Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Kaddy.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jacation and now Key arms On live from
Speaker 2: Studio C Dimly letting Room People, then the Bowels or
Speaker 2: the Armstrong Yety Communications Compound. How y'all doing? First, the
Speaker 2: disappointing news to some of you. Joe is still not here.
Speaker 2: He's still on vacation. I can hear the groans. I
Speaker 2: can hear the groans all across this great nation. The
Speaker 2: seventies stations were on across this great station, people groaning.
Speaker 2: That's still just me back from vacation. Joe is off
Speaker 2: for a couple of more days, as he is taking
Speaker 2: what he keeps calling the longest vacation of his life.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure it is with him and his wife
Speaker 2: Judy celebrating their fortieth wedding anniversary, which is obviously a
Speaker 2: big number, any big deal. And he'll be back I
Speaker 2: think on Friday or sooner or later, or whenever, whenever
Speaker 2: he gets around to it. But man, there's a lot
Speaker 2: to talk about. Both things I want to share from
Speaker 2: fun stuff I did over vacation or things I learned
Speaker 2: over vacation or whatever, and just stuff that's in the
Speaker 2: news and really look forward to it. Michael, how are
Speaker 2: you doing. How is your time off? Did you do anything?
Speaker 2: Did you take any time off?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I took it easy. I took it very easy. Take
Speaker 2: it easy. How are you at taking it easy? I
Speaker 2: am terrible at taking it easy. I am not good
Speaker 2: at it at all.
Speaker 4: I just got stuff done around the house, so nothing exciting,
Speaker 4: you know. I did the stuff that you don't want
Speaker 4: to get to. But you have no excuse at this point.
Speaker 4: You've got lots of time to do it.
Speaker 2: I did a fair amount of that too. And I
Speaker 2: am not good at relaxing. I never have been. And
Speaker 2: it made me wonder about someday in the distance future,
Speaker 2: when I retire, what that will look like. I am
Speaker 2: not good at relaxing. My son said to me yesterday,
Speaker 2: my sixteen year old, because I was talking to him
Speaker 2: about this, and he said, you know, I could do
Speaker 2: nothing all day, every day the rest of my life,
Speaker 2: I'd be perfectly happy. So I guess he's built that way.
Speaker 2: He got those genes somewhere. Yeah, I can't do that.
Speaker 2: I can't either, I absolutely cannot. So I'm happy to
Speaker 2: be back at work and happy to be back in
Speaker 2: my routine. Human beings, like dogs, really like routines. And
Speaker 2: I suppose you know, if you don't have a job,
Speaker 2: you get some sort of routine like my parents, and
Speaker 2: my dad gets up in the morning and he goes
Speaker 2: down to the McDonald's and argues about politics with some
Speaker 2: other old retired guys. He's got a routine. You gotta
Speaker 2: have a routine. Of course, we're going to dedicate an
Speaker 2: entire hour to Travis and Taylor finally getting married over
Speaker 2: the weekend. We got a full hour on that. We'll
Speaker 2: do one segment on what the celebrities wore, We'll do
Speaker 2: a segment on the vows, and all kinds of different stuff.
Speaker 2: Would do that later. That was what my niece called
Speaker 2: our royal wedding, Our royal wedding that happened in Madison
Speaker 2: Square Garden over the weekend. Look forward to that. Biggest
Speaker 2: political stories out there, and I have no interest in
Speaker 2: talking about politics. One thing I thought about over the
Speaker 2: last week and a half is how little I care
Speaker 2: about talking about politics. I love issues, I like policy,
Speaker 2: but man, just the day to day crap that fills
Speaker 2: cable news channels and social media. I have so little
Speaker 2: interest in and it has so little impact on anybody's life.
Speaker 2: But it is a pretty big story that this Platner
Speaker 2: guy running for the Senate up in Maine, who at
Speaker 2: least had a shot of flipping a seat which could
Speaker 2: determine who controls the Senate, which is a very, very
Speaker 2: big deal in our system. Graham Platner is in trouble.
Speaker 2: A woman came forward over the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 2: flat out accusing him of rape, with the long detailed
Speaker 2: story on camera on This is not the New York
Speaker 2: Times piece from several weeks ago that had a bunch
Speaker 2: of women kind of vaguely alleging him live that he
Speaker 2: wasn't a good date. I mean, it was so weak.
Speaker 2: This is this woman was in that piece. She wasn't
Speaker 2: at that time talking about being raped. She didn't want
Speaker 2: to be a rape victim, but she she decided she
Speaker 2: just couldn't handle this guy being in the Senate, know one,
Speaker 2: what kind of guy is, even though she agrees with
Speaker 2: his politics. And we'll get into that a little bit later.
Speaker 2: We'll play some of that interview she did with Jake
Speaker 2: Tapper on CNN. It's very believable sounding, and it's it's
Speaker 2: definitely bad, and you know it's bad and got teeth.
Speaker 2: Given the fact that Chuck Schumer and Rocan and all
Speaker 2: kinds of powerful Democrats that had been supporting Platner have
Speaker 2: now asked him to get out of the race. The
Speaker 2: top Democrats in the country have asked this guy to
Speaker 2: get out of the race. So that's when you know
Speaker 2: it is almost certainly over. But if you haven't heard
Speaker 2: that the details of that story, we'll get into that
Speaker 2: lit bit later. I know the fourth July at this
Speaker 2: point is in the rearview mirror. But man, there was
Speaker 2: so much good stuff over the fourth of July that
Speaker 2: I came across just everywhere social media and various publications
Speaker 2: and TV shows I watched and everything like that about
Speaker 2: this great country that can't wait to get into that
Speaker 2: stuff and share it. There was also some ridiculous pushback
Speaker 2: against America that we have to talk about, including the
Speaker 2: Mayor of New York City and his insane address that
Speaker 2: he put out for the fourth of July, blasting the
Speaker 2: United States of America for that whole socialist America, hating
Speaker 2: crowd out there that is growing in power. It would
Speaker 2: seem the Socialists won another seat in Michigan a couple
Speaker 2: of days ago, unseated another what sixteen term normal democrat
Speaker 2: lost to another Socialist, So they are continuing to fletch.
Speaker 2: So they're weedy. We don't believe in work muscles. Got
Speaker 2: more on that too, And then, of course the United
Speaker 2: States lost in soccer yesterday to a much better team.
Speaker 2: That was the problem with that. The team we were
Speaker 2: playing was much, much, much better.
Speaker 4: Did you go to a fireworks show or anything like that?
Speaker 2: Kinda not a lot. I live in a town that
Speaker 2: hates America. It's amazing how little, how few American flags
Speaker 2: there were in the town I live in. It was disappointing.
Speaker 2: My son actually said, because we were driving around. I
Speaker 2: don't know if it was day before or on fourth
Speaker 2: of July. I said, how come I don't see more
Speaker 2: American flags? I said, because you live in a town
Speaker 2: full of people that mostly hate the country, which is true.
Speaker 2: And if you drive twenty miles to areas where people
Speaker 2: love the country, there were tons of flags and a
Speaker 2: lot more firework going on. But such is the deal.
Speaker 2: There's a great poll that came out over the weekend.
Speaker 2: We'll get into the details of that also. But for
Speaker 2: people who lean right with their politics, Republicans, their love
Speaker 2: of the country is steady no matter who's president, very
Speaker 2: little wavering whether it's one of their guys or not
Speaker 2: one of their guys in the presidency. Whereas Democrats they
Speaker 2: love the country and it's a democratic president, they hate
Speaker 2: the country when it's not a democratic president. It goes
Speaker 2: up and down like that, which is interesting, isn't it.
Speaker 2: One line is straight, the other one goes up and
Speaker 2: down with the administrations, which I think means something about
Speaker 2: the psychology of people and how they vote. But again
Speaker 2: we'll talk about that a little bit later too. Trump's
Speaker 2: at NATO right now with some major decisions and conversations
Speaker 2: to be had about the future of NATO and how
Speaker 2: much money they're going to pony up. And in particular,
Speaker 2: Trump is meeting with Zelensky tomorrow and then already has
Speaker 2: scheduled immediately after that meeting with President Zelensky a phone
Speaker 2: call with Vladimir Putin, and that could be a big deal.
Speaker 2: Trump's meeting with the leader of Turkey. They're going to
Speaker 2: talk about whether or not they get some of our
Speaker 2: very very very cool technology in terms of our planes
Speaker 2: or not, and lots of stuff there. We'll probably talk
Speaker 2: to Mike Lions at some point this week about that. Definitely.
Speaker 2: I'm looking up at the TV man. All of the
Speaker 2: political shows, your cable news shows are big on this
Speaker 2: Plantner story. If he has to drop out, I think
Speaker 2: Susan Collins holds on, and that means Republicans most likely
Speaker 2: are a lock to hold onto the Senate, which is
Speaker 2: a big deal for Trump, who's probably going to be
Speaker 2: impeached somewhere between one and fifty times over the next
Speaker 2: two years when the Democrats take back the House. Have
Speaker 2: lots to talk about. Can't wait to tell you some
Speaker 2: of the stories about going to Nevada riding dirt bikes.
Speaker 2: Was in Vegas for three days. I rented a nineteen
Speaker 2: sixty six Mustang GT that we wrote around Vegas in
Speaker 2: for a couple of days. It was so much fun.
Speaker 2: My sixteen year old and I, Oh my god, that
Speaker 2: was cool. On that later, let's start the show officially,
Speaker 2: as we're back from vacation. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe
Speaker 2: Getty on this. It is Tuesday, July the seventh. Let
Speaker 2: me cut my fingers from the fireworks hip got all
Speaker 2: ten this year. That's fantastic. July the seventh year, twenty
Speaker 2: twenty six, we are armstrong in getting we approve of
Speaker 2: this program. Let's begin it. According to FCC regulations at mark.
Speaker 1: This is the eighteen time champion of the world with
Speaker 1: sixty six Nathan's famous hot dogs and buns in ten minutes.
Speaker 2: Joey Chestnut, and he went on to win again quite easily.
Speaker 2: Nobody can touch Joey Chestnut when it comes to hot
Speaker 2: dog eating, which reminds me of this that I came across.
Speaker 2: Though we lost to Belgium yesterday in the World Cup
Speaker 2: soccer four to one, and it wasn't that close. That
Speaker 2: doesn't tell the whole story of the United States versus Belgium.
Speaker 2: Moon landings USA, Belgium zero, waffle houses Belgium zero, United
Speaker 2: States over two thousand and finally, hot dog eating titles
Speaker 2: USA sixteen, Belgium zero. So there you go. Suck on that, Belgium.
Speaker 2: Who needs you? We don't care about soccer anyway. I
Speaker 2: get across another great bi centennial piece about all the
Speaker 2: things America is good at, and it was basically of Hey,
Speaker 2: World Cup soccer fans, you can thank us later, with
Speaker 2: the idea being that nobody would care about the World
Speaker 2: Cup if the United States prioritized soccer. If we cared
Speaker 2: about soccer the way we care about the NFL and
Speaker 2: the NBA and Major League Baseball and all our best
Speaker 2: athletes play soccer, no other were country in the world
Speaker 2: would ever win a World Cup tournament. We would win
Speaker 2: them all, and nobody would have an interest in it
Speaker 2: because it'd me boring. So you can you can thank
Speaker 2: us later that we stay out of your sport rest
Speaker 2: of the world. Otherwise we dominate that and it would
Speaker 2: take all the fun out of it for you. I
Speaker 2: have to talk about running into some foreigners while I
Speaker 2: was in Vegas who love the country, just like all
Speaker 2: those stories you've seen on social media, maybe about people
Speaker 2: coming here from foreign lands and being amazed by the
Speaker 2: United States, particularly compared to what they're getting from their
Speaker 2: news media. That's what this guy from Sweden told me,
Speaker 2: but just absolutely having a great time in the United
Speaker 2: States and shocked about how happy and safe we are
Speaker 2: compared to what they're seeing on their TV news every
Speaker 2: single night all across Europe. That doesn't do us any
Speaker 2: favors anyway. We got that to talk about too. So
Speaker 2: that's about fifteen different topics that I've already introduced, and
Speaker 2: we got more to come. Can't wait to get into
Speaker 2: all of that. You can text any time you want
Speaker 2: on the text line, which I've been gone so long
Speaker 2: I don't remember what it is. Four one, five, two
Speaker 2: nine five KFTC. We've got headlines with Heather Meers coming
Speaker 2: up next. Please stay here, arms Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: Jack.
Speaker 2: What about the late mailing goals that America will receive tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's true, the mailing goals have not been counted. Maybe
Speaker 2: we'll end up beating Belgium if that's the way things
Speaker 2: ought to work. Again, we beat A six moon landings,
Speaker 2: US six, Belgium zero, hot Dog Championships US sixteen Belgium zero,
Speaker 2: Waffle Houses two thousand plus for the United States, Belgium zero. Now,
Speaker 2: those are important scores. Let's take a look at the
Speaker 2: headlines that are going on right now. We welcome back
Speaker 2: to the Armstrong and Getty Show. Heather Myers, who was
Speaker 2: off for a little while too, welcome back out of oh.
Speaker 1: Glad to be back, and happy Tuesday. Let's start with
Speaker 1: this a story from Fox News. Trump arrives in Turkey
Speaker 1: for high stakes NATO summit. Same story from NBC News
Speaker 1: Trump to meet with NATO leaders with his commitment to
Speaker 1: the alliance in doubt. And from ABC News, Trump meets
Speaker 1: with NATO allies after a year of upheaval.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will talk more about that. I hate all
Speaker 2: of the news coverage that the leans into the Trump
Speaker 2: doesn't believe in NATO. NATO didn't believe in NATO until
Speaker 2: Trump started pressuring them to spend money on if they
Speaker 2: didn't believe in their own alliance. Anyway, more on that later.
Speaker 5: Talks shaking it.
Speaker 2: Oh, we got a microphone problem there, Michael, we have
Speaker 2: any idea what's going on there? Let's try it again. Heather,
Speaker 2: did we just completely lose our microphone? That's a drag.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do a feature with Heather Myers a little
Speaker 2: bit later. She has been filling in for Katie Green,
Speaker 2: who was off because she had a little baby. And well,
Speaker 2: maybe we'll hear from Katie who knows, But Heather Myers
Speaker 2: has been filling in, and we decided we'll do a
Speaker 2: little segment with who is Heather Myers a little bit
Speaker 2: later in the show today. But Heather is back with
Speaker 2: the headlines. Heather, Okay, is that better?
Speaker 5: Do I sound like I was underwater there?
Speaker 1: Sorry that Let's try this again this one from Fox News.
Speaker 1: Judge appears visibly shaken as Charlie Kirk assassination evidence is
Speaker 1: shown in courts. Yeah, that one. That video you almost
Speaker 1: have to go to check out because it is quite
Speaker 1: a fine.
Speaker 2: I don't know the story. Go ahead and take a
Speaker 2: little time here, explain what's happening there.
Speaker 1: So they're doing the preliminary hearing right now, which is
Speaker 1: essentially where the judge will decide if there is enough
Speaker 1: evidence to move this on to trial, which is about
Speaker 1: a one hundred percent chance of that happening. But they
Speaker 1: did actually show the evidence yesterday, including the shooting, and
Speaker 1: you see the judge. The camera's only on the judge,
Speaker 1: and you see the judge actually like wins as soon
Speaker 1: as the shots are fired.
Speaker 5: And does see a judge do that? It is pretty
Speaker 5: eye open.
Speaker 2: You know, I haven't seen the video and I'm not
Speaker 2: going to watch it. I don't need to see that,
Speaker 2: but from what I understand, it is pretty gruesome. Okay,
Speaker 2: we'll be following that trial of course.
Speaker 1: Back to you, Heather, CBS News Top Democrats call on
Speaker 1: Graham at Platner to drop out as sexual assault allegations emerge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when Chuck Schumer and others come out and say
Speaker 2: you gotta go, it's it's over. It's just a matter
Speaker 2: of hours. Really, I'd be shocked if grand Platner doesn't
Speaker 2: get out today. The interesting thing is that Maine has
Speaker 2: no system or no rules anyway for replacing them on
Speaker 2: the ballot. They can, and they will, but they have
Speaker 2: no rules. They can do it however the hell they want,
Speaker 2: and they need to scramble and figure that out too.
Speaker 5: From CBS News.
Speaker 1: China test launches ballistic missile from sub in South Pacific.
Speaker 2: With strengthing condemnations from other countries around the world.
Speaker 1: Right from Fox News, The View's co host Sunny Hostin
Speaker 1: feels unsafe in neighborhoods with American flags. Oh, that one's
Speaker 1: causing a lot a lot of chatter online.
Speaker 5: From CNN.
Speaker 1: Diarrhea causing parasite can contaminate rob produce, causing misery across
Speaker 1: several states.
Speaker 2: Why I don't need vegetables.
Speaker 5: It not safe?
Speaker 1: From CBS News. Microsoft cutting more than forty eight hundred jobs,
Speaker 1: including three thousand jobs from the ailing Xbox unit.
Speaker 2: Uh do we know why?
Speaker 1: Apparently people are not playing Xbox the way that they're
Speaker 1: used to.
Speaker 2: Okay, interesting, all on their phones.
Speaker 1: From News Nation, more than four hundred and forty thousand
Speaker 1: people became millionaires in the US last year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, within flash and a million dollars ain't what it
Speaker 2: used to be. Maybe we'll get into the numbers on that.
Speaker 2: It's depressing.
Speaker 1: Finally, this morning from the Babylon Bee Dems wishing there
Speaker 1: had been some sort of sign that Platiner was a
Speaker 1: bad person.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good one. It's still a mystery as
Speaker 2: to why the New York Times a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: ago when they had their big bombshell story about Graham
Speaker 2: Platner's accusations around you know me too, stuff, sex, stuff,
Speaker 2: all that sort of why it was such a soft piece. Uh,
Speaker 2: nobody's exactly sure. And it featured this woman that eventually
Speaker 2: came forward with the rape allegations, and apparently the New
Speaker 2: York Times knew the details of her story and decided
Speaker 2: not to include those details. So man's that's its own
Speaker 2: interesting story. But this guy's gonna be getting out of
Speaker 2: the race. We'll hear from his accuser coming up in
Speaker 2: just a little bit, you will rather and you can
Speaker 2: make your own decision whether you think she's believable, armstrong
Speaker 2: and getty.
Speaker 3: There are times when I walk into a community and
Speaker 3: I see American flags all over the community, and I
Speaker 3: suddenly feel unsafe because there's a section of this country
Speaker 3: that has co opted the American flag. Can they equate
Speaker 3: being an American or an American flag with white supremacy?
Speaker 3: And that should never be ever the symbol of white supremacy?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about? That's one of the clacking
Speaker 2: hens from the view. I got more to say about
Speaker 2: that as I took in a ton of media over
Speaker 2: fourth of July, and a lot of you probably did too,
Speaker 2: or maybe you're smart enough not to have it, that
Speaker 2: crowd that hates America. More on that than just a
Speaker 2: second couple of things I want to get to. First
Speaker 2: of all, there is a cup of coffee sitting here,
Speaker 2: full cup of coffee that is from So we were
Speaker 2: off for a week and two days we didn't work.
Speaker 2: We were what do we call our leftovers, replay replay
Speaker 2: or best of stuff like that. I call them leftovers.
Speaker 2: It's like food you didn't finish and you put in
Speaker 2: the fridge and you heat it up and it's okay.
Speaker 2: So we had that yesterday all last week, and then
Speaker 2: that previous Friday, and then I worked from home I
Speaker 2: think on that Thursday, didn't I because I had pink
Speaker 2: I remember. So this cup of coffee sitting here is
Speaker 2: a full almost just short of two weeks old. What
Speaker 2: do you get me to drink it? Huh? Twenty bucks?
Speaker 2: Anybody in for twenty I should do a gofund me.
Speaker 2: How much money you give me to drink this two
Speaker 2: week old coffee?
Speaker 4: Hanson says twenty five.
Speaker 2: Mostly because it was just coffee. Had made me a
Speaker 2: big deal. Really, because I put cream in my coffee.
Speaker 2: It's all curdled up. It's pretty gross. I need to
Speaker 2: throw that out during the commercial break. More importantly, a
Speaker 2: couple of Supreme Court decisions that came down late last
Speaker 2: week as a Supreme Court scadaddled for the session before
Speaker 2: they come back in October. One around the trans sports
Speaker 2: high school thing. That is interesting, and then another one,
Speaker 2: and that one's pretty easy to understand, and we could
Speaker 2: talk about that later, although we're going to talk to
Speaker 2: our legal expert about that in our four. But this
Speaker 2: Fourth Amendment protection case that I don't fully understand. So
Speaker 2: I look forward to talking about that in hour four.
Speaker 2: But like one of the analysts that I respect said,
Speaker 2: this may be the most important Fourth Amendment ruling in decades.
Speaker 2: The Fourth Amendment is where you get into your protections
Speaker 2: against the government and privacy and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of new moves that will force
Speaker 2: lower courts to rethink their presidents. It may be more
Speaker 2: constitutional privacy for what people do on their phone than
Speaker 2: what they do in their home. I find that a
Speaker 2: very intriguing notion, privacy around the stuff in our phone
Speaker 2: as determined by the Supreme Court going forward around the
Speaker 2: Fourth Amendment. So we will get to that in hour
Speaker 2: four and I look forward to talking about that. What
Speaker 2: was the other thing I wanted to tease before we
Speaker 2: get to the main We're going to find out who
Speaker 2: Heather Myers is coming up in a little bit. She's
Speaker 2: been filling and doing our news. Oh man, I'm watching
Speaker 2: one of your foreign countries who won their soccer match
Speaker 2: jump up and down and go crazy over the World Cup. I,
Speaker 2: as I've mentioned many many times, not a big soccer fan.
Speaker 2: I don't understand the sport at all. If you don't
Speaker 2: understand a sport, it's hard to enjoy. I can watch
Speaker 2: an entire NBA game, or an NFL game, or was
Speaker 2: at Major League Baseball game, is at the A's game
Speaker 2: on last Friday night. I can watch those sports because
Speaker 2: I understand the plays, in the strategy and what's going
Speaker 2: on over the two or three hours. Even when there's
Speaker 2: no scoring. It keeps my attention. I don't with soccer.
Speaker 2: I don't see other than goals. I don't have any
Speaker 2: idea what's going on, so I don't find it interesting.
Speaker 2: If you've ever watched, like an NFL football game with
Speaker 2: somebody who doesn't know what the sport is, they're bored
Speaker 2: to death because they don't see anything happening. But I
Speaker 2: was in Vegas and I'm and I stopped by this
Speaker 2: bar my son and I why did I stop buy
Speaker 2: the bar? Because I wanted a piece of chocolate cake.
Speaker 2: So I stopped by this bar that had food, and
Speaker 2: I saw on their menu thing outside that they had
Speaker 2: chocolate cake and they were still serving in it was
Speaker 2: like midnight, and so that's what I really really wanted.
Speaker 2: Not to drink. I haven't had a drink in almost
Speaker 2: twenty years, but I did want a piece of job
Speaker 2: click and uh or my son did and we split it. AnyWho,
Speaker 2: there were people watching the soccer match and it was
Speaker 2: Somebody and somebody some foreign countries and people were cheering
Speaker 2: like crazy and wearing jerseys and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: And as we were sitting at there at the bar
Speaker 2: after the match was over, some very drunk guy came
Speaker 2: up to me and said, are you Americans? And I said, yes,
Speaker 2: we are, and he said I love this country and
Speaker 2: he said he was from Sweden and he said all
Speaker 2: of the media they have back home, he said, our
Speaker 2: politicians on our media tells us it's miserable here in
Speaker 2: the United States that everybody's fighting and there's gunshots everywhere
Speaker 2: and fighting with the cops in the street and all
Speaker 2: this different sort of stuff. And he said, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen any of that. I love it her he said,
Speaker 2: I don't want to go back home. And the other
Speaker 2: guys he was with there were from other various European countries,
Speaker 2: said the same thing. And so we've seen this on
Speaker 2: social media, bouncing around people amazed at how nice and
Speaker 2: pleasant the United States is as comparison to what they're
Speaker 2: seeing in their own media back home and shocking. So
Speaker 2: not only are we a placid friendly, everybody's just fine
Speaker 2: country just in general compared to what their perceptions were,
Speaker 2: it's even more so, of course, because they came in
Speaker 2: with a certain point of view thinking that I'll bet
Speaker 2: what they're seeing lots of is like the fighting in
Speaker 2: the streets in Minneapolis. I'll bet they've seen that endlessly
Speaker 2: on their TV screens at night or on their video feeds,
Speaker 2: and they think that's what the whole country is doing
Speaker 2: with Trump as president. And obviously, of course that is
Speaker 2: not what's going on all around the country or even
Speaker 2: close to it. And I spend a lot of time
Speaker 2: thinking about how the same topic we're on all the time,
Speaker 2: can the world can democracy? Can human beings survive the
Speaker 2: media everywhere all the time in your hand algorithm world
Speaker 2: that we live in where klickonomics rules today, and so
Speaker 2: fights in the streets are going to get lots of clicks,
Speaker 2: which means your feed on your phone, whether it's Instagram
Speaker 2: or TikTok or whatever, is going to feed you more
Speaker 2: videos of fights rather than videos of everybody just being
Speaker 2: perfectly happy. And everybody having a warped perception all around
Speaker 2: the world about everything. If everybody's perception about everything is
Speaker 2: completely wrong, what kind of world do we end up with,
Speaker 2: What kind of politics do we end up What kind
Speaker 2: of attitudes toward each other different countries do we end
Speaker 2: up with. These people are shocked to find out that
Speaker 2: our lives are vastly different than what they thought, and
Speaker 2: only the World Cup and them traveling to the United
Speaker 2: States to see it in person is opening their eyes
Speaker 2: to reality. But obviously the World Cup's not going to
Speaker 2: be going on all the time. And I don't know.
Speaker 2: This is a troubling topic, and I don't know what's
Speaker 2: going to fix this. I don't know if anything can
Speaker 2: fix this. But if that's the way Europeans think it
Speaker 2: is in the United States, well they're gonna have very
Speaker 2: different views of how much they should support us in
Speaker 2: a war with Iran, for instance, or all kinds of
Speaker 2: different things, or invest in NATO or whatever the hell
Speaker 2: it is. But I've got a little more on that
Speaker 2: from some great writers that came across over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, particularly around the fourth of July. But
Speaker 2: I found that really shocking. These guys were actually blown
Speaker 2: away by how different the country was than what they
Speaker 2: thought it was going to be. That's not good. We'll
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Speaker 2: instance on the back and forth of the attitudes about
Speaker 2: this country. There is a little bit in or a
Speaker 2: lot of nutpicking going on on Twitter, for instance. Nutpicking
Speaker 2: is when you pick out one nut on the other
Speaker 2: side and then hold them up as an example of
Speaker 2: your opponent, and often it's not accurate, although sometimes it is.
Speaker 2: And as we all know, there is a growing section
Speaker 2: of this country that actually hates the country and wants
Speaker 2: to tear it apart and thinks that we're a net
Speaker 2: net force for evil on earth, which is crazy, by
Speaker 2: the way. But Elon Musk, a foreigner that came to
Speaker 2: this land, tweeted out on the fourth of July, I
Speaker 2: read the Declaration of Independence out loud today with heartfelt conviction.
Speaker 2: It's a work not just of genius, but also a
Speaker 2: purity of soul that resonates to this very day. The
Speaker 2: fact that the richest man on earth by far feels
Speaker 2: that way about the United States, Thank God, that is
Speaker 2: a good thing. I really appreciate that he knows, and
Speaker 2: he's talked about this, and other people have written about
Speaker 2: how there's no place else on earth he could have
Speaker 2: taken his genius and what he wanted to do and
Speaker 2: pulled it off. Like the United States, because so many
Speaker 2: countries either don't believe in innovation or don't allow for
Speaker 2: a new ideas where they're so entangled with bureaucracy and
Speaker 2: this and that and regulations that you can't do it.
Speaker 2: Not only are our attitude of for as long as
Speaker 2: we can hold on to it, some level of personal
Speaker 2: freedom in this nation and our ability to do whatever
Speaker 2: we want. Just absolutely fantastic that he and others have
Speaker 2: this attitude. And I've got a whole bunch of examples
Speaker 2: that of that that I collected that I want to
Speaker 2: share with you later, along with the examples of some
Speaker 2: of the haters like Mayor Mumdani of New York and
Speaker 2: his ridiculous video that he put out for the fourth
Speaker 2: of July, which will play a part of a little
Speaker 2: bit later. But that battle man, that is I thought
Speaker 2: that was the bright lines were drawn over the fourth
Speaker 2: of July between those two crowds. The crowd that understands
Speaker 2: that we are the force for good, we are the
Speaker 2: last hope of the world for not living in a
Speaker 2: totalitarian state, versus the crowd like Mumdanni and a lot
Speaker 2: of people who are winning elections around the country that
Speaker 2: think we're a force for evil and that we'd be
Speaker 2: better off without us, which is absolutely nuts. I actually
Speaker 2: think it's a mental illness, which I want to talk
Speaker 2: about also later. But first we're gonna check in with
Speaker 2: Heather Myers, find out who she is, what makes her tick.
Speaker 2: We'll go deep, do a deep dive on Heather Myers,
Speaker 2: among other things coming up, Stay.
Speaker 1: Here, armstrong, hetty.
Speaker 2: Kind of interesting. We got a text from somebody who
Speaker 2: says somebody who drives around in a big, jacked up
Speaker 2: truck with an American flag is probably a racist. Stayhole.
Speaker 2: Interesting that you have those views. We do need to
Speaker 2: get into that discussion a little bit later. I couldn't
Speaker 2: disagree more. We also got this text hot dog eating
Speaker 2: contest obscene, gross, classless, symbolic gluttony and joy. Chestnut doesn't
Speaker 2: use any condiments on the hot dogs. He consumes. God, no, God,
Speaker 2: if you put relish air mustard on there can imagine
Speaker 2: how gross that would be. If you ate sixty six
Speaker 2: hot dogs with mustard. I will give you probably obscene,
Speaker 2: definitely gross. Of course it's classless gluttony. Yeah, yeah, all
Speaker 2: these things. Still love it. My kids and I watch
Speaker 2: every year. I don't think I've missed it one year
Speaker 2: with my kids in sixteen years. This segment, we are
Speaker 2: going to talk with Heather Myers. Heather.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 2: So, Heather's been filling in doing our news since Katie
Speaker 2: had her baby. And she's on maternity leave right now
Speaker 2: with their cute, cute little baby, and she posts pictures
Speaker 2: all the time, and we see the cute little guy,
Speaker 2: and we'll be talking to her as soon as she
Speaker 2: gets back. But Heather's been filling in, and we realize
Speaker 2: we haven't introduced Heather to you the listening audience at all.
Speaker 2: Heather's not in the studio. Where are you, Heather?
Speaker 1: I am at home. I am at home. I am
Speaker 1: home based in San Diego. And if Katie's listening and
Speaker 1: you ever want somebody to come hold your newborn baby,
Speaker 1: I will do that any day of the week. There's
Speaker 1: nothing better.
Speaker 2: You're a mom. What's your kids situation?
Speaker 1: So my kids are older, they're thirteen and fifteen, and
Speaker 1: then they don't like it when I try to hold
Speaker 1: him like the newborn baby anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've known each other for years and our kids
Speaker 2: are roughly the same age. Because I'm fourteen and sixteen
Speaker 2: and We've been talking about that since they were quite
Speaker 2: a bit younger.
Speaker 5: And you have two boys also, right, Yeah.
Speaker 2: The moving into the teenage years, is is it different
Speaker 2: than it was before? Is it not?
Speaker 1: I'm hearing voices in my house and thinking there's a stranger,
Speaker 1: and I realize it's one of my kids with their
Speaker 1: voice changing and cracking. I'm like, oh, that's you.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My youngest, to his great dismay, still has his
Speaker 2: little kid voice. He can't wait till it changes. But
Speaker 2: I remember when my sixteen year old voice changes. All
Speaker 2: of a sudden, there's a grown man in my home.
Speaker 2: There's a different man, very weird.
Speaker 5: Hold do your kids compare? Who has more armpit hair?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't had that conversation. I'm sure that does
Speaker 2: come up coming. So you're what's your resume more or
Speaker 2: less your news history? You be? You're a TV news
Speaker 2: person in your whole career?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know this is I was so blessed to
Speaker 1: do most of my TV news work here in San Diego,
Speaker 1: started off as a reporter and then moved into the
Speaker 1: anchor seat for over twenty years here in San Diego,
Speaker 1: and it was, you know, a dream come true. But
Speaker 1: there was something nagging at me that it was time
Speaker 1: to go, and from different changes within the industry to
Speaker 1: me really wanting to feel proud of the product. Finally,
Speaker 1: I just kind of ripped the tablecloth off my life
Speaker 1: about a year and a half ago and.
Speaker 5: Said, that's it. I'm going to do something totally different.
Speaker 1: I got my real estate license with my husband and
Speaker 1: quit my job here in San Diego. And the day
Speaker 1: I quit my job, Newsmax called and said, we're looking
Speaker 1: for a freelancer. Would you be interested and doing some
Speaker 1: work for us? Just the day Yeah, I mean we
Speaker 1: had been in contact, but nothing lined up as far
Speaker 1: as contracts worked out.
Speaker 2: And you realize this is not the way it works
Speaker 2: for most people in media. Most people, either you get
Speaker 2: fired or quit your job. You never get another job
Speaker 2: again in your life. You don't get caught that day.
Speaker 5: I know, I know, and I you know, I'm so great.
Speaker 1: Every day I'm pinching myself because I thought I need
Speaker 1: to be at home more. I thought it would be
Speaker 1: harder to be, you know, away from the kids as
Speaker 1: they were toddlers, but I realized it was way harder
Speaker 1: when they are teenagers. Right to be they always have
Speaker 1: to be somewhere they almost like need you more. So
Speaker 1: I yeah, newsback said you can do it from home.
Speaker 1: So it's been amazing. And so now I have two
Speaker 1: full time jobs.
Speaker 2: Jack and so you are a reporter for Newsmax, so.
Speaker 1: I do some correspondent work for them. I basically cover
Speaker 1: most of what's happening in California. There's never a shortage
Speaker 1: of stories here. It's me and another guy who's based
Speaker 1: up in Los Angeles, and we do most of the
Speaker 1: California coverage.
Speaker 2: Uh huh, yeah, good for you. And you can do
Speaker 2: that for a long time. And news Max is uh
Speaker 2: and Newsmax is one of the many channels I check
Speaker 2: out on a regular basis. What is what is the
Speaker 2: what is Newsmax trying to accomplish? Do they have an
Speaker 2: AX to Grind? I can't.
Speaker 1: I don't know about an AX to grind, but I
Speaker 1: do feel like they are sharing and showing sides of
Speaker 1: stories that I was not seeing on any of the
Speaker 1: major networks. I was noticing, and not be frank, I
Speaker 1: was noticing complete and utter bias in one direction, not
Speaker 1: just from what ended up on air, but from conversations
Speaker 1: in the newsroom. And I thought, you know, you are
Speaker 1: allowed to have an opinion. Every single person does, every
Speaker 1: journalist does, but what shows up on air has to
Speaker 1: be fair and balanced, and I was getting really frustrated
Speaker 1: with it. So I'm I'm seeing networks like Newsmax show
Speaker 1: the other side of the story that you almost have
Speaker 1: to hunt down to find unless you're watching Newsmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you don't mind being on camera.
Speaker 5: Until one time of the morning, a first thing in
Speaker 5: the morning. That's not a side that I like to
Speaker 5: show many people. But no, I don't mind it.
Speaker 1: And I think that now that people are in front
Speaker 1: of their phones all the time, I feel like most
Speaker 1: people are starting to get more comfortable with that, whereas
Speaker 1: before it was way harder.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that's one thing that Zoom that the pandemic
Speaker 2: pandemic and people having to be on zoom introduced to
Speaker 2: well one for meetings at work, we all know that. God,
Speaker 2: I can't believe for all those years we all drove
Speaker 2: to these stupid meetings, when now we realize, let's just
Speaker 2: jump on zoom and not have six people sitting in
Speaker 2: traffic for a half hour to two hours to get
Speaker 2: to this meeting in person. No, it's nice, it's nuts
Speaker 2: that we ever did that. But media stuff all kinds
Speaker 2: of the expense of having guests be in one studio
Speaker 2: as opposed to it can be there on zoom. It's
Speaker 2: perfectly fine. Nobody cares right.
Speaker 1: And it's the same on television too, I mean, bringing
Speaker 1: in guests from all over the world via zoom right
Speaker 1: on TV. In fact, that's actually how I connect for
Speaker 1: my life shots every day.
Speaker 5: I shoot it right on my phone. I don't have
Speaker 5: a crew.
Speaker 1: I set up a tripod, my own light, and I
Speaker 1: connect on my phone, And that's how reporters are doing
Speaker 1: it these days. We're starting to see, you know, the
Speaker 1: big cameraman and the big old live truck. Those are
Speaker 1: fading fasts, I'm sure unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Well, Heathermis, we appreciate you filling in while Katie Green
Speaker 2: is on maternity leave for a while longer. You're doing
Speaker 2: a really good job and we couldn't appreciate it more.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for having me. This is such a
Speaker 1: great opportunity to be with you guys, listening to you
Speaker 1: guys for years, and I wish Katie all the best.
Speaker 1: There's nothing better than your first baby.
Speaker 2: Cool, I know, no kidding, nothing like that. We got
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