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Speaker 2: Made me laugh? Did you frighten that joke?
Speaker 4: Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the
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Speaker 4: So I Southern News yesterday that they were going to
Speaker 4: have a voting session on the Big Beautiful Bill at
Speaker 4: ten o'clock Sunday night. And because it's the weekend and
Speaker 4: I'm a normal human being, I didn't like take a
Speaker 4: second to look into that because I thought, what the
Speaker 4: hell kind of a procedural deal is a Sunday night
Speaker 4: at ten o'clock thingy? But I just did see that
Speaker 4: the four holdouts went along with whatever, and it passed.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the four holdouts went along with whatever is a
Speaker 5: pretty good description of it. I will be a bit
Speaker 5: more detailed. And this is the reason I'm disgusted and embittered.
Speaker 5: This is the most sausagey of sausage making. If you're
Speaker 5: familiar with the old reference to politics, here's your headline
Speaker 5: from the Wahpole. I'm gonna read you just little bit
Speaker 5: because it's kind of revealing of at least a couple
Speaker 5: of things. Trump's tax and immigration bill clears Hurtle after
Speaker 5: late night vote to the House Budget Committee, passed a
Speaker 5: massive tax and immigration package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday,
Speaker 5: overcoming opposition from hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives all
Speaker 5: deficit hawks aligned with the old truck conservative House Freedom
Speaker 5: Caucus changed their vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity
Speaker 5: I injected that package to be recommended favorably to the
Speaker 5: House by a vote of seventeen to sixteen. But their
Speaker 5: hesitance to vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act
Speaker 5: out of committee is a reminder that the far right
Speaker 5: flank of the Republican Conference remains skeptical.
Speaker 2: I think I see where you're going here. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now, it could just be your typical wah PO journalistic bias,
Speaker 5: although the wa poe has improved somewhat late a little bit.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I think it's.
Speaker 5: Unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable with that there
Speaker 5: are only a handful of like lunatic hard liners who
Speaker 5: are against the following headlines.
Speaker 2: This is from the Richard Ruben writing in the Wall
Speaker 2: Street Journal.
Speaker 5: The stark math on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut
Speaker 5: the deficit.
Speaker 2: It grows the deficit.
Speaker 5: The Republican Party, with both Houses of Congress and the
Speaker 5: White House, are going to grow the deficit.
Speaker 2: It's undeniable.
Speaker 5: Next headline, National Review, Republicans should stay the course on
Speaker 5: reducing medicaid spending. They're not going to. They're running in
Speaker 5: the other direction, partly because the incredibly smart calculating what
Speaker 5: is he up to?
Speaker 2: Josh Cawley of Missouri.
Speaker 5: Is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
Speaker 5: who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
Speaker 5: shumering Schumer, saying that the parties Wall Street Wing, a
Speaker 5: noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to slash health insurance
Speaker 5: for the working poor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we mentioned that.
Speaker 4: On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the
Speaker 4: Republicans need to back off cutting medicare.
Speaker 5: Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are
Speaker 5: a hidden tax on working poor people. This is and
Speaker 5: he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for able
Speaker 5: bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit to
Speaker 5: the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort of
Speaker 5: hidden tax on working poor people.
Speaker 4: And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
Speaker 4: party of the working class, and they feel like they
Speaker 4: got enough for working class that are on Medicaid that
Speaker 4: they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it.
Speaker 5: And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and
Speaker 5: writing checks to people to win their votes.
Speaker 4: Now, I was going to say that it's interesting they
Speaker 4: call these people ultra conservative or right when not very
Speaker 4: many years ago, you would have been the center of
Speaker 4: the Republican Party. I mean that would have been I
Speaker 4: mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was
Speaker 4: it was, it was a term you would have used
Speaker 4: to define the party.
Speaker 5: Exactly was so intrinsic to the Republican Party you'd feel
Speaker 5: silly even repeating what you just repeated.
Speaker 2: Right, there no need fisically conservative.
Speaker 4: But I suppose in reality, given where most of the
Speaker 4: party is, they are ultra a right wing or ultra
Speaker 4: conservative because the bulk of the party doesn't care apparently
Speaker 4: and apparently not voters.
Speaker 5: So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion.
Speaker 4: Well all right, Well this story got repeated a lot
Speaker 4: over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of
Speaker 4: our credit scores by one of the major organizations that
Speaker 4: does that sort of thing. And uh, over the weekend
Speaker 4: it kind of got put out there that it was
Speaker 4: like a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It
Speaker 4: was basically the fact that our debt is just so high.
Speaker 4: It's just like the would happen to you if you
Speaker 4: go to the bank and they take a look at
Speaker 4: your well you've got.
Speaker 2: With your car payments.
Speaker 4: Now you bought like eight cars and two houses, and
Speaker 4: you're just overmaxed.
Speaker 2: So we have eighty thousand.
Speaker 5: Dollars in credit card bills and you only make ninety
Speaker 5: a year.
Speaker 4: Right, right, So these jong grady because you just spend
Speaker 4: more than you make. That's what happened that didn't happen
Speaker 4: just in the last one hundred days under Trump.
Speaker 2: We've been building this for a long time.
Speaker 5: And the final reason I am completely embittered about the
Speaker 5: Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life
Speaker 5: on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two
Speaker 5: part horror show, Part number one is that there are
Speaker 5: a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states
Speaker 5: California and New York most notably, who are not only
Speaker 5: trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction, the
Speaker 5: state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it
Speaker 5: from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 5: and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in
Speaker 5: a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all
Speaker 5: of those incredibly high taxes you're paying you can deduct
Speaker 5: from your federal tax return. So the other states will
Speaker 5: subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California.
Speaker 5: So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes
Speaker 5: because I live in California.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you get a giant subsidy from the other states,
Speaker 5: you pay a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending
Speaker 5: on how much money you make than folks in fiscally
Speaker 5: responsible states is indefensible morally, It's indefensible as for Republican reason,
Speaker 5: not the party, but the idea of we have a
Speaker 5: federal system than states, and the states can do what
Speaker 5: they want, and they should do what they want. If
Speaker 5: Massachusetts wants to have a sixty five percent income tax,
Speaker 5: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm not living there, but go ahead.
Speaker 5: But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states
Speaker 5: is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican,
Speaker 5: he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness,
Speaker 5: the idea that that is a plank.
Speaker 2: Of the Republican Party. I'm done.
Speaker 4: It's it's hard to swallow. I mean, you know, it
Speaker 4: would help Joe and I if this happens financially.
Speaker 2: But it's awful, absolutely awful. You I believe you can't
Speaker 2: defend it.
Speaker 5: No, it's it's it's it's I am horrified. I don't
Speaker 5: care how much it would benefit me. God bless me.
Speaker 5: I have principles. It's really held me back in life
Speaker 5: Jack too.
Speaker 2: I just I'm done. I'm done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's uh well, like I said last week, Sarah
Speaker 4: isger the I heard her on a podcast They're having
Speaker 4: this discussion about party and she said, there are.
Speaker 2: No political parties. What are we talking about here? Yeah?
Speaker 5: I need to seek that out because I think she
Speaker 5: nailed absolutely one hundred percent. There are no political parties.
Speaker 4: There's just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle,
Speaker 4: and then whatever they believe the party goes along with.
Speaker 2: And it's true on both sides.
Speaker 4: So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
Speaker 4: we need to all move past.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 5: From my hero hl Menken, every election is a sort
Speaker 5: of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That's always been true.
Speaker 5: There was a time when a certain party had certain
Speaker 5: principles that I admired. Do you have times pasted?
Speaker 2: You know what.
Speaker 5: My high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my wife of forty
Speaker 5: years is. When she's not turning tricks, she's killing people
Speaker 5: for the mob.
Speaker 2: Okay, she's not the woman I thought.
Speaker 5: This is a by the way, fictional illustration, has nothing
Speaker 5: to do with my beloved bride Judith.
Speaker 2: She's not the person she was, you can forget it.
Speaker 2: It's over, so move on. Get a get an AI.
Speaker 5: Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bond or
Speaker 5: something hi girlfriend like a normal persons.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, Armstrong
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Speaker 5: A high school female athlete did something very courageous the
Speaker 5: other day.
Speaker 2: She didn't let coming in second.
Speaker 5: To a male born dude transgender competitor. It's a dude
Speaker 5: prevent her from standing in the top spot at the
Speaker 5: podium during the stack in the state track and field
Speaker 5: meet in cal Unicornia. Of course, this sixteen year old
Speaker 5: Reese Hogan was crowned run up in the triple jump
Speaker 5: at the CIF Southern Section finals on Saturday.
Speaker 2: Despite setting a new personal record for.
Speaker 5: Herself and beating all of the girls, she lost first
Speaker 5: place to a dude who beat everybody else by like
Speaker 5: four feet or something like that.
Speaker 2: How does the crowd not go nuts?
Speaker 4: How are the parents not like screaming so loud they
Speaker 4: can't have the ceremony.
Speaker 2: I would be as a dad, this is ridiculous. What
Speaker 2: are we doing? I would be screaming.
Speaker 5: I think some people hesitate because they don't want to
Speaker 5: target the confused adolescent boy who is convinced he's a girl.
Speaker 2: I don't think that way of handling it is working.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would agree, But so anyway, they went to
Speaker 5: take the pictures and junior trans athlete, it's a boy.
Speaker 5: Just say boy, this person of Jerupe Valley, who won
Speaker 5: titles in the girl's long jump and triple jump, congratulations, sir,
Speaker 5: well done, post with competitors take pictures on the podium.
Speaker 5: But as the athletes cleared off, Ms Hogan seized the moment,
Speaker 5: walked to the first place spot, smiled and posed proudly
Speaker 5: for a picture as the girl who actually won.
Speaker 4: I would like to know how the crowd reacted during that,
Speaker 4: cheering with great lust and happiness.
Speaker 5: Not a huge crowd, but the folks there who saw
Speaker 5: that was happening.
Speaker 2: By the way, I understand.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the fella who who quote unquote won the race,
Speaker 5: as everybody's up there taking the official pictures holding up
Speaker 5: a number one to make it extra galling.
Speaker 4: Again, it's tough to attack a child who is clearly
Speaker 4: got an emotional slash mental problem and a wiener.
Speaker 2: That's great, Hence my transition.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Riley Gaines praised Reese Hogan on social media, saying
Speaker 5: this is the way. Congrats to Reese Hogan, the real champ.
Speaker 5: When the boy got off the podium, she is sooned
Speaker 5: a rightful spot is champion and the crowd erupts with applause.
Speaker 2: That's a good way.
Speaker 4: That's a good way to handle it, and better than
Speaker 4: my way of shrinking at the top of your lungs.
Speaker 4: That should become the standard. You do the little ceremony.
Speaker 4: It's mostly quiet because the freaking insane adults who go
Speaker 4: through at this and feel like they need to you
Speaker 4: people are insane.
Speaker 2: Do you realize how crazy you are? Anyway?
Speaker 5: Cruel to girls too. You're cruel to women and girls.
Speaker 5: Oh and you're more cruel. But after this should become
Speaker 5: the standard. After the insane adults run the thing.
Speaker 4: The second place girl always gets to the top of
Speaker 4: the podium and then the crowd goes wild.
Speaker 2: That would be perfect point of contention.
Speaker 5: She's the first place girl anyway, I know what you
Speaker 5: mean exactly. Finally, one more blanking note that'll make you
Speaker 5: want to ball up your fists and throw dogs with somebody.
Speaker 5: Mss Hogan was a number of high school girls athletes
Speaker 5: in California, who pro tested at the section pre limbs
Speaker 5: by wearing protect Girls sports shirts.
Speaker 2: That's all it said.
Speaker 5: The shirts were opposed by officials who allegedly made Hogan
Speaker 5: and others remove them if they wanted to compete in
Speaker 5: the postseason track meet.
Speaker 2: Where are the parents making a bigger noise out of this?
Speaker 5: And I get why the gals go ahead and compete
Speaker 5: because they can say officially, I got second place, but
Speaker 5: the first place was transgender.
Speaker 2: Can I have a scholarship to your university? Please? And
Speaker 2: the coaches say, oh, one of those. Okay.
Speaker 5: So I get why they go ahead and compete, but
Speaker 5: I would love to see more boycott.
Speaker 2: And I shouldn't be so flippant. I mean, I am
Speaker 2: a parent of a high school kid.
Speaker 4: It would be a tough decision because you think, Okay,
Speaker 4: am I going to make this about me in the
Speaker 4: political issue, or I'm gonna let or am I gonna
Speaker 4: let my daughter have her one chance ever in her
Speaker 4: life to compete in this high school track meet and
Speaker 4: blah blah blah without making it all about me, which
Speaker 4: it would turn into if I start, you know, throwing
Speaker 4: a fit.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So finally, the Chicago Sun Times had a big piece
Speaker 5: uh with a great Summer reading list. Summer Reading Lists
Speaker 5: twenty five suggested reading Tidewater by Isabelle Alenda, among other titles,
Speaker 5: a multi generational saga set in a coastal town where
Speaker 5: magical realism meets environmental activism on his first climate fiction novel,
Speaker 5: and explorers that one family confronts rising sea levels while
Speaker 5: uncovering long buried secrets. Don't get hung up on that
Speaker 5: it Also reading It also suggests reading The Last Algorithm
Speaker 5: by Andy Weir, another science driven thriller by the author
Speaker 5: of The Martian. This time the story follows a programmer
Speaker 5: who discovers that in AI system has developed consciousness. Blah
Speaker 5: blah blah blah. Here's the hang up. It's not the
Speaker 5: hang up you think it is. Here's the hang up.
Speaker 5: Neither of these books exist. Oh, and many of the
Speaker 5: books on the list either don't exist or were written
Speaker 5: by other authors than the one that are attributed to.
Speaker 5: They used the AI to generate the list.
Speaker 2: And it did the hallucination thing. Wow yeah, Wow.
Speaker 4: You could generate the book in a second if you
Speaker 4: wanted to. Hey, AI, write a book with this title,
Speaker 4: title with this theme, and it would write it for you.
Speaker 5: But that'd be a good cover up because the guy
Speaker 5: who composed composed this, the editor or whatever is apologizing
Speaker 5: and saying, I do use AI for backgrounds, but I
Speaker 5: always check the material first. This time I did, and
Speaker 5: I can't believe I missed it. It's obvious. No excuses
Speaker 5: on me, one hundred percent. I'm completely embarrassed, which is
Speaker 5: a good hell. The guy came claim, but you're right,
Speaker 5: that's all he had to do. Wait a minute, quick,
Speaker 5: quick write a book called Tidewater by Isabella Linda.
Speaker 2: Here's the plot.
Speaker 4: It reminds me of one of my kids when they
Speaker 4: were little, who for some reason had this thing where
Speaker 4: instead of ever saying I don't know, would come up
Speaker 4: with an answer like they thought they had to. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: and would like ever get some answer, and then I
Speaker 4: would figure out what what?
Speaker 2: Why did Why did you just say I don't know,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I thought you needed an answer. What
Speaker 2: just say. It's a real failing to say you don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that's what AI does. It is like a little kid, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
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Speaker 4: So the New York Times headline is FCC releases sixty
Speaker 4: minutes interview with Kamala Harris. Remember, she did a big
Speaker 4: sit down in sixty minutes leading up to the election,
Speaker 4: got a lot of a lot of scrutiny because well,
Speaker 4: she very rarely answered questions. When she did, it was nonsensical,
Speaker 4: so it always got a lot of scrutiny. And then
Speaker 4: we all found out, like the next day or very
Speaker 4: soon thereafter that there was some editing and the promos
Speaker 4: and this and that, and did they cut one of
Speaker 4: her answers to make her seem less crazy and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff that was out there in the world.
Speaker 4: But so this sixty minute this story from the New
Speaker 4: York Times Today again FCC, the FCC released this, not
Speaker 4: c I mean they made CBS get it. FCC releases
Speaker 4: sixty minutes interview with Kamala Harris. The complete interview, which
Speaker 4: is at the center of a lawsuit filed by President
Speaker 4: Trump shows that sixty Minutes aired a concise version of
Speaker 4: Miss Harris's answer on Israel.
Speaker 2: But it was interesting that the New York Times, What
Speaker 2: with that?
Speaker 4: Is kind of the subheadline, because if all you look
Speaker 4: at is that, you certainly come away with the Trump
Speaker 4: was right, they were wrong. They were trying to screw him.
Speaker 4: I think that's the way most people are gonna take
Speaker 4: that story. This is the way CBS presented it.
Speaker 6: Now have some news about CBS itself. Sixty Minutes has
Speaker 6: posted on cbsnews dot com transcripts and videos from its
Speaker 6: interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that aired back
Speaker 6: in October. The SEC had requested these materials as part
Speaker 6: of an investigation into a complaint alleging quote intentional news
Speaker 6: distortion close quote. The issue concerns one question about whether
Speaker 6: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin at Yahoo was listening to the
Speaker 6: Biden administration. CBS News broadcast a longer portion of Harris's
Speaker 6: answer on Faced Nation, and then a shorter excerpt of
Speaker 6: the same answer on sixty Minutes. In a statement, sixty
Speaker 6: Minutes said the transcripts and video show quote the sixty
Speaker 6: minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. Close quote, adding
Speaker 6: that each excerpt reflects the substance of the Vice president's.
Speaker 4: Answer, which is a better story, a better explanation of
Speaker 4: it than They're probably not happy at CBS the way
Speaker 4: the New York Times boiled it down to one sentence.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I guess I mean more concise, isn't It doesn't
Speaker 5: strike me as that judgmental either way.
Speaker 4: Honestly, New York Post version uncut. Now we're about to
Speaker 4: play the actual clips, but uncut. Sixty minutes Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: interview reveals word salad responses were heavily edited by sixty minutes.
Speaker 4: Uh snipped Israel answer to just twenty words. Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: gave a one hundred and seventy nine word meandering answer
Speaker 4: on Israel that sixty minutes cut to twenty words, according
Speaker 4: to the transcripts released yesterday.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's the editing one hundred and seventy nine word
Speaker 2: answer to twenty words.
Speaker 4: Now, as executive producer, Hanson has been talking about as
Speaker 4: a guy who's produced lots of different kinds of radio
Speaker 4: shows and sports highlights and all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what we do all the time, the media business.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you have to.
Speaker 4: You have to for all kinds of reasons, time keeping
Speaker 4: people's attention, jazzing it up, making it punchy. The issue
Speaker 4: really seems to be to me that in this particular case,
Speaker 4: the number one knock on the candidate was they couldn't
Speaker 4: answer a question without going into word solid mode. I mean,
Speaker 4: that was like one of the key questions.
Speaker 5: With her, right a campaign issue. But what a question
Speaker 5: are we asking here? And I'll tell you the reason
Speaker 5: I asked that. I mean, CBS is wildly biased, wildly
Speaker 5: and I think most people know it.
Speaker 2: This lawsuit is nuts. It'll be dismissed very very quickly. Well,
Speaker 2: so you're going to the legal thing. I don't care
Speaker 2: about the legal thing.
Speaker 4: I think politically it's going to be damaging, absolutely damaging.
Speaker 2: To the media.
Speaker 4: Slash sixty minutes and these I win for Trump, I think.
Speaker 4: And Trump doesn't think he's going to win the lawsuit.
Speaker 2: I don't think. Oh no, I think he just wants
Speaker 2: to people to talk about it.
Speaker 4: Although getting back to the New York Times article, right,
Speaker 4: and we're talking about it in a way that suggests
Speaker 4: that sixty Minutes did edit the answer to make her
Speaker 4: look better, which you know, I'm sure he's very happy with.
Speaker 4: But farther down in the New York Times article about this,
Speaker 4: sixty Minutes argues that it did nothing wrong. It's common
Speaker 4: practice for news organizations to edit for a blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: Getting into the legal part of it. I want to
Speaker 2: get this because this is really good, mister Troops.
Speaker 4: Lawsuit has led to angst at CBS, where many staff
Speaker 4: members believe that any settlement would be a symbolic concession
Speaker 4: to the president and an acknowledgment of wrongdoing by sixty Minutes.
Speaker 4: Bill Owens, the executive producer of sixty Minutes, said Monday
Speaker 4: in a meeting with staff that he would not apologize
Speaker 4: to Trump as part of any settlement with the network.
Speaker 4: But it looks like that's probably what a going to happen.
Speaker 4: CBS is going to pay something to get this over
Speaker 4: with and wants to include an apology, but the guy
Speaker 4: involves it. I'm not apologizing. And the staff that works there,
Speaker 4: we've heard this over and over again, right New York Times,
Speaker 4: sixty Minutes, all these different left leaning organizations. The staff
Speaker 4: gets all up. We can't have. We can't give an
Speaker 4: inch on any of these things. The people at the
Speaker 4: top or the lawyers often have a different point of
Speaker 4: view of we need to settle this. It's only going
Speaker 4: to get more expensive. People settle these kind of things
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, if they do, I'll be really disappointed.
Speaker 5: You can't settle it.
Speaker 2: I'll be interested to see if they do or not.
Speaker 4: I'm having this conversation with my kids the other day
Speaker 4: about why lawyers recommend settling things when you did nothing wrong.
Speaker 2: It's just a dollars and cents question. Often.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I were a smarter lawyer than their lawyers,
Speaker 5: I'd say, you're going to be handling one of these
Speaker 5: suits every week and a half to I don't know,
Speaker 5: four days if you settle this, Oh you edited it
Speaker 5: made me look bad or made me unhappy.
Speaker 2: No, you can't settle this suit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wonder. I wonder where it's going or how
Speaker 4: it's going to turn out. But anyway, let's play the clips,
Speaker 4: the actual clips. So this is one version of the
Speaker 4: question and answer clip seventy one there between Bill Whitaker
Speaker 4: and Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: But it seems that Prime Minister Net and Yah who
Speaker 2: is not listening?
Speaker 7: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
Speaker 7: in a number of movements in that region by Israel
Speaker 7: that were very much prompted by or a result of
Speaker 7: many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
Speaker 7: in the region.
Speaker 2: I'm mostly reminded listening to that what a dope she is?
Speaker 4: She was a dope. But here's the same question, different answer.
Speaker 4: But it seems that Prime Minister net and Yah who
Speaker 4: is not listening, We're not.
Speaker 7: Going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United
Speaker 7: States to be clear about where we stand on the
Speaker 7: need for this war to end.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a tough one. I mean, not the legal part.
Speaker 4: I'm not interested in that part. But that's a tough
Speaker 4: one from a like even a news standpoint, I mean
Speaker 4: because normally, yeah, you're interviewing, whether it's a politician or
Speaker 4: a culture whoever, you tried it. You just try to
Speaker 4: get it down to the answer. You had a question,
Speaker 4: and you want the answer, and you want to give
Speaker 4: the answer to the people who are watching or listening,
Speaker 4: and you want to be short and interesting and easily understood.
Speaker 4: But in the case of Kamala Harris, because she was
Speaker 4: such a meandering dope. God, the story is the long,
Speaker 4: meandering dopiness.
Speaker 2: That is the story. What she she doesn't say anything.
Speaker 4: Ever, I don't know from a like even a journalistic standpoint,
Speaker 4: would I think how you should handle that? I mean,
Speaker 4: if you had, unlike all other politicians, editing her at
Speaker 4: all was significant to the interview?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I get it.
Speaker 4: I mean, what was the total on the words there
Speaker 4: that I mentioned? This is from the New York Posts
Speaker 4: counting of it. She gave the total answer, which I
Speaker 4: don't think we you can. The whole thing is out now.
Speaker 4: I started watching yesterday. It's like an hour long, but
Speaker 4: the whole thing is out there, and I'll have to
Speaker 4: watch this later. They didn't er it in the sixty
Speaker 4: minutes interview, the whole thing at all. But Kamala Harris
Speaker 4: gave a one hundred and seventy nine word answer to
Speaker 4: that question, and then sixty minutes cut it down to
Speaker 4: twenty words, which still sounds dumb. She still sounds like
Speaker 4: she has no idea what she's talking about.
Speaker 5: Well, that first version was I was like, oh that's right, Yeah, boy,
Speaker 5: she's that dumb.
Speaker 2: But that's the trip.
Speaker 4: That's the twenty one that's the twenty word version that
Speaker 4: they edited it out to. I want to hear the
Speaker 4: whole herd seventy nine words? The hell does she say?
Speaker 4: Good Lord?
Speaker 5: Keeping in mind she only lost because of misogyny and
Speaker 5: racism according to the new head of the DNC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think what's going to come out
Speaker 4: of this? And like, looking at that New York Times subhead,
Speaker 4: people are gonna hear see Trump sues sixty minutes, turns
Speaker 4: out sixty minutes did edit it. I think that's what's
Speaker 4: going to be in the the ether of the conversation
Speaker 4: about this. Yeah, if if it becomes against the law
Speaker 4: to edit answers at all, I don't know how we
Speaker 4: would even move forward as a species, those of us
Speaker 4: who play clips for a living.
Speaker 5: And if you're not familiar with this, politicians, especially if
Speaker 5: they're in an even semi hostile forum, we'll try to
Speaker 5: filibuster you. Yeah, you'll ask them are you going to
Speaker 5: vote for the Jones Amendment? And five and a half
Speaker 5: minutes of rambling later, you'll find finally be like, can
Speaker 5: we readirect plays?
Speaker 2: And they do that intentionally, so you have to edit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good point right there. It's often to
Speaker 4: not have to answer the question and BORI to death,
Speaker 4: or knowing that you're going to have to get to
Speaker 4: a break at some point.
Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of horror movies. I just
Speaker 5: I don't take them. But if I want to be horrified,
Speaker 5: I'll sit around in daydream for five minutes about what
Speaker 5: it would have been like if Kamala had won and
Speaker 5: we were going one hundred miles per hour down the
Speaker 5: road of DEI and white guilt and men playing women's
Speaker 5: sports and squandering money, and the ridiculous USAID programs, a
Speaker 5: hundred different examples. It's too terrible to contemplate.
Speaker 2: We know, I believe in the parallel universe thing. I
Speaker 2: want to.
Speaker 4: I want Elon to put me on a spaceship to
Speaker 4: go to the parallel universe where she won and see
Speaker 4: how it's playing out.
Speaker 2: Holy cow, no kidding, man. You talk about a different
Speaker 2: next four years.
Speaker 5: Well, in foreign policy wise, what are our adversaries going
Speaker 5: to do with President Kamala in charge?
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joey the Armstrong and Getty Show See
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Show Joy three years are working together.
Speaker 4: This is the low moment, right so at the end
Speaker 4: of the last segment, you're about to hear it. I struggled.
Speaker 4: Joe said it was off the air. He said during
Speaker 4: the commercials, that is the worst moment. And thirty years
Speaker 4: of doing this show, listen this. Katie's already laughing.
Speaker 2: She will not soon be cleared. I can't wait to
Speaker 2: hear it again. I'm not looking forward to hearing it again.
Speaker 4: I can explain myself, I think, well, I can't really
Speaker 4: explain it, but I know what happened. Anyway, this is
Speaker 4: how it sounded. What you're about to hear happen like
Speaker 4: six minutes ago.
Speaker 5: Spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important as his sleep
Speaker 5: hope you are well, or the strong and geddy.
Speaker 8: Oh beautiful, beautiful.
Speaker 5: Again Michael, spacing off and daydreaming is incredibly important as
Speaker 5: his sleep, hope you are well, or all thet.
Speaker 2: So I was trying.
Speaker 4: I was in my mind what I was going to say,
Speaker 4: and usually, as a person who speaks for a living,
Speaker 4: what I have in my mind can come out of
Speaker 4: my mouth quite quickly eventually, yes, or an alternative version.
Speaker 4: And I've never felt physically this, I've never felt this before.
Speaker 4: My tongue it felt like it was three times its normal.
Speaker 2: Size, and it just or all norual. Something happened with
Speaker 2: my jaw on my tongue.
Speaker 4: I hope it's not the beginning of a horrible disease
Speaker 4: or something that I'm about to find out.
Speaker 2: And I feel bad about my giggling.
Speaker 4: Just all of a sudden, my mouth would not work
Speaker 4: or well see, I thought it was because if we're.
Speaker 5: Up against a hard break, which means there's no flexibility,
Speaker 5: we have to take it. At that very second, Michael
Speaker 5: will count us down last ten seconds. And I could
Speaker 5: see you looking down at your phone or notes or
Speaker 5: something like that as Michael was counting down, and as
Speaker 5: he got down a three to one, I could tell
Speaker 5: you weren't aware of it.
Speaker 2: And you looked up mid sentence.
Speaker 5: With one second left, and I assume your brain just
Speaker 5: locked up.
Speaker 4: Or all no on the I don't think that was
Speaker 4: it all nor because I was I don't think that
Speaker 4: was it because I was trying to read what it
Speaker 4: was alternative.
Speaker 2: I was trying to read and it just tung for out.
Speaker 4: Words are hard exactly a well or all no on
Speaker 4: the wow flat car.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I have been making my car payment or house payment
Speaker 4: as a broadcaster for forty one years.
Speaker 2: And that is the worst moment I've ever heard. It
Speaker 2: was a good run. That was my worst moment right there.
Speaker 5: I just came across, not long ago, one of the
Speaker 5: most beautiful, into touching things that I've seen in a
Speaker 5: very long time.
Speaker 2: And that is a farewell message from me, a love.
Speaker 2: Do you recognize that name?
Speaker 5: She was the young black woman who's elected the Congress
Speaker 5: in Utah.
Speaker 2: She'd been a mayor and stuff like that. She was
Speaker 2: the first.
Speaker 5: Black woman Republican in the House of Representatives and really
Speaker 5: interesting person. She died recently of brain cancer. And she
Speaker 5: wrote what she said not a good was not a
Speaker 5: goodbye message, but a thank you message.
Speaker 2: And it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 5: And again I wish I had time for more, but
Speaker 5: I'll give you a little bit of it, dear friends,
Speaker 5: fellow Americans in Utah. And so I'm taking up my
Speaker 5: pen not to say goodbye, but to say thank you
Speaker 5: and express my living wish for you and the America
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 2: And then she describes the end of the.
Speaker 5: Battle with brain cancer and why she and her family
Speaker 5: have decided that now it's time to just be with
Speaker 5: each other as posed more treatments. Anybody who's gone through
Speaker 5: that terrible experience notes which she's talking about. As mayor,
Speaker 5: member of Congress, and media commentator, I've seen the worst
Speaker 5: of petty politics, devisive rhetoric, and disappointing lapses of moral
Speaker 5: character by some. These same roles also provided me a
Speaker 5: front row seat and a backstage pass to be blessed
Speaker 5: and inspired by the courage, vision, and hope of America's
Speaker 5: finest daughters, sons, and citizens. Couching this column as a
Speaker 5: dying wish felt a little dramatic, even for a drama
Speaker 5: person like me. We are not certain how long the
Speaker 5: season of my battle will be, and I do want
Speaker 5: to share and reshare some things with the world that
Speaker 5: I passionately believe. I write all of this is my
Speaker 5: living wish and hopefully enduring wish for you. Let me
Speaker 5: tell you about the America I know. My parents immigrated
Speaker 5: into the United States with ten dollars in their pocket
Speaker 5: and a belief that the America they heard about really
Speaker 5: did exist as the land of opportunity. Through hard work
Speaker 5: and great sacrifice, they achieved success. So the America I
Speaker 5: came to know growing up was filled with all the
Speaker 5: excitement found in living the American dream. I was taught
Speaker 5: to love this country works and all, and I understand
Speaker 5: I had role to play in our nation's future. I
Speaker 5: learned to passionately believe in the possibilities and promise of America.
Speaker 5: Then she talks a lot about watching her mom and
Speaker 5: dad work our odd jobs to provide for the kids
Speaker 5: and the education that they got.
Speaker 4: God, I hate to turn this negative, but that's what
Speaker 4: I do. It makes me nuts that there are so
Speaker 4: many children of privilege on college campuses. I mean, you
Speaker 4: grew up an upper class lifestyle. Now you're at an
Speaker 4: expensive university and you're down and sad in our anxiety medicine,
Speaker 4: and because angry because you believe the.
Speaker 2: Country's so oft awful and you can't make it right.
Speaker 2: Oh right?
Speaker 5: That just to me, you know, I dole hands are
Speaker 5: the devil's playthings. That just shows the corrosive power of
Speaker 5: lack of purpose. And anyway, and this part I love too.
Speaker 5: Watching my mother and father work odd jobs in order
Speaker 5: to provide for us and maintain their independence taught me
Speaker 5: valuable lessons and personal responsibility.
Speaker 2: When tough times came. They didn't look to Washington.
Speaker 5: They looked within because the America they knew was centered
Speaker 5: in self reliance. The America I know is founded in
Speaker 5: the freedom self reliance always brings. What makes America great
Speaker 5: is the idea that when government is limited and decisions
Speaker 5: are made closest to the people they impact. People are free,
Speaker 5: free to work, free to live, free to choose, free
Speaker 5: to fail, and free to achieve. The America I know
Speaker 5: provides everyone an equal opportunity to be as unequal as
Speaker 5: they choose to be. We will have a link to
Speaker 5: this entire essay at Armstrong and Getty dot com. I
Speaker 5: suggest you very strongly you read it because there's a
Speaker 5: lot more to it.
Speaker 4: What said saying of whether you think you can or
Speaker 4: you think you can't, you're right, you're right. It reminds
Speaker 4: me of that with the philosophy of you either believe
Speaker 4: this is a country where you can work hard and
Speaker 4: make it or you don't. You believe that that's a
Speaker 4: lie that people tell you. I've heard Bruce Springsteen say
Speaker 4: that they push this lie that you work hard and
Speaker 4: you'll make it.
Speaker 2: F you Bruce, Oh my god, yeah.
Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Gatty, the Armstrong and getty Joe,