May 14, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Ban lifted on MLB HOF players & Trump's overhaul on foreign policy
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Mark Halperin destroys Jake Tapper
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Armsrong, Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Armstrong and Getty with special guests today the Menendez Brothers.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Guys. Hi, I'm Kyle, I'm Eric. That could be soon.
More on that later live from the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
C Season your a Dimmy litt room deep within the
bowels the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound. And today we're
under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Speaking of those being liberated, Pete Rose and shoele Us,
Joe Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Those are baseball players.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, both of them are playing in the Big League
in the sky right now, Jack, there was God. But
both have been reinstated, unbanned. Well, they're banned for life.
I guess now they're dead and they're unbanned.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A couple old bad guys might have been reinstated in baseball, Okay,
including probably the greatest hitter of all time. I'll adjust
my day accordingly, Yes, as quickly as I can.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yes, just as the late is justice enough. I don't
even know what lesson is here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You got to be our age or older to like
have really watched Pete Rose in his prime. So I
don't know how many how much helling.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I got to be Joe Biden's age or older to
have watched old shoelace show.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right, he swrought the horse hide around the yard. Yes,
so there you go with that. Yes, and then special guests.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would you rather have Pete Rose show up outside your
house at night or the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I was always a Pete Rose should be in the
Hall of Fame guy. Always, yeah, always, always have a
little plaque explained in the gambling. It's stupid to have
a Hall of Fame that says this is where the
best baseball players are, but not the guy who is
actually the best at like the main thing of the game,
hitting it so hitting the ball. So but we don't
have him in here because the complicated.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, I understand the reasoning. I just I don't end
up at the same place.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And they do think it's different than the like if
you don't have Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame,
because then his records were affected by what he did,
but Pete Rose's records.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Were not affected by what he did. Uh, that's a
good point.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, the induction ceremony would have been a little weird,
you know, having been banned for life for gambling.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, anyway, poor guy. I wish Pete would have gotten
that before he died.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, you know, he was. He was an incredibly flawed
human being. He had a screw loose. He's like a
lot of the best athletes of all time in their sports,
there are only half wame.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He was a gambler.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He was not a pedophile, he wasn't a wife beat her.
I mean we put up with so much in wait, no, no, no, See,
this is where your non sports.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Status is showing itself. Even though you're a sports fan.
You can't gamble on your sport that that would ruin
it for all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I completely get that. I have one hundred percent get that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But but having me hatred for him, Like I mean,
we put up with so much with athletes in sports
that do horrible, horrible things. Now, I'll go out to
eat with a gambler any night. I will not go
out to eat with the guy who beats up his girlfriends.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Now, you're missing the point completely. You can you can
have half the league beat up their girlfriend and that
would be horrifying, but it wouldn't affect the games.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I think you're missing my point completely. You said it'd
be an uncomfortable Hall of Fame ceremony. I think everybody
would have stood in chair because I liked the guy
and he was a great hitter, and you shouldn't gamble,
and you gotta be kicked out of the sport for that.
I get it. But in terms of like it be
young comfortable to be around him, no way.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Not uncomfortable at all. I give up write your.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Emails now, somebody who cheats in the sport that affects
the actual playing, like Barry Bonds did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What what the heck is that you can't have him
in the Hall of It?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is he in the least gambling is so bad because
that inevitably leads to that it is a fatal illness?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, clearly I won. Because he is now in the
Hall of Fame and been reinstated in baseball. I say
dig up his bones and reban them. Every thought it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Pete Rose's bones. You're now rebaded a man for all
of it's here is he?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And then somebody and then somebody would set up his
bones at a card table out of casino, have his
bones signing Baseball's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
A shot you could pose with the bones he Bucks's
shot exactly for some sort of AI voice, exactly, keep
the line moving, Keep the line moving, exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You have an AI voice that could even say your name. Hi,
it's Pete Rose, what is your name? Nice to meet you, Jack, right,
thanks for supporting me in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
My AI robots signs the pic and you move on exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That might be actually happening soon.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I've been to the sphere where they got that robot
out there that interviews you and talks to you and
everything like that, and it's creepy.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It asks your name and starts having a discussion with
you and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like do that with celebrities, but you got the video
of them, like a hologram of them or whatever, and
they're they're talking to you and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Have a conversation. People would do that post for pictures
and whatnot if it's realistic.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, you're having a laugh with your old buddy, you know,
Tom Cruise whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, pathetic, but yes, people would do that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I just somehow I missed this story yesterday and I
had to look it up. To make sure it was true.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post, the big foreign policy correspondent,
said yesterday on MSNBC, of course it's got no coverage
because they hated it so much. Trump is definitely in
the discussion for Nobel Peace Prize with what he's doing
in the Middle East, right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
To the horror of the MSNBC crowd. Apparently wow, wow,
Well they're dopes.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, And and interestingly enough, I've been pawing through email
to get mail bag ready and just the show in general.
And uh, there are a couple of really interesting theories,
kind of frameworks that folks suggested to use to look
at the frenetic and somewhat chaotic activity of Trump two
so far, some.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Very critical, some very positive.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And I think it's useful and interesting because the way
he conducts, you know, the duties of the office are
very very different, is very very different than what we've
seen before. And some of it is off putting, but
then you come around and you see, ah, now I
see what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Some of it might just be off putting, but we
will discuss.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So he gave a speech just like forty five minutes long,
and I read one segment of it and thought, wow,
how have an I had already heard this today because
he gave the speech in the morning and I hadn't
heard much about the speech throughout the day. Then I
was reading my favorite political newsletter from Mark Alperrin today saying,
this is one of the most extraordinary foreign policy speeches
(07:21):
any president is given in a half a century, and
it got zero news coverage. So we'll read a little
bit from that later. I mean as a complete redoing
of US foreign policy in the way that we will
look at the world and very critical at previous administrations,
particularly Republican administrations. So you'd think from that standpoint it
(07:42):
would get a lot of coverage. But I don't think
the media takes Trump seriously at all with any of
his policy stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right, Both the positive stuff and the negative stuff are
so personality based. You forget he's conducting the duties of
the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
To be present for another three and a half years, right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, you know, I heard a couple of specifics from
the speech that were interesting, but not what you're referring to.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, it's it's some pretty big stuff, and I think
a lot of you will agree with it on the whole.
You know, we went around the world starting wars and
causing trouble. It's pretty damned interesting. So we'll get to
that stuff a little bit later. We should start the
show officially now that Pete Rose is back in baseball.
I just, I don't know, I feel lighter somehow, I
feel like so.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I get the digger to the cemetery.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
It is I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this
It is a Wednesday, May the fourteenth year, twenty five
Armstrong and getting we approved of this program.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
All right, let's dig in. Get ready for the first pitch.
Precisely according to FEC rules and regulations. The show starts
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Speaker 6 (08:46):
I don't see much sense and putting me on the
ballot after I die. Most of the people who root
it for me my whole career would love to see
me in the Hall of Fame as a living player,
not as someone is ten feet under.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, it's a great whacker of baseball's there pre mortem.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, he also struck me as one of those guys
that never really had anything else after sports that mattered
a whole lot to him, which would be a kind
of a sad way to go through life because your
heyday ended at forty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Which is not the best thing for a eighty year old,
right right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There are plenty of human beings, many of them in sports,
who became what they were, like the best ever or
in that top top, top, top tier, because they were
so obsessed and so unhealthy in a way that they
dedicated everything they had to it and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Couldn't leave it behind. It's a bittersweet. So was he
a gambling addict? Is that what his thing was?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
How did he was a competition addict? I think how
did he end up betting on baseball? Was it just
did he finally get to the point that the only
way it could be exciting enough is if his own
team was involved in a bet?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I wonder. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I've just read about gambling addicts, mostly through Norm MacDonald,
the comedian who has lost everything he had three times
as a gambling addict, that it's it's all about the risk.
It's not even the winning, it's the risk and the
danger is what. And I wonder if Pete Rose just
it got to the point where the only way I
could have any juice is if I was so close
to what the you know, just the ultimate wrong thing
(10:25):
to do because it's it's it's it's some sort of
negative energy. Yeah, you know, getting it, getting to the
edge of losing everything you have. It's some sort of
like negatives. You know, if you believe in good and evil,
evil poll on you. Because there's no reason no, I don't.
I do not get a charge out of having everything
(10:45):
I've got that I've built on the edge of losing
it today.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That would not make me excited in a good way.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm looking at the other side of the coin.
It's the ultimate adrenaline rush. It's do or die. He
he was addicted to the feeling of do or die,
whether it was in the batter's box or gambling. That
was the only thing that could get his attention. I
think was the ultimate challenge.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's got to be horrible. I've known people like that that.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I mean, you've got that pull to just lay it
out there all the time, the do or die thing.
And the problem is, you know, if you're you have
to lose sometimes for it to be real. I mean,
it's got to be the possibility that it can go
the other direction.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh sure, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
A good friend who in dealing with some addiction problems,
came to realize that his comfort zone was conflict and
that he was causing conflict in his life out of
like habit and upbringing that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And Pete's I think.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
His comfort zone is it's zero and two with the
basis jammed, and he's in the batter's box.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Everybody's looking at you. It's all on you, it's all
on you, and he needed that after he quit playing.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, I suspect, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
How does uh? So?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We got Katie's headlines, We've got mail bag later. Mark
Halprin and Jake Tapper are never going to be friends
after yesterday. Mark Alprin did an episode of a show
last night where he took a part Jake Tapper in
this book that's coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Good because then it's a weasel on a DV and
I used to respect him.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And it's horrified that the mainstream media continues to pretend
that they didn't know Joe Biden's brain didn't work. And
it's pretty damned interesting. I watched I watched a lot
of it last night, and we'll get to that later.
To our text line is four one, five two nine
five KFDC.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
How about.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm not stealing a headline here. I just saw this.
Katie Trump given cyber truck motorcade through Katar after he
got his fighter jet escort.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
For the plane. Wonder he isn't cyber trucks for the
motorcade and Katar.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
No, is that a nod to Elon or something.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
It's kind of got a futuristic vibe that fits the
new Middle East where they're building everything as fast as
a can and everything looks like a spaceport from the movies.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
They have them all wrapped in a bright red that
looks pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
My favorite headline of the day, hog makes Democrats squeal.
Activist David Hogg really really making some waves in DNC circles.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I hate to see that all sorts of he's an
annoying kid.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Boys, he's one of the most annoying human beings to
come on the scene in a very long time. And
he gets the cover of you know, he was a
kid at a mass shooting, but he's still an annoying
human being, right.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Came en to that?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
All right, lot to talk about. Let's figure out who's
reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Katie starting with ABC Cassy Ventura to return to witness stand.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Today, looking forward to a Diddy trial update a little
bit later on Katie is a you know, testimony unfolds.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Do we know if it's more for the I don't
know how trials work. Is it more for the prosecution?
Or when does she get cross examined? Then they try
to make her look like a gold digging crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
When the prosecution's done whenever? That is so days, I
don't know, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Okay, but that how'd you like to have to take
that on? With the video out there and she's eight
months pregnant, you're going to try to tear her apart
in front of the jury.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Good luck with that, Yeah, tread carefully, young Attorney USA.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Today, Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment as Trump visits the region.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh, got a great example of one of those the
mainstream media talking about Israel Israel's attempt to strike on
a Hamas later yesterday, but they bombed a hospital another
one of those stories.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh, for goodness sakes place, there are a couple of
really notable Israel saying, wait, what moments during this Middle
Eastern trip and they forgiving the sanctions on Syria and
embracing shaking hands with the new Islamist former al Qaeda.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I even I even heard some speculation that the whole
taking the plane from the Kataris is the shiny object
to talk about. So you're not talking about the fact
that Trump's really ignoring Israel on this trip.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't think the plane thing's gonna happen. By the way,
more on that later.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, if it's a distraction, that wasn't the point. The
point was not talk about. It Israe.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
From Reuters China's AI powered humanoid robots to transform manufacturing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
If it doesn't start swinging its arms and take your
eyes out.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
No, but they're talking about a factory full of humanoid
robots folding T shirts.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And making sandwiches, swinging their arms around like this, Katie,
right right in the face.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Take your eye. We're not gonna take your eye out.
They're gonna take your economy out.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You fool.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wake up from Newsweek.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Saudi Arabia rolls out custom mobile McDonald's for Trump visits.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That's pretty funny. This was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
It was just like a trailer McDonald's on the back
of a semi just in case.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He wanted a big mac That is pretty funny. So
they got no mcdee's there in Saudi Was it cammel?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Don jeez?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I think I know that they do have a McDonald's
in Saudi Arabia because my brother said when he stood
in line at the McDonald's there was a line for
the men and a line for the women. You couldn't
separate lines at the McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
This is a BYO Mickey d situation. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
From the Hill, Americans embracing road trips for upcoming Memorial
Day weekend, citing flight uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, even when the flights go well, it's a pain lately.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
From the Wall Street journal women are drinking more and
doctors are worried.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah. I was going to talk about that later on.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The numbers are actually quite surprising, quite shocking.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, thanks a lot. Men, you're the reason we're driving
women to drink. Hen't surprised me. I certainly have.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
And finally the Babylon Bee Jake Tapper uncovered startling evidence
that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah. This this is an interesting development intro media and
then for between the media and the public. We'll talk
more about later. It's about time the book comes out
next week. His his promotion tour could be pretty rough,
armstrong and getty. So next week your book comes out,
(17:28):
that's going to get a ton of attention.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's already getting a lot of pre attention. It's called
original Sin.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It'spite Jake Tapper the biggest star on CNN, and that's
in finger quotes because CNN has such low ratings.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Being the biggest star in CNN, it's not exactly that
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They brought Jake Tapper over to try to, you know,
get the network more competitive.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They thought bringing him over would be a big get
and he is a.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Big name and the respected journalist, journal partisan hack is it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And his book comes out next week.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson who was with Political
is now with Axios or the other way around, doesn't
make any difference. And uh, a couple of things on that.
He's going to be doing a big promotional tour.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
On this.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I'm sure we could get him on the air. I'm
tempted to want him to get him on the air
and then have a not like what's that we you
like lay in wait, ambush, not like it. That's what
I was planning on, Not like an ambush, but more
(18:42):
of a because I don't know why. I've always liked
Jake Tapper. I used to he built a lot of
credibility with me over many many years when he used
to be on Imus's Show and everything like that. But
this one confuses me, and so I think there's something.
I think there's something going on that's more than just
you're a lib hack trying to get your guy elected.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I think I think there's some sort of more complicated.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We could all we can all be misled by our
our you know, our wishes being the father of our
thoughts or something that I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The culture that surrounds us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
The culture that surrounds us who we hang out with,
or something like that where he got Jake Tapper, if
you believe him, actually didn't see the cognitive decline of
Joe Biden, and really nobody else did either, because the
White House did such a good job of covering it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Up, which so obviously laughable if you're not picking up
on the sarcut right.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So there's been a fair amount of mockery of that
whole thing leading up to the book coming up coming
out next week, and I think the publisher is panicking,
so they yesterday or over the weekend put out a
sizzle to promote the book. Maybe we'll play that later also,
And it's got a whole bunch of clips. Jake has
(20:06):
been playing this on his show, a whole bunch of
clips of Jake Tapper showing how hard he was on
the Biden administration and how he did ask the tough
questions and everybody's misremembering his role in this. And it's
got edit after edit after edit of Jake Tapper saying
what about two thirds of voters who don't believe the
(20:26):
president could serve another term? Or blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. Mark Halprin, who is my
favorite part political journalist, was incensed by that sizzlereel that
could got put out over the weekend, and he and
his team yesterday took it upon themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And I don't know how much time this took.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They went back through every single clip and did a
longer version of it in context to show how incredibly
softly Jake, if at all Jake Tapper was pushing back
in any of these inuations. Why editing fest. Yeah, it's
like a half hour rebuttal to that, in which in
(21:11):
uh Mark Hauprin's angle is not to boost Trump. His
concern is, as I think a legitimate honest journalist, his
concern is he says, Trump's doing all kinds of things
right now that I think should be scrutinized heavily by
the media. But the media has no halft anymore because
(21:32):
nobody believed them because they lied about all that stuff
under Biden, so they couldn't They didn't hold Biden accountable,
and now they can't hold Trump accountable. And we don't
have a press that can hold any president accountable anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And that is a problem.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And let's not forget that the whole just ludicrous Biden
is sharp thing followed directly on the heels of the
Russian collusion hoax. And so the impression formed in the
center and right that the press would print anything leaked
to them by Adam Schiff, no matter how many times
Shift clearly lied and so they were utterly undependable as
(22:08):
arbiters of truth, was then just completely reinforced by the
Biden stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I mean, you know, We're.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
At the therapist because you had an affair, and then
I go out and realize you're having sex with the
therapist while I'm in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I mean, we're done here.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
So, like I said earlier, I don't think Mark Alprin
and Jake Tapper are ever going to be friends after this.
I mean, because it was a pretty brutal takedown of
all of Jake Tapper's soft pushbacks.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But this is from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Jake Tapper's already started making the rounds in friendly media
talking about the book and how he tried to hold
the Biden White House accountable out accountable, but they were
just too good at lying and that sort of thing.
This is from Mark Alpern's show last night. We'll just
play a little bit of it.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
So Jake Tapper his book coming out in a week.
Here he is this more warning on CNN, creating a
whole new set of realities.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Watch this.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
You have an entire White House press corps though, following
him around, and I'm just curious as to whether or
not this kind of trying to hide what was happening
with the President at the time had an impact on
the press corps, Like why didn't we hear some of
these details from what they actually saw and were dealing
with trying to get information.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as
were lots of other reporters trying to figure out what
was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line
is the White House was lying not only to the press,
not only to the public, but they were lying to
members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White
House staffers, they were lying to Democratic members of Congress,
(23:47):
to donors about how.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Bad things had gotten.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
And in fact, Alex and I started writing this book
after the election of twenty twenty four, and we spoke
with more than two hundred people, most of whom, almost
all of whom were Democrats, and almost all of whom
wouldn't be honest with us or wouldn't be candid with
us until after the election. And then after the election
we found out all of these things that when you
(24:12):
looked at what was going on with President Biden at
the time, it probably doesn't surprise you.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The extent to which he was deteriorating.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was
really going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats
wouldn't share with us until after election day.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
All right, again, amazing true. Here's something true that he
said that Jake Capper said on CNN this morning. True
that there was a cover up, that senior Biden officials
worked very hard to cover up as much as they
could his decline, including amongst other people in the government
and in the campaign.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Here's two things that are not true, okay, And this
is where the credibility is this so important that people
be honest.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I shouldn't be the.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Only one in the media being honest about this. It's bizarre, okay.
One thing that's not true is that you needed that
the cover up was so good that no one could
see this, that we couldn't possibly have gotten to the
bottom of this during the election.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again, it makes me mental. It was clear.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Halpern does like forty five minutes on this clip by clip.
It makes me mental. How can you possibly claim this?
And that's why I'd like to have jac on and
ask him that, seriously, what do you think is going on?
Do you think it's just pure hackery? I think it's
some more complicated human emotion thing or something which should
(25:36):
scare all of us. Yeah, I could believe pure hackery.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I mean because they get away with I mean, if
you're broadcasting too or part of a ideological media bubble,
you get away with saying ridiculous things and nobody ever
challenges you on them.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So I could picture getting bolder and bolder in your hackery.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yes, At the same time, well, I would have loved
to have us examined him after that question, because again,
the great lie of it, and this is getting to
your question, the great ridiculous lie of it, and don't
bs a BS or I could see his BS work
and well, yeah, I talked to you two hundred people
(26:17):
who were privated behind the scenes blah blah blah to
only be honest after the election, Jake. The word literally
is overused these days, but literally everyone saw it. Guess
how many people I talked to her be behind the
scenes in the White House?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Zero zero. And I knew it as clearly as I
know my own name, Jake.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Your inability to divine what was obvious to the rest
of America, Now that's an interesting stone, right, Biden's old
in decrepit? Yeah, we know it is. It is stunning.
I'm hoping and Mark Alpert is clear, hoping that Jake
Tapper doesn't get away with doing a kind of routine
(27:05):
book tour where he does, you know, sixty minutes and
every channel and every radio show and every newspaper outlet,
and they all talk about it. I'm looking at the
New York Times, their their promotion that came out over
the weekend, or their review of the book a damning
portrait of an enfeeble Biden protected by his inner circle,
and act like it's not insane, right that the authors are.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Trying to get away with here's what we've uncovered.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Everybody knew it, everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But you mean, how interesting? This is so crazy?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Well, and it's like some sort of weird second layer
of the Emperor having new clothes, because now you have
the New York Times and other enablers acting as if
Tapper's book is actually an amazing set of revelations.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Right, Yeah, surely this isn't gonna work.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I mean, if I don't care if you are a
progressive or a conservative, we cannot function as a society.
If this is the level of credibility we have with
our media. I mean, that's it's true. Your question is
the right question. Okay, Jake, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What you thought.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Why do you think eighty percent of Americans figured out
the president wasn't capably being president before you and your
fellow journalist did. Having no inside right, with no inside information,
all we've got is what we watch on TV.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Right, isn't that interesting? Carefully carefully hidden president? No less right?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Right to another point, it was still certainly obvious to everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (29:39):
Run your game, not somebody else's game. Your game.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, I just wonder if it's only gonna be in
like right wing circles and mark Alprin where there's a
lot of the Taking a look at Jake Tapper's past
coverage of Biden's decline as this book comes out.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He shouldn't be able to get away with this.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
He shouldn't get away with this even among the mainstream
or we're dooned. I mean, the ship has so sailed,
it's over the horizon.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh right, But they're not going to.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Accuse him of the very sin they committed with equal egregiousness.
In fact, I could argue that you know CNN, for
you know, ask somebody not forty plus about CNN, they're
being like, I've heard of that. I think it may
be on an airports. Its significance is overstated these days.
(30:30):
Having said that, the New York Times being one hundred
percent complicent and they're a far more significant media presence
on Earth than CNN is. So no, they're not gonna say, hey, Jake,
everybody knew this, what kind of joke is this?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And it is a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, what I'd like to see is like when they do,
you know, he'll probably do interviews in front of crowds
where the crowd is just like, Oh, you gotta be kidding, Oh,
come on. I would like to see that sort of
reaction because it's that level of ridiculous. Like Albert said,
it makes me mental thinking about it. You're not gonna
actually pretend this, are you? Are you gonna get paid
millions of dollars to go around now and act like
(31:06):
you uncovered something that eight out of ten Americans figured
out on their own without your sources.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Here's one of the go to phrases.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really
going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats wouldn't
share with us.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Until after election day.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
The first nugget I hear that's even slightly surprising.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I'll let you know I haven't heard one yet. That's
even slightly surprising. Way to be a punchline.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Jake and everybody else that played along with it. It's amazing.
Mail bag. That's a good idea mail bag on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Next.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, this as well, but this texture gaslighting once is
annoying and frustrating. Gaslighting about the gas lighting is unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, you're gaslighting about the gas lighting. Yeah yeah, well,
uh again.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Jake Tapper and his book are most punchline and I
think that is appropriate and I love it. Here's your
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We Cansen's are proud of Dwight Eimeler. Okay, yeah, absolutely
able in Kansas, right, if you want total security, go
(32:22):
to prison.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
There.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The
only thing lacking is freedom.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Good one.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
As the budget negotiations get closer and closer to the
Republicans becoming Democrats and the welfare state growing and growing
and growing, and no meaningful spending cuts.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Got some interesting stuff on that coming up.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Kind of takes the fun out of the next election.
Here's your mail bag, drove us a note mail bag
at Armstrong you getty dot com. Another jay from San
Jose says a long time of Trump is a carnival barker,
mister Hype.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We all know the type.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Watching him in an interview today on his plane, it
dawned on me that this tear things set up a
door to door campaign with each country to sell them
American stuff, then incentivize them to invest in America. Then
we'll keep buying plenty of stuff from them. He's America's salesman.
He'll get you to buy something from the catalog. More
analysis on that coming up from various smart people. The
(33:18):
worst place for a tattoo ever really charming Tail Todd
in San Diego, Oh. He was visiting Charlotte on business.
Went to a burrito place. A fellow beyond the counter
was a big, pasty dude with a close haircut who
gave off an escape to mental patient vibe. After I ordered,
I noticed one side of his neck a tattoo of
(33:40):
religious icon common in southern California. Mexican culture, complimented him. Anyway,
I've got to summarize this, he At one point, he
opened his mouth, lifted his tongue, and showed on the
other underside of his tongue a simple but recognizable smiley
face in blue ink, which he did himself.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
He got a smiley face under his tongue.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
That's correct, did it myself, he said, then continued, that's
not the worst one, though. Once I took some viagra.
Oh dear god, no, I thought, And I'm trying to
decide how much of this.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
To re's hemet.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
He tried to tattoo one hundred percent Irish beef on
his unit.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
This is my favorite part, ton San diegoids. I nodded
slightly in a way that I hope would communicate that
I knew what his wang was, but not that I
wanted to know anything more about this. But it hurts
so bad, he went on. I only got to one
hundred percent Irish before I had to stop. Mercifully, my
burrito arrived soon after. I wonder if you ever completed
(34:51):
his masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Tattooing yourself under your tongue. I'm trying to figure out
how you would how would you see? You'd have to
have a series of mirrors. Ah.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Oh, I'm terrible at that too, looking at myself in
a mirror and realizing, okay, I need to move the
clipper a little closer to my ear, and then I
move it away.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
It's just I'm.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Helpless, absolutely helpless. Let's see, we don't have a lot
of time, do you. How about this great interesting thought
from JT and livermore about AI and he takes into
consideration that in the past, labor saving just meant we
were more productive and kept working the same amount because
we had the ability to become more wealthy. But he
says many human jobs can be replaced by specialized machines.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But many can't yet.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
But as soon as human form robots are smart enough
and cheaper than human workers will absolutely be a sea
change to our whole way of life. An additional wrinkle
that also comes into play when robots become cheap, worldwide
productivity is no longer.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Gated by population.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Imagine what a company could do if robot labor were, say,
half the price of human labor. Whole new levels of
production become profitable that weren't profitable using human labor. Ah,
it'll get cheaper and cheaper and more and more effective
like big screen TVs. That is, when the true dystopia arrives.
We will become a planet of human volunteers and hobbyists
(36:09):
because none of our actual value add to the production
process will have any value.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Boy, you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
You combine AI with the robot technology we see on
all the videos, and that will be a sea.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Change for the planet, no doubt about it. We got
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Speaker 4 (00:52):
Speaking of those being liberated, Pete Rose and shoele Us,
Joe Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Those are baseball players.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Yes, both of them are playing in the Big League
in the sky right now, Jack, there was God. But
both have been reinstated, unbanned. Well, they're banned for life.
I guess now they're dead and they're unbanned.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
A couple old bad guys might have been reinstated in baseball, Okay,
including probably the greatest hitter of all time. I'll adjust
my day accordingly, Yes, as quickly as I can.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yes, just as the late is justice enough. I don't
even know what lesson is here.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
You got to be our age or older to like
have really watched Pete Rose in his prime. So I
don't know how many how much helling.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
I got to be Joe Biden's age or older to
have watched old shoelace show.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Right, he swrought the horse hide around the yard. Yes,
so there you go with that. Yes, and then special guests.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would you rather have Pete Rose show up outside your
house at night or the Menendez brothers.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
I was always a Pete Rose should be in the
Hall of Fame guy. Always, yeah, always, always have a
little plaque explained in the gambling. It's stupid to have
a Hall of Fame that says this is where the
best baseball players are, but not the guy who is
actually the best at like the main thing of the game,
hitting it so hitting the ball. So but we don't
have him in here because the complicated.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
That's just dumb.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Yeah, I understand the reasoning. I just I don't end
up at the same place.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
And they do think it's different than the like if
you don't have Barry Bonds in the Hall of Fame,
because then his records were affected by what he did,
but Pete Rose's records.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Were not affected by what he did. Uh, that's a
good point.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Yeah, the induction ceremony would have been a little weird,
you know, having been banned for life for gambling.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Yeah, anyway, poor guy. I wish Pete would have gotten
that before he died.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
Yeah, you know, he was. He was an incredibly flawed
human being. He had a screw loose. He's like a
lot of the best athletes of all time in their sports,
there are only half wame.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
He was a gambler.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
He was not a pedophile, he wasn't a wife beat her.
I mean we put up with so much in wait, no, no, no, See,
this is where your non sports.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Status is showing itself. Even though you're a sports fan.
You can't gamble on your sport that that would ruin
it for all the time.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I completely get that. I have one hundred percent get that.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
But but having me hatred for him, Like I mean,
we put up with so much with athletes in sports
that do horrible, horrible things. Now, I'll go out to
eat with a gambler any night. I will not go
out to eat with the guy who beats up his girlfriends.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Now, you're missing the point completely. You can you can
have half the league beat up their girlfriend and that
would be horrifying, but it wouldn't affect the games.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I think you're missing my point completely. You said it'd
be an uncomfortable Hall of Fame ceremony. I think everybody
would have stood in chair because I liked the guy
and he was a great hitter, and you shouldn't gamble,
and you gotta be kicked out of the sport for that.
I get it. But in terms of like it be
young comfortable to be around him, no way.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Not uncomfortable at all. I give up write your.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Emails now, somebody who cheats in the sport that affects
the actual playing, like Barry Bonds did.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
What what the heck is that you can't have him
in the Hall of It?
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Is he in the least gambling is so bad because
that inevitably leads to that it is a fatal illness?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Well, clearly I won. Because he is now in the
Hall of Fame and been reinstated in baseball. I say
dig up his bones and reban them. Every thought it.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Pete Rose's bones. You're now rebaded a man for all
of it's here is he?
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And then somebody and then somebody would set up his
bones at a card table out of casino, have his
bones signing Baseball's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
A shot you could pose with the bones he Bucks's
shot exactly for some sort of AI voice, exactly, keep
the line moving, Keep the line moving, exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
You have an AI voice that could even say your name. Hi,
it's Pete Rose, what is your name? Nice to meet you, Jack, right,
thanks for supporting me in.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
My AI robots signs the pic and you move on exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
That might be actually happening soon.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
I've been to the sphere where they got that robot
out there that interviews you and talks to you and
everything like that, and it's creepy.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
It asks your name and starts having a discussion with
you and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Like do that with celebrities, but you got the video
of them, like a hologram of them or whatever, and
they're they're talking to you and.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Have a conversation. People would do that post for pictures
and whatnot if it's realistic.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Yeah, you're having a laugh with your old buddy, you know,
Tom Cruise whatever.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Yeah, pathetic, but yes, people would do that.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I just somehow I missed this story yesterday and I
had to look it up. To make sure it was true.
David Ignatius of the Washington Post, the big foreign policy correspondent,
said yesterday on MSNBC, of course it's got no coverage
because they hated it so much. Trump is definitely in
the discussion for Nobel Peace Prize with what he's doing
in the Middle East, right.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
To the horror of the MSNBC crowd. Apparently wow, wow,
Well they're dopes.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, And and interestingly enough, I've been pawing through email
to get mail bag ready and just the show in general.
And uh, there are a couple of really interesting theories,
kind of frameworks that folks suggested to use to look
at the frenetic and somewhat chaotic activity of Trump two
so far, some.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Very critical, some very positive.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
And I think it's useful and interesting because the way
he conducts, you know, the duties of the office are
very very different, is very very different than what we've
seen before. And some of it is off putting, but
then you come around and you see, ah, now I
see what he's doing.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Some of it might just be off putting, but we
will discuss.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
So he gave a speech just like forty five minutes long,
and I read one segment of it and thought, wow,
how have an I had already heard this today because
he gave the speech in the morning and I hadn't
heard much about the speech throughout the day. Then I
was reading my favorite political newsletter from Mark Alperrin today saying,
this is one of the most extraordinary foreign policy speeches
(07:21):
any president is given in a half a century, and
it got zero news coverage. So we'll read a little
bit from that later. I mean as a complete redoing
of US foreign policy in the way that we will
look at the world and very critical at previous administrations,
particularly Republican administrations. So you'd think from that standpoint it
(07:42):
would get a lot of coverage. But I don't think
the media takes Trump seriously at all with any of
his policy stuff.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right, Both the positive stuff and the negative stuff are
so personality based. You forget he's conducting the duties of
the president of the United States.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
To be present for another three and a half years, right.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yeah, you know, I heard a couple of specifics from
the speech that were interesting, but not what you're referring to.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Yeah, it's it's some pretty big stuff, and I think
a lot of you will agree with it on the whole.
You know, we went around the world starting wars and
causing trouble. It's pretty damned interesting. So we'll get to
that stuff a little bit later. We should start the
show officially now that Pete Rose is back in baseball.
I just, I don't know, I feel lighter somehow, I
feel like so.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I get the digger to the cemetery.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
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It is a Wednesday, May the fourteenth year, twenty five
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Speaker 6 (08:46):
I don't see much sense and putting me on the
ballot after I die. Most of the people who root
it for me my whole career would love to see
me in the Hall of Fame as a living player,
not as someone is ten feet under.
Speaker 4 (09:00):
No, it's a great whacker of baseball's there pre mortem.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Yeah, he also struck me as one of those guys
that never really had anything else after sports that mattered
a whole lot to him, which would be a kind
of a sad way to go through life because your
heyday ended at forty.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Which is not the best thing for a eighty year old,
right right.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
There are plenty of human beings, many of them in sports,
who became what they were, like the best ever or
in that top top, top, top tier, because they were
so obsessed and so unhealthy in a way that they
dedicated everything they had to it and.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Couldn't leave it behind. It's a bittersweet. So was he
a gambling addict? Is that what his thing was?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
How did he was a competition addict? I think how
did he end up betting on baseball? Was it just
did he finally get to the point that the only
way it could be exciting enough is if his own
team was involved in a bet?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
I wonder. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
I've just read about gambling addicts, mostly through Norm MacDonald,
the comedian who has lost everything he had three times
as a gambling addict, that it's it's all about the risk.
It's not even the winning, it's the risk and the
danger is what. And I wonder if Pete Rose just
it got to the point where the only way I
could have any juice is if I was so close
to what the you know, just the ultimate wrong thing
(10:25):
to do because it's it's it's it's some sort of
negative energy. Yeah, you know, getting it, getting to the
edge of losing everything you have. It's some sort of
like negatives. You know, if you believe in good and evil,
evil poll on you. Because there's no reason no, I don't.
I do not get a charge out of having everything
(10:45):
I've got that I've built on the edge of losing
it today.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
That would not make me excited in a good way.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Yeah, I'm looking at the other side of the coin.
It's the ultimate adrenaline rush. It's do or die. He
he was addicted to the feeling of do or die,
whether it was in the batter's box or gambling. That
was the only thing that could get his attention. I
think was the ultimate challenge.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
It's got to be horrible. I've known people like that that.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I mean, you've got that pull to just lay it
out there all the time, the do or die thing.
And the problem is, you know, if you're you have
to lose sometimes for it to be real. I mean,
it's got to be the possibility that it can go
the other direction.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Oh sure, yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
A good friend who in dealing with some addiction problems,
came to realize that his comfort zone was conflict and
that he was causing conflict in his life out of
like habit and upbringing that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
And Pete's I think.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
His comfort zone is it's zero and two with the
basis jammed, and he's in the batter's box.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Everybody's looking at you. It's all on you, it's all
on you, and he needed that after he quit playing.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yeah, I suspect, so yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
How does uh? So?
Speaker 3 (12:05):
We got Katie's headlines, We've got mail bag later. Mark
Halprin and Jake Tapper are never going to be friends
after yesterday. Mark Alprin did an episode of a show
last night where he took a part Jake Tapper in
this book that's coming out.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
Good because then it's a weasel on a DV and
I used to respect him.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
And it's horrified that the mainstream media continues to pretend
that they didn't know Joe Biden's brain didn't work. And
it's pretty damned interesting. I watched I watched a lot
of it last night, and we'll get to that later.
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Speaker 2 (12:46):
How about.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I'm not stealing a headline here. I just saw this.
Katie Trump given cyber truck motorcade through Katar after he
got his fighter jet escort.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
For the plane. Wonder he isn't cyber trucks for the
motorcade and Katar.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
No.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
No, is that a nod to Elon or something.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
It's kind of got a futuristic vibe that fits the
new Middle East where they're building everything as fast as
a can and everything looks like a spaceport from the movies.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
They have them all wrapped in a bright red that
looks pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
My favorite headline of the day, hog makes Democrats squeal.
Activist David Hogg really really making some waves in DNC circles.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I hate to see that all sorts of he's an
annoying kid.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Boys, he's one of the most annoying human beings to
come on the scene in a very long time. And
he gets the cover of you know, he was a
kid at a mass shooting, but he's still an annoying
human being, right.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Came en to that?
Speaker 4 (13:42):
All right, lot to talk about. Let's figure out who's
reporting what it's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 7 (13:46):
Katie starting with ABC Cassy Ventura to return to witness stand.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Today, looking forward to a Diddy trial update a little
bit later on Katie is a you know, testimony unfolds.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Do we know if it's more for the I don't
know how trials work. Is it more for the prosecution?
Or when does she get cross examined? Then they try
to make her look like a gold digging crazy woman.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
When the prosecution's done whenever? That is so days, I
don't know, I haven't.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Okay, but that how'd you like to have to take
that on? With the video out there and she's eight
months pregnant, you're going to try to tear her apart
in front of the jury.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Good luck with that, Yeah, tread carefully, young Attorney USA.
Speaker 7 (14:25):
Today, Israel intensifies Gaza bombardment as Trump visits the region.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Oh, got a great example of one of those the
mainstream media talking about Israel Israel's attempt to strike on
a Hamas later yesterday, but they bombed a hospital another
one of those stories.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Oh, for goodness sakes place, there are a couple of
really notable Israel saying, wait, what moments during this Middle
Eastern trip and they forgiving the sanctions on Syria and
embracing shaking hands with the new Islamist former al Qaeda.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
I even I even heard some speculation that the whole
taking the plane from the Kataris is the shiny object
to talk about. So you're not talking about the fact
that Trump's really ignoring Israel on this trip.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
Mmm.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I don't think the plane thing's gonna happen. By the way,
more on that later.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Well, if it's a distraction, that wasn't the point. The
point was not talk about. It Israe.
Speaker 7 (15:24):
From Reuters China's AI powered humanoid robots to transform manufacturing.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
If it doesn't start swinging its arms and take your
eyes out.
Speaker 7 (15:35):
No, but they're talking about a factory full of humanoid
robots folding T shirts.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
And making sandwiches, swinging their arms around like this, Katie,
right right in the face.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Take your eye. We're not gonna take your eye out.
They're gonna take your economy out.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
You fool.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
Wake up from Newsweek.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
Saudi Arabia rolls out custom mobile McDonald's for Trump visits.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
That's pretty funny. This was hilarious.
Speaker 7 (15:58):
It was just like a trailer McDonald's on the back
of a semi just in case.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
He wanted a big mac That is pretty funny. So
they got no mcdee's there in Saudi Was it cammel?
Speaker 4 (16:09):
Don jeez?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
I think I know that they do have a McDonald's
in Saudi Arabia because my brother said when he stood
in line at the McDonald's there was a line for
the men and a line for the women. You couldn't
separate lines at the McDonald's.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
This is a BYO Mickey d situation. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
From the Hill, Americans embracing road trips for upcoming Memorial
Day weekend, citing flight uncertainty.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Yeah, even when the flights go well, it's a pain lately.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
From the Wall Street journal women are drinking more and
doctors are worried.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah. I was going to talk about that later on.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
The numbers are actually quite surprising, quite shocking.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, thanks a lot. Men, you're the reason we're driving
women to drink. Hen't surprised me. I certainly have.
Speaker 7 (16:56):
And finally the Babylon Bee Jake Tapper uncovered startling evidence
that Biden's decline was covered up by Jake Tapper.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah. This this is an interesting development intro media and
then for between the media and the public. We'll talk
more about later. It's about time the book comes out
next week. His his promotion tour could be pretty rough,
armstrong and getty. So next week your book comes out,
(17:28):
that's going to get a ton of attention.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
It's already getting a lot of pre attention. It's called
original Sin.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
It'spite Jake Tapper the biggest star on CNN, and that's
in finger quotes because CNN has such low ratings.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Being the biggest star in CNN, it's not exactly that
a big deal.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
They brought Jake Tapper over to try to, you know,
get the network more competitive.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
They thought bringing him over would be a big get
and he is a.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Big name and the respected journalist, journal partisan hack is it.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
And his book comes out next week.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson who was with Political
is now with Axios or the other way around, doesn't
make any difference. And uh, a couple of things on that.
He's going to be doing a big promotional tour.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
On this.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I'm sure we could get him on the air. I'm
tempted to want him to get him on the air
and then have a not like what's that we you
like lay in wait, ambush, not like it. That's what
I was planning on, Not like an ambush, but more
(18:42):
of a because I don't know why. I've always liked
Jake Tapper. I used to he built a lot of
credibility with me over many many years when he used
to be on Imus's Show and everything like that. But
this one confuses me, and so I think there's something.
I think there's something going on that's more than just
you're a lib hack trying to get your guy elected.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
I think I think there's some sort of more complicated.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
We could all we can all be misled by our
our you know, our wishes being the father of our
thoughts or something that I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:17):
The culture that surrounds us.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
The culture that surrounds us who we hang out with,
or something like that where he got Jake Tapper, if
you believe him, actually didn't see the cognitive decline of
Joe Biden, and really nobody else did either, because the
White House did such a good job of covering it.
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Up, which so obviously laughable if you're not picking up
on the sarcut right.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
So there's been a fair amount of mockery of that
whole thing leading up to the book coming up coming
out next week, and I think the publisher is panicking,
so they yesterday or over the weekend put out a
sizzle to promote the book. Maybe we'll play that later also,
And it's got a whole bunch of clips. Jake has
(20:06):
been playing this on his show, a whole bunch of
clips of Jake Tapper showing how hard he was on
the Biden administration and how he did ask the tough
questions and everybody's misremembering his role in this. And it's
got edit after edit after edit of Jake Tapper saying
what about two thirds of voters who don't believe the
(20:26):
president could serve another term? Or blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah. Mark Halprin, who is my
favorite part political journalist, was incensed by that sizzlereel that
could got put out over the weekend, and he and
his team yesterday took it upon themselves.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
And I don't know how much time this took.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
They went back through every single clip and did a
longer version of it in context to show how incredibly
softly Jake, if at all Jake Tapper was pushing back
in any of these inuations. Why editing fest. Yeah, it's
like a half hour rebuttal to that, in which in
(21:11):
uh Mark Hauprin's angle is not to boost Trump. His
concern is, as I think a legitimate honest journalist, his
concern is he says, Trump's doing all kinds of things
right now that I think should be scrutinized heavily by
the media. But the media has no halft anymore because
(21:32):
nobody believed them because they lied about all that stuff
under Biden, so they couldn't They didn't hold Biden accountable,
and now they can't hold Trump accountable. And we don't
have a press that can hold any president accountable anymore.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
And that is a problem.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
And let's not forget that the whole just ludicrous Biden
is sharp thing followed directly on the heels of the
Russian collusion hoax. And so the impression formed in the
center and right that the press would print anything leaked
to them by Adam Schiff, no matter how many times
Shift clearly lied and so they were utterly undependable as
(22:08):
arbiters of truth, was then just completely reinforced by the
Biden stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
I mean, you know, We're.
Speaker 4 (22:17):
At the therapist because you had an affair, and then
I go out and realize you're having sex with the
therapist while I'm in the bathroom.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
I mean, we're done here.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
So, like I said earlier, I don't think Mark Alprin
and Jake Tapper are ever going to be friends after this.
I mean, because it was a pretty brutal takedown of
all of Jake Tapper's soft pushbacks.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
But this is from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
Jake Tapper's already started making the rounds in friendly media
talking about the book and how he tried to hold
the Biden White House accountable out accountable, but they were
just too good at lying and that sort of thing.
This is from Mark Alpern's show last night. We'll just
play a little bit of it.
Speaker 8 (22:55):
So Jake Tapper his book coming out in a week.
Here he is this more warning on CNN, creating a
whole new set of realities.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Watch this.
Speaker 9 (23:05):
You have an entire White House press corps though, following
him around, and I'm just curious as to whether or
not this kind of trying to hide what was happening
with the President at the time had an impact on
the press corps, Like why didn't we hear some of
these details from what they actually saw and were dealing
with trying to get information.
Speaker 10 (23:26):
Well, Alex Thompson and I were on the case, as
were lots of other reporters trying to figure out what
was going on behind the scenes. But the bottom line
is the White House was lying not only to the press,
not only to the public, but they were lying to
members of their own cabinet. They were lying to White
House staffers, they were lying to Democratic members of Congress,
(23:47):
to donors about how.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Bad things had gotten.
Speaker 10 (23:50):
And in fact, Alex and I started writing this book
after the election of twenty twenty four, and we spoke
with more than two hundred people, most of whom, almost
all of whom were Democrats, and almost all of whom
wouldn't be honest with us or wouldn't be candid with
us until after the election. And then after the election
we found out all of these things that when you
(24:12):
looked at what was going on with President Biden at
the time, it probably doesn't surprise you.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
The extent to which he was deteriorating.
Speaker 10 (24:19):
But now we have anecdotes and facts about what was
really going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats
wouldn't share with us until after election day.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
All right, again, amazing true. Here's something true that he
said that Jake Capper said on CNN this morning. True
that there was a cover up, that senior Biden officials
worked very hard to cover up as much as they
could his decline, including amongst other people in the government
and in the campaign.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
That's true.
Speaker 8 (24:45):
Here's two things that are not true, okay, And this
is where the credibility is this so important that people
be honest.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
I shouldn't be the.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
Only one in the media being honest about this. It's bizarre, okay.
One thing that's not true is that you needed that
the cover up was so good that no one could
see this, that we couldn't possibly have gotten to the
bottom of this during the election.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
Again, it makes me mental. It was clear.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
Halpern does like forty five minutes on this clip by clip.
It makes me mental. How can you possibly claim this?
And that's why I'd like to have jac on and
ask him that, seriously, what do you think is going on?
Do you think it's just pure hackery? I think it's
some more complicated human emotion thing or something which should
(25:36):
scare all of us. Yeah, I could believe pure hackery.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
I mean because they get away with I mean, if
you're broadcasting too or part of a ideological media bubble,
you get away with saying ridiculous things and nobody ever
challenges you on them.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
So I could picture getting bolder and bolder in your hackery.
Speaker 4 (25:56):
Yes, At the same time, well, I would have loved
to have us examined him after that question, because again,
the great lie of it, and this is getting to
your question, the great ridiculous lie of it, and don't
bs a BS or I could see his BS work
and well, yeah, I talked to you two hundred people
(26:17):
who were privated behind the scenes blah blah blah to
only be honest after the election, Jake. The word literally
is overused these days, but literally everyone saw it. Guess
how many people I talked to her be behind the
scenes in the White House?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Zero zero. And I knew it as clearly as I
know my own name, Jake.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
Your inability to divine what was obvious to the rest
of America, Now that's an interesting stone, right, Biden's old
in decrepit? Yeah, we know it is. It is stunning.
I'm hoping and Mark Alpert is clear, hoping that Jake
Tapper doesn't get away with doing a kind of routine
(27:05):
book tour where he does, you know, sixty minutes and
every channel and every radio show and every newspaper outlet,
and they all talk about it. I'm looking at the
New York Times, their their promotion that came out over
the weekend, or their review of the book a damning
portrait of an enfeeble Biden protected by his inner circle,
and act like it's not insane, right that the authors are.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Trying to get away with here's what we've uncovered.
Speaker 3 (27:31):
Everybody knew it, everybody was talking about it.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
But you mean, how interesting? This is so crazy?
Speaker 4 (27:41):
Well, and it's like some sort of weird second layer
of the Emperor having new clothes, because now you have
the New York Times and other enablers acting as if
Tapper's book is actually an amazing set of revelations.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Right, Yeah, surely this isn't gonna work.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
I mean, if I don't care if you are a
progressive or a conservative, we cannot function as a society.
If this is the level of credibility we have with
our media. I mean, that's it's true. Your question is
the right question. Okay, Jake, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (28:15):
What you thought.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Why do you think eighty percent of Americans figured out
the president wasn't capably being president before you and your
fellow journalist did. Having no inside right, with no inside information,
all we've got is what we watch on TV.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Right, isn't that interesting? Carefully carefully hidden president? No less right?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
Right to another point, it was still certainly obvious to everybody. Yeah,
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Speaker 2 (29:39):
Run your game, not somebody else's game. Your game.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
Yeah, I just wonder if it's only gonna be in
like right wing circles and mark Alprin where there's a
lot of the Taking a look at Jake Tapper's past
coverage of Biden's decline as this book comes out.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
He shouldn't be able to get away with this.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
He shouldn't get away with this even among the mainstream
or we're dooned. I mean, the ship has so sailed,
it's over the horizon.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Oh right, But they're not going to.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Accuse him of the very sin they committed with equal egregiousness.
In fact, I could argue that you know CNN, for
you know, ask somebody not forty plus about CNN, they're
being like, I've heard of that. I think it may
be on an airports. Its significance is overstated these days.
(30:30):
Having said that, the New York Times being one hundred
percent complicent and they're a far more significant media presence
on Earth than CNN is. So no, they're not gonna say, hey, Jake,
everybody knew this, what kind of joke is this?
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And it is a joke.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
Well, what I'd like to see is like when they do,
you know, he'll probably do interviews in front of crowds
where the crowd is just like, Oh, you gotta be kidding, Oh,
come on. I would like to see that sort of
reaction because it's that level of ridiculous. Like Albert said,
it makes me mental thinking about it. You're not gonna
actually pretend this, are you? Are you gonna get paid
millions of dollars to go around now and act like
(31:06):
you uncovered something that eight out of ten Americans figured
out on their own without your sources.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
Here's one of the go to phrases.
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Now we have anecdotes and facts about what was really
going on behind the scenes, with details that Democrats wouldn't
share with us.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Until after election day.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
The first nugget I hear that's even slightly surprising.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
I'll let you know I haven't heard one yet. That's
even slightly surprising. Way to be a punchline.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
Jake and everybody else that played along with it. It's amazing.
Mail bag. That's a good idea mail bag on the way.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
Next.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
Yeah, this as well, but this texture gaslighting once is
annoying and frustrating. Gaslighting about the gas lighting is unforgivable.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeah, you're gaslighting about the gas lighting. Yeah yeah, well,
uh again.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Jake Tapper and his book are most punchline and I
think that is appropriate and I love it. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day. This is an all
time favorite from Dwight D. Eisenhower Kensen pardon me, Knsen.
We Cansen's are proud of Dwight Eimeler. Okay, yeah, absolutely
able in Kansas, right, if you want total security, go
(32:22):
to prison.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
There.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
You're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The
only thing lacking is freedom.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
Good one.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
As the budget negotiations get closer and closer to the
Republicans becoming Democrats and the welfare state growing and growing
and growing, and no meaningful spending cuts.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Got some interesting stuff on that coming up.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
Kind of takes the fun out of the next election.
Here's your mail bag, drove us a note mail bag
at Armstrong you getty dot com. Another jay from San
Jose says a long time of Trump is a carnival barker,
mister Hype.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
We all know the type.
Speaker 4 (32:56):
Watching him in an interview today on his plane, it
dawned on me that this tear things set up a
door to door campaign with each country to sell them
American stuff, then incentivize them to invest in America. Then
we'll keep buying plenty of stuff from them. He's America's salesman.
He'll get you to buy something from the catalog. More
analysis on that coming up from various smart people. The
(33:18):
worst place for a tattoo ever really charming Tail Todd
in San Diego, Oh. He was visiting Charlotte on business.
Went to a burrito place. A fellow beyond the counter
was a big, pasty dude with a close haircut who
gave off an escape to mental patient vibe. After I ordered,
I noticed one side of his neck a tattoo of
(33:40):
religious icon common in southern California. Mexican culture, complimented him. Anyway,
I've got to summarize this, he At one point, he
opened his mouth, lifted his tongue, and showed on the
other underside of his tongue a simple but recognizable smiley
face in blue ink, which he did himself.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
He got a smiley face under his tongue.
Speaker 4 (34:01):
That's correct, did it myself, he said, then continued, that's
not the worst one, though. Once I took some viagra.
Oh dear god, no, I thought, And I'm trying to
decide how much of this.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
To re's hemet.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
He tried to tattoo one hundred percent Irish beef on
his unit.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
This is great.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
This is my favorite part, ton San diegoids. I nodded
slightly in a way that I hope would communicate that
I knew what his wang was, but not that I
wanted to know anything more about this. But it hurts
so bad, he went on. I only got to one
hundred percent Irish before I had to stop. Mercifully, my
burrito arrived soon after. I wonder if you ever completed
(34:51):
his masterpiece.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Tattooing yourself under your tongue. I'm trying to figure out
how you would how would you see? You'd have to
have a series of mirrors. Ah.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
Oh, I'm terrible at that too, looking at myself in
a mirror and realizing, okay, I need to move the
clipper a little closer to my ear, and then I
move it away.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
It's just I'm.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Helpless, absolutely helpless. Let's see, we don't have a lot
of time, do you. How about this great interesting thought
from JT and livermore about AI and he takes into
consideration that in the past, labor saving just meant we
were more productive and kept working the same amount because
we had the ability to become more wealthy. But he
says many human jobs can be replaced by specialized machines.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
But many can't yet.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
But as soon as human form robots are smart enough
and cheaper than human workers will absolutely be a sea
change to our whole way of life. An additional wrinkle
that also comes into play when robots become cheap, worldwide
productivity is no longer.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Gated by population.
Speaker 4 (35:48):
Imagine what a company could do if robot labor were, say,
half the price of human labor. Whole new levels of
production become profitable that weren't profitable using human labor. Ah,
it'll get cheaper and cheaper and more and more effective
like big screen TVs. That is, when the true dystopia arrives.
We will become a planet of human volunteers and hobbyists
(36:09):
because none of our actual value add to the production
process will have any value.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
Boy, you're right.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
You combine AI with the robot technology we see on
all the videos, and that will be a sea.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
Change for the planet, no doubt about it. We got
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