Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and Getty and
Speaker 2: he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: A new video circulating online appearing to show North Korean
Speaker 3: soldiers in Russia's Far East. It's still unclear when the
Speaker 3: video was shot, but this comes after South Korea's National
Speaker 3: Intelligence Service reported that in recent weeks, approximately fifteen hundred
Speaker 3: North Korean soldiers were transported to Russia. Then they're estimating
Speaker 3: in all up to twelve thousand soldiers will be sent.
Speaker 2: The RUSSI up denies this.
Speaker 3: Ukrainian President Lensky warning of a new threat, saying Ukraine
Speaker 3: has clear evidence showing people are being supplied to Russia
Speaker 3: from North Korea and that this means another country is
Speaker 3: joining the war.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as Josh Rogan of the Washington Posts did discussed
Speaker 4: with us on Thursday, when Joe is not here, this
Speaker 4: is how things turn into world wars. North Korea has
Speaker 4: what they say, they're twelve thousand troops they sent to Russia,
Speaker 4: and Zelensky believes they're going to be put into the
Speaker 4: war against Ukraine, and Iran is funding Russia So yeah,
Speaker 4: that's a lot of enemies of the West come together.
Speaker 2: Why would North Korea get involved?
Speaker 1: I was just thinking about that technological assistance, food, maybe
Speaker 1: just cash, although Russia's little cash strapped right now.
Speaker 4: Well, there's some belief that in exchange for missile technology
Speaker 4: that they don't have. They've got nuclear weapons, but the
Speaker 4: ability to deliver it they've always been behind on. Russia's
Speaker 4: got the best of that practically in the world. So
Speaker 4: maybe that's the deal Putin's making as well.
Speaker 2: Certainly is the deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's running short on human bodies because he feeds
Speaker 4: them into the grinder of and lets them all die.
Speaker 2: But yeah, this is.
Speaker 4: Getting quite frightening, not that it wasn't horribly frightening before.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: So from Kim Jung nils or, I'm sorry, Kim Jong
Speaker 1: UN's perspective, Given over fifteen twenty twenty five thousand men
Speaker 1: in exchange for really up to date missile technology to
Speaker 1: feed into the meat grinder, the machine gun fodder, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good deal for Un.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and for Putin. He didn't care if North Korea
Speaker 4: has nuclear capability of hitting Western countries. In fact, he
Speaker 4: probably likes it. The instability, Yeah, China conducting the biggest
Speaker 4: exercises they've ever conducted around Taiwan. I'm enough like pretend
Speaker 4: blockades to pull off a blockade in like a matter
Speaker 4: of minutes if they wanted to in recent weeks. So
Speaker 4: he got that whole story and then this article over
Speaker 4: the weekend, which I found highly troubling. A Mid East
Speaker 4: Amid East shift is underway without Israel. Before the October
Speaker 4: seventh attack, Saudi Arabia was opening to forging a stronger
Speaker 4: tie with Israel. There was some belief that the big
Speaker 4: giant development may actually happen where Saudi Arabia normalizes their
Speaker 4: relationship with Israel, and that would reshape the Middle East
Speaker 4: in a way that had never been ever in any
Speaker 4: of our lives. Now a year into the war, it's
Speaker 4: warning it's warming up to its traditional enemy Iran. And
Speaker 4: I saw that headline, I thought, why would that happen?
Speaker 4: Here's why, MBS Prince Muhammad is sensitive to public opinion,
Speaker 4: as you have to be.
Speaker 2: If you're a dictator. Because of public.
Speaker 4: Opinion turns against you, you end up hanging him by
Speaker 4: your feet, which is hardened toward Israel. Over the past year,
Speaker 4: the Gulf regent has one of the world's youngest populations.
Speaker 4: The average age of saudis twenty nine years old.
Speaker 2: Think about that. That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Many of its citizens are transfixed by the endless stream
Speaker 4: of horrific images coming out of Gaza on their social
Speaker 4: media feeds, changing many of their once positive or at
Speaker 4: least ambivalent attitudes toward a deal with Israel. Oh boy,
Speaker 4: the Kingdom will not cease its tireless efforts to establish
Speaker 4: an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Speaker 2: MBS set over the weekend.
Speaker 4: What now it's back to there needs to be a
Speaker 4: Palestinian state or there is no deal whatsoever. In a
Speaker 4: speech akin to the State of the Union address the
Speaker 4: other day, he went on and on about the two
Speaker 4: state solution and the horrors of the way Israel's treating
Speaker 4: the Palestinians. So that had gone away for a couple
Speaker 4: of years there now it's back with full force and
Speaker 4: with a whole bunch of countries in the Middleast. Because
Speaker 4: apparently this whole Palestinians dying thing has really gotten people's attention.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I understand that it could well be that
Speaker 1: the tide rolls back in or out. However, you want to,
Speaker 1: you know, use the metaphor when the dust settles somewhat,
Speaker 1: But when that is, is anybody scarce? So yeah, it
Speaker 1: looks like at the very least the momentum of the
Speaker 1: Abraham Accords has been set back by.
Speaker 2: Years, decades. I don't know where it's dead.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that could be too where either one of these
Speaker 4: conflicts and again their kind of merging ish the quality
Speaker 4: is really troubling. With Iran being so involved in helping
Speaker 4: out Russia, China is helping out Russia, all these things
Speaker 4: being tied together. Whoever's elected president, Kamala Harris or Donald
Speaker 4: Trump is going to have a heap and helping of
Speaker 4: things to deal with on the world stage.
Speaker 1: And and well, and don't any indication well, yeah, God
Speaker 1: help us all. We don't have any indication whatsoever of
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris's foreign policy leanings other than to be a
Speaker 1: spokes spokesperson for the Biden incrementalism. Never do anything until
Speaker 1: you absolutely have to approach.
Speaker 4: No, and you know, may they have wise advisors. We're
Speaker 4: gonna have a new team in place for better or
Speaker 4: worse in minutes. And it might be one of those deals.
Speaker 4: There's no managing a good end to any of these
Speaker 4: just might be a case. You could have the wisest
Speaker 4: diplomats in world history. You'd have Churchill and Kissinger and
Speaker 4: Ike and whoever the hell else you want to get
Speaker 4: from world history.
Speaker 2: It might it just might not be a good outcome. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One of the realities that politicians never talk about, but
Speaker 1: it's absolutely undeniable when you talk about international relations geopolitics,
Speaker 1: is that there are some problems that can be solved.
Speaker 1: You win some, you lose some, but the there's another
Speaker 1: large group of issues, and that's you just you maintain
Speaker 1: it the best you can. It's like a chronic health condition.
Speaker 1: You're not going to cure it. Some days it's going
Speaker 1: to be much worse than other days, and you just
Speaker 1: it's like the Israel thing. Please, you know, I got
Speaker 1: some grain in my beard at this point. I've been
Speaker 1: following the stuff since I was a little kid. The
Speaker 1: sixty seven war. I was, you know, learning to go
Speaker 1: poo poop by myself.
Speaker 2: Congratulations. Yeah, it's going pretty well anyway.
Speaker 1: So it could just be yeah, you know, Uh, on
Speaker 1: my dying day, I'm going to look up at the
Speaker 1: news and it's gonna say unrest in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: Well, that's thank you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, that's fine as long as we're not
Speaker 4: involved in it heavily and it expands into Russia and
Speaker 4: China and North Korea and everything else. I'm fine with
Speaker 4: the Middle East being unsettled for the rest of my life.
Speaker 4: I don't care about yeah. Yeah, well yeah. As to
Speaker 4: the other thing, what is I don't know what to
Speaker 4: say about that.
Speaker 2: I hope so, I hope not too. Saudi Arabian Iran
Speaker 2: coming together, what the hell?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that seems like a little pr marriage of convenience.
Speaker 2: But who knows. Yeah, well, so was Japan and Germany
Speaker 2: in a way during World War Two? So weagan?
Speaker 1: Well yeah, well in New Germany and the Soviet Union. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. You just adjust your sales, Jack. You
Speaker 1: keep on trying freaking north. That's very can do spirit
Speaker 1: about World War Three? No, I'm trying to be positive.
Speaker 1: North Korean soldiers fighting in Ukraine. Holy crap?
Speaker 2: Has that happened yet? Zelenski thinks it's going to.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, that's that's getting close to some sort of
Speaker 1: nightmare scenario.
Speaker 2: I tell you what I'd say.
Speaker 4: That's what we were discussing with Josh Rogan last week
Speaker 4: when you had abandoned the show and it's time of neat.
Speaker 4: Here's my dumbest headline of the day.
Speaker 2: I always like these. It's from the New York Post.
Speaker 2: Of course, I'm a gen Z Disney worker.
Speaker 4: They hate me because they say I dress like a stripper,
Speaker 4: but they just don't know fashion.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, okay, dressed like a cylinder stripper.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll click on that. Theres how sexy if.
Speaker 4: You click on those stories because you're that desperate to
Speaker 4: see a young hot chick dressed scantily than I am.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, I'm at work, it's a slow day.
Speaker 1: I got nothing else to do. Let me see this
Speaker 1: trip for Disney chick. Why are you so judgmental?
Speaker 2: Come on? Because it's pathetic. That's why I came across
Speaker 2: this too. I liked it.
Speaker 4: After working the friar at McDonald's yesterday, I asked Trump
Speaker 4: if he thinks the minimum wage should be raised.
Speaker 2: I was kind of curious this is what Trump would say?
Speaker 2: He said, well, I think this.
Speaker 4: These people work hard, they're great, and I just saw
Speaker 4: something a process.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful. Anybody else got a question? Wow, Wow, that's
Speaker 2: a hard no. As the kids say, good. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: clearly all. Oh yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I wish somebody would say, well, no, I'm not for
Speaker 1: artificial minimum wages. This is price and a buyer willing
Speaker 1: to pay the price coming together. Labor is like any
Speaker 1: other product.
Speaker 4: Well, he might say that if we're two weeks and
Speaker 4: two days from now, But we're two weeks from an
Speaker 4: election that seems to be decided by a lot of
Speaker 4: minimum wage workers.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, and false promises.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. I'm going through my notes. I was in San
Speaker 4: Francisco for a couple of days. I saw a couple
Speaker 4: of these. I saw this headline how San Francisco learned
Speaker 4: to love self driving taxis. I saw a couple across
Speaker 4: town near San Francisco's Ferry Building. Half a dozen driverless
Speaker 4: cars pulled up to the curb, dropping off and picking
Speaker 4: up a mix of locals and visitors. Way Moo's sleep
Speaker 4: white Jaguars decked out with whirling sensors and cameras or
Speaker 4: a constant presence. I saw a couple, but then I
Speaker 4: thought I should ride one of those. But I never
Speaker 4: looked into what app I need to get or how
Speaker 4: I get signed up for the driverless car?
Speaker 1: Super nice looking vehicles like, yeah, I would do it
Speaker 1: out of curiosity on hundred percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and assume that I'm not going to be driven
Speaker 4: to that's not going to immediately lock the doors, drive
Speaker 4: me to a bad neighborhood and rape me or something sodomized.
Speaker 2: Mark Jeff Wow. Wow, I was thinking of robbery.
Speaker 1: But you know whatever, Although you send us all those
Speaker 1: pictures around of Union Square and the surrounding area, which,
Speaker 1: if you're not familiar, used to be shouldered shoulder with humanity,
Speaker 1: especially in the more pleasant weather months of the year
Speaker 1: and shopping and food and drink and frivolity, and all
Speaker 1: the streets are empty. Maybe it's because those cars mowed
Speaker 1: everybody down. I don't know.
Speaker 4: We had, I think mocked the idea of these a
Speaker 4: week ago and said that it's never going to work.
Speaker 4: But according to this article, self driving cars have won
Speaker 4: hearts and minds, and he TechEd forward city. After a
Speaker 4: rocky start for the last year and a half, last summer, Weimo,
Speaker 4: which is owned by Google, was operating about ten thousand
Speaker 4: paid rides a week. By May it was fifty thousand.
Speaker 4: Now it's one hundred thousand. Wow, So it went from
Speaker 4: ten thousand to one hundred thousand in a year rides.
Speaker 4: The robotaxi race is on and Weimo is pulling ahead.
Speaker 4: So that's interesting. I wish I'd written in one I
Speaker 4: will next time I get the chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some futuristic stuff. I know it has its challenges,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to be cynical about everything. That's
Speaker 1: an amazing achieve.
Speaker 4: What's the ad Is there an advantage over me just
Speaker 4: getting an Uber driver or is it just the idea
Speaker 4: that it's the future. Then there'll be no Uber drivers?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: I had one side my occasionally unpleasant to Uber and
Speaker 1: or a Lyft driver, but that's a rarity. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: guess it's just it's futuristic and economical.
Speaker 4: I had one Uber driver really complaining about how much
Speaker 4: money he gets to keep now. He said, he's been
Speaker 4: doing it for seven years. He keeps half as much
Speaker 4: as he did when he started seven years ago. Wow,
Speaker 4: Now he didn't know why. I do know why that
Speaker 4: it's significantly works in California than in other places because
Speaker 4: a number of laws that have changed in California. It's
Speaker 4: made it very difficult for Uber and those other companies
Speaker 4: to operate.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, Okay, their costs are so much higher because
Speaker 1: of the whole gig.
Speaker 2: Work lawsey number of others.
Speaker 1: Imagine that a California law that actually hurts the workers
Speaker 1: that it claims to be helping.
Speaker 4: That's surprising, which might be one of the reasons that
Speaker 4: the driverless cars are taken off, because it's just that
Speaker 4: whole thing is gonna work.
Speaker 2: But anyway, we'll be following that over the years. Stay
Speaker 2: with us armstrong.
Speaker 5: President Biden also said that he hopes that the death
Speaker 5: of the leader of Hamas will be a path to
Speaker 5: peace in Gaza. Path to piece is also the name
Speaker 5: of the home Biden's moving into in about three months.
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty funny. Rating I missed it.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that's a good joke. That's a good show. Sorry,
Speaker 2: speaking of that.
Speaker 4: By the way, Wall Street Journal has out that Israeli
Speaker 4: commandos seized another compound connected to Sinwar, the guy they
Speaker 4: died the leader.
Speaker 2: Of Hamas last week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they found uniforms, vests, submachine guns, monoculars, a laptop
Speaker 4: and got a bunch of you know, information intel good.
Speaker 4: Sinwar had message Tomas officials urging them to refuse a
Speaker 4: hostage deal because Hamas had the upper hand in the
Speaker 4: negotiations with the United States, pressuring net and Yahoo to
Speaker 4: take a deal. Of course, so, as Tim Carney says
Speaker 4: of The Washington Examiner, if confirmed, this seems like a big.
Speaker 2: Indictment of Biden for a policy.
Speaker 4: If Sinoar was specifically saying, Hey, the United States is
Speaker 4: pressuring Israel hard to give in on this, so let's
Speaker 4: hold firm as opposed to the other way around, if
Speaker 4: the Biden, if Biden had been announcing no giving until
Speaker 4: the hostages come back, they didn't know him.
Speaker 2: They're in a no win situation there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's you know, Bob Gates is not a
Speaker 1: guy who is prone to hyperbole. Robert Gates who served
Speaker 1: as SEC def under Republicans and Democrats, highly respected guy
Speaker 1: around DC.
Speaker 2: Very sober, straight, arrowy guy.
Speaker 1: He was the guy who said Joe Biden has been
Speaker 1: wrong about every major foreign policy question for the last
Speaker 1: fifty years now. That was going on, gosh what eight
Speaker 1: ten years ago.
Speaker 2: He said that.
Speaker 1: I just think he has awful, awful instincts.
Speaker 2: He's unwilling.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about undecided voters and how
Speaker 1: some of them just are the sort of person who
Speaker 1: cannot make a decision.
Speaker 2: I think Joe Biden has that problem.
Speaker 1: And it's fine if you're trying to work out tax
Speaker 1: policy and you get together with your body across the
Speaker 1: aisle and you all right, well come off.
Speaker 2: Of thirteen percent, you want eight percent? How about eleven percent?
Speaker 2: A we did it.
Speaker 1: I mean that's great, But foreign policy doesn't work that way.
Speaker 1: Frequently you're up against an implacable enemy and you got
Speaker 1: to kill him or they're going to kill you.
Speaker 2: And Joe Biden does not have the stuff for that.
Speaker 4: That's a pretty big indictment of his strategy. If that
Speaker 4: turns out to be true.
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, it's absolutely well, it makes perfect sense, it does.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Wall Street Journal made the point also a couple
Speaker 1: of different times that if Israel had followed General Biden's dictates,
Speaker 1: Sinwar would.
Speaker 2: Be alive, all those Hezbullah leaders would be alive. Don't
Speaker 2: go into Offa, don't, I told them.
Speaker 4: And Kamala Harris, who said, I've studied the maps, she
Speaker 4: actually said that I've forgotten that. I saw the clip.
Speaker 4: She'd studied the maps. There's no place for these to go.
Speaker 4: Do not go into Rafa, Biden said, don't. Cinara and
Speaker 4: still be alive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, hesbelow would be untouched exactly. Israel would still
Speaker 1: be surrounded by its enemies. Just awful, awful lack of leadership.
Speaker 1: But indeed Cennoir is dead, missing an arm apparently, although
Speaker 1: he doesn't need it where he's gone.
Speaker 4: A big chunk of his head seemed to be missing.
Speaker 4: That happens from that bullet. Yeah, anyway, his wife. His
Speaker 4: wife had a thirty four thousand dollars fashion handbag while
Speaker 4: the people of Palestine are starving in the streets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a nice looking bag.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the rest of Moss leadership is living the
Speaker 1: life of billionaires and cutter.
Speaker 4: Now that sort of discussed has always gone on with
Speaker 4: these sorts of people. But how do the college students
Speaker 4: who are protesting the streets not get that the brave
Speaker 4: fighters of Hamas the leaders are stealing money from the
Speaker 4: people they claim to be fighting for.
Speaker 1: Well, that's part of forming your cult, jack as, you
Speaker 1: keep your cult members in the dark about the way
Speaker 1: the world really is.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 6: But Catholics, please don't be too insulted by Kamala's absence.
Speaker 6: If the Democrats, thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6: If Democrats really wanted to have someone not be with
Speaker 6: us this evening, they would have just sent Joe Biden.
Speaker 6: You know, he's having second thoughts, you know that right,
Speaker 6: he's having He wants to come back. If she does
Speaker 6: any worse than the polls, they're going to bring him
Speaker 6: back again. I think Chuck, he's going to do it.
Speaker 6: He's the one that got him out. That's the guy,
Speaker 6: much more so than crazy Nancy. I will tell you
Speaker 6: because I know him. He did it. Joe has almost
Speaker 6: disappeared from the only way he could be seen lessons
Speaker 6: if he had a show on CNN. They had nothing.
Speaker 6: They've got nothing.
Speaker 4: So that's Trump at the Al Smith dinner on Friday
Speaker 4: night with Chuck Schumer's at Marnie gave Chuck so much crap.
Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer is in that horrible position.
Speaker 4: That's like, you know, celebrities at the Golden Globes or whatever,
Speaker 4: and people are making funny you do what do you do?
Speaker 2: Do?
Speaker 4: You laugh along? But sometimes it's like I don't want
Speaker 4: to laugh along with this.
Speaker 2: This is really an awful thing to say about man.
Speaker 1: This isn't funny, it's just mean exactly. I don't know
Speaker 1: how I would react in those situations. Anyway, here's a
Speaker 1: little more Trump.
Speaker 6: A major issue in this race is childcare, and Kamala
Speaker 6: has put forward a concept of a plan. A lot
Speaker 6: of people don't like it. The only piece of advice
Speaker 6: I would have for her and the event that she wins,
Speaker 6: would be not to let her husband, Doug anywhere near
Speaker 6: the nannies. Just keep them. A cat's a nasty one.
Speaker 2: That's nasty.
Speaker 6: These idiots, they gave me this stuff that's too tough.
Speaker 4: That's a good way to handle an uncomfortable joke. Damn right,
Speaker 4: it's an uncomfortable joke. Holy cow, would he had told
Speaker 4: that joke? If she was there, probably probably? Well, I
Speaker 4: think I know because of this little story. He went
Speaker 4: off script a lot, as he always does, and he
Speaker 4: told this story.
Speaker 2: Oh I did.
Speaker 6: I didn't you know? They told me. The last time
Speaker 6: I did this, I was running against Crooked Hillary, and
Speaker 6: I mean Hillary. Now, I was running against Crooked Hillary
Speaker 6: and I did it and I thought it was a roast.
Speaker 6: So I was told it's a roast, and I had
Speaker 6: the meanest guy you've ever seen, right, stuff up and
Speaker 6: the man was the room angry. Even the Cardinal remembers
Speaker 6: I went overboard. Don't you a great card? I was
Speaker 6: like terrible, And I knew I was in trouble around
Speaker 6: midway through, because you know, people had not Even my
Speaker 6: own side was angry at me. They were saying it's
Speaker 6: too much. But I did it anyway. I didn't give it.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's just that is Trump. Everybody was angry.
Speaker 4: Even my own side was angry. But I did it anyway.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And you either laugh like I do with that, or
Speaker 4: you're horrified and can't believe he might be president.
Speaker 2: So I understand. Are you just cringe a little like
Speaker 2: me and think when will this be over? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think a lot of stuff like that Al
Speaker 4: Smith dinner used to happen behind closed doors, and none
Speaker 4: of us realized that all the people that claim in
Speaker 4: front of the newspaper reporters at the time that they
Speaker 4: hate each other get together behind closed doors and slap
Speaker 4: each other's backs and laugh and drink together.
Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, Yeah, they're all in on it. They're all
Speaker 2: part of the same scam. Trump was even talking about
Speaker 2: during this thing.
Speaker 4: He said, you know, my dad used to bring this
Speaker 4: too many years ago, and I thought, wow, I mean
Speaker 4: so that's how small the world is for you know,
Speaker 4: some of the rich and powerful. Nancy Pelosi probably was
Speaker 4: similar with her a lineage and everything like that, you know,
Speaker 4: just the tiny world of the super powerful.
Speaker 1: It's a big fundraiser for what the Catholic church is
Speaker 1: or something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and a.
Speaker 1: First time in forty years and one of the presidential
Speaker 1: candidates skipped a kammla.
Speaker 2: Did she sent a super cringey video. I guess she
Speaker 2: saw part of hysteric, but so why do you think
Speaker 2: she didn't go?
Speaker 4: So Jim mcgaffigan, the comedian, was the MC and one
Speaker 4: of his jokes was and it wasn't really a joke,
Speaker 4: it was just a comment because I didn't realize that
Speaker 4: he's there. He is up on the TV right now.
Speaker 4: He's a big Catholic, he's got he and his wife
Speaker 4: have like six kids or something like that, and he's
Speaker 4: a big time Catholic. And so he was probably personally
Speaker 4: annoyed that his candidate of choice didn't show up to
Speaker 4: this event.
Speaker 2: But he said, you know, she.
Speaker 4: Goes on the view, she goes on Howard Stern, she
Speaker 4: goes on that podcast. Nobody's ever heard of it, but
Speaker 4: you can't be here, and everybody kind of laughed. But
Speaker 4: I think he was just being critical. Really, why do
Speaker 4: you think she didn't show up for time in forty years?
Speaker 2: Mind your own damn business.
Speaker 1: My best guess is that she just cannot do humor,
Speaker 1: that she's bad at it.
Speaker 2: They may have even tried it with her.
Speaker 4: I was wondering that if it just was and that
Speaker 4: could be true, but I was wondering if it was
Speaker 4: just I mean, their closing argument is clearly he is
Speaker 4: a fascist who's lost his mind. Yes, he's an evil
Speaker 4: fascist who will in democracy and he's crazy. You can't
Speaker 4: do that routine and then show up and sit ten
Speaker 4: feet away from him and laugh, can you.
Speaker 2: I don't think he can.
Speaker 1: No, I think he nailed it. I think she's terrible
Speaker 1: at humor too. But no, that's it. You can't. Those
Speaker 1: two things do not square. No, it's six months ago.
Speaker 1: You can get away with it today, No.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean, if you were running on their tax
Speaker 4: policy only helps the wealthy, you can sit in the
Speaker 4: same room and joke about it each other. But sure
Speaker 4: not if you're a hitler. Of course, six months ago,
Speaker 4: Joe Biden was the candidate. He was the best version
Speaker 4: of Joe Biden yet and if you don't agree, you
Speaker 4: can f yourself.
Speaker 2: True an interaction number the pressure.
Speaker 1: According to Morning Joseph and Kamala Harris and everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was gonna grab this shirt that I
Speaker 2: came across around the election. Now, number fifty six is
Speaker 2: interesting to another funny joke, okay, play that while I'm
Speaker 2: finding my shirt.
Speaker 6: Tradition halls that I'm supposed to tell a few self
Speaker 6: deprecating jokes this evening.
Speaker 2: So here it goes. Nope, I've got nothing. I've got nothing.
Speaker 2: There's nothing to said.
Speaker 6: I guess I just don't see the point of taking
Speaker 6: shots at myself when other people have been shooting at
Speaker 6: me for a hell of a long time a day.
Speaker 1: Shoot, yeah, he's got a sense of humor about that.
Speaker 2: He does. Coming within an initiative having his brains blown out.
Speaker 2: Good for him. So I was looking at this chart.
Speaker 2: This was from I don't know.
Speaker 4: This is the average of all the polls update of
Speaker 4: the twenty twenty four average of general election polls, and
Speaker 4: the race has been There are basically two straight lines
Speaker 4: going west to east on this chart, and there was
Speaker 4: a tiny bit of separation after the assassination, Trump went
Speaker 4: up a little bit, then there was a Biden drops out,
Speaker 4: the line stayed more or less the same.
Speaker 2: Harris chooses a VP, tiny wobble barely.
Speaker 4: DNC starts, Kennedy drops out, Harris Trump debate, all of it.
Speaker 2: It's just straight lines.
Speaker 4: They've been within like a point to two points of
Speaker 4: each other the entire time, and all that's within the
Speaker 4: margin of air. And this has never happened before. So
Speaker 4: the whole I think it, the whole life idea of
Speaker 4: you know, our needles is stuck is just true. And
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if you don't, I don't know. What
Speaker 4: do you think if you if you change the candidates out,
Speaker 4: would you have anything different?
Speaker 2: Are we still stuck at fifty to fifty?
Speaker 4: If you took Trump out of the mix and you
Speaker 4: put in Nicky Haley, Ron de Santis, whatever, you get
Speaker 4: a significant difference.
Speaker 2: Yes, so absolutely so. You think it's all driven by
Speaker 2: hatred and or love of Trump?
Speaker 1: Uh to a large extent, Yeah, I would like to think,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure I'm right. The fact that Trump
Speaker 1: isn't losing is because people find the leadership of Biden
Speaker 1: Harris to have been awful. Many, many people are extremely
Speaker 1: uncomfortable with the whole super progressive, woke thing and they
Speaker 1: want to turn to something else, but they find Trump objectionable.
Speaker 1: And it's just I don't know, it's so discouraging to
Speaker 1: me because I don't see where the cure is in
Speaker 1: the primary process that we have right now. It's just
Speaker 1: we're divided enough that going hardcore demagogy, you're never going
Speaker 1: to have a good solid coalition to govern the country
Speaker 1: from the outer edges of each party, but you'll win
Speaker 1: every primary. Uh.
Speaker 4: That remind me I was going to have Hanson grabbed
Speaker 4: the audio maybe for tomorrow. There's an ad running in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: The current governor is a Democrat.
Speaker 2: I don't remember his name. Do you remember his name?
Speaker 2: Off top your head? But Pennsylvania, that's Josh Shapiro, isn't it.
Speaker 2: You're right, so I must be. It wasn't Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 2: Why did it? Did it right down the wrong state?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I did. It's not Josh Shapiro.
Speaker 4: Look or is he turned out? And there's another guy
Speaker 4: running now he just won recently. Very confused by this, thinking, Ohio,
Speaker 4: it's maybe it's a senate candidate maybe that's what it is.
Speaker 4: Good Anyway, here's the point. The point is it's a
Speaker 4: Democrat running in Pennsylvania who their new ad is. You
Speaker 4: got a husband and a wife on there saying I'm
Speaker 4: a Republican, I'm a Democrat. We don't agree on anything,
Speaker 4: but we do agree on this. The best thing for
Speaker 4: both of us is blah blah blah. The Democrat and
Speaker 4: everybody was taking that as a their internal polling shows
Speaker 4: that Trump's gonna win and being on the wrong being
Speaker 4: anti Trump is not the way to win office as
Speaker 4: a Democrat in Pennsylvania. That's the way most people took that.
Speaker 4: That they're making their ad buy with that kind.
Speaker 2: Of an ad. Okay, I don't know or not. That
Speaker 2: was Mark Alprin's take in his newsletter on Saturday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I was a pro and really really into
Speaker 1: this stuff, I suppose I would be fascinated by that.
Speaker 1: But boy, were really into reading tea leaves at this
Speaker 1: point or palms or something. Right, But if your solid
Speaker 1: your side was going to win, I wouldn't think you'd
Speaker 1: go with the Hey, I'm I'm kind of right in the.
Speaker 4: Middle, guys, I don't know. All these states are practically
Speaker 4: fifty to fifty.
Speaker 2: It's just shocking. I don't know.
Speaker 4: Do we find out by January twentieth if you have
Speaker 4: a if you have one to two states that are
Speaker 4: the difference in who's going to be president, and you've
Speaker 4: got the endless lawsuits over how you count ballots in
Speaker 4: this and that Bush Gore was forty six days till
Speaker 4: the Supreme Court finally had to weigh in and make
Speaker 4: a decision because.
Speaker 2: And that was one state.
Speaker 4: That was one state. This could be a handful of states.
Speaker 4: We will finish strong next, we promise.
Speaker 7: There are no announced They are bringing back their frozen
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving pizza for the holidays. The pizzas are top with turkey, gravy,
Speaker 7: green beans, and the number for the National Suicide Hotline.
Speaker 4: No kidding, that's your Thanksgiving alone with a Thanksgiving flavored pizza.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that joke was depressing.
Speaker 1: Okay, you want a funnier one, yea one that won't
Speaker 1: make me sad?
Speaker 2: This one five creats your nutritionists.
Speaker 5: The healthiest Halloween candy is peanut m and M's, with
Speaker 5: the tiny exception of kids that die from touching those.
Speaker 4: What No, I don't get that Peanut m and M's
Speaker 4: are the healthiest candy you can give kids at Halloween,
Speaker 4: except for the course peanut allergies everywhere.
Speaker 2: Oh, peanut allergies. I didn't get that. It's in the
Speaker 2: word peanut M and ms. What is allergies?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe maybe this is this is possibly true.
Speaker 4: Maybe your kids were before that's constant.
Speaker 1: It's just starting when kids were getting a little older.
Speaker 4: That's the breakdown, because it is constant. I went into
Speaker 4: a place just yesterday. No peanuts in this premises, because
Speaker 4: it's just yeah, all the time everywhere.
Speaker 2: I don't know how real it is or not. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I hate to, you know, be capt'n obvious or spider cliche.
Speaker 1: But the number of kids that died grown up from
Speaker 1: peanuts when it was fourteen or fifteen, depending, little Timmy
Speaker 1: was a sky diving and eating peanuts when he died.
Speaker 2: No nobody died. What's called?
Speaker 1: What's I'm sure I've already read fifteen articles, had just
Speaker 1: forgotten what they said.
Speaker 2: But it is the deal he heard every once in
Speaker 2: a while. It's horrifying.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's it's unspeakable. But what happened? How
Speaker 1: did we get here? I don't know how about give
Speaker 1: me number three.
Speaker 2: Give me a joke. It's not about death please or suicide?
Speaker 2: The hell? Who's in charge here?
Speaker 7: This week was National no broad Day and it was
Speaker 7: a huge flop.
Speaker 2: That's a terrible joke.
Speaker 1: That Joe reddn't dumb, well at least it didn't want
Speaker 1: me to meet didn't make me you want to cry?
Speaker 1: We talked about this last week. It's an interesting story.
Speaker 1: I'm about the joke.
Speaker 5: The winner of the annual America's Vest Restroom contest is
Speaker 5: a service station in Salt Lake City. Though keep in
Speaker 5: mind the contest is run by Trucker Sex Magazine.
Speaker 2: No, what was that?
Speaker 4: What was the name of the outfit? I think he
Speaker 4: brought us a story, didn't you, Katie? What is the
Speaker 4: It's a chain of Mavericks. Maverick truck stops have the
Speaker 4: cleanest restrooms in America, So keep that in mind if
Speaker 4: you're ever traveling.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all about truck stops. When I make a stop.
Speaker 4: Sure, I've always wanted to take a shower one number fourteen?
Speaker 2: Your showers ready, they announced?
Speaker 6: How about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, maybe I'll go in the world
Speaker 2: actually show share the truck rush up a little bit.
Speaker 2: You never been to a truck stopper. They have showers,
Speaker 2: really I have, but my brain didn't go I'd like
Speaker 2: to use one of them. Oh you're a girl, that'd
Speaker 2: probably be well.
Speaker 1: You can find a map of them in Trucker sex magazines.
Speaker 1: Jack's been a subscriber.
Speaker 2: Says for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is something about the vest I find it alluring. I
Speaker 1: was going to get to this, but I'm not sure
Speaker 1: we have time. But I'll give you the nickel version
Speaker 1: of it, he says, ironically, Jack, you.
Speaker 2: Were one of the first people I ever heard observe.
Speaker 1: That nobody cares about the lottery until it's like over
Speaker 1: four hundred million.
Speaker 2: Dollars, like sixty million dollars.
Speaker 1: I'm not crossing the damn street for sixty million dollars.
Speaker 1: It's odd, it's inexplicable. And yet lottery officials agree with you.
Speaker 1: Now nobody crosses the street if it's less than a
Speaker 1: billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: And so they're raising the price for the Mega Millions,
Speaker 1: for instance, from two bucks to five bucks per ticket
Speaker 1: to boost more jackpots over the one billion dollar mark.
Speaker 1: For instance, first time the Mega Millions hit a billion
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, people bought more than seven hundred and
Speaker 1: forty million dollars worth of tickets when it happened again
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, half as many tickets.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna be hurtful here. I think you're a
Speaker 4: moron if you play the lottery regularly, and this proves it.
Speaker 4: So one hundred million dollars, you're not gonna play a
Speaker 4: billion you will. That's dumb, That's just dumb.
Speaker 1: It's all about the psychology player psychology. There's no logical
Speaker 1: reason why nine hundred million dollars should be less than
Speaker 1: an incentive than a billion.
Speaker 2: Obvious fifty million. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: It's all about a fantasy. It's all about the dream.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's interesting, Jack, you Clark this time? Stop? Jack
Speaker 2: and Josef got go.
Speaker 6: And if they don't get can they'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 4: There's got to be all kinds of important information in
Speaker 4: that about the political message of inequality, and you know
Speaker 4: your neighbor's house size compared to yours, and all kinds
Speaker 4: of different things that are very important.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll bet you're right. I see what you're driving at.
Speaker 4: Here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought. From everybody on the crew.
Speaker 1: To wrap up the day, there is our technical director,
Speaker 1: Michael Angelo.
Speaker 2: Michael lead us off. Final thought.
Speaker 5: I always like people that when the lottery gets real big,
Speaker 5: they say, I'm going to play one hundred dollars worth.
Speaker 2: That way, I have one hundred times a chance to win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true. They're technically correct. Yeah, and somebody does have
Speaker 2: to win. That has always been a powerful argument to me.
Speaker 2: Somebody's going to win this month, and you can't win
Speaker 2: if you don't play.
Speaker 1: Katie Green are esteemed to use woman as a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 8: Always wonder about my I have a few friends that
Speaker 8: whenever they play scratchers they win. It's like, I don't
Speaker 8: know how it happens. Like I never win those things.
Speaker 8: That's why I stopp playing them. But hmmm, yeah, he's sure.
Speaker 4: They are only telling you when they win, because that's
Speaker 4: what most gamblers do.
Speaker 2: They talk about their wins and never their losses. M
Speaker 2: Intriguing jacket.
Speaker 4: Final thought, Uh, yeah, did you see the lip reading
Speaker 4: thing last week? So when they had that big funeral
Speaker 4: for Ethel Kennedy, Biden and Obama was there, and Biden
Speaker 4: said to Barack Obama she's not as strong as me.
Speaker 4: They were talking about Kamala Harris, She's not as strong
Speaker 4: as me, and Obama said, I know that's true.
Speaker 2: Wow, how interesting. That is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: My final thought, I love the NFL. I happen to
Speaker 1: be a forty nine Ers fan. My second favorite team
Speaker 1: is the chief Soddly enough, but the great flaw of
Speaker 1: the NFL was illustrated yesterday. Some forty nine Ers played
Speaker 1: some Chiefs. There were so many injuries, so many of
Speaker 1: the key players are out.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think adding a game per season, and then
Speaker 4: all the pregames helps either Armstrong and Getty wrapping up
Speaker 4: another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people that thanks a little time go to
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Speaker 2: Well see tomorrow. God bless America. So I'm not that
Speaker 2: worried about I'm strong and Getty got a tough job here.
Speaker 6: I like this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I might come back and do it again.
Speaker 2: I thank you for folks. There's still got work to do,
Speaker 2: no Joe, And you know what, everyone knows it. That's
Speaker 2: what I've said. That's not what I was told. Okay,
Speaker 2: fair enough, so let's go out with a bang.
Speaker 1: I've been following the stuff since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1: The sixty seven War, I was, you know, learning to
Speaker 1: go poo poop by myself.
Speaker 2: Congratulations on that high note.
Speaker 1: Thank you all very
Speaker 2: Much, Armstrong and Getty