Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and he.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Yetty. He did what was right for our nation,
Speaker 2: and so.
Speaker 3: On that terrible day September tenth, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Five, our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal.
Speaker 1: He's a model now for American freedom.
Speaker 5: The Charlie Cook Memorial yesterday, Charlie Kirks Memorial, drew about
Speaker 5: one hundred million people in viewership according to ratings.
Speaker 2: I just saw.
Speaker 5: That's big. They had about two hundred thousand people show
Speaker 5: up in person. They got about eighty thousand people into
Speaker 5: the building. It was five hours long, and it was
Speaker 5: a combination of politics and you know, tent revival, thereat,
Speaker 5: the next great awakening of Christianity in this country.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really interesting.
Speaker 6: I didn't watch the whole thing again, it was five
Speaker 6: hours long, but what I witnessed personally and the clips
Speaker 6: I've come across as well, the good, the bad, the ugly,
Speaker 6: the strange. It was a very American ceremony. And we'll
Speaker 6: play you some of the highlights and perhaps you might
Speaker 6: think low lights.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But that was Donald J.
Speaker 6: Trump, the President of the United States, who was the
Speaker 6: keynote speaker, the last fella to speak, and he went
Speaker 6: on for about forty five minutes. What he just said
Speaker 6: there was beautiful, I think, and most can agree with it.
Speaker 6: Then he went on to say this.
Speaker 4: It was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great,
Speaker 4: great purpose, did not hate his opponents.
Speaker 1: He wanted.
Speaker 2: The best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie.
Speaker 5: I hate my opponent and I don't want the best
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erica.
Speaker 3: But now Erica can talk to me and the whole
Speaker 3: group and maybe they can convince me that that's not right.
Speaker 2: But I can't stand my opponent.
Speaker 5: That's interesting. It's interesting taking it. It seems to have been,
Speaker 5: you know, ad libbed.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And you know what, it's a lot more charming
Speaker 6: in the audio than it is in print. Sure, because
Speaker 6: a lot of news outlets are going with that, and
Speaker 6: in the cold black and white to print, it seems
Speaker 6: very well cold. But I like the way he said, Sorry, Erica,
Speaker 6: I'm trying, but you know it was it was a
Speaker 6: very human I didn't mind that a bit. Speaking of
Speaker 6: Erica Kirk, she wowed, as she seems to every time
Speaker 6: she opens her mouth. Charlie Kirk's widow, in the new
Speaker 6: CEO for Turning Point USA, said this, that man, that
Speaker 6: young man.
Speaker 7: I forgive him.
Speaker 8: I forgive him because it was what Christ did.
Speaker 7: And is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate
Speaker 7: is not hate.
Speaker 1: The answer we.
Speaker 8: Know from the Gospel is love and always love, love
Speaker 8: for our enemies, and love for those who persecute us.
Speaker 5: And she's like, I'm looking up at the TV bank
Speaker 5: right now. She is on all three networks right now,
Speaker 5: the big networks, which don't mean anything, by the way,
Speaker 5: which is a part of the FCC discussion we'll get
Speaker 5: to later. But as Joe pointed out in our one
Speaker 5: tremendous amount of fair positive coverage from the mainstream media
Speaker 5: media about what she had to say yesterday, which was heartening.
Speaker 5: The lead up to her saying she forgives him was
Speaker 5: that the young man that killed her husband was the
Speaker 5: exact sort of guy, young man that Charlie Kirk was
Speaker 5: going around the country trying to reach with his message
Speaker 5: of the Gospels. Again, the emphasis from her was really
Speaker 5: more about spreading the Word of Jesus, and then you know,
Speaker 5: throughout the five hour Speakethon there is stuff that leaned
Speaker 5: more toward, you know, the politics of it as opposed
Speaker 5: to spreading the Gospel.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 6: I think that's probably at least somewhat uncomfortable with the
Speaker 6: fact that Charlie is characterized over and over again as
Speaker 6: a proselytizer for Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump, Right, yeah, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 5: So I think that's what I missed in the last
Speaker 5: week because I was not. I'm not a young man,
Speaker 5: that's for certain, and I was not in the Charlie
Speaker 5: Kirk orbit. What I think I missed most mainstream media
Speaker 5: is missing because how much of the mainstream media that
Speaker 5: covered his assassination, and since then some of them didn't
Speaker 5: even know his name, and then some of them knew
Speaker 5: his name, but nothing beyond that, and then all of
Speaker 5: a sudden they're covering it, and it's just he was
Speaker 5: a surrogate for Donald Trump as opposed to is a
Speaker 5: surrogate for Jesus. That's his main thing in life is
Speaker 5: going around the country preaching the Gospels.
Speaker 6: And certainly part of the package of messages he brought
Speaker 6: to people went beyond that, sure, but it was all
Speaker 6: about you know, principles and holding them dear, and which
Speaker 6: principles work for your life and which don't speaking which
Speaker 6: I think this is a perspective worth hearing.
Speaker 1: Clip forty two. This is ABC News.
Speaker 9: Tens of thousands of mourners gathering at State Farm Stadium
Speaker 9: in Glendale, Arizona, to honor slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 9: Attendees asked to dress in their quote Sunday best, with red, white,
Speaker 9: and blue colors encouraged. The service was given the high
Speaker 9: possible security risk assessment rating by the Department of Homeland Security,
Speaker 9: local police telling our Jacqueline Lee that the stadium would
Speaker 9: be monitored by thousands of cameras and hundreds of law
Speaker 9: enforcement officers, some on horseback, others equipped with canine units
Speaker 9: and drone support.
Speaker 6: Lots of drone support, from what I understand, which was
Speaker 6: obviously missing on that dark, dark day.
Speaker 5: Right which you know we talked about this a little
Speaker 5: while you were gone. Was talking to a friend in
Speaker 5: the world of security. It's unrealistic to have. Well, first
Speaker 5: of all, Donald Trump nearly got killed with presidential level security, right.
Speaker 5: He came close enough to getting killed two different times
Speaker 5: with presidential level security, one of them after a previous
Speaker 5: assassination attempts. He can't get better security than that. The
Speaker 5: idea that you're going to have anything with him, you know,
Speaker 5: miles of that for every controversial person that steps onto
Speaker 5: a college campus.
Speaker 2: It's just unrealistic.
Speaker 6: Wow wow, yeah, true. So I think there was one more.
Speaker 6: I definitely wanted to run. Well, here's a question for you, Jack.
Speaker 6: Do you want Marco Rubio being very sincere speaking eloquently
Speaker 6: or Tucker Carlson being weird?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: Man, I won't actually have time for both. Yeah, I
Speaker 6: want to hear both of those. Yeah, bring us Rubio first.
Speaker 6: Michael forty seven place.
Speaker 1: His deep belief that we were all created, every single one.
Speaker 7: Of us before the beginning of time, by the hands.
Speaker 5: Of the God of the universe and all powerful God,
Speaker 5: who loved us and created us for the.
Speaker 1: Purpose of living with him in eternity.
Speaker 6: But then sin entered the world and separated us from
Speaker 6: our creator.
Speaker 1: And so God took on the form of.
Speaker 5: A man and came down and lived among us, and
Speaker 5: he suffered like men, and he.
Speaker 1: Died like a man.
Speaker 5: But on the third day he rose unlike any mortal man.
Speaker 1: And then, and to prove any.
Speaker 3: Doubters wrong, he ate with his disciples so they could
Speaker 3: see and they touched his wounds.
Speaker 5: He didn't rise as a ghost or as a spirit,
Speaker 5: but his flesh.
Speaker 1: And then he rose to the heaven.
Speaker 3: But he promised he would return, and he will.
Speaker 5: And when he returns, because he took on that death,
Speaker 5: because he.
Speaker 1: Carried that cross, we were freed from the sin that
Speaker 1: separated us from him.
Speaker 3: And when he returns, there will be a new heaven
Speaker 3: and a new earth, and we will all be together and.
Speaker 7: We are going to have a great reunion.
Speaker 5: There again with Charlie and all the people we love.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and God bless me.
Speaker 5: That's not about Donald Trump. Yeah, that's not about Donald Trump.
Speaker 5: And that's what most of the crowd is there for,
Speaker 5: is that sort of thing. And I do think that
Speaker 5: that has been missed the last week and a half.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And I'd meant to make the point after the
Speaker 6: clip from ABC News that they're now referring to. Charlie
Speaker 6: Kirk is a conservative activist which has evolved slightly from
Speaker 6: far right wing provocateur, which seemed to be the wording
Speaker 6: of choice. I believe this is no pun intended, a
Speaker 6: turning point and a preference cascade, a term you've heard
Speaker 6: us throwing around lately. We'll talk about that a little
Speaker 6: bit more later in the hour.
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Speaker 6: All right, ladies and gentlemen, I happen to be watching
Speaker 6: Live when Tucker Carlson came on and he did his
Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson act, and it.
Speaker 3: Actually reminds me of my favorite story ever. So it's
Speaker 3: about two thousand years ago in Jerusalem and Jesus shows
Speaker 3: up and he starts talking about the people in power,
Speaker 3: and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do,
Speaker 3: which is telling the truth about people. And they hate it,
Speaker 3: and they just go bonkers. They hate it, and they
Speaker 3: become obsessed with make and stop. This guy's got to
Speaker 3: stop talking. We've got to shut this guy up. And
Speaker 3: I can just sort of picture the scene in a
Speaker 3: lamp lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around
Speaker 3: eating hummus, thinking about what do we do about this
Speaker 3: guy telling the truth about us?
Speaker 1: We must make him stop talking. And there's always.
Speaker 3: One guy with the bright idea, and I could just
Speaker 3: hear him say I've got an idea, why don't we
Speaker 3: just kill him. That'll shut him up, that'll fix the problem.
Speaker 3: It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I understand exactly what he's saying. They thought they
Speaker 5: was unhinged visually. Oh really, I see that's interesting that
Speaker 5: that's the way you describe it, because I've only heard
Speaker 5: that and read about it, and it sounded like a
Speaker 5: pretty good description of what happened. You got Jesus spreading
Speaker 5: the word and being disruptive to the powerful, and they
Speaker 5: thought we'll kill him, and that did not shut him up.
Speaker 5: And he's making point about Charlie kirk Charlie Kirks got killed,
Speaker 5: and that is not going to shut him up or
Speaker 5: end his movement either.
Speaker 1: No, No, indeed, quite the opposite. I believe.
Speaker 6: I think it's worth noting, as a semi professional communicator
Speaker 6: that Trump's words were made much more human and and
Speaker 6: and endearing by hearing the actual audio as opposed to
Speaker 6: the print, where Tucker's were made to seem much more
Speaker 6: reasonable and and you know, acceptable in print than the
Speaker 6: audio slash visual, which again I found. I mean, he
Speaker 6: was like cracking himself up with the cleverness of his comparison,
Speaker 6: it's just weird.
Speaker 5: Tucker did say some strong things anti Pam Bondi following
Speaker 5: Trump's orders over the weekend, that I was happy to
Speaker 5: hear the right and left seems to have joined hands.
Speaker 5: Normal right and left have joined hands in the now.
Speaker 5: We can't call hate speech. We can't start cracking down
Speaker 5: on something called hay speech hate speech. And we need
Speaker 5: to talk about that later because I think that's a
Speaker 5: good movement, maybe a turning point itself.
Speaker 2: Lots of stuff on the way, stay here.
Speaker 5: You know, Tucker Carlson was clearly right in his comparison that,
Speaker 5: you know, the in the attempt to shut down Jesus's message,
Speaker 5: they killed him and it only amplified the message. I
Speaker 5: think that is almost certainly true of Charlie Kirk. I mean,
Speaker 5: his organization is going to be bigger than it's ever been.
Speaker 5: His wife is going to continue delete it. So people
Speaker 5: who were, you know, doing touchdown dances about him dying,
Speaker 5: thinking that shut up that voice are just wrong, just
Speaker 5: factually wrong. But then you know, the killer he was
Speaker 5: just he just had the toll trans thing I think
Speaker 5: is what drove him.
Speaker 6: Right, right and a disaffected hyper online gamer Unplugged from Reality,
Speaker 6: troubled Kid, just terrible. The Babylon PE's headline to your point,
Speaker 6: Jack twelve million Charlie Kirks created overnight, which I thought
Speaker 6: was a good one, and they retweeted or just showed
Speaker 6: a note from Matt who's part of Turning Point USA.
Speaker 6: He writes, we have eighteen thousand new chapter requests since
Speaker 6: Erica spoke. We had nine thousand college chapters and eleven
Speaker 6: hundred high school chapters prior to this. This is the
Speaker 6: Turning Point, which I thought was really interesting, and then
Speaker 6: I came across with the help of honorary producer Jeff.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sending along.
Speaker 6: Jeff Glen Harlan Reynolds, who is the writer and thinker
Speaker 6: I've been quoting when talking about preference distortions and preference cascades,
Speaker 6: and he writes on this topic, preference cascades were large
Speaker 6: portions of the public, often a majority conceal their views
Speaker 6: for fear of punishment, which leads to everybody having a
Speaker 6: distorted view of who thinks what and what percentage of
Speaker 6: people think what anyway, only to re field those views
Speaker 6: when some precipitating event takes place. And his classic example
Speaker 6: includes the fall of some communist regimes like Romania, where
Speaker 6: the dictator Chichesku himself thought everyone loved him until shortly
Speaker 6: before he was stood up in front of a wall
Speaker 6: and shot because everybody despised him, but everybody was afraid
Speaker 6: to say so. Anyway, he says, usually those things happen
Speaker 6: in one direction, but in contemporary America they're happening in two.
Speaker 6: The murder of Charlie Cook at the hands of a
Speaker 6: leftist gunman has revealed it in many I got to
Speaker 6: jump in with a Kirk, did I say Cook?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: And I'm rereading it.
Speaker 2: Isn't that weird?
Speaker 1: I know, it's so odd.
Speaker 6: The murder of Charlie Kirk at the hands of a
Speaker 6: leftist gunman has revealed that many, many more Americans and
Speaker 6: even people elsewhere around the world supported Charlie and his
Speaker 6: views and was commonly appreciated. And he goes into New
Speaker 6: Zealanders in London dancing the Hakka dance in his honor
Speaker 6: people all over the US as well as Rome, London, Germany, Israel.
Speaker 6: Charlie's views, uniformly disparaged by the presses far right, are
Speaker 6: in fact mainstream generally held by the majority of people.
Speaker 6: His assassination has caused people to step forward and realize
Speaker 6: that the normal American community.
Speaker 1: Is a huge majority.
Speaker 6: I like that normal Americans as as.
Speaker 1: If Irish American. That's very thing.
Speaker 6: As Jonathan Turley writes, Charlie was brave and he was brash.
Speaker 6: He refused to yield to the threats while encouraging others
Speaker 6: to speak out on our campuses. He was particularly hated
Speaker 6: for holding a mirror to the face of higher education,
Speaker 6: exposing the hate and hypocrisy on our campuses. For decades,
Speaker 6: faculty have purged the ranks of conservatives and libertarians. Faced
Speaker 6: with the intolerance of most schools. Polls show that a
Speaker 6: large percentage of students.
Speaker 5: Hide their values to avoid retaliation from faculty or their
Speaker 5: fellow students.
Speaker 6: Charlie chose to change all that. TPUSA challenges people to
Speaker 6: engage and debate them. People are getting the courage not
Speaker 6: to hide their views, which is problematic for the left,
Speaker 6: who state has consisted of using bullying in propaganda to
Speaker 6: convince eighty percent of Americans that the view and other people,
Speaker 6: we'll just say the population. They've used bullying in propaganda
Speaker 6: to convince eighty percent of the population, that the views
Speaker 6: of the twenty percent of the population are in the
Speaker 6: majority not anymore.
Speaker 2: That could be a turning point. That's very interesting.
Speaker 5: Vice President Vance gave quite a emotional and emotional speeches
Speaker 5: he and Charlie Kirk got closed over the last couple
Speaker 5: of years. He said it's better to die a young
Speaker 5: man in this world than sell your soul for an
Speaker 5: easy life with no purpose, no risk, no love, and no.
Speaker 6: Truth, which got a out of cheers. Yeah, we autograph
Speaker 6: some quotes of JD. I surprised we don't have them,
Speaker 6: but maybe for later in the show. Will this event
Speaker 6: actually break through and be looked back at as a
Speaker 6: point of inflection.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It's difficul to make a dent in
Speaker 5: the modern world. Everything comes and goes so fast.
Speaker 6: I don't think it'll be a sitcom or a rom
Speaker 6: com moment of inflection.
Speaker 1: It's going to take a long time in a lot
Speaker 1: of hard work. But yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris's new book coming out got some fun highlights
Speaker 5: and I almost.
Speaker 2: Got attacked by there arm Trong and Getty, but it's true.
Speaker 2: Kamala admits Waltz was never her first.
Speaker 5: Choice it's the fastest she's turned her back on someone
Speaker 5: since Willie Brown asked her to roll over.
Speaker 2: Terrible, terrible, it's the crowd reaction. I like to that.
Speaker 5: Not particularly good joke, Okay, coming up drama in real life,
Speaker 5: nearly eaten by a bear or anyway, it was enough
Speaker 5: that we ended up packing up our campsite at four
Speaker 5: point thirty in the morning and leaving in the dark
Speaker 5: because neither one of us can get back to sleep
Speaker 5: after the bear. M So that coming up in a
Speaker 5: little bit, that joke about Kamala Harris. Kamala Harris's book.
Speaker 5: I assume it's coming out eventually. It keeps being talked about.
Speaker 5: It's been going on for months with more. It's probably
Speaker 5: not even that long a book. Pretty soon all the
Speaker 5: excerpt the entire book will be out in.
Speaker 6: Excerpts, and it's ironic as nobody wants to read it.
Speaker 5: No, not really, but Mark Alpern makes this point today
Speaker 5: in his newsletter. Before I get to some more bits
Speaker 5: of the book, a super anti Trump New York Times
Speaker 5: commalist trashes Kamala Harris in her new tome to such
Speaker 5: a degree in the New York Times this weekend that
Speaker 5: gives one a clear indication of how difficult it would
Speaker 5: be for her to gain enough support to compete for
Speaker 5: the Oval office, as in, you know, if the anti
Speaker 5: Trump New York Times is gonna trash Kamala Harris this
Speaker 5: bad and where's the support gonna come from?
Speaker 2: If she decides, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think she's gonna run, but no, no.
Speaker 5: Not if not, if she has any grasp of reality.
Speaker 5: I don't think she has any grasp of reality. But
Speaker 5: I just don't think the money's gonna come together and
Speaker 5: enough people, but she won't be able to get any
Speaker 5: of the talent on board.
Speaker 2: AnyWho.
Speaker 5: Back to the book being reviewed in The New York Times,
Speaker 5: A couple of parts that I thought were interesting or
Speaker 5: funny even before the disaster of a debate had ended.
Speaker 5: We all know what debate we're talking about. Kamala writes.
Speaker 5: The campaign staff had sent her wildly unrealistic talking points
Speaker 5: to guide her in television appearances. You know, obviously she's
Speaker 5: got to go on TV after the debate, and her
Speaker 5: staff was figuring out what she was going to say
Speaker 5: that night.
Speaker 6: The President at cold he he was slightly tired from
Speaker 6: I don't know, flying around the world, flapping his.
Speaker 5: Arms, including Joe Biden won he fought through his cold
Speaker 5: as he was fighting for the American people.
Speaker 1: Oh that's good, that's gold right there.
Speaker 5: Harris's reaction in the book is italicized. As it points
Speaker 5: out here, there are a couple of sentences in italics
Speaker 5: that say, are you kidding me? No, don't feed me
Speaker 5: that bulls And as the reviewer writes, it's not clear
Speaker 5: if she actually said that to someone. She's describing what
Speaker 5: she thought, or she's describing what she wished she had said,
Speaker 5: but it's not clear, which she kind of got to
Speaker 5: make it clear. You don't get to many many months later,
Speaker 5: you know, throw in a what what should have happened? Well,
Speaker 5: right then, that's what I said. You said that, well,
Speaker 5: I thought it of the uh remember the old Camp
Speaker 5: Obama people took over her campaign there at the end
Speaker 5: to try to write the ship and David Ploof told
Speaker 5: Kamala Harris Bluntley people hate Joe Biden, which is one
Speaker 5: of the reasons that those around her couldn't understand how
Speaker 5: she ended up on the view And I was reading
Speaker 5: a segment about this the other day. She didn't realize
Speaker 5: at the time what a disaster. Her View appearance was
Speaker 5: and then it just blew up. Her phone blew up,
Speaker 5: all of her campaign aid's phones blew up. That's when
Speaker 5: she went on the View and was asked the question
Speaker 5: what would you do differently than what Joe Biden did?
Speaker 5: And she said nothing comes to mind, which is one
Speaker 5: of the worst answers ever. I mean, because there are
Speaker 5: there are like forceful, energetic ways to say the same thing.
Speaker 6: I mean, saying the same thing's a bad idea. But
Speaker 6: she said the wrong thing poorly.
Speaker 5: Right because the way she said it indicated, probably accurately,
Speaker 5: that it had never occurred to her.
Speaker 2: To think about it.
Speaker 5: You've never thought for a second, running for president and
Speaker 5: working under a president, not any things you would do
Speaker 5: any differently? Nothing comes to mind. I mean, it's just
Speaker 5: a sorrow horrible weak answer if you if she had
Speaker 5: said absolutely not. I stand by every decision Joe Biden made.
Speaker 5: I was in the room when those decisions were made,
Speaker 5: and I agreed with him. I'd be fine. You'd be
Speaker 5: way better off than nothing comes to mind, or some
Speaker 5: load of crap like we didn't fight hard enough, we
Speaker 5: didn't push far enough for these policies.
Speaker 1: I believe in xt.
Speaker 5: Y and Z. I mean, did somebody tell her you're
Speaker 5: actually a candidate right now you need to have ideas
Speaker 5: or somebody else's ideas that.
Speaker 1: You bear it.
Speaker 5: And I think it just shows to how she has
Speaker 5: no political skills, that she had zero idea, that that
Speaker 5: was like the biggest disaster of the entire campaign.
Speaker 6: And you know what's so crazy about our political system
Speaker 6: is I you others have been saying for a very
Speaker 6: long time. She has no ideas, she has no principles,
Speaker 6: and she has no skills. And every time she is
Speaker 6: thrown up against the electoral wall, the populace says, no,
Speaker 6: thank you, we're not interested. But because she's somehow made
Speaker 6: the grade, she's a person on TV, a name, they
Speaker 6: keep looking to her again.
Speaker 2: Stop Well.
Speaker 5: The critique of this book from this reviewer is that
Speaker 5: even in her book, she quotes others ripping Joe Biden
Speaker 5: or Joe Biden's staff apart, but she doesn't say anything
Speaker 5: strong at all, which is such classic Kamala Harris.
Speaker 2: I better not.
Speaker 5: I mean, she's just so cowardly and so a risk averse.
Speaker 5: So she quotes her husband with a strong statement about
Speaker 5: they hide you away for four years they give you
Speaker 5: impossible s jobs, they don't correct the record when those
Speaker 5: are mischaracterized.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 5: But she doesn't herself say anything in the book because
Speaker 5: she doesn't want to have to defend it or something.
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I thought this was interesting. Democratic
Speaker 5: luminaries immediately after Biden left the race, hoping to enlist
Speaker 5: their support, and her recollections of the exchanges nicely capture
Speaker 5: their personalities. Hillary Clinton said I want to be part
Speaker 5: of your war council, suiting up for battle. When contacted
Speaker 5: by Kamala Harris. Immediately Barack Obama said, Michelle and I
Speaker 5: are supportive, but not going to put a finger on
Speaker 5: the scale right now, which he came out, and then
Speaker 5: Will leaked out that he thought there should be some
Speaker 5: sort of primary. Bernie Sanders was on brand, Please focus
Speaker 5: on the working Please focus on the working class, not
Speaker 5: just on abortion, which is a very Bernie thing to say.
Speaker 5: And Nancy Pelosi said we should have some kind of primary,
Speaker 5: not an anointment. Said that to Kamala Harris, which ended
Speaker 5: up not being what happened. Another call was to Pete buddhajeedge,
Speaker 5: you're going to be a fantastic president, he said, and
Speaker 5: Harris admits in one hundred and seventy one hundred and
Speaker 5: seven days that the Transportation secretary and expert Dismantler of
Speaker 5: Fox News Interviewers was her top choice for running mate.
Speaker 5: I love Pete, she writes, but she felt that the
Speaker 5: American people were not ready for a gay vice president
Speaker 5: in addition to a black female president. He would have
Speaker 5: been an ideal partner if I were a straight white man. Again,
Speaker 5: just pointing to her risk averse, non daring weakness, I
Speaker 5: think Pete would have been a way better choice to
Speaker 5: be her running mate. I mean, he's like the Marco
Speaker 5: Rubio of the left. He's good in all of those situations.
Speaker 5: But no, he's gay, So maybe just I mean, it
Speaker 5: just shows what kind.
Speaker 2: Of person she is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he's a phony.
Speaker 6: He's a complete phony, but he's politically skilled.
Speaker 2: He's really good at it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it wasn't that we couldn't take a woman of
Speaker 6: color and a gay dude. It's that we didn't want
Speaker 6: a dunder peyton a phony.
Speaker 5: Well, right, Instead, she went for the reading from the
Speaker 5: New York Times. Instead, she went for the rumpled everyman
Speaker 5: vibe of Governor Tim Wallas of Minnesota, who later disappointed her.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know a lot of men, and not only
Speaker 6: is he not every man, he's not any of them.
Speaker 6: He's a thing, was and a liar and a Putts
Speaker 6: and a phony.
Speaker 2: That's the thing.
Speaker 5: So you didn't think people could handle Pete buddhaedge because
Speaker 5: he was great gay. But he thought, I'll get this
Speaker 5: guy who's going to represent the regular person on the
Speaker 5: black female ticket. He was about to be least every man,
Speaker 5: as you point out, as you can imagine.
Speaker 1: And I'm a knucklehead at times, somebody he characterized him.
Speaker 1: I wish I had it in front of you because
Speaker 1: it was so clever.
Speaker 6: But essentially, Tim Waltz is the left's idea of what
Speaker 6: a regular guy.
Speaker 2: Is, right, exactly Exactly.
Speaker 5: Also in the book, when Trump said in an interview
Speaker 5: that Harris had only recently embraced her black identity, and
Speaker 5: a campaign advisor encouraged Kamala to respond with a major
Speaker 5: Obama style speech race, Kamala Harris shut him down instantly.
Speaker 2: Today he wants me to prove my race.
Speaker 5: What's next He'll say, I'm not a woman, and I
Speaker 5: need to show him my vagina I'm not going to
Speaker 5: say anything, so again called.
Speaker 1: Pass But.
Speaker 5: I see your point. How about he just agree you're
Speaker 5: a woman. But again the classic Kamala Harris. I'm not
Speaker 5: gonna give some forceful remark just because they're demanding it. Okay,
Speaker 5: good luck with that. She is weak at every turn.
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, and again the American people have spoken that
Speaker 6: as loudly as possible, repeatedly, but the establishment still turns
Speaker 6: to her and not anymore.
Speaker 5: I don't think no, no, no, no, no no. The
Speaker 5: New York Times is the establishment and they are shunning her.
Speaker 5: And then again this similar She resists her interview on
Speaker 5: the View where she said she couldn't think of even
Speaker 5: one thing she would have done differently from Joe Biden.
Speaker 5: And then she writes in the book she does a
Speaker 5: period after every word. If you've seen this done or
Speaker 5: used it yourself to like be extra dramatic, why didn't
Speaker 5: I separate myself from Joe Biden, Harris wonders in the book.
Speaker 5: Her answer is that she didn't want to embrace the
Speaker 5: cruelty of her opponent, and that she felt she owed
Speaker 5: Joe Biden her loyalty.
Speaker 1: Once again, at your job.
Speaker 5: Once again, just weak, not daring, just the opposite of
Speaker 5: a Barack Obama or a Donald Trump or anybody who
Speaker 5: like really goes for it and ends up winning.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but explain, then, dear and again, keep her and
Speaker 6: he's together.
Speaker 1: Explain, please, why.
Speaker 5: You didn't say something like I support.
Speaker 1: Everything he's done.
Speaker 5: We've got to keep fighting, we've got to push farther,
Speaker 5: we've got to ask for a bar blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's a dopey non answer, but nothing comes
Speaker 6: to mind.
Speaker 5: Well again, and it was the So she clearly had
Speaker 5: never considered one of the most obvious questions you're ever
Speaker 5: gonna be asked. That makes you an idiot, And I
Speaker 5: don't your answer is good except for if David Pluff
Speaker 5: is coming to you, one of the smartest political minds
Speaker 5: in Americans, saying, people hate Joe Biden, right, but feel
Speaker 5: free to distance yourself.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna hurt you any That's what people.
Speaker 1: Are wanting, right, one hundred percent true.
Speaker 5: I was just trying to illustrate the lowest bar, Like
Speaker 5: the bar is laying on the ground.
Speaker 2: You literally just have to step.
Speaker 1: Over the bar.
Speaker 5: They haven't even put it on the little brackets yet.
Speaker 5: Let's me couldn't clear that I have to show them
Speaker 5: my vagina?
Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 1: They got a plot going.
Speaker 5: We need, if you will, we need to take a
Speaker 5: look at free speech in America. As the Attorney General
Speaker 5: is talking about hate speech. That's not something conservatives are
Speaker 5: supposed to that that's a no go term for conservatives,
Speaker 5: hate speech. But we got a lot on the way.
Speaker 5: I hope you can stay here, Armstrong.
Speaker 4: Talk show hosts are going down like blockbusters in the nineties.
Speaker 4: I might.
Speaker 7: Well.
Speaker 4: I guess you all heard Jimmy Kivel, my friend, my compatriot.
Speaker 4: He's by ABC for comments he made about Charlie Kirk's
Speaker 4: assassin the day right after the FCC. Guy came ou
Speaker 4: ahead of the FCC. So I'm just going to revoke
Speaker 4: ABC's license. Let me just tell you something. I am
Speaker 4: not intimidated by the FCC. And if President Trump is watching,
Speaker 4: I have one thing to say to you.
Speaker 1: Have you lost weight? You look terrific.
Speaker 5: And Sonny John Stewart did a similar thing. He did
Speaker 5: a rare Thursday night appearance on the Daily Show where
Speaker 5: he mockingly fawned over President Trump to try to keep
Speaker 5: the FCC away from him.
Speaker 2: Of course everyone should know.
Speaker 5: The FCC's got nothing to do with cable or satellite
Speaker 5: or anything else. It's got to do with a broadcast
Speaker 5: license for things coming over the air from TV and radio.
Speaker 5: And it's an anachronistic, antiquated way to look at the
Speaker 5: way information is distributed. But we're going to talk about
Speaker 5: the whole Jimmy Kimmel first, a minute FCC thing to
Speaker 5: kick off our three.
Speaker 1: Jimmy love the First Amendment.
Speaker 5: What percentage of people who will ever watch Jimmy Kimmel
Speaker 5: watched it from airwaves coming to their home?
Speaker 2: Maybe less?
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't know about that, but be very very low.
Speaker 6: I don't think I know anybody who watches him at all.
Speaker 6: So I'm the wrong guy to ask.
Speaker 2: Well, who's watching TV? Comes to you to an antenna
Speaker 2: in your house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know verybody.
Speaker 2: Any who will talk about that later.
Speaker 5: So joelways talked about bears and camping and stuff like that,
Speaker 5: and I hear people talking about I've heard people talking
Speaker 5: about it my whole life, bears and cougars. I've never
Speaker 5: worried about bears and cougars. I just I treat them
Speaker 5: like lightning strikes. It's like they're so incredibly rare. The
Speaker 5: reason they make the news is they almost never happen.
Speaker 5: So I just never think about it. I walk through
Speaker 5: the you know, I got to get up and pee
Speaker 5: in the middle of the night and walk outside in
Speaker 5: a tent. It doesn't cross my mind for whatever reason.
Speaker 5: Maybe behind every leaf do. Yeah, So I never worried
Speaker 5: about it. So I went to this place to camp
Speaker 5: way up northern California, four and a half hour drive
Speaker 5: north of where I am. And I'm already in northern
Speaker 5: California and beautiful right by the ocean and cold waves
Speaker 5: crashing on rocks and giant redwood trees and maybe you
Speaker 5: can picture it.
Speaker 2: And it's absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 5: And part of the advantage you get from driving far
Speaker 5: enough is there no people around, very very low population
Speaker 5: of camping up there, and Henry and I did a
Speaker 5: seven mile hike on Saturday. It was just freaking glorious, fantastic,
Speaker 5: although my legs are still sore from it. As also,
Speaker 5: while I was on that hike, thinking about that ridiculous
Speaker 5: would you rather encounter a man you don't know or
Speaker 5: a bear when you're walking through the woods, And most
Speaker 5: women said bear, which is just the craziest, dumbest thing I.
Speaker 2: Can possibly imagine, having had my beer experience.
Speaker 5: But anyway, at this campground more than usual because I've
Speaker 5: been there before, they had signs everywhere bear activity. We've
Speaker 5: had bears in the campground a lot lately, So no
Speaker 5: food around, lock it in your car.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah, watch out for bears.
Speaker 5: And again, because I just I treat them like lightning strikes,
Speaker 5: I just didn't think about it much other than following
Speaker 5: those guidelines because I know that's just a smart thing
Speaker 5: to do, and I did. As I was going to
Speaker 5: bed on Saturday night, I remembered I had a bag
Speaker 5: of bacon in my backpack.
Speaker 2: In the tent, and I thought, oh, that's a horrible idea.
Speaker 5: As I was going to sleep, so like ten thirty
Speaker 5: at night, I get up and I grab my backpack
Speaker 5: with bacon in it and go put it inside my
Speaker 5: truck and close the door.
Speaker 2: Any who. Apparently there had been enough food in the cooler.
Speaker 5: I'd taken everything out of the cooler and it was
Speaker 5: full of ice and everything like that. This big, really big,
Speaker 5: like too long and heavy for one person to carry
Speaker 5: cooler had it sitting right next to the tent. Apparently
Speaker 5: it's still smelled like metware. I'm sound asleep. It's a
Speaker 5: four o'clock in the morning. I'm sound asleep, Henry, sound asleep.
Speaker 5: And I was kind of having that thing where I
Speaker 5: think the noise I'm hearing is a dream.
Speaker 2: So I didn't really make anything.
Speaker 5: Just bang bang bang bang bang really loud. And then
Speaker 5: I realized, wait a second, that's right next to us,
Speaker 5: and what is going on? And bang bang I really
Speaker 5: holy crap, that is like up against the tent, bang bang,
Speaker 5: bang bang, And I just immediately thought, that's got to
Speaker 5: be a bear trying to get into the cooler, and
Speaker 5: that is what it was. I did not stick my
Speaker 5: head outside, but I woke up. Henry said, Henry, there's
Speaker 5: a bear.
Speaker 2: What are we supposed to do?
Speaker 5: Because we had talked about bears and he's a boy scout,
Speaker 5: and it was what is this saying it's black, make
Speaker 5: a racket, brown, lay down, and white say good night?
Speaker 6: Those are the rules for bears. Wow, no need to
Speaker 6: bring race into this. That was problematic.
Speaker 5: But anyway, we start screaming and yelling and clapping our
Speaker 5: hands and everything like that, and then eventually was quiet.
Speaker 5: I stick my head out and the bear had up
Speaker 5: ended the campsite and everything like that and taken off,
Speaker 5: and neither one of us were going to go back
Speaker 5: to sleep, so we packed up everything and left at
Speaker 5: four thirty in the morning. But I couldn't sleep after
Speaker 5: having a bear like two feet from my head.
Speaker 1: Were the bears who you thought they were?
Speaker 2: They were? I believe, yes.
Speaker 5: And we got a lot more about free speech and
Speaker 5: whatnot in hour three.
Speaker 2: I hope you can stick around read on
Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty