Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty and he.
Speaker 2: Armsrong, Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty with special guests today the Menendez Brothers.
Speaker 2: Guys. Hi, I'm Kyle, I'm Eric. That could be soon.
Speaker 2: More on that later live from the studio.
Speaker 3: C Season your a Dimmy litt room deep within the
Speaker 3: bowels the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're
Speaker 3: under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 4: Speaking of those being liberated, Pete Rose and shoele Us,
Speaker 4: Joe Jackson.
Speaker 2: Those are baseball players.
Speaker 4: Yes, both of them are playing in the Big League
Speaker 4: in the sky right now, Jack, there was God. But
Speaker 4: both have been reinstated, unbanned. Well, they're banned for life.
Speaker 4: I guess now they're dead and they're unbanned.
Speaker 3: A couple old bad guys might have been reinstated in baseball, Okay,
Speaker 3: including probably the greatest hitter of all time. I'll adjust
Speaker 3: my day accordingly, Yes, as quickly as I can.
Speaker 4: Yes, just as the late is justice enough. I don't
Speaker 4: even know what lesson is here.
Speaker 2: You got to be our age or older to like
Speaker 2: have really watched Pete Rose in his prime. So I
Speaker 2: don't know how many how much helling.
Speaker 4: I got to be Joe Biden's age or older to
Speaker 4: have watched old shoelace show.
Speaker 3: Right, he swrought the horse hide around the yard. Yes,
Speaker 3: so there you go with that. Yes, and then special guests.
Speaker 4: Would you rather have Pete Rose show up outside your
Speaker 4: house at night or the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 3: I was always a Pete Rose should be in the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame guy. Always, yeah, always, always have a
Speaker 3: little plaque explained in the gambling. It's stupid to have
Speaker 3: a Hall of Fame that says this is where the
Speaker 3: best baseball players are, but not the guy who is
Speaker 3: actually the best at like the main thing of the game,
Speaker 3: hitting it so hitting the ball. So but we don't
Speaker 3: have him in here because the complicated.
Speaker 2: That's just dumb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I understand the reasoning. I just I don't end
Speaker 4: up at the same place.
Speaker 3: And they do think it's different than the like if
Speaker 3: you don't have Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: because then his records were affected by what he did,
Speaker 3: but Pete Rose's records.
Speaker 2: Were not affected by what he did. Uh, that's a
Speaker 2: good point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the induction ceremony would have been a little weird,
Speaker 4: you know, having been banned for life for gambling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, poor guy. I wish Pete would have gotten
Speaker 3: that before he died.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he was. He was an incredibly flawed
Speaker 4: human being. He had a screw loose. He's like a
Speaker 4: lot of the best athletes of all time in their sports,
Speaker 4: there are only half wame.
Speaker 2: He was a gambler.
Speaker 3: He was not a pedophile, he wasn't a wife beat her.
Speaker 3: I mean we put up with so much in wait, no, no, no, See,
Speaker 3: this is where your non sports.
Speaker 4: Status is showing itself. Even though you're a sports fan.
Speaker 4: You can't gamble on your sport that that would ruin
Speaker 4: it for all the time.
Speaker 2: I completely get that. I have one hundred percent get that.
Speaker 3: But but having me hatred for him, Like I mean,
Speaker 3: we put up with so much with athletes in sports
Speaker 3: that do horrible, horrible things. Now, I'll go out to
Speaker 3: eat with a gambler any night. I will not go
Speaker 3: out to eat with the guy who beats up his girlfriends.
Speaker 4: Now, you're missing the point completely. You can you can
Speaker 4: have half the league beat up their girlfriend and that
Speaker 4: would be horrifying, but it wouldn't affect the games.
Speaker 3: I think you're missing my point completely. You said it'd
Speaker 3: be an uncomfortable Hall of Fame ceremony. I think everybody
Speaker 3: would have stood in chair because I liked the guy
Speaker 3: and he was a great hitter, and you shouldn't gamble,
Speaker 3: and you gotta be kicked out of the sport for that.
Speaker 3: I get it. But in terms of like it be
Speaker 3: young comfortable to be around him, no way.
Speaker 2: Not uncomfortable at all. I give up write your.
Speaker 3: Emails now, somebody who cheats in the sport that affects
Speaker 3: the actual playing, like Barry Bonds did.
Speaker 2: What what the heck is that you can't have him
Speaker 2: in the Hall of It?
Speaker 4: Is he in the least gambling is so bad because
Speaker 4: that inevitably leads to that it is a fatal illness?
Speaker 3: Well, clearly I won. Because he is now in the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame and been reinstated in baseball. I say
Speaker 3: dig up his bones and reban them. Every thought it.
Speaker 2: Pete Rose's bones. You're now rebaded a man for all
Speaker 2: of it's here is he?
Speaker 3: And then somebody and then somebody would set up his
Speaker 3: bones at a card table out of casino, have his
Speaker 3: bones signing Baseball's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 4: A shot you could pose with the bones he Bucks's
Speaker 4: shot exactly for some sort of AI voice, exactly, keep
Speaker 4: the line moving, Keep the line moving, exactly.
Speaker 3: You have an AI voice that could even say your name. Hi,
Speaker 3: it's Pete Rose, what is your name? Nice to meet you, Jack, right,
Speaker 3: thanks for supporting me in.
Speaker 4: My AI robots signs the pic and you move on exactly.
Speaker 2: That might be actually happening soon.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: I've been to the sphere where they got that robot
Speaker 3: out there that interviews you and talks to you and
Speaker 3: everything like that, and it's creepy.
Speaker 2: It asks your name and starts having a discussion with
Speaker 2: you and everything.
Speaker 3: Like do that with celebrities, but you got the video
Speaker 3: of them, like a hologram of them or whatever, and
Speaker 3: they're they're talking to you and.
Speaker 2: Have a conversation. People would do that post for pictures
Speaker 2: and whatnot if it's realistic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're having a laugh with your old buddy, you know,
Speaker 4: Tom Cruise whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pathetic, but yes, people would do that.
Speaker 3: I just somehow I missed this story yesterday and I
Speaker 3: had to look it up. To make sure it was true.
Speaker 3: David Ignatius of the Washington Post, the big foreign policy correspondent,
Speaker 3: said yesterday on MSNBC, of course it's got no coverage
Speaker 3: because they hated it so much. Trump is definitely in
Speaker 3: the discussion for Nobel Peace Prize with what he's doing
Speaker 3: in the Middle East, right.
Speaker 2: To the horror of the MSNBC crowd. Apparently wow, wow,
Speaker 2: Well they're dopes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And and interestingly enough, I've been pawing through email
Speaker 4: to get mail bag ready and just the show in general.
Speaker 4: And uh, there are a couple of really interesting theories,
Speaker 4: kind of frameworks that folks suggested to use to look
Speaker 4: at the frenetic and somewhat chaotic activity of Trump two
Speaker 4: so far, some.
Speaker 2: Very critical, some very positive.
Speaker 4: And I think it's useful and interesting because the way
Speaker 4: he conducts, you know, the duties of the office are
Speaker 4: very very different, is very very different than what we've
Speaker 4: seen before. And some of it is off putting, but
Speaker 4: then you come around and you see, ah, now I
Speaker 4: see what he's doing.
Speaker 2: Some of it might just be off putting, but we
Speaker 2: will discuss.
Speaker 3: So he gave a speech just like forty five minutes long,
Speaker 3: and I read one segment of it and thought, wow,
Speaker 3: how have an I had already heard this today because
Speaker 3: he gave the speech in the morning and I hadn't
Speaker 3: heard much about the speech throughout the day. Then I
Speaker 3: was reading my favorite political newsletter from Mark Alperrin today saying,
Speaker 3: this is one of the most extraordinary foreign policy speeches
Speaker 3: any president is given in a half a century, and
Speaker 3: it got zero news coverage. So we'll read a little
Speaker 3: bit from that later. I mean as a complete redoing
Speaker 3: of US foreign policy in the way that we will
Speaker 3: look at the world and very critical at previous administrations,
Speaker 3: particularly Republican administrations. So you'd think from that standpoint it
Speaker 3: would get a lot of coverage. But I don't think
Speaker 3: the media takes Trump seriously at all with any of
Speaker 3: his policy stuff.
Speaker 4: Right, Both the positive stuff and the negative stuff are
Speaker 4: so personality based. You forget he's conducting the duties of
Speaker 4: the president of the United States.
Speaker 2: To be present for another three and a half years, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I heard a couple of specifics from
Speaker 4: the speech that were interesting, but not what you're referring to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's some pretty big stuff, and I think
Speaker 3: a lot of you will agree with it on the whole.
Speaker 3: You know, we went around the world starting wars and
Speaker 3: causing trouble. It's pretty damned interesting. So we'll get to
Speaker 3: that stuff a little bit later. We should start the
Speaker 3: show officially now that Pete Rose is back in baseball.
Speaker 3: I just, I don't know, I feel lighter somehow, I
Speaker 3: feel like so.
Speaker 2: I get the digger to the cemetery.
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Speaker 6: I don't see much sense and putting me on the
Speaker 6: ballot after I die. Most of the people who root
Speaker 6: it for me my whole career would love to see
Speaker 6: me in the Hall of Fame as a living player,
Speaker 6: not as someone is ten feet under.
Speaker 4: No, it's a great whacker of baseball's there pre mortem.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he also struck me as one of those guys
Speaker 3: that never really had anything else after sports that mattered
Speaker 3: a whole lot to him, which would be a kind
Speaker 3: of a sad way to go through life because your
Speaker 3: heyday ended at forty.
Speaker 2: Which is not the best thing for a eighty year old,
Speaker 2: right right.
Speaker 4: There are plenty of human beings, many of them in sports,
Speaker 4: who became what they were, like the best ever or
Speaker 4: in that top top, top, top tier, because they were
Speaker 4: so obsessed and so unhealthy in a way that they
Speaker 4: dedicated everything they had to it and.
Speaker 2: Couldn't leave it behind. It's a bittersweet. So was he
Speaker 2: a gambling addict? Is that what his thing was?
Speaker 3: How did he was a competition addict? I think how
Speaker 3: did he end up betting on baseball? Was it just
Speaker 3: did he finally get to the point that the only
Speaker 3: way it could be exciting enough is if his own
Speaker 3: team was involved in a bet?
Speaker 2: I wonder. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I've just read about gambling addicts, mostly through Norm MacDonald,
Speaker 3: the comedian who has lost everything he had three times
Speaker 3: as a gambling addict, that it's it's all about the risk.
Speaker 3: It's not even the winning, it's the risk and the
Speaker 3: danger is what. And I wonder if Pete Rose just
Speaker 3: it got to the point where the only way I
Speaker 3: could have any juice is if I was so close
Speaker 3: to what the you know, just the ultimate wrong thing
Speaker 3: to do because it's it's it's it's some sort of
Speaker 3: negative energy. Yeah, you know, getting it, getting to the
Speaker 3: edge of losing everything you have. It's some sort of
Speaker 3: like negatives. You know, if you believe in good and evil,
Speaker 3: evil poll on you. Because there's no reason no, I don't.
Speaker 3: I do not get a charge out of having everything
Speaker 3: I've got that I've built on the edge of losing
Speaker 3: it today.
Speaker 2: That would not make me excited in a good way.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking at the other side of the coin.
Speaker 4: It's the ultimate adrenaline rush. It's do or die. He
Speaker 4: he was addicted to the feeling of do or die,
Speaker 4: whether it was in the batter's box or gambling. That
Speaker 4: was the only thing that could get his attention. I
Speaker 4: think was the ultimate challenge.
Speaker 2: It's got to be horrible. I've known people like that that.
Speaker 3: I mean, you've got that pull to just lay it
Speaker 3: out there all the time, the do or die thing.
Speaker 3: And the problem is, you know, if you're you have
Speaker 3: to lose sometimes for it to be real. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's got to be the possibility that it can go
Speaker 3: the other direction.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4: A good friend who in dealing with some addiction problems,
Speaker 4: came to realize that his comfort zone was conflict and
Speaker 4: that he was causing conflict in his life out of
Speaker 4: like habit and upbringing that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And Pete's I think.
Speaker 4: His comfort zone is it's zero and two with the
Speaker 4: basis jammed, and he's in the batter's box.
Speaker 3: Everybody's looking at you. It's all on you, it's all
Speaker 3: on you, and he needed that after he quit playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I suspect, so yeah.
Speaker 2: How does uh? So?
Speaker 3: We got Katie's headlines, We've got mail bag later. Mark
Speaker 3: Halprin and Jake Tapper are never going to be friends
Speaker 3: after yesterday. Mark Alprin did an episode of a show
Speaker 3: last night where he took a part Jake Tapper in
Speaker 3: this book that's coming out.
Speaker 2: Good because then it's a weasel on a DV and
Speaker 2: I used to respect him.
Speaker 3: And it's horrified that the mainstream media continues to pretend
Speaker 3: that they didn't know Joe Biden's brain didn't work. And
Speaker 3: it's pretty damned interesting. I watched I watched a lot
Speaker 3: of it last night, and we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: To our text line is four one, five two nine
Speaker 3: five KFDC.
Speaker 2: How about.
Speaker 3: I'm not stealing a headline here. I just saw this.
Speaker 3: Katie Trump given cyber truck motorcade through Katar after he
Speaker 3: got his fighter jet escort.
Speaker 2: For the plane. Wonder he isn't cyber trucks for the
Speaker 2: motorcade and Katar.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 2: No, is that a nod to Elon or something.
Speaker 4: It's kind of got a futuristic vibe that fits the
Speaker 4: new Middle East where they're building everything as fast as
Speaker 4: a can and everything looks like a spaceport from the movies.
Speaker 2: They have them all wrapped in a bright red that
Speaker 2: looks pretty cool.
Speaker 4: My favorite headline of the day, hog makes Democrats squeal.
Speaker 4: Activist David Hogg really really making some waves in DNC circles.
Speaker 2: I hate to see that all sorts of he's an
Speaker 2: annoying kid.
Speaker 3: Boys, he's one of the most annoying human beings to
Speaker 3: come on the scene in a very long time. And
Speaker 3: he gets the cover of you know, he was a
Speaker 3: kid at a mass shooting, but he's still an annoying
Speaker 3: human being, right.
Speaker 2: Came en to that?
Speaker 4: All right, lot to talk about. Let's figure out who's
Speaker 4: reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 7: Katie starting with ABC Cassy Ventura to return to witness stand.
Speaker 4: Today, looking forward to a Diddy trial update a little
Speaker 4: bit later on Katie is a you know, testimony unfolds.
Speaker 3: Do we know if it's more for the I don't
Speaker 3: know how trials work. Is it more for the prosecution?
Speaker 3: Or when does she get cross examined? Then they try
Speaker 3: to make her look like a gold digging crazy woman.
Speaker 4: When the prosecution's done whenever? That is so days, I
Speaker 4: don't know, I haven't.
Speaker 3: Okay, but that how'd you like to have to take
Speaker 3: that on? With the video out there and she's eight
Speaker 3: months pregnant, you're going to try to tear her apart
Speaker 3: in front of the jury.
Speaker 4: Good luck with that, Yeah, tread carefully, young Attorney USA.
Speaker 7: Today, Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment as Trump visits the region.
Speaker 5: Oh, got a great example of one of those the
Speaker 5: mainstream media talking about Israel Israel's attempt to strike on
Speaker 5: a Hamas later yesterday, but they bombed a hospital another
Speaker 5: one of those stories.
Speaker 4: Oh, for goodness sakes place, there are a couple of
Speaker 4: really notable Israel saying, wait, what moments during this Middle
Speaker 4: Eastern trip and they forgiving the sanctions on Syria and
Speaker 4: embracing shaking hands with the new Islamist former al Qaeda.
Speaker 3: I even I even heard some speculation that the whole
Speaker 3: taking the plane from the Kataris is the shiny object
Speaker 3: to talk about. So you're not talking about the fact
Speaker 3: that Trump's really ignoring Israel on this trip.
Speaker 1: Mmm.
Speaker 2: I don't think the plane thing's gonna happen. By the way,
Speaker 2: more on that later.
Speaker 3: Well, if it's a distraction, that wasn't the point. The
Speaker 3: point was not talk about. It Israe.
Speaker 7: From Reuters China's AI powered humanoid robots to transform manufacturing.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't start swinging its arms and take your
Speaker 2: eyes out.
Speaker 7: No, but they're talking about a factory full of humanoid
Speaker 7: robots folding T shirts.
Speaker 3: And making sandwiches, swinging their arms around like this, Katie,
Speaker 3: right right in the face.
Speaker 2: Take your eye. We're not gonna take your eye out.
Speaker 2: They're gonna take your economy out.
Speaker 4: You fool.
Speaker 2: Wake up from Newsweek.
Speaker 7: Saudi Arabia rolls out custom mobile McDonald's for Trump visits.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. This was hilarious.
Speaker 7: It was just like a trailer McDonald's on the back
Speaker 7: of a semi just in case.
Speaker 2: He wanted a big mac That is pretty funny. So
Speaker 2: they got no mcdee's there in Saudi Was it cammel?
Speaker 4: Don jeez?
Speaker 3: I think I know that they do have a McDonald's
Speaker 3: in Saudi Arabia because my brother said when he stood
Speaker 3: in line at the McDonald's there was a line for
Speaker 3: the men and a line for the women. You couldn't
Speaker 3: separate lines at the McDonald's.
Speaker 2: This is a BYO Mickey d situation. Yeah.
Speaker 7: From the Hill, Americans embracing road trips for upcoming Memorial
Speaker 7: Day weekend, citing flight uncertainty.
Speaker 4: Yeah, even when the flights go well, it's a pain lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: From the Wall Street journal women are drinking more and
Speaker 7: doctors are worried.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to talk about that later on.
Speaker 4: The numbers are actually quite surprising, quite shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks a lot. Men, you're the reason we're driving
Speaker 2: women to drink. Hen't surprised me. I certainly have.
Speaker 7: And finally the Babylon Bee Jake Tapper uncovered startling evidence
Speaker 7: that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This this is an interesting development intro media and
Speaker 3: then for between the media and the public. We'll talk
Speaker 3: more about later. It's about time the book comes out
Speaker 3: next week. His his promotion tour could be pretty rough,
Speaker 3: armstrong and getty. So next week your book comes out,
Speaker 3: that's going to get a ton of attention.
Speaker 2: It's already getting a lot of pre attention. It's called
Speaker 2: original Sin.
Speaker 3: It'spite Jake Tapper the biggest star on CNN, and that's
Speaker 3: in finger quotes because CNN has such low ratings.
Speaker 2: Being the biggest star in CNN, it's not exactly that
Speaker 2: a big deal.
Speaker 3: They brought Jake Tapper over to try to, you know,
Speaker 3: get the network more competitive.
Speaker 2: They thought bringing him over would be a big get
Speaker 2: and he is a.
Speaker 4: Big name and the respected journalist, journal partisan hack is it.
Speaker 2: And his book comes out next week.
Speaker 3: It's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson who was with Political
Speaker 3: is now with Axios or the other way around, doesn't
Speaker 3: make any difference. And uh, a couple of things on that.
Speaker 3: He's going to be doing a big promotional tour.
Speaker 2: On this.
Speaker 3: I'm sure we could get him on the air. I'm
Speaker 3: tempted to want him to get him on the air
Speaker 3: and then have a not like what's that we you
Speaker 3: like lay in wait, ambush, not like it. That's what
Speaker 3: I was planning on, Not like an ambush, but more
Speaker 3: of a because I don't know why. I've always liked
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper. I used to he built a lot of
Speaker 3: credibility with me over many many years when he used
Speaker 3: to be on Imus's Show and everything like that. But
Speaker 3: this one confuses me, and so I think there's something.
Speaker 3: I think there's something going on that's more than just
Speaker 3: you're a lib hack trying to get your guy elected.
Speaker 2: I think I think there's some sort of more complicated.
Speaker 3: We could all we can all be misled by our
Speaker 3: our you know, our wishes being the father of our
Speaker 3: thoughts or something that I don't know.
Speaker 2: The culture that surrounds us.
Speaker 3: The culture that surrounds us who we hang out with,
Speaker 3: or something like that where he got Jake Tapper, if
Speaker 3: you believe him, actually didn't see the cognitive decline of
Speaker 3: Joe Biden, and really nobody else did either, because the
Speaker 3: White House did such a good job of covering it.
Speaker 4: Up, which so obviously laughable if you're not picking up
Speaker 4: on the sarcut right.
Speaker 3: So there's been a fair amount of mockery of that
Speaker 3: whole thing leading up to the book coming up coming
Speaker 3: out next week, and I think the publisher is panicking,
Speaker 3: so they yesterday or over the weekend put out a
Speaker 3: sizzle to promote the book. Maybe we'll play that later also,
Speaker 3: And it's got a whole bunch of clips. Jake has
Speaker 3: been playing this on his show, a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: clips of Jake Tapper showing how hard he was on
Speaker 3: the Biden administration and how he did ask the tough
Speaker 3: questions and everybody's misremembering his role in this. And it's
Speaker 3: got edit after edit after edit of Jake Tapper saying
Speaker 3: what about two thirds of voters who don't believe the
Speaker 3: president could serve another term? Or blah blah blah blah
Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah blah. Mark Halprin, who is my
Speaker 3: favorite part political journalist, was incensed by that sizzlereel that
Speaker 3: could got put out over the weekend, and he and
Speaker 3: his team yesterday took it upon themselves.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how much time this took.
Speaker 3: They went back through every single clip and did a
Speaker 3: longer version of it in context to show how incredibly
Speaker 3: softly Jake, if at all Jake Tapper was pushing back
Speaker 3: in any of these inuations. Why editing fest. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: like a half hour rebuttal to that, in which in
Speaker 3: uh Mark Hauprin's angle is not to boost Trump. His
Speaker 3: concern is, as I think a legitimate honest journalist, his
Speaker 3: concern is he says, Trump's doing all kinds of things
Speaker 3: right now that I think should be scrutinized heavily by
Speaker 3: the media. But the media has no halft anymore because
Speaker 3: nobody believed them because they lied about all that stuff
Speaker 3: under Biden, so they couldn't They didn't hold Biden accountable,
Speaker 3: and now they can't hold Trump accountable. And we don't
Speaker 3: have a press that can hold any president accountable anymore.
Speaker 2: And that is a problem.
Speaker 4: And let's not forget that the whole just ludicrous Biden
Speaker 4: is sharp thing followed directly on the heels of the
Speaker 4: Russian collusion hoax. And so the impression formed in the
Speaker 4: center and right that the press would print anything leaked
Speaker 4: to them by Adam Schiff, no matter how many times
Speaker 4: Shift clearly lied and so they were utterly undependable as
Speaker 4: arbiters of truth, was then just completely reinforced by the
Speaker 4: Biden stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, We're.
Speaker 4: At the therapist because you had an affair, and then
Speaker 4: I go out and realize you're having sex with the
Speaker 4: therapist while I'm in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're done here.
Speaker 3: So, like I said earlier, I don't think Mark Alprin
Speaker 3: and Jake Tapper are ever going to be friends after this.
Speaker 3: I mean, because it was a pretty brutal takedown of
Speaker 3: all of Jake Tapper's soft pushbacks.
Speaker 2: But this is from yesterday.
Speaker 3: Jake Tapper's already started making the rounds in friendly media
Speaker 3: talking about the book and how he tried to hold
Speaker 3: the Biden White House accountable out accountable, but they were
Speaker 3: just too good at lying and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3: This is from Mark Alpern's show last night. We'll just
Speaker 3: play a little bit of it.
Speaker 8: So Jake Tapper his book coming out in a week.
Speaker 8: Here he is this more warning on CNN, creating a
Speaker 8: whole new set of realities.
Speaker 2: Watch this.
Speaker 9: You have an entire White House press corps though, following
Speaker 9: him around, and I'm just curious as to whether or
Speaker 9: not this kind of trying to hide what was happening
Speaker 9: with the President at the time had an impact on
Speaker 9: the press corps, Like why didn't we hear some of
Speaker 9: these details from what they actually saw and were dealing
Speaker 9: with trying to get information.
Speaker 10: Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as
Speaker 10: were lots of other reporters trying to figure out what
Speaker 10: was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line
Speaker 10: is the White House was lying not only to the press,
Speaker 10: not only to the public, but they were lying to
Speaker 10: members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White
Speaker 10: House staffers, they were lying to Democratic members of Congress,
Speaker 10: to donors about how.
Speaker 2: Bad things had gotten.
Speaker 10: And in fact, Alex and I started writing this book
Speaker 10: after the election of twenty twenty four, and we spoke
Speaker 10: with more than two hundred people, most of whom, almost
Speaker 10: all of whom were Democrats, and almost all of whom
Speaker 10: wouldn't be honest with us or wouldn't be candid with
Speaker 10: us until after the election. And then after the election
Speaker 10: we found out all of these things that when you
Speaker 10: looked at what was going on with President Biden at
Speaker 10: the time, it probably doesn't surprise you.
Speaker 2: The extent to which he was deteriorating.
Speaker 10: But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was
Speaker 10: really going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats
Speaker 10: wouldn't share with us until after election day.
Speaker 8: All right, again, amazing true. Here's something true that he
Speaker 8: said that Jake Capper said on CNN this morning. True
Speaker 8: that there was a cover up, that senior Biden officials
Speaker 8: worked very hard to cover up as much as they
Speaker 8: could his decline, including amongst other people in the government
Speaker 8: and in the campaign.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 8: Here's two things that are not true, okay, And this
Speaker 8: is where the credibility is this so important that people
Speaker 8: be honest.
Speaker 2: I shouldn't be the.
Speaker 8: Only one in the media being honest about this. It's bizarre, okay.
Speaker 8: One thing that's not true is that you needed that
Speaker 8: the cover up was so good that no one could
Speaker 8: see this, that we couldn't possibly have gotten to the
Speaker 8: bottom of this during the election.
Speaker 2: Again, it makes me mental. It was clear.
Speaker 3: Halpern does like forty five minutes on this clip by clip.
Speaker 3: It makes me mental. How can you possibly claim this?
Speaker 3: And that's why I'd like to have jac on and
Speaker 3: ask him that, seriously, what do you think is going on?
Speaker 3: Do you think it's just pure hackery? I think it's
Speaker 3: some more complicated human emotion thing or something which should
Speaker 3: scare all of us. Yeah, I could believe pure hackery.
Speaker 4: I mean because they get away with I mean, if
Speaker 4: you're broadcasting too or part of a ideological media bubble,
Speaker 4: you get away with saying ridiculous things and nobody ever
Speaker 4: challenges you on them.
Speaker 2: So I could picture getting bolder and bolder in your hackery.
Speaker 4: Yes, At the same time, well, I would have loved
Speaker 4: to have us examined him after that question, because again,
Speaker 4: the great lie of it, and this is getting to
Speaker 4: your question, the great ridiculous lie of it, and don't
Speaker 4: bs a BS or I could see his BS work
Speaker 4: and well, yeah, I talked to you two hundred people
Speaker 4: who were privated behind the scenes blah blah blah to
Speaker 4: only be honest after the election, Jake. The word literally
Speaker 4: is overused these days, but literally everyone saw it. Guess
Speaker 4: how many people I talked to her be behind the
Speaker 4: scenes in the White House?
Speaker 2: Zero zero. And I knew it as clearly as I
Speaker 2: know my own name, Jake.
Speaker 3: Your inability to divine what was obvious to the rest
Speaker 3: of America, Now that's an interesting stone, right, Biden's old
Speaker 3: in decrepit? Yeah, we know it is. It is stunning.
Speaker 3: I'm hoping and Mark Alpert is clear, hoping that Jake
Speaker 3: Tapper doesn't get away with doing a kind of routine
Speaker 3: book tour where he does, you know, sixty minutes and
Speaker 3: every channel and every radio show and every newspaper outlet,
Speaker 3: and they all talk about it. I'm looking at the
Speaker 3: New York Times, their their promotion that came out over
Speaker 3: the weekend, or their review of the book a damning
Speaker 3: portrait of an enfeeble Biden protected by his inner circle,
Speaker 3: and act like it's not insane, right that the authors are.
Speaker 2: Trying to get away with here's what we've uncovered.
Speaker 3: Everybody knew it, everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 2: But you mean, how interesting? This is so crazy?
Speaker 4: Well, and it's like some sort of weird second layer
Speaker 4: of the Emperor having new clothes, because now you have
Speaker 4: the New York Times and other enablers acting as if
Speaker 4: Tapper's book is actually an amazing set of revelations.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, surely this isn't gonna work.
Speaker 3: I mean, if I don't care if you are a
Speaker 3: progressive or a conservative, we cannot function as a society.
Speaker 3: If this is the level of credibility we have with
Speaker 3: our media. I mean, that's it's true. Your question is
Speaker 3: the right question. Okay, Jake, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: What you thought.
Speaker 3: Why do you think eighty percent of Americans figured out
Speaker 3: the president wasn't capably being president before you and your
Speaker 3: fellow journalist did. Having no inside right, with no inside information,
Speaker 3: all we've got is what we watch on TV.
Speaker 2: Right, isn't that interesting? Carefully carefully hidden president? No less right?
Speaker 4: Right to another point, it was still certainly obvious to everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Run your game, not somebody else's game. Your game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just wonder if it's only gonna be in
Speaker 3: like right wing circles and mark Alprin where there's a
Speaker 3: lot of the Taking a look at Jake Tapper's past
Speaker 3: coverage of Biden's decline as this book comes out.
Speaker 2: He shouldn't be able to get away with this.
Speaker 3: He shouldn't get away with this even among the mainstream
Speaker 3: or we're dooned. I mean, the ship has so sailed,
Speaker 3: it's over the horizon.
Speaker 2: Oh right, But they're not going to.
Speaker 4: Accuse him of the very sin they committed with equal egregiousness.
Speaker 4: In fact, I could argue that you know CNN, for
Speaker 4: you know, ask somebody not forty plus about CNN, they're
Speaker 4: being like, I've heard of that. I think it may
Speaker 4: be on an airports. Its significance is overstated these days.
Speaker 4: Having said that, the New York Times being one hundred
Speaker 4: percent complicent and they're a far more significant media presence
Speaker 4: on Earth than CNN is. So no, they're not gonna say, hey, Jake,
Speaker 4: everybody knew this, what kind of joke is this?
Speaker 2: And it is a joke.
Speaker 3: Well, what I'd like to see is like when they do,
Speaker 3: you know, he'll probably do interviews in front of crowds
Speaker 3: where the crowd is just like, Oh, you gotta be kidding, Oh,
Speaker 3: come on. I would like to see that sort of
Speaker 3: reaction because it's that level of ridiculous. Like Albert said,
Speaker 3: it makes me mental thinking about it. You're not gonna
Speaker 3: actually pretend this, are you? Are you gonna get paid
Speaker 3: millions of dollars to go around now and act like
Speaker 3: you uncovered something that eight out of ten Americans figured
Speaker 3: out on their own without your sources.
Speaker 2: Here's one of the go to phrases.
Speaker 4: Now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really
Speaker 4: going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats wouldn't
Speaker 4: share with us.
Speaker 2: Until after election day.
Speaker 3: The first nugget I hear that's even slightly surprising.
Speaker 2: I'll let you know I haven't heard one yet. That's
Speaker 2: even slightly surprising. Way to be a punchline.
Speaker 3: Jake and everybody else that played along with it. It's amazing.
Speaker 3: Mail bag. That's a good idea mail bag on the way.
Speaker 2: Next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this as well, but this texture gaslighting once is
Speaker 3: annoying and frustrating. Gaslighting about the gas lighting is unforgivable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're gaslighting about the gas lighting. Yeah yeah, well,
Speaker 2: uh again.
Speaker 4: Jake Tapper and his book are most punchline and I
Speaker 4: think that is appropriate and I love it. Here's your
Speaker 4: freedom loving quote of the day. This is an all
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Speaker 4: to prison.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 4: You're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The
Speaker 4: only thing lacking is freedom.
Speaker 2: Good one.
Speaker 4: As the budget negotiations get closer and closer to the
Speaker 4: Republicans becoming Democrats and the welfare state growing and growing
Speaker 4: and growing, and no meaningful spending cuts.
Speaker 2: Got some interesting stuff on that coming up.
Speaker 4: Kind of takes the fun out of the next election.
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Speaker 4: Jose says a long time of Trump is a carnival barker,
Speaker 4: mister Hype.
Speaker 2: We all know the type.
Speaker 4: Watching him in an interview today on his plane, it
Speaker 4: dawned on me that this tear things set up a
Speaker 4: door to door campaign with each country to sell them
Speaker 4: American stuff, then incentivize them to invest in America. Then
Speaker 4: we'll keep buying plenty of stuff from them. He's America's salesman.
Speaker 4: He'll get you to buy something from the catalog. More
Speaker 4: analysis on that coming up from various smart people. The
Speaker 4: worst place for a tattoo ever really charming Tail Todd
Speaker 4: in San Diego, Oh. He was visiting Charlotte on business.
Speaker 4: Went to a burrito place. A fellow beyond the counter
Speaker 4: was a big, pasty dude with a close haircut who
Speaker 4: gave off an escape to mental patient vibe. After I ordered,
Speaker 4: I noticed one side of his neck a tattoo of
Speaker 4: religious icon common in southern California. Mexican culture, complimented him. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I've got to summarize this, he At one point, he
Speaker 4: opened his mouth, lifted his tongue, and showed on the
Speaker 4: other underside of his tongue a simple but recognizable smiley
Speaker 4: face in blue ink, which he did himself.
Speaker 2: He got a smiley face under his tongue.
Speaker 4: That's correct, did it myself, he said, then continued, that's
Speaker 4: not the worst one, though. Once I took some viagra.
Speaker 4: Oh dear god, no, I thought, And I'm trying to
Speaker 4: decide how much of this.
Speaker 2: To re's hemet.
Speaker 4: He tried to tattoo one hundred percent Irish beef on
Speaker 4: his unit.
Speaker 2: This is great.
Speaker 4: This is my favorite part, ton San diegoids. I nodded
Speaker 4: slightly in a way that I hope would communicate that
Speaker 4: I knew what his wang was, but not that I
Speaker 4: wanted to know anything more about this. But it hurts
Speaker 4: so bad, he went on. I only got to one
Speaker 4: hundred percent Irish before I had to stop. Mercifully, my
Speaker 4: burrito arrived soon after. I wonder if you ever completed
Speaker 4: his masterpiece.
Speaker 2: Tattooing yourself under your tongue. I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 2: how you would how would you see? You'd have to
Speaker 2: have a series of mirrors. Ah.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm terrible at that too, looking at myself in
Speaker 4: a mirror and realizing, okay, I need to move the
Speaker 4: clipper a little closer to my ear, and then I
Speaker 4: move it away.
Speaker 2: It's just I'm.
Speaker 4: Helpless, absolutely helpless. Let's see, we don't have a lot
Speaker 4: of time, do you. How about this great interesting thought
Speaker 4: from JT and livermore about AI and he takes into
Speaker 4: consideration that in the past, labor saving just meant we
Speaker 4: were more productive and kept working the same amount because
Speaker 4: we had the ability to become more wealthy. But he
Speaker 4: says many human jobs can be replaced by specialized machines.
Speaker 2: But many can't yet.
Speaker 4: But as soon as human form robots are smart enough
Speaker 4: and cheaper than human workers will absolutely be a sea
Speaker 4: change to our whole way of life. An additional wrinkle
Speaker 4: that also comes into play when robots become cheap, worldwide
Speaker 4: productivity is no longer.
Speaker 2: Gated by population.
Speaker 4: Imagine what a company could do if robot labor were, say,
Speaker 4: half the price of human labor. Whole new levels of
Speaker 4: production become profitable that weren't profitable using human labor. Ah,
Speaker 4: it'll get cheaper and cheaper and more and more effective
Speaker 4: like big screen TVs. That is, when the true dystopia arrives.
Speaker 4: We will become a planet of human volunteers and hobbyists
Speaker 4: because none of our actual value add to the production
Speaker 4: process will have any value.
Speaker 2: Boy, you're right.
Speaker 3: You combine AI with the robot technology we see on
Speaker 3: all the videos, and that will be a sea.
Speaker 2: Change for the planet, no doubt about it. We got
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