Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jeckie and he arms Wrong yet to live from Studio C.
Speaker 2: See, we got a brand new month on our hands.
Speaker 1: Exciting as that. Here at the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound, we.
Speaker 2: Are under the tudler Jibber general manager, the great, the flawed.
Speaker 1: He rolls to who's that greatest hitter of all time
Speaker 1: in Major League?
Speaker 2: BEZ ball fan for life for betting on bzbell is past.
Speaker 1: Oh he died.
Speaker 2: Yes, he died at the age of eighty eight, I
Speaker 2: think for somebody eighty three eighty three, which good news
Speaker 2: for him is he bet one thousand dollars it outlive
Speaker 2: Chris Christofferson, so that's a good payoff.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Wow, not appropriate. I just read a phrase I didn't
Speaker 2: know it. Let's see, I like throwing around the Latin
Speaker 2: when I can the mortuous, nil nissy bonum of the
Speaker 2: dead say nothing but good Nah. I'm more of a
Speaker 2: Jerry Seinfeld view of has enough of him anyway? Who
Speaker 2: are you to argue with latin? You know I have
Speaker 2: said this before and it's true. The biggest bias that
Speaker 2: occurs in the news industry is what you cover, and
Speaker 2: that's the one most people, I don't think get. What
Speaker 2: you decide to cover is the biggest bias, and so
Speaker 2: I try to bounce around on news. I try to
Speaker 2: be I think like a regular person might be, although
Speaker 2: I don't know how.
Speaker 1: Many regular people do that.
Speaker 2: I think maybe most people are either I only want
Speaker 2: to hear the democratic side of things, or I only
Speaker 2: want to hear the conservative side of things, so they
Speaker 2: just stick to their own news source. Anyway, if you
Speaker 2: were watching MSNBC today, for instance, you are completely unaware
Speaker 2: of this longshoreman strike, completely unaware it is even happening.
Speaker 2: If you watch Fox, it is the biggest story in
Speaker 2: the country. The biggest story in the country, Bigger than
Speaker 2: Israel going in on the ground, bigger than the debate tonight,
Speaker 2: is the longshoreman strike. What would be your guess as
Speaker 2: to why Fox made such a big deal out of
Speaker 2: it and MSNBC made such a small deal out of it.
Speaker 2: You have a guess Politically, well, not shockingly, I'm going
Speaker 2: to come at this from a conservative point of view,
Speaker 2: but I think it's universally agreed that this long shoreman strike,
Speaker 2: should it stretch beyond a very short period, will cause
Speaker 2: serious economic disruption.
Speaker 1: So it is absolutely a legitimate news story.
Speaker 2: I think the eagerness or hesitancy to cut it is
Speaker 2: all about your attitude toward organized labor. On MSNBC, the
Speaker 2: narrative of powerful union with members who make a lot
Speaker 2: of money, he's going to screw up everyday americans lives
Speaker 2: is not super attractive. Yeah, well, that's kind of the
Speaker 2: way I was wondering. If that's the case, it's unless
Speaker 2: there are some details I haven't heard yet. It looks
Speaker 2: like the dock workers, the long sherman are really on
Speaker 2: the wrong side of history on this all the way around.
Speaker 2: Their biggest sticking issue is absolutely no automation, No automation
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 1: You're going to put it in writing. Give me our.
Speaker 2: Jobs are going to be protected from technology forever. Give
Speaker 2: me a freaking break. Yeah, gitting up a lot of sympathy.
Speaker 2: Plus they're looking for something like a seventy seven percent raise. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they were offered. They were offered a fifty percent raise
Speaker 2: and turned it down. So I don't know how that
Speaker 2: plays for most of America. Either, you turn down a
Speaker 2: fifty percent raise. I'm making about twenty percent less because
Speaker 2: of inflation with zero rays. So right, like I say,
Speaker 2: jeitting up sympathy for that position is going to be
Speaker 2: well impossible.
Speaker 1: But the whole no automation.
Speaker 2: I understand why you want to fight that, because your
Speaker 2: job's going away. I know lots of people around here
Speaker 2: in the radio industry have lost their jobs automation.
Speaker 1: Tons of them.
Speaker 2: It's a thing, and it's it can suck. But man,
Speaker 2: this might be the first I don't know if it
Speaker 2: is or not, but on the leading edge of this
Speaker 2: getting a lot of attention because AI is going to
Speaker 2: be this all day long, all day long, every day,
Speaker 2: for every industry you can think of. Well, right, and unfortunately,
Speaker 2: the prairie dogs of Cubicle America don't have powerful unions
Speaker 2: and can't choke off commerce for weeks at a time and
Speaker 2: bring this country to its knees. I again, I get
Speaker 2: if I were in if I were running the union,
Speaker 2: I would do exactly the same thing. If I have
Speaker 2: the ability to pret tech my members' jobs for a
Speaker 2: little while longer, I think I'm gonna try to do it.
Speaker 2: But it's impossible to make the argument that that's better
Speaker 2: for the economy, that's better for American general, that's better
Speaker 2: for consumers, the only people. It's better for those guys
Speaker 2: with those jobs.
Speaker 1: But they can. I sympathize. I would try to do
Speaker 1: the same thing.
Speaker 2: But nobody is on your side, fellas no now trying
Speaker 2: to hold on to an antiquated way of doing things. Sorry,
Speaker 2: ain't gonna work. You're striking against cars as blacksmiths because
Speaker 2: you want to keep shoeing horses. I just it just
Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen. And we can't compete with China and
Speaker 2: whoever else if we still got human beings unloading ships
Speaker 2: with their unbelievably generous time off and healthcare packages and
Speaker 2: four oh one k and everything like that. I was
Speaker 2: just reading that in the Wall Street Journal. Good lord,
Speaker 2: I wish I had that deal. I should have been
Speaker 2: a longshoreman. But we can't compete against the rest of
Speaker 2: the world. We still got human beings unloading ships and
Speaker 2: everybody else's got it automated, right, Yeah, yeah, of course
Speaker 2: it could be argued that a lot of our automation
Speaker 2: was made in China and has spy wear and kill
Speaker 2: switches and god knows what else. Probably small pox spewing
Speaker 2: tanks in the board ready to do their evil bidding.
Speaker 1: So they think it's last part was kind of made up.
Speaker 1: Don't panic size.
Speaker 2: They think it's going to cost the economy about five
Speaker 2: billion dollars a day while the strike's going on. But
Speaker 2: as you said, it's the After a few days, it
Speaker 2: becomes a supply chain problem super fast. If we all
Speaker 2: remember the pandemic, whence the supply chain gets messed up,
Speaker 2: it takes a long time to straighten it back out.
Speaker 2: There are already ships parked out in the ocean that
Speaker 2: we're supposed to unload, and then they'll start backing up
Speaker 2: and you'll start seeing things not on the shelves, and
Speaker 2: we know how that goes if it lasts very long.
Speaker 2: I don't think they got any leverage. Thirty six ports
Speaker 2: are closed. I just saw up on the television. Wow,
Speaker 2: that that is seriously a problem. Though the whole no
Speaker 2: automation ain't going to happen. Yeesh AI is going to
Speaker 2: cause that for paralegals, not just doc workers, for for
Speaker 2: for budges. You can't come up with enough names of
Speaker 2: industries that AI is going to do this too. Sure, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be an uncomfortable future. I still
Speaker 2: maintain and if this is self declownment, I will readily
Speaker 2: admit it on the air. If I am no longer
Speaker 2: on the air, I will write a personal letter to
Speaker 2: each and every one of you. Clown I am. I
Speaker 2: am of the mind barely because this is so not me.
Speaker 2: I think AI will be the technology that reduces employment,
Speaker 2: doesn't grow it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think so too.
Speaker 2: Famously, the lad Heights of the world have vowed that
Speaker 2: about every development technology throughout the ages. But it's actually
Speaker 2: grown economies and created more opportunity than it's taken away.
Speaker 1: But AI, I wonder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hum, So you think the reason it's not going
Speaker 2: to covered on the lefty channels is because they ain't
Speaker 2: in a winning position.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: It makes organized labor look well indefensible. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 2: can'ty objective standard if you're gonna just do the top
Speaker 2: line demands. They turned down a fifty percent raise and
Speaker 2: are asking for it.
Speaker 1: Oh f them.
Speaker 2: Most people are gonna say, yeah, so yeah, I think
Speaker 2: so that's the way that works. They got a debate tonight.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that topic will come up in the debate.
Speaker 2: Be interesting to see how that plays out, how Walls reacts.
Speaker 2: Joe Biden is refused to enact the Taft Tartly Law,
Speaker 2: where he can jump in if there's a big giant
Speaker 2: national strike that's affecting commerce and safety and all kinds
Speaker 2: of different things, he can jump in and tell him you.
Speaker 1: Got to go back to work. But he says he's
Speaker 1: not going to go. He's a good old union Joe,
Speaker 1: old straightened Joe, not going to do it.
Speaker 2: I just hope the dock workers will remain polite and
Speaker 2: well spoken and gentle as their reputation holds through the years.
Speaker 2: I believe we're working on getting some clips of some
Speaker 2: of those genteel folks, even if we speak. I did
Speaker 2: hear a gentleman using foul language this morning, and I
Speaker 2: didn't improve what.
Speaker 1: A dock worker.
Speaker 2: Uh, we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong,
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this. It is Tuesday, October. First,
Speaker 2: the rents do there.
Speaker 1: It's too damn high.
Speaker 2: You know, they used to be kind of a joy,
Speaker 2: but now it's just one hundred percent true. I saw
Speaker 2: a political ad the other day. Uh, I don't know
Speaker 2: if it was just for California or nationally. But it
Speaker 2: was a whole string of regular people on the street
Speaker 2: saying the rent is too damn high.
Speaker 1: The rent is too damn high. I bring the rent
Speaker 1: too damn high. That was the whole ad. And it
Speaker 1: is it's too damn high.
Speaker 2: I know mine is. Anyway, it's October first, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: We are armstrong and getty, and we approve of this program.
Speaker 2: All right, let's rock into October officially according to CC
Speaker 2: rules and regulations, here we go A one two three
Speaker 2: four mark two to.
Speaker 1: One bit from Shall.
Speaker 2: Rotop four thousand, one hundred and ninety.
Speaker 1: Two baseball's all time hit. Later, Pete Rose.
Speaker 2: They had a quite a discussion on NPR today about
Speaker 2: Pete Rose, the baseball player whose heyday was in the seventies,
Speaker 2: so you got to be a certain age to have
Speaker 2: actually experienced it, about how he was such an American icon,
Speaker 2: represented America, became sort of the face of America for
Speaker 2: a lot of people sports wise.
Speaker 1: I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 2: I'd never really thought of that before because of the
Speaker 2: whole working class Charlie Hustle thangy yeah, which I thought
Speaker 2: he also was a kid, Yeah he was. He worked
Speaker 2: like a maniac and played harder than anybody else. He
Speaker 2: was not a prima donna by any stretch. How come
Speaker 2: nobody else has adopted the sprint to first when you
Speaker 2: walk thing? Because I thought that was so cool as
Speaker 2: a kid.
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't remember. I don't think anybody else has ever
Speaker 2: done it. If he walked, he would sprint to first
Speaker 2: instead of which is the way he went. Well, they
Speaker 2: call it a walk. You could argue he was a
Speaker 2: little nutty. In fact, it's inarguable that he was a
Speaker 2: little nutty as part of what made him great, right,
Speaker 2: and he enjoyed the challenge of prognosticating future baseball results.
Speaker 1: Does that make him a bad guy?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get into that again, but I
Speaker 2: think it's weird if you're going to have a Hall
Speaker 2: of Fame that talks about baseball records, but you don't
Speaker 2: have the guy that's gotten the most hits and the
Speaker 2: guy that's hitting the most home runs in there. I
Speaker 2: don't know exactly what you're doing, but fine, well he will.
Speaker 2: He will go in the Hall of Fame. Now I
Speaker 2: can practice.
Speaker 1: Now that he's dead. Well, he was banned for life. Well,
Speaker 1: and you're so.
Speaker 2: Your argument is he's no longer alive. Yeah, an clime
Speaker 2: ban ends when you're no longer alive. It's right in
Speaker 2: there in lifetime. It's right in there lifetime. Well, yes, yes,
Speaker 2: there's no joke to be made.
Speaker 1: It was exactly what it means. They just didn't want
Speaker 1: to give him the satisfaction.
Speaker 2: I should violated the inviolable law gambling on your own sport.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I ever met Pete Rose or not.
Speaker 1: I should have though.
Speaker 2: If I didn't, I should have gone to Vegas sometime
Speaker 2: when he was just an old fat man sitting at
Speaker 2: a card table outside of casino and you know, paid
Speaker 2: for a baseball, shook hands with him as Michael.
Speaker 1: My nephew got his autograph two months ago.
Speaker 2: Oh cool, yeah, oh wow, there you go. I have
Speaker 2: him claim it was Pete's last autograph. I got Pete's last.
Speaker 2: He keeled over internet. He just heat finished the e
Speaker 2: and then he was just right there on the floor.
Speaker 2: How does mailbag look? That's fine, it's good clever. It's
Speaker 2: on the way and our text line is four one
Speaker 2: five two nine five KFTC. For some reason it being uh,
Speaker 2: October on my watch when I looked at it today
Speaker 2: was striking just wow. So we got three months left
Speaker 2: in twenty four and then it's twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: What the hell? The math checks out.
Speaker 2: Once in a while that happens, just just like, how
Speaker 2: how are we a quarter of a century into this
Speaker 2: century already? I know we need to recheck the numbers
Speaker 2: or tap on the glass to see if the machine
Speaker 2: is working correctly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2: And there's something about October. It's the final quarter of
Speaker 2: the year. It's unquestionably the fall. Something about it feels
Speaker 2: very transitional in a way. That's well, if you have
Speaker 2: kids in school, I guess September holiday season is looming
Speaker 2: because you can feel Halloween, which leads into Thanksgiving in Christmas,
Speaker 2: and yeah, all.
Speaker 1: That is sterness in the face.
Speaker 2: Well, you're celebrating Halloween if you're a Satan worshiper. I
Speaker 2: am not. Here's your freedom loving Court of the Day,
Speaker 2: interrupting our series from Huxley because Jeff and hogs Nipple,
Speaker 2: Tennessee boy hit hard by the hurricane, passed along this
Speaker 2: from Friedrich Hayek, which I absolutely love. Teachers, journalists and
Speaker 2: other second hand dealers in ideas appoint themselves as representatives
Speaker 2: of modern thought, as person superior in knowledge and moral
Speaker 2: virtue to any who retain a high regard for traditional values.
Speaker 2: There isn't much cachet in affirming traditional values. Challenging them
Speaker 2: is much sexier. That's why every teenager does, which is fine.
Speaker 2: It's all right to passage when you got to numbskulld
Speaker 2: Adults doing it well into their thirties, forties, sixties, et cetera.
Speaker 2: It's pretty annoying. Mailbag Woo woo drops note mail bag
Speaker 2: and armstrong you getty dot com loyal listen. Robert sent
Speaker 2: along this note along with a helpful link. Is the
Speaker 2: title of his email, speeking people in their forties and above.
Speaker 1: You might recognize the joke. S'mod is that you?
Speaker 2: It's me Roberts take off on a very famous piece
Speaker 2: of the youth literature of the past. He's talking about
Speaker 2: the sweeten year of death. There is We're going to
Speaker 2: have a second moon for seven days on Earth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that. It is a meteor. It's a
Speaker 1: rock the size of a school bus.
Speaker 2: It's going to kind of connect and stay in orbit
Speaker 2: for a couple of months and then you know, cut
Speaker 2: loocive orbit because of various astrophysical mathematical realities, and then
Speaker 2: go on, it's merry way. They had a joke about
Speaker 2: that on Saturday Alive. I thought was hilarious. You didn't
Speaker 2: think it was funny, Michael. Michael picks the funny jokes
Speaker 2: from Sorry I Live. You didn't like the moon joke.
Speaker 2: It's okay, all right, Hey, you never know, one of
Speaker 2: those NASA folks, Robert Wrights, might have been a DEEI higher.
Speaker 2: They forgot to carry the one on a calculation. Blammo,
Speaker 2: election day cancel because the rock the size of a
Speaker 2: school bus slams into a swing state as Trump was saying,
Speaker 2: something nutty.
Speaker 1: Could happen.
Speaker 2: Their joke was something like, the new slim moon is
Speaker 2: going to make the old Moon really look like a
Speaker 2: fat ass.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow. I didn't like it either, Michael. You're Jared
Speaker 1: and Missouri.
Speaker 2: On the topic of the perils of AI, there's a
Speaker 2: constant theme in literature of humanity destroying itself with its creations,
Speaker 2: from Frankenstein to the Matrix and hundreds of other stories.
Speaker 2: You're quite right, good reason to fear AI, because, as
Speaker 2: we know it's not the AI exactly, but the inputs
Speaker 2: to AI that make it dangerous. I'm far more concerned
Speaker 2: about some rogue idiot inserting white males are the anime
Speaker 2: into the programming of Wardrones that I am about Skynet coming.
Speaker 1: For boy, No kidding, that's a good point. Let's see
Speaker 1: do we have time for this? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Great note from Bob n simple Jack, pork Shop and
Speaker 2: the Gang. I was listening to the Boys Falling Behind
Speaker 2: segment of Monday's show I'm a Dad to Two Boys
Speaker 2: seventeen nineteen. I've seen the demoralization of boys over the years.
Speaker 2: In the late seventies, when I was in middle school,
Speaker 2: we had metal shop, wood shop, auto shop. In our
Speaker 2: high school, we have none of those classes. There's no
Speaker 2: class to stimulate and attract our young men to use
Speaker 2: their hands to create and build, and physical education classes
Speaker 2: not a requirement. Seems like the goal of high school
Speaker 2: is to offer an easy path with easy classes to graduate.
Speaker 2: And they talked about every empowering TV commercial is about
Speaker 2: empowering women. Yeah, never dudes, and lots of classes that
Speaker 2: appeal to the feminine side, right, Yeah, that's rough, dang it.
Speaker 2: Come on in China, we're weak and effeminine, heartbreaking. We
Speaker 2: have a lot of news to catch you up on
Speaker 2: it's debate day, among other things, so stay with us,
Speaker 2: armstrong and getty. Kamala Harris released an eighty one page
Speaker 2: book outlining her economic policy because you know how women.
Speaker 1: Like to go on and on, and.
Speaker 2: Just wanted to bring that up because the eighty one
Speaker 2: page book that Kamala Harris put out explaining her economic
Speaker 2: policy before she gave her speech had eighty three mentions
Speaker 2: of Joe Biden in it, more mentions of Biden than
Speaker 2: there were pages, yet didn't mention his name once in
Speaker 2: her address that day, which most people found pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: I mean, that was worthy of being on every page,
Speaker 2: but not in the speech at all, with the assumption
Speaker 2: I think that nobody's ever going to read it. And
Speaker 2: she and she and her her running mate Tampon Trotzky
Speaker 2: tim are are just hammering the idea that she's the
Speaker 2: candidate of changed. We can't have anymore. We can't take
Speaker 2: another four years to this garbage. We need change, Kamala.
Speaker 2: You know. So we are five weeks from today from
Speaker 2: the presidential election, and we have a vice presidential debate tonight.
Speaker 2: But I had forgotten this, which to me means the
Speaker 2: Trump people aren't doing a good enough job. The fact
Speaker 2: that I forgot this, I was reaching reading Mark Calprin's
Speaker 2: morning newsletter like I usually do, and and on his
Speaker 2: list of things for both sides was the Harris Wall's
Speaker 2: ticket is the most liberal ticket the United States has
Speaker 2: ever had with a major party, which is clearly true.
Speaker 2: But I'd forgotten that, I think, and I think the
Speaker 2: fact that I've forgotten that is it's not being hammered enough.
Speaker 2: That should be the like, the only thing most people
Speaker 2: know this is the most liberal ticket we've ever had
Speaker 2: in our nation's history, which is it's actually true.
Speaker 1: That ought to be a never ending drum beat.
Speaker 2: You're right, but on Trump's improv comedy tour, he just
Speaker 2: see riffs on whatever he feels like at that moment.
Speaker 1: A little frustrating.
Speaker 2: Don't hit her for being dumb or mentally deranged or whatever.
Speaker 2: It's the most liberal ticket in US history. It's out
Speaker 2: of the mainstream that will win you the election. It's
Speaker 2: just undeniable. Trump is running a terrible campaign. He may
Speaker 2: still win because he's up against a terrible candidate, but
Speaker 2: it's a terrible campaign, awful. Jd Vance has been a
Speaker 2: lot more disciplined. I've been reading various bits of analysis about.
Speaker 1: What now.
Speaker 2: You got cat ladies, you got cat eating, that's your discipline. Wow, Wow,
Speaker 2: the two cats as it's big called boy.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 2: So a bunch of analysis about how Jad smart. He's
Speaker 2: a Wall Street guy who did a book tour. He
Speaker 2: debated a moderate but a truly liberal Democrat for the
Speaker 2: senescee blah blah, and then Wallas's debating skills.
Speaker 1: And it'll be fine.
Speaker 2: Bring it on, see if you can land any punches.
Speaker 2: I'll watch as long as I can stand it.
Speaker 1: Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: But the Wall Street Journal, in their big preview ninety minute,
Speaker 2: I know that's enough for anybody.
Speaker 1: There won't be a single American watching that last half hour.
Speaker 2: I would have you didn't know, truer words never spake, sister, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'd only have as the moderator, three prompts. All right,
Speaker 2: you say something really mean about him? All right, your turn,
Speaker 2: you say something really mean about him? All right? Well,
Speaker 2: all right now number two? Why is your candidate a
Speaker 2: good candidate?
Speaker 1: All right?
Speaker 2: All right, now you all right, Number three, why is
Speaker 2: the other candidate a crappy candidate? All right, We're through here,
Speaker 2: everybody go back to your lives. Thanks for tuning in
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Max.
Speaker 2: How about CBS announcing the candidates will be fact checking themselves. One,
Speaker 2: that's what a debate is, so thanks for that. And
Speaker 2: two isn't that an acknowledgment that that what ABC did
Speaker 2: was a horror?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have not come across anybody defending ABC and
Speaker 2: David Muhr.
Speaker 1: What that woman is?
Speaker 2: I don't know if you have to watch many debates,
Speaker 2: it's not the job of the moderator to jump in
Speaker 2: and fact check people. Oh who That point they just
Speaker 2: tried to make was not a solid one and can
Speaker 2: be refuted on this basis.
Speaker 1: No, that's not what the moderator does. Oh, I hate
Speaker 1: David Muir and that woman, but they aren't doing it tonight.
Speaker 1: You have no name? She girl?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, anyway, let me get to my point.
Speaker 2: So there's all this analysis of the comparative skills and
Speaker 2: you know, the possible tactics and blah blah. But then
Speaker 2: I get to this in the Wall Street Journal, what
Speaker 2: might Walls be asked about his handling the Minneapolis riots
Speaker 2: following the George Floyd thing, his management of the COVID
Speaker 2: nine pandemic, his exit from the National Guard, and the
Speaker 2: leftward shift in Minnesota politics and policies, and I thought, Wow, okay,
Speaker 2: that sounds pretty legit.
Speaker 1: What might Advance be asked?
Speaker 2: Vance will likely be asked about his twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: comment that the country is run by childless cat ladies
Speaker 2: and why he elevated a falsehood about Haitians in Ohio
Speaker 2: eating household pats the two.
Speaker 1: Cats doctrine Jack brought to our attention. Wow, so it's
Speaker 1: gonna be both the cat questions.
Speaker 2: He also might be asked to explain why in twenty
Speaker 2: sixteen he called Trump an idiot and compared him to Hitler,
Speaker 2: and why his late as twenty twenty he continued to be.
Speaker 1: Critical of him.
Speaker 2: So very little of that is about what policy would
Speaker 2: be when you're in office, and not a single damn
Speaker 2: syllable of it would affect the lives of Americans. No
Speaker 2: walls is like National Guard record or whatever. I get
Speaker 2: that being a story like when he first landed on
Speaker 2: the scene a month ago or whatever, but god dang it,
Speaker 2: I don't care about that anymore. At all mind, I.
Speaker 1: Could see taking shots.
Speaker 2: At him for being a serial resume patter, but no,
Speaker 2: I don't particularly it's it's not a pivotal issue. But
Speaker 2: I do think it's interesting that in the Wall Street
Speaker 2: Journals fantasy, perhaps most of the stuff about Walls is
Speaker 2: pretty relevant because it has to do with policy and
Speaker 2: track record, as opposed to the van stuff, none of
Speaker 2: which affects any Americans life in Iota unless you're I
Speaker 2: don't know, a pet store owner in Springfield, Ohio, and
Speaker 2: sales have gone down because people figure they'll buy the
Speaker 2: cat and then just get eaten anyway, So what's the point.
Speaker 2: Why why is this never a question in a debate?
Speaker 2: What's the role of the federal government? Mister Walls? Oh wow,
Speaker 2: how about that? Instead of digging into you said in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one childless cat whatever, more Americans than ever
Speaker 2: and on the federal government for money?
Speaker 1: Why do you think that is? Is that a good
Speaker 1: thing or a bad thing? Just you know, that'd be interesting.
Speaker 1: So the New York Times is trying to lower expectations.
Speaker 2: They had an article yesterday about Tim Walls is so nervous,
Speaker 2: he's chewing his fingernails. He's never been in a debate
Speaker 2: like this before. He's new to the game of politics,
Speaker 2: which is a bit of a made up story, as
Speaker 2: he's been in politics for twenty years and debated a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of times, and really good on his feet,
Speaker 2: and I doubt he's the least bit nervous. A crock
Speaker 2: of crap that is yea. But yeah, lowering expectations quick
Speaker 2: note that I wanted to get on to my main
Speaker 2: point in bringing all of this to your attention. My habitations,
Speaker 2: my expectations are boredom.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Ninety minutes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, difficult to watch, continually reminding myself you have to
Speaker 2: pay attention, Joseph. You have to pay attention right scrolling
Speaker 2: through your phone checking out baseball scores. I kind of
Speaker 2: like this note from sideshow Bob. He's a speaker of truth.
Speaker 2: It's a seer of reality. It's funny seeing all the
Speaker 2: comments about Kamla not doing anything about the border is veep.
Speaker 1: As a side note, no effing fan of hers. Veeeps
Speaker 1: never do anything.
Speaker 2: In fact, the last one did exactly one thing I
Speaker 2: can remember, and y'all wanted to hang him for it.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's good, Bob, That is a good point. Yet
Speaker 1: that happens.
Speaker 2: Vice president's regularly run usually not let this, but they
Speaker 2: regularly run, and then they always have to all of
Speaker 2: a sudden act like they were consequential when they were
Speaker 2: just hanging around waiting for an international funeral for four
Speaker 2: years and well, and the reality of it is the
Speaker 2: job has no duties except breaking ties in the Senate
Speaker 2: and is famously just useless. It's a career killer. As
Speaker 2: often as this it is a career launcher. But Kamala
Speaker 2: and Joe absolutely flogged the notion for the last four
Speaker 2: years that she was the last person in the room.
Speaker 2: She was his closest advisor. She was the border zar
Speaker 2: or all right, the root causes zar. How's that going?
Speaker 2: And now it's about face that. No, she's the candidate
Speaker 2: to change, so it's all phony. But to have it
Speaker 2: both ways is a little annoying, and you want to
Speaker 2: stick it to them anyway. Here is my action at
Speaker 2: my actual point, after asking about the National Guard and
Speaker 2: cat ladies and Hitler, not a single word will be asked,
Speaker 2: probably about this Wall Street Journal opinion piece a Medicare
Speaker 2: election bribe for seniors. This story is admittedly complicated, but
Speaker 2: it's the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services, touting in
Speaker 2: a press release that average Part D premiums will be
Speaker 2: declining by ninety dollars next year, while benefits will improve
Speaker 2: thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act and other new enhancements
Speaker 2: that actually cut funding for insurance companies who said they
Speaker 2: would raise premiums, which would depress benefits, which would cause
Speaker 2: the pharmaceutic companies to declare war on the pharmacies and
Speaker 2: something something, and our entitlement programs are utterly falling apart
Speaker 2: and built on fraud, top to bottom. Fraud and dishonest
Speaker 2: accounting is the part, is the point of this article.
Speaker 2: It's actually quite interesting. It's just very difficult to explain.
Speaker 2: Not a word on that we'll hear about child ass
Speaker 2: cat ladies. Well, it's always been true to a certain extent,
Speaker 2: and it's more true now than ever.
Speaker 1: We're more into.
Speaker 2: Like in the personality of the person than their stance
Speaker 2: on thorny issues things that affect our lives, right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: And for the record, having a cat or two does
Speaker 2: not make one a cat lady in my world. I
Speaker 2: thought we decided three was the over under three and
Speaker 2: a half. Yeah, three and yeah, three and a half
Speaker 2: is the over under. If you have three cats, you're
Speaker 2: definitely under cat lady suspicion. You tell me you got
Speaker 2: three cats, I'm in your house. I'm like, that's a
Speaker 2: that's a lot of cats. They're a fair number of cats.
Speaker 2: But four, yeah, what the hell cat lady? Now if
Speaker 2: you are a child in cat Lady, or what about
Speaker 2: cat lady whose kids are grown?
Speaker 1: What does JD.
Speaker 2: Evans have to say about that? You raise your kids,
Speaker 2: they're they're fabulous, good citizens, nice folks, honest, hard working,
Speaker 2: patriotic Americans.
Speaker 1: And now you have seventeen cats. I don't know you.
Speaker 2: Does Jdvans think you should not have a say you
Speaker 2: got that many cats? Me and my Haitian friend Harvier
Speaker 2: are getting up the cookbook.
Speaker 1: They're eating the dogs, the people that came in. They're
Speaker 1: eating outs. They're eating I want to they're eating I
Speaker 1: want to talk about live there.
Speaker 2: About medicare, and you two clowns with it. Never mind,
Speaker 2: you clowns. That's gonna come up early in the debate tonight,
Speaker 2: you know it is. And I'm gonna roll my eyes
Speaker 2: so hard it might get kids.
Speaker 1: Come help me. Dad's eyes are stuck again.
Speaker 2: The Haitian cat eating thing will come up early in
Speaker 2: the debate, don't you think first Yeah, maybe first fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Maybe first question. It might be the two cat doctrine. Yesh, God,
Speaker 1: oh God help us. We got a couple of wars
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: I hope there's some questions about that, and you see
Speaker 2: where everybody stands. And then the dock workers strike. I
Speaker 2: think that'd be a good thing to hear their opinions on.
Speaker 2: I don't know how Walls would handle that, because it
Speaker 2: seems to me that the Left is trying to ignore
Speaker 2: this dock worker story, so maybe CBS won't even bring
Speaker 2: it up. Anyway, we got some more other news to
Speaker 2: get into. You might not know about some of those things.
Speaker 2: We'll try to fill in the details. What did Joe
Speaker 2: Biden say yesterday when he was asked about the strike?
Speaker 2: What did you say yesterday when he was asking about
Speaker 2: Israel going in on the ground in Lebanon? Both of
Speaker 2: his answers were troubling.
Speaker 1: Bat care all on the way.
Speaker 2: I've noticed that with parenting, I've got a almost thirteen
Speaker 2: year old and a going on fifteen year old. You
Speaker 2: only think about this sort of stuff constantly, the whole
Speaker 2: parenting thing only constantly so, and not only for my
Speaker 2: own kids, but just for society in general. As much
Speaker 2: as we talk about it and it gets talked about,
Speaker 2: I still think it's underappreciated. The great change that had
Speaker 2: happened in the last twenty years of nobody walking around
Speaker 2: staring at the phone to everyone walking around staring at
Speaker 2: the phone is underappreciated. It's so ubiquitous and there's so
Speaker 2: little you can do about it that I guess, you know,
Speaker 2: why even talk about it. But that is the biggest
Speaker 2: change to humanity, maybe ever in a short amount of time.
Speaker 2: You know, the Industrial Revolution came on much slower than that,
Speaker 2: or lots of other things. The I think about it,
Speaker 2: maybe I think about it too much, Maybe I got
Speaker 2: a problem. Maybe I should see a therapist about this.
Speaker 2: But like, drive him by a bus stop and everybody's
Speaker 2: staring at their phone. I think then twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: they'd either been talking to each other or reading a
Speaker 2: book or thinking or something, but they wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Have been staring at their phones all the time.
Speaker 2: All the kids coming out of the high school and
Speaker 2: I pick up my son, everybody walks out looking at
Speaker 2: their phone. Four people walking out of the school together,
Speaker 2: all looking at their phone instead of talking to each other.
Speaker 2: It's just what an amazing change leading to this. I
Speaker 2: think this fits in this guy, Yanni Applebaum, who I
Speaker 2: don't actually know. He writes for the Atlantic, and it
Speaker 2: looks like his politics are not mine, but he's He's
Speaker 2: definitely right about this. Tweeted out and then got a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of responses to educators. This is about the
Speaker 2: incoming class of college freshmen all across America, and particularly
Speaker 2: at elite universities, but I'm sure it's the same everywhere.
Speaker 2: Teacher in Illinois told me that, Okay, I'll start with
Speaker 2: his large numbers of students arriving at highly selective universities
Speaker 2: are unprepared to read a book cover to cover because
Speaker 2: no teacher has ever asked them to do that before.
Speaker 2: That's his article in The Atlantic.
Speaker 1: Good Lord.
Speaker 2: And then the response is from teachers all across the
Speaker 2: country to this, saying, yeah, basically, here's a public high
Speaker 2: school teacher in Illinois who used to structure her classes
Speaker 2: around books, but now focuses on skills such as how
Speaker 2: to make good decisions and about leadership. Students read parts
Speaker 2: of the Odyssey and supplements with music articles and ted talks,
Speaker 2: but do not read.
Speaker 1: The entire book. Here's another one.
Speaker 2: That I like.
Speaker 1: The blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: During the fall twenty twenty two semester, when a first
Speaker 2: year student came to his office during office hours to
Speaker 2: share how challenging they had found the early assignments in
Speaker 2: literature humanities class. It required students to read a book,
Speaker 2: sometimes a very long and dense one, in just a
Speaker 2: week or two. But the student told the advisor that
Speaker 2: her public high schools she had never been required to
Speaker 2: read an entire book. This is somebody who got into
Speaker 2: an elite university. She had been assigned excerpts poetry and
Speaker 2: news articles, but not a book cover to cover, and
Speaker 2: found it quite daunting. Here's a Melville scholar at one
Speaker 2: of your fancy Pans universities who switched American literature on
Speaker 2: Melville from Moby Dick. They dropped Moby Dick and now
Speaker 2: read the short stories. One has to adjust to the times.
Speaker 2: The teacher said a number of professors told him for
Speaker 2: his Atlantic article that their students see reading books as
Speaker 2: similar to listening to vinyl records, something that a small
Speaker 2: subculture might still enjoy.
Speaker 1: But that's most relic of an earlier time in the
Speaker 1: blink of an eye, as you were describing, right right, Yeah, wow.
Speaker 2: So kind of similar to what you were saying earlier
Speaker 2: about AI might be the first time. I think it's
Speaker 2: going to be the first time that the technology advancement
Speaker 2: actually does away with a whole bunch of jobs and
Speaker 2: doesn't replace them with new jobs. I think this is
Speaker 2: one of these scares that is going to turn out
Speaker 2: to be true. The whole We did a thing a
Speaker 2: while back on all the things jazz was blamed for
Speaker 2: when jazz became popular music. Jazz was leading to promiscuous
Speaker 2: sex and economic problems and people couldn't read and blah
Speaker 2: blah blah. Everything was blamed on jazz. So all of
Speaker 2: the ideas to play in a jazz band, and I
Speaker 2: certainly hoped so, but my hopes were dashed.
Speaker 1: But lots of different changes in society. You're blamed for
Speaker 1: all kinds of things.
Speaker 2: This one the intention span staring at the phones, can't
Speaker 2: read a book is not good.
Speaker 1: This is not going to be okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the intellectual stuff bothers me, but I think it
Speaker 2: bothers me less than the connectedness stuff, the emotionals, the
Speaker 2: mental health stuff of not being connected to your peers,
Speaker 2: not laughing and joking and poking fun at each other
Speaker 2: and sharing your idle thoughts with each other.
Speaker 1: That one really bothers me. Yeah, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: going away. We have a lot more for you. I
Speaker 1: hope you can stick around.
Speaker 2: Moby Dick the Whale winds spoiler alert, Armstrong and Getty