In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty.
Arm Strong and Jatty and he.
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Now let's cut to the chase. I am too old to gild the lily. Two days ago, I turned seventy eight, the oldest man in my family of four generation. And the only personal vanity I want to assert is I'm still younger than Donald Trump.
So that's Bill Clinton saying he's too old to guild the lily. Does anybody know what guildber lily means? I don't know what that means. I don't do you know, Michael.
Not a clue. Willie Geist, do you know what guild the lily means? Vaguely?
It's not a sexual thing, is it? No?
Okay, it's not, gotcha, Willie Geist of Morning Joe on MSNBC, right in from me. I don't know what guild of lily means. But anyway, Bill Clinton went on to say this, take.
It from a man who once had the honor to be called in this convention, a man from Hope.
We need we need Kamala.
Harris, the President of Joy, to lead a Kamela.
Do he say Camela? He said Kamela. Whoops, he said Camela. I don't know why he said Kamala. I thought it was racist to not pronounce her name right.
Too many octogenarians.
So got the Morning Joe people here, you see that from Morning Joe. I just did you hear me?
Just yell it with the guys. No, if he knows what guild b lily means? Oh, I said, hey, willy, guys, do you know what guild billy means? Because that's what Bill Clinton said. I actually don't know what it means. He said, no, I don't, he said vaguely. And I said, is it a sexual He thing said absolutely not.
That's funny. That is funny.
If you say someone is guilding the lily, you mean that they are spoiling something that is already beautiful or perfect by trying to improve it.
Yeah, painting too much, Yeah, working too hard on something that's already great. Essentially, so definitely not a sexual thing. Got to explain what I was just doing, and I'll be curious to hear what the cop said. So when we've got here, first thing, I mean, the place is practically empty.
Well, you can describe the experience. Yeah, so we got this.
We got this little loungerry over here that like nobody else has seemed to be using. And there's these four comfortable chairs in a dark room. And so that's where I've been going in the morning before we go on the air, to just kind of hang out and read my news. So I walked in this morning in the dark, and this girl pops up from behind the seat. I mean, this is in a dark world where it seems like it's completely empty. I walk in there to sit in the seat, and she pops up behind the seat, this young woman in a hoodie, and she's got this wide eye on my face, like who are you and where did you come from? And there I just heard the rumor when we first got here that some protesters had somehow gotten into the building.
So it was a little worried, like, okay, what are you you a terrorist? You a protester? What are you or whatever like that. So I just said, hey, how you doing. She said, I'm fine, and then.
She laid back down behind the seat. So I come out and I thought I should tell somebody in security. So I find a woman with a gun. I don't know what kind of security she is around here? And I say to this woman, Hey, there's somebody in there in that room hiding behind the couch, and a young person, and maybe she's supposed to be here and she's just taking a break or something like that, but you might want to just go ask her some questions something.
And the security person says.
To me, well, you can't get in here without a credential, so I'm sure it's okay. Oh, I don't think I understand the way the whole security crimes.
Have you ever seen a movie or a TV they see that's a bank robber is not supposed to be in there. But they are right. The nine to eleven pilots were not supposed to be.
You know.
The being somewhere you're not supposed to be is like step one of pulling off something the fair. See, that's that's kind of what you're here.
I should have said to her, So why are you here with your gun and everything like that? If only people with credentials can get in here, there's nothing to worry about, Okay.
So I thought that was a weird response. Several minutes later, I wander in there and and this is what I just told the cop that we were talking to Secret Service guy. And look, I'm not a cop. I've had a lot of cop friends. I've hung out with them a lot. And what I immediately noticed is that when I walk in, she gave off alertness and fear. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what weird me out. And then I did it again ten minutes later. I got alertness and fear. And she's been awake now for a long time. Well, and Jess, so we've been here for couple hours, right, and we have been in and out of that little lobby, lights on or off many many times. We've run into many many people. Nobody gives off alertness and fear in this hall. People give off cynicism and fatigue.
People give off I can't wait to go home. That's what most people give off.
Okay.
So I was just describing that to the Secret Service agent as Hanson was talking to him, and he wandered in there.
That's the full report.
Secret Service went in, had a discussion with her same. Hey, she's got three levels of credentials.
So she does okay, so I didn't see her credential shoes, and now she can't steal those. She fools I think I'm assuming Joe ce Ocean's eleven. He knows how complicated these things get. Well, she's gonna be in the safe thirty floors underground, and she's probably there already stealing the take.
You'll note that we only have two layers of credentials here.
She's got more than us.
I'd assume that her photo is also on one of her credentials.
And he puts a track.
He said, Hey, everything seems okay. Yeah, she an unusual character over here.
That's fine.
It's an odd thing to do to lay down behind the couch in a dark room for hours and then every time somebody straggles into a room act like you're a hunted beast.
Cord.
Yeah, yeah, well, you know.
Maybe she forgot her anxiety meds or something like that. It's perfectly fine.
But no, she was giving off the I'm not supposed to be here, and I'll bet you know it vibe.
Yes, Yes, she was. Yeah, okay.
I like the fact that the first law enforcement person that I talked to said, well, you can't get in without a credential, so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about. It was the oddest, so I'm assuming they've decided not to water border, and let's get to the bottom quick waterboarding.
Please please bear in mind that the people protesting that are inside the perimeter, that are right outside the arena door, they also have credentials. They do. I don't know if they've got them to come into the arena, but they've got credentials to be into the media area.
But they've got them perimeter credentials or whatever it is. Yeah, I want something to happen. I'm bored with the whole deal.
Well, we're just such an obvious target right here, up on this target of what what rage?
Oh speaking to people who might want to punch us in the face. We have been told, and this is a bitter disappointment, the Gavy Newsome will not be doing his podcast twelve feet away from us. They have some sort of special suite sequestered away where he will do it in privacy, away from us poor people, much as he and his family are sequestered away from all of the problems he's caused in California in Meritton County and private schools, what have you.
But that's par for the course. Have a good podcast, Gavvy.
One more thing about the link of speeches before we take a break, And then I do want to talk about going into the park last night and seeing all the big protes a man, the police presence that I've never ever seen anything close to that many cops in my life.
Ever gathered in that small of an area.
But somebody pointed out, and because I was just saying, Walls's speech last night was fifteen minutes long, he killed it. It would not have been better if it had been longer. Right, If it had been a half hour, it wouldn't have been better. If it had been an hour, it certainly wouldn't have been better. And people regularly give hour plus speeches at these things, right, I don't know why Bill Clinton, famously, when he was a governor, gave a speech that like when he said it the toward the end and in closing and the crowd cheered because it's like, oh my god, you're gonna finally wrap this thing up at the hour twenty mark. Another person pointing out that when Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address, the featured speaker, Edward Everett, who's before him, talked for two hours.
Yes, nobody remembers his name or the speech.
Lincoln got up there and spoke like two hundred words, and it's the most famous speech in American history. Right, you don't need a ton of verbiage. Ain't about bulk, folks. How did that? More people not get that? Do they think that that if the length is long enough, you'll just I don't know, beat you down or something.
I don't know.
Every culture has its pretensions and its traditions, and I don't know what it's like in big, big time politics, if you were to get on and off in twenty minutes, if that would be somehow selling yourself short or giving up turf, because I know, you know, in the world of bureaucracies and government, it's all about turf and budget and square footage and how much ground you control.
And I wonder if it's that way for time too. Well.
The two best speeches three in a row, the conventional wisdom, so Walls last night was fifteen minutes, Michelle the night before, I think she was twenty two minutes or something like that, and then AOC the.
Night before was a real short.
Yeah, so go, you know, I just just for future conventions or anything you ever do in your own personal life. Don't think you need to give a really long speech to be successful.
You do not, Yeah, I point I was. I had decided I was going to memorize the Gettysburg Address.
Then I decided it would be too hard, and then.
I kind of a story is that. Well, there's more. I was going to memorize the Gettysburg Address. I decided would be too hard. And then I read that Winston Churchill had memorized the entirety of that ten thousand line speech or whatever it is, or poem, epic poem that contains the better way to die than for the ashes of our father and our temples and you know, et cetera, et cetera.
Whatever. I don't memorize. Well, uh, and I thought, wow, what what what is it like to memorize something that long?
Tim Sanderfer's got the Declaration of Independence, that whole first part, which is very very long memorized.
Wow, of course that's that's a gift. I think, Yeah, Yeah, your brain works that way, or it doesn't. I don't think that's something you can force yourself to do. Yeah, I'll run into like my friend Mike Lawyer has a like a photographic memory, and uh, I have the aweso sonish yeah. Yeah, that's why I never can get into my own bank account or my own home.
I don't remember what we're talking about, so we probably got to go to break.
Yes, I do want to talk about experience in the whole protester thing yesterday in person, among other things.
We'll hear a little more from the speeches.
And also getting a completely away from politics. Mine was that, Yes, I'm determined to rest that. You say that, but then you keep bringing it up. How about this, I love these chimps more than my kids. Inside the wide wild world of monkey moms. Oh, inside the wide world wild world of monkey moms.
Yes, all right, make cat ladies look normal. We're in Chicago for the convention. I want to tell you the experience with the crazy hippie protesters last night, among other things. On the way, still hear.
The world's oldest known living person has died in Spain at the age of one hundred and seventeen.
Guys, always test your cocaine.
Oh jeez, wow, I've got a political headline for you. Then I will get out of the way for Joe's story about monkey moms. Uh, this is actually breaking ish news they are reporting. It's certain now that RFK Junior is dropping out of the race. This is important because there are states swing states where he's between five and ten percent.
That's something important. Who is that? Oh yeah, yeah, clearly. Oh that's the guy. Who's the guy, He's the man.
He's he's a big deal in don't the number of like gray haired old guys so you see that are clearly recognized from doing guest shots on news shows.
He a senator somebody, right?
Anyway, RFK Junior is getting out of the race and joining forces with Trump, and there's talking of him being out of the campaign trail with him on Friday.
Is that a good idea or not? We can talk about that later. Yeah, it's kind of interesting what his VP, Miss Shanahan said too. I want to get to that I love these chimps more than my kids. Inside the wild world of Monkey Moms.
Well that's quite a picture. The maker of.
Tiger King has returned with an even more shocking docuseries focusing on a strange and dangerous world in HBO's Chimp Crazy.
So the guy who made Tiger King is making this. Okay, well it'll probably be good because Tiger King was compelling.
Well, and they start the documentary or part of it is Judy, did you watch Tiger King Katie? Yeah, unfortunately, of course I did.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So this they go deep into you remember when that lady changed her haircut and went to see her friend and the chimp ripped her face off and the cops had to shoot the thing when it attacked him. Anyway, Uh, that's Travis the chimp et cetera, this horror story. It is one of the darker strands of Chimp Crazy, a four part docuseries about the private ownership of jimps. At its center is an exotic animal broker, Tanya Haddocks, who calls herself the Dolly Parton of chimps. What wait a minute, what the hell does that mean? Do you like you have large breasts and you like chimps. That doesn't make you the Dolly Parton of anything?
I don't know what that does? She have large breasts? Is that the eye? Does she resemble Dolly Parton? Well?
Later in the article they mentioned that she has a leached blonde, curled hair, plumped lips into fondness for tanning beds okay, and and has chimps right. The series is replete with jaw dropping moments. A pet chimp sits with his owners watching the celebrated Dawn of Man opening of two thousand and one of Space Odyssey, in which a pla commonids smash up bones.
You're watching movie related monkey related movies with your chimpanzees.
Oh that's that's nice, something they can relate to exactly. Ah, let's see. Trainer Pam rose Air, who hails from a circus family, tells how she breastfit a premature chimp back to hell. Oh right, okay. Her husband recalls looking in to see a chimp at one breast and their infant daughter at the other.
Okay, God needs to get.
Yet, truly, how do you not get your kids taken away? Because that Yeah, you can't have a baby that close to a wild animal. Oh my gosh. Well when their babies, they're nice, I guess.
But uh oh and another monkey moms not monkeys, but she breastfed a monkey an ape. Another monkey mom shows off a huge closet of clothes she uses to dress her primate like a child. Okay, crazy person. I was just gonna ask Katie, you're gonna be the judge of this. How many cats must a crazy cat lady have to equal the craziness of one chim lady?
Four?
What is the scale?
Yes, exactly, it's exactly there. No kidding, all right, here's where I oh and she's the Gallows says, uh the guy walked so he That makes it sound like he didn't know his wife was breastfeeding the monkey. Yes, what is that?
Yes?
Yes, honey, what is what is that you're doing? It looks it looks to me like I'm just whoa, whoa, whoa. It appears you're breastfeeding a monkey. She says in the film, I love these chimps more than anything in the world, and I mean more than anything, more than my kids, more than anything. All these shows are always just about crazy people. So big fat.
People shows, the people with monkey shows, the people who dress up their little girls like like who was and put them in the pageants.
All these people are crazy people. It just shows about crazy people. She keeps talk of the chimp caged in her basement. Oh that's right. This takes a dark turn in a minute. I'm sure does Tiger King get Yeah, maybe when we come back the darker side of being a monkey mom.
Because breastfeeding wasn't dark enough.
Is what's just going to be on Netflix or HBO? HBO Okay, I'm glad I pay for HBO.
Crazy?
Is Trump campaigning with RFK Junior a plus or and negative for Trump?
For Trump? Yeah, I don't care about our gum.
I don't know. I think there's a chance it does more harm than good r Trump and getty.
If Comrade Kamala wins this November, world War three is virtually guaranteed to happen.
So as Trump yesterday at his rally. We'll have a little more of that later.
Now.
I wanted to read his truth social post about the revision of the jobs numbers that happened yesterday to the tune of eight hundred some thousand jobs less in the last year than the government had told us before, what Trump said about it, and I think that wasn't probably the best way to handle it. But also we need to discuss the RFK Junior getting out of the race when he's getting like ten percent of the vote in some of the swing states. Yeah, and throwing his support behind Trump. That is that is good news for Trump. Definitely, the Trump campaigning with I'm not certain if that the.
People that are a little odd pairing.
If you're Trump's, if you're like kind of want to vote for Trump, you're on the edge.
Is he normal enough?
Sometimes? Thrown RFK Junior into the mix does not help, I don't think. But also coming up next to our Biden Harris, Department of Energy officials called for the queering of nuclear weapons as part of a radical DEI agenda at the National Nuclear Security Administration Wow. Also the New York Times piece yesterday, the new stamps we've got on nuclear war with China, the new official government stance on that. Man, there are so many serious things going on, and then we have these phony made up all about vibes.
Conventions that we go to, right, both of them?
What are these things? Don't get discussed at all?
Yeah?
Yeah, you don't win discussing that. You win discussing crazy ladies in their chimps. We're talking about Jimp Crazy. The new HBO show that's going to make Tiger King look like I don't know, the Brady Bunch.
It's built around this crazy lady named.
Haddock something or other Haddocks who loves chimps more than anything, more than my kids, and her son confirms that by the way, Oh, you don't want your kid saying mom likes the monkeys better than me. That's not good. She has a special affection for Tonka, thirty two year old chimp retired from a career in Hollywood, and they've got the list of his credits. Hired from a career in Hollywood.
Yeah.
Yeah, Haddocks keeps Tonka caged in her basement, feeds at McDonald's happy meals, and on her phone shows him videos of his chimp relatives. She is blissfully ignorant, they write, or in stubborn denial about animal wealthcare welfare concerns.
This woman apparently doesn't realize she's about to become like a household name of someone to hate.
Yes, totally unaware to start watching this show. Yes, Katie, I.
Just if she loves the chimp more than her kid, but she keeps it locked in the basement.
What does she do with her kid?
Good question? Yeah, and they go into A chimp in a dark mood can be when one of the most terrifying animals on Earth, combining tremendous strength with daunting intelligence. Yeah. And when Good the filmmaker was making Tiger King, he would often hear people say they would rather have one hundred tigers than one chimpanzee. No kidding, I've never heard that before. Yeah, And they mentioned Joe Exotic had two hundred plus tigers and a couple of chimps that were behind three layers of bars. He treated them as if they were prisoners because they're so dangerous. You could go in with the tigers, but not the chimps. And then who is this they're quoting?
Well, I told you this story about somebody, a couple of different people I've known that tried to work I'll be vague because I don't want to get anybody in trouble with who tried to work with chimpanzees in a place near where I live, where there's lots of chimpanzees to work with. Anyway, they thought that that's what they were going to do with their lives, and they got attacked several times just out of nowhere. You think you're like friends with this chimps, and you're doing cute things and feeding them and they're hugging you and stuff like that. Then they just bite the crap out of you, right or start pounding on you. And this particular person quit immediately thought, I thought I was gonna do this rest of my life.
But they're too unpredictable. Yeah, yeah, so chimpanzees, Yes, they right, they're stronger than any human being. But it's their intelligence and the way they fight and go after you. They render you helpless. They bite off your fingers, they go for your genitals and your face. They are incredibly dangerous animals. They can figure out a combination lock, so you have to lock them with multiple key locks because they'll sit there all day and they'll figure it out.
They're so incredibly smart.
Really, And a woman you mentioned earlier breastfed one.
With her baby next to it. That's the part that bothers me.
If she wants to get ripped to shreds, that's her choice as a grown up, But don't let your kid get ripped a shred.
Well, it's actually significant that that was a baby chimp, and I'm trying to find the paragraph that's about that, because they can be Usually these women fall in love with chimps. A baby's crazy. Well yeah, they are absolutely crazy, but they fall in love with baby be chimps. But when the chimp hits puberty. I was reading, which is earlier than people. They they you know, hit puberty and growled and die younger people do, But anyway, they become incredibly strong and completely unpredictable, and they have to be managed and controlled, often with drugs, shock collars, and the removal of CA nine teeth. Oh that's horrible. Oh yeah, this woman has no idea. She's about to become a national pariah. You know, Michael, aren't you like me? Wanting to hear the classic song that used to play so often, Baby Monkey, Baby Monkey, writing on a pig, baby monkey, tearing off.
Your face, baby monkey.
Oh yeah, you know what, Hanson, I'm going to send you the uh, the trailer for this, So that's good. When when's it come on HBO? I'll watch a little of it. I don't know if I'll watch a whole thing, because the whole thing with Tiger King, which happened to everybody, is he got into it, it was kind of fun and everything like that. Then it turns sad and troubling and disgusting by the end. And I have a feeling this Monkey show is going to be similar. I'm not sure they can't to keep it not depressing long enough to even have that transition, right. Yeah.
Yeah, Tiger King is another one of those where they made a sequel and it just sucked.
Oh I'm sure I didn't give it a whirl.
Yeah, check your check your local listings. Does it say anything about this woman getting a haircut?
Remember that story? Yeah?
Yeah, they start actually with that story of.
Yeah, ripping that woman's face off, and then she got a new one, sowed back on, right, and she went on doctor Oz or something Yeah, something like that. Anyway, enough ape talk. Speaking of doctor Oz. I saw Oprah speak last night here in the Hall. Oprah made doctor Oz famous, right, she did absolutely endorsed John Fetterman, though I hope that doesn't cause a rift between them.
I saw Oprah last night. The crowd loved her. She's really good. She's a good public speaker. Why does she look so good? She's gotten how old? She's getting quite old? She still looks really really good.
Well, yeah, she's got the very very best people. And she started off as a very attractive woman. Yeah she's seventy, is she really? Wow?
She is the best looking seventy year old woman in America.
She might be. Yeah, that's something. And her looks pale in comparison to her intelligence. Yeah, but she dash she got doctor Oz started, so we can't be friends anymore. Yeah, let us tell you about simply say real quick, because then I got something I'll tell you about talking to protesters last night.
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We're talking earlier about how how come everybody doesn't recognize that shorter speeches are better. Wall spoke for fifteen minutes last night, absolutely killed it, and there's nobody saying I wish you had talked for an hour, that would have been better.
I wonder how long Kamala will talk tonight. But anyway, we're talking about the Gettysburg address and how short that was and probably the best known speech in American history. You were talking about how you're trying to memorize it and it was difficult. We got this text, and this is true. I struggle to memorize historic text or things I want to memorize. But I can memorize every Seinfeld script without even trying.
That's true.
I have a lot more Simpsons episodes and side Field episodes memorized than I do historical text or great poems.
You know what, if Lincoln had sung it, I'd have it memorized already.
Right. You put something in music.
I probably know ten thousand pages worth of lyrics from songs, but I can't memorize a two hundred and five word speech.
It's sad.
So I was coming to the arena last night to get a little of the flavor of experience in person. And I didn't really care who I caught, because I knew Nancy was speaking, and Clinton and Walls and Oprah and all these different people. I'm all on the way over here past the park, and man, it was full of protesters and they were seeming pretty excited, and there were lots of cops just arriving, and I thought this seems exciting. So I had to Uber drop me off, and I walked around and talk to people and looked at stuff.
And I will tell you about that next Armstrong he.
YETI I had twenty four kids in my high school class, and none of them went to Yale. But I'll tell you what, growing up in a small town like that, you'll learn how to take care of you each other.
That that family down the road.
They may not think like you do, they may not pray like you do, they may not love like you do, but they're your neighbors, and you look out for them and they.
Look out for you.
Yeah, that's that's fantastic. That's enough of that.
And by god, if they're praying during COVID, you call the snitch line, you call the cops, right, And the how he extrapolates the it's nice in small towns, the way people look out for each other, which has been my experience into and that's why socialism is a good idea.
That's he done at the point of the government's gun.
But the reason I really wanted to play that is because he said it, and several people have said it this week, and I can't believe that the Democratic well maybe they're being smart. So they're trying to pull off being the party of personal freedom as opposed to the Republicans. They're trying to be pulled off being the patriotic party, and they're trying to pull off the party that looks down on advanced degrees at elite university.
Oh, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, now, wait a minute now right, Yeah, none of them went to you. None of my students went to Yale.
Whoa, because Yale sucks and we hate people that.
Went to Yale, except for the Clintons and the Obamas went to Harvard and just what are you talking about?
Right right?
And like you're, you know, your most important voting block. Yeah, did any of those kids get their loans forgiven? By the way, Oh, I went, hey, yeah, I just thought that was interesting.
Yeah, So I'm headed over here last night to catch whoever I was going to see speaking.
I think I saw Oprah, I saw some Bill Clinton whatever.
Got dropped off early in the park because there were so many protesters over there.
I just wanted to go see what it was all about. The best thing I saw, and I wish I had taken a picture, but I didn't want to embarrass her park bench, kind of away from the main action, there was this girl. She's probably twenty years old, kind of just like a very regular looking college earl had a sign that said stop the DNC and She's sitting on a park bench and just by herself, and she just looks kind of disappointed you're not stopping, s I mean, what do you think? Maybe that maybe that's why she looked so despondent. Probably grown up a little bit this week, maybe, yeah, which is but so uh. The reason I stopped was the amount of cops they were. They were bringing all these buses up and like paddy wagon looking things, and cops were just pouring out the back of them. I mean from all over the place, and all different kinds of cops. You had cops in.
All black riot gear, then you had cops in starched white shirts with badges on them, and then you had other cops that were just all kinds of different cops from different places, and they were rung ringing, they rang. They were all around the park and several rows deep.
Had to be thousands.
Wow, an army. It was an army of cops.
But it but away from the park, like not even on the sidewalk, away from the park, and you could walk through. They weren't impeding anything or anything like that. And the park belonged to the protesters because they probably have a permit to be there.
And everything like that.
But man, if things have turned ugly, it was going to be taking care of really.
Really quick, which is uh, brings up. I heard this on a podcast the other day. Let me mention this really quickly, because I'd heard that at least one prominent Jewish group that wanted to counter protest could not get a permit. Really, and I have a feeling I know why, because Chicago felt like they couldn't protect the Jewish people. Oh what does that tell you about the two sides? Wow, there are enormous crowds of pro Palestinian folks.
Nobody's attacking them.
Even though it's an imhorrant and disgusting, you know, ideology. I didn't see any signs that were abhorrent. I saw plenty with Palestinians have rights to or very things, you know, kind of monocuous. That's your political position, right, you think the pal sin needs have been screwed in the whole deal. But I didn't see any Jews need to die or anything like that and anything even close. Actually, But I was thinking about just a whole protesting.
Because I listened on podcasts the other day with a kind of a political historian talking about somehow we got off track ever since the sixties with this idea that protesting means, first of all, that protesting is okay and constitutionally protected, and it means destroying things, It means setting things on fire and breaking winds, and it doesn't at all.
It never did and it never should.
The only right you have to do is gather as many people as you can together peacefully, and hopefully you can get together such a large number that it makes politicians think, that's a lot of people. If I want to get re elected, I need to incorporate their wishes into what I do. Sure, that is the only role of protesting, but that is not the way I think most people look at, or certainly a lot of young activist people. It.
What protesting is is breaking things, scaring people, Yes, is frightening them, having relating them into compliance physically, be frightened into going along with you. And we have just got to get away from that whole thing that you.
Know is lionized from the sixties, I guess partially because they were on the right side of it with the whole uh the idea of the draft and you're going to a war you and know all that well, and as I'm always going on about the neo Marxists, they want to break the system and bring on chaos because in chaos you sees control and institute Marxism. So they they you know, your Antifa types. That's why the college presidents and I got a bunch of stuff on that maybe you squeeze it in later, But the college presidents who think they can negotiate.
With the hardcore radicals are fools.
The radicals are there for chaos, that's not some sort of unfortunate offshoot of it. I'm so sorry everyone lost their heads. No, that's why they are there.
Well, I guess my point is we, first of all, should have a reflexive just disgust and resistance to anything that even comes within one hundred miles of violence or destruction with protests as a price to kind of accepting it.
It's just part of the deal.
If you're gonna have protest, lots of things are going to get cop cars are going to get set on fire, people are going to get attacked, windows are gonna get No, that should never ever happen, right, And also from a you want to protest something you want to have, you want to affect change that it's all about numbers. It's not about bricks or rocks or baking windows.
It should be We got to get enough people here for this march that politicians realize they need to listen to us.
Right right, And the worst worst thing you can do in the face of what we're talking about is have it work empower it, which is what's happening on the universities.
Right.
New York Post had a headline and I could flesh out the story, but how they put it exactly. Columbia gives the all clear for more anti Semitic violence this fall, and they're talking about how zero of the students that took over that building and vandalized it have been prosecuted, which is a amazing and something like ninety percent are still in good academic standing. Yeah, that's incredible.
So yeah, that gets to what I was talking about of just accepting that that's part of the whole protest thing is, you know, breaking things, hurting people, scaring people. No, it's not and it never should have been, and it shouldn't be going forward, and take off your damn mask. Oh yeah, take off your damn mask. I was surprised when we came in first thing this morning.
There were a couple of neard well morons out there and their cafeas just kind of lurking around the entrance. Yeah. I don't know if they were trying to intimidate people or they actually were just like sad twenty two year old misfits who need more friends in a purpose in life. But I was surprised that they were allowed to loiter right there, but they didn't do anything.
Can taxpayers afford to have the kind of police presence that they have here every time there might be a protest? That's the I can't imagine what it costs to have this many cops here on standby, ready to go all the time.
But you have to have that show.
A force to keep things from getting out of hand.
R And then eventually, I think, over time, the whole we're gonna show up and bust stuff up and hurt people will go away because you realize you can't.
Right Yeah, Yeah, you know it was funny. I was reflecting as I walked by the Omni Hotel in Chicago on the day that Joe Biden arrived. And you know, I don't have an unofficial word that he was there, but the Secret Service and police.
President was just amazing.
And they had the entry tents that you've seen, so the beast pulls right into the tent.
You never even see the president. He's inside the building.
And it was there at the hotel, and I was thinking, how sad in our society that that's necessary, right, And it's really necessary judging by.
What happened a few weeks ago to Donald Trump. It's just too bad. It hasn't always been like that.
No, it wasn't that many years ago, oh a century, but where you could you know, the picnic on the White House lawn and go knock on the door and say.
Look to the president, right right, yeah, oh well, it is what it is. We got to deal with it and move forward and try to make a more perfect union. Every generation were never more than one generation away from losing our liberty, according to Ron Reagan, and he was right. We can play a little more from some of the speeches and some more tales from Chicago that had got nothing to do with politics, and you can text us any time four one, five, two nine five kftc Armstrong and Getty