Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty and I'm Strong and Getty. There's nothing.
Speaker 2: There's nothing left. I literally just have the close on
Speaker 2: my back. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: I thought I would come back home and find something,
Speaker 1: but there's nothing here.
Speaker 3: It's unprecedented. I was born in Los Angeles, I've grown
Speaker 3: up here. I've been in the fire service for forty years,
Speaker 3: and this is some of the worst conditions I have
Speaker 3: ever experienced.
Speaker 4: I saw a couple of people yesterday saying that to reporters,
Speaker 4: what you see on my body right now is the
Speaker 4: only material object I have.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 1: That is stunning, incomprehensible.
Speaker 2: It is incomfortable.
Speaker 1: You'd have to get to a store hoping you have
Speaker 1: a credit card in your pocket. I guess you'd have
Speaker 1: to get to a store to buy underwear and socks
Speaker 1: for the next day, let alone everything else. Right where
Speaker 1: do I live, where do I go, what do I eat?
Speaker 1: It would be there would be a long moment of
Speaker 1: being stunned. No matter how together a person you.
Speaker 4: Are, Oh my god, if you got kids and they're
Speaker 4: not going to school, and they got to eat, and
Speaker 4: they need clothes and just holy crap, and enormous emotional
Speaker 4: support rise you yourself are trying not to fall apart,
Speaker 4: man I ket I'm the suffering. It's just unreal and
Speaker 4: will be bringing you avenues to donate if you see fit,
Speaker 4: to help the people of the entire Los Angeles metro area.
Speaker 4: A fair amount of attentions being paid to the celebrities
Speaker 4: and Pacific palisades, which includes some absolutely wonderful people who
Speaker 4: we know who happen to have done fairly well in life.
Speaker 4: But there's narrative going around well rich people.
Speaker 1: But no, my god, it's it's tens of thousands of people,
Speaker 1: every walk of life, every imaginable description. My god, what's
Speaker 1: happening to your human compassion?
Speaker 4: So it is odd the focus on the celebrity homes
Speaker 4: that are threatened or burnt down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just silly. What is that? I mean, the
Speaker 2: people who can best handle this situation is your focus. Okay.
Speaker 1: So it is undeniable that wildfires reality in the Western
Speaker 1: United States, in California and even La County, and it
Speaker 1: is going to happen now and again and even the
Speaker 1: best prepared authorities and the best fire departments will struggle
Speaker 1: to fight it during the conditions or in the conditions
Speaker 1: that we've seen recently. On the other hand, that does
Speaker 1: not mean that the leadership is good, or has done
Speaker 1: the right things, or has managed the situation well once
Speaker 1: the crisis began. In fact, I would argue quite to
Speaker 1: the contrary. Karen Bass, the the inept mayor of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: is getting a lot of attention.
Speaker 2: Why don't we go with let's go with forty Michael.
Speaker 5: As hundreds of homes in a neighborhood burned to the ground,
Speaker 5: we did not see a single fire engine. My question
Speaker 5: to you is what explains this lack of preparation and
Speaker 5: rapid response.
Speaker 6: We will absolutely do an evaluation to look at what worked,
Speaker 6: what didn't work, and to correct or to hold accountable
Speaker 6: any body, department, individual, etc.
Speaker 1: We played earlier clips back to back of a reporter
Speaker 1: asking Karen Bass, did these seventeen plus million dollars almost
Speaker 1: eighteen million you cut from the fire department's budget affect
Speaker 1: preparedness and ability to fight this? She said, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: it was extra anyou stuff. Then they asked the fire
Speaker 1: chief and the fire chief said yes.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, as we and you'll hear some of this,
Speaker 4: but you know, asking Gavin Newsommer heard these questions and
Speaker 4: immediately going into some sort of what's going to keep
Speaker 4: me from being in trouble as opposed to and I
Speaker 4: mean just an honest response of I don't know, and
Speaker 4: this is completely unacceptable obviously right would be a good answer.
Speaker 2: It hit me with forty four, Michael, this is Karen Bass.
Speaker 6: There were no reductions that were made that would have
Speaker 6: impacted the situation that we were dealing with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your chief disagrees with you, dear. So who is
Speaker 1: this Karen Bass? Californians are familiar with her. She's been,
Speaker 1: you know, a union leashed lefty functionary for the longest
Speaker 1: time in a one party state.
Speaker 2: Typical hack. But there's a lot more to the story.
Speaker 1: And Eryl Weber, who's a journalist, did a piece that
Speaker 1: we're about to hear. It struck me in listening to
Speaker 1: this and reading the other headlines of the day that
Speaker 1: Pete Hegseath, for instance, so you know, the jury still
Speaker 1: out on him. I'm not sure if he would be
Speaker 1: a good Secretary of Defense or not, but there's been
Speaker 1: a great deal of coverage of like ad tattoo he
Speaker 1: has that, according to some experts, was a symbol of
Speaker 1: the Crusades, which has been at times adopted by some
Speaker 1: white supremacists to indicate something something related to something right.
Speaker 1: And you know, reams of paper devoted to this. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's legit, maybe it's not. How much coverage have you
Speaker 1: heard about Karen Bass's aout affection for communism?
Speaker 2: I mean, and this is not.
Speaker 1: Some sort of right wing fantasy, none, not a single
Speaker 1: syllable in any way in any of.
Speaker 2: The major publications.
Speaker 1: Please enjoy the work of one Errol Weber forty eight, Michael.
Speaker 7: Member seven, nineteen eighty three, remember this date. But first
Speaker 7: let me introduce you to Karen Bass. Back in the
Speaker 7: nineteen seventies, community activist Karen Bass went on at least
Speaker 7: fifteen trips to Cuba, many with a group known as
Speaker 7: the Ben Serremos Brigade, a Marxist group started by the
Speaker 7: Castro Regunion to subvert American interests and democracies and spread communism.
Speaker 2: Around the world.
Speaker 7: Founded in nineteen sixty nine, the Vencear Rainbos Brigade organized
Speaker 7: trips to Cuba every year for half a century. They
Speaker 7: attracted the most radicalized and delusional segments of the American left,
Speaker 7: including overtly Maoist and pro Soviet communist groups. In fact,
Speaker 7: a Los Angeles police investigator who infiltrated the group testified
Speaker 7: to Congress saying that to be a member of the
Speaker 7: brigade you had to be confirmed as a Marxist Leninist,
Speaker 7: as a Brigadista, and then moving up the ranks to organizer.
Speaker 7: For the Vencerimus Brigade, Karen Bass visited Cuba every six
Speaker 7: months their mission to radicalize young, impressionable American leftists in
Speaker 7: terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare. Members of the vence Ramos
Speaker 7: Brigade were even taught how to.
Speaker 2: Make bombs Jesus Christ.
Speaker 7: Karen Bass admits on her many pilgrimages to Cuba she
Speaker 7: went to see Fidel Castro speak several times, even calling
Speaker 7: him charismatic, and upon his death praised him, saying the
Speaker 7: passing of Commandant and hefe is a great loss to
Speaker 7: the people of Cuba, even though the people of Cuba
Speaker 7: see him as a dictator who impoverished their island. Another group,
Speaker 7: the M nineteen, took its belief in revolutionary anti imperialism
Speaker 7: to extremes, violent extremes. The M nineteen was the first
Speaker 7: and only women created and women.
Speaker 1: Faded Michael as mister Webber points out that the M
Speaker 1: nineteen was financed by the organization that Karen Bass was
Speaker 1: part of for years and years and years and years.
Speaker 1: And you'd say, well, that was in the seventies when
Speaker 1: she was young and all. But remember Castro, when did
Speaker 1: he die? That I can't even remember. It's fairly recently.
Speaker 1: She praised him, and that this is a terrible loss
Speaker 1: for the Cuban people who flee Cuba as fast as
Speaker 1: they can because the horrors of communism. Funny that hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten that much attention. Adel di Castro died in twenty sixty,
Speaker 1: right right, I'm friggin believable. God help California. And it's
Speaker 1: not the people of California, by the way, as I
Speaker 1: always point out, it's the public employee unions and the
Speaker 1: trial attorneys, the organized groups. They turn out the vote
Speaker 1: so much they win every single election. They're huge swaths
Speaker 1: of decent, conservative, moderate people in California who are getting screwed.
Speaker 1: So don't have contempt for the beautiful state. Have contempt
Speaker 1: for the utterly corrupt government starting with Gavin Newsom, the
Speaker 1: con man on down.
Speaker 4: Nobody with that background should be elected in a major
Speaker 4: city in the United States. But it happens if you
Speaker 4: have a one party state, one party city, because none
Speaker 4: of your opponents who were in too much agreement with
Speaker 4: you are going to point it out.
Speaker 1: I guess, mm hmm, yeah, yeah, it's shocking.
Speaker 2: It really is.
Speaker 1: There are times I think is this stuff true? But
Speaker 1: then I look into it. Yeah, it's one hundred percent true. Heyvey,
Speaker 1: I came across some great analysis of the lefty leadership
Speaker 1: of cities and how it goes sideways. And I don't
Speaker 1: need to run through the list all of them, and
Speaker 1: I hope to touch on that maybe next hour. It's
Speaker 1: absolutely brilliant and explains a lot. If you can't hang
Speaker 1: around or whatever, just subscribe to the podcast Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty on demand. It'll be an hour three and trust me,
Speaker 1: it's really insightful.
Speaker 2: Can we hear thee because I have only read about
Speaker 2: this the woman confronts Newsome about.
Speaker 4: The water thing. I haven't actually heard this of you.
Speaker 4: I just read about it same. So let's hear forty
Speaker 4: six there.
Speaker 2: Michael Governor, I live here.
Speaker 8: Governor, that was my daughter's school.
Speaker 4: Governor, please tell me what you're going to do.
Speaker 2: But I'm gonna heart of my promise.
Speaker 3: I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically
Speaker 3: answer the question of what we can do for you
Speaker 3: and your daughter?
Speaker 2: Can I hear it? Can I hear your call? Because
Speaker 2: I don't believe it? I'm sorry, can I there's literally
Speaker 2: I've tried five times. That's why I'm walking around to
Speaker 2: make Why is the president not taking your pull because
Speaker 2: it's not going through? Why I have to get self service?
Speaker 2: Let's get it, Let's get it.
Speaker 7: I want to be here when you call the president.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 7: I'm doing that right now.
Speaker 2: Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.
Speaker 1: They lost two homes because they were living in one
Speaker 1: and building another.
Speaker 2: Why is there no water in the hydrantscovenal?
Speaker 7: That's all?
Speaker 2: Literally? Is it going to be different next time? It
Speaker 2: has to be? It has to be, of course.
Speaker 1: So's I hate Gavin Newsom and I thought he handled
Speaker 1: that pretty well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a hard situation to handle. She's either always
Speaker 4: unhinged or illhinged because of the disaster that has befallen
Speaker 4: her or whatever the weird. You got to call the
Speaker 4: president because that's the only way.
Speaker 1: You handle any any situation that happens in America, your school,
Speaker 1: a fire, anything you can think of. First thing it
Speaker 1: is the president the United States deals with it. There's
Speaker 1: no other local control to deal with any of these things.
Speaker 1: And interestingly, in the same way that climate change is
Speaker 1: always cited as the all encompassing excuse for everything, well,
Speaker 1: it would have been nice. We know we couldn't be
Speaker 1: prepared because of climate change. The idea that, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: calling the president, he's supposed to solve this stuff.
Speaker 2: You constantly remind us.
Speaker 1: That California has like the sixth largest economy on the
Speaker 1: earth and its own nation state, and yet hey, yeah,
Speaker 1: what are.
Speaker 2: You gonna do for us? Cover Let me get the
Speaker 2: president on the line. Maybe he can help.
Speaker 4: So somebody tweeted out this question yesterday. I got eight
Speaker 4: million retweets as of last night. Because there's probably a
Speaker 4: simple answer. What is it we ran out of water?
Speaker 4: Why don't we use ocean water right by the ocean?
Speaker 4: How is there not a way to use ocean water
Speaker 4: that refills constantly refills the giant tank underground. Is there
Speaker 4: a reason can you not spray ocean water on a house?
Speaker 1: I suspect that would ruin all the equipment and you'd
Speaker 1: have to replace it all.
Speaker 2: But I don't know that.
Speaker 4: There's almost got to be an explanation like that, though,
Speaker 4: doesn't there Because you have an enormous body of water,
Speaker 4: there's no reason ever run out of water unless for
Speaker 4: some reason spraying that saltwater would destroy your roof for
Speaker 4: the like you said, the firefighting equipment or something. If
Speaker 4: anybody knows, you could text us four one kftc.
Speaker 1: Well, somebody would have to have the foresight to build
Speaker 1: such a system. It would have to exist for sure,
Speaker 1: of course, to handle an amazing amount of water.
Speaker 2: But if you're there's spending all.
Speaker 1: Their money on illegal immigrants and transient drug addicts.
Speaker 4: There's probably a simple answer. But if you've got it,
Speaker 4: I'd like to hear it. And we got a lot
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Speaker 1: lot and moving in and out and everything like that.
Speaker 2: Location matter. That's a different world. But if I'm just
Speaker 2: down the highway need.
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Speaker 1: your own towel. Man, cheap hotel towels will rub the
Speaker 1: skin off you. It's like you're back in middle school
Speaker 1: gym class.
Speaker 2: Dow. Wowow.
Speaker 1: It's like you requested sandpaper, like you're trying to get
Speaker 1: the rough edges off a bench you're building. No, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to dry my back. We got answers all over
Speaker 1: the place.
Speaker 4: On why they can't use ocean water or aren't using
Speaker 4: ocean water, don't have a system to use ocean water
Speaker 4: in LA to fight fires. I mean, just in my head,
Speaker 4: it seems like, why wouldn't you craft the system back
Speaker 4: in the beginning where you have a giant underground tank
Speaker 4: that's constantly refilled by a pipe from the ocean, and
Speaker 4: you just never run out of water. So some people
Speaker 4: say you can't use water, it will kill the vegetation,
Speaker 4: and other people pointing out the tanker's water salt water.
Speaker 4: The tankers were picking up salt water and dumping them
Speaker 4: on the fire all day long yesterday, so that probably
Speaker 4: isn't the answer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead and kill my lawn, would be my response.
Speaker 1: Yeah, good point, although you might not want that for
Speaker 1: a minor fire.
Speaker 2: I don't know how good.
Speaker 4: A lot of people saying, as you said that it
Speaker 4: would kill all the equipment, Well you can't come up
Speaker 4: with equipment that would.
Speaker 2: Deal with saltwater.
Speaker 4: Well, of course your equipment can't handle it, but you
Speaker 4: could get anyway. I still don't exactly know what the
Speaker 4: answer is for why you wouldn't use the The giant
Speaker 4: ocean next to is a water supply to make sure
Speaker 4: you never run out of water. That had to be
Speaker 4: something when they went to tap those hydrants and there
Speaker 4: was nothing coming out. I mean, there had to be
Speaker 4: a lot of wide eyes, like, holy crap.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: And the explanation slash excuse given is that, well, the
Speaker 1: hydrant system isn't for a giant cataclysm. Well, then the
Speaker 1: question for good governance would be why is there not
Speaker 1: a backup system or a contingency plan for this sort
Speaker 1: of eventuality.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is a problem we've had, we have everywhere,
Speaker 4: always will, And it is a good question. How much
Speaker 4: do we taxpayers want to prepare for things that happen
Speaker 4: once every one hundred years. It's sort of like the
Speaker 4: Katrina flood thing. I mean, you have you have.
Speaker 2: I don't want to get off on all the tangents
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 4: Money not spent or whatever, but a lot of times
Speaker 4: you're not prepared for the one hundred year disaster and
Speaker 4: then everybody goes crazy. What do we want those taxpayers
Speaker 4: prepare for the worst When you're gonna get in a
Speaker 4: hundred years, the worst earthquake you're gonna get a hundred years,
Speaker 4: the worse fire you're gonna get in a hundred years,
Speaker 4: where snowstorm you're gonna get in a hundred years, you got,
Speaker 4: you know, fifty extra snow trucks that sit around in
Speaker 4: your little town for one hundred years before they're needed. Uh,
Speaker 4: I mean no, that's not a realistic way to live.
Speaker 4: So I don't I don't know what the answer is.
Speaker 4: It's always about tradeoffs, yeah, correct.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we should.
Speaker 1: We should talk about that again, the so well quote
Speaker 1: everything is about trade offs, and the left more than
Speaker 1: the right, certainly ignores that there are tradeoffs.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And my tendency is I don't want to like spread
Speaker 1: the indictments against GeV Newsom and Karen Bass so wide
Speaker 1: that it includes stuff that's ridiculous that they couldn't do
Speaker 1: anything about or shouldn't be expected to. I want to
Speaker 1: be specific about this and nail them effectively for their crappy,
Speaker 1: crappy leadership, even as they squander billions and billions of
Speaker 1: dollars on bullet trains that will never exist and bums
Speaker 1: and junkies. As those numbers just leap because because they're
Speaker 1: making it so comfortable to be a junkie.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not a lot of dots to connect. If
Speaker 4: you cut the budget of fire prevention, you're spending all
Speaker 4: this money on homeless encampments.
Speaker 2: I mean that's pretty simple math. I think.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and geddy.
Speaker 2: So Patie says to us.
Speaker 4: She says, I just forwarded to the group text an
Speaker 4: AI video of Biden and his wife attacking Kamala and
Speaker 4: her husband in the front pew of the Carter funeral yesterday.
Speaker 4: I just watched it. First of all, before I want
Speaker 4: I want Joe to watch it live on the air.
Speaker 4: First of all, the first part, the real part, Am
Speaker 4: I wrong?
Speaker 7: Kedye?
Speaker 1: Is that some chilly body language between Kamala and her
Speaker 1: husband and Biden and the doctor Jill. There was no
Speaker 1: eye contact and a very cold greeting.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Yeah at a funeral. That was crazy.
Speaker 4: I'm a hold grudges guy, and I would be friendlier
Speaker 4: than that with somebody in that setting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think it's the dignity of the occasion, would
Speaker 1: demand men and Vice president?
Speaker 2: How are you today? Yeah? Is that a side difference?
Speaker 2: Go ahead and watch it. Joe.
Speaker 4: First of all, you'll see the real part where they
Speaker 4: walk in and sit down and are chili to each other,
Speaker 4: and then the AI fight begins.
Speaker 2: Okay, just quite hilarious. I love these videos, I know it.
Speaker 2: They're so good.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the body language Okay, that's the real part.
Speaker 1: Oh those are sets on read.
Speaker 2: No literally, I figured, Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4: So is that as simple as a prompt, Hey, AI
Speaker 4: make a video of Joe Biden and his wife get
Speaker 4: in a fight with kome on her husband?
Speaker 1: Or does it take more talent and craft to make
Speaker 1: something like that, because I can't even imagine how they
Speaker 1: do that. It is shockingly believable.
Speaker 2: Right, but the.
Speaker 1: Couple of people fighting videos now become its own genre.
Speaker 2: Sure, what did we have the other day? Trump was
Speaker 2: beaten up on? Trump and Jill got into a fight. Well,
Speaker 2: that's right, Notre Dame, that's right, Notre Dame. Luckily she's
Speaker 2: a doctor so she can tend to her wounds. But
Speaker 2: how long is it going to.
Speaker 1: Take before everybody gets hit to this and stops getting
Speaker 1: fooled by these videos? I think some of them are
Speaker 1: so ridiculous, like this one. Yeah, people understand instinctively it's
Speaker 1: fake but still man post truth worlds scary.
Speaker 2: But the real part, the beginning part.
Speaker 4: How about that chili reception from his vice president?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, wow, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Well more is emerging in.
Speaker 1: More will emerge about doctor not a real doctor, doctor
Speaker 1: Jill's role in the administration and in his decision to
Speaker 1: run again and as his behind the scenes Machiavelli.
Speaker 4: Right, Well, she was the last holdout on allowing you know,
Speaker 4: her husband to step down and Kamala to take the nomination.
Speaker 2: She was the last hold out.
Speaker 4: Here, hunt your delusional baby, and so she I'm sure
Speaker 4: and they only did it. As Ian Bremer said to
Speaker 4: us yesterday on our podcast, we should talk about that.
Speaker 4: As Ian Bremer said, everybody knows he was pushed out.
Speaker 4: He didn't voluntarily, like George Washington, give up power.
Speaker 2: So Jill was pushed. So she sees as.
Speaker 1: The conductor of that orchestra, being the woman she was
Speaker 1: sitting right next to yesterday, Kamala Harris pushed her husband
Speaker 1: out of the presidency. That's the way doctor Joe Biden
Speaker 1: sees it, right, right, No wonder they're chilly, right, And
Speaker 1: Kamala was thinking, hey, I was the heir apparent, and
Speaker 1: you kept the skeleton the mummy in the race. Still
Speaker 1: I had no chance. Of course, she's delusional. They're both delusional.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't have won, Joe Biden, And if you had
Speaker 4: more time, you still wouldn't have won. Kamala Harris speaking
Speaker 4: of which, So.
Speaker 1: The good folks at the Free Beacon, including Andrews. Style
Speaker 1: else actually slogged through the entire transcript of Joe Biden's
Speaker 1: like only interview of late with Susan Page of the
Speaker 1: USA Today, and you've heard a couple of the highlights,
Speaker 1: like Biden thinks he would have won. That got a
Speaker 1: lot of headlines, even though former Obama speech wrider John
Speaker 1: Favreau revealed a Biden campaign's internal polling showed Donald Trump
Speaker 1: winning four hundred electoral votes. But they didn't tell the
Speaker 1: old man Biden said. He admitted he wasn't sure he
Speaker 1: could serve another term. Well, obviously, he said, hell know,
Speaker 1: so far, so good, But who knows what I'm going
Speaker 1: to be when I'm eighty six years old? Andrew Styles says, well,
Speaker 1: resident of a managed care facility or dead, Which is
Speaker 1: this insensitive, but it's clearly true. We mentioned earlier that
Speaker 1: Biden has claimed Jimmy Carter asked him to do his
Speaker 1: eulogy during their final meeting in twenty twenty one. Page
Speaker 1: Susan Page followed up to find out what Carter actually said,
Speaker 1: and Biden said, well, I believe that's what he said. Well,
Speaker 1: he implied that if he didn't specifically ask, and what
Speaker 1: I is just a decent guy.
Speaker 4: Wow, that is unbelievable. How did that not get more attention?
Speaker 4: When did this interview come out? Dub I don't know,
Speaker 4: come out before the funeral?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How did mark? I mean, this is USA Today,
Speaker 2: a lefty publication. How did more people not jump on this?
Speaker 2: Because I heard, you know, all through the coverage yesterday
Speaker 2: in the morning.
Speaker 4: Was the only president will spreak will be Joe Biden
Speaker 4: who was asked by Jimmy Carter specifically to give a
Speaker 4: eulogy to US today.
Speaker 2: No, he wasn't. No clarification.
Speaker 1: This is the transcript of the complete interview, which was
Speaker 1: edited for the USA Today. Okay, a lot of this
Speaker 1: stuff did not appear in print. Okay, okay, So here's
Speaker 1: an admission that to me, I don't need Joe Biden
Speaker 1: to admit it. He admitted that the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 1: was entirely about the Green New Deal and had nothing
Speaker 1: doing with inflation. I get a backup, though, but that
Speaker 1: is a hell of a move. So some guy who's
Speaker 1: so old. We all saw Jimmy Carter there the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. They'd wheel him out in a chair,
Speaker 1: and you didn't know if he was even alive, and
Speaker 1: certainly how much he was with it. And I go
Speaker 1: and whisper in some guy like that's here, and I
Speaker 1: walk away and say, yeah, he just asked me.
Speaker 2: To do the eulogy at his funeral, So I'll be
Speaker 2: the guy doing that.
Speaker 1: I guess, Oh, just find's a congenital liar who's gonna
Speaker 1: say are you sure? And go and check with the
Speaker 1: guy nobody right, Wow, that's a hell of a move.
Speaker 1: And as he was talking about the Inflation Reduction Act
Speaker 1: and the money they spent. But the fact is we
Speaker 1: had no soft landing, no recession, and the interest rate
Speaker 1: was nine percent when we came into office. At the beginning,
Speaker 1: it was down to two point three four Now, fact check,
Speaker 1: Biden meant to say inflation rate, not interest rate, and
Speaker 1: the nine percent figure is a blatant lie that Biden
Speaker 1: keeps repeating, as CNN expert himself has explained, the inflation
Speaker 1: rate was one point four percent when Biden took office
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one and increased steadily to nine point
Speaker 1: one percent a year and a half later.
Speaker 4: That was one of those weird lies of his where
Speaker 4: I don't know if he believes that, like if somebody
Speaker 4: told him the wrong numbers or something, because that's such
Speaker 4: an easily checkable Why that's a different one than you know.
Speaker 4: I was a high school football star. Everybody knows this.
Speaker 4: I mean, you can google this one very quickly.
Speaker 1: The president, once described accurately by special counsel her as
Speaker 1: an elderly man with poor memory, defended his decision to
Speaker 1: pardon his crackhead son, Hunter Biden, and insisted he wasn't
Speaker 1: lying when he claimed he wouldn't issue a pardon. Biden
Speaker 1: said he changed his mind after learning the details of
Speaker 1: Hunter's tax fraud case, then attempted, rather unsuccessfully to explain
Speaker 1: and recount those details from memory. Quote, he had paid
Speaker 1: all his taxes, He paid them lay. He was fighting
Speaker 1: a drug problem and he beat it. He's been squaring
Speaker 1: sober for almost six years now. This was back in
Speaker 1: I mean, excuse me in two thousand and what year
Speaker 1: was it? Anyway, a long time ago trails off. According
Speaker 1: to the transcript, he expressed admiration for all of Hunter's daughters,
Speaker 1: but declined to mention Hunter's fourth daughter, Navy Joan Roberts
Speaker 1: six year old girl, etc. He repeatedly refused to acknowledge Biden.
Speaker 1: Here's the most important part to me or interesting. Biden
Speaker 1: has no idea why Democrats are losing the working class vote.
Speaker 1: Page asked why the Party of Scranton Joe has fared
Speaker 1: so poorly among working class voters voters without a college degree.
Speaker 1: Biden started by blaming the media for being too negative
Speaker 1: and never reporting any good news. Then he bragged about
Speaker 1: the one point two trillion dollar infrastructure bill that he
Speaker 1: said is great but doesn't have an immediate impact on
Speaker 1: people's lives. He then started rambling incoherently and in times
Speaker 1: inaudibly about supply chains.
Speaker 2: I never thought I used to.
Speaker 1: Always kid the staff when I started at the beginning
Speaker 1: talking about supply chains. Who the hell talked about some
Speaker 1: fly chains in the previous ten, twenty, thirty, forty years. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what, all of a sudden we found out you
Speaker 1: need thirty little computer chips in audible to build an automobile.
Speaker 2: You got to do your cell phone, your.
Speaker 1: Dishwasher, You're washing this all of a sudden, it's like
Speaker 1: we can't get them.
Speaker 2: We invented the damn things.
Speaker 1: And his answer went on like that for several minutes
Speaker 1: about connecting with working class voters, and concluded with a
Speaker 1: bonker's rant about electricians, air Force one and prescription drug prices,
Speaker 1: and I quote, it takes five years to become an electrician.
Speaker 1: The average person you and I grew up with, Well,
Speaker 1: I speak for myself. You think you're going to be
Speaker 1: an electrician, Yeah, I want to be an electrician. You
Speaker 1: go to school for six months, five years, And so
Speaker 1: I guess what I'm saying is that the focus on
Speaker 1: trying to take and re establish entire infrastructures, industries dealing
Speaker 1: with the cost of how things would I can get
Speaker 1: you on Air Force one, if you have a prescription
Speaker 1: from any drug store here in Washington, DC, get in
Speaker 1: the plane. I'm not taking any capital rule and can
Speaker 1: get it to you for forty percent less, same company,
Speaker 1: same prescription. That was read verbatim, folks, But so we're
Speaker 1: laughing I'm laughing at an old man who's got dementia.
Speaker 2: Not his fault, you know, God willing.
Speaker 4: I get old muffed that it happens to me before
Speaker 4: I die. But the real blame lies with as we
Speaker 4: all know, all the people around him and knew this.
Speaker 4: It's beyond a suspending disbelief to think he was never
Speaker 4: like that in any big meaning about Ukraine or Israel
Speaker 4: or anything like that.
Speaker 2: You know that he was, and they kept it quiet.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to the analysis in twenty seconds. Finally,
Speaker 1: Susan Page asked him his greatest regret. He regretted his
Speaker 1: inability to combat mistruths, but when asked to provide a
Speaker 1: more specific answer, he continued to ramble about infrastructure projects
Speaker 1: and the fact that Trump is president has signed his
Speaker 1: name on COVID nineteen relief checks. Once again, Page was
Speaker 1: forced to provide a clear answer to her own question.
Speaker 1: Biden wished he was better at taking credit for his
Speaker 1: accomplishments or not so much me, but established that the
Speaker 1: government did this for you. It wasn't it was anyway.
Speaker 1: That was the literal. That was the verbatim answer. But
Speaker 1: Jack to your point, because that's where I was going
Speaker 1: with this the sin.
Speaker 2: There's plenty of sins.
Speaker 1: To point to Joe Biden for the selfishly holding onto
Speaker 1: power after he said at the beginning, look, I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a transitional figure one term.
Speaker 4: Well, he got so much worse during that period, though.
Speaker 4: I don't know at what point you draw the line
Speaker 4: of he was sentient enough to make his own decisions
Speaker 4: and when you can't blame it anymore.
Speaker 2: I don't know where that line is drawn.
Speaker 1: Right, right, But the Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Kamala Harris,
Speaker 1: the entire cabinet at the.
Speaker 4: Meet, Andrew Sullivan, the Secretary of State, whoever spent the
Speaker 4: most time with him, had to be keeping a secret.
Speaker 4: A lot of this stuff unless his coast managers were
Speaker 4: so good. Remember he had fewer cabinet meetings and all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff than anybody ever has. Maybe they
Speaker 4: were just so good of only rolling him out on
Speaker 4: good days and they and they managed to not have
Speaker 4: that disaster.
Speaker 1: Maybe yeah, But to still be telling us in late spring,
Speaker 1: just prior to the debate, that he's sharpest. Heck, we
Speaker 1: can barely keep.
Speaker 2: Up with Joe Biden. I've ever seen screamed Joe Scarborough
Speaker 2: at people. And if you don't like that, if you
Speaker 2: don't believe me.
Speaker 1: What she's loise so wow, he can't be gone soon enough.
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Speaker 2: I'm following the NFL for the first time in many, many,
Speaker 2: many years.
Speaker 4: You know, for a lot of years there the only
Speaker 4: I wouldn't see a snap of NFL football until the
Speaker 4: Super Bowl and then watch that. But I've been following
Speaker 4: a lot more closely this year. I don't know when
Speaker 4: they started doing this, but a playoff game on Monday night,
Speaker 4: Monday Night football playoff game?
Speaker 2: How cool was that?
Speaker 4: That's the Vikings Rams game that has been moved out
Speaker 4: of Los Angeles. Who is supposed to be in LA
Speaker 4: home game for the Rams, but because of the fires,
Speaker 4: they're playing at in Arizona. Kind of a drag losing
Speaker 4: your home field advantage, but obviously, what choice did they have.
Speaker 4: We got a lot more on the way, a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different stuff, not all as depressing as these fires.
Speaker 2: Man. You see the landscape and all those homes burned down.
Speaker 2: That is rough, stay with us.
Speaker 8: Many are criticizing the chief of the LA Fire Department
Speaker 8: for making inclusivity the top priority when hiring new recruits. True,
Speaker 8: you want inclusivity, maybe include a chief who knows how
Speaker 8: to fight fires, and said they put identity before competence
Speaker 8: because really, in California, who you sleep with, it shouldn't
Speaker 8: make you fire chief, although it can make you attorney general.
Speaker 2: Unneeded.
Speaker 1: There is photographic evidence of the yearly career of one
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris in that joke.
Speaker 4: Quick question for you, am, I'm the only person that
Speaker 4: didn't know what the acronym t ID was. It's not
Speaker 4: an acronym. I guess it's a an abbreviation. Except anyway.
Speaker 4: I got a letter from the doctor. I was asking
Speaker 4: about some Henry taking some medicine. He said, take the
Speaker 4: two hundred milligram's ibuprofen t I D.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is? Do you know? I
Speaker 2: don't know what that is?
Speaker 4: I was feeling stupid. I had to google it and
Speaker 4: I came up with it. That is what doctors mean
Speaker 4: when they say three times a day. Three times a
Speaker 4: day is t ID. I don't know why that is.
Speaker 2: But okay, shouldn't it be TTD.
Speaker 1: I've never heard that in my life, and I raised
Speaker 1: three children and I take drugs the good time makes.
Speaker 2: Me feel better.
Speaker 4: Because I felt really stupid, I didn't want to email
Speaker 4: back what does that mean?
Speaker 2: I googled it to figured out.
Speaker 1: Why can we not just write whole words say we're
Speaker 1: busy g T E Y L.
Speaker 2: To me? I tell you what.
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Speaker 1: exists on the planet is it says for external use only.
Speaker 1: I say, you don't tell me what to do, and
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Speaker 4: I like that how every single thing you take may
Speaker 4: cost drowsiness or excitement or headaches.
Speaker 2: I woke up with a headache, all right. My dad's
Speaker 2: never had a headache in his life. Oh my god. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's amazing.
Speaker 4: He needs to be studied all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 4: We're gonna hear a little bit from Ian Bremer. He
Speaker 4: We like Ian Bremmer. He's with the Eurasia Group and
Speaker 4: he does his risk list every year, so we always
Speaker 4: have him on in January. We interviewed him yesterday, so
Speaker 4: we're gonna hear some highlights of that from hour three.
Speaker 4: But one thing he tweeted out yesterday was how Trump
Speaker 4: is clearly walking back his whole all in the Ukraine War.
Speaker 2: Day one thing.
Speaker 4: Donald Trump pushes back Ukraine War deadline and sign him
Speaker 4: support for Kiev, so he is indicated, well, it's gonna
Speaker 4: take It's not gonna happen on day one. Days some
Speaker 4: facts on the ground of change, so it's going to
Speaker 4: take a little longer, which is being seen as good
Speaker 4: news for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: I'm reminded of the great quote from John Fetterman the
Speaker 1: other day. He said, look, we got to pace ourselves.
Speaker 1: If we're going to freak out over everything. This guy says,
Speaker 1: beware freaking out over his opening gambit. It's often silly
Speaker 1: or exaggerated, and and he often walks it back. Want
Speaker 1: to mention we have added our second station in New Hampshire,
Speaker 1: as we add stations all across the country. We're back
Speaker 1: on in San Diego on a different station for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and a bunch of other places.
Speaker 4: We'll mention it at some point, but check your localistics
Speaker 4: and if we're not on in your town, live browbeat
Speaker 4: your local radio executives until they cry for mercy, but
Speaker 4: do it politely. Sim We're assuming we're still doing this
Speaker 4: job next presidential election in the New Hampshire primaries, we'll
Speaker 4: have to get locals on from our our new stations.
Speaker 1: Or do the show of me awesome their incredibly beautiful state.
Speaker 4: I've always wanted to do that in the middle of
Speaker 4: a right before the primary. Dumbest New York Post headline
Speaker 4: I saw yesterday or id in general. Waterproof suit collection
Speaker 4: allows office workers to seamlessly move from desk to swimming pool.
Speaker 2: Because we all need to chuckle during these trouble times.
Speaker 2: That's hilarious that something people needed to do.
Speaker 1: That whole changing clothes that takes me five minutes between
Speaker 1: the desk and the swimming pool.
Speaker 2: Can't do it. I need a waterproof suit. I'm in
Speaker 2: the boardroom. I need a swim but it.
Speaker 1: Takes me ten minutes to get my soaked off.
Speaker 2: There's a waste of time hooking out me.
Speaker 1: I want to walk straight out of this zoom call
Speaker 1: in the conference room right into the diving board.
Speaker 2: The hell, oh my god, that is funny.
Speaker 1: The New York Post veerying behind brilliant reporting and just ridiculousness.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, speaking of ridiculous, why do lefty cities all
Speaker 1: go sideways? The answer coming up next hour Armstrong and
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