1 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the 2 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:20,079 Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong 3 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:21,840 Speaker 1: and Jetty and he. 4 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 2: Armsrong, who live the Drum studio see see Senor. 5 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 1: It is a dimly lit room deeper than the bowels 6 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:47,000 Speaker 1: of the Armstrong and Getty communications compounding. Hey, y'all today, Monday, today, Wednesday, 7 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: thirteen days from the election, we are under the tutelage 8 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:55,520 Speaker 1: of our general manager, against my better judgment, Adolf Hitler. Oh, 9 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: come on, I'm not a fan of Hitler. That's a 10 00:00:58,760 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: general manager. 11 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:01,240 Speaker 3: You know. 12 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 1: I've got this break, This awful, awful thought is there's 13 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:09,800 Speaker 1: a heavily Hitler involved story that's banging around hard and 14 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,200 Speaker 1: lefty media right now. If you were to have told 15 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: old Dolf in the in the bunker, how long ago 16 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 1: is that eighty years ago? Hey, By the way, folks 17 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 1: are going to be throwing your name around in the 18 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: American presidential election eighty years from now. He just said, wait, what, why? 19 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:34,240 Speaker 1: What's the context? And yet here we are. We will 20 00:01:34,240 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: get into that conversation at some point under protest from me. 21 00:01:37,240 --> 00:01:39,000 Speaker 1: I'm like at the un when you're a FIGI I 22 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: put up your flag that shows you're there under protest. 23 00:01:41,120 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: I'm under protest on this topic. Oh boy, the biggest 24 00:01:45,680 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: news of the day. When I got up this morning 25 00:01:47,120 --> 00:01:49,360 Speaker 1: and reached over and grabbed my phone and saw what 26 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:51,640 Speaker 1: the you know, headlines had come over the in overnight, 27 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: the headline that it's been confirmed that North Korea has 28 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,520 Speaker 1: sent troops to Russia. I thought, oh my god, I 29 00:01:59,520 --> 00:02:01,360 Speaker 1: got a f up on the TV and see what 30 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 1: the smart people are saying about that. I haven't found 31 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:09,679 Speaker 1: anything about that. That is quite the story. Uh yeah, absolutely, 32 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 1: it's got the potential to be explosive literally, well, very 33 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 1: very explosive. This is exactly what our administration said and 34 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:18,600 Speaker 1: what Lloyd Austin, the Secretary Defense said. This is a 35 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:22,400 Speaker 1: major development, but not worth talking about because we're thirteen 36 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:25,839 Speaker 1: days from a presidential election. You know, when we get 37 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,720 Speaker 1: obsessed with our presidential elections fits in with what you 38 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: were talking about yesterday, and you know, just decline and 39 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:34,200 Speaker 1: all that sort of stuff, and that we get so 40 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,080 Speaker 1: inward looking and everything will be fine no matter what. Really, 41 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,800 Speaker 1: just the TV show that is the presidential Elections my 42 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:43,520 Speaker 1: favorite TV show. So yeah, one guy's whole buddy called 43 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,200 Speaker 1: him a bad name. That's the lead. Well, it's the 44 00:02:46,280 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: lead if you're Joe Getty, it's not the lead if 45 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:51,560 Speaker 1: you're we're not as serious. Wow, okay, well let's have 46 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: it out here we go, let's see put your dukes up. 47 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 1: I'm ready. So I let me hit you with these 48 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:01,839 Speaker 1: headlines that I got yesterday that will lead us into 49 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,360 Speaker 1: this I think. So I was watching. I hope it's 50 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,639 Speaker 1: about the Menendez brothers. And you're not gonna waste any 51 00:03:06,720 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 1: more of my time with that whole Ukraine, Russia, North Korea, 52 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: the Menendez brothers, well, which we have to talk about too, 53 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: keeps coming up in my real life and continues on, 54 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: and you assure me they're not getting out all right? 55 00:03:19,800 --> 00:03:23,400 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that that is certainly my my closely held belief. Okay, 56 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 1: so yeah, we do have to talk about that again later. 57 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:29,320 Speaker 1: Of course, there's a Marxist jackass in charge to the 58 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,919 Speaker 1: prosecutor's office in La so who knows that's there. There's 59 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 1: the Armstrong in Getty angle that nobody knows. The guy 60 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 1: lets out all kinds of criminals because he wants to 61 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,880 Speaker 1: break down our judicial system that's being left out of 62 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: the conversation one. That's the important part. That's a good angle. 63 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:54,640 Speaker 1: So I think the best political show in America if 64 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,120 Speaker 1: you like politics, is what Mark Alpern does every morning 65 00:03:57,120 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: and night, where he compiles the information he's got from 66 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:03,839 Speaker 1: both campaigns on the record and off the record, and 67 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 1: in a non partisan way, shares it with people. And 68 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 1: I think it's just absolutely so damned interesting. But here 69 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:11,839 Speaker 1: among the things that he said yesterday, some of which 70 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: have emerged today, he said in his show last night, 71 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 1: The Atlantic has a story that is going to be 72 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 1: it's the current October surprise. I don't know if it's 73 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: the October surprise, but it's an October surprise anyway. Jeffrey 74 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,400 Speaker 1: Goldberg at The Atlantic and a bunch of the stuff 75 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,039 Speaker 1: that's coming out of there, in addition with the New 76 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 1: York Times blah blah blah, that's what we're going to 77 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:35,440 Speaker 1: be talking about in a little bit. Trump's old friends 78 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,080 Speaker 1: bad mouthing him, so they held onto this stuff until 79 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: thirteen days out for some reason. I assume, you know, 80 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: to be an October surprise. But here's the other stuff. 81 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: Halprin also said he said he's been pitched a story that, 82 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 1: if true, would end Trump's campaign, and he's not the 83 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: kind of guy that throws that around lightly at all. 84 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,920 Speaker 1: He knows how Trump is weathered many many a storm 85 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. People claim, are you know, 86 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,480 Speaker 1: going to do Trump in? Don't And he said he's 87 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: been pitched. Well, not only that, but you got some 88 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: of the smartest people on the planet spending a billion 89 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:11,599 Speaker 1: dollars to accomplish that very aim to end his presidency. 90 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,440 Speaker 1: So if this is that blockbustere bring it, well, my 91 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: guess is it's a crap story because he said he's 92 00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: been pitched this story for weeks. He said other people 93 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 1: are being pitched too. He didn't he didn't give any 94 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 1: more information on that. So my guess would be it's 95 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 1: a completely crap story. But so I'm just you know, 96 00:05:26,240 --> 00:05:28,599 Speaker 1: let's all be prepared for a really crap story to 97 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:38,560 Speaker 1: land at some point. Remember the uh, the whole Steele 98 00:05:38,600 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: dossier thing was pitched to all kinds of media outlets 99 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: and they all said, no, we're not going to run 100 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,280 Speaker 1: with this. It's an embarrassment. But then finally was it 101 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: BuzzFeed or whoever did and then the door was opened 102 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: and everybody jumped on it and it became well, the 103 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,599 Speaker 1: biggest story in America for years and years for years. 104 00:05:57,839 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 1: It perverted the functioning of the Trump admenute for a 105 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 1: long time. So whatever this story is, and it's not 106 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:06,839 Speaker 1: the current stuff today, whatever this story is that's so 107 00:06:06,880 --> 00:06:09,440 Speaker 1: big a would end as Trump campaign, somebody's gonna run 108 00:06:09,480 --> 00:06:13,560 Speaker 1: with it a buzzfeetish level of outfit. And then the 109 00:06:13,640 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: Washington Post, in New York Times and CBS News will 110 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,400 Speaker 1: have the cover to say there are reports that because 111 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: they didn't break the story, and the Steele dossier obviously 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,839 Speaker 1: is such a great example of how low you can go, 113 00:06:25,960 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: because I mean, that was a load of rubbish, right, 114 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 1: And so with the overall point being that this last 115 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,599 Speaker 1: two weeks is going to be very ugly, very very ugly, 116 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:39,839 Speaker 1: and I think that has begun today. The good news 117 00:06:39,920 --> 00:06:43,279 Speaker 1: if you're on the anti Harris or pro Trump side 118 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 1: of things is everyone agrees if early voting holds where 119 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:50,000 Speaker 1: it is, and Democrats are trying to spin it in 120 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 1: all kinds of ways, but if early voting percentages hold 121 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 1: up the way it is, we will know on election 122 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: Day before they even close the polls that Donald Trump 123 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,840 Speaker 1: is going to be the next president in the United States, 124 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:07,440 Speaker 1: it is that overwhelmingly in favor of the Republican candidate currently. Interesting. Yeah, 125 00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:10,440 Speaker 1: yeah really thought for focus, yeah, i'd say, And for 126 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: that reason and others, a lot of the big time 127 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 1: hedge fund and money managers on Wall Street are getting 128 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: heavily behind trades that will work out if Trump is elected. Yeah. 129 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:24,440 Speaker 1: Well you are putting there many heavily in that direction. 130 00:07:24,560 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 3: Yeah. 131 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:29,960 Speaker 1: Another piece of information on that side is Democratic strategists 132 00:07:30,000 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 1: saying they're looking, at what point do they start going 133 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: with the look, Trump's going to win. We need to 134 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 1: get out there. Trump's going to win unless you and 135 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:43,960 Speaker 1: they believe that starting this weekend, that will be the message, 136 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: like led by Barack Obama, Trump's winning. I mean, they've 137 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 1: been calling themselves with the underdog, but they haven't been 138 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: flat out saying we're going to lose unless we do this. 139 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: And then the other shoe that's going to drop soon 140 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:59,720 Speaker 1: is Democratic congress people starting to make the argument because 141 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,280 Speaker 1: this is happened in past elections, when it was clear 142 00:08:02,320 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 1: Bob Dole was going to lose, when it was clear 143 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: Mitt Romney was going to lose. I mean, sometimes it's 144 00:08:06,240 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: clear the Congress people and senators are going to start 145 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: making the argument, you need to vote for us to 146 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,040 Speaker 1: be a check on Donald Trump. Get out there and 147 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,880 Speaker 1: vote for us. Donald Trump's gonna be president the House 148 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: and the Democrats need to take back the House to 149 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 1: be a check And you'll start seeing that argument in 150 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: the next thirteen days. We're already seeing the step before that. 151 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 2: The uh. 152 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:30,679 Speaker 1: In several of the swing states, congress people and senators 153 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: are running ads saying, hey, I worked with Donald Trump. 154 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,480 Speaker 1: I I wrote this law that Donald Trump passed. We've 155 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 1: worked together in the past vliatively right, which is damn 156 00:08:40,440 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: near what you're suggesting. Yeah, that's that's that. And that's 157 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: an interesting tell, isn't it. I mean, that's a oh yeah, 158 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,160 Speaker 1: we're going to lose, so I better start looking out 159 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:50,640 Speaker 1: for my own bacon. Well, all I know is I'm 160 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 1: going to stuck up on Wiener Schnitzel and buy Volkswagen 161 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: stock if you get what I mean. Geez, what with that? 162 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,719 Speaker 1: That's the narrative. I feel like that's snarrative. Himpler, I 163 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:02,200 Speaker 1: feel like we got to get into that. To the 164 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 1: fin of Hitler, feel like we got Hec's on the record. 165 00:09:06,360 --> 00:09:07,720 Speaker 1: I feel like we got to get into that at 166 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,160 Speaker 1: the bottom of the hour when we got time to 167 00:09:09,320 --> 00:09:11,480 Speaker 1: expound on the whole topic. But let's start the show 168 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: officially or we will be in trouble. I mean, when 169 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:16,320 Speaker 1: the fascists takeover, they're not going to put up with 170 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: shows starting late. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this. 171 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,720 Speaker 1: It is Wednesday, October the twenty third, the year twenty 172 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,520 Speaker 1: twenty four. Life will not be a born twenty four. 173 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 1: We're armstrong and getting. We approve of this program. Let's 174 00:09:26,360 --> 00:09:29,680 Speaker 1: begin officially then, according to FCC rules and regulations, here 175 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 1: we go at mark. 176 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,400 Speaker 4: Nearly nine million people have already cast their ballot in 177 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:37,880 Speaker 4: the general election through early voting. That story again, nearly 178 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:42,320 Speaker 4: nine million people are asking the candidates to please stop texting. 179 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 1: Now yeah, well said. It's actually up to about twenty 180 00:09:49,760 --> 00:09:54,920 Speaker 1: million now nationwide people have cast their ballots already, which 181 00:09:55,160 --> 00:10:00,000 Speaker 1: I just the mainstream media presents that with just as 182 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 1: smile on their face, like that's obviously good news, not 183 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: recognizing of course that I think about half the country cringes. 184 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: I cringe just any talk about the early voting because 185 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:13,360 Speaker 1: it just it just seems like a big giant heap 186 00:10:13,360 --> 00:10:18,360 Speaker 1: and helping of one opportunity for fraud and two people 187 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 1: not believing in the vote, and it's just not good. Right. 188 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 1: And when NBC breaks the story that Trump has a 189 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: secret prison of children being drained of their youthful blood 190 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: already voted, I don't think that would even end his campaign. 191 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 1: Surely it would have burned it, but yeah, god darn it. 192 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,640 Speaker 1: So there is a bit of an October surprise out 193 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:46,960 Speaker 1: today with some quotes from former staff members of Trump 194 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: that are getting all the coverage on the left side 195 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:53,960 Speaker 1: of media, and we'll get into that. It is going 196 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,440 Speaker 1: to be a long thirteen days. How about the idea 197 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 1: that if the early vote as an indication of where 198 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,560 Speaker 1: the things are going, it's going to be easy to 199 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:05,400 Speaker 1: call the election On election night, It'll be like the 200 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: old days where okay, and the polls have closed and 201 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,319 Speaker 1: Trump has won. So how is America going to react? 202 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 1: How is half of America going to react? What? Not 203 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: only he won, but he's like already one. I think 204 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 1: it will be horrifarious. There will be absolute moments of 205 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:27,439 Speaker 1: hilarious unintentional comedy of the Katy Perry's crying Share is 206 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:33,560 Speaker 1: crying variety, and there will also be angry, self righteous 207 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:38,720 Speaker 1: lunatics who will and this exists across the aisle, folks, angry, 208 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: self righteous lunatics who will feel that lawlessness, ugliness, violence, 209 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:48,319 Speaker 1: criminality in general are justified. And there's way too sicka 210 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:50,880 Speaker 1: vein of that running through American society and politics right 211 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: mat now. In my opinion, do we have Obama rapping 212 00:11:54,200 --> 00:11:57,000 Speaker 1: to lose yourself with Eminem on stage last night. That's 213 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: a cool thing to get to do. I gotta admit, 214 00:11:58,480 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: if I was on stage with Eminem and a microphone, 215 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 1: I'd like to join in. That'd be a cool moment. 216 00:12:02,800 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 1: But Barack Obama did because celebrities are a thing on 217 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,520 Speaker 1: the democratic side. Springsteens Springsteen's getting out with Kamala for 218 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 1: the weekend. There you go, huh. I'd get up there 219 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:16,679 Speaker 1: and trade lines with Kid Rock because he's on the 220 00:12:16,760 --> 00:12:19,920 Speaker 1: right side of the aisle, him and Ted Nugent. I'd 221 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 1: roundhouse kick somebody with Chuck Norris. Yeah, how does mailbag look? 222 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:28,200 Speaker 1: It's it's good. It' stop provoking cool. A lot of 223 00:12:28,559 --> 00:12:30,679 Speaker 1: really interesting stuff on the way. Our text line is 224 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:38,080 Speaker 1: four one, five, two nine five KFTC. I put too 225 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,760 Speaker 1: much cream in my coffee today and I feel nauseous 226 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:46,959 Speaker 1: as smart. I feel like the New York Times changed 227 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 1: their headline, which happens fairly regularly in the modern world. 228 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,920 Speaker 1: You're not crazy if you like go back to an 229 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 1: article online and it looks different. They day update stuff constantly, 230 00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: which is annoying. But the new headline is US says 231 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 1: North Korean troops are in Russia to aid fight against Ukraine. 232 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:15,000 Speaker 1: I don't think the headline said that earlier, that the 233 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:17,760 Speaker 1: North Koreans are going to be involved in fighting Ukraine. 234 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:20,640 Speaker 1: That's a heck of a thing for us to say 235 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: in a heck of a development. But more on that later. Indeed, 236 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:26,000 Speaker 1: here's your freedom loving quote of the day from Thomas Jefferson. 237 00:13:26,040 --> 00:13:31,600 Speaker 1: Once again, history in general only informs us what bad 238 00:13:31,720 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 1: government is. It's interesting history, Like so many stories that 239 00:13:38,559 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: are told are mostly about bad things happening, and unluckily 240 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:45,560 Speaker 1: we are not warned away by any of those stories 241 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,920 Speaker 1: because we learned nothing from history. Yeah, that was an 242 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: interesting observation from TJ mailbag. That's terrific, So let's get 243 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: to it. Drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong 244 00:13:54,760 --> 00:14:00,120 Speaker 1: Egeeddy dot com. Chuck Wrights to Joe and Katie. When 245 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,439 Speaker 1: Joe hits his last day of punching in late will 246 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:04,840 Speaker 1: you be hiring anyone soon? Two companies I work for 247 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:07,800 Speaker 1: allowed twelve days of coming in late day thirteen Audio 248 00:14:07,840 --> 00:14:11,240 Speaker 1: Studio C. First of all, Chuck, it's Jack, Jack who 249 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,960 Speaker 1: is late, Not Joe but Joe. Me, Joe punctual, captain punctual, 250 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: they call me. But that keeps the street. But that 251 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:22,200 Speaker 1: keeps the streak going, which is weird. People always get 252 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 1: us backwards. Yes, Oh, I know it's odd, isn't it 253 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 1: interesting time everyday listeners do? Oh yeah, people that listen 254 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 1: every single day all the time. People that know me 255 00:14:32,120 --> 00:14:34,920 Speaker 1: sometimes talk about things Joe did and his family and 256 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: how his kids are doing college or whatever. Interested. That 257 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:42,280 Speaker 1: was just Jack talking jet anyway? Oh what was I 258 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:44,720 Speaker 1: gonna say? Uh, someday we got to explain why you're 259 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: late sometimes. Okay, you're a bad person anyway, No, I 260 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: can't I take long. If you've ever noticed, I'm not 261 00:14:53,320 --> 00:14:55,160 Speaker 1: the least bit rofled because I know why he's late. 262 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 1: It's because he's cramming as hard as he can to 263 00:14:57,640 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: laminit he has to jet out of his house anyway. 264 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: Most mostly plus your love of racketball. You like to 265 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: work in a game in the morning. Does anybody play 266 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:11,320 Speaker 1: racketball anymore? I do hot yoga? Yeah yeah. Moving along, Jack. 267 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: Jack's story about his Apple iPhone experience preventing his fragilized 268 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: from semi nudity was hilarious. Here's my Apple problem. I'm 269 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 1: a thirty two year old woman, writes them, and my 270 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: phone regularly asked me. At the end of my work day, 271 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:25,240 Speaker 1: when it connects to my car, would you like to 272 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: text Mom and let her know you're on your way? 273 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:27,960 Speaker 2: No? 274 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:33,560 Speaker 1: Apple, No, I would not. That's hilarious. Yeah, it is. 275 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: It is. This is two notes in a row, practically 276 00:15:37,080 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 1: back to back from cal Unicornians. I opened my official 277 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:45,000 Speaker 1: ballot tonight, writes Dot. It contained one copy of page 278 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:48,320 Speaker 1: one of two that's the President, etc. And two copies 279 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,160 Speaker 1: of page two the propositions. For some reason, I told 280 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:54,240 Speaker 1: my husband he opened his envelope. His contained one copy 281 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: of page one, but no copy of page two. Should 282 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 1: I be worried? I've already got very little confidence in 283 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,720 Speaker 1: California's elections. And then we get this from John in 284 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:09,240 Speaker 1: San Diego. I hate that we're automatically mailed to ballot 285 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:12,240 Speaker 1: in California. My house received six ballots. One was a 286 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: neighbors delivered to the wrong address, two were for people 287 00:16:14,880 --> 00:16:17,360 Speaker 1: who moved out of the state years ago, two were 288 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:19,120 Speaker 1: for my father and I. You have the same name 289 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: and address, and we're not sure which belongs to whom. 290 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,760 Speaker 1: If we fill them out mixed up and the signatures 291 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:26,000 Speaker 1: don't match, neither of our votes will count even if 292 00:16:26,000 --> 00:16:28,800 Speaker 1: they check. It's outrageous that this is our system. The 293 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,720 Speaker 1: opportunity for fraud mistakes are just too high. That's intentional. 294 00:16:32,800 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: A ego voted person, probably not a preferably not on 295 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 1: a machine. He says, Yeah, I've received five at my 296 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: house because I'm in a rental where a bunch of 297 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:42,440 Speaker 1: people used to live there. So I've received mine and 298 00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:46,840 Speaker 1: five others ballots six total. We got an email from 299 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,120 Speaker 1: a text from somebody in Nevada who had all kinds 300 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,880 Speaker 1: of ballot weirdness coming to their house. They've received two 301 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,800 Speaker 1: and they don't know why. I got this from Charlotte. 302 00:17:00,040 --> 00:17:03,720 Speaker 1: Thank you for uh speaking up for women who oppose 303 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:06,800 Speaker 1: males in their sports and spaces. You got to try 304 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:09,800 Speaker 1: to stop me, And Steve says, hey, why don't San 305 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: Jose states opposing teams just try out their men's teams 306 00:17:12,760 --> 00:17:16,040 Speaker 1: say they all identify as women. I would love somebody 307 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:18,640 Speaker 1: to do that. I think that would bring this madness 308 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:21,880 Speaker 1: to an end. We got some election stuff we got 309 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:24,080 Speaker 1: to tell you about. There's a lot going on. It's 310 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:28,720 Speaker 1: going to be an ugly couple of weeks. Armstrong Andy 311 00:17:29,359 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: more than once that. 312 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:32,560 Speaker 3: You know the Hitler did some good things too, And 313 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 3: of course, if you know history again, I think he's 314 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:40,439 Speaker 3: lacking in that. But if you know what his you 315 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 3: know him it was all about, uh, you'd be pretty 316 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 3: hard to make an argument that you did anything good. 317 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: That is General John Kelly, former chief staff for Donald J. Trump, 318 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,600 Speaker 1: who is out saying some very critical things about Trump. 319 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,760 Speaker 1: Do we happa? Do we have Yester? Absolutely? Absolutely? Why 320 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:03,399 Speaker 1: do we have to do this? I have two thoughts. 321 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: I mean I have more than two thoughts, but I 322 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,560 Speaker 1: have two thoughts that I'd like to share at this moment. 323 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:10,480 Speaker 1: I have only two thoughts. I am hungry and I 324 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:13,480 Speaker 1: want to pleasure myself. Those are my two thoughts. Food good, 325 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:18,960 Speaker 1: fire bad food plus fire very good. 326 00:18:19,680 --> 00:18:19,760 Speaker 2: No. 327 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: My two thoughts again from the opening, if you were 328 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: to tell Hitler and the bunker. You're going to be 329 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,919 Speaker 1: regularly referenced in the year twenty twenty four in the 330 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 1: American election. He would say, what's the context? I mean, 331 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 1: what are they saying? I mean, come on, secondly, I 332 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 1: reject that idiotic notion expressed by General Kelly there, who 333 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: I'm sure is a fine explain it. We got to 334 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,720 Speaker 1: go this direction. I think we have to before you explain, 335 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 1: explain the I would have voted to not even bring 336 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,879 Speaker 1: this up. Yes, I made Now bring it well. I 337 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: think it's an interesting conversation. So I flip on all 338 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 1: my news sources today, as I always do. Read a 339 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,920 Speaker 1: bunch of different things, watch a bunch of different things. 340 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,360 Speaker 1: MSNBC is going wall to wall with the stuff you're 341 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,480 Speaker 1: about to hear of in I'm gonna use my finger 342 00:19:18,560 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: quotes here Trump admiring Hitler, as is CNN, and some 343 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:27,439 Speaker 1: of the alphabet and the and the takeaway being it's 344 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: just another example in the ongoing narrative that Trump wants 345 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,560 Speaker 1: to be a fascist. Trump is a fascist, wants to 346 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: be a fascist, will rule like a fascist, wants to 347 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 1: be a dictator, and that we all needed. Well, they've 348 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:41,080 Speaker 1: been you'd thrown around the f word a lot today, 349 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 1: and I would like them to all define that for 350 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:45,280 Speaker 1: the first For first of all, what do you mean 351 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 1: by fascism? Since nobody can define that term. But and 352 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,879 Speaker 1: I think it was in nineteen forty six that George 353 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: Orwell said, Yeah, the word fascism has become meaningless. It 354 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,159 Speaker 1: now just means things I don't like. But then I 355 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:58,520 Speaker 1: took in some of my right leaning media like Fox 356 00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,679 Speaker 1: and other stuff like that, and there's mention of the 357 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: story whatsoever. And I thought, is our job as a 358 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: show to alert people in our audience to the scandal 359 00:20:08,560 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: of the day being peddled by MSNBC. Are we doing 360 00:20:12,640 --> 00:20:17,800 Speaker 1: MSNBC's work for them by putting that out there? Are 361 00:20:17,840 --> 00:20:20,400 Speaker 1: you better off not hearing this crab? And I don't 362 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: actually know the answer to that question, But we do 363 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: that all the time. Yeah, we do that every day, 364 00:20:29,560 --> 00:20:34,520 Speaker 1: multiple times per day. And retreating from that outraged tone 365 00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:36,880 Speaker 1: of voice that I was adopting, you know, some are 366 00:20:36,880 --> 00:20:38,600 Speaker 1: worthy of it and some or not. It's just a 367 00:20:38,680 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 1: question of whether it's an interesting discussion or not. As 368 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,080 Speaker 1: far as I'm concerned. Yeah, I feel like is there 369 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: something there? I feel like this reaches into the territory 370 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: of like taking the bait. Basically, it's like when Trump 371 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,760 Speaker 1: took the bait on people leave your rally early and 372 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 1: he lost his mind, or Kamala took the bait on 373 00:20:59,160 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 1: he's at McDonald's in their campaign and their side lost 374 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:04,000 Speaker 1: their mind. I don't I don't like to be jerked 375 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:08,600 Speaker 1: around by dumb what I think are dumb stories. You 376 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: think a highly I can't remember what his ultimate rank was, 377 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,239 Speaker 1: John Kelly, but he's a four star general. There you go, 378 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: and he was Trump's chief of staff, saying the guys 379 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: had not seen he shouldn't be in the White House. 380 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,000 Speaker 1: You don't think that's a story worthy of taking on. Well, 381 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,720 Speaker 1: I think it's because, hey, you think that's junk. He's 382 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: said it so many times. It's just so revisiting this again. 383 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 1: It's the major story in the major news media. We're 384 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:38,200 Speaker 1: taking it on courageously. Well one of us is, anyway, 385 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,359 Speaker 1: is it the major story in the major news media. 386 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 1: I've only seen it on the cable news channels, which 387 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: what they care about does not count. But if it's 388 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,320 Speaker 1: if it's making it too like, I don't even know 389 00:21:48,359 --> 00:21:51,240 Speaker 1: what you call this kind of media, ABC, CBS, NBC 390 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,040 Speaker 1: as opposed to the cable news channel. That's a different 391 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 1: level to me. But anyway, that's that's okay. Now now 392 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 1: we're going at it hammer and tongs. That is, there 393 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: is a dude on TikTok who like features really attractive shoelaces, 394 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: who has five thousand times the following of ABC News. 395 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:18,360 Speaker 1: They're they're they're Yesterday's news. There your your granny's doily's 396 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,159 Speaker 1: they're nothing. I'm just speaking of different journalistic standards that 397 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: I believe still exist barely because they're they're none on 398 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 1: your cable news channels. Zero. You're all in for one 399 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 1: of that. You're all in for one side or the other. 400 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: You might as well be paid outlet for whichever campaign. Uh, 401 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,879 Speaker 1: I feel although I'm about to blast my own argument 402 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: by playing a clip from CBS News later in the 403 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 1: show to show how all in CBS News is, well, 404 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,119 Speaker 1: I'll tell you the answer will be there. What will be? 405 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,520 Speaker 1: Will this be? In the first segment of ABC, CBS, 406 00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:55,640 Speaker 1: NBC tonight, This Trump stuff, this Hitler stuff, you're voting, yes, 407 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: you think it will be. I think it could be. Again, 408 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 1: I reject this standard. But we're now five minutes into 409 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,760 Speaker 1: arguing about whether we out argue about this. I think 410 00:23:06,920 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: it's it has been a drum beat of from John 411 00:23:11,119 --> 00:23:13,800 Speaker 1: Bolton to John Kelly and all sorts of other aides. 412 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,920 Speaker 1: Mike Pence, half of Trump's White House, says he shouldn't 413 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,320 Speaker 1: be trusted with the levers of power. And I think 414 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: it's an interesting discussion, partly because we got this long 415 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,480 Speaker 1: note from Brian, which is it's well reasons this is 416 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: wrong on a lot of things, including accusing I'll just 417 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:35,040 Speaker 1: speak for myself me of suffering suffering from Kamala derangement syndrome. 418 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,280 Speaker 1: I'm not deranged by anything in the eighties, as briefly 419 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:41,439 Speaker 1: cuckoo for cocoa puffs, but I got over that. 420 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 5: No. 421 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 1: I view both candidates in a rational way and see 422 00:23:45,840 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 1: their strength and weaknesses. I think in a pretty objective way. 423 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,320 Speaker 1: Is there an example of what would be Kamala derangement syndrome? 424 00:23:52,359 --> 00:23:58,439 Speaker 1: What is being so against Kamala overlooking something? Or honestly, 425 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:03,320 Speaker 1: he's accusing us both of having Kamlo derangement syndrome which 426 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: causes us to overlook Trump's flaws. Oh, I see, And 427 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: he has a list of instances, but I think most 428 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 1: of them are poorly reasoned and they don't apply. They're 429 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 1: either wrong or I don't think that. So I didn't 430 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,760 Speaker 1: want to even go there. But what his point is, 431 00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: and this is kind of the point of a lot 432 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: of the people who criticize Trump, is that he said, 433 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 1: in my case, it's not that I believe he'll be 434 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,760 Speaker 1: a third World style dictator with full control over the military, etc. 435 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:33,200 Speaker 1: His form of democratic authoritarianism will be more subtle than that. 436 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,520 Speaker 1: At his core, Trump fails to understand and in fact 437 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: mocked the concept of loyal to the loyalty to the 438 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,439 Speaker 1: constitution versus loyalty to a specific Later, I myself have 439 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: suggested that he leans too far that way. He learned 440 00:24:46,720 --> 00:24:48,840 Speaker 1: his lesson during his first term and appointing people who 441 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,800 Speaker 1: are loyal to the constitution and the rule of law. 442 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: In his second term, he's likely to point cabinet members 443 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:55,720 Speaker 1: and senior officials who are solely loyal to him and 444 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: shares contempt for the rule of law. Unlike his first term, 445 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,399 Speaker 1: there will be very few on his worst instincts with 446 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:05,360 Speaker 1: terrible results to our institutions to adherence to the rule 447 00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:08,679 Speaker 1: of law, into the coherence of our civil society. Now 448 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: I was thinking about that as I was taken in 449 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 1: a lot of this He's going to be a fascist 450 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: stuff Like watching MSNBC, they were using their solemn sad 451 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: voices its official Trump could win and is going to 452 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 1: be a dictator and we are about to go through 453 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: the darkest times exactly like Germany did in the thirties. 454 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:29,400 Speaker 1: And then they're they're they're they're like shaking with fear 455 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:31,480 Speaker 1: of this, and I thought, am I am I Am 456 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: I dumb on this or what? Because I just I'm 457 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:38,719 Speaker 1: not worried about Trump doing that. I think they're ridiculous. 458 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,160 Speaker 1: Then do I think he might if he could? 459 00:25:40,280 --> 00:25:40,480 Speaker 3: Yes? 460 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,399 Speaker 1: But do I think could he pull it off in 461 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,800 Speaker 1: our system? No, which is precisely why I wanted to 462 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 1: have this conversation. My view of it is, Brian, He's 463 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 1: not wrong in that paragraph exactly, and I am concerned 464 00:25:56,359 --> 00:25:59,960 Speaker 1: about some of those things with Trump. My bottom line 465 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,960 Speaker 1: is that the institutions of the country, and indeed the 466 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:09,040 Speaker 1: brightest lights in the Republican Party, will resist any of 467 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 1: those urges to the point of open warfare with the president. 468 00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: I have a great deal of faith in that, and 469 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:19,399 Speaker 1: I could run down a name of Republican leaders and 470 00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:24,400 Speaker 1: great thinkers, but I have a high level of confidence 471 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,399 Speaker 1: that that is true. On the other hand, I think 472 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,439 Speaker 1: the greatest minds in the Democratic Party will reinforce and 473 00:26:30,640 --> 00:26:36,920 Speaker 1: encourage and turbo charge Kamala Harris's worst instincts, which like 474 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:41,879 Speaker 1: Joe Biden's, also are utterly corrosive to the institutions of 475 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: our society. And that's what Brian, for instance, leaves out 476 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,199 Speaker 1: of his discussion, which is reasonably intelligent. But again, I 477 00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:50,879 Speaker 1: just think it's wrong in a lot of ways. And 478 00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:57,080 Speaker 1: that is that Biden and Harris regularly constantly advocate for 479 00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,879 Speaker 1: things they know to be unconstitutional to get credit for 480 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:03,919 Speaker 1: the electorate and then paint their opposition is monsters for 481 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 1: resisting those urges they have. They have poisoned the Supreme 482 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 1: Court and the perception of the Supreme Court in a 483 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,840 Speaker 1: way that is utterly unforgivable. It is factually just completely 484 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:23,840 Speaker 1: incorrect and morally unforgivable, accusing the Supreme Court, which has 485 00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,000 Speaker 1: had even handed decision after even handed decision, of being 486 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,439 Speaker 1: some sort of monstrous maga, you know, monster poor writing 487 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:37,119 Speaker 1: gone wild. And so both sides have played fast and 488 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,320 Speaker 1: loose with traditions and institutions. I just think that the 489 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: best of the Republican Party will work to reign in 490 00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,200 Speaker 1: Trump's worst impulses, and the opposite on the other side. 491 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. That's that's why I feel like, 492 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: if you got to choose one or the other, I 493 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,439 Speaker 1: choose Trump over Kamala Harris, not because I think Trump 494 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,479 Speaker 1: is fantastic and any in any way whatsoever, right. I 495 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 1: find myself very much in agreement with Bill Barr, who 496 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:05,600 Speaker 1: said Trump is Russian roulette, Kamala is national suicide. I 497 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: would agree. Look at the subversion of our society, of 498 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,320 Speaker 1: our welfare systems, of our education systems during the Kamala 499 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,920 Speaker 1: and Joe Old Joe the Mummy. It's awful. We can't 500 00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,679 Speaker 1: sustain immigration like illegal immigration like this, teaching Neo Marxism 501 00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: in our elementary schools, never mind the universities. It's just 502 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:30,199 Speaker 1: we can't do that. I would rather try to reign 503 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: Trump in, But to each their own vote, according to 504 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,040 Speaker 1: your conscience. So do you want to play the long 505 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,040 Speaker 1: the New York Times clip that's the interview Kelly did 506 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: with New York Times, or the New York Times version 507 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,600 Speaker 1: of it. I guess yeah, we could yeah, let's let's 508 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: let's why not go ahead and roll at Michael forty five. 509 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,320 Speaker 1: Certainly the former president. 510 00:28:54,560 --> 00:29:03,720 Speaker 3: Is in the far right area, certainly not authoritarian, admires 511 00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:09,000 Speaker 3: people who are dictators. He has said that, so he 512 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 3: certainly falls into the general definition of fascists for sure. 513 00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:21,360 Speaker 1: Okay, oh yeah, that's that's that's good enough. He that's 514 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 1: you got the flavor. Two things. Number one, Trump is 515 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:29,960 Speaker 1: a ceo, has been his entire career. Many many, many 516 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 1: business people will tell you when they get into government, 517 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 1: they are completely flabbergasted by how the level levels of 518 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: power work. A CEO ship is very much a dictatorship 519 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: in a way constrained by you know, the obvious realities 520 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,840 Speaker 1: a business board of directors, et cetera. But it's much 521 00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 1: much closer to a dictatorship, and CEOs have a hard 522 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: time adjusting to political office. Second thing is Trump's style, 523 00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,520 Speaker 1: which I find immoral and and and awful. As a 524 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: business person was he wanted to litigate everything. He would 525 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,400 Speaker 1: hire a plumber to do five hundred bathrooms in a 526 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:07,600 Speaker 1: hotel at one hundred dollars a bathroom whatever. Then at 527 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,280 Speaker 1: the end he would say, I'll pay you seventy dollars 528 00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,120 Speaker 1: a bathroom and if you don't like it, sue me. 529 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:13,000 Speaker 1: And he did that over and over again. That was 530 00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: part of doing business with Trump. I would hate doing 531 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:19,720 Speaker 1: business like that. I consider it, again, just unethical. But 532 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,320 Speaker 1: that's Trump. So you've got a CEO who always wants 533 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 1: to push it and see if he can litigate a 534 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: better outcome. That's Trump. He's not Hitler. He's just a 535 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: He's a hard ass New York real estate developer. If 536 00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: I turn out to be wrong, made the Saints and 537 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: the Constitution forgive me. 538 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:44,840 Speaker 5: So I assume that this was dropped today, yesterday today, 539 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 5: in this twenty four hour news cycle on purpose two 540 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 5: weeks to go before election day by The Atlantic in 541 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:52,720 Speaker 5: the New York Times. 542 00:30:52,800 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like John Kelly just heard this 543 00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: stuff or just learned it. He's hash from a fishing trip. 544 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:00,520 Speaker 1: Oh you want to know about Trump? Yeah, he's a 545 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: lot like Hitler. Right, So the point of this, it's 546 00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:10,360 Speaker 1: been orchestrated with the timing to land and have it effect. 547 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:12,800 Speaker 1: Do you think it will? I don't think it will, 548 00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 1: you know, remains to be seen. I was just looking 549 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: at some of the polling in most polling, Trump and 550 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,080 Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, same as Trump and Biden are neck and 551 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: neck on who do you think will protect democracy? So, 552 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,720 Speaker 1: at least up until now, it hasn't really made a dent, 553 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: and I don't think this is anything new, right, but 554 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:36,560 Speaker 1: it is designed to be in October surprise, and it 555 00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:38,600 Speaker 1: is being treated that way, at least on the cable 556 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:40,480 Speaker 1: news networks. I will be able to. I will be 557 00:31:40,520 --> 00:31:42,640 Speaker 1: interested to see how they handle it on the evening newscast. 558 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,480 Speaker 1: I don't think the evening newscasts are important, as Joe 559 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: pointed out, but I think it'll be interesting to see 560 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: if they're trying to make the argument that this is 561 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:56,240 Speaker 1: like a new big thing. Yeah, that will be interesting 562 00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 1: from your Nora O'Donnell and your what's his name over 563 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: there at ABC. Yeah, I don't want to hear a 564 00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,880 Speaker 1: word from him. We've got Katie's headlines on the way, 565 00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 1: still hearty. There are some damn interesting stories going on 566 00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,520 Speaker 1: out there. We're about to hear. Wait, it's about to 567 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:15,320 Speaker 1: hear some of them in the headlines with Katie but 568 00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 1: aired day. Come on, man, you've got it in. Yeah, 569 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,280 Speaker 1: let's figure out who's reporting what it's leave story with 570 00:32:25,360 --> 00:32:28,040 Speaker 1: Katie Green Katie, Oh, thank you guys. 571 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:32,520 Speaker 6: Starting with ABC News, North Korean troops are already in Russia, 572 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,000 Speaker 6: according to Lloyd Austin. 573 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, and there to aid in the fight against Ukraine, 574 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:43,080 Speaker 1: according to now the the State Department and the New 575 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,400 Speaker 1: York Times. So because we were saying earlier we don't 576 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: know what they're there for, maybe just training or something, 577 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,520 Speaker 1: but no, they're there to help in the fight against Ukraine. Somehow, 578 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,160 Speaker 1: I have a great deal to say on this topic. 579 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,880 Speaker 1: We're pressed for time. What else you got, Katie CNN. 580 00:32:58,320 --> 00:33:02,160 Speaker 6: Israeli military says it is heild three Hesbola commanders in 581 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,760 Speaker 6: the last forty eight hours. 582 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: Who's up? Who's next? Who wants to be move up 583 00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 1: to vice president? 584 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:08,480 Speaker 4: Yeah? 585 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: I was thinking of taking a sabbatical. I'd like to 586 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,960 Speaker 1: spend more time with my family, like any time with 587 00:33:15,080 --> 00:33:17,880 Speaker 1: my family. From CBS. 588 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:22,280 Speaker 6: Former Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries arrested on sex 589 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,040 Speaker 6: trafficking and interstate prostitution charges. 590 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,800 Speaker 1: That is a watered down version of the monster that 591 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:31,840 Speaker 1: this guy is. Holy cow, I went through some of 592 00:33:31,840 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: the stuff he's being accused of yesterday. It makes p 593 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:40,200 Speaker 1: Diddy seem like your grandma. He is a serial boy rapist, 594 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:46,280 Speaker 1: among others things. Torture torturer might even be closer drug torture, 595 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,479 Speaker 1: rape monster, all those shaved over sexualized young models. There 596 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,400 Speaker 1: was a reason he was that into that ad campaign 597 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: or on that to come. 598 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,920 Speaker 6: ESPN Dodgers legendary pitch. Sure, Fernando Valonzuela dies at sixty three. 599 00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:08,279 Speaker 1: Boy, that's young for the rotund master of the horse hide. 600 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:09,920 Speaker 1: And then we'll get a lot of attention. I'm sure 601 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,359 Speaker 1: they'll do something special with the World series going on, 602 00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:16,160 Speaker 1: starting to uh Dodger bill this Friday night show. Hey, 603 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:19,239 Speaker 1: Otani's ball for the fifty to fifty home run ball 604 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:24,080 Speaker 1: just sold for four point remind the fifty to fifty 605 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,560 Speaker 1: home run ball sold for four point three nine million 606 00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: dollars yesterday. 607 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:29,680 Speaker 2: Who wow? 608 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,480 Speaker 1: Why wish god lucky? If you catch that ball changes 609 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:33,080 Speaker 1: your life. 610 00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:39,360 Speaker 6: From people with decision on Menandez brothers resentencing just days away, DA. 611 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:44,160 Speaker 1: Says they're not a danger to society. I think they are. 612 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:49,240 Speaker 1: I'm not sure they are. But they shotgunned their parents 613 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: to death so they could go on a party bingch 614 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,840 Speaker 1: So yeah, anyway, more on that later. All right. The 615 00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: meme of the day. 616 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:01,279 Speaker 6: It's a sign with another sign underneath it. It says employee attitude. 617 00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,640 Speaker 6: Staff here need to stop acting like they don't want 618 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,560 Speaker 6: to be here, And underneath it's a post it note 619 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:11,960 Speaker 6: that says we're not acting sincerely. And finally, the Babylon 620 00:35:12,040 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 6: Bee disaster is Tim Walls accidentally signals Boeing seven forty 621 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,640 Speaker 6: seven to land at rally to knock on his arm, waving. 622 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,000 Speaker 1: We got a good Tim Walls clip for you an 623 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:24,520 Speaker 1: hour too. If you didn't get our tour, don't get 624 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,240 Speaker 1: our two gets the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand 625 00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:30,800 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty