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Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty . And now he 's Armstrong and Getty How y'all doing? You excited about the weekend?mer Sum weekend coming. I got one kid out of school, one kid with a couple of days left. Then they're my oldest is gonna work this summer . And uh I was on a website of a certain store yesterday that competes with Walmart and has a target for its logo? Signing my son up for a job, because I told him you either find a job someplace you kinda want to do or I'm gonna find you a job you might not like, but you're gonna work. So that's the way that's gonna go down. And uh lots of openings. So uh we'll see we'll see what happens. He's applied a couple of other places, still waiting to he hear.ar That's that's so good. That is so good. Working and getting used to the world and humanity and money and taxes and the rest of it. Oh yeah. And uh doing something you don't want to do, which and you know you can go through a lot of your life until you start working without a whole bunch of doing stuff you don't want to do. Um and then you're kind of you start a job and often you're the only doing stuff you don't want to do the entire time. All day long. And into the night. Yes. Adulthood is wonderful. I've got to go to the dock in the box, speaking of things I don't want to do, and then I've got an appointment tomorrow. I've got to drive two plus hours away to regional airport to interview for my global entry slash TSA uh pre check thingy because I let it lapse by like two weeks. Oh, the stupid tax. It it r that's precisely what it is. I pay the stupid tax almost daily on various things. So I and I always say that to myself on my, you know, I didn't get this in in time or that in time or let that lapse or whatever. So okay, cool, the stupid tax. Once again, stupid folks, if you're not familiar with it, sometimes it's time, sometimes it's money, sometimes it's hassle. It's paying the stupid tax. But anyway, if if you like uh drop the the feds a note in time, you know you know just pay a little fee and get it. But if you let it lapse by a day, they're like , who are you? What who what are your loyalties? What are you what do you think you're doing? You need to come in person. We want to look you in the eye. And then you can bring fifteen forms of ID. See we're gonna strip you naked, reach a hand up your rectum, we're gonna figure out what you are all about because you waited two days to do. Clearly, just because for years you had been somebody they trust, is a decent chance you joined Al-aQeda once you let it lapse. I'll tell you what, the first sign that somebody's gone over to the commies is they let their membership in the TSA Pre-ship lapse. We've seen it over and over again. They go pink and they get late with their application. So gotta give them the watchover. Oh my god. And and then of course you gotta fill out all these forms. Ask the IRS where I live, you A-holes. They know. Trust me, they know . Oh, boy. All right. So uh one more hour to squeeze in all the end turmation we possibly can. Let's begin it with the beloved Friday tradition of taking a fond look back at the week that was. It's Clow. It's Clow. It's Clow. What's a cloud? Clips of the week. Clips of the week . We need to get all the naked drug addicts off of the sidewalks. We can't walk and shoe gum at the same time. Are you ready? I mean, I was born for this clearly. Javier Becerra has surged . Javier Baccaria . By God, if you have Ebola, show up and vote today. Whatever it takes. Wear a mess. Trump backed former Fox News host, Republican Steve Hilton, is in the lead. The Senate race in Maine with presumptive Democratic nominee and horny Lorax Gra,ham P latinum. The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, ran stories without any evidence besides the gossip from a former staffer. Graham and I have a great marriage. Being married is hard. What kind of a creeper has been on a decade on a platform like Kick ? Why did it happen? I don't know what happened. I mean when I as I watched it, I thought, oh my god, he's having a stroke. And so I said, you know, you answered every question. My mind's racing. You know that's a pretty little bar. Well more turmoil at CBS News. Journalism is under attack in Amer ica . Trump told Yanyahu he was effing crazy. Everybody hates you now. I was a little bit perturbed at his uh constantly fighting with Lebanon . Nobody is interested in the ramblings of a capo . Her son and Jeffrey Epstein talk about pole dancing as he begged him for money using your limited credibility. Reclaiming my time asked him to shut up. That's a pretty shut up. We're talking about shoes. Are you guys kidding me? I mean is this the Foreign Affairs Committee or is this like a circus? What is this? It's simple as a pimple for me. There's nothing to it. It'd be nice if it was caught humanely and taken away and and obviously it's domesticated bird . It was very shocking and we asked it out of the box what is kink. Kink can be a fascinating topic. There are many different styles that people enjoy. It's clips of the w So obviously it's ridiculous that a guy who spent his youth in reality television would want to be mayor of Los Angeles, but if you're Karen Bass and it commented on by late night talk show hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, but if you're Karen Bass and you trained as a revolutionary with Fidel Castro when you were young, not even worth mentioning . Right. Uh she visited Cuba eight times in the 70s. That's long after Fidel Castro was not just a person who cared about the downtrodden. He was full on communist dictator by then. She traveled to Cuba eight times, talking about what a great charismatic speaker he was, blah blah blah, talked about what a loss it was when he died. That's as recently as twenty sixteen when she called Castro's death a great That's right. I'd forgotten that. We went big on that at the time. Yeah. So she's an openly would-be communist government hack. And that's much, much more respectable than a guy who happened to be on a reality show than open a business. Couple reality shows, which is not that respectable line of work, I admit that. No, no. Come on, though, come on. Would you rather have the TV guy or a communist? Please . God, I the the the rush to the far left in American politics right now, joined by the Islamists, is really, really troubling to me. And you mentioned um was the last hour you're talking about the or is that this hour? This was just a few minutes ago. I I can hide my own Easter eggs. I really, really can. And like a dog. No concept of time. Oh, thank God you're back. I just took out the garbage. I am a lot like that. Well, you're talking about the whole uh pre check or whatever, flying. Oh yeah, yeah. I saw this in the Wall Street Journal. I don't know anything about this. The grand British tradition of getting sloshed before takeoff is under threat . A proposal by a CEO to stop or limit morning airport alcohol sales . Uh is there more of a grand tradition of getting drunk before you fly in Britain than there I was totally unaware until I came across that same piece of journalism where they explained that oh yeah, yeah. It's kind of just a thing in Britain. You get drunk before you get on a plane. Even if it's a seven thirty in the morning flight. Huh. What an interesting cultural difference . Yeah. It's not like we're a non drinking country. And I don't drink at airports, but I'd never heard. Well of course you get drunk before you get on a plane in my entire life. Like it's obligatory or a tradition. Back when I drank, y yeah, a flight in the afternoon or evening, sure, you're killing time. The airport bar's awesome. But on a morning flight? The grand tradition of getting sloshed before a morning flight sorts of different destinations and vacations or soccer matches or business or whatever. I'm like I yeah, I would feel terrible for the rest of the day. And I'm a drinking man. Um yeah, I hate that idea. Okay. Well I guess the uh there's a skyrocketing rate of unruly incidents ab aboard the airplanes, which is why the head of Ryanair is saying we gotta do something about this. This is insane. It's interesting though that it's coincided with you know the trend toward progressive lawlessness and and tearing down the system and white supremacy and blah blah blah. It's all tied together. They're trying to break the system. Well, and as always, which has made me mad since I was five years old. Um you've got to eliminate something that ninety nine percent of do people are doing and causing nobody else any trouble whatsoever. Mm-hmm. But you're you you got to attack the whole idea of it because some people are a holes. How about you put the A holes in jail or penalize them to the point that they don't they don't act out their a holishness anymore and leave everybody else alone . Which is what I would prefer. Yeah. And keep going to your destination. They got cops at the end of the line too. You don't need to go back to London or wherever. Go wherever the hell you're going and arrest 'em there . Um looking over some of my notes . See what I think is interesting as we get to the waning moments of the show . We talked a lot about the other day the uh in California, and I'm sure this is true around America if they've done anywhere else, but the But the STEM faculty for the University of California, which is a of ten called the greatest university system on planet Earth. I know that used to be true. I don't know if that's true anymore. I don't um but they've all taken such a hit. But anyway, uh the STEM faculty across the University of California system open letter to UC Regents in which they said you gotta bring back the SAT ACT scores. We're getting all kinds of people coming in that just cannot hack it in terms of trying to be an engineer or biologist or whatever the heck. That is amazing, isn't it? What's even more amazing is what when that was proposed eliminating the SAT and just you know, going with interviews about what race you are and that sort of thing, the faculty advisory committee unanimously said don't do that. But the woke regents, I mean it's woke as the faculty are. The woke regents said, no, no, we're doing this. So uh one of the reasons I brought that up is uh filling out a whole bunch of a ridiculous amount of paperwork for uh getting into uh a certain segment of public school for one of my kids. The amount of paperwork. Like I said the other day, I'd like a time machine just to see what my mom had to fill out to get, you know, me into my junior year of high school anything I'm not sure she had to fill out anything but if it was it wasn't much anyhow so so many of the questions how much screen time does you get and I I answered a few but, then eventually got to the I'm not answering any of these one out of I'm just exhausted by it, and two, none of your effing business, but all kinds of questions about just like everything you could possibly imagine about someone's life to a role in school. Why? What and what are you doing with this information ? It's part of the whole culture of the narcissism of small distinctions, I think, too, where every kid gets a carve out for this or uh But there was there are questions like uh does your does your uh does your student have any friends that have ever undergone a tragedy or just all kinds of weird and like what? I'm not I'm not wasting my time on this, even if I could come up with answers. Because what are you gonna do with it that's gonna be and always the punchline to any story in pretty much anywhere in America, but Mississippi, uh, when you're talking about school stuff is, at the end of the day, hardly anybody is passing the whole reading and writing part of school, which is the reason you're there. But you're asking all of these questions about crap that doesn't matter . How in the world do we fix this problem? As you always say, K through graduate school is broken in this country. Bulldoze it, bulldoze it and sell the bricks . Bulldoze it, sell the bricks. Start completely over. That'd be awesome. Start completely over. Build from the ground up. You would end up with a very different looking system . We're gonna have a couple of rebuilding years, like we're uh the New York Jets or something like that. Bad example, 'cause they'll never be any good. Uh but yeah, we've got to have some rebuilding years because it's just become so terrible we can't use what we've got. We're gonna clean house. Yeah. Anyway. It clearly needs to happen. Uh we'll move away from that. Other stuff on the way. Stay here . Armstrong and Getty . Armstrong and Getty here for hymns. There are all kinds of great weight loss approaches that fit into your world out there. They've got them at HIMS with a wide range of affordable GLP1 options. You've got weight loss goals, but hitting them is another story. Check out weight loss by hymns. It's designed to support you in losing the weight and keeping it off, and HIMS now offers access to an affordable range of FDA approved GLP1 medications, including the Wigovi pill and the Wigovi Pen. Through HIMS, everything happens online. You'll connect with a licensed provider who will determine if treatment 's right for you, and then if prescribed, your medication is delivered right to your door, no insurance necessary. 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Go to airtasker.com or download the app. Airtasker, get anything done. Post your response to this New York Times article on Graham Platiner. I think do you think he deserves to continue to be the main uh Senate nominee? Whose one? Isn't this a liability for Democrats trying to take back the majority? So that was a reporter trying to get Bernie Sanders to comment on this guy that's running as a Democrat in Maine. We'll talk more about that in just a second. Which seems to be some people's attitudes. So uh who who controls the Senate is a really big deal. Getting judges through how impeachment will be handled, whether or not you know you're c in control of the process or not. Um, all kinds of different stuff. It's it's it's a major deal who controls the Senate, and it's practically tied . And so the Democrats thought they could pick up a seat there in Maine because a very moderate Republican who voted against Trump in the impeachment over January 6th. Susan Collins is up, her time is up, and um so she's gonna run against somebody. Well, you'd had the governor, the former governor of Maine, Janet Mills, was gonna run, but then I don't know where came this iner dude who is doing the whole I'm regular working class guy , it's time to drain the swamp and get rid of the politicians thing. That becomes a little bit of his whole deal is the fact that he's ruggedly handsome. As much a deal as the fact that AOC is hot is her deal. Yes. A lot. Most. The driving force wouldn't have happened without it. Laughable. He does have the the the rugged good looks thing going and uh can talk the talk. And it turns out he went to a super fancy boarding school and his his actual history is a little bit uh different than his the way he dresses and talks. His rich, rich dad essentially bought him a house, gave him two hundred thousand dollars for the house. I mean, come on. I'm not as comfortable. For that as I was pre Pennsylvania and uh and finding out that his name escapes me because I'm old and I have dementia. John Fetterman? John Fetterman. You know, we beat him up for being a socialist layabout and he turned out to be my favorite democratic senator of all time. So after his stroke, weirdly enough. Anyway, so um there's a bunch of people that are still supporting this of the platiner dude. Oh, I want to get this on down the we're down to the list. We're done no time. Okay, we're gonna have to do it when we come back. He was on with Chris Hayes on MSNBC, and uh and they had an interesting run and we'll talk about but I used to think Rokana , Democrat of California, was kind of like reasonable-ish . No, he's insane. He is gonna be in Maine tonight, even after all the stuff that's happened this week around Platiner and his background with the women and the Nazi tattoo and the once saying he was a communist and everything else, Rokana, California's gonna be there tonight for a get out of the vote. They vote on Tuesday. They vote on Tuesday. But anyway, we got a good clip from MSNBC we'll play for you and fill in some more of the details if you don't know it. It's a heck of an interesting drama. Armstrong and Getty . Ondeck is built to back small businesses like yours. Whether you're buying equipment, expanding your team, or bridging cash flow gaps, ondeck's loans up to $400,000 help make it happen fast. Rated A by the Better Business Bureau and earning thousands of five-star trust pilot reviews, Ondeck delivers funding you can count on. Apply in minutes at Ondeck.com. Depending on certain loan attributes, your business loan may be issued by ONDEC or Celtic Bank. 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And talking about uh who's gonna control the Senate, which has a lot to do with who's gonna get trillions of dollars that pass through Washington, DC. And is it gonna be the Republicans or the Democrats? And so it might come down to ass seat. And that's why people are making such a big deal out of this Graham Plantner dude who's running as a Democrat um there in Maine. You know what I have not heard until today? Uh uh that um Ma ine is the only state Kamala Harris won that's up for uh uh has a senator up for election this time. And that's why it's such a target. 'Cause if they don't win Maine , they'd have to win like uh an Iowa or Texas, which are much redder to uh accomplish the same thing. But you've got then you've got the complications of so this Platiner guy, you assume you listen to us, you follow enough politics, you know he's got a Nazi tattoo and I mean he's a young guy called himself a communist once and he's just there's all kinds of stuff around him. I'm sorry, it's the only state with a Republican senator up for election. Anyway, back to you. But then but then you've got the twist or roo of so there are Democrats, some Democrats who are overlooking a lot of bad behavior by this dude because they're in the The guy sucks, I hate him, I wish he wasn't our guy, but us controlling the Senate is a big deal. So let's stay on board. Let's get him cross the line and uh and have him win the seat. Then you got some Democrats who are not on board because they actually, you know, uh are decent human beings and don't want them represented in party. Or or they're not decent human beings, but they think he's gonna lose. We need to get somebody else in there. We need to drive him out of the race to get a different Democrat in there and then boost that Democrat so that we can win. It's the Biden dynamic. Sure. But then you got the Republicans who are beating up on Plattner like, I can't believe this guy is going to be a Democratic senator because they're afraid he might beat Collins. And then other Republicans who are keeping their mouths shut because they want him to be the nominee because they think he's so easily beaten. So there's like four different groups there in two parties . And virtu ally none of them proceeding on moral grounds. Yeah, very few. And then did the New York I think so. I'm a yes vote on this. Did the New York Times do a catch and kill story yesterday to try to protect Plant ner because they're hoping he uh ends up the nominee because they think that he can beat Susan Collins. I think they did. So we'll get to that in a little bit. But first, on the um uh I talked earlier in the week. I was bothered that over this past weekend the story erupted of his sexting scandal, and that seemed to be like, well, this is too much. When he survived the being a Nazi, he survives being a communist . He survives all this other That's okay, but man, he sexted some women, so I can't put up with that. That's the thing that we're gonna lean on? Anyway, he was on MSNBC, the Chris Hayes show and was asked about when he stopped sexing because he's married and all this sort of stuff. But this is 2023. And so there's a there's a difference in the time. And I think the first question is like, when did this stop? If it stopped, if there was stuff that you're not proud of that you worked out with your wife, you don't want to talk about the details Oh it it stopped when it was happening. I mean like it was a Amy and I Amy and I it happened soon after we got marr ied and we dealt with it very, very early in our relationship. Um and so that's that's when it stopped. Now from just a soap opera standpoint, you know, if you just wanna talk about relationships, which is fun to do. That's a heck of a thing. You were sex ton chicks right after you got married? That's y you know well, you know, I had the seven day itch or the seven month the doldrums or whatever. A cabal of women. Quite a few. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right after you got married. That's uh that's a hack of thing. But they worked it out and she seems to love him and be happy with him and whatever. And I think there's all kinds of reasons he shouldn't be a US senator, so I don't know why we even need to get down to the sexting uh on the list to try to nail that down. Um but so do you know what a catch and kill thing is? Uh uh Trump was uh good at that. Lots of lots of people have been good at that. 'Cause he had friends at the who who was it? The uh inquirer. National Enquirer. Yeah. So he'd have the Inquirer. This is back before he was even a politician when he was just a celebrity billionaire dude that people knew his name. If if there was a negative story out there, sometimes he'd have the national enquire pay somebody for the story, exclusive story, and then just never print it. Or sometimes the catch-and-kill version is you print it but you do a really watered down version. And that's what the New York Times the New York Times is being accused of right now. 'Cause so the New York Times had a splashy headline yesterday that I actually clicked on. D I don't know if you have the actual headline, but it was something like three women finally come forward to nail down what a scumbag plantner is. And I thought, okay, here we go. Now, after last week's sexting story, because the Wall Street Journal it wasn't Wall Street Journal, wasn't it, that that had the headline platinor sexting after marriage? And then there were no sex in there. They didn't have any of the sex . I wanted the actual sexting. I didn't just want like allusions to it. I wanted to see the actual sex. They didn't. New York Times goes with this splashy headline. Okay, here we go. Here's the details. Here it is. Several women who dated Graham Platiner recall unsettling behavior. Yeah, so okay, I thought, okay, do they have the goods now? I read Paragraph after paragraph after paragraph before they even got to the women. I was like, okay, why have I why is the first paragraph not he raped me or something like that? You keep going going and and going and going. And then when they finally got to the women it was he I found out he was dating someone else the same time he was dating me. Whoa, that's your lead acquis uh accusation in the New York Times story? He was dating somebody else at the same time? Okay, not cool, but hardly a bombshell revelation that keeps somebody from being a US center. And it kept going like that. And then finally it got down to a woman who said he shoved me in a room and locked the door. Okay, that's that's that's worse than the but why why did you structure it this way? And so now there's accusations that there was a catch and kill going on, uh, David Harsani reposting this. It's starting to look like people at the New York Times lured in Graham Plattner's victims to try to bury the story for him. Um publishing something watered down due to apparent infighting at the New York Times or the Democratic Party on whether they actually think their best bet is to get rid of him before the primary Tuesday or to have him win and beat Collins anyway, in a way that would leave just enough grist for br bad actors to pre portray Platner as a victim of a right wing witch hunt. Now you're getting too many switcheroos for me to even follow. So you put out a watered down, he's a bad guy, so that he and other Democrats can claim, look, they're out to get me in the New York Times. Well, and voters in the future will see headlines about him being a bad guy in that way and think, Oh my god, I that there's nothing to it. I've seen this. Well, I had to read a long way down before you got to see any any vintage and then you're even at a he said, she said, Why did they bury it so far? Anyway, so one of the women says it dawned on me that this was a one of the women in the uh that that was uh featured said it dawned on me that this was really a setup all along. The journalists I trusted who convinced me to share a story I never wanted to tell, methodically delayed and twisted this into a gift to the Platinum , violating the trust of the victims, shattering the trust I placed in them with the most vulnerable story of my life. So that suggests they said more damning things, but the New York Times didn't print them. Wow. And they put out the story so they can say, look, we've covered this. This is an old story. It's been covered in the New York Times. How many times are we gonna keep talking about this? When there was just n it there was so n nothing burger. I was shocked at like, why is this even an article, let alone with that headline . There is physical abuse in this article . I'm going to count how many paragraphs in it is . One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four. Twenty-four paragraphs before they get to get anything that you could call, okay, that's a really bad behavior that I never want somebody to be a US senator. And then you're still at it, it's a he said, she said. So um why all the previous paragraphs of I found out he was dating someone else or he told me he loved me and it turned out he didn't. I mean what was all that ? Yeah, yeah. He drank a lot. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's so interesting. It's obviously not catch and kill. There's gotta be catch and dilute. Right, right. I think that's what it was. Catch and dilute. So this woman, I don't know which of these women it is, is basically it sounds to me like she's saying they convinced me to tell this story because we gotta get this guy so bad. And then did this big long watered down story that has no impact. Well, if you're a fan of metaphors, it's like they took the virus, killed it, then took a little bit of the virus to inoculate platinum against these charges. That's exactly what it is. It's a uh it's an what's the other word for inoculation? It's uh one of them. God dang it. That thing. That other word for inoculation is what this is. Vaccine. It's a vaccination. Yeah. That's exactly what it is, and that has been perfected over many, many years of politics. Clinton people were really good. It's a vaccination article. Yeah? I want credit. Does it pay? I give you full credit. Do you want me to tip my cap or do you want money? Did you say partial credit or full? Should I send you a check? What what do you want for what will satisfy your needs here. A t-shirt that says I came up with this? I don't know. All I know is when I saw the headline yesterday, I thought, oh, this is gonna be interesting, and I just kept reading and reading and reading and nothing interesting happened. Did I space off or missed the good part again. Right. Because I'm kind of watching the ballgame out of the corner of my eye. And then it became obvious to me, okay, this is on purpose, or they would have put it in the first paragraph. If you we all know, if you follow news at all, if there's something really big, it's it like in the first sentence. Yeah. You have a quote from a woman, he sh he held me down and raped me, or whatever it is. But no, it just kept going and going and going with sideb ars about his life and other things and perhaps meaningless converse before they even got to a woman claiming he said he loved me and I don't think he actually did. Like what Yeah, in fairness, in paragraph six they do refer to in at least one case even physically threatening. But then they don't pay that off until uh paragraph twenty-four, as we made clear earlier. A lot of narcissists talk. Let me just tell you, having been in the dating world now for a while, if I meet anybody, man or woman, who doesn't say their ex was a narcissist, it'll be the first one. It's so commonly used. I know maybe they are, but everybody says their ex was a narcissist. I I don't mean most people. Or three quarters. I mean a hundred percent of people say, yeah, I was married to a narcissist. Okay, well maybe you were. I don't know but, sure seems like a lot of people ended up married to narcissists. Can't all be true, can it ? Yeah, yeah, that's funny. I've heard that more than once too. You know, I have sympathy for the guy who was left