Positively No Dancing

Published Aug 20, 2024, 3:21 PM

In hour 2 of The Armstrong & Getty Show:

  • People in Chicago stick with politicians despite the horrible things happening around them
  • DNC believes walls work! 
  • Speeches at the DNC
  • Combative union boss quotes Nelly and takes off his jacket

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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, I'm strong and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.

I want I want my grandchildren and their grandchildren to know I was here.

At this moment, that.

We were here, and that we were with Kamala.

Harris every step of the way.

This is our time, America.

This is when we stand up, This is when we breakthrough.

The future is hair, it's at our grass.

Lent go win it.

How the future is here? See that was all about I wasn't informed.

That was about all finally getting a female president, just the whole identity politics like that somehow automatically makes everything better.

I just I do not understand identity politics. Yeah, yeah, I have.

Are you willing to conceive that there have been bad male presidents? Okay, all right, then so it's possible that the first would be terrible? Right, So on its face, as Jack points out, it's not necessarily the blessing that it appears to be automatically, you know, listening to Hillary there it I've noticed that these things in similar events that a lot of the grizzled old time reporters. They walk around with resting cynical face. Yeah, like RPF, but is subtly different. Yeah, I'm getting it more and more.

Yeah, that's funny. You mentioned the reporters. There's a chance they're going to turn on this convention. According to Mark Halprin, Oh that's exciting. Yeah. Fifteen thousand credentialed media grumbling yesterday about the long line, yes line singular for media to get into the building last night. Mark Alprin writes, if the DNC doesn't fix the long line for the media to get in, the press carbage will get worse. That's not special pleading, that's just the fruits of my knowledge after many years of covering conventions and watching the media cover conventions. When they can't get in and the lines are long and it doesn't look like it's organized, right, they just they turn their anger in a bad mood.

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, which way again, shans me? Why isn't there coffee available? I mean, do don't you want the media to be in a good mood? That's such an oversight. Wow, that's a good point.

People walking around jones and for caffeine and writing angry things.

Right, So, executive.

Producer Hanson is here on the scene. First of all, what you saw yesterday is what made national news ish. Was some of the protesters. Did they actually get into the security zone or yeah? Two two gals, one girl who uh, very cute. I don't know what kind of threat she posed to all of us inside the perimeter. It didn't seem like much, but yeah, two women were arrested.

They they I don't know how they got over the final fence, but there are multiple fences. Yeah, you'd have to climb over one fence, multiple layers, runaways, dodging thousands of cops, then get over another fence.

Yeah, listen, I'm hearing sympathy. I know you're father of a beautiful daughter. But was she a hippie?

Yes?

Or no?

Yes, you gotta whoop up two hippies. You gotta whoop up on the hippies. Are you just things? Get out of it?

I think there was there was one full hippie, There was one full hippie, and there was one hippie sympathizer.

Yeah, yeah she was. I think she was.

Regretful and a little uncertain and very regretful in that moment when the cops had her cuffed and she was on the ground on her knees, and it didn't looked good. Mom and Dad would have been very upset with her at that moment. I think, yeah, but or proud. But the rest of the folk were not getting past the next layer, the final layer, and so they planted their flag and they stood still. Meanwhile, masses of police were forming up lines on this side, on the events side of the perimeter, and they were not going to get through that final barrier.

Right, no chance.

I hope she can still get an abortion while she's in jail. Wow, make sure abortion is available at all times everywhere. He's not gonna let it go. If you're just tuning in.

That references to the fact that virtually every single speech yesterday, no matter the speaker nor the context, brought up abortion.

And everybody cheered like it was a rock concert. Right, yeah, abortion, Whooo, It's very weird.

What was I saying? Oh?

Right, the protesters did it? Did it seem to be as Palestine that was driving.

Firstcent that particular group, and they had the flag to prove it.

So yeah, When when Joe and I left yesterday in the uber, we went by this big park over here, and there were there were how many people you suppose were in that part protesters? There were a lot of people there. It was several thousands. Yeah, I mean it dwarfed any thing we saw in Milwaukee. I mean they dwarfed it. So and it's going to grow from there. The big march apparently didn't happen. So Hanson and I went out for ribs last night, best ribs I've ever had, absolutely delicious, at some local little place at a buddy of mine grew up near, and we went and checked that out. And then so we got to tell this story about the old couple you talk to sit next to us, because that's its own interesting political story. But anyway, old guy suggests we go to Marges. Margins is a bar just down the street. Local bar check out, Marges just two blocks down. So and I mentioned Marges to my buddy who grew up you guys said, oh, yeah, you gotta go to Marches. Even if you just have a club soda. He knows I don't drink. You gotta go to Marges. Yeah, I love old timey bars. So we walked over to Marches when Marges was closed, even though the sign says open Monday through Sunday Marches has a great, big, giant painting of a naked fat woman on the wall.

Exactly sure what that is?

Well, speaks to March's appreciation of the arts of the finer things in life, right Jack.

I think it's buxom.

I think it would be the term just call our fat lady.

Wow? Nice? What Margus is closed? And we're trying to figure out why that was.

And then when we got in our uber to come back to the hotel, guy said there was some sort of march that was supposed to come by.

I just they marched all the way from Milwaukee. From Milwaukee, what's what he heard?

Yeah?

No, And granted this guy's listening to talk radio in his car, so he was up to the martin the latest. The people that put together the march that they'd been working on for ten months, this march to build up. They were hoping for, like you know, something that just really starts to build over the weeks and months and becomes a giant thing. They get great like sixty eight apparently was practically nothing. Is one thousand to three thousand people, which is a crowd, But they were hoping for forty thousand or they were expecting forty thousand. So that's why margins in every business on that particular thoroughfare was closed. Was they thought forty thousand protesters that might start breaking windows might be coming through, so they just closed up, sent everybody home and did was it boarded up or just closed?

Just closed?

Yeah, okay, businesses boarding themselves up.

It can't be closed. I know that's that's a loss.

Here's my favorite thing that This was America Marge, where we went and got the the ribs, the twin anchors. Here's my favorite sign they had in time, this old timey bar. Positively no dancing. I love that. I don't care how thank you get. I don't care how cool the music is. Are freaking dancing in my bar? Get out?

Pretty girl comes in here, says, do you want to dance? The answer is no, nobody's dancing in my bar.

That place had been there.

There's the ris O place had been there for ninety two years, ninety two years.

Look at the crinkled cut fries as well. That's another touch of class. How awesome is that? But so how much time I got?

So the old couple sitting next to us there they're from the neighborhood. And they started they sounded like they were San Franciscan's their complaints. They were talking about how walgreens are closing, or the ones that are open. They go to the pharmacy or whatever, everything's locked up. You gotta find somebody to unlock everything. You want to buy toothpaste, razors, whatever it is. Then they talked about McDonald's is closing. This is a McDonald's town. They're closing every single McDonald's inside the loop. Yeah, and you can't walk around here. It's used to be a nice neighborhood. You can't walk around.

So we thought, yeah, you should back up though, and where the conversation started. We asked them, Hey, is it really that bad here? I mean, what's really like? Oh, no, it's not that bad. It's not that bad. And then they went into the entire laundry list of all these horrible things that paint the picture that we're familiar with from you know, all the stories that we've heard.

But anything short of being murdered was acceptable.

I guess. So what did you ask him about the mayor or whatever? No?

I just I said, oh, it sounds like your governor and our governor. You know, they're very closely aligned in similar policies and similar issues, right, so, how bad is it here?

And that's kind of where the conversation started.

And I had nothing but complaints about the very same sort of stuff that is going on in you know, northern California, which would.

Men Seattle and Portland, all in Philadelphia and Saint louis absolutely amazing.

Why would you stick with the same party that has brought you this? Do they in their minds just feel like this is something that's just occurring kind of naturally like weather, and there's nothing you can.

Do about it, right? Yeah? I think that is the thinking.

People don't connect policy to outcomes or outcomes to policy in this case, because I think you told me that they affirmed that they were, you know, Democrats and were going to remain Democrats.

Certainly didn't give any inkland that they weren't. Yeah, okay, all right, Yeah, it astounds me.

I don't Maybe it's the identitarian nature of modern politics, current politics anyway. That Look, my party is you know, having rough times, but you know I'm a Democrat.

That's part of who I am.

So the mere you know, inconvenience having to ask for a toothbrush to be unlocked for me.

He's not gonna change my mind. That's locking up my toothpaste.

That's right, southbrush Reverend. Right, Yeah, I don't. That is so nutty to me. The disconnect. Are they unaware of how policy has changed? Did they not see that?

Or Cloy're closing down your restaurants and your your pharmacy and you can't walk the streets at night anymore.

But yeah, you just stick with the same thing.

And it's too dangerous for Marge to sling the SuDS.

What kind of world is night?

Can't even go to Margins on a Monday night take caedge off after a long day.

Right, my dogs are barking.

I need to sit down and get a beer, get my Monday drink on.

You know what I want? I want to talk about later.

Maybe part of the reason I didn't go, And I'm sorry I missed it for a number of reasons. But there is no chance I can eat a second big meal in a day, and as I am pushing sixty my metabolay everything is changed. And I just came across an article, a scientific article about how you don't age in a steady way are there's the steady and then there's like off a cliff somewhat, and then it's steady for a while and it's off a cliff. And typically sixty is one of those ages. And I was telling Jack, not only can I not drink like a thirty five year old, I can't drink like a fifty seven year old. The way I have metabolized alcohol has changed completely. And food and so yeah, the idea going out. I could barely choke down my salad last night just because I didn't want to wake up hungary at midnight. But there's no way I was gonna freaking clean off some ribs. So I congratulate you. I congratulate you that you still got the young man's eating going enjoy well you can.

And they were out of the Coleslaw. That was the only disappointment. What Coleslaw is supposed to be really good.

Because of the marchers, the radicals. Maybe have they interfered with the cabbage crop? Now that's gone too far.

Maybe the Blue policies, you could get French fries or an abortion, those are your options. We got more on the way from Chicago coming upstairs.

Are strong.

Protesters broke through this hard perimeter here, literally lifting it off, putting it right down there. See the blue helmet in riot police right there, who've been pushing the protesters back, who poured into the breach.

By the dozens and dozens riot.

Police squeezing them on both sides at this point. Unclear at what point they'll deploy tear gas, but you could hear screaming behind me, and there've been projectiles, placards, water bottles thrown at those right.

Well, that sounds a lot more exciting though what Hanson saw they said, right dozens, He saw two, So I don't know if that was earlier or later.

There are certainly enough people that if there was a significant breach and everybody decided to rush through October seventh style not coincidentally, that would be a major major issue for the cops.

That double line of walls though, yeah, because I mean you got through the first Yeah.

I don't think Hanson mentioned it on the air.

He told me they had some they'd some something that jacked up the big metal fences, so they were prepared to do that.

They jacked them up. Oh really, they are tempted to wow. So the DNC believes walls work. Yeah right, yeah right, funny and have for all of human history. It's odd that you could make a claim otherwise and have anybody believe it.

Walls work so well that if you have like an extra wall, then you really have some then you really have some protection, right right?

Yeah? What do we got here? A protester?

H yeah, this is a protester who was doing an interview.

You support them us, every Palestinians Bortana and not just me, every Palastinian Sortima.

You support October seven, October seventh.

October seven? Yes, I do.

What the what's wrong with October seven?

You tell me?

Women in Jogren? Well, it's murder? What is this? What? It was interesting? Uh?

And I wish I'd asked for But a woman from the Free Press did an interview with some of the protesters, and it was remarkable. She would ask them the most basic sorts of questions about what they believe and why they're there, and they responded with just boiling hostility to her.

And they were they were very measured questions.

They were not what's the matter with you type questions or are why are you a monster? And it was there was a personality type that emerged that I you know that I could discern from the answers, and.

It's like, these people are so angry.

This is a petit woman saying what has brought you here today?

Are you going to be respectful of me?

You're like, Wow, I saw that guy on a couple of different videos and he was aggressive. Yeah, and you it was another example of man, if you don't want to be painted the way you're being painted in terms of your attitudes, don't hang around with that dude.

Yeah, I'll boot him out of your crowd. I'm pretty sure that.

Was the dude who was investigated by the FBI for funda al Qaeda at one point.

Anyway, I was reading this from a Jewish journalist. So last week Hamas said that Israel bomb to school, killing one hundred civilians. The real toll was forty, including thirty one Hamas men. How many headlines did we see last week reporting Hamas's numbers? How many headlines did we see this week with the corrected figures? Do you see the problem here? Yeah, one hundred civilians.

At a school.

Turns out it was forty and thirty one of them were Hamas men at a command center at a Command Center. Yeah, and again all the headlines were about Israel bombs of school, probably on purpose, yeah, and not the corrected. Well, if you believe the crap that you hear, you can see how you might end up angry out there protesting right right.

And the move toward advocacy journalism is journalism at objectivity or even something like fairness is not only out of fashion, but to be condemned and mocked.

How long will that last?

I mean will You'd think at some point everybody would have their ox unfairly gored by some sort of advocacy journalist and think wow, that's just not right, and the trend would pass. But I don't know if you have the colleges, you have the young people.

We had to talk to an expert on that. When did it change?

Because, as you know, back in the whatever late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen hundreds, advocacy journalism with the who is the big publisher, Randolph Hurst, the Hurst people and all that various competing organizations, that's what they did.

The so called yellow journalism. I remember reading about that.

When did it become more of a thing to try to just print the truth and not advocate? And now maybe it's just switching back, and yeah, it was sometime in the twentieth century.

I mean virtually everything that was printed, like in the Revolutionary Times was advocacy. So yeah, maybe I'm anacronism. Maybe we just got used to it because we grew up with it. But that's the weird period of journalism.

And then you just try to have your advocacy journalism be better than the other sides.

Right, I'm not sure that's the well. I think that's what.

Is happening and what is going to happen, but I don't think it's the best way. More from Chicago coming up, stay.

With us, are strong and getty.

After the results are tallied that night, we can in the words of the great Steph Curry, we can tell Donald Trump.

Night night.

I do.

So.

I wanted to get that on for our long time San Francisco audience or Golden State Warrior fans. That is the coach of the Golden State Warrior, Steve Kerr, who decided to get active in politics several years ago, which is what turned Joe off of the NBA, among other things. But yes, he spoke last night here in Chicago where we are at the United Center where the Democratic National Convention is going on.

Yeah, and what.

Bothers me about Steve who's a bright guy and his father was a diplomat who was assassinated and be route was it something like I'm leving on you.

You think HER's going to get into politics someday. I wonder if that's why he? Oh, I wonder, dabbles Inn't it like this could be? He's what he's he probably mid fifties.

He's just he strikes me as one of those guys he talks as if he's never even heard the conservative argument. I mean, he just goes with the greeting card, simple like childlike lefty attitude.

Yeah.

No, the more I think about it, he absolutely could run for governor and win California.

Wow like easily? Wow?

Yeah, yes he could. It's not an outside shot jack Oh wow, yuck. That's like it being hit in the stomach.

Cross must throw up last night's ribs. But I wanted to play this. This is AOC who actually is really good at this. I don't know if I'd ever seen her give a speech.

She was. She was good.

She was some common thought. She was the highlight of the night. I'll tell you Joe Biden wasn't a god dang it, we got to play the elect speaks again. But yeah, AOC rock the house. I happen to be watching them, but this particular angle is what was driving me nuts all night long.

Here you go twogether.

We must also elect strong democratic majorities in the House and in the Senate so that we can deliver i'm an ambitious agenda for the people.

Because of you are a working.

Parents trying to afford rents and childcare, Kamala is for you.

If you are a senior who had to go back to.

Work because your retirement didn't stretch far enough, Kamala is for you. If you're an immigrants family just starting your American story, Kamala is for you, all.

Right, So where do this whole? Kama is the answer to all our problems. Thing come from.

Necessity, mother of invention and mother of Kamala is a saint.

What I was thinking last night I was watching this is the weird thing where clearly you could have dropped anybody into that slot, and the reason this convention would be exactly the same. Yeah, they'd be saying the same things with a different name, right, And Gavin is for you or Josh is for you.

They would be saying exactly the.

Same thing with the same love as if that's the only human being that can fix this problem, right, drop anybody in there, because it's just say we gotta beat Trump thing.

Yeah yeah, and trust me, Gavin and Gretchen and Josh are well aware of that and thinking.

How did she get it right? Just because she was a VP stupid? You know what? It would strange to be Mama Lah of the country.

Oh wow, boy, if you had any ribs left unupchucked, they had to come up then?

So what struck me?

And listen to a lot of the speeches and AOC was a perfect example of that right there. The answer to all of your problems, all of your challenges is always the government. Yeah, yeah, always the government. Question for y'all, just to I'll ruminate on my own question. How often has the answer to your challenges and issues and problems come from the government in your life?

Almost never?

Well, maybe that's maybe that's one of the big How many of your headaches have come from the government quite a few?

Oh no kidding?

How many of your rabbit holes of trying to get something figured out and find the right form have come from the government, and no kidding, maybe that's one of the clearly is one of the big divides between the Blues and the reds.

It's just and neither side gets the other side.

But it's just that basic idea that here, the bigger this gets, the bigger the government gets, the better it is for everybody, the more problems. And so whereas we tend to it's painted by the left as they hate it Marrige.

No, we hate the government. Yeah. People on the right.

Hate the government, wish there was, wish it didn't exist at all, and only grudgingly accept that you need to have some right right.

Yeah.

That the the idea that the patriotism people feel is or should be toward the government as opposed to the founding principle as the Constitution, the American people ourselves is bizarre to me, But you're right, that's that's the smear that happens I think across the aisle. I'm unable to as I've often asked, what in your experience, your actual life experience, makes you a fan of big government and things that making it bigger will make your life better? Please cite specific examples. I just I'm shocked by it.

I don't know if this is fair, but doesn't make any difference if it's fair or not. I suppose he's headed out the door as the last speech of his life. Oh yeah, maybe literally the lass like he may never speak again.

I don't know.

Did he wake up alive today, Joe Biden, I'm talking about last night. Let's let's do thirty three again, Michael.

His decision over turning Robie Wade. Did you heard earlier tonight? The United States Supreme Court majority wrote the following quote, Women are not without electrical were not allowed not without electoral, electoral.

Or political power. No kidding, Magga.

Republicans found out the power.

Women in twenty twenty two.

You know, the idea that the out of control magic court would would forbid women to have electrical power.

You can end it, Michael, you can. Yeah. That's just shocking.

I mean, wow, is this the nineteen twenties again, pulling the court on women?

Well, Biden shouted.

The whole thing, yeah, and in the crowd when he he could not continue, he got the eyes closed, you know.

Because he has a stutter. You're making fun of a guy with a stutter. God's sake.

He's ancient, and I really I do not want to seem like I'm making fun of an old person, but I'm making fun.

Of That's exactly what you're doing.

Well, I'm making fun wrong, wrong, sir, unfair. I'm making fun of the farcical portrayal we were supposed to accept of him as a capable and coherent leader and that he was ready.

For another term.

I spit on that insult to all of our intelligences. When he utterly locked up and the crowd started cheering to cheer him on, that was a moment of abject pity.

That was just, hey, hey, y'all.

Two months ago, you were swearing that this guy was absolutely up to the job, and now he's the old fella at the old folks home who everybody knows.

It's just a matter of time.

You put on enough abortion stories to bump him out of prime time.

See a speech, right and now now this please?

So Kambala kind of broke tradition for these things, which kind of that I like, good for her, the whole idea that there's rules for how you run these things. Who freaking cares? But normally the nominee does not speak at all. You might show up on a Monday night and wave, but you walk off. Well she talked, and who cares. But here's here's kabla last night fifty Michael.

Joe, thank you for your historic leadership, for your lifetime of service to our nation, and for all you will continue to do. We are forever grateful to you.

Flat batic Capkur. You get to hear the appreciation in his voice. There.

Yeah, that was her reading from the teleprompter, of course, which is fine.

That's what politicians do.

And let's do fifty one, just because this has become such a catchphrase for them that they might ride all the way to the presidency.

So guided by our love of country, knowing we all have so much more in common than what's separates us. Let us fight for the ideals we hold dear, and let us always remember when we fight when God bless you, God bless the United States of.

America, good night that we live.

So the reason I wanted to play that is just it now seems when you see them like practically not back to back, that was four hours apart because of the way they structured it. But there's such as so clearly she's a better choice than him. I mean, it's now it seems ridiculous that he was going to be the candidate. Ridiculous in terms of the on the court execution of politics. Yeah, of course, it just seems hilarious that as recently as a couple weeks ago, they thought he was going to be the guy.

Boy, that's a low low bar.

But you're right, more capable than the guy who's talking about denying electrical power to women.

Low bar.

Kamala went off script, though, I think this is also yesterday or the other day.

Do we have fifty three ready? Michael? Enjoy this?

And that's what our election is about. Our election is about understanding the importance of this beautiful country of ours in terms of what we stand for around the globe.

As a democracy.

As a democracy, we know there's a duality to the nature of democracy. On the one hand, incredible strength when it is intact what it does for its people to protect and defend their rights, their liberty and their freedom. Incredibly strong and incredibly fragile.

I think that was misadvertised. That was not what I expected to be. That was actually pretty capable. I mean, it was fluff, but it was well delivered.

Fluff.

So my takeaway from watching last night is that this is all completely like.

Magic beings so far.

Yeah, and I wonder if it can be that all the way until the first week in November. And how weird does people have always talked about the primary system that we.

Currently have being such a you know, a grind, But.

It it reveals who all the candidates are.

And that's how we end up with it with a candidate.

And if you've got flaws, they get revealed because you know, just the pressure curve the And she didn't have to do that, right, and so we could so easily end up with the president that the country is shocked by the first time she has to deal with anything.

Well, I was enjoying her near religious devotion to the notion of democracy, having not gotten any votes at any point right rather in twenty twenty or now, Yeah, she's received no votes, yeah yeah, and she might end up being president by getting enough votes on that day, which every single vote will be a vote against trumperly is what it is. Yeah, I think, so now on you get the politics you deserve, I guess. Yeah, I need to punch myself in the face.

How dare I? Oh?

Speaking of punching people in the face. Oh do you have a minute for this? Maybe we'll do it when we come back.

Uh.

Do you remember Sean Faine at the a f l c IO who did the speech interestingly at the r n C. Yeah, it was surprising he was invited, but a cool gesture. Then he got up and blasted like business yeah and the free market and a lot of the crowd cheered. Yeah, well a lot groaned too. But he delivered a hell of a speech last night. He is a man. He is a brawling son of amvet he is. He got two bloody fists and he's that looking for the next Kuy to punch. So stay tuned. Will play some Sean Faine for you.

Also today, I'm thinking I'm gonna go over to the park and check out the whole protester situation and walk around.

You think that's a good idea, is that? Yeah?

Take off the suit jacket and the badge.

Yeah, I would do that and put on a kafia cover your face and uh just talk and talk about my most recent abortion.

Wow.

Wow, I don't think they're on that. They're they're they're Israel and right, yeah, of course they have that alliance though, so they'll see you as an ally.

I could look arab.

I am not going to be part of this conversation though, absolutely not.

We got more on the way from Chicago at the d NC.

Stay here, Well, there are a lot of rumors that a big global superstar is going to show up and perform at the Democratic Convention. They're making it kind of obvious who is going to be here.

Check out this ad the Democrats just put out. Look at this this week at the d NC. Are you ready for it? There's a blank space.

On the schedule because a huge star is taking the stage and they've got bad blood.

With the Republicans. Your wildest dreams are about to come true.

That's right, you guessed it is Connecticut Governor Ned Lamada.

Lamar So is that the way they're advertising what everybody expects to be Beyonce?

I don't know. I'm completely unfamiliar with the story. Yeah, I think that that's.

What I perceive is that there's a trying to make it a mystery. But hinting out.

Loud, what the hell does that don't have to do with my tax rate?

So whether whether corporate taxes should be at twenty eight percent or not, which they announced yesterday.

Right, you pay corporate taxes. Do we have to go through that again? You do as a consumer, as an employee, as an investor, as a four to oh one k owner, you pay it. Ask Beyonce when she comes out, I'll do that. So I promise this, so we ought to deliver it. This is the combative Sean Fain of the AFL CIO. As I said earlier in the show, I think he gets up in the morning instead of doing push ups or going for a jock, he fights a guy.

Every single day.

They bring in some brawny, some big brawny pipe fitter from Philadelphia and he just beats on him to wake up fifty five Michael.

On one side, we have Kamala Harris.

And Tim Walls, who have.

Shouldered us shoulder with the working glass. On the other side, we have Trump Advance, two lapdogs for the villionaire class who only serve themselves. So for us in the labor movement, it's real simple. Kamala Harris is one of us.

Called Trump a two bit scab. Oh my, I really I really liked this.

Next part. I thought that was this is pretty good. The crowd really dug it.

Yeah, Donald Trump is all talk, and Kamala Harris walks the wall. In the words of the great American poet Nelly, it's getting hot in here.

And he took off his ckets and reveals his Union T shirt, and Vance said, yeah, we'll pass pro Union stuff.

He'd say, they're the greatest human beings ever.

I'm every king of the universe, never mind president vice president.

Right, wow, yeah, you're in really good shape. What do you do?

You do you do the soul cycle or the jazzer size. And I bare knuckle boxing every day.

Every day.

I get up, I brush my teeth, and I fight a guy.

I find the same guy.

No no, no, no, no, fight fight guys across picket lines.

I just fight him right right. Tell you what, if I was an auto worker, I would love the guy. I mean, because he is. You know, it's the same combativeness that draws people to Trump. He doesn't politely say, you know, the the the idea of you know, child sex changes and woke thing is I find it somewhat unpalatable.

Now.

No, he throws haymakers. He punches him in the face, rhetorically speaking. People like that in these combative times.

It's interesting and it's another one of those on flicts of vision in politics, like how did you get here? Is it because your parents were that way as a geneticum of your politics? But like, I know plenty of well I've done plenty of people that are pro union and they can't imagine how anybody would not be pro union if you're like a working guy or whatever. And then I know plenty of people like my brother who are just you know, who are working guys and have come up through working class jobs and just couldn't be more anti union, just hate the idea of it.

Yeah, and did some of.

Their money going to a big powerful entity that spends it on politics they hate?

Right?

Yeah, Well, speaking of these combative times, next hour, why don't we squeeze in the clips of Phil Donahue that we dug up, because they really, really, you know, illustrate what a different in hostile and unfriendly time this is we're living in politically. It is what it is, but it's kind of an interesting, you know, just comparison.

Yeah.

Phil Donahue practically invented the daytime talk show, died yesterday at the age of eighty eight. He had Milton Friedman On as a guest, the great economist years ago and a hero too many conservatives and their little back and forth is fantastic, and you'll hear that in hour three.

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