Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty, He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: He had more grizzly details of Plattner's behavior emerged, including
Speaker 3: one ex who claims Plattner would slip his condom off
Speaker 3: during sex without asking permission, but his defenders claimed that
Speaker 3: this practice only shows Graham's relentless passion for recycling.
Speaker 1: I hadn't caught that story, one of the many stories
Speaker 1: about this peach of a candidate, former senatorial candidate Graham
Speaker 1: Plattner from up in Maine, and he not shockingly got
Speaker 1: out of the race. But there is there's more to
Speaker 1: say about this, the coverage of it, who was backing him,
Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: He's done. I think he's done.
Speaker 1: When we talked to Lon Heechen earlier, he thinks that
Speaker 1: there might be another act in Graham Platner's life.
Speaker 2: I just don't think so.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like Spencer Pratt's having a hard
Speaker 1: time keeping his newfound stardom going. And he didn't have
Speaker 1: to get out of the race because of a scandal.
Speaker 1: Spencer Pratt just lost in Los Angeles because it's a
Speaker 1: town full of communists who want to vote for communists,
Speaker 1: and he wasn't close enough to being a communist. Graham
Speaker 1: Platner got out of the race because he's all kinds
Speaker 1: of a scumbag and maybe a rapist. He put out
Speaker 1: an eleven minute video yesterday which was about eleven minutes
Speaker 1: more than you needed, talking about getting out and why
Speaker 1: got out and all these different sorts of things. Let's
Speaker 1: hear a little bit from him.
Speaker 4: There is a reason that this is happening now. I
Speaker 4: only have until July thirteenth until I am officially the nominee.
Speaker 4: This was the last week to try to get me
Speaker 4: off of the ballot, and that's why this is occurring.
Speaker 4: It's not the false allegations, though that have brought us
Speaker 4: to where we are. It's the fact that they are
Speaker 4: being used by the political establishment to put structural pressure
Speaker 4: on us. We live in a political system that is
Speaker 4: not built for normal people. It is a system that
Speaker 4: is built structurally to make sure that movements like ours
Speaker 4: cannot flourish, that if they begin to succeed, they can
Speaker 4: be crushed.
Speaker 1: That is true, and a good message. That is exactly
Speaker 1: what Donald Trump ran into when he was an outsider,
Speaker 1: and the Republican Party tried to crush him hard, tried
Speaker 1: as hard as they could to crush him. If you
Speaker 1: don't remember this way back in twenty fifteen, and he
Speaker 1: jumped to the top of the poles immediately, and then
Speaker 1: they had to all get on board where they were
Speaker 1: going to get steamrolled very quickly. It is what the
Speaker 1: Democratic Party did to Bernie Sanders. They crushed Bernie Sanders.
Speaker 1: They do not want anybody who is on the outside
Speaker 1: of the big decision makers in either party.
Speaker 2: That's one hundred percent true.
Speaker 1: The difference with you, mister Plattner, though, is that Bernie
Speaker 1: turned against you, Zorn Mom, Donnie turned against you. In
Speaker 1: that crowd. They're the outsiders that have won races. When
Speaker 1: they've turned on you, like they did in the last
Speaker 1: forty eight hours because of the rape allegations, that's when
Speaker 1: you're done. Joe Scarborough on MSNBC had an interesting take
Speaker 1: on this.
Speaker 5: Why do I say this because there's a conspiracy? No,
Speaker 5: not at all. Go back to what I said at
Speaker 5: the beginning, a warning to Washington Democrats.
Speaker 2: You do need to listen.
Speaker 5: To Graham Platner because whether it's true or not, rank
Speaker 5: and file Democrats who have been supporting Platiner from the
Speaker 5: very beginning think that this was cooked up in Washington, DC,
Speaker 5: with a lot of money behind it to find anything
Speaker 5: that could be found to get Graham Black Platner off
Speaker 5: the ballot.
Speaker 1: That's super interesting. I don't know if Scarborough is right
Speaker 1: about that. But if the average main voter or a
Speaker 1: lot of Democrats across the country think, here's the old
Speaker 1: boy network, here's the power structure of the Democrats finding
Speaker 1: a way to get this guy out of the race.
Speaker 1: If that's what they believe, that's a force to be
Speaker 1: reckoned with, as we've seen with Trump and other candidates.
Speaker 1: I don't know how that could be in this case, though,
Speaker 1: because the guy had a Nazi tattoo and then he
Speaker 1: didn't deny it, he talked about it so and he
Speaker 1: tried to hook up with chicks like the week after
Speaker 1: his honeymoon, and he doesn't deny that either, So that's
Speaker 1: not cooked up. So I don't know if a bunch
Speaker 1: of Democrats out there are thinking this is all contrived
Speaker 1: by the rich and powerful to keep an outsider away
Speaker 1: from politics, or if you just recognize the Democratic Party
Speaker 1: got out over their skis on this one. And this
Speaker 1: guy is a bad candidate from the beginning, with a
Speaker 1: you know, too many girlfriends and awful behavior and Nazi
Speaker 1: tattoos and lots of Reddit posts that were cringing and
Speaker 1: all that different sort of stuff. So there's that angle
Speaker 1: of it, trying to decide which I'll go this direction next.
Speaker 1: This guy Tony Kennett, he's a strategist. He was on
Speaker 1: News Nation today. Let me go with let's hear his
Speaker 1: explanation for this video clip fifty.
Speaker 6: Three that right now we're looking at a weird, very strange,
Speaker 6: eleven minute video and the case made by Graham Plattner.
Speaker 6: About four different times he blamed this establishment crew for
Speaker 6: pulling their support of him, and that's why he's stepping down.
Speaker 6: But it is Zorn Mamdani, of course, the socialist mayor
Speaker 6: of New York. It would be Bernie Sanders, the socialist
Speaker 6: mayor of Vermont, and then it would be a Son Piker,
Speaker 6: the socialist streamer, who have all three pulled their support
Speaker 6: from him. The establishment many stayed in and said very little,
Speaker 6: if nothing about Graham Plattner through these entire series of accusations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, let's play some of the montage. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we need the whole minute.
Speaker 1: We got a montage here of powerful Democrats backing Platiner
Speaker 1: after we knew about the Nazi tattoo and the trying
Speaker 1: to have affairs on his wife, and the Reddit posts
Speaker 1: about up with communism and how he sharpens his acts
Speaker 1: and talks about raping.
Speaker 2: Intruders and all this different sort of stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a whole bunch of Democrats who were still the
Speaker 1: powerful that we're still standing behind him until a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago.
Speaker 2: We're not hiring a priest, We're hiring a senator. We're
Speaker 2: going to talk about tattoos and sexton. He gets a
Speaker 2: hall pass. I don't give us.
Speaker 7: If somebody had to talk relationship, toxic relationships.
Speaker 1: And tattoos and all of the talk about Susan Collins.
Speaker 8: He could be one hundred times more stuck than he is.
Speaker 8: He'd never be as stuck as what we got in
Speaker 8: Washington now. Anyway, what I'm more outraged about, it's stupid
Speaker 8: Susan Collins. I asked all of you to consider the
Speaker 8: candidacy a grand Blatiner. I asked all of you to
Speaker 8: understand as flaw as grand.
Speaker 7: Platner is popular even though he has fault.
Speaker 5: He is a flawed man, just like I'm a flogged man.
Speaker 7: And this is the key.
Speaker 2: Everybody is flawed at some level.
Speaker 7: No one's perfect. All politicians have baggage. This just happens
Speaker 7: to be a cannon that has baggage.
Speaker 2: He's got he's got a I am met a tattoo.
Speaker 7: I feel like this president is saying I hate black people.
Speaker 2: I like Bram Platinum. You might cram.
Speaker 7: That's my kind of man.
Speaker 1: So that's the Democratic establishment standing up for the guy
Speaker 1: even when he had a lot of baggage out there.
Speaker 1: So Plattner going out there and saying the powerful just
Speaker 1: one to stop me doesn't sound like It sounded like
Speaker 1: they were willing to turn a blind eye toward all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff that normally would derail a candidacy until
Speaker 1: the much more solid rape allegation came along.
Speaker 2: As part of the whole.
Speaker 1: As far as the whole toxic relationship thing, that's a
Speaker 1: tough one because I'm a single guy and I'm out
Speaker 1: there and I run into a lot of single people.
Speaker 1: You know, if you date or whatever, everybody's stories about
Speaker 1: their ex portray their ex as awful. Pretty much everybody,
Speaker 1: like nine out of ten people, if you go out
Speaker 1: there and you talk to somebody who's single, and you know,
Speaker 1: let's say you're at least in your thirties or older,
Speaker 1: your stories about some of your exes are there are
Speaker 1: And this can't always be true, right, I guess My
Speaker 1: point is, if everybody you talk to's ex husband or
Speaker 1: ex wife was a monster, how do you just happen
Speaker 1: and to be talking to the normal, decent person who
Speaker 1: married a monster. Or is it the case that everybody
Speaker 1: feels like their ex was a monster just because of
Speaker 1: the way relationships work, or the way our own minds work,
Speaker 1: or the way we have to protect our own egos
Speaker 1: and emotions or whatever whatever it is. You see what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's kind of like the old eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of people think they're above average looking, which doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense, or eighty five percent of people think they're
Speaker 1: smarter than average. Everybody thinks their ex was a monster
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense unless we are misportraying it or misunderstanding something.
Speaker 1: So that's why having an article about Graham Platner where
Speaker 1: a bunch of relationships that didn't work out, and then
Speaker 1: coming forward and saying he was a bad guy.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: That just doesn't mean much to me without more proof. Now,
Speaker 1: this rape allegation that came out in the last couple
Speaker 1: of days, completely different kettle of fish right there. And
Speaker 1: he came into her house when she had told him
Speaker 1: specifically not to, So that's forcing your way in. And then,
Speaker 1: I mean, it sounds like a rape. I think there's
Speaker 1: a decent chance he doesn't remember it at all, that
Speaker 1: he was blackout drunk, so he is legitimately saying I
Speaker 1: didn't do that because he thinks he didn't. So different
Speaker 1: angle of this slightly and talked about this some yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know how many weeks ago it was that
Speaker 1: The New York Times had a big, splashy Sunday front
Speaker 1: page story about Graham Plattner, and their headline legend to believe,
Speaker 1: uh oh, here it is. Here's the expose on what
Speaker 1: a bad guy he is. And they didn't write it
Speaker 1: that way. They wrote it like a puff piece, buried
Speaker 1: some ugly stuff about relationships, not super ugly, just kind
Speaker 1: of ugly stuff like it.
Speaker 2: Parry.
Speaker 1: I think Joe counted the paragraphs, So it was paragraph
Speaker 1: twenty six I think when they finally got around to
Speaker 1: mentioning him doing something that is legit bad as opposed
Speaker 1: to leading with the legit bad stuff. So the New
Speaker 1: York Times doing a puff piece to Joe was calling
Speaker 1: it an inoculation. It was like, we're going to get
Speaker 1: this stuff out here in the softest way possible to
Speaker 1: inoculate him against any future stories, which obviously didn't work
Speaker 1: when you had a solid rape allegation. But what was
Speaker 1: going on there, Well, this has been driving Mark Hauprin
Speaker 1: crazy for a long time on why the New York
Speaker 1: Times did this. He talked about it on a podcast yesterday.
Speaker 1: Here's Mark Calpern on that New York Times story that
Speaker 1: deserves more scrutiny.
Speaker 9: I went and raver read the New York Times story yesterday,
Speaker 9: and the whole thing is so insidious, not just as
Speaker 9: Lindsay points out the things they didn't include, but just
Speaker 9: based on what they included.
Speaker 2: This is the lead they wrote.
Speaker 9: This is literally the lead of a story about accusations,
Speaker 9: as he said, of serious accusations. On Tuesday, after a
Speaker 9: whirlwind day in Washington, Graham Plattner, the Democratic nominated for
Speaker 9: Senate in Maine, rushed home. Rumors were spreading from Portland
Speaker 9: to the Potomac. It's like a featury lead about how
Speaker 9: Platner's dealing with the accusations.
Speaker 2: I rewrote the.
Speaker 9: Lead just based on what they put in the piece,
Speaker 9: not the stuff that they buried.
Speaker 2: This is what have been my lead.
Speaker 9: Democratic Senator Graham Platner is facing allegations that he physically
Speaker 9: assaulted and held captive a former girlfriend during a vital relationship.
Speaker 9: According to a New York Times investigation, that's the lead
Speaker 9: and the story, and the story is written is filled
Speaker 9: with quotes from oh, other girlfriends really liked him, said
Speaker 9: he was a really nice guy. Can you imagine them
Speaker 9: inserting that in the story about Donald Trump?
Speaker 6: This is this is this.
Speaker 9: Is such a scandal, this piece. And I can see
Speaker 9: why Lindsey feels so betrayed by cooperating with them, And
Speaker 9: I question why she did because because it was clear
Speaker 9: for based on her account of how they treated it,
Speaker 9: they were not trying to write the real story. It's
Speaker 9: just phenomenal that they tried to get away with this,
Speaker 9: and they would have potentially had it not been for
Speaker 9: someone else deciding that she needed to come forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So several women that were featured in that weird
Speaker 1: piece in the New York Times have now come forward
Speaker 1: and say said that the New York Times left out
Speaker 1: stuff that I told them that was worse than that.
Speaker 1: Why did they do that? Booksterism for Graham Platnir. But
Speaker 1: I would think that if they knew that troubling stuff
Speaker 1: was in the back well one, if you're a decent
Speaker 1: journalist and you care a all about the truth, you
Speaker 1: would put that in there. So I think it'll be
Speaker 1: lost to history. But keep in mind that the most
Speaker 1: important newspaper in the world did that. They soft pedaled
Speaker 1: the piece about a guy that they knew was The
Speaker 1: goal was to make it seem him, make him seem
Speaker 1: like less of a bad guy.
Speaker 2: Obviously that was the goal.
Speaker 1: Surrounded by his helper and said there quotes from girlfriends
Speaker 1: who said, I really enjoyed dating him. What when do
Speaker 1: you ever do that for anybody? What's going on there?
Speaker 1: Any theories?
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Speaker 2: I don't want to be added to the list. I
Speaker 2: want my daughter back.
Speaker 8: Then, let me put this in language that you will understand.
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna happen. Wow, what was that dramatic thing?
Speaker 7: John Oliver as a cameo on General Hospital.
Speaker 1: So comedian John Oliver of that HBO show that he does,
Speaker 1: he used to be on The Daily Show, was on
Speaker 1: General Hospital.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he's always wanted to be on a soap opera
Speaker 7: and he finally got his.
Speaker 1: Chance and he played it straight. Yeah, they gave him
Speaker 1: apart and he acted. He's always wanted to be in
Speaker 1: a soap opera. General Hospital is still on the air.
Speaker 1: It was on the air when I was a kid.
Speaker 7: Started April first, nineteen sixty three.
Speaker 2: It started before I was born.
Speaker 7: Yeah, sixty three years has been on.
Speaker 1: Well, he got a hospital setting. Other than that, you
Speaker 1: can do anything you want, so it's a pretty pretty
Speaker 1: broad category. So what would be the point of having
Speaker 1: a new soap opera?
Speaker 2: Did you ever get into soap operas ever in your life?
Speaker 7: No, but my mom did I remember as a kid?
Speaker 2: Which one is? She into general hospital? One life to live? Yeah?
Speaker 2: All my children? How was the days of our lives? Guy? Yep,
Speaker 2: like sands to the hour glass.
Speaker 1: And the reason I got into soap operas ever, was
Speaker 1: I had a period of my life where I was
Speaker 1: in the hospital every year for like a week or so.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know how often I actually did it.
Speaker 1: My memory is I was in the hospital for a
Speaker 1: week like every year, which was true for a while,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it was three years or
Speaker 1: five years or what, but like first grade, second grade,
Speaker 1: third grade, fourth grade, something like that, I was in
Speaker 1: the hospital for a week.
Speaker 2: Never really figured out why. I would just get really
Speaker 2: sick and I would.
Speaker 1: Have too many white blood cells or not enough white
Speaker 1: blood cells or I don't remember. The problem was I'd
Speaker 1: get fevers and I'd be really sick, sick enough to
Speaker 1: hospitalize a kid. Anyway, I'd been in the hospital for
Speaker 1: an entire week, and several times I got hooked on
Speaker 1: soap operas because I would have to share a room
Speaker 1: with an old person and they would watch. This is
Speaker 1: obviously pre smartphones and all that sort of stuff. The
Speaker 1: only thing you had to do is watch what it
Speaker 1: was ever on one of the three channels. And I
Speaker 1: got into Days of Our Lives one year, Like I
Speaker 1: was watching it every day, and I got to the
Speaker 1: point so when I was healthy and I went back
Speaker 1: to school, I'd come home from school and ask my mom, you.
Speaker 2: Know what happened.
Speaker 1: Did Randy and Elizabeth get back together? Or are they apart?
Speaker 1: Still sure it wore off really quickly. But as a
Speaker 1: little kid watching Days of Our Lives with like an
Speaker 1: eighty year old who is dying next to me in
Speaker 1: a hospital room, that's a fun week.
Speaker 2: Hey, I got something for you to worry about. They
Speaker 2: may not have occurred to you. That's good. Hull, stay tuned,
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. I'm looking up at the TV.
Speaker 1: They're doing a segment on ABC Sizzling Summer Reads. Where
Speaker 1: did this whole notion of summer reading come from? Maybe
Speaker 1: it was true at some point in history, but it's
Speaker 1: never wrung true with me that there's more. First of all,
Speaker 1: people don't read books at all anymore, and the idea
Speaker 1: that there's more book reading that goes on in the
Speaker 1: summer or beach reads. I go to the pool in
Speaker 1: the beach, I've never noticed more people reading there than
Speaker 1: you see it coffee shops or planes or anywhere else,
Speaker 1: roughly the same percentage. I just I think that's a
Speaker 1: completely made up notion. But they always but summer reading
Speaker 1: lists for your summer reading for those of you read
Speaker 1: during the summer, And I don't know people who actually
Speaker 1: do that more than they do. You either read it
Speaker 1: all year round or you don't. Anyway, not important. World
Speaker 1: Cup Soccer want to hit you with a couple of things.
Speaker 1: Down to eight teams left. So today you got France
Speaker 1: and Morocco. A lot of people think France are gonna
Speaker 1: win the whole thing. Then tomorrow's Spain and Belgium. That's
Speaker 1: the one the United States would have been in if
Speaker 1: they could have beaten Belgium. Wouldn't that have been awesome?
Speaker 1: Playing powerhouse Spain in the Los Angeles make it to
Speaker 1: the final eight, but didn't happen, didn't even come close
Speaker 1: to happening. Argentina defending champs in Switzerland on Saturday. That
Speaker 1: could be Messi's last game, and this is the one
Speaker 1: I'm most excited about. On Saturday, Norway England. Why am
Speaker 1: I excited about Norway England Because I've been a become
Speaker 1: a fan, like everybody has of this.
Speaker 2: Earling Holland guy.
Speaker 1: If you've been watching TV at all, you've seen him,
Speaker 1: whether you realize it or not. Six four blonde guy
Speaker 1: with a ponytail doing ads for everything.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 7: Michael No, But his last name is spelled it sounded
Speaker 7: like Holand Poland.
Speaker 1: It's got two a's in it, HAA l A n
Speaker 1: d Eric holand Earling Holand. Rather he looks like a Viking.
Speaker 1: He is a Viking, is from Norway. He's a giant dude.
Speaker 1: He's second in the tournament right now and goals scored
Speaker 1: behind Messi, and he's doing ads for everything. And he's
Speaker 1: just an interesting character. He's got a very unique, weird look,
Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of personality and he's an
Speaker 1: amazing soccer player. But I've seen a couple of interviews
Speaker 1: with him and a bunch of stuff on Twitter that
Speaker 1: I found interesting.
Speaker 2: Seems like a really really good dude.
Speaker 1: Oh I know that one I saw they had a
Speaker 1: video of all the biggest soccer stars coming out of
Speaker 1: the tournaments and going to their cars and rushing by fans,
Speaker 1: and how he comes out headed toward his car and
Speaker 1: stops and does a picture with every kid and signs
Speaker 1: something and fist bumps and all that. So he's just
Speaker 1: a really nice guy and good with the fans and
Speaker 1: all that stuff. He's also super healthy, works out like crazy.
Speaker 1: He sleeps ten to eleven hours a night. He looks
Speaker 1: like he's twenty eight. I don't know how old he is,
Speaker 1: but he's a young guy. Sleeps ten to eleven hours night.
Speaker 1: So rather than partying, you know, in all these different cities,
Speaker 1: they go to his big giant soccer stars and find
Speaker 1: and chicks at the club. He sleeps ten to hours
Speaker 1: eleven hours a night, goes to sleep night after night.
Speaker 1: He goes to sleep on time, at ten o'clock every night.
Speaker 1: He wears glasses that block blue light two hours before bedtime.
Speaker 1: So two hours before bedtime he puts on the blue
Speaker 1: light blocking glasses, sleeps in a dark, cool room with
Speaker 1: no screens around, and never has a phone in the
Speaker 1: room so he's not tempted to grab it or grab
Speaker 1: it in the morning first thing in the morning. He's
Speaker 1: got this whole process for waking up slowly for his
Speaker 1: brain and not turning to his phone. Interesting dude, and
Speaker 1: also an amazing soccer player. So that's one of the
Speaker 1: reasons I'm going to be watching England Norway on Saturday.
Speaker 1: I said, I had something else for you to worry about,
Speaker 1: Like you need that, Like we don't worry about enough kids,
Speaker 1: family members, your own health, your finances. What's this mole
Speaker 1: on my shoulders? They getting bigger? Whatever you're worried about.
Speaker 1: Katie Kuric. Do you remember her from the She was
Speaker 1: the Today Show? Was she a host of the.
Speaker 2: Evening news for a while? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, she was America? Oh that's right, she was a CBS.
Speaker 1: She left NBC the Today Show for CBS and was
Speaker 1: the hosted evening news for a while, and she was
Speaker 1: a cutesy little America's darling or whenever she was. She's
Speaker 1: now sixty nine years old. She was on one of
Speaker 1: the shows yesterday revealing that she recently experienced temporary amnesia,
Speaker 1: which apparently is a thing that they have no idea
Speaker 1: what causes it, what causes it in the first place,
Speaker 1: in why it goes away.
Speaker 2: But listen to this.
Speaker 1: The actual name of it is transient global amnesia TGA,
Speaker 1: which I feel like I've heard about before, but I've
Speaker 1: never heard about it this specifically. She was in Aspen, Colorado,
Speaker 1: attending the Aspen Ideas Festival. For several hours, she was
Speaker 1: unable to form new memories. Now, on the face of it,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would notice. Would I notice
Speaker 1: if I was not forming new memories? I mean, now,
Speaker 1: wouldn't I have to specifically think back to what was
Speaker 1: I talking about two hours ago? I can't remember what
Speaker 1: we were talking about two hours ago? Do I have
Speaker 1: that transient global amnesia? I think, would you notice if
Speaker 1: you haven't been forming it? If people started asking you questions?
Speaker 2: Maybe you would.
Speaker 1: But for several hours, she was unable to form new memories,
Speaker 1: though she remained awake, alert, and able to function. She
Speaker 1: later discovers she had participated in two panel discussions that
Speaker 1: she had absolutely no memory of. That would trouble you
Speaker 1: if so somebody brought up.
Speaker 2: Like, see, I don't know. I'm trying to come up
Speaker 2: with an example.
Speaker 1: I do the show every single day, and by the
Speaker 1: middle of the day, by now I can't remember what
Speaker 1: we talked about.
Speaker 2: So trying to think of an example.
Speaker 1: Some of the symptoms that alarmed her husband and doctors
Speaker 1: included she couldn't tell them what year it was that
Speaker 1: would bother me. She believed it was twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: instead of twenty twenty six. She thought president the current
Speaker 1: president was Joe Biden. This was just a couple days ago.
Speaker 1: She couldn't remember that she had recently become a grandmother.
Speaker 1: She repeatedly asked the same questions and even reinduced herself
Speaker 1: to the hospital staff.
Speaker 2: Reintroduced herself.
Speaker 1: Eh, I'm an old person, so I forget stuff easily.
Speaker 1: But if I said, if I introduced myself like I'd
Speaker 1: never met you before, multiple times in the same setting,
Speaker 1: everybody would notice that, right, And then I suppose at
Speaker 1: some point pointed out to you.
Speaker 2: Maybe her husband did it first, Hey Katie, what's going
Speaker 2: on there? You introduced yourself to her like three times
Speaker 2: in a row. I did.
Speaker 1: Because sudden memory loss can be a sign of a stroke,
Speaker 1: doctors treated it as an emergency.
Speaker 2: They rushed her off to the hospital. They did an MRI.
Speaker 1: Another testing ruled out of stroke, and neurologists diagnosed it
Speaker 1: as transient global amnesia, which usually happens only if you're
Speaker 1: over fifteen. It's rare for everyone, but it only happens,
Speaker 1: particularly if you're over a certain age. You're sudden, You
Speaker 1: suddenly lose the ability to form new memories. You repeatedly
Speaker 1: ask the same questions. You know, you know who you
Speaker 1: are and could perform normal tasks, but you keep forgetting things.
Speaker 1: The episode usually only lasts a few hours, almost always
Speaker 1: resolves itself within twenty four hours. The memories formed are
Speaker 1: gone permanently. They never come back, so whatever happened during
Speaker 1: those few hours or that day are gone forever, which
Speaker 1: in some cases would really suck. And then it goes away,
Speaker 1: and they they have no idea why, They have no
Speaker 1: idea what causes it. They think it might be associated
Speaker 1: with intense physical exertion, emotional stress, hot or cold weather,
Speaker 1: abrupt physiological changes. But as they say, with Katie Kirk,
Speaker 1: none of those things occurred with her that day. She
Speaker 1: just all of a sudden couldn't remember things for a
Speaker 1: couple hours, and then it went away completely, And she
Speaker 1: was on one of the shows talking about it yesterday.
Speaker 2: Sharing your experience.
Speaker 1: Just in case this ever happens to you or a
Speaker 1: loved one, I suppose you should get him to the
Speaker 1: hospital right away, but it's quite possible.
Speaker 2: It's harmless as far as they do.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that one
Speaker 1: in my quiver though I'm not married anymore. But like
Speaker 1: back when I was married, that worked. You don't remember
Speaker 1: that we're having dinner with the Zones an ah No,
Speaker 1: I had that temporary global amnesia thing apparently, so I
Speaker 1: can't go because I wasn't prepared.
Speaker 2: Weird.
Speaker 1: Okay, one other thing before we take a break to
Speaker 1: get this on. I don't know how recent this is.
Speaker 1: Sometimes clips pop up on my feet and they turn
Speaker 1: out to be old. Doesn't really make any difference. This
Speaker 1: is Bill Maher old guy does his HBO show every
Speaker 1: Friday night. You know is act by now he's like
Speaker 1: I used to finding him annoying, annoyingly, annoyingly liberal, and
Speaker 1: he hasn't changed his politics at all. It's just that
Speaker 1: he seems quite mainstream compared to today's crowd, and here
Speaker 1: he is talking about that on his HBO show.
Speaker 10: If the thought leaders in the Democratic Party keep encouraging
Speaker 10: and not rebuking the idea that America is cringe and
Speaker 10: the people who run Gaza are great, the Democrats are doomed.
Speaker 10: Alyssa Slotkin's right, Liberals are weak and woke, especially the
Speaker 10: white ones, and they indulge all sorts of nonsense from
Speaker 10: their kids, a pattern that then continues on in the
Speaker 10: Democratic Party.
Speaker 7: Last election, it was all the.
Speaker 10: Gender stuff, the insistence that men can have babies and such,
Speaker 10: and now I fear that we like the terrorists. Is
Speaker 10: the new that Liberals need to push back on the
Speaker 10: dumb ideas that come from their children. The Democrats problem
Speaker 10: is the energy the parties with the young I'm the
Speaker 10: younger with the terrorists.
Speaker 2: That's not good.
Speaker 10: So talk to your children and remind them you don't
Speaker 10: really want to live like your heroes in Hamas. All
Speaker 10: that you do all day, it was all made in America.
Speaker 10: Your smartphone, your grub hub, your freedom to bitch about America,
Speaker 10: it's all American stuff. You tell your phone you want
Speaker 10: a milkshake, and a guy brings into your house.
Speaker 7: Please.
Speaker 10: You couldn't survive a week living into Fataville.
Speaker 1: So that is he's referring to a couple of different
Speaker 1: candidates making the point that, as I said earlier, the
Speaker 1: center of gravity and the Democratic Party, the left wing
Speaker 1: of it not the normal people, but the crazies has
Speaker 1: gone from the sure men can have babies. That issues over,
Speaker 1: as we saw with Scott Wiener of San Francisco being
Speaker 1: harassed at a Pride event the other day. The issue
Speaker 1: now is are you with Israel? Or are you with
Speaker 1: are you against Israel? The way Bill Maher put it there?
Speaker 1: Are you with the terrorists? Which I like and I'm
Speaker 1: perfectly comfortable with. Is there a chance anybody can be
Speaker 1: the Democratic nominee for president in twenty twenty eight and
Speaker 1: that race is going to start.
Speaker 2: Here before you know it.
Speaker 1: Is there any chance anybody can get the nomination and
Speaker 1: be pro Israel? Or do you have to be again?
Speaker 1: Has Bill Maher put it with the terrorists, which I
Speaker 1: don't think is a bad way to put it? Are
Speaker 1: you with the terrorists or not? That's gonna be something
Speaker 1: to watch if they nominate one of your I don't
Speaker 1: believe Israel has the right to exist people. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a chance in hell they get elected president.
Speaker 2: Not a chance. Been wrong before, could be wrong again.
Speaker 2: We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 3: A government official says he's confident and under construction Manhattan
Speaker 3: skyscrap paper is finally stable. Experts claim that the building
Speaker 3: now curves to the right, but it's still erect, so.
Speaker 2: They're renaming it the Bill Clinton Tower.
Speaker 1: My parents watched that show every single night, and he
Speaker 1: makes jokes that I wouldn't make on this show about
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton's erections.
Speaker 2: I mean, just yeah.
Speaker 1: So I wanted to touch on this briefly again I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show, and this is an important story.
Speaker 1: There's something out there in convenience stores called Kratum seven
Speaker 1: zero or it is Cretum seven oh. I think seven
Speaker 1: oh is the brand. It gets you hooked on it.
Speaker 1: It reacts like an opioid. It leads you to morphine
Speaker 1: and heroin. I know people personally that this has happened to.
Speaker 1: In fact, we got this text when I was talking.
Speaker 2: About it earlier.
Speaker 1: I first to create him through a podcast interview with
Speaker 1: Brian Setzer, the guitar player who got addicted to it
Speaker 1: after being recommended it to it by a doctor for
Speaker 1: an autoimmune disease. You see, there's this Kretum is a
Speaker 1: naturally occurring plant and it's fine in certain doses, but
Speaker 1: the stuff they're selling at the convenience stores fifty times
Speaker 1: more potent and it's getting young people hooked. And I
Speaker 1: mentioned this that this buddy of mine who had to
Speaker 1: put his kid in a rehab. The people at the
Speaker 1: rehab said, oh my god, another one. About fifteen percent
Speaker 1: of the people we currently have coming into the rehab
Speaker 1: started on cretum. This was in the Los Angeles area, anyway.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to react to getting tons of texts
Speaker 1: from those of you. You crowd have voids existed, the
Speaker 1: Creatum's naturally occurring and it's actually fine. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: It's the same crowd that always anytime you say anything
Speaker 1: bad about pot. Pot is perfectly fine, and the medicinal
Speaker 1: that it helps people who got cancer eaten.
Speaker 2: What is it with you?
Speaker 1: You can't admit that some drugs can be used in
Speaker 1: a way that's bad for your health or bad for
Speaker 1: your body or ruin your life. Why can't you admit
Speaker 1: that this kratim stuff. The people the rehab said, fifteen
Speaker 1: percent of the people currently coming in started on kreatim
Speaker 1: and the next thing you knowing on aarum.
Speaker 2: It happens. It's real. I don't care if your personal
Speaker 2: experience or you got a buddy who did it healthily.
Speaker 1: It doesn't deny the fact that it ruins plenty of
Speaker 1: people's lives, and.
Speaker 2: The same with pot.
Speaker 1: I have known lots of people who ruin their lives
Speaker 1: with pot, So don't pretend that it never happens.
Speaker 2: What are you worried about that.
Speaker 1: Us on this radio show will have the ability to
Speaker 1: take pot out of your life.
Speaker 2: Smoke as much pot as you want. I don't give
Speaker 2: a crap.
Speaker 1: Smoke a pot until you die. Smoke pot and they die,
Speaker 1: or do creative I don't personally care what you do.
Speaker 1: But what is the reaction to any negative comment about
Speaker 1: any drugs? It's weird, and it's It's been true the
Speaker 1: decades we've.
Speaker 2: Been doing this show.
Speaker 1: I had an uncle who's done cancer medication and the
Speaker 1: only way he could eat is by taking tch. Fine,
Speaker 1: But are you pretending there's no such thing as people
Speaker 1: who smoke too much pot and ruined their lives or
Speaker 1: are getting hooked on this credum and becoming morphinaticts.
Speaker 2: Weird anyway.
Speaker 1: Starting July first, as in seven days ago, the DEA
Speaker 1: put this Kratum seven to zero or any product like
Speaker 1: it on the Schedule one drug list, and in theory,
Speaker 1: they're going to start getting it out of convenience stores
Speaker 1: and vape shops and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: But it hasn't happened yet. In La County.
Speaker 1: It's supposedly illegal, but my buddy found shops where they
Speaker 1: were still selling it because they didn't know it was illegal,
Speaker 1: or nobody'd come buy yet, or you're allowed to sell
Speaker 1: the supply you still have before you buy.
Speaker 2: A new supplier. I don't know how it works. I'm
Speaker 2: just letting you know.
Speaker 1: Your teenager can still go into a vape shop probably
Speaker 1: or a convenience store, and then right next to the
Speaker 1: five hour energy or other things that aren't going to
Speaker 1: ruin their lives, is this thing that can pretty quickly
Speaker 1: make them an opioid addict and turn your world upside down?
Speaker 1: How did this stuff ever get into stores? I guess
Speaker 1: talking about earlier. We're so careful on yogurt and salami,
Speaker 1: and you can't sell goat milk unless it's blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: These different sort of things.
Speaker 1: Be allow something that's gonna make people a heroin addict,
Speaker 1: you allow that to be sold in convenience stores.
Speaker 2: How does this happen?
Speaker 1: It makes me suspicious that there's like some sort of
Speaker 1: conspiracy behind it, not the conspiracy some of you believe
Speaker 1: about the Jews getting it in there for Epstein reasons
Speaker 1: or something.
Speaker 2: But anyway, horrible story.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be appropriate for me to tell the whole
Speaker 1: thing of this buddy of mine, but it's just it's amazing.
Speaker 1: It's amazing that this happened to their son and their
Speaker 1: family and it started this way.
Speaker 2: Ready to.
Speaker 1: Again, Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, me and
Speaker 1: there's only two of us on the show until Katie
Speaker 1: gets back from maternity leave and Joe comes back from
Speaker 1: his vacation, which could be any minute.
Speaker 2: Let's get a final thought from.
Speaker 1: Our board operator or pretze and the buttons, flip of
Speaker 1: the boggles, pull the believers.
Speaker 2: How are you this morning, Michael?
Speaker 7: This is my advice for the teenagers. When you go
Speaker 7: to convenience steor just get yourself a large slurpiece some
Speaker 7: beef jerky, then go home and read a good book
Speaker 7: old school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely right, Maybe I'll finish with this. Every now
Speaker 1: and then I get a little bit tired of listening
Speaker 1: to the sound of my tears. Every now and then
Speaker 1: I get a little bit nervous that the best of
Speaker 1: all the years have gone by. Every now and then
Speaker 1: I get a little bit terrified, and then I see
Speaker 1: the look in your eyes.
Speaker 2: Turn around, bright eyes.
Speaker 1: Bonnie Tyler dead it age of seventy five, but her
Speaker 1: music will live on and again, I say, if you're
Speaker 1: out drinking tonight or this weekend at a karaoke bar,
Speaker 1: dial up some turn around, bright eyes and screaming at
Speaker 1: the top of your lungs with.
Speaker 2: A beer in your hand.
Speaker 1: The whole crowd will sing along in honor of the
Speaker 1: great Welsh singer Bonnie Time.
Speaker 2: What an overwrought song.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Geddy wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 2: That's what we do. We pass the money along to others.
Speaker 1: And there's some cool stuff there by the way anyway,
Speaker 1: all kinds of sayings and Armstrong and Getty swag and
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Speaker 1: lots of clips and other stuff. We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 1: God bless America.
Speaker 2: Thank you Ti Strong.
Speaker 3: In Caddy Jack's Flying solo while Show is drinking gin
Speaker 3: a sketch a bourbon.
Speaker 2: It doesn't really matter. It doesn't really.
Speaker 7: Matter because we'll be back tomorrow.
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