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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty arm Strong and jet Katy
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Speaker 3: I think one of the biggest mistakes, maybe the biggest
Speaker 3: through line of all for the way Biden's have been
Speaker 3: covered is the Bidens, it has regularly said, are good family,
Speaker 3: They're decent people, and I'm not here to tell you
Speaker 3: they're worse than the Trumps or worse than Nixon. But
Speaker 3: I'm here to tell you that the mythology that the
Speaker 3: Bidens are good people who don't lie is not born
Speaker 3: out by the facts, and that's increasingly front and center
Speaker 3: and sharp relief this week. We know that they didn't
Speaker 3: tell the truth about Biden inc We know that we
Speaker 3: know the president and the debate in twenty twenty against
Speaker 3: Donald Trump did not tell the truth when asked about
Speaker 3: Hunter's business. I'm not here to sit in moral judgment
Speaker 3: of them. I'm not here again to tell you that
Speaker 3: Joe Biden is a bigger liar by some metrics than
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. What I am here to tell you again
Speaker 3: is this has been a horrible mistake on the part
Speaker 3: of the media to treat the Bidens like they walk
Speaker 3: on water.
Speaker 2: That's Mark Alpern on his TV show last night. And
Speaker 2: it's not a TV show I called a TV show.
Speaker 2: It's on video. It's on YouTube or something.
Speaker 4: But there is a possibility that Biden will emerge after
Speaker 4: Trump derangement syndrome has faded in the year's fade and
Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff. I mean, he's already not
Speaker 4: well respected or liked by anybody. He could end up
Speaker 4: a very tail end of the list of presidents.
Speaker 2: I'd be shocked if he wasn't.
Speaker 4: And he's got no room for rehabilitation like Nixon did,
Speaker 4: who like went back up after Watergate because enough people
Speaker 4: respected his you know, political shops, foreign policy shops, a
Speaker 4: number of different things. Biden has got nowhere to go
Speaker 4: but down. I think the more people learn about.
Speaker 5: Him, I would agree. I think he was a miserable
Speaker 5: wreck as a president. And I'm here to tell you
Speaker 5: I can name a couple of Democrats. They did stuff
Speaker 5: I didn't love, but like Clinton, Clinton will rise as
Speaker 5: sure years go by in the estimation of how good
Speaker 5: a president he was. He was. You know, he was
Speaker 5: forced into it, but he was He was a bridge builder,
Speaker 5: a maker of coalitions, a compromiser, a triangulator in a.
Speaker 2: Way that got a hell of a lot done.
Speaker 5: And he shrunk the welfare state, friends, which the Republican
Speaker 5: Congress is unwilling to do right now.
Speaker 4: Some are trying even without getting into policies you agree
Speaker 4: with or not or whatever.
Speaker 2: Biden was. Biden is a complete fabrication.
Speaker 4: He just had a you know, Trump gets a lot
Speaker 4: of credit slash discredit for being such a salesman. That's
Speaker 4: what That's the only thing Biden had was gland having
Speaker 4: salesman vibe. Yeah, he was not particularly smart. His judgment
Speaker 4: was horrible. His whole life, he lied constantly.
Speaker 2: About things you don't need to lie about.
Speaker 4: You don't need to claim you're a truck driver or
Speaker 4: all these different things.
Speaker 2: Then arrested.
Speaker 4: It just full scholarship and then to hang on when
Speaker 4: you're dementia rid. In course, a lot of that's on
Speaker 4: jail because he was, you know, his brain didn't work.
Speaker 2: But he what a disaster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and hey, media, congratulations uncovering up for that guy.
Speaker 2: For all those years.
Speaker 5: They had the capacity for shame or introspection, they would
Speaker 5: be just devastated, but they don't so they'll be fine.
Speaker 4: But but but it is amazing Biden was able to
Speaker 4: build that brand that held on until fairly recently.
Speaker 2: My word is a Biden of just being, you know.
Speaker 4: A decent, honest god, the deepest, decent, honest family.
Speaker 2: And Mark Halprin, whose dad was friends with Joe Biden.
Speaker 4: By the way, Mark Halprin here to tell you no,
Speaker 4: the whole family, they lie, their crooks, they'll say anything
Speaker 4: to get ahead, and have always been that way.
Speaker 5: Correct, wild, miserable domestic policy, indefensible, miserable, indecisive foreign policy,
Speaker 5: projecting weakness around the globe with very few exceptions, and
Speaker 5: then just a Biden ink thing don't And how about
Speaker 5: the damn border? If he had been like four stars
Speaker 5: out of four on everything else and had thrown the
Speaker 5: border open of millions of people God knows who they
Speaker 5: are like he did, while all the while claiming the
Speaker 5: border was secure, which is it's astounding it actually happened anyway,
Speaker 5: that would be enough to indict his presidency.
Speaker 2: What a miserable wreck. And then presidency the.
Speaker 4: Biden inc thing with put in your kid, having your
Speaker 4: kid on the board of these companies and other countries
Speaker 4: and you're making all this money and they so they
Speaker 4: can get access to you and the phone.
Speaker 2: I mean, just it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of the stuff the Trump family's doing
Speaker 5: right now makes me really uncomfortable on that score too.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna be honest. But anyway, we're not talking about
Speaker 5: Trump now, we fill in the future. Yeah, yeah, and
Speaker 5: go ahead investigate that. To Halprin's point is the media
Speaker 5: can't hold Trump accountable for anybody because they've lost all credibility,
Speaker 5: and they rightfully have lost all credibility. Why would we
Speaker 5: believe anything you ever say, media, mainstream media after Hunter
Speaker 5: biden laptop or pretending Joe Biden's fine until you had
Speaker 5: no choice, just all these different things. There is a
Speaker 5: reason they are the lowest rated institution in America for
Speaker 5: trust they have. They have reaped precisely what they sold.
Speaker 4: Absolutely earned it. They put in the effort. They you know,
Speaker 4: they rolled up their sleeves, they laid the groundwork, step
Speaker 4: by step, earned their eight percent approval rating, and to
Speaker 4: their credit, they hung in there when things were tough,
Speaker 4: like when two hundred and forty American two hundred and
Speaker 4: forty million Americans were screaming Joe Biden's senile.
Speaker 2: They hung in there and they denied it. Right. I
Speaker 2: love profile and courage.
Speaker 4: I loved the counterfactuals people threw out of What if
Speaker 4: Joe Biden had debated. That's still not an answered question either.
Speaker 2: Whose idea was that? Who pushed him into that? Why
Speaker 2: did he agree to a bit? He asked for it?
Speaker 4: You remember with the heavily edited video Anytime Anywhere, You
Speaker 4: know that he challenged Trump to abate because everybody was
Speaker 4: wondering Willie debate, And he did, and he did it
Speaker 4: really early, which allowed enough time for the old switcher
Speaker 4: roof it did. But that's not it's not completely it's
Speaker 4: not in Taper Tapper's book. It's not completely known whose
Speaker 4: idea that was.
Speaker 5: That couldn't have been Jill's idea, I thought I read somewhere.
Speaker 5: I'm pretty sure it was Donalin, according to somebody, his
Speaker 5: campaign advisor and polster, who thought, we get the whispers
Speaker 5: are getting very very.
Speaker 2: Loud about he's senile.
Speaker 5: Just to summarize it, we need to go now early,
Speaker 5: a before he gets worse, and b to give herself
Speaker 5: a little time if if we need options later. But
Speaker 5: the thinking was, I don't want to wait two months
Speaker 5: to trot him out on a stage. Let's get him
Speaker 5: out there now.
Speaker 4: Well maybe since they were all deluding themselves, maybe they
Speaker 4: thought he'll go out there, he'll perform fairly well, like
Speaker 4: he did at the State of the Union or whatever,
Speaker 4: and then everybody will shut up about his brain until
Speaker 4: we get through this damned election.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm just real quick.
Speaker 5: I was reading about somebody mentioning the State of the
Speaker 5: Union yesterday and how immediately I came in the next
Speaker 5: day and I said, that was a coked up old
Speaker 5: man yelling his way through a teleprompter speech. Why pressure,
Speaker 5: Why is everybody in the media saying he set the
Speaker 5: concerns to rest last night with a really forceful speech, Jim,
Speaker 5: I mean, he was a man in command. Anybody who
Speaker 5: is either being honest or doesn't delude themselves would have
Speaker 5: said that was just weird.
Speaker 4: Right, But he didn't stand there slack jawed, glassy eyed,
Speaker 4: like he didn't know where he was like he did
Speaker 4: in the debate.
Speaker 5: Right, what's nonsense? Yeah, I watched, I watched Michael. You
Speaker 5: gotta give me my favorite. If you gotta play those clips,
Speaker 5: which one's your favorite?
Speaker 2: What did you mess with the American woman? And you
Speaker 2: gotta get it. Don't mess with them in w unless
Speaker 2: you want to get the best. Yeah, mark my words.
Speaker 4: I watched clips from the debate, which I hadn't seen
Speaker 4: in a long time.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: Trump's talking and he's standing with his mouth kind of
Speaker 4: hanging open sideways, and his eyes indicate he's just completely
Speaker 4: checked out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he looks like a cadaver. His skin tone
Speaker 2: was just cadavers. Yeah. That first what was it five minutes?
Speaker 2: Ten minutes?
Speaker 5: The verbal gaffs were so egregious. People don't talk now
Speaker 5: about the nonverbal issues like you're mentioning. He stood there
Speaker 5: looking like a guy waiting for the end in a
Speaker 5: retirement home.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: Trump handled it masterfully, too. He just let all that
Speaker 4: hang there. The one time he said, I don't know what.
Speaker 2: He just said. I don't think he knows what he
Speaker 2: said either.
Speaker 4: Other than that, he just let it hang out there,
Speaker 4: which was a good idea, right he understood.
Speaker 2: As a guy who's produced TV shows, he knew, oh
Speaker 2: this is over. Uh uh.
Speaker 4: I had one more point on that. Oh the other craziness.
Speaker 4: You said, you read something somewhere about this, but I
Speaker 4: still don't understand it. Why were they putting fake poles
Speaker 4: in front of him so he thought he was ahead
Speaker 4: when they never had one pole ever.
Speaker 2: Where Biden was winning. Why.
Speaker 5: I think the insiders sense that if they admitted the truth,
Speaker 5: he'd quit Biden.
Speaker 2: Biden would quit, really.
Speaker 5: He would get out, he would signal that he wasn't
Speaker 5: super confident, and then the polo season shumers would move
Speaker 5: in and they wanted to hang under their own seat,
Speaker 5: close to the seat of it.
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 4: I want to know if Jill had a role. I
Speaker 4: want to know if she had a role in the
Speaker 4: polls she said.
Speaker 5: I would be shocked if she did not, because I
Speaker 5: could see her. Remember, remember it came out and I
Speaker 5: don't know if Tapper. You know what, we got to
Speaker 5: quit calling a Tappers book because Alex what's his land
Speaker 5: Thomas name, Alex Thompson. I'll bet he wrote every damn
Speaker 5: word of it. They just put Jake Tapper's name on
Speaker 5: it because they wanted a celeb anyway. I remember hearing
Speaker 5: repeatedly that aids were told, or visitors or congress people
Speaker 5: or whatever were told, don't give him any bad news,
Speaker 5: which is a bizarre thing to do, because that's a
Speaker 5: bizarre instruction to give somebody meeting with the president.
Speaker 2: Because it would set him off emotionally.
Speaker 5: I don't know, or they were trying to build this
Speaker 5: fantasy land for the poor senile old man. They were
Speaker 5: literally gaslighting him that everything was going great for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: We were just speculating about.
Speaker 4: That might be fine if he wasn't gonna run again,
Speaker 4: and you know, you're just waiting out the term. Why
Speaker 4: give him bad news, you know, or something like that.
Speaker 4: But I would think if you actually wanted to win,
Speaker 4: you'd say, look, we're losing, so we need to change
Speaker 4: our message, and this is why we need to focus
Speaker 4: on you know, Michigan or whatever.
Speaker 2: As opposed to say we're winning.
Speaker 4: We're winning. And then he sits down with several interviews.
Speaker 4: What's his name from NBC who just quit?
Speaker 2: What's his name?
Speaker 4: I remember watching that interview when we were at the convention,
Speaker 4: and he sat there with.
Speaker 2: Why can't I think of his name the NBC.
Speaker 4: Nightly News or CBS Lester Holt. No, yeah, Lester hole
Speaker 4: that's NBC and said when he sat down with Lester.
Speaker 2: Holt and said I'm leading in the polls, I'm winning Jack,
Speaker 2: And I was like, what.
Speaker 5: So my theory was the reason they kept him in
Speaker 5: the dark like that and shined him on was that
Speaker 5: they wanted him out of the way. They just wanted
Speaker 5: him to sit there smiling and eating his cello. But
Speaker 5: you pointing out that they sent him to do interviews
Speaker 5: like that, that contradicts my theory.
Speaker 2: So no, I don't quite get it.
Speaker 5: If you have any great theory, mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 5: egeddy dot com, drop us an email or Texas four
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Speaker 4: I'm still reading the book again, which is hilarious. It's
Speaker 4: you describing to us something that you should have known
Speaker 4: and acting like it's a surprise. But there was after
Speaker 4: one of his press conferences where he hung around kind
Speaker 4: of long and got himself into trouble. Biden did answered
Speaker 4: some questions, looked confused. Jill went nuts when they all
Speaker 4: went So after the press conference, everybody goes back into
Speaker 4: a room to like have a post discussion, you know,
Speaker 4: like a post game, you know, rehash of how did
Speaker 4: it go.
Speaker 2: She walked in there to whose fault is this? Who
Speaker 2: allowed that to go on? Who didn't shut it down?
Speaker 4: And I mean she was hot, and as you mentioned earlier,
Speaker 4: that one handlered dude of hers, whatever his name was,
Speaker 4: he had the power to get people booted out if
Speaker 4: if she was unhappy, he would acts people. So you
Speaker 4: didn't want to get on the wrong side of her.
Speaker 4: But she was the one that got angry.
Speaker 2: About this stuff. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait till the
Speaker 2: full stories written on her. Anthony Bernall her top eight name.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'd ever heard of before, but
Speaker 4: he was a powerful, powerful guy inside the White House,
Speaker 4: no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: We got more on the way again. What's your theory?
Speaker 2: Why did they lie to him about the polls? Whose
Speaker 2: advantage of that was?
Speaker 5: Uh?
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Speaker 1: We do have some breaking news this morning. Literally Olivia's
Speaker 1: water has broke and she is anchoring the news now
Speaker 1: in active labor, early labor. She's still here. She's been
Speaker 1: doing the entire show. This is her decision to do this.
Speaker 2: I'd rather be at work than at the hospital.
Speaker 1: After we're done with this show, you should probably go.
Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
Speaker 1: Yay, Olivia, I'll do my best, I mean and a
Speaker 1: half three hours of news that's right in contractions. I
Speaker 1: think that's a first for CBS six.
Speaker 4: Okay, two things on this first, Katie, H Joe and
Speaker 4: I required that you have your baby on the air.
Speaker 2: It would really help with the show. I was just
Speaker 2: gonna say that was my move. If you could somehow
Speaker 2: make that happen.
Speaker 5: She goes into labor on the air, You give birth
Speaker 5: on the air, you got it.
Speaker 4: But the whole Yeah, I'll stick around through weather, in traffic,
Speaker 4: and I'm gonna I'm good.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to figure out if this woman has any
Speaker 6: other kids, because that does not seem like a first Okay, yeah,
Speaker 6: it's like her sixth kid. To say, she said she
Speaker 6: was way too calm for that if she was the
Speaker 6: first time.
Speaker 5: If it's her sixth kid, that kid's gonna come like
Speaker 5: an eighth eight year old sliding on a slide in
Speaker 5: a park.
Speaker 4: You are right, though, that has not your first kid, vibes, Yeah,
Speaker 4: based on my experience.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, and she's CBS New York too, so she's like
Speaker 5: one step away from the big big chair, so she's
Speaker 5: thinking labor.
Speaker 2: Maybor I could have Pelly's job. Oh that's funny. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna stick around through uh at least traffic local sports.
Speaker 5: Non.
Speaker 2: I got wow? Is that what it sounds like? How
Speaker 2: did that? Well? I've heard a number of sounds.
Speaker 4: Actually I almost missed Sam because I was over at
Speaker 4: the Jama Juice, so I didn't hear all the sounds.
Speaker 6: But there was there's the hospital where I was born
Speaker 6: back in the day. There was a bar across the
Speaker 6: street called the Waiting Room. Oh cool, and it had
Speaker 6: a red phone on the wall that was connected to
Speaker 6: the hospital so all the dads could get that phone.
Speaker 2: That is awesome. Wow. Wow, Now that's that's marketing. Love it.
Speaker 4: I needed that the jumba. I was told I had
Speaker 4: plenty of time, so I went to the Duma Juice
Speaker 4: and I got back. I damn near missed it because
Speaker 4: they were wrong lying lying nurses when you need a job,
Speaker 4: but you need a jump exactly.
Speaker 2: I was getting erasmataz. I needed a shrubbery whorl spellble
Speaker 2: to you. Wow.
Speaker 4: So the big beautiful bill passed last night. I suppose
Speaker 4: we ought to touch on what's in that and what's not.
Speaker 4: Some of the things horrify me.
Speaker 5: Plus speaking of being horrified, I'm disappointed by a Supreme
Speaker 5: Court ruling that just came out. It's not bad, but
Speaker 5: it's not.
Speaker 4: Great, you know, And it's going to go to the Senate,
Speaker 4: and who knows what it's got? Whoop there he goes, Yeah,
Speaker 4: who knows, we got.
Speaker 2: More on the way, Stay.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 7: Republicans pulled an all nighter to get this done, with
Speaker 7: last minute deal making to win over a group of holdouts.
Speaker 7: That bill passed two fifteen to fourteen one. The two
Speaker 7: gop knows Thomas Massey, Warren Davidson, Andy Harris, who is
Speaker 7: House Freedom Caucus chairman, voted present. So Republicans in blue
Speaker 7: states got a bigger salt detuction, that is, the state
Speaker 7: and local tax insuction cap went from ten thousand to
Speaker 7: forty thousand. Fiscal conservatives one on work requirements to Medicaid
Speaker 7: they will start earlier twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: And in the end.
Speaker 7: Bill most of these holdouts gave.
Speaker 4: It play play Speaker Johnson there and his explanation what
Speaker 4: happened overnight.
Speaker 2: Everybody's conservative.
Speaker 4: We believe in limited government, and we believe in individual
Speaker 4: freedom and the rule of law and peace through strength
Speaker 4: and fis responsibility and free markets and human dignity.
Speaker 2: The things that are all wrapped into this bill.
Speaker 4: You believe in fiscal responsibility, all right, all of you,
Speaker 4: We all do. Evidently he believes the First Amendment also
Speaker 4: protected bull crap as speech, because that was some But
Speaker 4: Mike Johnson will probably say.
Speaker 2: To you, dude, you can't sell fiscal responsibility. Nobody wants it.
Speaker 5: If we went hardcore at the waste, fraud and abuse
Speaker 5: in medicaid, we'd lose the next election. We wouldn't get
Speaker 5: anything done that you like, so shut up, and he'd
Speaker 5: probably be right, you do.
Speaker 2: That's disappointing.
Speaker 4: You do mostly get the government you deserve, and we
Speaker 4: want the American people want. George Well has been saying
Speaker 4: this since I was in my twenties. I remember watching
Speaker 4: him on like Your ABC this week when it used
Speaker 4: to be him, Kochie Roberts and Sam Donaldson sitting around
Speaker 4: the table way back in the day, and George will say,
Speaker 4: people talk about polarization in Washington, d C. No, there
Speaker 4: is great agreement in this town. There's almost entirely agreement
Speaker 4: in this town. The agreement is that we want a
Speaker 4: dollar eighty worth of government for the price of a dollar.
Speaker 4: Because both parties do it over and over and over again.
Speaker 4: No matter what happens, we want a dollars eighty worth
Speaker 4: of government services, but we only want to pay a
Speaker 4: dollar for it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm torn. The Patreon in me says, keep yelling
Speaker 5: about this stuff, no matter if there are votes or not,
Speaker 5: because it will at least less than the damage or
Speaker 5: the race toward insolvency, or someday the world will come around.
Speaker 5: And as Tom mcclintocky has said to us, no, you
Speaker 5: don't abandon your principles just because nobody else seems to
Speaker 5: be with you, because when the world comes around to them,
Speaker 5: how are you gonna feel then. But at the same time,
Speaker 5: in terms of electoral politics or like, if our job
Speaker 5: here was to get Republicans elected because it's better than Democrats,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's not our job. We just try to
Speaker 5: describe the world to you and tell you what we think.
Speaker 5: But if our job was purely to get Republicans elected,
Speaker 5: I could see making the case that, hey, leave the
Speaker 5: negative stuff out, claim it was fiscally responsible, claim it's
Speaker 5: way better than Biden would passed, which is unquestionably true,
Speaker 5: and forget your stupid little principles.
Speaker 4: That's what the Fox reporter said, and blue state Republicans
Speaker 4: got a win, and that they got the salt deductions raised. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's like three of them, and all the rest of
Speaker 4: us in the entire country got screwed by it.
Speaker 2: Don't present that as a win.
Speaker 5: Meanwhile, if you have a kid or a grandchild, or
Speaker 5: you are just the decent sort of person who plants
Speaker 5: oaks so that you know future generations can enjoy the shade,
Speaker 5: you understand that we're spending our.
Speaker 2: Children into oblivion.
Speaker 5: We will not be hammered with the suffocating bills for
Speaker 5: our irresponsibility.
Speaker 2: They will. That's what That's the part I can't get past.
Speaker 2: I will not be that person. I won't.
Speaker 4: There's a fair amount of repealing Green New Deal stuff,
Speaker 4: that's great. There's also the work requirements for Medicare that
Speaker 4: was mentioned in that clip.
Speaker 2: That is good stuff.
Speaker 5: It's just a pretty half half measure, but at least
Speaker 5: it's something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as somebody pointed out, forget who it was earlier,
Speaker 4: I read that what would have been nice is if
Speaker 4: the Republican Party came in and their bill was not
Speaker 4: that big, but even more beautiful in that it would
Speaker 4: have just been extend the tax cuts, get rid of
Speaker 4: the Green New Deal, crap the end.
Speaker 2: Right, But yeah, that's not what we did.
Speaker 5: No, No, some of it because silly stuff Trump promised
Speaker 5: on the campaign trail. But this is good news. An
Speaker 5: indoor tanning excise tax that was eliminated in the original
Speaker 5: bill will be maintained.
Speaker 2: Does anybody know what that means? Well? I actually do,
Speaker 2: But do you really want to know in tanning? Yes,
Speaker 2: as opposed to standing out in the sun.
Speaker 5: Right, there's no tax on standing out in the sun.
Speaker 5: Good yet not yet, Pasterns. You'll take my leathery skin
Speaker 5: when you peel it off my cold dead No, that's
Speaker 5: getting disgusting. Yeah, and well, because they needed to make
Speaker 5: it at least within one hundred miles of being fiscally responsible,
Speaker 5: they had to add some revenue to it because they
Speaker 5: were cutting revenue out of like tips being taxed and
Speaker 5: social Security being taxed.
Speaker 2: You know, it was funny.
Speaker 5: I was with some learned gentlemen last night and some
Speaker 5: of the guys who were collecting Social Security are like,
Speaker 5: why should I not pay tax because I'm sixty five,
Speaker 5: But that guy over there who's sixty two or forty
Speaker 5: two should be paying tax. And the argument is, well,
Speaker 5: that's Social Security's money you paid in blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: But these guys have enough income that they're not depending
Speaker 5: on Social Security.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I'm torn on that one because it seems absurd for
Speaker 5: the government to pretend to hold onto your money then
Speaker 5: give it back to you that it's then taxed. So
Speaker 5: that's probably a longer discussion than we have time for
Speaker 5: right now.
Speaker 2: But so I didn't.
Speaker 4: I just was reading some of my favorite tweeters see
Speaker 4: what they were saying about the Big Beautiful Bill.
Speaker 2: I got distracted by Charles C. W.
Speaker 4: Cook Naster review his tweet He's read further along in
Speaker 4: Original Sin than I have the Tapper book. One of
Speaker 4: the lines in Original Sin, five people were running the
Speaker 4: country and Biden was at best a senior member of
Speaker 4: the board, says one Democratic insider to Jake tappern Alex Thompson.
Speaker 4: For this book, five people were running the country and
Speaker 4: Biden was at best a senior member of the board.
Speaker 5: Meaning he was an important advisor to his advisors who
Speaker 5: are actually making the decisions.
Speaker 4: And Charles Wright for a good example, see the attempted
Speaker 4: student loan theft people round Biden used his infirmity to
Speaker 4: try to steal money to pay off.
Speaker 2: Their own loans. Corruption. Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow, there's another giant blockbuster book to come, isn't there. Yeah,
Speaker 5: although they're all people closer to the center, they won't
Speaker 5: ever talk when all the particulars are dead.
Speaker 2: I think, though, there will be a book.
Speaker 4: I mean I read stuff about you know, I read
Speaker 4: a lot of books about long dead administrations.
Speaker 2: I mean some of the stuff.
Speaker 4: That goes on that went on and Nixon in the
Speaker 4: White House or the lbjor I.
Speaker 2: Mean, it's just mind blowing. But if you find out
Speaker 2: about it fifty years later, right right, and generally learn nothing.
Speaker 5: Anyway, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2: The only thing you can't control it. It turns out the.
Speaker 4: Only way you can control your government is make it
Speaker 4: as small as possible.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 5: Uh. And of course all of this big mess is
Speaker 5: going to go to the Senate where it will be
Speaker 5: changed fundamentally, and then back to the House and that's
Speaker 5: when the real work begins, according to old hands, old
Speaker 5: Capitol Hill hands.
Speaker 2: So that's enough of that for now. So this is
Speaker 2: aproposar nothing.
Speaker 5: But we were talking earlier about the Chicago Sun Times
Speaker 5: had a summer section, which it actually distributed to other
Speaker 5: papers too, of all sorts of things to do in
Speaker 5: the summertime, including a summer reading list, and it was
Speaker 5: prepared with AI and AI hallucinated a bunch of books
Speaker 5: and or authors and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But there's more.
Speaker 5: For example, in an article called hanging Out inside America's
Speaker 5: growing hammock Culture, the quote unquote writer who is in
Speaker 5: charge of the section quotes a doctor Jennifer Campos, a
Speaker 5: profession a professor of leisure studies at the University of Colorado.
Speaker 4: A professor of leisure studies. They see things are so
Speaker 4: crazy in colleges. Now, yeah, I didn't even blanket that,
Speaker 4: even though it's made up.
Speaker 5: I remember somebody taking leisure studies classes when I was
Speaker 5: in school, and I.
Speaker 4: Thought that was hilarious. Let your studies. Yeah, I certainly
Speaker 4: start calling me doctor Jack. I certainly have my PhD. Please,
Speaker 4: you've been leisurely since the day I met you, and
Speaker 4: I'm the What is it if you've like accomplished a
Speaker 4: much in a field and they give you an honorary doctorate,
Speaker 4: That's what I should have, an honorary doctorate, right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Anyway, so let's see University of Colorado Leisure Studies oh
Speaker 5: in her twenty twenty three research paper published in the
Speaker 5: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. A search for Campos in the
Speaker 5: Journal of Contemporary Ethnography does not return any results. Well,
Speaker 5: it's not exactly clear why the AI said this. The
Speaker 5: only mention of Jennifer Campos on the University of Colorado's
Speaker 5: website is about the graduation of a student named Jennifer
Speaker 5: Campos who works in advertising. The same article also mentions
Speaker 5: a quote twenty twenty three Outside magazine interview with Preana
Speaker 5: me Media, the author of Nowhere for Very Long, a
Speaker 5: book about van life, A hammock is basically my most
Speaker 5: essential piece of furniture. Uscaglia quotes are as saying in
Speaker 5: this AI generated thing. Outside interviewed Media once in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 5: but hammocks were not discussed.
Speaker 2: Not once.
Speaker 5: Outside also did an article about her favorite van life
Speaker 5: year in twenty seventeen, but she did not mention hammocks,
Speaker 5: so the quote included does not show up on the
Speaker 5: Internet outside of that article. There are examples like that
Speaker 5: throughout the section, and several of them have been pointed
Speaker 5: out by this journalist. Publica.
Speaker 4: So it made up a book and then in some
Speaker 4: steps it would completely make up the human being.
Speaker 2: Or sometimes the.
Speaker 4: Person was real and they had a book but didn't
Speaker 4: talk about the topic. I mean, so there's all kinds
Speaker 4: of different levels of or the priest who was real,
Speaker 4: but they didn't study what they said they studied, and
Speaker 4: there's no record of them ever discussing this topic in
Speaker 4: their lives. As a PhD in leisure studies and my
Speaker 4: groundbreaking work on donuts prior to nap, yeah, I can
Speaker 4: appreciate the efforts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that is amazing.
Speaker 4: You want a good nap, eat a couple of donuts, man,
Speaker 4: I don't know. Wait for the sugar esh to subside.
Speaker 4: You will snore.
Speaker 2: Oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: Although at the same time, like I was asking chat
Speaker 5: GPT a question, you've had the same experience. It delivers
Speaker 5: in like three seconds, and Katie just did too. We
Speaker 5: were talking about it off here. It delivers to you
Speaker 5: like the best condensed magazine article on the topic you've
Speaker 5: ever seen. If you need some advice or to solve
Speaker 5: a problem or what have you, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: But then it'll hallucinate this crap.
Speaker 4: Go figure, I had a question about the brake pads
Speaker 4: on our Telaria, which is a very popular electric bike.
Speaker 4: Suron's and Tailarias are very popular, kind of pricey, but.
Speaker 2: Kids love them. Sonds like space Aliens from Star Trek.
Speaker 2: But a cool freaking thing I wrote. I hadn't written
Speaker 2: it much. I wrote it the other day Downtown. God,
Speaker 2: that thing is awesome. I would have loved that when
Speaker 2: I was younger.
Speaker 4: But I had a question about brake pads and you
Speaker 4: know what would be a good upgrade for brake pads
Speaker 4: live and it gave me so much great information with
Speaker 4: the links to the YouTube videos to show me and
Speaker 4: just it's incredibunbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Oh hey, speaking of space Aliens, I was raving about
Speaker 5: and or one of the Star Wars properties there on
Speaker 5: Disney Plus.
Speaker 4: Remind me that reminds me there is a new movie
Speaker 4: coming out. Okay, go ahead, Okay. Wow, it's a chain
Speaker 4: of reminders. So the more I watch it, the more.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 5: It is, you know, the original Star Wars, which came
Speaker 5: out when we're like twelve years old. So I've got
Speaker 5: this like weird inappropriate feeling of our generation. Are the
Speaker 5: true arbiters because we were the perfect you know audience.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: Many years have passed, many zillions of dollars have been spent,
Speaker 5: so you know whatever. But the original Star Wars movies
Speaker 5: were written, as George Lucas has said, in kind of
Speaker 5: a buck Rogers adventure, the beautiful Princess, the swash buckling guy, intentionally,
Speaker 5: you know, broad strokes and fun, a little more comic, bookish,
Speaker 5: and or is written as if A it happened, and
Speaker 5: b it was about the life and death resistance against
Speaker 5: an oppressive regime with the secret financiers of the rebel
Speaker 5: efforts and the factionalism and you know, moral ambivalence, and
Speaker 5: it's just, oh, it's so good.
Speaker 4: If you want something dumber, my son pointed out, there's
Speaker 4: a new Marvel movie coming out.
Speaker 2: Iron Man is back as a villain.
Speaker 4: Oh no, and he fights the new Thunderbolts that I
Speaker 4: like so much among other people.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 4: We got the perfect text to send us off on
Speaker 4: a Memorial Day weekend of eight a text of eight
Speaker 4: coming up, among other things.
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong. Stay tuned.
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Speaker 2: They even put out a promo. Look at this at.
Speaker 3: Ikia, We're proud to unveil six new stores and build
Speaker 3: with trust care.
Speaker 5: And wait, why do we have seven extra support beams?
Speaker 2: Okay, nobody panic? Can everyone check under their feet for
Speaker 2: the sleuth a bomb? No, don't you dare call task rabbit.
Speaker 2: I'm a man. I built a shoe wreck once. See
Speaker 2: that looks better already, Ikia. Anyone know what these three
Speaker 2: extra scruis are for? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so the very people building the Ikea become confused
Speaker 5: jack in the style of Okay, I.
Speaker 4: Got a fair amount of Ikea furniture when we first
Speaker 4: moved into this house.
Speaker 2: Ah tedious, man, tedious, We got this text.
Speaker 4: It's a perfect one to send us off on a
Speaker 4: Memorial Day weekend.
Speaker 2: Hateful text. You ready sure?
Speaker 4: It's laughable that you will continue to bash transsexuals, liberal
Speaker 4: arts programs, kids still going after Kamala. You're a pathetic joke,
Speaker 4: soft ass hands and a fat ass.
Speaker 2: Do better. Look, I'm working on trimming my ass and
Speaker 2: I have I have callouses. I can show them to you.
Speaker 2: Soft ass hands.
Speaker 4: That's just inaccurate, man, A fat ass I don't think
Speaker 4: you should have used the word ass twice in one sentence.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a rough draft sent in haste. If
Speaker 5: you'd like to, you know, uh, massage that.
Speaker 2: A little bit and re send it. That's fine, we'll
Speaker 2: read it. I like do I like to do better
Speaker 2: as an ending, though, I do like that I show
Speaker 2: my name or just my number.
Speaker 5: Hilarious, Michael. Oh so wait a second, now I want
Speaker 5: to get into the particulars. So we're bashing what now?
Speaker 5: Can you reread that?
Speaker 4: Um? It's laughable that you will continue to bash transsexuals.
Speaker 2: Liberal arts programs, Kait, Hang on a second, Hang on
Speaker 2: a second, Hang on a second.
Speaker 5: Why is it pathetic to bash liberal arts programs that are,
Speaker 5: by every estimation.
Speaker 2: Not teaching. I don't think kids aren't studying.
Speaker 5: I think liberal arts programs are great if they're done properly.
Speaker 5: I don't remember bashing kids bashing kids, But now boys
Speaker 5: who compete against girls?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely till the day I die. Thanks
Speaker 2: for your input. I'm looking back to previous texts from
Speaker 2: this person.
Speaker 4: Foolish, idiotic, stupid, white, privileged snowflake boomer pathetic.
Speaker 2: So this is a theme going way back.
Speaker 4: From this.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry about your anger problems. They don't like it. Hey, kids,
Speaker 2: it's that time again with Armstrong and Getdy. I have
Speaker 2: never watched a show or listened to a show that
Speaker 2: I hate. If I don't like it, I find something else. Anyway,
Speaker 2: here's your host for final thoughts, Joe getting.
Speaker 5: All right, let's get a final thought from everybody on
Speaker 5: the crew to wrap up the show today. How about
Speaker 5: Michaelangelow pressing the buttons leading us off.
Speaker 4: Michael, I will confess to gatting easy college credits.
Speaker 2: I had probably six units.
Speaker 7: Let's say one was aerobics, the other one was Recreation
Speaker 7: and Leisure studies.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I have taken those classes, and yes they
Speaker 4: were just for fun.
Speaker 5: Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 6: I have to say I have jumped on the AI
Speaker 6: baby train. They're turning all of the adults into babies
Speaker 6: and making them talk with AI.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hilarious. Now Joe doesn't like it. I like it too.
Speaker 4: No, Joe doesn't like babies, but I find it incredibly charming.
Speaker 2: It's entertainment for weak minds. I won't hit it. JACKI
Speaker 2: a final thought.
Speaker 4: I actually saw it with like Joe Rogan, and I
Speaker 4: asked Hanson, we do that because they're doing that with
Speaker 4: radio shows now where you got like you and me
Speaker 4: as babies, and they use the audio from our show.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good bearded babies.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: My final thought is I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 2: tell you.
Speaker 5: The Supreme Court has affirmed the Yoklahoma Supreme Court's decision.
Speaker 2: Of block a religious public Bark Charter school.
Speaker 5: Weirdly, it was four to four because Amy Cony Barrett
Speaker 5: had recused herself. This might come up again. It's a
Speaker 5: bad decision. I will tell you why later on Awesome.
Speaker 4: We are Armstrong and Getty wrapping up an other grueling
Speaker 4: four hour workday.
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Speaker 2: Many pleasures who wait you there, We'll see you tomorrow.
Speaker 2: God bless America. I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 6: Up.
Speaker 5: Stop stop, Okay, it's so interesting and so vicious and horrible,
Speaker 5: and it's so beautiful, so bad, it's almost good.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. I can I understand the
Speaker 2: word you're said, So let's go out with it.
Speaker 5: By I don't know whether to stand on my head
Speaker 5: and poop Wood Nichols or or or move into the
Speaker 5: woods and live like a bear.
Speaker 2: I don't know what to do. That first trick would
Speaker 2: be cool. I'd pay to see then that I note,
Speaker 2: Thanks all very much, Armstrong and Getty