I Had An Onion On My Belt

Published Aug 22, 2024, 5:23 PM

In hour 4 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • Random clips from the DNC
  • Fast food mascots rated
  • Dan Balz from The Washington Post talks to A&G
  • Final Thoughts! 

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty, I'm Strong and Katty, and now he is Armstrong and Eddy.

I want to say this from the bottom of my heart. I have no idea how many more of these I'll be able to come to.

None.

I started in seventy six, and I've been to everyone since, but no.

Seventy two. Lord, I'm getting known. But here's what I want you to know.

If you will vote for this team.

If you can get them election.

Yes, yes, let him bring in this breath of fresh air. You will be proud of it for the rest of your life. Your children will be proud of it, your grandchildren will be proud of it.

All right, that's enough for that.

You know.

I used to hate Bill Clinton.

Now the weird thing is if if a Democrat has to be president, I choose him over any of the other options, because he was much closer to what I want than the current Democratic Party. The other thing is, if you don't like Bill Clinton, here's the good news.

You're done with him. Watching him last night, he's done.

Yeah, he will Well, he would not be able to physically be at the next Democratic national convention. He's not going to give a big national speech ever again, right, maybe if he's maybe if Hillary died or something.

But the idea that I would be proud of the way my grandparents voted, Yeah, that's weird and a require that I would need to No, right, don't care. Yeah, that's okay, that's the bold. Easy to get it if you're of a certain age. The fact that he is now done is something. Yeah, one of the most talented politicians of the century.

Oh yeah, you love him or hate him?

You know.

I remember when he came on the scene and I was much younger, and he was much in hermini. He was a forty two year old presidential candidate. Now he is done because he's a million years old. His hands were shaking, his voice was and he had his I've been coming here since seventy six, No, no, wait, seventy two. Where's a classic old man telling a story swearing an onion on a built rising fashion at the exactly But the one thing he said we don't have the clip of that made me so crazy is he did that whole And I thought about that when Nancy Pelosi just walked in front of us. Hey, Nancy, nice job, knife and old Joe. We should have said something. Uh when Bill Clinton said last night, the gave a little thing about Joe Biden being so patriotic, ungiving and selfless and a public servant the way he voluntarily stepped down. George Washington did it and Joe Biden did it?

Are you kidding? Who is buying that?

That's I guess in the early days of myth making, it comes off as ridiculous, but you hang in there.

You just keep repeating it.

God, if I hear that story twenty years from now and I'm on my deathbed, well, I'll be on my deathbed now. I won't be old enough to be on my deathbed. You could be on your deathbed tomorrow. Maybe I start smoking, you don't know, or maybe you're attacked by a rabid racoon or something. You get the hydrophobia. But I for years from now, that catches on as the narrative that Joe Biden selflessly stepped down as opposed to was forced out at the point of We're.

Going to ruin you.

You've never seen anybody be so.

Ruined as the way We're going to ruin your su in front of the nation, and he finally addled brain gave up.

Wow.

So we got some clips from various people that I don't even know to want to hear from some of these, Yeah, just cause to see if we like it or not.

Are wacky? They're wacky.

I don't know who this is. Seventy Michael seventy when abortion is.

On the ballot, we wait, okay, that's a popular thing from somebody.

Let me hear seventy five. The thing I.

Remember the most about the Vice president is that Kamala Harris can cook.

Guys.

She was so much better than me. But she also knew that my family was watching. So as she gently corrected my sloppy Joseph making, she was complimenting me every step of the way, making sure that my daughter kit hurt. How good of a cook I am.

So that's the never ending humanizing kamalaw making or just seem like a nice person without ever getting into any of her policies, which are way way way out of the mainstream of America.

Yeah, how will that help my life? Her being complimentary to some gals cooking? Mindy Kaling? Do you want to hear Keenan Thompson on the Funniest Guys on Earth. Oh sure, seventy three, Michael.

Y'all remember this big old book.

This is Project twenty twenty five, the Republican blueprint for a second Trump term.

It is a yeah, yeah boom.

You ever seen a document that could kill a small animal and democracy at the same time.

Here it is.

You know how when you download an app and there are hundreds of pages there that you don't read. It's just the terms and conditions and you just click agreed, right, Well, these are the terms and conditions of a second Trump presidency. You vote for him, you vote for all of this. Let's take a look.

Well, since that came up, let's play clip twenty eight where Donald Trump was on Fox and Friends this morning and was asked about Project twenty twenty four and whether or not that is his blueprint for running the nation.

For him to say about Project twenty five is disgraceful.

They know I have nothing to do with it. I had no idea what it was.

A group of people got together, they drew up some conservative values, very conservative values, and in some case perhaps they went over the line.

Perhaps they didn't.

I have no idea what project twenty five is but they use it and they know it.

I guess if I'm a Democrat, I could say he's lying. That's what Tim Walls basically said last night. Just look, I'm a football coach. You don't draw up a plan and not use it. Wow, and the crowd, you're like crazy, this is their plan, They're going to use it.

But it is. I don't remember the last time.

That a presidential candidate was the other side was saying here's their platform and there and the other and the candidates saying.

No, it's not. Yeah, well I have nothing to do with with some other organizations you did. I don't know. My politics has got so much more so. It was always horrible and it's way worse now. Yeah.

Uh oh, we haven't heard this. Let's play this. This is a good story. I hope it's self contained. I don't want to give away the punchline. This is clip twenty five Michael.

Democrats, of course, want open borders and.

Want an endless stream of illegal migrants pouring into the United States.

This is my new acquaintance, Edwin say.

Hello, Okay, Edwin is from Venezuela, and we're gonna take Edwin into the DNC.

So Edwin, let's let's edit.

Shall we.

This is Edwin from Venezuela. You like to come into the Democratic VESI provinis.

Yeah, what you mean he needs credentials and permission to come in to get past the wall.

Yeah, it looks like a border wall away.

Yeah, we would like to get some credentials from Edwin anyone, So you have to there's a process in an application where he didn't have that.

At the border.

Just to be clear, we have been ejected from the d n C credentially in office because.

We're not permitted to be here. Can he come into the DNC.

I don't think the cut SERVI is gonna go for it.

Now, they're not gonna go for it.

What I get for it at the border?

Oh well I want We tried two gates credentials all for three.

That's a strike out of they strikes. That is some really good political theater. It's great. It was.

It was a little hitting you over the head with the point. But that's fine because the point is a good one. So you can come into this country be anybody from anywhere. Nobody cares at.

All, right, right, Yeah, it's funny they didn't have that process at the border. I didn't think he was too heavy handed with it. Okay, you need to bring people along. Not everybody's as a student, quick witted as you. Some of us need to be helped. Oh goodness sakes. It was when t six minutes ago that I stopped caring if anybody's keeping track at home about what any of it? All of it? Are this ridiculous charad? Oh you know what I do care about?

Uh?

The top five most iconic fast food mascots. Now there's an issue Americans need to think and talk about more. America's most iconic talk or fast food mascots.

Number five will piss you off. Oh cool, so that's coming up.

This is a tease, Sure, sure it is. Yes, I want to talk more about the chimp ladies like we were earlier.

Are you coming chimp mamas, monkey mamas? Are you coming into the building tonight to watch Kamala Harris speak?

Sure?

I am, I doubt it.

I doubt Oh yeah, Kamala, I think is the proper.

Bill Clinton called her Kamela twice boy whoops. Which if you do it as a as a person on the right, you're called a racist.

Back to your question. You're not coming in for whatever reason.

I'm tired as hell, and I'm going to the Cubs game this aftern You're going to a baseball game?

Yeah, yeah, so.

I will bring many entertaining, fascinating, insightful, suspenseful tales from the ballpark.

But I'll watch kam Law on TV.

I think, are you are you weighing whether you can handle coming back again tonight?

It wasn't bad.

I mean, I got over hero fast. They dropped me off close and I walked right in. There was no security, so it was it was easy to get in, so that was cool.

Yeah, that is good.

I wanted to mention this before we take a break, and then we'll get to that fast food thing you've got, which actually sounds entertaining. Only just posted some new pictures of us, Joe and I just post for pictures in front of the Harris Walls wall. They've got a wall of for Harris Walls and everything like that. People are taking their pictures that are sincere and ours was obviously ironic and mocking.

Yes, and we fasy shade DJ poses, which I regret, but I immediately.

I came across this yesterday from Charles c Cook of the National Review.

There's no the.

He said, Read the Politico, feel feed, the at political feed, the Twitter feed from Politico, scroll down for as long as you like, for days, weeks even. How would it be different if it were being written by the DNC. And he has headline after headline after headline from Politico and they're all well, just like he said, it's as if they were written by the DNC. The Obama's brought the crowd to New Heights tonight is the title of one story.

Okay, the next story was here are some of.

The best singers from Michelle and Barack Obama's convention speech. Doug Mhoff told a story of his first date with Kamala Harrison. The crowd loved it. That's another story.

Wow.

I mean, it's just it is as if then here's one the other direction. Desantus' takeover of Florida school boards has big setback every story.

As he said, you could scroll.

For days, and it's as if the Democratic Party put him out from a supposedly legit well it is legitimate news organization, but it's a theory trying to cover politics.

Yeah.

Again, it's a wonder cans ever win an election.

That's how all in the mainstream media is on this whole thing. Yeah, I mean, not one deviation.

And yet and yet Trump could win and you know, as I've said, and it's totally immaterial. Now I think a more mainstream Republican could win going away in spite of that.

But we are where we are. Yeah, where do we go from here? And we got eighty some days left. I want to check some of your texts, whatever you want to tell us or hear about text line four one five two nine five KFTC.

A star was born? Question mark? Did I imply a question there? Play well done? Yes, my inflection, A star was born?

Uh.

Tim Walls killed it last night.

I mean in the way that Barack Obama killed it twenty years ago in two thousand and four, and it launched him to be in president. I mean Tim Wall's speech was that well received last night.

Uh.

We'll play a little of it coming up and then dig into a little of the reality if you haven't heard of it, of what a left wing socialist he is, which which you know doesn't keep you from getting elected president in the United States necessarily.

No, the hope he changey thing has worked in the past, although he's the VEEP, so it's a little different proposition. But we'll consider that totally non political came across this listical. It's an absolutely stupid listical, but it got my attention because it's wrong.

It's just wrong.

Does it have anything to do with the presidential election?

No?

Bingo, your top.

Five most iconic fast food mascots? Okay, they've got Jack from Jack in the Box at fifth.

Okay, Okay, it's pretty good.

Heeo with a ping pong head wears suits, has great ideas. I mean that's he wears suits. That's right and thrillist rights, calm and charming. He's like the nameless guy in your office who cracks a tasteful joke in the break room once a week then vanishes immediately. He also makes you feel pretty okay about eating a twelve hundred calorie gut bomb.

At four a m.

I can't eat Jane to Bee. No, I haven't even attempted it for years. But so Jack?

Is it five that these must be pretty good because that's a high bar.

Four is Wendy from Wendy's Oh give me a Break? Is it completely innocuous?

Oh? Innocuous?

Oh?

She's a little red haired sweetheart. That's a DEI hire right there. Oh boy, wait a minute. Now as a ginger.

That was a woman, but a worm and approachable demeanor instantly evokes a sense of familiarity and family.

Oh what a crocker.

Yeah, there's Dan Balls in the Washington Post. She is a Sanson. Dan Ball's walking right by there.

Yeah, I think he's working with Oh god, well, I've got to change the topic.

If he comes up.

Here, let's see how it goes, see if we get a chance. So I want to see if we get a chance. Here he's talking to Dan Balls number three.

I'm gonna keep my voice down so he doesn't think we're lunatics because I've run people off with my ridiculous.

There's a chance. I think there's a chance he's gonna come off. We'd love to talk to the great Dan Ball.

He is the dean of politics right for the Washington p has for decades.

He's a big deal.

Number three, The King Burger King, the hip new weird, disturbing.

Yeah, I like that one.

You like that Burger King, Katie, The one that like just goes through your bedroom window and just stairs with its plastic face.

He's entertaining, but creepy.

Creepy, they say that unsettling yet unforgettable. Maniacal grin has been producing nightmares across the US since two thousand and four.

Oh yeah, if I saw his face in my window, I had three three three bullets center a mass.

It's also fitting he's wearing a paper crown similar to the ones kids can get in the store. Sometimes creepying od is what restaurants need to make people pay attention. Let's see number two. Certainly, the clown ron McDonald. Sure, yeah, I mean he's iconic, even has his own balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day for ade.

Want to talk about old school whatever. Wow, there's a lot of law enforcement here. Yeah. Is that the Illinois State Place? Okay, welcome. They pulled me over in the past. Didn't they chase the Blues Brothers? They did unsuccessfully. They just decided.

Note about the paper crowns from Burger King homeless people, big fans of those?

Oh are they really?

Yeah?

I've seen that, funny.

I've seen more than one walking around with one of those on.

That is fine. I got to finish this up.

Ronald is without a doubt the most polemic fast food mascot. He's friendly and instantly recognizable, but he's also a clown. Most normal people are terrified by clowns, regardless of nostalgia.

That's a good point. Number one, A brave.

Veteran of our armed forces, Colonel Sanders of KFC.

I think he was a slave owner, wasn't he? I don't know. Harland Sanders was not a slave owner. He's a real guy, Okay.

As a character, Colonel Sanders is a lovable, sweet old man with plenty of personal ties to KFC.

He just dresses like a slave owner.

He's tressed like an old Southern gentleman, a right, which generally they were wow.

Wow.

If you look at the one they just came out with the tie that's around his neck, you'll never be able to unsee. This looks like arms and legs for a stick figure. So it just looks like a giant head. And then all right, you people aren't taking this seriously. That's funny, Katy, I to check my give up?

Are we going to talk to Dan Balls pair of the Washington Post Wrongs.

It's the honor of my life to accept your nomination for vice president of the United.

States has Tim Walls last night at the very beginning of only a fifteen minute speech, and I wish everybody'd pick up on this because he killed it and left there with everybody thinking that was awesome. And this guy's a giant star and he did that in fifteen minutes.

Who better to discuss all things convention in politics with than Dan Ball's of the Washington Post. You've heard him on the air with us. This is the first time we've ever gotten a chance to chat in person. The dean of Washington Journalists, also a fellow graduate of the University of Illinois, or Banner Champagne go a line, Dan, go a line.

Good to see you, Thanks for stopping by.

Thank you for having me. It's good to see you guys in person. Thank you.

So you wrote a column real recently that maybe the exuberance was too much for the Democratic Party.

Man, I'll watch out.

Do you still feel that way after watching a couple of days of speeches.

Well, I mean the exhiberance is over the top. Here. The point of that was that, as somebody said and I quoted in that piece, Kamala Harris has had the best four weeks and now four and a half u in the modern history of American politics, and we are in a toss up race. So this notion, this notion that everything was great and therefore they could coast to the election. People were people were concerned about that. That that you know, strategists and some party people who've been through these campaigns in the past recognized that a fall campaign is a fall campaign, and that the high you know, the kind of highs of summer, uh, don't necessarily last throughout and that and that because she's as new as she is to this, she's obviously had you know, she's performed very very well in the time that this transition has taken place. But she's still not fully known by the American people. Her views are not fully known by the American people. She's she's been mostly scripted at this point. She's not been in an unscripted situation. She will be in a debate you know, coming up. So there are a lot of questions about that. And she's she's remade the electoral map and put the Democrats into position to win some states that Biden was having, you know, a great trouble winning and probably couldn't have won. So that's helpful, but those those states are still very, very tight. I was at a session earlier this week that David Axelrod and Amy Walder the Cookwalder Report were doing, and they were interviewing some people from one of the super PACs supporting Harris, and those folks said, on the basis of their all their data that this race is is tighter than some of the public polling might suggest. So that's that was the context for the irrational exuberance.

Gotcha.

So one thing we've been talking about lately, given the mostly unanticipated and comp letely unbelievable developments over the last several months, the incumbent president saying I'm out pressured, obviously, but and then on a candidate who was not tried in the primaries this time around at least so has been able to keep a very low profile. Is all of a sudden the candidate. But it almost harkens back to the days of yore when the campaign truly didn't really start until after Labor Day.

What does it look like to you from here?

With a couple of months left, can the Republicans expose Kamala Harris for the progressive.

Monster that she is?

From their point of view, or can they keep her hidden back successfully all this time.

Well, the Republicans will do everything they can, and they will have a lot of money to do it through television and digital advertising, to paint her as way far left, as way out of the mainstream. The Democrats will certainly counter that, and she will try to counter that. But I think that the key for the Republicans is the ability or lack of a bil by former President Donald Trump to be an effective candidate. You know, if we had been talking a month ago, on this day at the Republican Convention, or a few weeks ago, we would have said they've had three very very good days. This is a very united party, this is a very upbeat party. They believe in their nominee, and they are perhaps poised. I mean, they would certainly at that point have been considered the favorite story in the election. And then Donald Trump got on the stage on Thursday night and instead of delivering, you know, a Tim Walls length speech, delivered his speech that ran for ninety minutes. It was rambling, it was unfocused, and honestly, I don't think he's been the same since then, and the race has taken a different turn, and he he has not found a way to make the pivot to a race that was between two older men and in which Biden was the older and the one people were more worried about. To erase it involves a younger woman, a black woman, to erase. It's now a generational change and something that's a future versus past, and that's the challenge for him.

I've been wondering this whole time how much policy matters at all anymore? Or is it just about vibes. We talked to Carl Rove about it the other day. He said, policy still matters. I'm not convinced that it's not a ViBe's election.

What do you think, Well, you know, presidential campaigns ultimately are about the character of the candidates and people's perceptions of their comfort level with those with those two people, and which one they feel more comfortable with. Carl's right. Policy does make a difference. You know, there are issues in this campaign that put Kamala Harris on the defensive. We know that inflation is a concern that has plagued the Biden administration. She's going to have to answer for some of that. The border, even though the border crossings are way down at this point compared to what they had been earlier in the Biden administration. The incumbent President Joe Biden did not handle that issue well until more recently. Those are important issues. We know that the abortion issue, it is a very important and powerful issue that has motivated voters to vote democratics since the Dobbs decision in twenty twenty two. That is still out there. So it's issues do matter, but so much will be you know, will be the question of what do people learn about Kamala Harris that they don't know now and does that make them more or less comfortable with her than they seem to be at this point. And as I said before, ken Donald Trump trying to recapture some of the discipline that he had when he was a candidate, particularly in twenty sixteen, or is he going to remain quite unhinged and unfocused right now.

We can get back to politics if you want, but I'd love to talk to you at least briefly about journalism, as we're fierce defendant defenders and fans of the First Amendment, the free press, the incredibly important role the press has in a system like ours, and just love to know your thoughts on the trend in a lot of journalism schools lately where advocacy journalism is journalism and the idea of being a fair minded arbiter and aly neutral arbiter as seen as old school and out of fashion and a waste of time.

Any thoughts on that, Yeah, I mean, I mean, I think you've I think you've drawn that contrast or that comparison mostly accurately. I think it may be slightly overdrawn. I don't think that. I don't think it's you know, we we used to be fair arbiters and now we're all advocates. Sure, yeah, right, I mean I know, you know, I'm an old school journalist, so and I get you know, I get criticism from different sides at different times depending on what I write. I do know that the colleagues that I work with on the political team at the Washington Post to think of themselves as reporters. They don't think of themselves as advocates. You know, everybody has biases, everybody has views. We you know, depends on where we grew up, what our parents did, you know, all of the life experiences we have. But we try to park that at the side, uh and report. Our job is to tell people things they don't know. Uh and and and to tell things that other people who are in power don't want told. Uh And that's the motivation that we have as journalists. There is more advocacy journalism. I mean, it's you know, it's.

Well, the Colombia's Cool of journalism put out a statement that they thought that that was the future and a good idea.

Well and and but that's that's a debate that's going on in journalism. They're not you know, they're not which side of that debate are you on? That's what well. I tend to be on the non advocacy side. I tend to be on the reporter side. And as I say that, you know that there there there are people who have whatever views they have, who want journalists to be more advocates, who want them to be, in a sense, you know, an ally or an adjunct of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party. And that's not the that's not the kind of journalism that I grew up on, or that I'm particularly comfortable with having said that. I mean, we're we're in a period in which we have had to make some adjustments about how we talk about what's going on. You know, Donald Trump. Let's let's be honest. Donald Trump lies about things at different times, and we have to be able to call that out. It took a little while for mainstream journalists to kind of be comfortable with that. But the more he talked about has stolen election, the more he talked about, you know, massive fraud in the election, the more we were obliged to call that out for what it was. You know, in a sense, that's you know, that's that is calling balls and strikes. But you know, some people think it becomes advocacy.

Well, right, Occasionally people will say they really enjoy our show because we're neutral, and I always reply, we're not neutral.

I'm a forceful advocate.

From my point of view, we try to be fair, right, and I think that's all anybody asks.

Yeah, And I mean that's always been my view that you know that you want to you when you are writing certain kinds of stories, you want the people on either side or whatever side they're on, to feel that their view got a fair shake. That doesn't mean it's you know he said, she said, or it's both sides of them. You can you can still do those kinds of stories in which you point in a particular direction based on the facts, based on the evidence, based on your reporting. But you're right, I mean it is it is trying to bring a sense of fairness, even if people have particular points of view.

So Kama gives her big speech tonights the end of the convention. I would guess that she's going to give speech similar to what she's been given on the campaign trail. It will while the crowd, they'll get a bit of a bump and come out of her. So what happens from here on out outside of the debate, is anything going to happen. They're both going to be out doing their thing. And to your point that she had four great weeks and it didn't.

Move well, it moved. It moved. It moved from a race in which Biden was losing to a race in which it is now clearly competitive, and that she may have a tiny edge, who knows, but it's you know, it's you know, it's a toss up price. Everything's kind of within the margin of air. She's opened up states that you know that he was not doing well in that that are kind of back in play. Obviously, the debate is a big, big moment. You know, we learned that again this summer with the June twenty seventh debate. I mean, no one's predicting anything quite like that, but but the debate will be a big moment, and you know, there may be there could be another debate, There'll be a vice presidential debate. Debates tend to kind of freeze the electric so in between those debates not much happens. Uh. And and then you're you know, then you're into the kind of the you know, the blocking and tackling, as bry Tim Wall said last night of the final final weeks, which is to get your own people out and persuade the few people who are still undecided at that point to come to your side and to get out and vote.

And people are gonna start voting here what in a couple of weeks and then staggered places all around the country.

Yep.

And of course they're going to raise fromendous sums of money too in the next couple of days, feeding off the excitement of the convention.

Yeah, I mean that. I mean people people hate the amount of money that's in politics. I mean they think it's kind of obscene. And they think that. You know that people who are rich have more influence on the process, and it makes people cynical. Uh, for understandable reasons. Both campaigns are going to have as much money as they need. I mean that you get you get that amount of money, and it's almost like they can't spend it efficiently, right, And so you know, people will brag about we've raised this much versus them, you know, the Harris, the Harris folks have raised unbelievable amounts of money since she she became the candidate. But Donald Trump'll have plenty of money anything.

Anybody who's ever lived in a swing state knows that tenth ad you see, well you're trying to watch your favorite TV show.

Might convince you. But when that eleventh one, you're like, oh, you can't go to hell.

So there's a point of diminishing returns or even negative returns.

I remember there was a there was This was in Ohio when Ohio was a swing state, so it would have been probably back in two thousand and eight, and you know, people were getting bombarded by television advertising and emails and you know, the texting wasn't so popular then. But then there was a colleague of mine who was out on the campaign trail, and you know, she was interviewing a voter and the voter's phone rang, and the voter looked at the phone and which just hit you know, stop, you know, and said, you know, I know what that is, and you know it was just another appeal for you know, for votes.

Right.

Yeah, One more question I got before we got to let you go. Is there any chance this dentse the primary system the way Kamala became the candidate?

Because I'm not a big fan.

I certainly when I was younger, I would have thought smoke field rooms are a terrible idea.

You got to put it in a hands of the people.

But now I'm not so sure put in the hands of the people's the best way for a party to choose their candidate, because then you end up running on the candidate's platform as opposed to your own parties platform. But is this going to change anything? Or will it be back to the way we used to do it next time around?

You know, I kind of think we'll be back to the way we were the last time around. I mean, that system is baked in and for some for some good reasons. I mean, you know what happened in sixty eight here, what happened in seventy two in the in the conventions and the election force the Democratic Party to open up that process and take it away from the party bosses. And I think that, you know, on balance, that's a good thing. The system, you know, the process is too long, there's no question about that. I don't know how you change that. Part of that is, you know, is the media. I mean, we start writing about, you know, the next election the day after the first elect right, and it's hard to break that habit. So I don't I don't think it will change. Mutch. I mean an analogy is, you know, we we went through those virtual conventions in twenty twenty and one of the things that was done was, particularly on the Democratic side, they tightened speeches. You know, those were those were tight speeches in that virtual convention. And I thought, well, maybe that will be one thing that will last. And I'm not sure that it right. That's what happened this here this week.

That's the only curb on the first Amendment I can swallow is let's just not talk about any elections until even six months. Dan Balls of The Washington Post Dan great to talk to you in person. Thanks so much for stuff and mind same here than you're telling you guys.

More live from Chicago on the way stay here strong So well, Michael.

This is one of those Chicago songs that the introduction is completely different than the rest of the song.

Is this beginnings or now this make me smile? Make me smile? You know, keep it playing, keep it playing. This is the album version. So were they from Chicago? Yeah?

Yeah, Terry caff the lead guitarist, this is one of the few songs he sang.

Hit it.

In the fuck.

The first concert I saw was Chicago. Really, that's my first content home. And yeah, I wish we could play more of this. It's such a great lead vocal. Anyway, Chicago from Chicago, and we're in Chicago. Yes, I guess that was your point. That was my mome.

We're in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, which wraps up tonight with Kamala Harris speaking. I just gotta I gotta address this. I've addressed it like ten times. I go to address it again and then I'll shut up about it. So we got this text. You keep talking about how great their speeches are, but imagine putting Obama in walls. In the Republican convention, there would have been crickets.

Kiss.

Yes, they got hired for a specific job, for a specific.

Crowd fight, and they came in and they did their job for that crowd and they killed.

They didn't convince us we want to be communists?

No, No, little more effective and the people they were trying to talk to, right, yes, anyway, final fault.

Yeah, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty.

Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew to wrap things up for the day. Michaelangelow, our technical director, will lead us off. Michael, there's Nancy Pelosi. Nancy Pelosi's walking by again. Michael, what should I yell? You gotta yell anything good? Look at the is she still wearing high heels. She's like eighty five years old spike heels. Yeah, it's amazing.

Sorry, Michael. Oh, just one more day.

So I know you had food disappointment last night, So you've got to go find yourself some good food.

Yes, I trust me. I'm going to make sure I order correctly tonight. That was a disappointment. Katie Green Aer esteemed and news woman. As a final thought, Katie, I think.

The DNZ has been a great show, but the I mean joy is Nepal, So I don't know.

And I still ask the question, do you need a policy? All the smart people seem to think you do.

I hope they're right.

By a week from now, it'll seem like last Halloween, everything that's happened this week, I think Jack a final thought for.

Us, I guess that is my final thought. Well, I want to be wrong. I want to be wrong. That me saying that I'm not sure policy's gonna matter, that vibes are going to win the day, but I do want to be wrong.

Oh gosh, my final thoughts.

Since I was just talking about Terry Catham Chicago's kids. Even if you think a gun is unloaded, don't point it at your head and pull the trigger.

Is that what happened to him? Yeah, yep. Why did you point a gun at it?

Was wasted because he thought it was unloaded and he thought it was funny.

Got a guy pointed a gun at me at a party one time. It was joking around and we found out later it was loaded a rifle.

Oh boy. We were also drunk too. That could have been one of those stories.

Oh yeah, Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workdore.

So many people.

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You didn't go to parties where the point around? Dear rifles game, God blessed America.

I'm strong and Getty. We must together work together to see where we are. No, that's not what I was told. So everybody chia.

This is a moment when mister cross selves in the mirror and we must learn.

Yes, two together and to work on I don't think so.

Forget it.

Not only was it authentic, frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little scene in this day and age ish posh.

Okay, yeah, Armstrong and Getty

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