Another Boatload Of "Meh."

Summary

Armstrong & Getty On Demand

Episode: Another Boatload Of "Meh."
Date: October 20, 2025
Hosts: Jack Armstrong & Joe Getty
Podcast Network: iHeartPodcasts

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Episode Overview

This episode opens the week with Armstrong & Getty’s characteristic blend of cultural commentary, news analysis, and sardonic humor. The hosts reflect on political demonstrations—especially the "no Kings" protests—polarization in America, performative activism, and wider current events. Sports, international conflicts, and shifts in American culture are flavored with memorable banter and irreverent asides.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. “No Kings” Protest & Modern Political Demonstrations (00:34–07:23)

• Confusion & Symbolism:
  Jack drove his Tesla Cybertruck through a “no Kings” protest and became the target of jeers from protesters (00:27–01:54). Irony abounds: “…I’m driving an electric vehicle from the most successful electric car company in world history and getting attacked by liberals.” — Jack (01:54)
• Perceived Purpose:
  The hosts are skeptical about the protests’ aims and effectiveness, noting their scope but lack of clear message:

  "Nobody can quite tell you what it is, what it’s against, other than Kings, clearly, but it’s just kind of a generalized I don’t like Donald Trump demonstration." — Joe (04:00)

• Social & Emotional Drivers:
  They poke at the left’s tendency toward social activism, describing protests as “a giant orgy of approving of each other and saying, ‘Look, we’re all together. And doesn’t this feel good?’ …It’s political masturbation. Sorry.” — Joe (06:01)
• Efficacy of Protests:
  Protests are described as “overrated” compared to actual organizing for political change (06:15–06:47).
• Comparison with Sports Fandom:
  Armstrong likens rallying around politics or causes to rooting for sports teams—tribalism over substantive action (07:23).

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2. Sports Segment – Shohei Ohtani’s Historic MLB Performance (07:41–09:16)

• Awe at Achievement:
  The hosts recount Ohtani’s unprecedented game:

  “Many people are calling [it] the greatest performance by any single player in the history of a game that has been going for 150 years.” — Jack (08:12)

• Light Banter:
  The discussion devolves into playful ribbing about Ohtani’s build and smoothness, with Michael interjecting with subtle innuendo (08:54–09:16).

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3. The “No Kings” Protest Redux & Media Responses (13:17–15:28)

• Protest Analysis:
  Hosts continue dissecting the protest, noting the lack of unity and presence of Epstein-related signs:

  “On both sides…an. A high number of Epstein signs of some sort.” — Jack (02:54)

• Media Critique:
  A segment about Trump’s satirical video response (portraying himself as a fighter pilot dropping poo on protesters while wearing a crown) is described as a commentary on the state of political opposition (14:41).
• Security Concerns:
  Discussion about an FBI investigation into a hunting stand with a line of sight to Trump’s exit area at Palm Beach Airport raises worry:

  “I think we know what they were up to. That's a big deal.” — Jack (15:19)

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4. Middle East: Gaza Ceasefire, U.S. Diplomacy & Media Framing (18:54–25:34)

• Ceasefire Viability:
  Trump expresses optimism:

  “Yeah, the ceasefire is going to hold. …I think people are tired of it. …It's been centuries.” — Trump (19:02)

• Nature of Conflict:
  Both hosts and a news report describe current violence between Israel and Hamas, with Armstrong contending any peace is likely transient (20:28–21:23).
• Media Narratives:
  Discussion refers to the Washington Post laying blame at Hamas’ feet, while other media are critiqued for their framing (16:12–16:48).
• Ceasefire Architects:
  The hosts praise 60 Minutes’ coverage of Jared Kushner and Witkoff, challenging typical media portrayals:

  “They were…presented…as just corrupt crazy people… They came off as really, really, very serious, very smart people who worked on this deal and were able to pull it off. Good for 60 Minutes for doing that story.” — Jack (25:10)

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5. Continual Banter & American Politics (25:34–28:28)

• Sports:
  Discussion of MLB playoffs, payroll disparities, and the Dodgers’ unapologetic embrace of “buying” their success.
• Court News:
  Supreme Court to consider whether regular marijuana users can own guns—a question hosts believe should have a simple answer given the legality of alcohol and guns (27:23–28:14):

  “You can drink beer and own a gun… So how is this different?” — Jack (27:42)

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6. Mailbag & Listener Thoughts (29:35–38:04)

• Freedom & Socialism:
  Powerful “freedom-loving quote of the day” is shared:

  “Do not be seduced. Socialism is the sexiest path to losing Your freedom. Guard your freedom jealously. Defend it fiercely. Because freedom is not just an American promise, it is the hope of the world.” — Maria Karina Machado (30:47)

• Transgender Issues:
  Listener Dave questions the logic behind needing surgery if identity isn’t tied to biology.
• Civic Engagement, Election Outlooks:
  Hosts discuss public disengagement, low voter turnout, and how concentrated interests can win elections (35:30).
• Norms & Political Retaliation:
  They lament the “race to the bottom” in political norm-breaking and lawfare, seeing accelerated decline in restraint on both sides (37:07–37:38).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• “Things are getting weird and they’re getting weird fast. Yeah, it is weird.” — Joe (02:02)
• “Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd.” — Jack (09:57)
• “Protests are so overrated. Oh, yeah, they’re just, they don’t do anything.” — Jack (06:15)
• “I’ve decided I just can’t take that anymore. That whole thing, it’s just. It’s tiring.” — Jack on the cycle of political outrage (10:49)
• “Freedom is not just an American promise, it is the hope of the world.” — Quote of the day (30:47)
• “Socialism is the sexiest path to losing Your freedom.” — Maria Karina Machado (30:47)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

| Timestamp | Segment / Topic | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- | | 00:34-07:23 | “No Kings” protest, polarization, performative activism | | 07:41-09:16 | Shohei Ohtani & sports tribalism | | 13:17-15:28 | Protest redux, media responses, security concerns | | 18:54-25:34 | Gaza ceasefire, media framing, 60 Minutes interview | | 25:34-28:28 | MLB playoffs, Supreme Court/pot & guns | | 29:35-38:04 | Mailbag, socialism, civic engagement, political norms |

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Tone & Style

Consistently irreverent, skeptical, and humorous—Armstrong & Getty toggle between pointed cultural critique and self-deprecating banter. They challenge groupthink (on both left and right), call out performative displays (from protests to politics), and reinforce their value of earnest civic engagement over empty signals.

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For Listeners Who Missed It

This episode is a tapestry of the absurdities and ironies of current events, with Armstrong & Getty’s trademark candor and satire. You’ll get a flavor for the state of American protest, the role of media, and how politics and culture are increasingly tribal—and sometimes just plain “meh.” The show features sharp barbs, personal anecdotes, and a dose of world-weary wisdom for a Monday morning.

Transcript

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This is an iHeart podcast.

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

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Armstrong and Getty.

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And now, here's Armstrong and Getty.

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Live from Studio C. Senor. Welcome to a brand new week.

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Pregnant with possibilities. Good or bad. Who knows? Could be the week of your life. You remember forever. Oh, man, I'll never Forget. It was October 24th that I met her.

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Or.

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They could all fall apart this week. You get marched to your car with a cardboard box, she leaves you and you get a toe infection. All could happen this week.

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Or more likely, another boatload of meth. The worst fate.

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What's the thing we used to say all the time? Another stinking weak answer. Another man.

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That's right.

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Could just be that.

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Exactly. Yep.

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But here we are. And today we are under the tutelage of our general manager, Kings, which we want none of. For something. Screw that. Yeah.

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With all the Kings and such. No way, man.

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It's funny. My kids were more aware of the no Kings protests than I was, and I completely forgot about it. And I ended up driving right through the middle of one in my Tesla cybertruck truck. And that got a tremendous amount of attention from the crowd as people were jeering and screaming and yelling and pointing at me and flipping me off.

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It was quite the show.

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As my kids and I drove through that chase.

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There may be no better symbol of what odd times we're living in than that.

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Yeah, that I'm driving an electric vehicle.

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From the most successful electric car company.

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In world history and getting attacked by liberals.

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Things are getting weird and they're getting weird fast. Yeah, it is weird. Somebody, like, from another culture or another time asked you to explain that It'd take you a minute.

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I was charging. There's a Tesla charging station here behind the radio station. I was charging like I do after the show every day. And I was over there and there was this guy, young black guy in a cyber truck pulled in next to me to charge up. And then I asked him, how do you like your truck? Blah, blah, blah. He said, man, though, when I first got it, people kept flipping me off. And I couldn't figure out why because he's not a guy who follows the news. He said I had to research it. And I found out it's because some people ate the Elon musk. People kept flipping me off. I was like, what is happening? It's funny. But the no Kings protest, the interesting thing about at least the one I drove through, there was a counter Protest, too, but on both sides, there were an. A high number of Epstein signs of some sort.

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Another both sides.

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What? Honk if you're not on the Epstein list. I blasted my horn and gave me the thumbs up. I don't know what that meant.

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She's denying too much, if you ask me, Michael. Anyway, I get you. That's.

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That's still a thing. That's. That's what got you out of bed and down to the street corner today was the Epstein files and these Kings.

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That we don't want any of. How do they stand on the whole Epstein thing? You'd have to ask both sides, I guess.

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Well, the mainstream media, anyway, is calling it maybe the biggest protest in US History, certainly the biggest in that last half century in terms of a nationwide Protestant. But does that surprise anybody? We're the most polarized we've ever been at a time when people are following politics like it's their religion in a way that never happened. So, no, I'm not surprised on either side. I'm sure we'll have as big a one. You know, when they. When you have the Trump rallies all across the country and the boat rallies and everything, and nobody'd ever seen anything like that. Of course, this is our. This is our thing now. The. The national pastime is not baseball. It's following Trump whether you like him or hate him. Right.

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100% correct. And the thing that's so amusing to me about the whole no Kings rally deal is. Is in the size of it makes it even more amusing. Nobody can quite tell you what it is, what it's against, other than Kings, clearly, but it's just kind of a generalized I don't like Donald Trump demonstration. Right. And given what you just cited so eloquently and the. The permanent omnicause, which is, you know, a dozen, 15, 23 different causes, but they're all united around, I don't like conservatism or Trump or whatever.

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So I.

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It. It's all. It's so scattershot and vague to me. You'd think that if, quote unquote, the other side were to have such a massive, massive demonstration that folks on the right would be thinking, oh, my God, what. What do we do? What have we done here? But it's so scattershot. It's. It's mostly just amusing to me.

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Yeah, it was. Yes.

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Michael, you think it's just an excuse for people to get together.

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Yeah, that's something.

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Part of it, sure.

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We hate Trump getting together with the other people who don't like Trump. And, you know, it really energizes them and makes you feel like you did something. Yeah, I had not thought about that because I was taking it in as just a. Basically an anti Trump protest. But yeah, you couldn't tell from the signage as I drove through that. What, like any particular issue, it's not like when it was the Iraq war protests or something. It was a very specific thing.

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I think you glossed over Michael's genius analysis there, that on the left, which tends to be a little more emotional and a little more social, it's about, as we've talked about through the years, it's about approval as opposed to truth. If you have an opinion that's greeted with a great deal of approval, that's what you are seeking. If you're of that mindset, as opposed to like a careful analysis of if it makes sense or not, you don't even care. And so this is a giant orgy of approving of each other and saying.

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Look, we're all together.

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And doesn't this feel good? And by the way, it feels really righteous because I remember the civil rights movement and people demonstrating and all, and it's, it's just a giant ego fest. It's. It's political masturbation. Sorry.

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Protests are so overrated. Oh, yeah, they're just, they don't do anything. And because it happened once when everybody got all energized around the civil rights, which is as righteous a cause as you could ever have in our nation's history. And, you know, and who knows how much the protests had to do with that. I think Lyndon Johnson was hell bent, based on my reading, to get this done anyway. But protests are so overrated.

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I would agree. Yeah. Organizing is a lot, a lot better use of your time.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Whoopty doo.

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I mean, this was the biggest protest in the last 50 years. Almost certainly. Tell me by Tuesday noon, what the hell it accomplished, what minds it changed, what legislation it spawned. Really. Anything other than hot dog sales. I'd imagine there was a fairly good day for, you know, concessions.

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Right.

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At these sites. Other than that, nothing. It's just silly.

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Yeah. And. Well, and then where I am, the weather was gorgeous. So it was just like it was a party. It was like a good time. It's something to do. It's like if you were going to the football game, similar, similar sort of thing. You see friends and hang out. And while that was fun. Right.

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Why would people get together, wear the same color jersey, and yell and scream and high five Each other just because their cities rented millionaires were having a good game. Because it feels good to be part of a tribe, of a group. And folks on the left tend to be really, really driven by that.

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Speaking of rented millionaires, I'm wearing my Dodgers hat today. I'm not even going to call it a Dodgers hat anymore. I bought this at Dodger Stadium. My son and I were there this summer. We saw Shohei Ohtani hit a home run. Shohei Ohtani, Friday. If you don't follow baseball, he's a pitcher and a hitter. He batted three times, he hit three home runs. He pitched six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts of the starting pitcher. That is. Many people are calling the greatest performance by any single player in the history of a game that has been going for 150 years.

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People who say that are correct.

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That is absolutely. And the fact that it was in a, you know, send them to the World Series. It's not like it was the middle of July in a meaningless game. So just incredible.

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Yeah. Yeah. He's superhuman.

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Three for three, home run, strikes out 10, shut out the. The. The. Their opponent in four, six innings. That's just.

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What is he, the largest man ever in Japan?

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Very big guy.

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I mean, the Japanese people are not known for being, you know, physically imposing. He. He looks to be enormous.

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Yeah, he is. And he's so smooth. He's just one of those guys. Just the way he walks and everything. He's just, like, very, very coordinated, more than the average.

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Love is in the air, Michael. Huh? That's getting the same feeling. Smooth. Yeah, just incredible.

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Graceful, maybe that's the better word.

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Well, hey, you know, however you like your men. That's none of my business.

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Grace was a little less homoerotic than smooth.

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The two of you go for your Brazilians together or what?

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Wow.

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That's funny.

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That's funny. All right, we should start the show officially.

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Yes.

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I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, October 20, the year 2025, or Armstrong and Getty and we approve of this program.

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Hang on a second. Looking around, just making sure. Yeah, no freaking kings in here. Because I'm against that. All right, here we go. Officially, according to FCC rules and regulations, the show and indeed the week starts officially at Mark Trump's a bitch. Yeah. Why is that? I don't know. He's just.

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We don't like him.

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That's the word around any. Any particular reason why you don't like them?

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No clue at all. I'm just going with everybody else saying, there you go.

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Who's with me?

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Nothing draws a crowd like a crowd.

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Yep. Yeah.

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And I, I understand there are things you could complain about Trump doing that are certainly authoritarian.

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Ish.

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Whether.

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Yeah, I've got a list of complaints.

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Whether it's tariffs or blowing up boats or whatever, you know, some of the immigration stuff. But remember when Joe Biden was going around Supreme Court said I couldn't do away with those college loans, but I did it anyway? And the crowd would cheer that he had ignored the Supreme Court, which he didn't actually, but he liked pretending he did. Do you remember the last couple of days of his administration where he tweeted out that the Equal Rights Amendment was now part of the Constitution? Do you remember that?

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Right. Wow. Yeah. Nobody cared then.

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That was a king move of any kind. All right, whatever. Knock yourselves out. Enjoy yourselves. I've decided I just can't take that anymore. That whole thing, it's just. It's tiring.

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It's so tight to laugh.

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It is to laugh. And not smooth enough for me.

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I like things smooth. Oh, boy. Got a little stubble there going on. Smooth it up for Mr. Armstrong.

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I came across a study over the weekend of a woman writing a column about what happened to men. What's going on with men, why can't we date men? And there's some interesting statistics in there. And this female columnist, both blaming men for some of their decisions and blaming women for driving men into some of these decisions that I thought was fantastic.

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There is real momentum around the idea of coming to grips with the feminization of American society. I read a fascinating piece over the weekend that a number of folks recommended. I'm gonna edit it because it's long and get it ready for air, but it is absolutely thought provoking. And it's not like there's something wrong with being feminine or women. It's a question of balance, and we are way the hell out of balance. Speaking of being Al, but we don't want to deny the feminine Katie Green her time. So I'm going to step aside.

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We've got Katie's headlines on the way. You have any thoughts? Our text line 415295 KFTC.

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Yeah, we ought to check in on the old ceasefire to do that a little bit later. And some things Trump said on the plane last night. You know the. I somehow I missed this story over the weekend. Financial Times reporting that Trump and Zelensky were screaming each other in the Oval Office on Friday.

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Really? I hadn't heard that. I hadn't heard that either till today.

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But that did not go well apparently. Well, I don't know, there might have.

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Been a heated moment. Well, Trump said back to brotherly love.

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Trump backed off the Tomahawks thing after talking to Putin and screamed at Zielinski. So that looks like the way it went down, boy.

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What is going on?

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I don't know what's going on.

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All right, more on that to come. Let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the lead story with Katie Green. Katie, hit it.

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Alrighty guys. Starting with abc, widespread Internet outage reported as Amazon Web Services works on the issue.

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Yeah, a lot of your super giant sites were down I guess in the wee hours. Are they still working on it still?

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Yeah, they're still work. There's a couple glitches still going on with some of these websites.

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I've been checking them.

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Is it hackers, Chinese hackers, or is it just some sort of dumb you forgot to update or something or other?

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Amazon itself got you that. President Siri.

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I just chose this because it was hilarious. From cnn. Trump's response to no Kings marches only proved the protesters point. Did you see the video he sent out?

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Hilarious.

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Oh my God. They played it on the news last night. He's a, he's a fighter pilot in a plane flying a plane over the no Kings protesters dropping poo on them.

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And wearing a crown. The jet says Trump Kings.

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Trump. Right. Wearing a crown.

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Yeah. Right.

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From Fox News, FBI investigates hunting stand with sight line to Trump's Air Force One exit area at Palm Beach Airport.

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Yeah, that's troubling.

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Yeah. I don't know how good the hunting is down there in, in Palm Beach. I mean.

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Yeah, they got a lot of prize.

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Bucks running around through the woods.

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Well, even if it, even if they.

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Did.

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They called it suspicious. I think it's beyond suspicious. Yeah, I think we know what they were up to. That's a big deal.

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That's crazy. Yeah, scary. Good Lord.

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Can you imagine? I mean, we discussed this plenty when he was almost assassinated during the election. Can you imagine what that would do this country? Anybody? If you're a lefty and you think that that would help the country in any way, you are wrong.

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Oh, Lord.

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From CBS News, Israel launches retaliatory strikes in Gaza after saying Hamas targeted its forces, killing two IDF soldiers.

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Virtually every story I've seen in the Bigfoot media has been phrased in that very way. Israel fires at Hamas, claiming blah, blah, blah, where is Hamas violates ceasefire and Israel, you know, shoots at him.

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Well, I see.

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Which is everybody's description of what happened, unless you're like a super pro Palestinian activist.

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Even the Washington Post and New York Times, though, are mostly blaming Hamas. So that's good in there. In the text of their writing from.

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The Wall Street Journal, Trump turning up the heat on Latin America.

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Oh, yeah, yeah. That's an interesting front. Oh, speaking of the Journal, they had a really, really interesting piece about how China came to have such a stranglehold over the rare earth stuff. We need so much. We can talk about that maybe an hour or two because it presents a really interesting dilemma to a free society like ours.

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From study finds detached retinas, fractured sockets. Pickleball eye injuries soar along sports popularity.

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And this is just all of a sudden, pickleball's been hot for quite a few years. Just all of a sudden, a lot of people got whacked in the eye in the last week.

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All of a sudden, I like my retina. I was afraid of.

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That's exactly why Michael didn't play detached retinas.

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And finally, this one from the Babylon Bee, John Bolton's mustache agrees to testify against him in exchange for immunity.

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That's a good story. So when I see oldsters at a place where I lift weights playing pickleball, ain't nobody getting their eyes detached from those hits. I mean, they're kind of barely lobbing it back and forth across the net.

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Sounds like an editor said, hey, pickleball's really hot. Give me an angle on pickleball I don't know what it is. Tie into it, make it dramatic. Yeah, scary is always good. People getting hurt.

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Trump commented on the ceasefire and whether it's still holding or not, among other things we can talk about coming up. So stay here.

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Mr. President, is the ceasefire going to halt? Are you confident the ceasefire will hold? Are you confident that the ceasefire is going to hold?

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I think so. I think it's going to hold. I think people are a lot of reasons why it's going to hold, but I think people are tired of it. It's been, it's been centuries, okay? Not just recent. It's been centuries. I think people are tired of it. Yeah, the ceasefire is going to hold.

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And.

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Why are they even talking about whether the ceasefire, basically announced a week ago, is going to hold? Here's a news report on that from the weekend in case you weren't paying attention.

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Israel carrying out a number of airstrikes across Gaza and they also cut off aid to the enclave but have since reversed that decision. But Prime Minister Netanyahu had already threatened to cut off aid until all of the hostage bodies are returned. Israeli officials saying this was retaliation for Hamas violating the cease fire agreement over the weekend. Two Israeli soldiers were killed when Hamas fighters attacked their position along the yellow line, that area where they have partially withdrawn. Now Hamas says they have been going after criminal gangs and that the allegation that they're violating the ceasefire agreement is a false pretext for Israel to resume its heavy bombardment.

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Both sides are accusing the others of violating the agreement. But I think, and to me, the smart people on both sides are recognizing these are dead end or Hamas soldiers out there that aren't being directed by someone higher up as part of a movement. They're just, well, they're nihilist nut job Islamists.

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Right, right. Who killed a couple factions and sub factions of all of these organizations that we've heard about through the years. But yeah, the, the leopard will not change its spots. The idea that there's some enduring peace right now is, is practically fantasy.

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Really interesting. I feel like it's stronger than you do. The Washington Post editorial board. The Gaza cease fire is cracking. Hamas is to blame. Terrorist brutality risks igniting a Palestinian civil war. So the food aid got cut off. Israel bombed the crap out of Gaza after two of their soldiers got killed. But Trump said the ceasefire is holding both sides. Let me get the quote from the New York Times because I thought that was pretty good. I don't know if I can find it or not, but it was basically the both sides say they are committed to the ceasefire holding.

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But do the spokespeople for Hamas speak for the rank and file? That's, that's the disconnect here. I don't think they do anymore.

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Well, I don't think there's enough rank and file left to make a difference. So that is basically what the Washington Post editorial board goes into, is that there is not much Hamas left. Hamas is so weak right now that it faces challenges to its control of Gaza and, and is trying to hang on to power as it has for many, many years. Um, all the revolutions eventually consume themselves. Unfortunately for miserable Palestinians of Gaza, Hamas is not quite yet in its final death throes. But they are coming. Who knows what the next two weeks will look like. The problem with stuff like this is, you know, you get one bad, really bad incident that gets everybody completely fired up again and then all hell could break you loose. I hope that doesn't happen just because.

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Who'S the everybody in this scenario?

[C]

Do you mean like the, the average Palestinian? Yeah, yeah. If the average Palestinian thought that, wow, Israel doesn't mean it, or whatever.

[A]

Yeah, well, I. Did you know how long the death throws last is the question. I guess that there's some disagreement on. I, I see no reason for real optimism.

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So Netanyahu has got his highest approval rating. He's had in forever after the hostages returned, and his party is dominant according to the latest polls. So that's an interesting result. Yeah, and we'll see where this goes oh, JD Vance is gonna arrive in the region tomorrow and is planning to be there all week long in an attempt to get the ceasefire to hold. I don't know if you saw 60 Minutes last night, but their lead story was with Jared Kushner and Witkoff, the two main architects of the ceasefire. And I thought some of the conversations were really interesting. For instance, this.

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I heard the President asked you what.

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The chances were for success.

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Yes. And you said, 100%. And he said, why do you feel so confident?

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Yeah.

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And I said, well, we can't afford to fail.

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We just kept on thinking to ourselves, this finish line, this finish line is about saving lives.

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Yeah.

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So that's Jared Kushner and witkoff there in 60 minutes. I got a comment on this, but. But here's a little more from the report.

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We wanted the hostages to come out. We wanted a real ceasefire that both sides would respect. We needed a way to bring humanitarian aid into the people. And then we had to write all these complex words to deal with the 50 years of stupid word games that everyone in that region is so used to playing. Both sides wanted the objective and we just need to find a way to help everyone get there.

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The stupid word games. I talked about that a couple months ago when I was reading a book about the piece of cord under Carter back in the late 70s, and how they would have all these arguments over like one dumb word and they'd put it in, they'd have the this word in this agreement and change the word slightly in this agreement so that they both could sign off for it for their people and stuff like that. And that's what Jared Kushner was talking about, trying to get past these stupid word games they've been playing for half a century on these peace deals. But the thing I took away from, well, two things. One, 60 minutes leading with that story, treating them like adults and like, wow, this is amazing. What you pulled off, I think, is the Barry Weiss, Paramount, 60 Minutes. But two, it reminded me of when Brett Bear and Fox had the Doge team on. After all the stuff you heard about the crazy Doge people, then you saw him actually interviewed and you thought, well, these are really serious, smart people.

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That's why we heard for weeks that they were stone teenagers who just like to play around on computers and now they've been turned loose in the government. No, they're brilliant guys.

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The way Witkoff and Jared Kushner are presented in your mainstream or left leaning media as just corrupt crazy people with no experience and nepo blah, blah, Blah. And they were. They came off as really, really very serious. Very smart people who worked on this deal and were able to pull it off. Good for 60 minutes for doing that story.

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Yeah. Second story was like, super critical of the Trump administration, wasn't it?

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Very.

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There was some really good football on, so I didn't get to get to that. And baseball.

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How about the Broncos scoring 33 points in the four quarter yesterday?

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Do that in the first three quarters.

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Or to. To the Giants. The game is four quarters long.

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Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Game. Speaking of sports, game seven tonight.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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The Mariners and Blue Jays. Oh, Seattle fans rooting for you. They've never been to the World Series. The Mariners, they win tonight. They're going.

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That's a good story.

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But sympathize with the good folks of Seattle. They're not, you know, chucking firebombs at cops.

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Upstart Blue Jays, something, too. They're underdogs.

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Yeah.

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Either one of those teams. They're the exact opposite of the Colossus Dodgers. Did you see what the Dodgers manager said on Fry Friday after they swept their way into the World Series?

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No.

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What about critics who say you bought a World series by spending $400 million, way more than any other team. And he said, yeah, well, we're really going to prov. That's true. By sweeping in the World Series, too.

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And everybody cheered like crazy. Unashamed, Unabashed.

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Yeah, exactly. Well, why would you be ashamed? I mean, what am I supposed to do? I manage the team. They got me all the best players. Cool.

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What do you want me to do, lose just to make you feel better.

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Or set someone on the bench or what? What the hell?

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All right, this. What's good money after bad, bad money.

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This is different.

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Yeah, we spent the money, so we want to get our money's worth. Yeah, we're going to whoop a little ours. A friend of mine who's in sports financing pointed out that the Dodgers pitching staff is a higher payroll than two major league teams.

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Wow. That's pretty impressive.

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Yeah.

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Okay, we have breaking news. Before we take a break, the Supreme Court will consider whether people who regularly smoke pot can legally own guns. I didn't know that was on the table as a question.

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There are pretty. A couple of pretty big pot stories in my bullpen of news.

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The answer has got to clearly, yes. Now that marijuana is legal practically everywhere, isn't it? I mean, because you can drink beer and own a gun.

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But what if they get all stoned up on their marijuanas and carry their.

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Gun around shooting off their guns like potheads do.

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Right? Right. Sure. I wonder how they define regularly.

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That's a good question right there. The Supreme Court's gonna have to. Clarence Thomas will have to speak up there. Define regularly.

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If you don't take every third day off, no gun for you. This is an odd case. You're gonna take it on, huh?

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I just get high on the weekends. You can have a gun. I get high every day that ends with y. No gun.

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I do likes my gummies. No gun.

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Okay, we got the mailbag and a whole bunch of other stuff on the way. Stay here.

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I blew it all last week. I was trying to establish this new thing where I do a dumb joke right before Katie's headlines and I forgot it today.

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I was sad.

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My girlfriend recently dumped me. She said I was un American. I saw it coming from a kilometer away.

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Last week I did your combo chicken crossing the road. Knock knock. One to my wife yesterday. That's a good joke out of that sugar.

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Said sad.

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Yeah, here's your freedom loving quote of the day. This is a great one sent along by alert listener Ian it is from Maria Karina Machado, the Venezuelan liberty proponent who's been standing up against Maduro and won the Nobel Prize. Oh by the way, Ms. Machado was called a far right wing activist by NPR who prior to the Nobel Prize was trying to portray her as some sort of fascist monster who how dare she stand up against the kind and just Maduro regime. They really are too far gone to say. But here's what she said. Do not be seduced. Socialism is the sexiest path to losing Your freedom. Guard your freedom jealously. Defend it fiercely. Because freedom is not just an American promise, it is the hope of the world.

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That's pretty good.

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Yeah, yeah. I put up. And you know, I like to. You rarely have the word sexy in a freedom loving quote of the day.

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But.

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But I like her. It's. It's seductive. Socialism is one of the greatest scams ever concocted. Mailbag.

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I put a post it note on my mirror to remind myself, do not go boating off the coast of Venezuela. And just put a Post it note there.

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Right, right. You get preoccupied, you're thinking about something else. You're going along in your speedboat with two giant engines and well, K boy, drop us a Note [e-mail] this is a nice note from Dave. Good, good early morning. Fine gentleman and Katie, couple of musings from the People's Republic of Davis, California. Here's something that's always bothered me about the trans movement. The whole premise is that your identity is separate from your body. If you have a female body, that is irrelevant. If you identify as a male, for instance. Okay, got it. But if your identity is separate from your physical presence, why do you need to go through such machinations like surgery and drugs to make yourself yourself look like that which you say doesn't define you?

[C]

That is confusing. That is confusing.

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Then he throws in also, Joe. What do you tell a radio talk show host who has two black eyes? Nothing. You've already told him twice. It is an unfortunate variation. An unfortunate joke. Yes, yes. Not appropriate at all. Dave and Davis. Let's see, what else? Oh, let's see. Aaron, who is recovering from surgery and is ranting about Netflix, among other things. And he lists several complaints that he says, and furthermore, everything is gay. Gay to the max. Max gay. My kids can't watch this year's Halloween baking challenge shows because they're so frickin gay. Daddy, why does that man act like a lady? Daddy, why does he have a rainbow beard? He says, I'm stuck in bed recovering from spine surgery. So this media hatred is all extra relevant for me right now. Oh, we wish you a speedy recovery. Recovery. Moving along. A great example of progressivism. Joshon, it's been years since you've covered this topic. Not quite, but anyway. He says, I was down in La Jolla, California this past week. What a beautiful part of the world that is. Went to a restaurant which had no bathroom for anyone. Of course, the guy said, we can't let anyone use their bathrooms because the building is old. Not up to ADA code and there is a guy in a wheelchair suing all the businesses on their street trip because of it. The wheelchair Nazis ride again. Stupid people ruin everything.

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Yeah. Between wheelchair Nazis and the homeless situation, the idea of public restrooms have just gone away.

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Yeah. Yeah. Bums and junkies washing their, their junk in the Starbucks sink causing the downfall of America. That's disgusting. It's time for plain talk. None of you're dancing around the topic. See, moving along.

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God, I saw it coming from a kilometer away.

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You see, it's just not good. Oh. In the wake of the no Kings rally, which I want to talk about more next hour, the most impactful thing you can do today. Look at that. It's an email from team DNC to us. Jack, Team election day is just weeks away on November 4th. What? That's an off off your election. What kind of America do you want to wake up to on November 5th? Donald Trump will be hoping for good news. He wants to flip the New Jersey Governor's mansion. He wants California's ridiculous amendment to fail. He wants MAGA Republicans to take control of Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Here at the DNC, we don't plan on letting that happen. But team, we need your help. And here's the most impactful thing you can do. Send the money. Of course. That's contribution.

[C]

That's the big Prop 50 in California redistricting, trying to take on Texas thing. We'll see how that turn.

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We had got a note from a person in the know who said the no on 50 people have canceled all their ads. It's going to pass that California will become even more blue. What? That's how they interpreted that behind the scenes. So the most recent attest to its veracity.

[C]

The most recent polling and there hasn't been a lot was like 2/3 of Californians were saying, including 60% of Democrats were against it.

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It.

[C]

But the hatred of Trump has settled in.

[A]

Well, no, no. In an off off year election, turnout is spectacularly low. And they will turn out every single public employee union member and public employee adjacent union, like the nurses for instance, and they will vote for it. And their internal polling says it'll pass.

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Which has nothing to do with what most Californians think because most Californians aren't going to vote.

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Vote. Correct.

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Yeah. Okay.

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Yeah. It's the. A concentrated special interest wins lots of elections over a generalized general interest because the generalized general interest hasn't been given marching orders to show up. That they know they have to do anyway. That's why California is so Corrupt. Anyway, let's move on from that. Let's see CA expat happy in Idaho, right? And this is delightful guys. The topic last week about dressing dead bodies and the sounds they can make brought back a memory. I retired from a large fire department one day we had a call for a well being check. We found the subject slumped over a chair with the needle still in her arm and obviously dead from an od. While waiting for the coroner, my boss said to sit the subject up and when I did, the sound of air escaping, the body let out a very loud moan which scared the crap out of me. And the other new guy I'm sure laughed his ass off. Wow. You. It would freak you out.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Ah, the lighter side of drug ODs. See, do we have time for that? It's pretty serious. This is an interesting question though from Confused Jim. Guys, I don't understand your position on the race to the bottom. When it comes to one side prosecuting the other, lawfare and similar topics. For years it's only been one side and as soon as the other side does it, we're in a race to the bottom. One side can't just continue sitting on their hands while the other gets away with attacking the other. At some point one side will stop because they know the other will just do the same. But having one side sitting on their hands, it will continue.

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I think that's a pretty generous reading that both sides do where they think the other side's always done it. We've never fought back. We're finally going to. That's just not accurate. I just don't think that's accurate. We've been tit for tat. One rung on the ladder going downhill. Both sides in terms of breaking norms for a very long time.

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I think this speed of the downward slide is increased.

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Oh, no kidding.

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Yeah. Norms. What norms? Yeah.

[C]

Where does it end? Probably nowhere good.

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So how did China get a stranglehold on the rare earths? And what can we do about it as a country? It's going to take a little bit of creativity and departing from some of.

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Our principles and men have just decided I ain't dating any of y' all the heterosexual men. Why is that an interesting column about that we'll get to at some point. If you missed a segment, get the.

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Podcast Armstrong and Getty.

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This is an I heart podcast.