Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Darlene Graham is the real deal.
Speaker 4: I said earlier this year, 2026 is a year of affordability.
Speaker 4: And President Trump nailed it when he said that Darlene
Speaker 4: Graham understands the issues facing Americans today and South Carolinians
Speaker 4: today the issues of affordability. She goes to the grocery store.
Speaker 4: She understands the prices of eggs and meat and some
Speaker 4: of the challenges facing the American people. She focuses on
Speaker 4: helping people with disabilities for the last 30 years as
Speaker 4: their career. She is ready, highly qualified, incredibly competent, ready
Speaker 4: for prime time.
Speaker 3: I hate politics.
Speaker 2: So dumb. That's the..
Speaker 3: Senator from South Carolina whose heart didn't explode on him,
Speaker 3: Senator Tim Scott. The other one, Lindsey Graham, his heart
Speaker 3: gave out on him.
Speaker 2: And I like Tim Scott.
Speaker 3: I like Tim Scott, too.
Speaker 2: That's why I.
Speaker 3: Say I hate politics. When you get to silly season,
Speaker 3: when you get to the final days of elections, even
Speaker 3: your favorite smart people who are otherwise, you know, not
Speaker 3: phony liars will say crap about Because when it gets
Speaker 3: down to the crunch time and close elections, that Senator
Speaker 3: Tim Scott trying to pretend that Lindsey Graham's sister, Darlene Graham,
Speaker 3: didn't have a disqualifying moment in a debate last week.
Speaker 3: We played that over and over. You've heard it where
Speaker 3: she was asked about the United States and Taiwan. And
Speaker 3: she clearly had never thought about the issue in her life.
Speaker 3: She didn't even make up an answer. She said, I
Speaker 3: just don't care much about foreign policy. That was your
Speaker 3: brother's entire thing, by the way. He was the number
Speaker 3: one foreign policy arguer in the Republican Party for like
Speaker 3: most of my lifetime. And you have never even heard
Speaker 3: of like the number one foreign policy issue ever. that
Speaker 3: we're going to have to deal with in the future.
Speaker 5: Fairly deft political maneuvering, though, to call that a strength,
Speaker 5: because she is so focused on dinner table issues.
Speaker 2: She doesn't have time for foreign wars. She's about America.
Speaker 2: She's about South Carolina.
Speaker 5: I don't buy it, but it's a decent effort. It
Speaker 5: was that part he said at the end.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you... I could never be a politician.
Speaker 3: That part he said at the end. She is qualified.
Speaker 3: She is 100% ready to go. She's... No, she's not qualified.
Speaker 3: She also sounds dumb. I don't know if she is dumb,
Speaker 3: but she sounds like Luann from King of the Hill.
Speaker 3: She sounds like Luann from... Major babies, Uncle Hank. I
Speaker 3: want to be your senator, Uncle Hank. That's what she
Speaker 3: sounds like.
Speaker 2: This is unfair. I can't believe I'm witnessing this. This
Speaker 2: is slanderous.
Speaker 5: It's sexism, certainly, and probably Yankee belligerence against her for.
Speaker 2: Having a Southern accent.
Speaker 3: But this is not a..
Speaker 2: I'm sickened, y'all.
Speaker 3: This is not her running against the Democrat and I'm
Speaker 3: tearing her down. She's running against a different Republican. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't know this guy. Who's the other guy?
Speaker 5: Which makes your misogyny all the more horrifying. Who's the
Speaker 5: guy she's running against today?
Speaker 2: Ralph Norman, I think.
Speaker 3: And it's today. And so you pick a different Republican,
Speaker 3: and that guy, who I assume is not completely unqualified
Speaker 3: to be a U.S. senator, could be the U.S. senator
Speaker 3: in the Republican Party.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Ralph Norman's a longtime politician, a congressperson. He's also 73.
Speaker 5: So we get a choice between Luann and a guy who's,
Speaker 5: you know, he's going to be pushing 80 by the
Speaker 5: time term.
Speaker 2: Number one is done.
Speaker 3: Wow. I want to be a senator, Uncle Hank.
Speaker 2: See, that's not fair.
Speaker 3: Here's Luann Darlene Graham yesterday explaining why it's not a
Speaker 3: big deal that she had never even thought in her
Speaker 3: life about Taiwan and China.
Speaker 1: You know what I've done in the last week? I've
Speaker 1: gone around this entire state talking to as many people
Speaker 1: as I possibly can. And you know how many of
Speaker 1: them brought up Taiwan or national security?
Speaker 2: Not one.
Speaker 1: They're talking about the rising cost of health care and affordability.
Speaker 1: So that's what's important to me.
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, I'm doubling down on my criticism of you.
Speaker 5: It's the timbre of her voice and her southern accent,
Speaker 5: and you're comparing her. hilariously, to Luan from the King
Speaker 5: of the Hill. That was a perfectly intelligent statement of
Speaker 5: some good politics.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, that wasn't a perfectly into not, as I said
Speaker 3: last week, and I guess we should have played the clip.
Speaker 3: Not only has, so it's a difference between the, if
Speaker 3: she wants to be a house member and you haven't
Speaker 3: thought about Taiwan and, uh, China, I hate that. I
Speaker 3: wish you were more into the news flow and like
Speaker 3: had at least like ran in a circle where you'd
Speaker 3: have that conversation with your friends about it or something
Speaker 3: like I do, for instance.
Speaker 2: Um, yeah.
Speaker 3: But fine, you want to be a House member, you're
Speaker 3: one of 435. To be a U.S. freaking senator, you've
Speaker 3: got to be the kind of person that thinks about
Speaker 3: this sort of stuff. And not only has she never
Speaker 3: thought about it, her answer of, well, I just, I'm
Speaker 3: not somebody who knows anything about foreign policy. You couldn't
Speaker 3: even make up a BS answer. You can't be a U.S. senator.
Speaker 3: You don't have the brainpower, Luann. You live with your aunts.
Speaker 3: So is Hank, is Peggy Luann's aunt? Aunt and uncle, right?
Speaker 5: Yes.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: What does that have to do with the voters of
Speaker 2: South Carolina?
Speaker 3: She sounds like Luann from King of the Hill.
Speaker 2: The great state of South Carolina. Now, this is ugliness here.
Speaker 5: On the other hand, again, to not even be able
Speaker 5: to fake up an answer of, I'm still getting up
Speaker 5: to speed on our options on Taiwan.
Speaker 2: I haven't been briefed, obviously. I don't have a security clearance.
Speaker 5: But I know they are a critical partner and ally
Speaker 5: and have been for many, many years. And we stand
Speaker 5: with the people of Taiwan against the threat of the
Speaker 5: communist Chinese.
Speaker 2: In a number of different ways. I mean, you can't
Speaker 2: come up with that.
Speaker 3: I don't really know much about that. It's a very
Speaker 3: touchy issue and nuance. And what I plan to release
Speaker 3: within the next 72 hours is my foreign policy proposal
Speaker 3: for a global way for the United States to look
Speaker 3: to the future. Something. But if you can't make up that,
Speaker 3: if you can't say that sort of thing, you can't
Speaker 3: be a U.S. senator. It's all about Ora Taiton there
Speaker 3: in the chamber, you and your 99 other people. Here's
Speaker 3: how it went down.
Speaker 7: Senator, are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security
Speaker 7: issues for the United States?
Speaker 2: If so, why?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, could you repeat the question?
Speaker 7: Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues
Speaker 7: for the United States? And if so, why or how?
Speaker 7: I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on
Speaker 7: national security. I'm not that informed on national security. But
Speaker 7: I do support the military.
Speaker 3: Those were gasps and at least a boo.
Speaker 5: Like, what? It was several boos and oohs.
Speaker 2: My boyfriend left me, Uncle Hank. Oh, no. No, this
Speaker 2: is not right.
Speaker 5: Then she held a Bible study in the pool wearing
Speaker 5: a tiny bikini.
Speaker 8: Oh, no.
Speaker 2: Again, that was King of the Bible. Darlene Graham. That's right, sir.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Trump's supporting her and claiming she's all she's unbelievably qualified
Speaker 3: and the best. And I can't believe Tim Scott said that, dude.
Speaker 2: She's Trump's choice. He's a Trump loyalist.
Speaker 3: Politics is stupid.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: True.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Well, we'll see how it turns out today. How
Speaker 3: do you think the South Carolinians are going to look
Speaker 3: at it?
Speaker 5: I suspect it'll be quite close. South Carolina is a
Speaker 5: very Trumpy state. Ralph Norman is a known quantity and
Speaker 5: is pretty respected. He also, Darlene Graham comes off as
Speaker 5: a rubber stamp of Trump. I'm not sure she will be,
Speaker 5: but that is her entire campaign is I'm Trump's gal.
Speaker 3: Part of it will be because she's never thought about
Speaker 3: the issue before, so I might as well do what
Speaker 3: the president tells me.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Whereas Norman has cut a more independent, you know, image saying, look,
Speaker 5: Trump's right about a lot of stuff and I'm with him.
Speaker 5: But no, if I think he's wrong, I'll say he's wrong. Again,
Speaker 5: politics is stupid. And, you know, you can't say it enough.
Speaker 3: The Winston Churchill quote, it's a worst form of government
Speaker 3: ever invented, except for all the others.
Speaker 2: Democracy.
Speaker 3: But the whole carry on the legacy thing. of the name.
Speaker 3: You're not carrying on the legacy of a foreign policy
Speaker 3: heavyweight who cared more and thought more about these issues
Speaker 3: than practically anybody I've ever known.
Speaker 2: Right, right, right.
Speaker 5: And his expertise in the Judiciary Committee. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 5: I adore my wife, but it's like if I passed
Speaker 5: and she took over the talk show, it would be utterly.
Speaker 2: Inappropriate to continue the legacy.
Speaker 5: Or if, God forbid, the Lord takes her, and I'm
Speaker 5: hired to balance the books at a bank.
Speaker 2: That would be bizarre. Don't you care about the legacy?
Speaker 2: You don't care about the legacy? Yeah, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll see how they vote. Democrats have done
Speaker 3: this over the years, too. I'm not complaining. This is
Speaker 3: a one-off or a one-party or anything like that. I
Speaker 3: hate the legacy stuff where you go with the wife
Speaker 3: or the brother or the son.
Speaker 5: And they'll get her staffers who are experts in all
Speaker 5: this stuff, and they'll advise her how to vote, and
Speaker 5: she'll go along probably with what the party tells her
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 3: Which might be half the senators the way it works anyway.
Speaker 2: Yeah, honestly, yeah. That's disappointing. I wonder if she'll... eat
Speaker 2: the white man's white meat. Another one of our favorite
Speaker 2: quotes from King of the Hill.
Speaker 3: God, my son's on a King of the Hill binge again,
Speaker 3: and so I keep seeing it on in the living
Speaker 3: room when I walk by, and that show is flippin' funny.
Speaker 3: It's got such a great heart, too.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: John Redcorn.
Speaker 3: Yes, I was just about to bring that up. The
Speaker 3: fact that Dale was willing to overlook the obvious affair,
Speaker 3: he was being cuckolded.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes. And everyone knew it.
Speaker 3: And his son is clearly of Native American heritage.
Speaker 2: But he has no idea.
Speaker 5: And his wife's massage therapist, John Redcorn, is constantly squirming.
Speaker 3: I need to treat her migraines. I will need some time.
Speaker 2: I'll go away then. Yeah, so they walk.
Speaker 3: Into a bedroom the other day, and he says, I
Speaker 3: need to treat her migraines. I will need some time.
Speaker 3: And a bottle of Asti Spavanti.
Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
Speaker 3: Okay, we got more on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 7: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Well, some entertainment news.
Speaker 8: Vin Diesel said that this December they will start shooting
Speaker 8: the 11th Fast and Furious movie. The squad is getting
Speaker 8: a little older. Half the movie is just them trying
Speaker 8: to get into the car.
Speaker 3: I don't doubt that. As I mentioned, when I was
Speaker 3: down in Vegas, we were trying out. I was going
Speaker 3: to rent a car, and I ended up renting this
Speaker 3: 66 Mustang GT. It was just amazing. But I was
Speaker 3: looking at it. They had a Lamborghini to rent and
Speaker 3: all this. I couldn't get in and out of that thing.
Speaker 3: It's just painful. I would have had to roll out
Speaker 3: onto the pavement, then get onto my hands and knees
Speaker 3: and stand up.
Speaker 2: Which isn't a good look.
Speaker 5: I had a performance car for like a year and
Speaker 5: a half that was not crazy low, like that kind
Speaker 5: of car, but it was low enough that I realized,
Speaker 5: all right, every time you get in and out of this,
Speaker 5: you're thinking, oh, okay, that went okay.
Speaker 2: No, no, get a grown-up car.
Speaker 3: So this is a heck of a, this is the
Speaker 3: front page story, which is meaningless now. now but it's
Speaker 3: the big story today in the wall street journal and
Speaker 3: if it's true it's damned interesting the warnings that came
Speaker 3: before a war now reaching the six-month mark and it's
Speaker 3: different than when the way i had been looking at
Speaker 3: it all along days before going to war with iran
Speaker 3: in february president trump summoned his intelligence chief to the
Speaker 3: oval office to ask whether a full-on assault was a
Speaker 3: good idea So there was some debate going on behind
Speaker 3: the scenes, and in this whole, he thought it would
Speaker 3: be another Venezuela. Well, clearly, plenty of people told him
Speaker 3: it wasn't going to be another Venezuela. I'll get back
Speaker 3: to the story. Iran was at its weakest point in decades.
Speaker 3: Senior aides and Benjamin Netanyahu told him, providing Trump the
Speaker 3: rare opportunity to dismantle Iran's nuclear program, the question was
Speaker 3: whether a large-scale attack would work and possibly topple the regime.
Speaker 3: Then-Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard outlined assessments from America's
Speaker 3: intelligence apparatus. According to people familiar with the meeting, she
Speaker 3: told Trump that killing Iran's supreme leader would likely usher
Speaker 3: in a more hardline regime, ding, open to acquiring nuclear weapons.
Speaker 3: Tehran would rush to close the Strait of Hormuz, ding,
Speaker 3: destabilizing the global energy market, ding, and would strike U.S.
Speaker 3: forces and partners in the Middle East, ding, ding, prompting
Speaker 3: questions about American resolve and reliability with allies.
Speaker 2: Ding.
Speaker 3: All of that has happened, of course. The notes of
Speaker 3: caution echoed warnings Trump was receiving from all corners. Top
Speaker 3: military leaders told the president their war would lead to casualties,
Speaker 3: concerns about the weapons stockpile, ding, and readiness problems for
Speaker 3: an overstretched force, the Wall Street Journal reported. So that
Speaker 3: is pretty damned interesting, obviously. Then you got this. Not
Speaker 3: everyone agreed on the case for war. Vice President J.D.
Speaker 3: Vance promoted a more cautious approach, officials said. Iran might
Speaker 3: dissolve its nuclear program in negotiations, he told the president.
Speaker 3: Getting a deal was a risk but less costly than
Speaker 3: a war with unwieldy consequences. Plus, Iran's economy was collapsing
Speaker 3: under heavy U.S. sanctions. If that path proved fruitless, Trump
Speaker 3: would have more legitimacy to attack Iran in a swift
Speaker 3: and overwhelming operation. But let's do this first. Trump listened,
Speaker 3: but was ultimately swayed by Pentagon presentations of decisive options.
Speaker 3: The point the Wall Street Journal is making is that
Speaker 3: Pete Hegzeth and Dan Cain, the Joint Chiefs Chairman, convinced
Speaker 3: him of the military option. But he was definitely told
Speaker 3: by all the intelligence agencies of what could happen and
Speaker 3: ultimately did happen.
Speaker 2: So it's not like it was..
Speaker 3: Completely a surprise, the idea of closing the Strait of Hormuz,
Speaker 3: firing on our bases, ending up with hardliners in charge
Speaker 3: when you kill the Supreme Leader that are more committed to.
Speaker 2: The cause, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. You have to take all these insider accounts
Speaker 5: with a grain of salt because you could rephrase it
Speaker 5: or just add on a little more, saying the intelligence
Speaker 5: assessment also said that those effects would be temporary.
Speaker 2: And given the risks of Iran, blah, blah, having a bomb, etc.
Speaker 3: As I have learned from smart people through the years,
Speaker 3: this comes out of the Bob Woodward world, his books.
Speaker 3: You read a story like that, whoever ends up looking
Speaker 3: the best is often your source.
Speaker 1: J.D.
Speaker 3: Vance looks really good.
Speaker 2: In that story. Ah, yes.
Speaker 5: Especially when he was tasked with the fruitless and idiotic
Speaker 5: negotiations and was embarrassed by their failure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that all rings true. Speaking of ding.
Speaker 3: He would have been in all those meetings and him
Speaker 3: going to the Wall Street Journal off the record and
Speaker 3: telling them, hey, they laid all this out for him.
Speaker 3: Exactly what happened. Step by step. Like they were like
Speaker 3: they had a crystal ball. I, however. stood up for
Speaker 3: the good people of America, and suggested this.
Speaker 5: Right, and especially because, you know, to some extent, the
Speaker 5: goat's horns were being put on him for those negotiations,
Speaker 5: although I think everybody's moved on. That was another one
Speaker 5: of those political stories that was super hot for a minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that. I love that insight. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 2: bet it was Vance.
Speaker 3: I'll bet it was, too. And, you know, and he's
Speaker 3: going to run for president, or he's certainly considering running
Speaker 3: for president, and he wants to try to massage this
Speaker 3: story before he does sure yeah and how it ends
Speaker 3: nobody knows at this point it's definitely uh fraught with
Speaker 3: uncertainty but could be the outcome is pretty positive if
Speaker 3: that's accurate though that's something that uh the intelligence people
Speaker 3: were saying almost exactly what did happen on day.
Speaker 2: One armstrong and getty.
Speaker 9: How you doing?
Speaker 3: How things going, huh?
Speaker 2: We don't ask you enough.
Speaker 3: How are you? It's always talking about us.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. I feel bad now.
Speaker 5: Earlier this month, a couple of transgender women who used
Speaker 5: to play in the NBA announced that they wanted to
Speaker 5: play in the WNBA to make the point that just
Speaker 5: because you say you're a woman.
Speaker 2: Doesn't make you a woman at all.
Speaker 5: And the idea of men playing in women's sports just
Speaker 5: because they claim they are women is absolutely absurd. Good
Speaker 5: illustration of what I'm talking about, which is you can't
Speaker 5: reason with a lot of leftists when they made those
Speaker 5: declarations and said they wanted to play in the league.
Speaker 5: And indeed, you're probably familiar with the story at this point.
Speaker 5: Sophie Cunningham, a player in the WNBA, said, no, there
Speaker 5: shouldn't be boys and girls sports. There shouldn't be men
Speaker 5: and women's sports. Which is a perfectly sound and very,
Speaker 5: very plain speaking argument.
Speaker 2: This was the response from one of the WNBA coaches.
Speaker 6: The hate, the fear mongering, the divisiveness, the stuff that's
Speaker 6: trying to hijack our league will not win.
Speaker 4: It won't win.
Speaker 6: We are united. We are connected. We will not be divided.
Speaker 6: Every day these women put their on the line. Every day.
Speaker 6: When they go low, we go high.
Speaker 3: Love will win. Grace will win.
Speaker 6: Humility will win. And kindness will win. I stand by them.
Speaker 6: I will always stand by them. Everybody else can go
Speaker 6: to hell.
Speaker 3: Do you remember what the question was?
Speaker 5: I must have spaced off when she addressed the thing
Speaker 5: about dudes playing in her league.
Speaker 8: Well, right.
Speaker 3: Do you remember what the question was?
Speaker 5: She was being asked about the eligibility and the Enos
Speaker 5: Cantor freedom and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: But how is that going to destroy your league?
Speaker 2: Well, they will not be divided. Love will win.
Speaker 5: I'm going to have to ask you to pay more attention.
Speaker 2: So my point is that.
Speaker 3: It would destroy your league if the NBA players came
Speaker 3: in and played.
Speaker 5: Or it'd make it worth watching.
Speaker 3: Is that what she was responding to? Or it was
Speaker 3: just the conversation that Sophie... It was just the conversation
Speaker 3: Sophie Cunningham introduced, right?
Speaker 2: Right. Michael? Michael?
Speaker 9: I remember she wasn't supporting the players on her team.
Speaker 9: They were at a press conference and the players... No, that's...
Speaker 9: But it's all... It has all to do with the
Speaker 9: the transgender thing. That's the topic. And you can't get
Speaker 9: them to address their own cognitive dissonance. Here's another example.
Speaker 5: Because all of these champagne socialists in New York City,
Speaker 5: it turns out like Mamdani's entire cabal is like rich kids. And,
Speaker 5: you know, those of us on the right and center
Speaker 5: think that's ironic and odd that they're constantly shouting about,
Speaker 5: I stand up for the working classmen. The rich kids
Speaker 5: who have no idea how wealth is accumulated or how business.
Speaker 2: Is run because they were handed it. But I thought
Speaker 2: this was so interesting.
Speaker 5: This is from The Gothamist, which is a New York
Speaker 5: City newspaper now website. They went to this anarchist bookstore
Speaker 5: and talked to a bunch of the people, the proprietors
Speaker 5: and the customers at this. The bookstore is called P.I.T.
Speaker 5: Property is Theft. It's a Marxist-anarchist bookstore. But in a
Speaker 5: city with skyrocketing costs, patrons said that having the co-chair
Speaker 5: of the local Democratic Socialists of America live in a
Speaker 5: million-and-a-half-dollar home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, bought by his parents, is relatable.
Speaker 5: It's not the end of the world for me, said
Speaker 5: 48-year-old Jay Blum, who described himself as a leftist. He
Speaker 5: argued parental help was all too common among New Yorkers.
Speaker 5: If you're not benefiting a little bit, then you're just
Speaker 5: struggling all the time, he said. Okay, so that's, you know,
Speaker 5: super expensive. Everybody needs a little help from their parents. So, no,
Speaker 5: I don't hold it against the guy. Earlier this week,
Speaker 5: the New York Post reported that the DSA NYC co-chair,
Speaker 5: Gustavo Gordillo, lived in the home, which is also undergoing
Speaker 5: seven figures worth of renovations. Critics seized on the news
Speaker 5: as evidence that Gordillo, Gordillo was not practicing what he preaches.
Speaker 5: Some DSA members have been critical of property ownership as
Speaker 5: a concept and cast extreme wealth as a moral abomination.
Speaker 2: Critical of property ownership as a concept.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: You're not an American.
Speaker 5: They mentioned that it was reminiscent of last year's mayoral
Speaker 5: campaign when Andrew Cuomo criticized Zoran Mamdani as a champagne socialist.
Speaker 5: for living in a very nice rent-stabilized Queens apartment. Bernie
Speaker 5: Sanders came under scrutiny for becoming a millionaire and owning
Speaker 5: three homes. Sanders, who credited his financial success to a
Speaker 5: best-selling book he wrote, refused to apologize. said Eric Blanc,
Speaker 5: an assistant professor of labor studies at Rutgers University, who
Speaker 5: is a DSA member, quote, people voted with Bernie, and
Speaker 5: it showed that these smears didn't land. What people care
Speaker 5: about is what you do and what you fight for.
Speaker 3: These smears.
Speaker 5: Okay, so very much like the WNBA coach, just relying
Speaker 5: on slogans and we come in love or whatever.
Speaker 2: Humility will win. That's a good point.
Speaker 5: Trent Thorne, age 29, said he didn't believe in owning property,
Speaker 5: but he added that a million and a half dollars
Speaker 5: didn't strike him as a particularly valuable home in New
Speaker 5: York City. Maybe he could rent out to some other people,
Speaker 5: but that's ultimately up to him.
Speaker 2: Wait a minute.
Speaker 5: You just said you don't believe in owning property, but
Speaker 5: you just advocated for property rights. Manolo Dilos Santos, the
Speaker 5: executive director of the People's Forum, which hosts DSA events
Speaker 5: and organizes left-wing protests, saw the coverage of Gordillo's home
Speaker 5: as an attempt to sow division and distract working-class New Yorkers.
Speaker 5: There's a real fight for most of us who live
Speaker 5: in the city to simply be able to live in
Speaker 5: an affordable city.
Speaker 2: That is the real fight.
Speaker 5: We're fighting against the interests of the billionaires that are
Speaker 5: represented precisely by the New York Post and its owners.
Speaker 3: I feel like you shouldn't have to respond to somebody
Speaker 3: who says, I don't believe in owning property. I feel
Speaker 3: like you should just be able to go, ah, and
Speaker 3: walk away from them.
Speaker 2: Or just say you're an idiot. I couldn't help myself.
Speaker 3: Okay, so apartments, houses, where are they going to come from?
Speaker 3: And then why doesn't everybody on earth want to move
Speaker 3: to New York City? Because you get a free house.
Speaker 5: Because when we get the working class revolution going around
Speaker 5: the world they won't need to because it'll happen in
Speaker 5: their own country yeah but what about the interim lots
Speaker 5: of people want to live in new york we come
Speaker 5: with love and grace and humility we will not be
Speaker 5: divided love will win yeah i.
Speaker 10: Don't know i i don't even feel like they're it's
Speaker 10: worth having conversations um it's amazing that you can stand
Speaker 10: up in front of people though and they'll cheer when
Speaker 10: you say crap like that.
Speaker 2: All right, one more quote from this.
Speaker 5: Here's your DSA co-chair, Grace Mouser, who's getting a little attention.
Speaker 5: She characterized the story as doxing. And she said, we
Speaker 5: can't choose the status we're born into, but we can
Speaker 5: choose what we do with the privileges we inherit. Gustavo,
Speaker 5: alongside many of his fellow DSA members, oh, he has
Speaker 5: a man bun, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, full disclosure. Man bun.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Gustavo, alongside many of his fellow GSA members and
Speaker 5: many great heroes of history from Fred Friedrich Engels to FDR,
Speaker 5: has used his access to fight for the working class
Speaker 5: and organize for victories that are redefining American politics.
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, right. Okay.
Speaker 5: What are we going to do with the kids, though,
Speaker 5: that are indoctrinated? We've got to find some way to
Speaker 5: talk sense into them. Maybe just let them get out
Speaker 5: in the real world for a while.
Speaker 3: I don't know. These are all such different topics. You
Speaker 3: want universal health care. That's a legit discussion, and it
Speaker 3: very well may happen in my lifetime. But the, I
Speaker 3: don't believe in owning property, is not doable at all,
Speaker 3: and it's not going to happen in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 3: It's insane. So, I don't know. These are different topics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all tearing down the system, though, from their
Speaker 2: point of view. But they seem, some of them anyway, seem.
Speaker 3: To actually believe it's a workable plan.
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do. They're delusional.
Speaker 3: Where are the houses going to come from? Who's going
Speaker 3: to build them?
Speaker 2: The government.
Speaker 5: The government builders, equally. And you'll only have to swing
Speaker 5: a hammer until you're tired, then you can go home
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 2: What was that quote a couple weeks ago? You'll only
Speaker 2: work as much as is necessary.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: And then you always have the weird thing that if
Speaker 3: Elon's right, and I don't know how this works, but
Speaker 3: we just, AI takes off and we're so flippant abundant
Speaker 3: that everything practically is free. Money has no value. But
Speaker 3: I heard a good conversation the other day, and Elon's
Speaker 3: never addressed this. Nobody ever does. It's just, there's still
Speaker 3: going to be, like, places to live that have nicer
Speaker 3: weather than other places or better views.
Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
Speaker 3: Or whatever. They're going to be in more demand. I mean,
Speaker 3: how's all that going to get worked out? Nobody even
Speaker 3: addresses it. Well, I'll tell you precisely how it's going
Speaker 3: to work out. Whoever is most powerful and closest to
Speaker 3: the government will take the good stuff.
Speaker 2: And you will get the tracks.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I hope I get to live through this, and
Speaker 3: sometimes I hope it somehow gets delayed.
Speaker 5: I might end up in a trailer park with that
Speaker 5: Ohio hoe that Jed York was looking to get with.
Speaker 2: Who knows?
Speaker 3: There was no hoe.
Speaker 2: Oh, right. It was a cop.
Speaker 3: And the trailer park really had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 3: They just had to pick a location.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: Kind of interesting that they picked a trailer park, thinking
Speaker 3: that that would be... I mean, they weren't specifically trying
Speaker 3: to get an NFL owner billionaire. They're just trying to
Speaker 3: catch people that were soliciting prostitutes.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie?
Speaker 5: I believe you would call her an Ohio, if you will.
Speaker 2: That's exactly. Ohio. If she existed, yes. But again, she didn't.
Speaker 2: Much to Mr.
Speaker 5: York's disappointment and chagrin.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there are Ohio's. It's the world's oldest profession,
Speaker 3: and it's not exclusive to the other 49 states. Um,
Speaker 3: but yeah, the whole thing was a ruse. So he got,
Speaker 3: that had to be, God, what was his heart rate
Speaker 3: when he pulled up and found out it was the cops? Ooh,
Speaker 3: might've been 250. Or he's so wealthy, he thought, well,
Speaker 3: this will be mildly inconvenient.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would like to know.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's already on the splits with his wife.
Speaker 3: Right, so he didn't have to worry about that.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not somewhat embarrassing.
Speaker 3: But is it? To who? The crowd he runs with,
Speaker 3: which is quite possibly other rich dudes.
Speaker 2: Who also pay for sex? So they're just going to think, ah, hey,
Speaker 2: I heard you got caught.
Speaker 3: That sucks. Well, yeah, that happened to a buddy of mine.
Speaker 3: What a drag. How long were you in jail?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's one of those things.
Speaker 5: I had an interesting conversation with my daughter about this
Speaker 5: the other day. libertarianism is looking at the legalization of
Speaker 5: hard drugs in Oregon, for instance.
Speaker 2: What a disaster that's been.
Speaker 5: And how, you know, liberty intersecting with the social welfare
Speaker 5: state is unworkable in a lot of ways.
Speaker 3: And maybe human nature, which libertarians really don't like that idea,
Speaker 3: that some things you can't– because of human nature, you
Speaker 3: just can't allow it.
Speaker 2: And then you end up on the road to serfdom.
Speaker 2: Read it someday. It's truly interesting.
Speaker 5: But anyway, I just– The whole, if you buy her
Speaker 5: dinner and she thinks, yeah, he's a nice enough guy,
Speaker 5: why not a little bit? Or, you know, but if
Speaker 5: she says, I'm not hungry, why don't you give me
Speaker 5: the $ 140 and we'll have sex?
Speaker 2: Well, that is illegal.
Speaker 3: So you're saying if you buy her a $ 140 meal
Speaker 3: and have sex and she's having sex with you because
Speaker 3: she feels like you bought her an expensive meal.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: It's okay. But if she says, I already ate. I'm stuffed.
Speaker 3: How about you just hand me the $ 140? I'll feel
Speaker 3: just as grateful and still.
Speaker 2: Have sex with you.
Speaker 3: It's a crime.
Speaker 2: Right. Exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: That is kind of crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sex slavery notwithstanding. That's a different subject and a warrant
Speaker 3: that doesn't count.
Speaker 5: I assume in this scenario, the non-existent hooker was just
Speaker 5: looking for.
Speaker 2: A little side hustle, literally.
Speaker 3: And there's plenty of that going on. Let's not pretend
Speaker 3: there's not that also. Adults who are willingly choosing to
Speaker 3: sell their bodies for sex to people who are willing
Speaker 3: to pay them for it. That happens, too. It's not
Speaker 3: all sex trafficking.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm aware of a young woman who has made
Speaker 5: it infinitely clear, having just had a breakup, that she
Speaker 5: would only get with men who are successful.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've known lots of women that way.
Speaker 6: Sure.
Speaker 3: I know a friend of a friend. I knew her well,
Speaker 3: so it wasn't somebody I didn't know. I knew her.
Speaker 3: She said it out loud. I heard her in person.
Speaker 3: She would only go out with, using my finger quotes,
Speaker 3: guys who had Visa black cards, which if you don't
Speaker 3: know what that is, you've got to be crazy rich.
Speaker 2: Well, that's trading companionship, physical and emotional, for money. That's legal.
Speaker 2: I don't know. At the same time, I don't want
Speaker 2: streetwalking hoes walking down the street.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 3: Can you draw the line somewhere there? Figure that out.
Speaker 2: How about bare-chested gigolos? Don't want that either. Sickening. All
Speaker 2: oiled up and tan.
Speaker 3: That would be a good question, though. Was his heart
Speaker 3: rate 250 and he was sweating and sick to his
Speaker 3: stomach and thought, oh, my God, this is awful? Or
Speaker 3: he thought, jeez.
Speaker 2: Oh, for God's sake. This is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 2: Right. Getting pulled over for rolling right turn. All right.
Speaker 2: I wonder.
Speaker 3: We'll finish strong next.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: I was kind of interested in this story Katie brought
Speaker 3: us yesterday. Taking a screenshot, which I do regularly. Dozen
Speaker 3: times a day. Taking a screenshot could sabotage memory, researchers find.
Speaker 3: The idea being that our brain does some sort of, okay,
Speaker 3: I don't need to remember this because I put this
Speaker 3: over there, which I can't figure out is a good
Speaker 3: thing or a bad thing. Maybe it's a good thing.
Speaker 3: It's like freeing up our brain saying, are there other
Speaker 3: things you're going to need to remember? This one's taken
Speaker 3: care of. Like how to excel at that video game
Speaker 3: you constantly play.
Speaker 2: No, it's a bad thing.
Speaker 5: I remember a study came out, like 40 seconds on
Speaker 5: AI and your brain gets weaker. Whatever that was a
Speaker 5: while back.
Speaker 3: Is there a difference between this and jotting down a note?
Speaker 3: Why doesn't your brain react the same way? You jotted
Speaker 3: down that note, so now you don't need to memorize
Speaker 3: that phone number. You wrote it down.
Speaker 2: I think it's comparable, yeah.
Speaker 9: Hmm.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I think about that. I do
Speaker 3: the screenshot thing all the time. I have to, but
Speaker 3: at this point in my life, though, if I don't,
Speaker 3: I'll never remember anything.
Speaker 5: I think the difference is that it's become so effortless
Speaker 5: that you do it for everything as opposed to you
Speaker 5: don't jot something down. If you thought, you know, there's
Speaker 5: little chance I'm going to remember this.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what, though. I mean, because I got
Speaker 3: this example and I still am the only person I've
Speaker 3: ever heard talk about this. I should write a paper
Speaker 3: or be the test case or something. Using the self-driving
Speaker 3: on your car all the time makes you a much
Speaker 3: worse driver in a regular car. I know for a
Speaker 3: fact that that's done that to me.
Speaker 2: I don't doubt it.
Speaker 3: It would be the same sort of thing, right? My
Speaker 3: brain has decided, oh, okay, you don't have to pay
Speaker 3: attention when you drive. I thought all these years you
Speaker 3: need to pay attention. You don't have to pay attention anymore.
Speaker 5: Correct, 100%.
Speaker 2: I don't want the show to be over, but I
Speaker 2: am ready.
Speaker 3: Here's your host for Final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 5: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 5: to wrap up the show for the day. There he
Speaker 5: is pressing the buttons in the control room. Michelangelo, what's
Speaker 5: your final thought?
Speaker 9: I don't care if some people think it's politically incorrect.
Speaker 9: I'm going to catch up on King and the Hill
Speaker 9: this afternoon.
Speaker 3: It's a funny show, man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. So good. Katie Green, our esteemed newswoman,
Speaker 2: has a final thought. Katie?
Speaker 3: Since we talked about Doug Ford, you should check out Trainwreck,
Speaker 3: Mayor of Mayhem. It's about his brother Rob Ford on Netflix.
Speaker 5: It is a..
Speaker 2: Great documentary. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I had a bit of fondness for The Blow,
Speaker 5: as I recall. Jack, a final thought for us?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm just bad at this. Other parents, maybe you
Speaker 3: can weigh in. I feel like I'm taking freshman biology
Speaker 3: again and junior chemistry. It's just I'm so involved in
Speaker 3: helping out, and I have to read enough of the
Speaker 3: chapter to help my kids with their homework to even
Speaker 3: give them an idea of what to work with. Practically,
Speaker 3: I'm taking the classes again.
Speaker 2: How about don't figure it out yourself? That's time-honored as
Speaker 2: a technique.
Speaker 5: Yeah, my final thought is, speaking of that sort of thing,
Speaker 5: is you're talking to young socialists, young would-be socialists. You
Speaker 5: just got to ask them questions. How would that work?
Speaker 5: Where would the money come from? Would companies earn as much?
Speaker 5: If they didn't have the incentive to earn it, just
Speaker 5: keep asking questions.
Speaker 3: Were you dropped on your head?
Speaker 2: Are you a moron?
Speaker 3: Are you sniffing glue out of a sack? All those questions.
Speaker 2: Do you have a brain?
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty are having another grueling four-hour workday.
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