yeah, what are we?
Speaker 1: And Michael will be about out of time about one minute.
Speaker 2: I think Trump is reading the room correctly, though the
Speaker 2: country doesn't care. They should and leaders should lead people
Speaker 2: into caring.
Speaker 1: Yes, well, yeah, they should vote their conscience, not pander
Speaker 1: to the you know, greedy simpletons who vote for them.
Speaker 2: But good luck getting them to do that.
Speaker 1: I'd like to talk more about the salt deduction and
Speaker 1: salt penalty for people in blue states. Give you a
Speaker 1: little bonus mail bag a little bit later on in
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: If we add three trillion dollars to the deficit, yes,
Speaker 2: during prosperous peace time. Yes, we as a country deserve
Speaker 2: what's coming. We do we do. I just hate for
Speaker 2: my kids to have to live through it, right, Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty