Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe.
Speaker 2: Getty arm Strong and Jetty and no he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2: This is what we're down to.
Speaker 3: This guy is setting up a fake range in order
Speaker 3: to get a photo op and he shoots a reporter.
Speaker 3: You look at that picture that he himself released. They
Speaker 3: are shooting ars at steel targets that are ten yards away.
Speaker 3: They had reporters standing down range. They have tannerite downrange.
Speaker 3: It's explosive. I mean if the shrapnel had instead hit
Speaker 3: the explosives, they'd all be dead.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I saw this video as a guy who shoots guns
Speaker 5: like out in the country. Sometimes you can't have people
Speaker 5: standing down there. Why you're shooting your gun? Who was
Speaker 5: this doing this?
Speaker 1: That was Josh Holly talking and that was his opponent,
Speaker 1: whose name is Lucas Kuntz, who shot a reporter accidentally
Speaker 1: during that photo.
Speaker 5: God, and you shoot somebody accidentally, I assume he's not
Speaker 5: very badly heard that would be the story. But yeah,
Speaker 5: obviously if you graized somebody, you could have very easily
Speaker 5: killed them.
Speaker 1: But from Kamala Harris to Old assistant coach Walls to
Speaker 1: Josh Holly's opponent, it's the whole look at me, totin guns.
Speaker 1: I'm a gun totin guy. Look at me. You can
Speaker 1: vote for me. It's fine. This guy shoots the.
Speaker 5: Reporter, Jamine, go stand down there and report on my photo.
Speaker 5: Op what No, right behind the target? It's a better angle.
Speaker 5: Wow wow wow.
Speaker 1: Hey you may remember it's such a good piece by
Speaker 1: Charles Fain Layman, America's disorder Problem. I think we talked
Speaker 1: about this during the One More Thing podcast a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, and it's a cousin to the arguments
Speaker 1: made by the who advocate broken the broken windows policies.
Speaker 1: Ruly to Rudy Giuliani before he went and not it's
Speaker 1: to the New York City that if you allow broken windows,
Speaker 1: you allow panhandling, h street prostitution, shoplifting. You just you're
Speaker 1: you're permitting lawlessness to grow and grow and grow, and
Speaker 1: you can reimpose order and civilization by cutting down on
Speaker 1: some of the little stuff.
Speaker 2: It helps a great deal.
Speaker 1: So anyway, Layman wrote this great piece about America's disorder
Speaker 1: problem that we discussed at fair length. So I'm not
Speaker 1: going to recite it completely. But it's everything from litter
Speaker 1: and blasting your your stereo to graffiti throw to women
Speaker 1: selling sex on the street corner, all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 1: And he also gets into the concept of dumbing down
Speaker 1: or or what was the term he used. I can't
Speaker 1: find it, lowering and lowering and lowering the bar on
Speaker 1: what is disorder? And anybody who objects to any of
Speaker 1: those behaviors that I just mentioned is a racist or
Speaker 1: a they're trying to gentrify or there or right exactly,
Speaker 1: a prude or a karen or what have you. It's
Speaker 1: a really good piece of journalism and we'll refeature an
Speaker 1: under hot links at Armstrong and getty dot com. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so I thought of that when I came across the
Speaker 1: story of this fella. Hi Remonstrat is his name. He's
Speaker 1: a former New York State senator who I think is
Speaker 1: running for office again, but he was in AOC's district,
Speaker 1: which has gone to hell by the standards we were
Speaker 1: just talking about. There are open air stolen goods markets
Speaker 1: set up. San Franciscans and Blue Staters will be familiar
Speaker 1: with this concept. Right there by the subway station, the
Speaker 1: train station. You got young folks who seem to have
Speaker 1: an enormous amount of brand new in packaged merchandise that
Speaker 1: they're selling. Funny, Meanwhile, the drug store down the street
Speaker 1: is closed or everything's locked up. You can't get in, uh,
Speaker 1: because there's so much theft. Anyway, you got that, you
Speaker 1: got hookers on the street, you got panhandling, open drug use,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. And this guy's against that, and he
Speaker 1: went to AOC's district to talk about it. We've got
Speaker 1: some tape of how that went. Michael will start with
Speaker 1: five and go from there.
Speaker 6: Alright, alright, so they're shouting down mister monstrat by chanting,
Speaker 6: more chanting, more resources, no more.
Speaker 1: Raids against any sort of law enforcement, and more handouts.
Speaker 2: Here's monster out trying to speak.
Speaker 7: We understand that there's a lot of people who have
Speaker 7: misguided youths. We're not stopping. This is all community and
Speaker 7: within a fight.
Speaker 1: Fore And that's when they started chanting and yelling, and
Speaker 1: they said the following, that's.
Speaker 7: Why you're running.
Speaker 2: It takes other people.
Speaker 7: You're never gonna get a book.
Speaker 2: Never everybody.
Speaker 1: So he's attempting to walk down the street and they're
Speaker 1: in his face screaming as loud as they can, a
Speaker 1: number of things, including sex work is work.
Speaker 5: Hot dogs are dogs? Our new t shirt at Armstrong
Speaker 5: in geddy dot com.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 1: Not a response to this, but a response to trans
Speaker 1: women are women.
Speaker 2: Tangent on dogs are dogs. It's a tangent. It just
Speaker 2: reminded me. But sex work is work. Okay, well so
Speaker 2: is making and selling math. But we decided it's illegal society, hitman.
Speaker 5: Society has decided it's illegal, and uh, we have with prostitution.
Speaker 1: Also in the dirty deeds and or clandestine operations field,
Speaker 1: they call it wet work, which is kind of gross.
Speaker 2: Josh, why did you even bring that up? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: grow up.
Speaker 1: Killing people, shooting people is called wet work, and you
Speaker 1: could easily chant wet work is work. Wet work is work.
Speaker 1: A chance is not an argument you chant in dufasis.
Speaker 5: Why did they call it wet work because people bleed?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gets gross. I didn't invent it. I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you.
Speaker 2: So the sex work is work.
Speaker 5: Thing of all the things to get enthused about and
Speaker 5: put your time behind, make sure you can street prostitution.
Speaker 1: One more clip from the Esteemed Gentleman trying to bring
Speaker 1: order to disorder.
Speaker 7: There was a lot of media. There was actually more
Speaker 7: cameras than activists, and the majority of the people they
Speaker 7: weren't even from this community. But I think what's important
Speaker 7: here is that there's obviously a lot of energy, there's anger,
Speaker 7: But the fact of the matter is this Roosevelt Avenue
Speaker 7: has been under a crime wave. It's an urban crime zone,
Speaker 7: and these police officers that we got from the city
Speaker 7: and the state troopers are incredibly necessary to just get
Speaker 7: a handle on the crime in this community, which has
Speaker 7: been unprecedented. We have more bodegas, more brothels than bodegas.
Speaker 7: We have rothels and fun of schools next to churches,
Speaker 7: twenty four hours, sex workers walking the streets freely at
Speaker 7: all hours of the day while parents are taking their
Speaker 7: kids to school.
Speaker 1: It's unacceptable, and this guy is the bad guy who
Speaker 1: gets screamed at for trying to do something about that.
Speaker 5: I haven't been to New York during the era of
Speaker 5: open prostitution that seems to be going on, so I
Speaker 5: don't know how accurate the New York Post pictures are.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm sure they go out of their way
Speaker 5: to make them seem as bad as possible, but they
Speaker 5: sure look bad. I mean they look really bad. The
Speaker 5: daytime photos of all these women stand around, you know,
Speaker 5: perfectly populated areas with stores and cars and people and
Speaker 5: everything like that, just in a way that would have
Speaker 5: never happened, not since the seventies anyway.
Speaker 1: And in this story, dudes standing around to have a
Speaker 1: curiously feminine aspect to their appearance. Anyway, I found the
Speaker 1: selection of this section of Looking for Dudes quite a
Speaker 1: few dudes. This last phenomenon, he says, a textbook example
Speaker 1: of defining deviancy down. As police forces have shrunk in
Speaker 1: the criminal justice system decayed since the Great Recession, our
Speaker 1: capacity to do something about disorder has eroded. That erosion,
Speaker 1: of course, has been helped along by political efforts to
Speaker 1: hamstring disorder enforcement. But the erosion has also engendered the
Speaker 1: attempt to define a way disorder as a problem per se.
Speaker 1: If we can't make our cities less disorderly, pretend disorder
Speaker 1: is not a problem.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that actually makes sense.
Speaker 1: As a politically, you have to be able to coming
Speaker 1: off as like some old timey englishmen. Is this civilized
Speaker 1: or is it uncivilized? That's not an unfair question to ask.
Speaker 1: Civilization is cool. It keeps you from getting killed or
Speaker 1: or afflicted with diseases running rampant in open sewers, for instance.
Speaker 2: Civilization is good wetwork.
Speaker 1: H Look, when I was young, I underwent some government testing.
Speaker 1: They found a certain moral flexibility, and I embarked on
Speaker 1: an exciting career of unpublicized work for the United States government.
Speaker 2: Here you go. That is paraphrasing one.
Speaker 1: Of my favorite speeches from a gross, point blank, a
Speaker 1: hit movie of the late eighties early nineties, John Cusack
Speaker 1: dan Aykroyd, perhaps dan Akroid's greatest film role.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I didn't know. It was terrific in it.
Speaker 2: He's a hit man, He's fantastic. Yeah. So we're twelve
Speaker 2: days out from the presidential election.
Speaker 5: We got some nuggets on that we should pass along
Speaker 5: with you, and including, once again, what is clearly beyond
Speaker 5: a doubt, the closing argument from the Harris campaign. And
Speaker 5: I my concern is that this is building up to
Speaker 5: an oppo drop that we that's really gonna shake people.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine what it would be, but I doubt
Speaker 5: we've seen their best stuff.
Speaker 2: Do you think so.
Speaker 1: Trump actually has hidden away in Trump Tower Hitler's bones
Speaker 1: and he takes them out a few times a year
Speaker 1: and Genuflex before the.
Speaker 5: Or HiT's still alive and he lives in Trump Tower.
Speaker 5: It's like, you know, the floor below the pedhouse.
Speaker 2: Wow, that would be surprising. Anyway, We got more on
Speaker 2: that real stuff, not ridiculous stuff like this, this wetwork stuff. Uh,
Speaker 2: stay tuned.
Speaker 8: No Democrat talking about a pathway to citizenship an immigration
Speaker 8: belief and that the benefits that migrants bring to this country.
Speaker 2: But there's no question that migrants bring.
Speaker 3: America is a country that was built in part by
Speaker 3: immigrant people.
Speaker 2: GPS. We're talking about mass deportations. What do you say,
Speaker 2: mat iportations? What's what's you're to stand there?
Speaker 3: We need smart, humane immigration policy in America that includes
Speaker 3: a pathway to citizenship.
Speaker 5: So that was from the Telemundo interview. And in case
Speaker 5: you didn't follow what was going on there, he was
Speaker 5: asking about all the talk of deportation and you know,
Speaker 5: all the illegals here in pathway decisions citizenship and for
Speaker 5: whatever reason her own brain or this is actually smart politics,
Speaker 5: she will not commit to any of these things.
Speaker 2: She just won't.
Speaker 5: She wouldn't just say we're not deporting people. She's afraid
Speaker 5: to say it.
Speaker 2: I guess she doesn't think she'll get elected saying that,
Speaker 2: or she won't she doesn't think she can get elected
Speaker 2: saying we are going to deport people who are illegally.
Speaker 2: But she never chooses a path, right, she just doesn't.
Speaker 2: She just has her deflecting.
Speaker 1: Kind of Well, just these broad statements of principle, and
Speaker 1: we need effective immigration, but is that reform and blah blah,
Speaker 1: that's all she has her talking point.
Speaker 5: But do you think that's her personality or is that
Speaker 5: a political strategy like created by her smart people behind her,
Speaker 5: like unfracking that she won't my values haven't changed.
Speaker 2: Well, are you for fracking up? My values haven't changed?
Speaker 5: What the F does that mean? So why doesn't she
Speaker 5: just say yes or no on all these things?
Speaker 2: She and her people, who have clearly.
Speaker 1: Come up with a and are tied to a do
Speaker 1: no harm strategy, just deflect. Just put broad, empty vessel
Speaker 1: ish principles out there that people can assume you agree
Speaker 1: with them at least to some extent.
Speaker 2: Take us to end on nothing. Well, it's not working.
Speaker 5: The Wall Street Journal pull out today nationally registered voters
Speaker 5: has Trump up by two. If Trump is up by
Speaker 5: two among registered voters, she's down by a three, right,
Speaker 5: because she has to be by three to be even.
Speaker 1: Are we assuming an underperformance or an overperformance by Trump?
Speaker 2: Again, we're assuming that things will be the polls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're assuming things will be the same as the
Speaker 5: last couple of times around in terms of well, it's
Speaker 5: similar to George Bush. And it's been this way for
Speaker 5: Republicans for a while just because of the way California is,
Speaker 5: in New York is, in a couple of other states,
Speaker 5: you have to win by about three or more as
Speaker 5: a Democrat to win the electoral college. AnyWho, So she's
Speaker 5: behind a couple of points in the electoral college. And
Speaker 5: then this is the most amazing thing. Do you have
Speaker 5: a favorable view of Trump or Harris? Her numbers are
Speaker 5: going down. Trump's are the highest they've ever been.
Speaker 2: That's extraordinary to me. That's that speaks volumes.
Speaker 5: So now, Kamala Harris, the unfavorables are up by our
Speaker 5: She's unfavorable by eight points, fifty three to forty five.
Speaker 2: Unfavorable. Trump for the first time ever has.
Speaker 5: Uh He's at fifty two fifty two approval, forty eight disapproval.
Speaker 5: He's the most popular he's ever been being, which is
Speaker 5: just I'm amazed by that.
Speaker 1: And like, in spite of continuing to be an undisciplined jerk,
Speaker 1: being very mediocre in the debate, there's I don't think
Speaker 1: there's much he's done that's that's generated higher positives. It's
Speaker 1: I think it's a reaction to the incredibly negative perception
Speaker 1: of Kamala Harris, honestly, and and people's continued discussed with
Speaker 1: the democratic machinery, including the media. They know when they're
Speaker 1: being hogged and they don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt about that. Well, I've
Speaker 2: had that reaction.
Speaker 5: I don't like a lot of the things Trump says
Speaker 5: or do, but when he's when he's treated the way
Speaker 5: he was treated in the debate, when it's you know,
Speaker 5: three on one and they fact check him and not her,
Speaker 5: and their fact checks are lies, Yeah, that pushes you
Speaker 5: into Trump's camp if you're a certain sort of person.
Speaker 5: No doubt about the Wall Street Journal said, because they
Speaker 5: dug into their polls and asking questions, voters are still
Speaker 5: very pissed about inflation, and which is not surprising. Housing
Speaker 5: sales are on track for the worst year since ninety five,
Speaker 5: so almost thirty years. That's that's that's something.
Speaker 1: Not surprised, And those two things are closely tied. You
Speaker 1: poured trillions of dollars on gasoline of gasoline rather on
Speaker 1: an already hot economic fire, which caused the sort of
Speaker 1: rampant inflation to cause the FEDS to not nudge the
Speaker 1: rates upward but raise them way high to try to
Speaker 1: cool it down. And that's absolutely key to the understanding
Speaker 1: the housing market.
Speaker 2: How much time I got, Michael, because this is pretty good.
Speaker 2: Got a minute? Thirty? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 5: A number of strategists think the best ad Trump's got
Speaker 5: running around the country. And I don't see many of
Speaker 5: these political because I don't ever watch commercials on TV.
Speaker 5: But is the one mocking Kamala for wanting to pay
Speaker 5: for trans surgeries for illegals and she hasn't clearly come
Speaker 5: out and said no to that anyway. The Washington Posts
Speaker 5: Megan McCardell, who's a conservative columnist for the WAPPA, she
Speaker 5: hates Trump, but she said, you have to be in
Speaker 5: a pretty thick political bubble not to understand that sex
Speaker 5: reassignment surgery for murderers will strike a lot of people
Speaker 5: as insane. Though it probably isn't an issue that many
Speaker 5: people vote on, it will make them wonder what other
Speaker 5: unpopular interest group agendas Harris might push forward if they
Speaker 5: give her power. And because Harris hasn't given them much
Speaker 5: sense of who she is and what she wants other
Speaker 5: than the presidency, it's hard for them to know where
Speaker 5: she'll draw the line. But that first sentence from a
Speaker 5: WAPPO reporter is pretty true. You'd have to be in
Speaker 5: a pretty thick political bubble not to understand that sex
Speaker 5: reassignment surgery for murders strikes a lot of people as insane.
Speaker 1: If my neighbor and I are considering buying a vote
Speaker 1: together and sharing it, and he casually mentions, oh, you
Speaker 1: know what I do to relax, I like to torture
Speaker 1: neighborhood cats.
Speaker 2: That's got nothing to do with the boat. But I'm
Speaker 2: not getting in.
Speaker 1: Bed with them right, actually going to do blanking crazy
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: For him to say about Project twenty five is disgraceful.
Speaker 4: They know I have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: I had no.
Speaker 4: Idea what it was. A group of people got together,
Speaker 4: they drew up some conservative values, very conservative values, and
Speaker 4: in some case perhaps they went over the line, perhaps
Speaker 4: they didn't.
Speaker 2: I have no.
Speaker 4: Idea what Project twenty five is, but they use it
Speaker 4: and they know it.
Speaker 2: I am a.
Speaker 5: Fully believe him, because if it was important, he wouldn't
Speaker 5: know about it.
Speaker 2: And it's not important.
Speaker 1: So the whole Project twenty twenty five thing. And I
Speaker 1: heard old assistant coach Walls just yesterday. I think it
Speaker 1: was telling people, I'm telling you this Project twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: He's going to monitor your mistral cycle. You're gonna go
Speaker 1: to jail if you get pregnant. I'm just just ridiculous crap.
Speaker 1: They've made it a big part of the campaign, and
Speaker 1: Trump is disavowed it, and the whole thing to me
Speaker 1: is just it's like watching a bunch of you know,
Speaker 1: people are on drugs running around doing inexplicable things.
Speaker 2: Heritage Foundation, conservative think tank. This is what think tanks do.
Speaker 1: They crank out these these massive papers, or in this case,
Speaker 1: groups of papers, nine hundred pages worth of a palette
Speaker 1: of conservative ideas from fairly mainstream conservative to kind of
Speaker 1: out there to banning porn, and I mean just all
Speaker 1: sorts of different stuff, and a fair number of the
Speaker 1: people involved in the Heritage Foundation worked with the Trump
Speaker 1: administration or Trump in one way or another. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: trust me when I say I have no I have
Speaker 1: no pony in this show. I'm just trying to understand
Speaker 1: it like you are. So anyway, the Democrats are trying
Speaker 1: to tie Trump to Project twenty twenty five. He's saying,
Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell it is. And then this,
Speaker 1: which surprised the hell out of me. This from the
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal. As Trump's allies began staffing up the
Speaker 1: Transition Team to lay the groundwork for a potential second term,
Speaker 1: they drew a line in the sand. Absolutely anyone associated
Speaker 1: with the Heritage Foundations Project twenty twenty five would be
Speaker 1: barred from working on the team. Even if a brief
Speaker 1: mention of your name in an author's note at the
Speaker 1: end of a chapter is there. That's enough to prevent
Speaker 1: you from getting a job on the transition team.
Speaker 2: We won't touch you. Which is a very strange overreaction
Speaker 2: to me.
Speaker 5: Well, I think I think you got to do that
Speaker 5: with the election still alive. I mean, after twelve days
Speaker 5: from now, if he wins, sure, but if if you
Speaker 5: had anybody even slightly tied to it, whose name came
Speaker 5: out that they were part of the team forget it?
Speaker 1: Oh you think so? You think the mainstream media would
Speaker 1: make hay? I mean, obviously they would try. Do you
Speaker 1: think it would stick at all?
Speaker 5: I can't believe it's stuck that as much as it has.
Speaker 5: I have I have neighbors who have Project twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five read it in their yards.
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 5: Tanks for different policies always come out with this sort
Speaker 5: of crap.
Speaker 2: A good job by the Democrats.
Speaker 5: It's very clever attaching it to Trump and with the
Speaker 5: help of the mainstream media getting it to stick.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's good politics, but it's just interesting.
Speaker 5: There've always been wacky liberal think tanks that I don't think.
Speaker 5: You know, Bill Clinton was necessarily going to follow their dictate,
Speaker 5: as if they get to decide what the president does.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the equivalent on the right is the
Speaker 1: various UN commissions have come out with odious plans for
Speaker 1: global government and universally enforced climate change laws that are
Speaker 1: imposed on every country around Earth regardless of the will
Speaker 1: of their people. And again, they are odious, they're horrifying,
Speaker 1: but they'll never happen. So I'm not that concerned about it.
Speaker 1: But okay, so you know what, I think, you're right.
Speaker 1: I think the moment the election's over, they'll say, well,
Speaker 1: Joe Smith at Heritage is like the world's foremost expert
Speaker 1: on municipal finance. So yes, yes, he's listed, as he's
Speaker 1: quoted in Project twenty twenty five. We're not going to
Speaker 1: be so terrified of him that we won't employ it.
Speaker 5: Right, What is this like eight hundred pages long, so
Speaker 5: it's very very large. Yeah, so you could say I
Speaker 5: don't know anything about the rest of Parjak twenty five,
Speaker 5: but I wrote the piece on getting porn out of
Speaker 5: so kids can't see it. That's my expertise, which I'm
Speaker 5: probably in favor of whatever it is, unless it's against
Speaker 5: the First Amendment.
Speaker 2: But you'd have a specific part of it.
Speaker 5: It's not like I don't know anything about the stuff
Speaker 5: about taxing single Well, a lot of the stuff you've
Speaker 5: heard about it's not true. First of all, there's all
Speaker 5: kinds of stuff being claimed that twenty twenty five is
Speaker 5: in favor of it.
Speaker 2: It's just flat out not true. So stiff talking about it,
Speaker 2: but you have to well, that's.
Speaker 1: The thing, and That's what surprised me so much about
Speaker 1: this article, And I think by continuing on, which I'm
Speaker 1: going to do just for another minute, is reinforcing your argument. Honestly,
Speaker 1: the swift backlash of Project twenty twenty five has left
Speaker 1: hundreds of conservative policy wonks on the sidelines as the
Speaker 1: election nears, and pave the way for the project's biggest competitor,
Speaker 1: a nonprofit run by former Trump administration officials, to play
Speaker 1: a formative role in the official presidential transition operation.
Speaker 5: Right, So they turned to something that you probably find
Speaker 5: significantly more imbortant than Project twenty twenty five if you're
Speaker 5: a lefty exact to staff of their stuff or.
Speaker 2: A coequal or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've known plenty of people and read plenty of
Speaker 1: people in plenty of think tanks.
Speaker 2: And some of the stuff they alreadys thought provoking. But
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: The establishment of the Transition Team, which is meant to
Speaker 1: operate as a clearinghouse for Trump's policy plans and personnel picks,
Speaker 1: hasn't stopped outside groups and Trump associates from jockeying for influence,
Speaker 1: prompting confusion and firstration from some of the former president's
Speaker 1: allies who are like dudes. Heritage Foundation offered me a job.
Speaker 2: I took it. I'm the same guy who used to work.
Speaker 5: For you, speaking and running for election. George Gascone, who
Speaker 5: wants to stay the district attorney in La County, is
Speaker 5: going to make this a big announcement at one thirty
Speaker 5: LA time today on the Menendez brother's case, which has
Speaker 5: become a giant thing because of the Netflix fat thing
Speaker 5: and documentary and all that.
Speaker 2: This is a campaign stunt. I think it is. Also.
Speaker 5: I think he's going to say they need to stay
Speaker 5: in jail to try to seem more normal, to stay.
Speaker 2: In office when he's actually a radical nut job.
Speaker 1: That's when to get Marxist who wants to bring down
Speaker 1: the system by releasing all the criminals.
Speaker 2: Yes, correct, back to Trump in the election.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if things hold the way they are today, we're
Speaker 5: going to know. Well, I'm on the West coast, so
Speaker 5: we're watching this on the West coast, so a lot
Speaker 5: of the poles will have closed East coast side late afternoon,
Speaker 5: like used to happen with presidential elections, they might announce
Speaker 5: Trump as won. I mean that very easily could happen
Speaker 5: if the polls hold up. The way they are right now,
Speaker 5: I am going to I need to buy some more TVs,
Speaker 5: some more DVRs. I need to hire some assistance. I
Speaker 5: don't want to miss a moment of people wringing their hands,
Speaker 5: clutching their pearls and crying on MSNBC and CNN and
Speaker 5: NBC and ABC. I want to watch George Stephanopolish with
Speaker 5: his head on the desk, pounding his little fist.
Speaker 2: I don't want to miss a moment of it. Well
Speaker 2: was it.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the note because it was so
Speaker 1: beautiful the way it was written. There it is Marina
Speaker 1: and San Diego wrote us a email and she ends
Speaker 1: it with the following line. And if we wake up
Speaker 1: January twenty first and Trump is hitler my bad.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, I'll get to that in a second.
Speaker 5: But I want to see I want to Nora O'Donnell
Speaker 5: with her hands on her face.
Speaker 2: Ooh, why she didn't look like Nancy Kern. Why. I'm
Speaker 2: just I can't wait for all of it. On the
Speaker 2: if we wake.
Speaker 1: Up, David Muhr will stand mute in his tight black
Speaker 1: T shirt and flex pensively.
Speaker 5: If it turns out, you know, come late January Trump
Speaker 5: is hitler my bad. Yeah, on that I am. Joe
Speaker 5: probably agrees, but I'll let you speak for yourself. I
Speaker 5: am fully committed to calling out any crazy s Trump
Speaker 5: does if he gets elected and when he's president, I
Speaker 5: have no reason to stick with him. I currently prefer
Speaker 5: him to Kamala Harris by a mile, but he is
Speaker 5: pretty mercurial.
Speaker 1: So who knows absolutely, and if it costs us something
Speaker 1: or everything, that's the way it goes. I mean this
Speaker 1: sounds either ridiculously naive or a false claim, but I
Speaker 1: assure you it is not. I am country before candidate,
Speaker 1: and even country before ratings.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: I just I care more about the beloved public than
Speaker 1: I do about making more money.
Speaker 2: I was saying about this, Yester, Did you say country
Speaker 2: before ratings? I did? Michael, all right, let's not get ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Fair enough, I am part of a team. I understand that.
Speaker 1: Oh I came up with the answer to the whole
Speaker 1: Nobody within a mile of Heritage Foundation is going to
Speaker 1: work here. I should have read the last couple of paragraphs.
Speaker 1: It's a pissing match, pardon me, between Heritage and the
Speaker 1: America First Policy Institute, which is headed up by Linda McMahon,
Speaker 1: a divorced wife of Vince McMahon of the wrestling who
Speaker 1: is the former Small.
Speaker 2: Business Administration chief. She's now co chair Tramp's.
Speaker 1: Trump's Transition team, and so now she wants to tap
Speaker 1: into her guys as staffers for the Trump administration. And
Speaker 1: they are rivals for or for influence and donor cash.
Speaker 1: There are two of the big dogs now among DC
Speaker 1: conservative think tanks.
Speaker 2: Well, we got to play this one more time just
Speaker 2: because it's an extraordinary thing. I think the clip that
Speaker 2: we opened the show with today, can you play it
Speaker 2: one more time? This is Tim Walls.
Speaker 5: This is on the whole the closing argument twelve days out,
Speaker 5: thirteen days out yesterday from Walls and Kamala I thanks for.
Speaker 2: Many of us.
Speaker 4: The last twenty four hours certainly have been a bit
Speaker 4: shaking with the reporting coming out in the Atlantic Donald
Speaker 4: Trump's dissension into madness.
Speaker 2: Do you think Donald Trump is a fascist? Yes?
Speaker 5: I do, Yes, I do so that is we're all
Speaker 5: so used to crazy now after year.
Speaker 1: TF Oh lord, we have a df and drained fascist
Speaker 1: or not day.
Speaker 2: That's the worst kind of fascist. I like the first
Speaker 2: of all, Again, things have been so crazy for so long.
Speaker 2: Now it kinda is a news story that one candidate
Speaker 2: said the other one's a flat out fascist. I mean,
Speaker 2: you go back ten fifteen years, it would have been
Speaker 2: insane for Mitt Romney to say Barack Obama's a fascist
Speaker 2: or vice versa. Just nobody would ever say that.
Speaker 1: I am deeply, profoundly ashamed that it's taken to this
Speaker 1: moment in the show for me to come up with this.
Speaker 1: I will punch myself in the face repeatedly when we're
Speaker 1: off the air. The case for Kamala Harris is a
Speaker 1: communist is much more robust than Donald Trump is a fascist.
Speaker 1: And look, Trump has some fascist tendencies because he was
Speaker 1: a CEO and he thinks everybody ought to jump when
Speaker 1: he says jump. Yeah, well grant you that Kamala is
Speaker 1: a damned comedy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I realized some of you screaming at your radio or
Speaker 5: wherever you play this, well, nobody's ever been a fascist before.
Speaker 5: That was one of the candidates, some of you who
Speaker 5: think Trump is a fascist. But I had a point
Speaker 5: to that all but oh so, and then Walls, I
Speaker 5: like walls as a we're all he comes forward to
Speaker 5: the microphones we're all a bit shaken by the recent
Speaker 5: news that shows Donald Trump has descended in Madison, like
Speaker 5: he just read the story like everybody else in the news,
Speaker 5: shocked to find out that Trump had said these things
Speaker 5: years ago that had already been reported on, and that
Speaker 5: this wasn't some coordinated rollout of the whole fascist, deranged.
Speaker 1: Thing that you've been having meetings on for the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. Right, Yeah, okay, assistant Walls, right exactly.
Speaker 2: And he's a DF as it turns out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd rather see a random drawing for president than
Speaker 1: have you in the office.
Speaker 5: Coach, random drawing, not arranged fascist, a deranged fascist.
Speaker 2: Which is, as you say, is the worst guy. Oh no,
Speaker 2: I finished strong.
Speaker 8: Next, he was last in Detroit former President Obama campaign
Speaker 8: with Eminem and he recited he recited a few lines
Speaker 8: of lose yourself now.
Speaker 2: Notice my palms are sweating week palms a heaven sweat
Speaker 2: rudders the gunner. That's right, that's right.
Speaker 8: The crowd loved it, while Sasha and Malia were like, well,
Speaker 8: we lost our votes.
Speaker 2: Embarrassed by father. Part of being oh my, part of
Speaker 2: being a teenager slash early twenty something, I guess universal.
Speaker 2: I don't know why.
Speaker 5: If I start dancing a little bit in the booth
Speaker 5: at the restaurant to the music, Oh boy, my kids
Speaker 5: are horrified. My son has actually gotten up and left
Speaker 5: and one sight at a different booth before I do.
Speaker 2: Now, that's a gesture exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I took pains not to inflict that sort of thing
Speaker 1: on my kids.
Speaker 2: I can't help it. I really enjoy it. That's funny.
Speaker 2: Did we decide what we were going to talk about here?
Speaker 2: I can't remember. We have not We have two minutes,
Speaker 2: we have one minute, there is another minute talking about
Speaker 2: what we're going to talk about.
Speaker 5: I think there's going to be another uh fairly big
Speaker 5: drop of something to try to drive the fascist narrative
Speaker 5: on Trump.
Speaker 2: I think that'd be my guess. They got an I'm
Speaker 2: strong and get you.
Speaker 5: They got another one in the holster that's going to
Speaker 5: come out, so be prepared for that.
Speaker 2: I suppose.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this is supposed to be an
Speaker 5: October surprise, but the woman that Kamala's husband supposedly slapped
Speaker 5: back in the day has now done an interview, so
Speaker 5: she is out saying her thing. I don't know, in
Speaker 5: a normal world, Kamala Harris would have to say something
Speaker 5: about that, but I don't think she's going to have
Speaker 5: to right right.
Speaker 1: Ah, It's hard to believe that the the pace, the
Speaker 1: the the purity of the ridiculousness would get any more
Speaker 1: than it is right now.
Speaker 2: But we do have a while to go twelve days.
Speaker 1: Desperation has a funny way of unleashing the odd, to say,
Speaker 1: the least, the unfortunate, the soon to be regretted.
Speaker 2: It's final. Oh I love this one. News so well.
Speaker 8: Your comments and entertain us.
Speaker 4: Yes.
Speaker 2: Closure for the show is that is so good. Here's
Speaker 2: your host for final thought, Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap up the show. There he is our technical director,
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo, pressing the buttons in there.
Speaker 2: He'll lead us off. Michael. You know Trump likes to
Speaker 2: shock the media.
Speaker 4: He will have another rally and he will come out
Speaker 4: to Hogan's hero's theme.
Speaker 5: Just sit CNN my full uniform, you think, oh my god, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I advise against it. Katie Green are esteemed Newswoman. As
Speaker 1: a final thought, Katie, I just wanted to let you
Speaker 1: guys know I really appreciated that time in the show
Speaker 1: where we were all standing on one leg like flamingos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, timing ourselves to see how health we are. That
Speaker 2: was good. I'm strong like bull. Are you hitting as
Speaker 2: it turns out?
Speaker 4: Jack?
Speaker 2: A final thought for us.
Speaker 5: You know, what I've started doing is reading one of
Speaker 5: my favorite books of all time at night, like literature,
Speaker 5: which is One hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Speaker 5: I'm rewriting it and just like getting away from the
Speaker 5: news and crap during the election and reading something completely unrelated.
Speaker 5: I've found that so incredibly soothing the last week.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 1: You should mention that my son with whom I trade
Speaker 1: all sorts of tips on art and literature and music
Speaker 1: and that sort of thing, recommended a novel and I've
Speaker 1: been reading it in the evening and i look forward
Speaker 1: to it like, yeah, like my favorite team is on
Speaker 1: Monday night football or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've had too. And I think it's
Speaker 2: get all excited. I think it's because of the news
Speaker 2: cycle right now, I think, folks, and I'm talking to
Speaker 2: you here. God, we're all worn out, aren't we. Oh
Speaker 2: my god, Holy cal When will it end?
Speaker 5: Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
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Speaker 2: Good hot legs. If we mentioned an article, it's.
Speaker 5: There for you to click on and read Tom Clancy novel.
Speaker 5: Are you gonna tell us what it is? Or one
Speaker 5: of those Patterson things? I will tomorrow join us then,
Speaker 5: God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1: It is the most puzzling, wonderful, rewarding thing I think
Speaker 1: we've seen in many, many years.
Speaker 2: And I think it's important to use your voice.
Speaker 3: Even the particular field in particularly, so let's go with
Speaker 3: a bang.
Speaker 1: It is an effort to terrootivate their core.
Speaker 2: Boy, I don't know that word.
Speaker 1: That's a terrify and motivate, motivates through terrorist.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. You've got to put a little
Speaker 2: TM next to that one. Thank you very much, Armstrong
Speaker 2: and Getty.