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Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. Live from Studio C. C's a york.
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Speaker 4: Are buffets really back? We'll have to discuss that. Live, new week, very excited, and today we are toiling under the title of the show.
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Speaker 3: French economists now advising California on tax.
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Speaker 4: Policy, not le joke.
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Speaker 3: Or if you prefer, brew crew takes two amid Ray's malaise phase.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow. A World Series title.
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Speaker 3: That is correct. Oh, the action. So exciting. How y'all doing?
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Speaker 4: Excited about a new week?
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Speaker 3: Huh? Are you kidding?
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Speaker 4: This could be the week it all comes together.
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Speaker 3: Wait, what?
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Speaker 4: Or the week the boss says, can I see you for a second? And they hand you a cardboard box. And the HR person stares at you if you load it in the box and then you take it out to your car and everybody acts like they've never seen you before or you never worked there.
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Speaker 3: Right, or that suddenly you become some sort of master criminal who must be watched every second because your bitterness would result in thievery and violence.
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Speaker 4: Or you get promoted to the corner office. You don't know, this could be such a week.
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Speaker 3: So that's very, very exciting.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I noticed the non-news item that I keep hearing in the last 12 hours is buffets are back because of the economy. All you can eat buffets are back because of the economy. And I just don't know if I believe that or not. I don't know that they're any hotter now than they were two years ago or.
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Speaker 3: I'm not anti-buffet if the price is right. I find I can't eat enough to substantiate the price anymore as an older fellow.
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Speaker 4: Well, you've got to win. As my brother says, if you're going to eat a buffet, you've got to win. And I don't want to win anymore. It's you against the proprietor, really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. In a battle for supremacy. They're challenging you.
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Speaker 4: It's basically the owner of the restaurant sticking his finger in your chest and saying, you can't eat $ 28 worth of food. And I've got to say, oh, yeah, I can. Watch this. Watch this until I'm sick.
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Speaker 3: No, not anymore.
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Speaker 4: You know, you're full and you think, I think I got $ 26, but not $ 28. And then you got to figure out what's expense. There's still like crab leg on there. Maybe if I eat a couple pieces of crab leg, I'll be at 30 bucks and I won.
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Speaker 3: You got an accountant behind you with a green visor on. No, you're still not there. Keep eating.
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Speaker 4: Because you're like me and you just eat pudding or something. That's not worth anything. Pudding's like a cent a gallon.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they refer to you as pudding people. Oh, yeah. Oh, good. That looks like a. Crowd of pudding people just walked in.
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Speaker 4: But it does highlight the economic situation, which apparently, from what I've heard from every single newscast for now for two months and probably for the next week, seems to be a big topic for the election, which is a week from tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Thank God it'll soon be over. Yes, it's it's past the miserable phase now into the why are you torturing me? God phase.
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Speaker 4: If there's any new information, I'd be happy to talk about it. And there are a couple of Obama and Trump were crisscrossing the same states and we got from some clips to play. But my God, I I'm a guy who's watched the Sunday talk shows for decades and And they're just useless lately. And I don't know if that'll change after the election, but just nothing.
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Speaker 3: And there's some there's so many big stories going on. What's going on in France is historic.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, we're involved in two wars that could go much huger at any moment and just barely a mention of it. When you can talk once again about high gas prices, have voters in Ohio's third district wondering if they can support Trump again.
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Speaker 3: For the millionth time.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Who wants that?
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Speaker 3: The key is you've got to walk past the buffet once and really survey what's there. Do not get fooled into piling up the salad, piling up the potatoes. All of a sudden you get to the end. Oh, my God, there's baby back ribs. You fool. That's why they put it there. You got to outthink them.
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Speaker 4: You pro all you can eat buffet or anti? Katie, I'm into it. You're younger, though.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm with you guys, though. I won't eat the amount that I pay, though.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I do. Oh, I can't. But I feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Michael.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes or no.
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Speaker 3: I used to be able to do it.
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Speaker 4: I used to love them, but I can't anymore. They do do that. They load the front, like, rolls, stuff like that. And then the expensive stuff's at the back. They don't fool me, though. I mean, I've been around the block.
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Speaker 3: You've been around the buffet.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, when I was 18, maybe I didn't know any difference.
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Speaker 3: Pudding Pete.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 3: I walk by those people.
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Speaker 4: I don't even wait in line. Get out of my way, you amateurs. And I get to the stuff that's worth something.
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Speaker 3: Right. Then you circle back to the front. If you want to roll. Amateurs. Right. And I do try a good role.
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Speaker 4: I was watching Fox and Friends. Every every network show I flipped to was talking about the buffet, I guess, because there's a study that came out that searches on buffets are up 250 percent since last year. So they tie it to the economy so they can talk about the economy and how Trump blah, blah, blah. And Fox and Friends, they're really big on the cleanliness aspect. That's why they were anti buffets. They're where I just I've never worried about that. You got a sneeze guard?
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Speaker 3: What do you want?
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 3: Guards against sneezes. You walk through the world every day. There's not a sneeze guard on everything you touch and look at. Here's a question for you.
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Speaker 4: This is a serious question.
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Speaker 3: None of us is a medical professional. You see something in the gravy that looks a little weird? You scoop it out. Oh, see.
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Speaker 5: Golly.
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Speaker 3: Oh, always. Always too far. But here's a sincere question. A medical professional perhaps could answer this. via text 415-295-KFTC, or if you prefer email, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. If you sneezed into a plate of food, for instance, and you had cold virus in there, and I ingested it into my belly, Would it crawl up into my nasal passages? I don't think it transmits. I don't think it would either. If you just swallowed it down.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it would either.
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Speaker 3: Unless the virus can, like, cling on to your mouth and your nasal passages. I don't know that.
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Speaker 4: I like to rub gravy all over my face, so it'd be different for me. But for most people. He snorts it like Coke.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Woo!
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Speaker 4: We'll get all the details in the buffet for later. Uh, later we will also play a clip. I just sent it to Hanson. I saw Obama in Michigan. He said something that made me so angry.
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Speaker 3: About socialism.
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Speaker 4: Really, really made me angry. If that's working, if that's where, if that, if that speech is working, then we, we get serious problems. Speaking of which we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, October 26th, the year 2026. We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve.
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Speaker 3: Of this program. All right, it's crunch time, time to get serious about politics, and let's do that precisely according to FCC rules regs, where the show starts at mark. By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj.
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Speaker 4: That's hard to miss.
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Speaker 3: That's stand-up. That's hard to miss. Oh, Lord. This is AI. This is.
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Speaker 3: Not the president of the United States.
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Speaker 4: No, that's the leader of the free world saying, stand up, would you, so everybody can look at your ass.
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Speaker 3: Look at that ass. Checking the chart. Low moment. We have achieved another low moment.
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Speaker 4: They don't even register anymore.
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Speaker 3: We got to expand the chart downward.
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Speaker 4: Nicki Minaj was on stage wearing all Gucci, looking very fabulous and saying incredibly nice things about President Trump. I haven't got the slightest idea. The purchase Nicki Minaj has on the electorate. No idea whatsoever.
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Speaker 3: That's such a fancy way to put it. Was she in Michigan? Is she a Michigander? Is she a Detroiter?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but do young people, my kids aren't into her. Do young people like her?
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Speaker 3: Old people?
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Speaker 4: Who likes her? Who's into Nicki Minaj?
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Speaker 3: I'll be on Earth to answer that question.
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Speaker 4: I think my parents know more about her, not her music, but her politics then. than younger people. So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, she gives permission to the 35 year old urban black voter to vote for Trump.
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Speaker 4: I don't have any idea. It was one of the thing I wonder. So Obama saying something about socialism had me worked up. Then you got Nicki Minaj's ass, which kind of blanked out my mind there for a second. And then that happens. What was the. Oh, so the new Fox poll out similar to a New York Times Siena poll of a week or so ago, like 90 percent. Of Americans are worried about government corruption. It's one of the top issues in the country now.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back.
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Speaker 4: Government corruption, which when we are kids, that's what all you ever heard about on the news. Yeah, I guess coming out of Watergate.
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Speaker 3: But the unions were so mobbed up and bribing the officials and everything. But yeah, I've got great info on. But they kind of disappeared.
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Speaker 4: Not the corruption completely disappeared, but the topic of corruption and it being a something people voted on. But it is back and it's it's been well earned.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 4: And there's a bunch of stories out there. So we'll get into that, too. Katie's got some headlines much on the way. Hope you can stay here.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 4: Got the Halloween decorations up yesterday, so I'll have them up for one week.
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Speaker 3: I really didn't ever.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. A week's long enough to worship.
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Speaker 3: Satan will forgive you for your late embrace of the occult.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: What's important is to come through eventually.
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Speaker 4: Six days of worship on the dark side seems like long enough to me.
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Speaker 3: Oh, boy. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's Lead Story with Katie Green. Katie. Oh, before you get into it, Katie. Speaking of Halloween, so my wife goes to one of her Canasta card games, one of those things. I can't remember. And her buddy was serving peanuts. Peanuts? And candy corns, which, according to legend and fact, tastes exactly like a payday bar.
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Speaker 4: Peanuts and candy corns?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: Those two things taste exactly like a payday bar.
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Speaker 4: Boy, I got to check that out.
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Speaker 3: She said it's like crack. Really? Oh, yeah. Why am I this age and I'm just learning this? Because we've talked about it in years past and you've forgotten. But I was reminded of it. So you can just get a.
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Speaker 4: Big bowl and pour in candy corn and peanuts.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And it tastes... Really? What's the ratio got to be? 50-50?
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Speaker 3: Experiment. You know, you're driving this bus. I don't know. Precisely seven to six. No, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's do the headlines here. A breaking headline from the Wall Street Journal. AI giant Anthropic unveils paperwork for blockbuster IPO.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it doesn't include the numbers, but I was just reading this. It is likely to be, it's certainly top five, quite possibly biggest IPO in history when it launches. So for better or worse.
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Speaker 2: Crazy. Crazy.
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Speaker 6: And the alphabet networks are kind of all over the place this morning.
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Speaker 5: So ABC, violent protests across Europe, police and protesters clash in Paris.
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Speaker 4: 400,000 protesters on the street and 70,000 cops. Rioters, communists, revolutionaries, Islamists. Not sure I love the term protester.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: CBS News poll finds the Democrats still boosted by voters' economic concerns, but many don't think either party.
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Speaker 4: Has a plan.
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Speaker 3: That would be correct. NBC.
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Speaker 6: Grand Theft AI.
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Speaker 5: Highway thieves are stealing millions in data center gear.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 2: How?
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Speaker 5: They're apparently just pulling up, loading up the stuff from the construction sites and leaving.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not shocked because there's a lot of valuable metal and such and more wiring than you could even conceive of in those things. CNN.
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Speaker 5: U.S. has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses.
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Speaker 4: Man, there's some big news around that over the weekend. Us and Iran having plans to attack them. Iran having plans to attack us, according to The New York Times. We'll get into that later.
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Speaker 6: Axios.
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Speaker 5: Netanyahu presses Trump for more support ahead of tight election.
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Speaker 4: Which is when?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow? Tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: New York Times.
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Speaker 5: Elon Musk says Ukraine violated Starlink's rules.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't disagree with Elon more on this. We'll talk about that later also. Man, what he said over the weekend, calling people like me warmongers for wanting more dead bodies.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was bizarre. The stuff about Starlink, I got. And we'll dig into this if you're not up on it. But yeah, his commentary I found just hallucinatory. I couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 5: From the New York Post, $ 89, 000 AI robot unleashed in New York City Park to learn human behavior.
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Speaker 3: So it can better stalk us?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 5: I saw a video of this and they taught the thing how to do freaking heart hands. And ever since you guys told me it takes a certain type of person to do heart hands, I can't.
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Speaker 4: Feel that.
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Speaker 8: It does.
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Speaker 4: You either are the sort of person that would ever do that, non-ironically, or you're not.
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Speaker 5: And there's two different types of heart hand people. There's the regular heart hands, and then there's the these, I forget how they do it, but they do a weird thing with their fingers and it.
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Speaker 4: I and I raised two boys who would never, I think at the point of a gun, we'd rather die than non-ironically do heart hands. God bless you for that.
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Speaker 3: I saw a running back do that after he scored a touchdown. He did a little I love you, I think, to his wife, maybe. If it's for his little girl or something like that, you get a pass.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If I have scored a touchdown.
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Speaker 4: If I had a six-year-old girl and it made her happy, I'd do it all day long.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 4: That's different.
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Speaker 7: Right. All right.
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Speaker 3: We have a doctrine. Okay.
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Speaker 5: Study finds most GLP-1 users say they no longer recognize themselves in the mirror for better or for worse.
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Speaker 3: I would assume it's for better. Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: You see some of the, like, Ozempic face in Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Where it's getting a little scary.
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Speaker 4: I know a few people like that. They're much thinner.
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: But they, yeah.
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Speaker 6: And I felt this one in my soul. From the Babylon Bee.
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Speaker 5: Nurse wakes sleeping new mom for 17th time to remind her to get some rest.
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Speaker 6: Oh, God.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. What? What, what, what, what?
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Speaker 4: How have they not caught on to this by now that it's like a comedian bit?
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Speaker 6: It really is.
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Speaker 4: Do they not know that the other people come in every five minutes because they all have their own jobs? Maybe they're completely unaware that there are eight other people that come in in between their visits.
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Speaker 3: Right, but the fact that they seem to semi-intentionally distribute it so that it's every 49 minutes somebody comes in, just when you're getting relaxed and you're starting to doze off, oh, time to take your temperature, time to give you your pills, time to take your blood pressure, time to do whatever. And just, yeah, let's do a cluster. Let's do a big, it's going to be like a NASCAR pit crew, all right? You're all going to gather around the bed. You're going to go really, really fast. We're going to get this done in five minutes.
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Speaker 4: You've got the enema tube. She's got the blood pressure cuff.
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Speaker 5: I love that the nurse came in, and she goes, I'll be back at 640.
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Speaker 6: You get some rest. 640 was in 12 minutes.
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Speaker 4: How do you sleep at home? Do you sleep in, like, eight-minute increments at home? Is that the way you do it? I don't normally.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I guess nurses are quitting their jobs in droves right now.
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Speaker 4: To do what?
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Speaker 3: Not that anymore. We will get into some of those stories that we mentioned coming up.
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Speaker 5: Armstrong.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 7: What they're doing, which is par for the course, is running all kinds of scary ads to make you think Democrats are radicals or communists or jihadists or the woke police that will come arrest you and force feed you tofu.
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Speaker 4: Instead of hamburgers.
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Speaker 7: What is radical about that? Wanting everybody to have health care?
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Speaker 4: How's that radical? So that's not the whole clip. He goes on to say, wanting everybody to have housing, how is that radical? Wanting everyone to have health care cradled to grave and everyone deserves housing is, by definition, radical.
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Speaker 3: No matter what choices they make, etc.
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Speaker 4: And completely unaffordable. And there's never been a country in the history of the earth where that provided those things, sustained and sustained it. They do have a cradle-to-grave health care in a bunch of countries, but they are setting their buildings on fire, maybe you've seen in the news, because they're running out of money.
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Speaker 3: Well, and to go to housing, which he throws off as if it's obvious. Oh, my God. Other than the Soviets, and that was famously just horrifying and miserable and favoritism ruled the day it was just what off but he's he's a gifted politician.
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Speaker 4: He's really good at that he reminds me he's like trump he and trump both have that they have ability to say like really strong things but put them in such kind of a folksy funny way it's like yeah you're right that's not a big deal and sometimes what they're saying is a really everybody should have housing of course they should right or whatever it is you know trump's version of the same sort of thing but um The other thing Obama was on, the thing he said earlier about the woke police, they're going to arrest you for eating tofu. No, they're going to pass a law. They have passed laws that the school's not allowed to tell me if my fifth grade boy decides to be a girl. It's against the law for the teacher to tell me that's the woke police we're talking about, not. making me tofu. But it's pretty funny.
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Speaker 3: Going to close the schools, close your business, make you stay home, even though there's no particular risk from COVID for you, etc. Yeah, the woke police are going to end my career if I dare question any of their doctrines. With the help and congratulations of the state legislature.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But Obama is really, really good. And if I was a Democrat, I'd want to trot him out, too. You know what I haven't heard anybody mention? And maybe it's because it's not even worth mentioning. But you would think that the most recent Democratic president would be out there on the campaign trail. But he is nowhere to be seen. And that guy ran for president, Joseph Biden. He wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't be halfway through his term. He wouldn't even be halfway through yet. He wouldn't even be halfway through.
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Speaker 4: He'd have more than two years to go, and he's not capable of going out to any rallies. Bubba's been wet. Isn't that crazy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Not even a single one.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to serve an entire four-year term and know I'm perfectly fine. And anybody who says I'm not is just a liar.
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Speaker 3: He's nowhere to be seen. This is the best Biden ever. And if you don't believe it, ask you. All right. Truman International under pressure. And he can't step on stage anywhere for obvious reasons. Truman International under pressure. The clip was like from his prime compared to his last several months in office.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, we've got a little more Obama later, and I want to particularly complain about, man, he gave quite the rousing little segment of his speech about how we had Iran under control. We stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and we didn't need to go to war. And what a freaking lie that is.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Stay tuned for that.
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Speaker 3: That is definitely the hot narrative these days. So, Brett Baer was in Michigan for Candidate Forum, and he interviewed both Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, and he gave Abdul a good long time to talk about health care and asked some good devil's advocate questions, good journalistic questions. Then they talked a little bit about wait times, waiting for care in your socialized medicine places. And Al-Sayed started to come off as really smug and dismissive. And when I was a kid, the word was snotty. He just came off as snotty to Brett and contemptuous of anybody who would even ask, who would dare ask questions of him, of himself with a capital H. And it escalated until finally Brett at the end asked him about the Muslim Brotherhood stuff.
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Speaker 4: Mike Rogers has been really hitting this Muslim Brotherhood thing. I know you don't want to talk about your family and the history there, but.
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Speaker 8: He goes back to his campaign sites. No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: Let me just stop there. You are asking this question.
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Speaker 8: To raise a question about whether or not I have dual loyalty.
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Speaker 3: This is specific. His campaign sites say 2012 statement.
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Speaker 8: My loyalty will be to the Constitution of the United States.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 8: And as every senator who's ever served. I will swear an oath to that Constitution.
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Speaker 2: I'm not interested.
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Speaker 8: I'm not interested in what you're going to pull out. In a ridiculous 2012 statement, in a letter, you're going to pull that out of context. You're going to ask questions about my allegiance. Let me just be clear.
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Speaker 4: This is Roger's campaign. I'm just asking you about that.
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Speaker 3: Don't be Roger's campaign.
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Speaker 5: Be a journalist.
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Speaker 8: So as a journalist, if you're asking the question about my allegiance to the Constitution, I have never been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I never will be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I am interested in serving the United States. I'm interested in swearing an oath to the Constitution that every senator has sworn an oath to. If the question about my faith is the issue, which Mike Rogers wants it to be, I think it is sad and beneath him, and frankly beneath the President of the United States, to make that an issue. Because under our Constitution, you're guaranteed the right to pray as you.
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Speaker 3: Choose to pray.
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Speaker 4: Eye of the Beholder, you probably didn't see this, Joe, but on MSNBC, that was portrayed as Brett Baer hitting El-Sayed with Republican talking points about a question El-Sayed has answered over and over again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Well, that's one way to look at it. Completely incorrect, but one way. Yeah, and notice, folks, at the end, his dodge that I have the right under the Constitution to pray however I want. Yeah, you do. What you don't have the right to do is introduce a new quasi-religious political system in the United States under the cover of personal faith while your entire history is of– and I've got so many examples of this, and I'll unleash them for you if you'd like. You have so many ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. You and your family, things you've written, letters you've signed, your contribution network is practically a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, the money you get.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Brett didn't get to finish his question. So when Brett started in 2012 letter, he was talking about the letter that El-Sayed wrote to the Muslims. want to be at that time president of Egypt, who was ahead of the Muslim Brotherhood there in Egypt. He was El-Sayed was behind the Muslim Brotherhood, Brotherhood becoming the government, which is kind of an interesting term when you use their ideology in Egypt. And he hasn't answered that question, really.
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Speaker 3: No, and he's not going to because he can't. If he were to answer it honestly, it would doom his campaign because he would be revealed as an activist supporter. of the Muslim Brotherhood and as an Islamist. And if he lied, I'd say it'd be too easy to catch him in his lie because, again, he, and this flows both ways, he has been so open in his support and so many of his supporters, I mean, for instance, the 2012 letter that we're talking about urging leaders of the Egyptian community, blah, blah, blah, that newly elected President Mohamed Morsi, longtime Muslim Brotherhood leader, should purge the media and the police as quickly as possible. Dr. Haney Sacher, who signed the letter as part of the Egyptian Association in America, has given $ 1, 000 to Al-Sayed's campaign. Sacher has a long history with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that's just one example of many. The guy is exactly what he seems to be.
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Speaker 4: Well, he's a dual citizen, so he's a citizen of the United States and Egypt and other countries.
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Speaker 3: Now he denies that's true. He claimed it for years. Now he says, no, that's not true. I didn't say that. even though there's tape of him saying it.
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Speaker 4: He wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to be in charge of the other country that he claims is his home country. So it's not crazy to wonder, do you want the Muslim Brotherhood to be in charge here since you want them to be in charge in Egypt?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Well, I think the people of Michigan are waking up slowly but surely. You characterized El Sayed the other day as being a little, I can't remember, one of us said Ramaswamy-like or somebody else. I feel like he's like Chris Christie in that Chris Christie came off in the beginning for a lot of us like, love the way he pushes back and his snark and he didn't put up with crap. And then pretty soon it's just like, all right, I get it. You're smarter than everybody you've ever met in your life. And I feel like that's the way El Sayed comes off at this point. Yeah, you talk really fast so they can't finish the point. And then you shame them with your incredible intellect and your your sparkling verbiage and the rest of it and shame bread into silence. Yeah. OK, we can see what you are. I hope the people of Michigan can. Sure as hell. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: That'll be something. He's absolutely the most radical major party Senate candidate probably in our nation's history, certainly in the last since the Civil War.
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Speaker 3: When people say that, when you're saying it, does that include the Islamism? Or is that just the politics of it, the socialism aspect of it?
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Speaker 4: Either would qualify, I think.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if he were an Islamist who believed in free markets and lower taxes and let's deregulate, that would still be friggin' radical. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, he's he's a big, giant, swirling ball of he is the Red-Green Alliance. He's an Islamist.
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Speaker 2: A U.S.
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Speaker 4: Senator running on cradle to grave health care, free housing. And what is this big one? Just completely undoable.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But, you know, but he does what he is good at is hammering the grocery stores. I had a DoorDash yesterday order from the grocery store. Did my kind of beginning of the week, make sure we got enough everything for school lunches and all that sort of stuff. And it was $ 200. And I DoorDashed it because, what was I doing? Oh, we were putting up Halloween stuff. Anyway, DoorDash guy pulls up and I said, I remember when it would have been almost impossible to come up with a $ 200 grocery bill. I mean, it just doesn't seem like that long ago that it would just unless I was ordering all steaks or something.
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Speaker 3: How would I have spent $ 200?
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Speaker 4: Not just your regular groceries, just some milk and some cereal and some bread and some peanut butter and some whatever.
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Speaker 3: And you get 200 bucks. It's just amazing. So El Sayed hammers that over and over again.
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Speaker 4: And that's pretty fertile ground for people's top of mind concerns.
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Speaker 3: And the DoorDash guy responded, why don't you go take your best gal to the Nickelodeon with Joe Biden, old man? Now, here's your groceries. Get out of my face.
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Speaker 4: He actually said, I know. And then he talked about every order that I get is like between 80 and 200 dollars. And it used to be blah, blah, blah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, so speaking of uh el sayed and his uh socialist.
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Speaker 4: Dream and i told him don't look don't look at me because i tell the the uber drivers the door dash drivers don't make eye contact well that.
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Speaker 3: Goes without saying they're your servants.
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Speaker 4: I got to admit, I felt pretty, I thought, this is a weird dynamic. I don't know if I like this. I like it better when I'm at my house hiding when they deliver the groceries to Mordor, rather than I'm on my lawn like, and he's thinking, why didn't you go to the grocery store?
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Speaker 3: It's like five minutes away. Just saying. Oh, so speaking of Al Sayed and his plans for America, you're going to think this is a joke. Two very influential French economists, and my God, they've done a fine job back at home, are now advising California and the pro-billionaire tax crowd. They are actively, openly trying to turn America into France. Good Lord, we'll tell you about that next hour. But first, speaking of money matters. A word from our friends at Blue Collar Dollar. Great service, great name, but a great service for anyone looking for down-to-earth, straight talk about financial planning. If your blood pressure goes up every time you hear about grocery bills, taxes, stock market swings, all kinds of different stuff, make the call to Blue Collar Dollar and have a real conversation about your financial future. Yep, it's complimentary if you've saved $ 250, 000 or more, no obligation at all, and they make it easy. Simply dial pound 250 on your cell phone and at the prompt Say blue-collar dollar. Easy as that. Dial pound 250. Get ready to say blue-collar dollar. Down to earth, taking control of your financial future. Call blue-collar dollar. Pound 250. Say blue-collar dollar.
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Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 9: So we're getting lots of texts about the strategy at buffets since as we opened the show with buffets are back apparently because of the economy.
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Speaker 4: And somebody said, man, if you're at a crab leg buffet, all you can eat crab leg buffet, they absolutely try to load you up on rolls and salad at the beginning.
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Speaker 5: Of course.
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Speaker 4: Smart at all. You walk around, you walk past it. You just, you don't put your hand up to your eyes like blinders. So you don't even.
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Speaker 3: See the rolls.
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Speaker 4: Get to the crab. Win. You got to win. Right.
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Speaker 3: That's buffet 101. Come on.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. This is from Douglas Adams from his book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which I believe was... The sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I love this. It's not the first or only person to express this, but he does it well. To summarize, it's a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule are ipso facto those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary, anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. Okay. You know what I don't like? I agree. What I hate, and this is going to be like, because it's so brutal right now, normal, decent people don't want to run for office, mostly, because it's just too ugly and humiliating and dangerous now. And so all you get is people who from the age of 16 dreamed of nothing but being in office and being on the Hill and having that power and that wealth. So, you know, we don't need those people anymore. as our representatives. We need our neighbors, our business people doing it, and it's getting harder and harder. Well, mailbag. Drop us a note. Mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Zach writes, this is my favorite email of the day. Guys, I haven't been listening much these days. I've decided to take a brief hiatus in order to delve into some books that have been beckoning me from my bookshelf all year long. That said, I really want to read about the French Revolution. Jack mentioned a book years ago. All right, so let me summarize this email for you. I'm not listening as much because I want to read more books. Can you recommend some books? Hey, Johnny, sorry I haven't been to your sandwich shop lately. I'm trying to eat more salads. You know any places with really good salads I could go to? Count Sand, Zach. Read this. Read that. What does that say to you, huh?
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Speaker 4: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
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Speaker 3: Universally recognized gesture right there. Moving along. Matt writes, here's a T-shirt I would buy, guys. Your share of the U.S. national debt is $ 117, 000. If you're a taxpayer, it's $ 362, 000. I would wear that shirt. Love show, Matt, a Midwest kid who moved to Portland in 91 after graduating from college and moved back to Fargo in 2020 after Portland fell.
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Speaker 4: If you're a taxpayer, the fact that half of people aren't.
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Speaker 3: Correct. Not to mention, not to mention chillin's. Ooh, children's ain't paying taxes. When will babies pay their fair share?
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Speaker 4: I just saw on TV it's National Pumpkin Day. Happy National Pumpkin Day.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thanks. Same to you and yours. Let's see. Moving along. The final, final, final note on the Shane Gillis fake reversi.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I've read some interesting stuff about that. Clearly, woke has had a resurgence.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. It never went away.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think it definitely subsided, but I think it's got re-energized, like it's on the upswing.
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Speaker 3: Right, right. But my argument with a lot of people, including some people I think ought to know better, they act as if like because Russia is not attacking as much, their army has gone away. No, it's just an adjustment of strategy. It's still that philosophy is still there. Anyway, let's see. Joe writes, Shane Gillis, Fallout reminded me of a cartoon I saw. 30 years ago, showed a woman sitting in a plastic surgeon's office explaining what size she wanted for her breast augmentation. The caption is, I want them just big enough so I can get mad when men stare at them. Wow.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: As you learned, as I learned a week or so ago, that is the best indication of how the economy is. People who do boob jobs. When the economy is going well, women are getting boob jobs. When they pull back, you know the economy is rough.
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Speaker 3: And then it's funny, Joe was one of two people, including Ana Luisa, to quote Ecclesiastes 1, verses 9 through 11. What has been is what will be, and what has been is what will be done. There's nothing new under the sun. One of the rapidest of Bible verses. Let's see. JT Livermore commenting on the discussion last week about how we need to befriend the bots so they won't wipe us out. Wow. He said, this is the stupidest, most naive thing I've ever heard. Think about it for a second. We lowly humans need to kiss up to AI bots because they're going to be so much smarter and more powerful than us. Hey, AI guru, if they're so much smarter than us, won't they see through the incredibly shallow and obvious ploy of kissing up to them? And won't they simply conclude that our kissing up is totally insincere? Sorry, AI guru. If that's the best advice you can give, you can sit down and let the adults in the room take over. We have so much good stuff on the way.
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Speaker 4: Are buffets really back? We'll have to discuss that. Live, new week, very excited, and today we are toiling under the title of the show.
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Speaker 3: French economists now advising California on tax.
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Speaker 4: Policy, not le joke.
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Speaker 3: Or if you prefer, brew crew takes two amid Ray's malaise phase.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow. A World Series title.
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Speaker 3: That is correct. Oh, the action. So exciting. How y'all doing?
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Speaker 4: Excited about a new week?
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Speaker 3: Huh? Are you kidding?
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Speaker 4: This could be the week it all comes together.
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Speaker 3: Wait, what?
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Speaker 4: Or the week the boss says, can I see you for a second? And they hand you a cardboard box. And the HR person stares at you if you load it in the box and then you take it out to your car and everybody acts like they've never seen you before or you never worked there.
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Speaker 3: Right, or that suddenly you become some sort of master criminal who must be watched every second because your bitterness would result in thievery and violence.
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Speaker 4: Or you get promoted to the corner office. You don't know, this could be such a week.
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Speaker 3: So that's very, very exciting.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I noticed the non-news item that I keep hearing in the last 12 hours is buffets are back because of the economy. All you can eat buffets are back because of the economy. And I just don't know if I believe that or not. I don't know that they're any hotter now than they were two years ago or.
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Speaker 3: I'm not anti-buffet if the price is right. I find I can't eat enough to substantiate the price anymore as an older fellow.
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Speaker 4: Well, you've got to win. As my brother says, if you're going to eat a buffet, you've got to win. And I don't want to win anymore. It's you against the proprietor, really?
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Speaker 3: Yeah. In a battle for supremacy. They're challenging you.
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Speaker 4: It's basically the owner of the restaurant sticking his finger in your chest and saying, you can't eat $ 28 worth of food. And I've got to say, oh, yeah, I can. Watch this. Watch this until I'm sick.
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Speaker 3: No, not anymore.
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Speaker 4: You know, you're full and you think, I think I got $ 26, but not $ 28. And then you got to figure out what's expense. There's still like crab leg on there. Maybe if I eat a couple pieces of crab leg, I'll be at 30 bucks and I won.
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Speaker 3: You got an accountant behind you with a green visor on. No, you're still not there. Keep eating.
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Speaker 4: Because you're like me and you just eat pudding or something. That's not worth anything. Pudding's like a cent a gallon.
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Speaker 3: Oh, they refer to you as pudding people. Oh, yeah. Oh, good. That looks like a. Crowd of pudding people just walked in.
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Speaker 4: But it does highlight the economic situation, which apparently, from what I've heard from every single newscast for now for two months and probably for the next week, seems to be a big topic for the election, which is a week from tomorrow.
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Speaker 3: Thank God it'll soon be over. Yes, it's it's past the miserable phase now into the why are you torturing me? God phase.
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Speaker 4: If there's any new information, I'd be happy to talk about it. And there are a couple of Obama and Trump were crisscrossing the same states and we got from some clips to play. But my God, I I'm a guy who's watched the Sunday talk shows for decades and And they're just useless lately. And I don't know if that'll change after the election, but just nothing.
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Speaker 3: And there's some there's so many big stories going on. What's going on in France is historic.
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Speaker 4: Obviously, we're involved in two wars that could go much huger at any moment and just barely a mention of it. When you can talk once again about high gas prices, have voters in Ohio's third district wondering if they can support Trump again.
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Speaker 3: For the millionth time.
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Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Who wants that?
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Speaker 3: The key is you've got to walk past the buffet once and really survey what's there. Do not get fooled into piling up the salad, piling up the potatoes. All of a sudden you get to the end. Oh, my God, there's baby back ribs. You fool. That's why they put it there. You got to outthink them.
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Speaker 4: You pro all you can eat buffet or anti? Katie, I'm into it. You're younger, though.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm with you guys, though. I won't eat the amount that I pay, though.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I do. Oh, I can't. But I feel like I'm going to throw up.
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Speaker 3: Yes, Michael.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes or no.
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Speaker 3: I used to be able to do it.
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Speaker 4: I used to love them, but I can't anymore. They do do that. They load the front, like, rolls, stuff like that. And then the expensive stuff's at the back. They don't fool me, though. I mean, I've been around the block.
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Speaker 3: You've been around the buffet.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, when I was 18, maybe I didn't know any difference.
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Speaker 3: Pudding Pete.
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Speaker 5: Sure.
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Speaker 3: I walk by those people.
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Speaker 4: I don't even wait in line. Get out of my way, you amateurs. And I get to the stuff that's worth something.
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Speaker 3: Right. Then you circle back to the front. If you want to roll. Amateurs. Right. And I do try a good role.
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Speaker 4: I was watching Fox and Friends. Every every network show I flipped to was talking about the buffet, I guess, because there's a study that came out that searches on buffets are up 250 percent since last year. So they tie it to the economy so they can talk about the economy and how Trump blah, blah, blah. And Fox and Friends, they're really big on the cleanliness aspect. That's why they were anti buffets. They're where I just I've never worried about that. You got a sneeze guard?
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Speaker 3: What do you want?
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 3: Guards against sneezes. You walk through the world every day. There's not a sneeze guard on everything you touch and look at. Here's a question for you.
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Speaker 4: This is a serious question.
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Speaker 3: None of us is a medical professional. You see something in the gravy that looks a little weird? You scoop it out. Oh, see.
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Speaker 5: Golly.
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Speaker 3: Oh, always. Always too far. But here's a sincere question. A medical professional perhaps could answer this. via text 415-295-KFTC, or if you prefer email, mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. If you sneezed into a plate of food, for instance, and you had cold virus in there, and I ingested it into my belly, Would it crawl up into my nasal passages? I don't think it transmits. I don't think it would either. If you just swallowed it down.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it would either.
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Speaker 3: Unless the virus can, like, cling on to your mouth and your nasal passages. I don't know that.
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Speaker 4: I like to rub gravy all over my face, so it'd be different for me. But for most people. He snorts it like Coke.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Woo!
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Speaker 4: We'll get all the details in the buffet for later. Uh, later we will also play a clip. I just sent it to Hanson. I saw Obama in Michigan. He said something that made me so angry.
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Speaker 3: About socialism.
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Speaker 4: Really, really made me angry. If that's working, if that's where, if that, if that speech is working, then we, we get serious problems. Speaking of which we should start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this. It is Monday, October 26th, the year 2026. We are Armstrong and Getty and we approve.
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Speaker 3: Of this program. All right, it's crunch time, time to get serious about politics, and let's do that precisely according to FCC rules regs, where the show starts at mark. By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful ass before, Nicki Minaj.
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Speaker 4: That's hard to miss.
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Speaker 3: That's stand-up. That's hard to miss. Oh, Lord. This is AI. This is.
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Speaker 3: Not the president of the United States.
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Speaker 4: No, that's the leader of the free world saying, stand up, would you, so everybody can look at your ass.
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Speaker 3: Look at that ass. Checking the chart. Low moment. We have achieved another low moment.
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Speaker 4: They don't even register anymore.
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Speaker 3: We got to expand the chart downward.
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Speaker 4: Nicki Minaj was on stage wearing all Gucci, looking very fabulous and saying incredibly nice things about President Trump. I haven't got the slightest idea. The purchase Nicki Minaj has on the electorate. No idea whatsoever.
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Speaker 3: That's such a fancy way to put it. Was she in Michigan? Is she a Michigander? Is she a Detroiter?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, but do young people, my kids aren't into her. Do young people like her?
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Speaker 3: Old people?
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Speaker 4: Who likes her? Who's into Nicki Minaj?
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Speaker 3: I'll be on Earth to answer that question.
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Speaker 4: I think my parents know more about her, not her music, but her politics then. than younger people. So I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, she gives permission to the 35 year old urban black voter to vote for Trump.
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Speaker 4: I don't have any idea. It was one of the thing I wonder. So Obama saying something about socialism had me worked up. Then you got Nicki Minaj's ass, which kind of blanked out my mind there for a second. And then that happens. What was the. Oh, so the new Fox poll out similar to a New York Times Siena poll of a week or so ago, like 90 percent. Of Americans are worried about government corruption. It's one of the top issues in the country now.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back.
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Speaker 4: Government corruption, which when we are kids, that's what all you ever heard about on the news. Yeah, I guess coming out of Watergate.
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Speaker 3: But the unions were so mobbed up and bribing the officials and everything. But yeah, I've got great info on. But they kind of disappeared.
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Speaker 4: Not the corruption completely disappeared, but the topic of corruption and it being a something people voted on. But it is back and it's it's been well earned.
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you that.
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Speaker 4: And there's a bunch of stories out there. So we'll get into that, too. Katie's got some headlines much on the way. Hope you can stay here.
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Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 4: Got the Halloween decorations up yesterday, so I'll have them up for one week.
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Speaker 3: I really didn't ever.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. A week's long enough to worship.
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Speaker 3: Satan will forgive you for your late embrace of the occult.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: What's important is to come through eventually.
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Speaker 4: Six days of worship on the dark side seems like long enough to me.
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Speaker 3: Oh, boy. Hey, let's figure out who's reporting what. It's Lead Story with Katie Green. Katie. Oh, before you get into it, Katie. Speaking of Halloween, so my wife goes to one of her Canasta card games, one of those things. I can't remember. And her buddy was serving peanuts. Peanuts? And candy corns, which, according to legend and fact, tastes exactly like a payday bar.
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Speaker 4: Peanuts and candy corns?
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Speaker 2: Really?
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Speaker 3: Those two things taste exactly like a payday bar.
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Speaker 4: Boy, I got to check that out.
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Speaker 3: She said it's like crack. Really? Oh, yeah. Why am I this age and I'm just learning this? Because we've talked about it in years past and you've forgotten. But I was reminded of it. So you can just get a.
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Speaker 4: Big bowl and pour in candy corn and peanuts.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: And it tastes... Really? What's the ratio got to be? 50-50?
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Speaker 3: Experiment. You know, you're driving this bus. I don't know. Precisely seven to six. No, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: All right, let's do the headlines here. A breaking headline from the Wall Street Journal. AI giant Anthropic unveils paperwork for blockbuster IPO.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it doesn't include the numbers, but I was just reading this. It is likely to be, it's certainly top five, quite possibly biggest IPO in history when it launches. So for better or worse.
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Speaker 2: Crazy. Crazy.
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Speaker 6: And the alphabet networks are kind of all over the place this morning.
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Speaker 5: So ABC, violent protests across Europe, police and protesters clash in Paris.
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Speaker 4: 400,000 protesters on the street and 70,000 cops. Rioters, communists, revolutionaries, Islamists. Not sure I love the term protester.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: CBS News poll finds the Democrats still boosted by voters' economic concerns, but many don't think either party.
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Speaker 4: Has a plan.
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Speaker 3: That would be correct. NBC.
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Speaker 6: Grand Theft AI.
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Speaker 5: Highway thieves are stealing millions in data center gear.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 2: How?
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Speaker 5: They're apparently just pulling up, loading up the stuff from the construction sites and leaving.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not shocked because there's a lot of valuable metal and such and more wiring than you could even conceive of in those things. CNN.
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Speaker 5: U.S. has plans for major Iran strikes if Trump chooses.
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Speaker 4: Man, there's some big news around that over the weekend. Us and Iran having plans to attack them. Iran having plans to attack us, according to The New York Times. We'll get into that later.
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Speaker 6: Axios.
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Speaker 5: Netanyahu presses Trump for more support ahead of tight election.
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Speaker 4: Which is when?
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow? Tomorrow.
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Speaker 5: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 4: New York Times.
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Speaker 5: Elon Musk says Ukraine violated Starlink's rules.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I couldn't disagree with Elon more on this. We'll talk about that later also. Man, what he said over the weekend, calling people like me warmongers for wanting more dead bodies.
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Speaker 3: I thought it was bizarre. The stuff about Starlink, I got. And we'll dig into this if you're not up on it. But yeah, his commentary I found just hallucinatory. I couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 5: From the New York Post, $ 89, 000 AI robot unleashed in New York City Park to learn human behavior.
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Speaker 3: So it can better stalk us?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right.
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Speaker 5: I saw a video of this and they taught the thing how to do freaking heart hands. And ever since you guys told me it takes a certain type of person to do heart hands, I can't.
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Speaker 4: Feel that.
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Speaker 8: It does.
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Speaker 4: You either are the sort of person that would ever do that, non-ironically, or you're not.
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Speaker 5: And there's two different types of heart hand people. There's the regular heart hands, and then there's the these, I forget how they do it, but they do a weird thing with their fingers and it.
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Speaker 4: I and I raised two boys who would never, I think at the point of a gun, we'd rather die than non-ironically do heart hands. God bless you for that.
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Speaker 3: I saw a running back do that after he scored a touchdown. He did a little I love you, I think, to his wife, maybe. If it's for his little girl or something like that, you get a pass.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: If I have scored a touchdown.
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Speaker 4: If I had a six-year-old girl and it made her happy, I'd do it all day long.
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Speaker 3: There you go.
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Speaker 4: That's different.
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Speaker 7: Right. All right.
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Speaker 3: We have a doctrine. Okay.
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Speaker 5: Study finds most GLP-1 users say they no longer recognize themselves in the mirror for better or for worse.
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Speaker 3: I would assume it's for better. Well, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: You see some of the, like, Ozempic face in Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Where it's getting a little scary.
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Speaker 4: I know a few people like that. They're much thinner.
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Speaker 5: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 3: But they, yeah.
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Speaker 6: And I felt this one in my soul. From the Babylon Bee.
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Speaker 5: Nurse wakes sleeping new mom for 17th time to remind her to get some rest.
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Speaker 6: Oh, God.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. What? What, what, what, what?
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Speaker 4: How have they not caught on to this by now that it's like a comedian bit?
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Speaker 6: It really is.
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Speaker 4: Do they not know that the other people come in every five minutes because they all have their own jobs? Maybe they're completely unaware that there are eight other people that come in in between their visits.
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Speaker 3: Right, but the fact that they seem to semi-intentionally distribute it so that it's every 49 minutes somebody comes in, just when you're getting relaxed and you're starting to doze off, oh, time to take your temperature, time to give you your pills, time to take your blood pressure, time to do whatever. And just, yeah, let's do a cluster. Let's do a big, it's going to be like a NASCAR pit crew, all right? You're all going to gather around the bed. You're going to go really, really fast. We're going to get this done in five minutes.
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Speaker 4: You've got the enema tube. She's got the blood pressure cuff.
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Speaker 5: I love that the nurse came in, and she goes, I'll be back at 640.
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Speaker 6: You get some rest. 640 was in 12 minutes.
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Speaker 4: How do you sleep at home? Do you sleep in, like, eight-minute increments at home? Is that the way you do it? I don't normally.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. I guess nurses are quitting their jobs in droves right now.
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Speaker 4: To do what?
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Speaker 3: Not that anymore. We will get into some of those stories that we mentioned coming up.
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Speaker 5: Armstrong.
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Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
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Speaker 7: What they're doing, which is par for the course, is running all kinds of scary ads to make you think Democrats are radicals or communists or jihadists or the woke police that will come arrest you and force feed you tofu.
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Speaker 4: Instead of hamburgers.
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Speaker 7: What is radical about that? Wanting everybody to have health care?
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Speaker 4: How's that radical? So that's not the whole clip. He goes on to say, wanting everybody to have housing, how is that radical? Wanting everyone to have health care cradled to grave and everyone deserves housing is, by definition, radical.
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Speaker 3: No matter what choices they make, etc.
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Speaker 4: And completely unaffordable. And there's never been a country in the history of the earth where that provided those things, sustained and sustained it. They do have a cradle-to-grave health care in a bunch of countries, but they are setting their buildings on fire, maybe you've seen in the news, because they're running out of money.
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Speaker 3: Well, and to go to housing, which he throws off as if it's obvious. Oh, my God. Other than the Soviets, and that was famously just horrifying and miserable and favoritism ruled the day it was just what off but he's he's a gifted politician.
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Speaker 4: He's really good at that he reminds me he's like trump he and trump both have that they have ability to say like really strong things but put them in such kind of a folksy funny way it's like yeah you're right that's not a big deal and sometimes what they're saying is a really everybody should have housing of course they should right or whatever it is you know trump's version of the same sort of thing but um The other thing Obama was on, the thing he said earlier about the woke police, they're going to arrest you for eating tofu. No, they're going to pass a law. They have passed laws that the school's not allowed to tell me if my fifth grade boy decides to be a girl. It's against the law for the teacher to tell me that's the woke police we're talking about, not. making me tofu. But it's pretty funny.
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Speaker 3: Going to close the schools, close your business, make you stay home, even though there's no particular risk from COVID for you, etc. Yeah, the woke police are going to end my career if I dare question any of their doctrines. With the help and congratulations of the state legislature.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But Obama is really, really good. And if I was a Democrat, I'd want to trot him out, too. You know what I haven't heard anybody mention? And maybe it's because it's not even worth mentioning. But you would think that the most recent Democratic president would be out there on the campaign trail. But he is nowhere to be seen. And that guy ran for president, Joseph Biden. He wouldn't.
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't be halfway through his term. He wouldn't even be halfway through yet. He wouldn't even be halfway through.
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Speaker 4: He'd have more than two years to go, and he's not capable of going out to any rallies. Bubba's been wet. Isn't that crazy?
00:20:51
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Not even a single one.
00:20:52
Speaker 4: I'm going to serve an entire four-year term and know I'm perfectly fine. And anybody who says I'm not is just a liar.
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Speaker 3: He's nowhere to be seen. This is the best Biden ever. And if you don't believe it, ask you. All right. Truman International under pressure. And he can't step on stage anywhere for obvious reasons. Truman International under pressure. The clip was like from his prime compared to his last several months in office.
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Speaker 4: Anyway, we've got a little more Obama later, and I want to particularly complain about, man, he gave quite the rousing little segment of his speech about how we had Iran under control. We stopped Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, and we didn't need to go to war. And what a freaking lie that is.
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker 4: Stay tuned for that.
00:21:37
Speaker 3: That is definitely the hot narrative these days. So, Brett Baer was in Michigan for Candidate Forum, and he interviewed both Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed, and he gave Abdul a good long time to talk about health care and asked some good devil's advocate questions, good journalistic questions. Then they talked a little bit about wait times, waiting for care in your socialized medicine places. And Al-Sayed started to come off as really smug and dismissive. And when I was a kid, the word was snotty. He just came off as snotty to Brett and contemptuous of anybody who would even ask, who would dare ask questions of him, of himself with a capital H. And it escalated until finally Brett at the end asked him about the Muslim Brotherhood stuff.
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Speaker 4: Mike Rogers has been really hitting this Muslim Brotherhood thing. I know you don't want to talk about your family and the history there, but.
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Speaker 8: He goes back to his campaign sites. No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: Let me just stop there. You are asking this question.
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Speaker 8: To raise a question about whether or not I have dual loyalty.
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Speaker 3: This is specific. His campaign sites say 2012 statement.
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Speaker 8: My loyalty will be to the Constitution of the United States.
00:22:58
Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 8: And as every senator who's ever served. I will swear an oath to that Constitution.
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Speaker 2: I'm not interested.
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Speaker 8: I'm not interested in what you're going to pull out. In a ridiculous 2012 statement, in a letter, you're going to pull that out of context. You're going to ask questions about my allegiance. Let me just be clear.
00:23:15
Speaker 4: This is Roger's campaign. I'm just asking you about that.
00:23:17
Speaker 3: Don't be Roger's campaign.
00:23:18
Speaker 5: Be a journalist.
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Speaker 8: So as a journalist, if you're asking the question about my allegiance to the Constitution, I have never been a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I never will be a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. I am interested in serving the United States. I'm interested in swearing an oath to the Constitution that every senator has sworn an oath to. If the question about my faith is the issue, which Mike Rogers wants it to be, I think it is sad and beneath him, and frankly beneath the President of the United States, to make that an issue. Because under our Constitution, you're guaranteed the right to pray as you.
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Speaker 3: Choose to pray.
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Speaker 4: Eye of the Beholder, you probably didn't see this, Joe, but on MSNBC, that was portrayed as Brett Baer hitting El-Sayed with Republican talking points about a question El-Sayed has answered over and over again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Well, that's one way to look at it. Completely incorrect, but one way. Yeah, and notice, folks, at the end, his dodge that I have the right under the Constitution to pray however I want. Yeah, you do. What you don't have the right to do is introduce a new quasi-religious political system in the United States under the cover of personal faith while your entire history is of– and I've got so many examples of this, and I'll unleash them for you if you'd like. You have so many ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. You and your family, things you've written, letters you've signed, your contribution network is practically a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot, the money you get.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Brett didn't get to finish his question. So when Brett started in 2012 letter, he was talking about the letter that El-Sayed wrote to the Muslims. want to be at that time president of Egypt, who was ahead of the Muslim Brotherhood there in Egypt. He was El-Sayed was behind the Muslim Brotherhood, Brotherhood becoming the government, which is kind of an interesting term when you use their ideology in Egypt. And he hasn't answered that question, really.
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Speaker 3: No, and he's not going to because he can't. If he were to answer it honestly, it would doom his campaign because he would be revealed as an activist supporter. of the Muslim Brotherhood and as an Islamist. And if he lied, I'd say it'd be too easy to catch him in his lie because, again, he, and this flows both ways, he has been so open in his support and so many of his supporters, I mean, for instance, the 2012 letter that we're talking about urging leaders of the Egyptian community, blah, blah, blah, that newly elected President Mohamed Morsi, longtime Muslim Brotherhood leader, should purge the media and the police as quickly as possible. Dr. Haney Sacher, who signed the letter as part of the Egyptian Association in America, has given $ 1, 000 to Al-Sayed's campaign. Sacher has a long history with the Muslim Brotherhood, and that's just one example of many. The guy is exactly what he seems to be.
00:26:17
Speaker 4: Well, he's a dual citizen, so he's a citizen of the United States and Egypt and other countries.
00:26:21
Speaker 3: Now he denies that's true. He claimed it for years. Now he says, no, that's not true. I didn't say that. even though there's tape of him saying it.
00:26:30
Speaker 4: He wanted the Muslim Brotherhood to be in charge of the other country that he claims is his home country. So it's not crazy to wonder, do you want the Muslim Brotherhood to be in charge here since you want them to be in charge in Egypt?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah. Well, I think the people of Michigan are waking up slowly but surely. You characterized El Sayed the other day as being a little, I can't remember, one of us said Ramaswamy-like or somebody else. I feel like he's like Chris Christie in that Chris Christie came off in the beginning for a lot of us like, love the way he pushes back and his snark and he didn't put up with crap. And then pretty soon it's just like, all right, I get it. You're smarter than everybody you've ever met in your life. And I feel like that's the way El Sayed comes off at this point. Yeah, you talk really fast so they can't finish the point. And then you shame them with your incredible intellect and your your sparkling verbiage and the rest of it and shame bread into silence. Yeah. OK, we can see what you are. I hope the people of Michigan can. Sure as hell. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: That'll be something. He's absolutely the most radical major party Senate candidate probably in our nation's history, certainly in the last since the Civil War.
00:27:43
Speaker 3: When people say that, when you're saying it, does that include the Islamism? Or is that just the politics of it, the socialism aspect of it?
00:27:56
Speaker 4: Either would qualify, I think.
00:27:57
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if he were an Islamist who believed in free markets and lower taxes and let's deregulate, that would still be friggin' radical. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, he's he's a big, giant, swirling ball of he is the Red-Green Alliance. He's an Islamist.
00:28:17
Speaker 2: A U.S.
00:28:17
Speaker 4: Senator running on cradle to grave health care, free housing. And what is this big one? Just completely undoable.
00:28:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:28:29
Speaker 3: Yeah.
00:28:30
Speaker 4: But, you know, but he does what he is good at is hammering the grocery stores. I had a DoorDash yesterday order from the grocery store. Did my kind of beginning of the week, make sure we got enough everything for school lunches and all that sort of stuff. And it was $ 200. And I DoorDashed it because, what was I doing? Oh, we were putting up Halloween stuff. Anyway, DoorDash guy pulls up and I said, I remember when it would have been almost impossible to come up with a $ 200 grocery bill. I mean, it just doesn't seem like that long ago that it would just unless I was ordering all steaks or something.
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Speaker 3: How would I have spent $ 200?
00:29:06
Speaker 4: Not just your regular groceries, just some milk and some cereal and some bread and some peanut butter and some whatever.
00:29:11
Speaker 3: And you get 200 bucks. It's just amazing. So El Sayed hammers that over and over again.
00:29:15
Speaker 4: And that's pretty fertile ground for people's top of mind concerns.
00:29:20
Speaker 3: And the DoorDash guy responded, why don't you go take your best gal to the Nickelodeon with Joe Biden, old man? Now, here's your groceries. Get out of my face.
00:29:28
Speaker 4: He actually said, I know. And then he talked about every order that I get is like between 80 and 200 dollars. And it used to be blah, blah, blah.
00:29:35
Speaker 2: Yeah.
00:29:36
Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, so speaking of uh el sayed and his uh socialist.
00:29:40
Speaker 4: Dream and i told him don't look don't look at me because i tell the the uber drivers the door dash drivers don't make eye contact well that.
00:29:47
Speaker 3: Goes without saying they're your servants.
00:29:51
Speaker 4: I got to admit, I felt pretty, I thought, this is a weird dynamic. I don't know if I like this. I like it better when I'm at my house hiding when they deliver the groceries to Mordor, rather than I'm on my lawn like, and he's thinking, why didn't you go to the grocery store?
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Speaker 3: It's like five minutes away. Just saying. Oh, so speaking of Al Sayed and his plans for America, you're going to think this is a joke. Two very influential French economists, and my God, they've done a fine job back at home, are now advising California and the pro-billionaire tax crowd. They are actively, openly trying to turn America into France. Good Lord, we'll tell you about that next hour. But first, speaking of money matters. A word from our friends at Blue Collar Dollar. Great service, great name, but a great service for anyone looking for down-to-earth, straight talk about financial planning. If your blood pressure goes up every time you hear about grocery bills, taxes, stock market swings, all kinds of different stuff, make the call to Blue Collar Dollar and have a real conversation about your financial future. Yep, it's complimentary if you've saved $ 250, 000 or more, no obligation at all, and they make it easy. Simply dial pound 250 on your cell phone and at the prompt Say blue-collar dollar. Easy as that. Dial pound 250. Get ready to say blue-collar dollar. Down to earth, taking control of your financial future. Call blue-collar dollar. Pound 250. Say blue-collar dollar.
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Speaker 6: Armstrong and Getty.
00:31:43
Speaker 2: The Armstrong and Getty Show.
00:31:45
Speaker 9: So we're getting lots of texts about the strategy at buffets since as we opened the show with buffets are back apparently because of the economy.
00:32:00
Speaker 4: And somebody said, man, if you're at a crab leg buffet, all you can eat crab leg buffet, they absolutely try to load you up on rolls and salad at the beginning.
00:32:08
Speaker 5: Of course.
00:32:09
Speaker 4: Smart at all. You walk around, you walk past it. You just, you don't put your hand up to your eyes like blinders. So you don't even.
00:32:15
Speaker 3: See the rolls.
00:32:16
Speaker 4: Get to the crab. Win. You got to win. Right.
00:32:19
Speaker 3: That's buffet 101. Come on.
00:32:21
Speaker 2: All right.
00:32:22
Speaker 3: Here's your freedom loving quote of the day. This is from Douglas Adams from his book, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, which I believe was... The sequel to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And I love this. It's not the first or only person to express this, but he does it well. To summarize, it's a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule are ipso facto those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary, anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. Okay. You know what I don't like? I agree. What I hate, and this is going to be like, because it's so brutal right now, normal, decent people don't want to run for office, mostly, because it's just too ugly and humiliating and dangerous now. And so all you get is people who from the age of 16 dreamed of nothing but being in office and being on the Hill and having that power and that wealth. So, you know, we don't need those people anymore. as our representatives. We need our neighbors, our business people doing it, and it's getting harder and harder. Well, mailbag. Drop us a note. Mailbag at armstrongandgetty.com. Zach writes, this is my favorite email of the day. Guys, I haven't been listening much these days. I've decided to take a brief hiatus in order to delve into some books that have been beckoning me from my bookshelf all year long. That said, I really want to read about the French Revolution. Jack mentioned a book years ago. All right, so let me summarize this email for you. I'm not listening as much because I want to read more books. Can you recommend some books? Hey, Johnny, sorry I haven't been to your sandwich shop lately. I'm trying to eat more salads. You know any places with really good salads I could go to? Count Sand, Zach. Read this. Read that. What does that say to you, huh?
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Speaker 4: Wow, wow, wow, wow.
00:34:14
Speaker 3: Universally recognized gesture right there. Moving along. Matt writes, here's a T-shirt I would buy, guys. Your share of the U.S. national debt is $ 117, 000. If you're a taxpayer, it's $ 362, 000. I would wear that shirt. Love show, Matt, a Midwest kid who moved to Portland in 91 after graduating from college and moved back to Fargo in 2020 after Portland fell.
00:34:40
Speaker 4: If you're a taxpayer, the fact that half of people aren't.
00:34:45
Speaker 3: Correct. Not to mention, not to mention chillin's. Ooh, children's ain't paying taxes. When will babies pay their fair share?
00:34:52
Speaker 4: I just saw on TV it's National Pumpkin Day. Happy National Pumpkin Day.
00:34:56
Speaker 3: Oh, thanks. Same to you and yours. Let's see. Moving along. The final, final, final note on the Shane Gillis fake reversi.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: I've read some interesting stuff about that. Clearly, woke has had a resurgence.
00:35:11
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. It never went away.
00:35:13
Speaker 4: Well, I think it definitely subsided, but I think it's got re-energized, like it's on the upswing.
00:35:19
Speaker 3: Right, right. But my argument with a lot of people, including some people I think ought to know better, they act as if like because Russia is not attacking as much, their army has gone away. No, it's just an adjustment of strategy. It's still that philosophy is still there. Anyway, let's see. Joe writes, Shane Gillis, Fallout reminded me of a cartoon I saw. 30 years ago, showed a woman sitting in a plastic surgeon's office explaining what size she wanted for her breast augmentation. The caption is, I want them just big enough so I can get mad when men stare at them. Wow.
00:35:57
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:35:58
Speaker 4: As you learned, as I learned a week or so ago, that is the best indication of how the economy is. People who do boob jobs. When the economy is going well, women are getting boob jobs. When they pull back, you know the economy is rough.
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Speaker 3: And then it's funny, Joe was one of two people, including Ana Luisa, to quote Ecclesiastes 1, verses 9 through 11. What has been is what will be, and what has been is what will be done. There's nothing new under the sun. One of the rapidest of Bible verses. Let's see. JT Livermore commenting on the discussion last week about how we need to befriend the bots so they won't wipe us out. Wow. He said, this is the stupidest, most naive thing I've ever heard. Think about it for a second. We lowly humans need to kiss up to AI bots because they're going to be so much smarter and more powerful than us. Hey, AI guru, if they're so much smarter than us, won't they see through the incredibly shallow and obvious ploy of kissing up to them? And won't they simply conclude that our kissing up is totally insincere? Sorry, AI guru. If that's the best advice you can give, you can sit down and let the adults in the room take over. We have so much good stuff on the way.
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