WEBVTT - A Different Kettle of Fish 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:07.040 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:11.080 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Ketty. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:18.480 Armstrong and Getty, He Armstrong and Getty. 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.720 He had more grizzly details of Plattner's behavior emerged, including 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.599 one ex who claims Plattner would slip his condom off 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:39.920 during sex without asking permission, but his defenders claimed that 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.360 this practice only shows Graham's relentless passion for recycling. 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:50.760 I hadn't caught that story, one of the many stories 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:55.640 about this peach of a candidate, former senatorial candidate Graham 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.720 Plattner from up in Maine, and he not shockingly got 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.440 out of the race. But there is there's more to 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.360 say about this, the coverage of it, who was backing him, 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:06.280 all that sort of stuff. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.400 He's done. I think he's done. 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.320 When we talked to Lon Heechen earlier, he thinks that 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.200 there might be another act in Graham Platner's life. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.560 I just don't think so. 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.080 I mean, I feel like Spencer Pratt's having a hard 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:24.080 time keeping his newfound stardom going. And he didn't have 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.759 to get out of the race because of a scandal. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.240 Spencer Pratt just lost in Los Angeles because it's a 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.679 town full of communists who want to vote for communists, 0:01:31.800 --> 0:01:33.840 and he wasn't close enough to being a communist. Graham 0:01:33.880 --> 0:01:35.920 Platner got out of the race because he's all kinds 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:39.320 of a scumbag and maybe a rapist. He put out 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:44.160 an eleven minute video yesterday which was about eleven minutes 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.120 more than you needed, talking about getting out and why 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.040 got out and all these different sorts of things. Let's 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.000 hear a little bit from him. 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:55.240 There is a reason that this is happening now. I 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:59.560 only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee. 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.720 This was the last week to try to get me 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:08.360 off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.960 It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us 0:02:13.000 --> 0:02:15.800 to where we are. It's the fact that they are 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:23.200 being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.200 on us. We live in a political system that is 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:32.000 not built for normal people. It is a system that 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:36.200 is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:41.799 cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:42.480 be crushed. 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:47.720 That is true, and a good message. That is exactly 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.880 what Donald Trump ran into when he was an outsider, 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:55.519 and the Republican Party tried to crush him hard, tried 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:57.519 as hard as they could to crush him. If you 0:02:57.520 --> 0:03:00.360 don't remember this way back in twenty fifteen, and he 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:02.480 jumped to the top of the poles immediately, and then 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.600 they had to all get on board where they were 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:07.280 going to get steamrolled very quickly. It is what the 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:11.040 Democratic Party did to Bernie Sanders. They crushed Bernie Sanders. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:15.000 They do not want anybody who is on the outside 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.280 of the big decision makers in either party. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:20.840 That's one hundred percent true. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.280 The difference with you, mister Plattner, though, is that Bernie 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.760 turned against you, Zorn Mom, Donnie turned against you. In 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:32.200 that crowd. They're the outsiders that have won races. When 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:33.880 they've turned on you, like they did in the last 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.280 forty eight hours because of the rape allegations, that's when 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.760 you're done. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC had an interesting take 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:41.200 on this. 0:03:41.960 --> 0:03:44.720 Why do I say this because there's a conspiracy? No, 0:03:44.960 --> 0:03:47.280 not at all. Go back to what I said at 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.080 the beginning, a warning to Washington Democrats. 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:53.680 You do need to listen. 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:59.320 To Graham Platner because whether it's true or not, rank 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:03.120 and file Democrats who have been supporting Platiner from the 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:08.600 very beginning think that this was cooked up in Washington, DC, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.320 with a lot of money behind it to find anything 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:16.960 that could be found to get Graham Black Platner off 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:17.640 the ballot. 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.560 That's super interesting. I don't know if Scarborough is right 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.760 about that. But if the average main voter or a 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:30.080 lot of Democrats across the country think, here's the old 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.920 boy network, here's the power structure of the Democrats finding 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:35.640 a way to get this guy out of the race. 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:40.000 If that's what they believe, that's a force to be 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:44.280 reckoned with, as we've seen with Trump and other candidates. 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.120 I don't know how that could be in this case, though, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.440 because the guy had a Nazi tattoo and then he 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.440 didn't deny it, he talked about it so and he 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:58.119 tried to hook up with chicks like the week after 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:01.520 his honeymoon, and he doesn't deny that either, So that's 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:08.000 not cooked up. So I don't know if a bunch 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.880 of Democrats out there are thinking this is all contrived 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:14.880 by the rich and powerful to keep an outsider away 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:20.920 from politics, or if you just recognize the Democratic Party 0:05:20.960 --> 0:05:22.719 got out over their skis on this one. And this 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:24.600 guy is a bad candidate from the beginning, with a 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:28.279 you know, too many girlfriends and awful behavior and Nazi 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.479 tattoos and lots of Reddit posts that were cringing and 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.080 all that different sort of stuff. So there's that angle 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.719 of it, trying to decide which I'll go this direction next. 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.800 This guy Tony Kennett, he's a strategist. He was on 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:50.400 News Nation today. Let me go with let's hear his 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.280 explanation for this video clip fifty. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.200 Three that right now we're looking at a weird, very strange, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:05:59.679 eleven minute video and the case made by Graham Plattner. 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.560 About four different times he blamed this establishment crew for 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.440 pulling their support of him, and that's why he's stepping down. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.480 But it is Zorn Mamdani, of course, the socialist mayor 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:12.080 of New York. It would be Bernie Sanders, the socialist 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.480 mayor of Vermont, and then it would be a Son Piker, 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.640 the socialist streamer, who have all three pulled their support 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.080 from him. The establishment many stayed in and said very little, 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:25.200 if nothing about Graham Plattner through these entire series of accusations. 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:28.120 Yeah, well, let's play some of the montage. I don't 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:28.920 know if we need the whole minute. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.760 We got a montage here of powerful Democrats backing Platiner 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:35.680 after we knew about the Nazi tattoo and the trying 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:38.440 to have affairs on his wife, and the Reddit posts 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.359 about up with communism and how he sharpens his acts 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:42.680 and talks about raping. 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.560 Intruders and all this different sort of stuff. 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:46.840 There's a whole bunch of Democrats who were still the 0:06:47.240 --> 0:06:49.680 powerful that we're still standing behind him until a couple 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:50.280 of days ago. 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.640 We're not hiring a priest, We're hiring a senator. We're 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.840 going to talk about tattoos and sexton. He gets a 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.520 hall pass. I don't give us. 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.159 If somebody had to talk relationship, toxic relationships. 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:07.880 And tattoos and all of the talk about Susan Collins. 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:10.080 He could be one hundred times more stuck than he is. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:11.920 He'd never be as stuck as what we got in 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:15.320 Washington now. Anyway, what I'm more outraged about, it's stupid 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.960 Susan Collins. I asked all of you to consider the 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.040 candidacy a grand Blatiner. I asked all of you to 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:21.840 understand as flaw as grand. 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:23.560 Platner is popular even though he has fault. 0:07:23.640 --> 0:07:25.840 He is a flawed man, just like I'm a flogged man. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:26.720 And this is the key. 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:28.640 Everybody is flawed at some level. 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:31.360 No one's perfect. All politicians have baggage. This just happens 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:32.880 to be a cannon that has baggage. 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.160 He's got he's got a I am met a tattoo. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.720 I feel like this president is saying I hate black people. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:41.400 I like Bram Platinum. You might cram. 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:43.360 That's my kind of man. 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.840 So that's the Democratic establishment standing up for the guy 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:48.960 even when he had a lot of baggage out there. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:52.240 So Plattner going out there and saying the powerful just 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:55.120 one to stop me doesn't sound like It sounded like 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.720 they were willing to turn a blind eye toward all 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.480 kinds of stuff that normally would derail a candidacy until 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:06.280 the much more solid rape allegation came along. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:10.840 As part of the whole. 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:15.520 As far as the whole toxic relationship thing, that's a 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:20.720 tough one because I'm a single guy and I'm out 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:23.320 there and I run into a lot of single people. 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:27.640 You know, if you date or whatever, everybody's stories about 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:32.520 their ex portray their ex as awful. Pretty much everybody, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.200 like nine out of ten people, if you go out 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.480 there and you talk to somebody who's single, and you know, 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:43.040 let's say you're at least in your thirties or older, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:47.319 your stories about some of your exes are there are 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.320 And this can't always be true, right, I guess My 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.080 point is, if everybody you talk to's ex husband or 0:08:55.080 --> 0:09:00.000 ex wife was a monster, how do you just happen 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.440 and to be talking to the normal, decent person who 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:08.880 married a monster. Or is it the case that everybody 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.679 feels like their ex was a monster just because of 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:16.000 the way relationships work, or the way our own minds work, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.240 or the way we have to protect our own egos 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:21.360 and emotions or whatever whatever it is. You see what 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.960 I mean. It's kind of like the old eighty five 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.839 percent of people think they're above average looking, which doesn't 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.080 make sense, or eighty five percent of people think they're 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.360 smarter than average. Everybody thinks their ex was a monster 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:43.200 doesn't make sense unless we are misportraying it or misunderstanding something. 0:09:43.320 --> 0:09:47.400 So that's why having an article about Graham Platner where 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.360 a bunch of relationships that didn't work out, and then 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:53.360 coming forward and saying he was a bad guy. 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:54.240 I don't know. 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.839 That just doesn't mean much to me without more proof. Now, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:01.000 this rape allegation that came out in the last couple 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.360 of days, completely different kettle of fish right there. And 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.360 he came into her house when she had told him 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.280 specifically not to, So that's forcing your way in. And then, 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:13.560 I mean, it sounds like a rape. I think there's 0:10:13.559 --> 0:10:15.560 a decent chance he doesn't remember it at all, that 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.280 he was blackout drunk, so he is legitimately saying I 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:23.000 didn't do that because he thinks he didn't. So different 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.240 angle of this slightly and talked about this some yesterday. 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.120 I don't know how many weeks ago it was that 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:35.160 The New York Times had a big, splashy Sunday front 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:40.400 page story about Graham Plattner, and their headline legend to believe, 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.000 uh oh, here it is. Here's the expose on what 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.920 a bad guy he is. And they didn't write it 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:52.480 that way. They wrote it like a puff piece, buried 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.000 some ugly stuff about relationships, not super ugly, just kind 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:57.719 of ugly stuff like it. 0:10:57.880 --> 0:10:58.200 Parry. 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.199 I think Joe counted the paragraphs, So it was paragraph 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.120 twenty six I think when they finally got around to 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.319 mentioning him doing something that is legit bad as opposed 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.120 to leading with the legit bad stuff. So the New 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.679 York Times doing a puff piece to Joe was calling 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:19.040 it an inoculation. It was like, we're going to get 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.520 this stuff out here in the softest way possible to 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:25.840 inoculate him against any future stories, which obviously didn't work 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.960 when you had a solid rape allegation. But what was 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.640 going on there, Well, this has been driving Mark Hauprin 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.719 crazy for a long time on why the New York 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.120 Times did this. He talked about it on a podcast yesterday. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:41.040 Here's Mark Calpern on that New York Times story that 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:42.719 deserves more scrutiny. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.560 I went and raver read the New York Times story yesterday, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:47.360 and the whole thing is so insidious, not just as 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.000 Lindsay points out the things they didn't include, but just 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:52.160 based on what they included. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:54.120 This is the lead they wrote. 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.000 This is literally the lead of a story about accusations, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.520 as he said, of serious accusations. On Tuesday, after a 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.160 whirlwind day in Washington, Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominated for 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.840 Senate in Maine, rushed home. Rumors were spreading from Portland 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.520 to the Potomac. It's like a featury lead about how 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.280 Platner's dealing with the accusations. 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:13.120 I rewrote the. 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:14.920 Lead just based on what they put in the piece, 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:16.200 not the stuff that they buried. 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:17.680 This is what have been my lead. 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.400 Democratic Senator Graham Platner is facing allegations that he physically 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.920 assaulted and held captive a former girlfriend during a vital relationship. 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.000 According to a New York Times investigation, that's the lead 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.480 and the story, and the story is written is filled 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.319 with quotes from oh, other girlfriends really liked him, said 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.400 he was a really nice guy. Can you imagine them 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.240 inserting that in the story about Donald Trump? 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.960 This is this is this. 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.160 Is such a scandal, this piece. And I can see 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.319 why Lindsey feels so betrayed by cooperating with them, And 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:55.280 I question why she did because because it was clear 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.680 for based on her account of how they treated it, 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.839 they were not trying to write the real story. It's 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:02.760 just phenomenal that they tried to get away with this, 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:06.840 and they would have potentially had it not been for 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.240 someone else deciding that she needed to come forward. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.600 Yeah, So several women that were featured in that weird 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:16.400 piece in the New York Times have now come forward 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:18.720 and say said that the New York Times left out 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.719 stuff that I told them that was worse than that. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:27.840 Why did they do that? Booksterism for Graham Platnir. But 0:13:28.240 --> 0:13:30.800 I would think that if they knew that troubling stuff 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.360 was in the back well one, if you're a decent 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.640 journalist and you care a all about the truth, you 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.200 would put that in there. So I think it'll be 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:42.760 lost to history. But keep in mind that the most 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:46.920 important newspaper in the world did that. They soft pedaled 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:54.000 the piece about a guy that they knew was The 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.439 goal was to make it seem him, make him seem 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:58.480 like less of a bad guy. 0:13:58.760 --> 0:13:59.920 Obviously that was the goal. 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.800 Surrounded by his helper and said there quotes from girlfriends 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.480 who said, I really enjoyed dating him. What when do 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:09.520 you ever do that for anybody? What's going on there? 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:10.320 Any theories? 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:15.800 Text line four one KFTC more on the way armstraw 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:22.240 Hetty agent checks Wall was insured. 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:23.480 But she will pull fruit. 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.560 Don't call her that, but that's what she is. 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.440 A WSB agent by choice. 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:29.720 It wasn't by choice. 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.720 And I can't get into a room to check on 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.040 her because your agents won't let me an oversight. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.120 I'll have your name added to the list of approved visitors. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.000 I don't want to be added to the list. I 0:14:38.080 --> 0:14:39.040 want my daughter back. 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:42.040 Then, let me put this in language that you will understand. 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:49.000 That ain't gonna happen. Wow, what was that dramatic thing? 0:14:50.560 --> 0:14:54.040 John Oliver as a cameo on General Hospital. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:57.400 So comedian John Oliver of that HBO show that he does, 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:58.960 he used to be on The Daily Show, was on 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:00.000 General Hospital. 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.400 Yeah, he's always wanted to be on a soap opera 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:03.600 and he finally got his. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.320 Chance and he played it straight. Yeah, they gave him 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.240 apart and he acted. He's always wanted to be in 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:12.880 a soap opera. General Hospital is still on the air. 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.240 It was on the air when I was a kid. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.840 Started April first, nineteen sixty three. 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:18.280 It started before I was born. 0:15:18.520 --> 0:15:20.320 Yeah, sixty three years has been on. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:27.320 Well, he got a hospital setting. Other than that, you 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.480 can do anything you want, so it's a pretty pretty 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:32.640 broad category. So what would be the point of having 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.600 a new soap opera? 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.200 Did you ever get into soap operas ever in your life? 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.680 No, but my mom did I remember as a kid? 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.760 Which one is? She into general hospital? One life to live? Yeah? 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.320 All my children? How was the days of our lives? Guy? Yep, 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:47.880 like sands to the hour glass. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.360 And the reason I got into soap operas ever, was 0:15:50.840 --> 0:15:52.840 I had a period of my life where I was 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.560 in the hospital every year for like a week or so. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.520 Like I don't know how often I actually did it. 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:01.600 My memory is I was in the hospital for a 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:05.520 week like every year, which was true for a while, 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.400 but I don't know if it was three years or 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:12.520 five years or what, but like first grade, second grade, 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.200 third grade, fourth grade, something like that, I was in 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:15.080 the hospital for a week. 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:16.840 Never really figured out why. I would just get really 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:17.680 sick and I would. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:21.160 Have too many white blood cells or not enough white 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.000 blood cells or I don't remember. The problem was I'd 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.040 get fevers and I'd be really sick, sick enough to 0:16:25.080 --> 0:16:27.680 hospitalize a kid. Anyway, I'd been in the hospital for 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.920 an entire week, and several times I got hooked on 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.960 soap operas because I would have to share a room 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.720 with an old person and they would watch. This is 0:16:36.920 --> 0:16:39.200 obviously pre smartphones and all that sort of stuff. The 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.560 only thing you had to do is watch what it 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:43.560 was ever on one of the three channels. And I 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.160 got into Days of Our Lives one year, Like I 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.440 was watching it every day, and I got to the 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.560 point so when I was healthy and I went back 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.880 to school, I'd come home from school and ask my mom, you. 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:53.560 Know what happened. 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.440 Did Randy and Elizabeth get back together? Or are they apart? 0:16:56.480 --> 0:17:01.840 Still sure it wore off really quickly. But as a 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.160 little kid watching Days of Our Lives with like an 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:05.840 eighty year old who is dying next to me in 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.160 a hospital room, that's a fun week. 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.960 Hey, I got something for you to worry about. They 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:13.639 may not have occurred to you. That's good. Hull, stay tuned, 0:17:14.960 --> 0:17:19.200 Armstrong and Getty. I'm looking up at the TV. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.640 They're doing a segment on ABC Sizzling Summer Reads. Where 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:28.080 did this whole notion of summer reading come from? Maybe 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.640 it was true at some point in history, but it's 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.840 never wrung true with me that there's more. First of all, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.480 people don't read books at all anymore, and the idea 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.000 that there's more book reading that goes on in the 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:44.000 summer or beach reads. I go to the pool in 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:47.920 the beach, I've never noticed more people reading there than 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.560 you see it coffee shops or planes or anywhere else, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.679 roughly the same percentage. I just I think that's a 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:56.800 completely made up notion. But they always but summer reading 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.280 lists for your summer reading for those of you read 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.560 during the summer, And I don't know people who actually 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.760 do that more than they do. You either read it 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.200 all year round or you don't. Anyway, not important. World 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.159 Cup Soccer want to hit you with a couple of things. 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:17.080 Down to eight teams left. So today you got France 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:18.960 and Morocco. A lot of people think France are gonna 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:22.560 win the whole thing. Then tomorrow's Spain and Belgium. That's 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:24.119 the one the United States would have been in if 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:26.359 they could have beaten Belgium. Wouldn't that have been awesome? 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.080 Playing powerhouse Spain in the Los Angeles make it to 0:18:31.119 --> 0:18:33.440 the final eight, but didn't happen, didn't even come close 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:38.320 to happening. Argentina defending champs in Switzerland on Saturday. That 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.560 could be Messi's last game, and this is the one 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:45.040 I'm most excited about. On Saturday, Norway England. Why am 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.480 I excited about Norway England Because I've been a become 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:49.400 a fan, like everybody has of this. 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:50.680 Earling Holland guy. 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.640 If you've been watching TV at all, you've seen him, 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:56.640 whether you realize it or not. Six four blonde guy 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.960 with a ponytail doing ads for everything. 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:00.000 Do you know what I'm talking about? 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:02.920 Michael No, But his last name is spelled it sounded 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:04.200 like Holand Poland. 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:07.359 It's got two a's in it, HAA l A n 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.720 d Eric holand Earling Holand. Rather he looks like a Viking. 0:19:10.720 --> 0:19:13.679 He is a Viking, is from Norway. He's a giant dude. 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.760 He's second in the tournament right now and goals scored 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:20.800 behind Messi, and he's doing ads for everything. And he's 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:25.560 just an interesting character. He's got a very unique, weird look, 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.280 and he's got a lot of personality and he's an 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.200 amazing soccer player. But I've seen a couple of interviews 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:36.040 with him and a bunch of stuff on Twitter that 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.280 I found interesting. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:40.800 Seems like a really really good dude. 0:19:40.880 --> 0:19:42.919 Oh I know that one I saw they had a 0:19:43.000 --> 0:19:46.320 video of all the biggest soccer stars coming out of 0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.800 the tournaments and going to their cars and rushing by fans, 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.040 and how he comes out headed toward his car and 0:19:53.080 --> 0:19:55.560 stops and does a picture with every kid and signs 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.600 something and fist bumps and all that. So he's just 0:19:57.640 --> 0:19:59.560 a really nice guy and good with the fans and 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:05.600 all that stuff. He's also super healthy, works out like crazy. 0:20:06.000 --> 0:20:10.080 He sleeps ten to eleven hours a night. He looks 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:12.560 like he's twenty eight. I don't know how old he is, 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.000 but he's a young guy. Sleeps ten to eleven hours night. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:19.240 So rather than partying, you know, in all these different cities, 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:22.359 they go to his big giant soccer stars and find 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.440 and chicks at the club. He sleeps ten to hours 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:27.360 eleven hours a night, goes to sleep night after night. 0:20:27.720 --> 0:20:30.800 He goes to sleep on time, at ten o'clock every night. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:35.200 He wears glasses that block blue light two hours before bedtime. 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:38.200 So two hours before bedtime he puts on the blue 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:42.320 light blocking glasses, sleeps in a dark, cool room with 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.280 no screens around, and never has a phone in the 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.840 room so he's not tempted to grab it or grab 0:20:46.880 --> 0:20:48.520 it in the morning first thing in the morning. He's 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:51.359 got this whole process for waking up slowly for his 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.359 brain and not turning to his phone. Interesting dude, and 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.399 also an amazing soccer player. So that's one of the 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:00.320 reasons I'm going to be watching England Norway on Saturday. 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.960 I said, I had something else for you to worry about, 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.920 Like you need that, Like we don't worry about enough kids, 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:15.399 family members, your own health, your finances. What's this mole 0:21:15.480 --> 0:21:19.320