# My Spirit Has Left My Body

An episode of [Armstrong & Getty On Demand](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1259438987), 13 Oct 2026, 36 min.

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Hour 3 of A&G features... • Data center fury & the Kelly Clarkson beef • Gays for Palestine • El Sayed says no ties to Muslim brotherhood • Video of the man mauled by tiger Stupid Should Hurt: https://www.armstrongandgetty.com/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the
[0:05] Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center.
[0:07] Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty. And now,
[0:13] Speaker 2: here's Armstrong and Getty. Shame on you!
[0:25] Speaker 1: Rage against data centers is boiling over into criminal cases
[0:30] Speaker 1: that law enforcement has labeled terrorism. CNN obtained more than
[0:34] Speaker 1: 100 police reports from across the country on data center
[0:37] Speaker 1: backlash in the past year. They include more than a
[0:40] Speaker 1: dozen bomb threats, calls for assassinations, and violent threats on
[0:44] Speaker 1: social media. Government agencies are warning of a broad range
[0:48] Speaker 1: of threat actors and an increased threat environment targeting data centers.
[0:53] Speaker 2: All around the data center thing.
[0:55] Speaker 3: You wouldn't have thought that that would have turned into
[0:57] Speaker 3: a violent threat sort of story. It had been more
[1:01] Speaker 3: of like, I think taxes should be higher. I think
[1:03] Speaker 3: they should be lower sort of story than this.
[1:08] Speaker 2: A lot of it whipped up by the Chinese and
[1:10] Speaker 2: Russians online, which reminds me, I saw, I haven't been
[1:13] Speaker 2: able to verify this, but at least one good, solid
[1:16] Speaker 2: conservative voice retweeted the idea that The Ukrainians took out
[1:21] Speaker 2: a giant Russian data center, and immediately there was a
[1:26] Speaker 2: measurable and significant drop online in social media of mentions
[1:31] Speaker 2: of free Palestine and Israel's genocide. They think that a
[1:36] Speaker 2: lot of that is Russian troll farms. At least a
[1:40] Speaker 2: significant amount, which makes sense because Russia's strategy is to
[1:44] Speaker 2: fire up every conflict in American society, both sides simultaneously. Anyway.
[1:50] Speaker 3: So the midterm election is three weeks from today. We
[1:52] Speaker 3: may be electing— we. We don't live in— unless you live in Michigan.
[1:56] Speaker 3: We don't live in Michigan. You may be electing the
[1:59] Speaker 3: most radical U.S. senator perhaps in U.S.
[2:02] Speaker 2: History.
[2:03] Speaker 3: And we'll get into El-Sayed's background coming up a little bit.
[2:06] Speaker 3: But I was— Islamist bona fides.
[2:09] Speaker 2: Yes.
[2:10] Speaker 3: I was flummoxed last night as I took in my
[2:12] Speaker 3: big mainstream newscast. I watch like ABC Evening News, CBS
[2:16] Speaker 3: Evening News, stuff like that, just to get an idea
[2:18] Speaker 3: of what's like the biggest, broadest news thing that's going
[2:22] Speaker 3: on out there.
[2:23] Speaker 2: Is it something we want to talk about or not?
[2:24] Speaker 3: They led with, and I didn't even know this actress's name,
[2:28] Speaker 3: Selma Blair.
[2:29] Speaker 2: I don't know her act. She went nuts on a plane.
[2:32] Speaker 3: So that was the lead story and in-depth story on
[2:37] Speaker 3: ABC News.
[2:40] Speaker 2: What?
[2:41] Speaker 3: Before they get to Kelly Clarkson and some beef she's having,
[2:46] Speaker 3: who is the original American idol, Kelly Clarkson. I thought,
[2:49] Speaker 3: these are the first two stories on ABC News with
[2:53] Speaker 3: a couple of wars going on and an election.
[2:56] Speaker 2: I'm guessing story number three was severe weather somewhere. You're right,
[3:00] Speaker 2: it was. It was the hurricane. Of course it was.
[3:04] Speaker 2: We are not a serious people. I have not heard
[3:08] Speaker 2: an iota, a single syllable of this story until now.
[3:13] Speaker 2: I am tabula rasa, and the fact that it was
[3:15] Speaker 2: amongst the lead stories of our nation's news is hilarious
[3:19] Speaker 2: to me.
[3:19] Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson, American Idol, I don't know anything about it either,
[3:23] Speaker 3: at all, other than.
[3:25] Speaker 2: Giant syndicated daytime show.
[3:27] Speaker 4: Right.
[3:28] Speaker 3: She was the original American Idol, and she has a
[3:30] Speaker 3: show for people who have sad, sad lives who watch
[3:33] Speaker 3: daytime television, network television.
[3:35] Speaker 2: Unlimited free time. That's great.
[3:37] Speaker 3: Fox and Friends, yesterday morning, first thing they talked about,
[3:40] Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson. And I just fast-forwarded through it, so I
[3:42] Speaker 3: don't know what it's about. So here's Katie Green, who
[3:45] Speaker 3: claims to know everything about this controversial story.
[3:48] Speaker 4: Oh, jeez.
[3:49] Speaker 2: Not gladly, either.
[3:51] Speaker 5: Okay, so Kelly Clarkson went to this store called Art
[3:54] Speaker 5: of Play, which is located in Brooklyn. And apparently she
[3:59] Speaker 5: had seen... this mechanical singing bird that she wanted to purchase.
[4:06] Speaker 2: I had none of these things on my bingo card.
[4:09] Speaker 2: This story is already not anything I was predicting. Where's
[4:12] Speaker 2: my pen? I need to start jotting this down. Oh, right.
[4:15] Speaker 3: Another Kelly Clarkson giant mechanical singing bird story.
[4:19] Speaker 2: Right.
[4:19] Speaker 4: Yes.
[4:20] Speaker 5: So she goes to the store, and apparently the employee
[4:25] Speaker 5: gave her kind of a.
[4:28] Speaker 5: Negative look up and down told her that that bird
[4:34] Speaker 5: wasn't for sale, but she would find her something comparable.
[4:37] Speaker 5: Kelly Clarkson takes to the Internet and says, just drove
[4:43] Speaker 5: all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store
[4:45] Speaker 5: that I thought looked really rad. I had a few
[4:47] Speaker 5: things in mind to buy and was literally looked at
[4:50] Speaker 5: like I couldn't afford it and was told that I
[4:52] Speaker 5: could find something comparable. Wow, dude, you're an idiot and
[4:55] Speaker 5: you just lost a huge sale.
[4:57] Speaker 2: So, so, so.
[4:58] Speaker 3: OK, so her and there's a lot of subjective stuff here, though.
[5:03] Speaker 3: Somebody looking you up and down could be completely made
[5:06] Speaker 3: up in your own head.
[5:07] Speaker 2: Who knows?
[5:09] Speaker 3: They could have recognized her as a celebrity. They could
[5:11] Speaker 3: have been checking out her shoes. They could have been
[5:13] Speaker 3: doing nothing.
[5:14] Speaker 2: Who knows?
[5:15] Speaker 3: But her interpretation was they didn't think I could afford
[5:17] Speaker 3: this and dissed me.
[5:19] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[5:19] Speaker 5: She said that they gave her a pretty woman treatment
[5:24] Speaker 5: referencing Julia Roberts from the movie. Being treated as though
[5:28] Speaker 5: she couldn't afford certain things.
[5:30] Speaker 2: Like a really nice top-notch mechanical singing bird.
[5:34] Speaker 6: Exactly.
[5:34] Speaker 3: Because she was a street-walking whore, they didn't think she
[5:36] Speaker 3: had enough money to buy something?
[5:38] Speaker 2: Nailed it. Yeah, I've never sat through that movie. You've
[5:41] Speaker 2: never watched Pretty Woman? This is the better way to
[5:43] Speaker 2: say it.
[5:44] Speaker 3: You've never been in a position where some woman made
[5:46] Speaker 3: you watch Pretty Woman?
[5:47] Speaker 2: Because that's the only way any guy has ever seen
[5:50] Speaker 2: Pretty Woman. No, no, indeed. One of the benefits of
[5:53] Speaker 2: being with a sane woman for many years, yes.
[5:57] Speaker 3: I'm guessing there's more to this story.
[5:59] Speaker 2: Right. So she posts that online.
[6:02] Speaker 5: All of her followers then swarm Art of Play. Art
[6:05] Speaker 5: of Play responds online by basically saying that they explained
[6:12] Speaker 5: to Kelly Clarkson that this singing bird, which is named Molly,
[6:16] Speaker 5: was not for sale.
[6:17] Speaker 2: Are you still with me? Sure. It's just something they
[6:22] Speaker 2: have on display that they don't sell.
[6:25] Speaker 5: Yeah, and this store, if you look at it, it's
[6:27] Speaker 5: a small boutique, and they have a lot of interactive
[6:29] Speaker 5: puzzles you can play with. And you can go up
[6:31] Speaker 5: and play with Molly the Singing.
[6:33] Speaker 2: Bird or whatever.
[6:34] Speaker 3: I've been in lots of stories like this. There's Kelly
[6:36] Speaker 3: Clarkson right there on ABC. They're doing the story right
[6:38] Speaker 3: now on ABC freaking television. The American Broadcasting Company is
[6:43] Speaker 3: covering this story.
[6:45] Speaker 2: Is there a doctor in the house? I need my
[6:47] Speaker 2: will to live checked. I think it has left my body.
[6:50] Speaker 2: My spirit has left my body somewhat prematurely. I think
[6:54] Speaker 2: it's below 60 or whatever number is too low. Kill me.
[7:00] Speaker 3: I've been in lots of those kind of stores, usually
[7:02] Speaker 3: in Brooklyn-y type places.
[7:04] Speaker 2: And I always wonder, how do you stay open? How
[7:06] Speaker 2: many of any of these things do you sell? Yeah.
[7:10] Speaker 2: You know, I hate to encourage this sort of behavior,
[7:13] Speaker 2: but Hanson, I'd be happy to help you with this.
[7:17] Speaker 2: We need AI to do a Bob Dylan-esque ballad about
[7:24] Speaker 2: Molly the singing mechanical bird and Kelly Clarkson being offended
[7:28] Speaker 2: and the online mobs, whichever direction you want to take it.
[7:31] Speaker 2: All right, so we've had the lash and the backlash
[7:34] Speaker 2: at this point in the story.
[7:35] Speaker 3: But so is the business, like, concerned that they're being
[7:39] Speaker 3: damaged or anything like that?
[7:40] Speaker 2: Is that what they— That's what I'd be worried about.
[7:43] Speaker 3: Well, yeah, Kelly Clarkson's online mob has come for him.
[7:46] Speaker 3: What a nightmare scenario.
[7:48] Speaker 2: I can see why this is a top story. Exactly.
[7:50] Speaker 2: It even beat out the hurricane.
[7:52] Speaker 6: So.
[7:56] Speaker 5: Okay, so Art of Play, so I'm trying to think
[7:58] Speaker 5: of where we were in all of this. So Art
[8:00] Speaker 5: of Play responds to Kelly Clarkson saying the bird wasn't
[8:02] Speaker 5: for sale. Kelly Clarkson then goes back to the internet
[8:05] Speaker 5: to respond back to the store with a photo that
[8:09] Speaker 5: was zoomed in of Molly the singing puppet bird that
[8:13] Speaker 5: had a price tag next to it and said, so
[8:17] Speaker 5: it was, so it is for sale. Cool, so you're
[8:19] Speaker 5: not only rude, you're.
[8:20] Speaker 2: Also a liar. Oh man, she doubled down.
[8:23] Speaker 4: Oh my.
[8:24] Speaker 3: She didn't do it because I've had these sorts of
[8:27] Speaker 3: reactions in stores before about various things. But usually it
[8:30] Speaker 3: calmed down later. She didn't calm down.
[8:32] Speaker 2: Not only were they wrong, they were way out of line.
[8:35] Speaker 2: So she's still going to up the ante.
[8:39] Speaker 5: So now Art of Play has once again attempted to
[8:43] Speaker 5: clear the air by saying, look, she came in. She
[8:47] Speaker 5: wanted the bird on the wall. That bird wasn't for sale.
[8:50] Speaker 5: We showed her an identical bird. Five feet to her right.
[8:54] Speaker 5: She didn't want that bird. Now we are the store
[8:58] Speaker 5: that treats people like pretty women and looked at her
[9:00] Speaker 5: like she couldn't afford it, apparently.
[9:02] Speaker 2: Well, do we know how she was dressed?
[9:04] Speaker 3: Because that's one of my things, because my son addresses
[9:08] Speaker 3: a certain way, is people dress certain ways and then
[9:12] Speaker 3: are unhappy when they're treated like people who dress the
[9:15] Speaker 3: way they're dressed.
[9:17] Speaker 2: Yeah, they dress in a certain way to send a message.
[9:20] Speaker 2: When that message is received, they can be offended by that.
[9:24] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[9:24] Speaker 3: So was Kelly Clarkson doing the, I'm a celebrity and
[9:27] Speaker 3: I'm out in my sweats and flip-flops and a ball
[9:29] Speaker 3: cap look? I mean, I don't know that this happened.
[9:32] Speaker 3: Even if that wasn't the case. Yeah, it sounds like
[9:34] Speaker 3: the thing wasn't actually for sale. But if you dress
[9:36] Speaker 3: like you got no money and you were looking at
[9:38] Speaker 3: something really expensive, you can't blame somebody for thinking, oh,
[9:42] Speaker 3: but they can't afford this.
[9:43] Speaker 4: Right? Right.
[9:45] Speaker 3: I mean, so I'm not even sure the premise would
[9:47] Speaker 3: work anyway.
[9:48] Speaker 2: That would be an idiotic thing to do as the
[9:50] Speaker 2: shop employee. Oh, I would agree. If somebody's dressed down
[9:54] Speaker 2: and says, you know, I'd like to take a look
[9:55] Speaker 2: at that watch, I'm not gonna say you can't afford
[9:59] Speaker 2: a rolex here's a nice timex for you i mean
[10:03] Speaker 2: that would be very odd.
[10:04] Speaker 3: Being a lot of sales people do that they call
[10:06] Speaker 3: it qualifying your uh your your your person.
[10:09] Speaker 5: That would be one of those insults that stick like
[10:11] Speaker 5: you were talking about earlier.
[10:13] Speaker 2: So I may be, and I will blame both of
[10:17] Speaker 2: you for the rest of my life for sucking me
[10:18] Speaker 2: into this, but I may be on Kelly Clarkson's side
[10:21] Speaker 2: on this. I do not approve. There's a phrase I
[10:27] Speaker 2: didn't expect to hear out of your mouth. Not on
[10:29] Speaker 2: my bingo card, though. Yeah, no kidding.
[10:32] Speaker 3: So at this point, we think the mechanical singing bird
[10:35] Speaker 3: wasn't for sale.
[10:36] Speaker 2: Why do you have it in the window? Well, no.
[10:38] Speaker 2: That was the display mechanical singing bird.
[10:41] Speaker 3: Well, why can't you sell the display? I've said that
[10:43] Speaker 3: to stores before. Why can't you sell the display?
[10:45] Speaker 1: It's right here.
[10:46] Speaker 2: You got it. I've got money. Let's make an exchange.
[10:48] Speaker 2: Then you get another one to display.
[10:50] Speaker 5: It is permanently fixed to the wall. It is like
[10:52] Speaker 5: part of the store. People go in to interact with
[10:55] Speaker 5: freaking Molly, the singing, dancing bird.
[10:58] Speaker 2: How much is it? You can't buy Molly.
[10:59] Speaker 5: It's $ 15, 000.
[11:00] Speaker 2: Whoa. That's a lot. I got a Billy Bass for
[11:08] Speaker 2: a lot less than that.
[11:10] Speaker 6: Yeah.
[11:10] Speaker 2: Billy Bass sings for, and it's like $ 18. Oh my gosh.
[11:13] Speaker 5: Have you guys seen the people are wiring Billy Bass
[11:15] Speaker 5: to like their home, uh, chatbots and whatnot.
[11:19] Speaker 2: So they'll say like, hey, Alexa, play this or what's
[11:23] Speaker 2: the weather like today?
[11:24] Speaker 5: And the Billy Bass is the thing that turns and
[11:26] Speaker 5: like answers it with its mouth moving.
[11:29] Speaker 2: What? Oh, yeah. What a time to be alive.
[11:32] Speaker 3: People are cheating just the best. Okay, so that's the
[11:38] Speaker 3: Kelly Clarkson story.
[11:40] Speaker 2: In all of its glory. The fact that anybody... His
[11:43] Speaker 2: paying attention at all is a bit of a head-scratcher.
[11:46] Speaker 2: The fact that it was a lead story on our
[11:49] Speaker 2: network newscasts is... It's an indication, and not a good one.
[11:56] Speaker 2: It says something very, very negative. Water is for toilets.
[12:00] Speaker 2: Drink Brondo. That is a line from Idiocracy. Has electrolytes. Okay,
[12:08] Speaker 2: I figure....
[12:11] Speaker 3: I'm not finding the hook there, other than the popularity of.
[12:17] Speaker 2: Ms. Clarkson. I was ready for stupid, but I really,
[12:21] Speaker 2: I had not girded my loins. Well, speaking of nutrition.
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[13:32] Speaker 3: Hook enough people have had the experience they think of
[13:37] Speaker 3: being judged as not able to afford something?
[13:41] Speaker 2: Is that... I mean, try and just figure out what's
[13:43] Speaker 2: touching people on this story.
[13:45] Speaker 5: I think part of the story is that you can
[13:48] Speaker 5: actually watch it go down on the social medias.
[13:51] Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
[13:52] Speaker 2: Because it's kind of like an interactive story.
[13:54] Speaker 5: Like you start reading it and you can go to
[13:55] Speaker 5: Kelly Clarkson's profile and see what she wrote.
[13:57] Speaker 2: And then you can go over the story.
[14:00] Speaker 3: I will say from my own personal experience, if I'm
[14:03] Speaker 3: shopping for anything kind of expensive, I dress nice. If
[14:06] Speaker 3: you wear a suit, if you're a guy and you
[14:07] Speaker 3: wear a suit, they treat you different. In the car
[14:11] Speaker 3: store or wherever you are.
[14:12] Speaker 2: They just do. Maybe you think it's awful.
[14:14] Speaker 4: I don't know.
[14:15] Speaker 2: Putting on airs, that's what I calls it. Poor Kelly Clarkson. Oh, God.
[14:20] Speaker 4: No.
[14:21] Speaker 3: And her weight's always going up and down. I mean,
[14:23] Speaker 3: she's got so many other things she's got to deal with.
[14:25] Speaker 2: Boy, I ordered the nothing burger, but I thought it'd
[14:28] Speaker 2: have more on it than this. Is El Sayed a jihadist?
[14:33] Speaker 2: We'll get into that story. Among others on the way.
[14:35] Speaker 2: Stay here. Armstrong and Getty.
[14:41] Speaker 5: Canadian poet Anne Carson has won the Nobel Prize in
[14:44] Speaker 5: Literature for her bold and inventive poetry.
[14:47] Speaker 2: Meanwhile, Barack Obama won the fiction category for his marriage. Wow. Wow.
[14:58] Speaker 3: Looking up at headlines, they got more protests, violent protests
[15:02] Speaker 3: going on in Paris today. A protester is seen waving
[15:05] Speaker 3: a Palestinian flag after climbing a statue in Paris as
[15:09] Speaker 3: unrest continues. And this story, Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has
[15:14] Speaker 3: joined the high school pupils campaigning for better learning conditions
[15:19] Speaker 3: in France and ahead of fresh national protests. So that's
[15:25] Speaker 3: her cause now. That's the permanent omnic cause.
[15:30] Speaker 2: Reyers in Paris. I just became recently aware of.
[15:35] Speaker 3: The protest in 68, May 68 from Paris, which I
[15:39] Speaker 3: had in France, which I had never heard of before,
[15:41] Speaker 3: I guess. And did a deep dive on that over
[15:44] Speaker 3: the weekend. Started in a similar fashion. It was all
[15:47] Speaker 3: students unhappy with this or that, but turned into all
[15:50] Speaker 3: kinds of communists took over and all kinds of different things.
[15:53] Speaker 3: De Gaulle, the leader of France at the time, fled
[15:56] Speaker 3: the country is how bad it got.
[15:59] Speaker 2: Right.
[15:59] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[16:00] Speaker 2: It's part of France's DNA, violent rioting. It's just, it's
[16:03] Speaker 2: how you get attention.
[16:04] Speaker 3: He had to go out of the country to ask
[16:06] Speaker 3: the leader of the army, are you on my side
[16:08] Speaker 3: or the protesters' sides? Because we need to take back Paris.
[16:11] Speaker 3: Because he wasn't sure if the army was going to
[16:14] Speaker 3: join the protesters and turn on the government. It was
[16:16] Speaker 3: going to be the fall of the country.
[16:18] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. That Palestinian flag thing reminds me, number one, obviously,
[16:22] Speaker 2: what does that have to do with good instruction in
[16:24] Speaker 2: the schools? And number two, there was a great piece.
[16:27] Speaker 2: Somebody from the free press went to the Cornell University
[16:30] Speaker 2: big protests, you know, bring justice to the rapists thing
[16:34] Speaker 2: where they leapt right past the facts. And one of
[16:37] Speaker 2: the speakers was was yelling about consent matters. Women matter.
[16:44] Speaker 2: What was the other one? Poverty matters. Palestine matters. Power matters.
[16:51] Speaker 2: It all matters. And we need our something or other.
[16:54] Speaker 2: And she just went openly omnicause. There at the allegedly,
[16:59] Speaker 2: you know, rape, anti-rape rally.
[17:01] Speaker 3: That's a hard thing for many of us to wrap
[17:03] Speaker 3: our heads around. The gays for Palestine thing.
[17:07] Speaker 2: Sure. They just want to bring down civilization. Bring down
[17:10] Speaker 2: the current system. It annoys me at times too, fellas,
[17:13] Speaker 2: but I'm not with you. So, Abdul Al-Said wants to
[17:18] Speaker 2: bring down the current system in the name of Islam.
[17:21] Speaker 2: That is my belief. If he isn't of that ilk,
[17:25] Speaker 2: he does a hell of a great imitation of it.
[17:28] Speaker 2: Who he campaigns with, buddies up to, and his family's
[17:31] Speaker 2: history in spite of his statements that was absolutely supportive
[17:36] Speaker 2: of the Muslim Brotherhood. I was hoping to squeeze in
[17:39] Speaker 2: some great thinking about the death penalty. And how firing
[17:43] Speaker 2: squads is the perfect thing. Oh, really? And why?
[17:46] Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I said I would prefer. I'd prefer
[17:48] Speaker 3: the firing squad, I think, or hanging. For yourself, you mean,
[17:51] Speaker 3: or for others? For myself, if I had to choose one.
[17:55] Speaker 3: I don't think it would hurt. Well, I don't plan
[17:58] Speaker 3: to be executed.
[17:59] Speaker 2: Unless Abdel El-Sayed's guys take over, and then I might be. But, yeah,
[18:06] Speaker 2: why the firing squad is perfect next half hour. Hope
[18:09] Speaker 2: you can stay with us. Armstrong and Getty.
[18:14] Speaker 1: Can you set the record straight about whether you or
[18:18] Speaker 1: your family have any ties to.
[18:19] Speaker 2: The Muslim Brotherhood? No, but let's talk about this. No,
[18:23] Speaker 2: you don't have any ties. No. And your family doesn't.
[18:26] Speaker 4: No.
[18:29] Speaker 2: They do. Actually, they have quite a few. I'm curious
[18:32] Speaker 2: to hear 53, Michael. This is Bill Mulligan on Fox News.
[18:35] Speaker 4: We did ask El-Sayed's campaign for a comment on these
[18:38] Speaker 4: social media posts. They got back to us, a spokesperson
[18:41] Speaker 4: telling Fox in part, quote, Independent fact-checkers have repeatedly debunked
[18:45] Speaker 4: Mike's lies, but their campaign continues to use bad faith
[18:49] Speaker 4: attacks on Abdul's faith and family, end quote. And Brett,
[18:52] Speaker 4: the organization that El-Sayed's mom worked for was the Islamic
[18:56] Speaker 4: American Relief Agency, which was sanctioned and then shut down
[18:59] Speaker 4: by the U.S.
[19:00] Speaker 2: Government for funding al-Qaeda.
[19:02] Speaker 4: El-Sayed's campaign tells Fox, quote, and he claims he or
[19:05] Speaker 4: his family are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, have been
[19:08] Speaker 4: debunked as, quote, racist and untrue.
[19:11] Speaker 2: Okay, so we skipped ahead a little bit, but that's fine.
[19:14] Speaker 2: I was just curious what was said there specifically. So
[19:17] Speaker 2: Al-Sayed is claiming that he has no ties to the
[19:19] Speaker 2: Muslim Brotherhood because it has been alleged in a number
[19:22] Speaker 2: of different quarters from the Washington Free Beacon to Mike
[19:25] Speaker 2: Rogers that his family does.
[19:27] Speaker 3: He's the Democrat running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan,
[19:29] Speaker 3: if you're really not paying attention.
[19:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. Always worth reviewing the facts for newcomers to
[19:36] Speaker 2: the political process, the show or planet Earth. But yes, indeed.
[19:41] Speaker 2: And he's ahead in some of the polls, which is
[19:42] Speaker 2: terrifying to me. So the whole Muslim Brotherhood ties thing
[19:49] Speaker 2: is interesting. It's not the primary fact I would want
[19:53] Speaker 2: to hang my hat on. The story is his half-sister,
[20:00] Speaker 2: who was raised by his mom in Egypt— It was
[20:04] Speaker 2: all over social media back when old man Morsi was
[20:08] Speaker 2: elected leader, president of Egypt back in 2012. And he
[20:13] Speaker 2: was a Muslim Brotherhood guy. I'm not going to take
[20:15] Speaker 2: you through the history of that, but it was interesting
[20:17] Speaker 2: to see unfold. But anyway, she makes it clear that,
[20:20] Speaker 2: oh yeah, my family's way down with the Muslim Brotherhood.
[20:23] Speaker 2: Supported them, given them money. Some of our peeps have
[20:26] Speaker 2: gone to jail for the Muslim Brotherhood. The rest of it,
[20:29] Speaker 2: everybody keep yourself safe, blah, blah, blah. So the fact
[20:33] Speaker 2: that He was raised by his dad because it was
[20:38] Speaker 2: a divorce thing, and she was raised by the mom
[20:40] Speaker 2: in Egypt. He has claimed to have dual citizenship in Egypt,
[20:44] Speaker 2: but could he legitimately claim, well, I don't really have
[20:48] Speaker 2: much contact with my mom's side of the family, really.
[20:51] Speaker 2: I was talking about my peeps, the people I hang
[20:54] Speaker 2: out with. It's reasonable. But it's funny that... He didn't
[21:00] Speaker 2: go on to denounce the Muslim Brotherhood at that point. No, no.
[21:04] Speaker 2: He made a vague denunciation of anybody who participated. Any
[21:09] Speaker 2: organization engaged in political violence or calling for political violence
[21:12] Speaker 2: is engaged in terrorism. Oh, McCallum, Martha McCallum on Fox
[21:16] Speaker 2: News said the Muslim Brotherhood has called for violent attacks
[21:22] Speaker 2: on the United States and their partners after October 7th, 2023.
[21:27] Speaker 2: And the attacks on Israel, do you condemn that or what?
[21:34] Speaker 2: And then Al-Sayed, with Israel in the back of his mind,
[21:37] Speaker 2: said any organization engaged in political violence or calling for
[21:41] Speaker 2: political violence is engaged in terrorism. And, you know, I've
[21:45] Speaker 2: been around this for a long time as his jack.
[21:47] Speaker 2: I know exactly what he's saying. What he's saying, he's
[21:50] Speaker 2: justifying Hamas. He's justifying Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood, saying, hey,
[21:54] Speaker 2: you know, Israel, the U.S. practice political violence. That's what
[21:57] Speaker 2: war is, and we're just doing the same. Which is,
[22:01] Speaker 2: you know, if you're in a political science class talking
[22:04] Speaker 2: about asymmetrical warfare, that's a legitimate point to make, that
[22:07] Speaker 2: you can bandy about the dynamics there. But for a
[22:11] Speaker 2: guy running for the Senate of the United States of America,
[22:15] Speaker 2: who campaigns over and over again with radical imams, among
[22:21] Speaker 2: the Muslims of Michigan, who have openly supported Hamas, openly
[22:27] Speaker 2: celebrated October 7th over and over again, praised Hezbollah, refused
[22:32] Speaker 2: to condemn Iran. He refuses to specifically condemn the IRGC,
[22:37] Speaker 2: the world's greatest sponsor of Islamist terror, saying, you know,
[22:42] Speaker 2: the question the other day, what's a bigger threat, Iran,
[22:45] Speaker 2: the IRGC, or Israel? They're both threats. What the guy
[22:49] Speaker 2: is is so clear to me. It's such a proven case.
[22:55] Speaker 2: It's like reopening the John Wilkes Booth thing at this point,
[22:59] Speaker 2: whether he has enormous sympathies with Islamists around the world.
[23:05] Speaker 2: If you're not familiar with that term, these are people
[23:07] Speaker 2: who wish to institute Islam not only as the only religion,
[23:12] Speaker 2: the only religion on earth. but also a legal system,
[23:17] Speaker 2: a banking system, a system of marriage, etc. It is
[23:19] Speaker 2: an all-encompassing political system.
[23:21] Speaker 3: Well, what's most interesting to me about that is he
[23:29] Speaker 3: feels like it benefits him more to dance around those
[23:35] Speaker 3: topics rather than lie. And to just say, whoa, clearly...
[23:42] Speaker 3: Iran's a greater danger to the United States. He doesn't
[23:45] Speaker 3: want to say that because he'd lose votes?
[23:49] Speaker 2: That's a really interesting question.
[23:53] Speaker 3: Or is it just so important to him he can't
[23:55] Speaker 3: make those words come out of his mouth?
[23:57] Speaker 2: He is a very bright guy. Right. And calculating. Oh,
[24:01] Speaker 2: very calculating. And clearly willing to lie. And an excellent
[24:05] Speaker 2: needle threader. And I suspect he thinks he has the
[24:09] Speaker 2: rhetorical skills to neutralize a Martha McCallum by saying, well,
[24:14] Speaker 2: any organization that calls for political violence is a terrorist.
[24:18] Speaker 2: And Martha thinks, and Martha's a lovely gal, but she thinks, okay,
[24:22] Speaker 2: so he's saying, yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood are terrorists. No, no, no, no, no.
[24:26] Speaker 2: That's not what he's saying at all.
[24:27] Speaker 3: But he got asked 10 times last week, including during
[24:31] Speaker 3: that debate multiple times, Is Iran a bigger threat to
[24:35] Speaker 3: the United States or Israel? And his only answer ever was,
[24:39] Speaker 3: that's a stupid question.
[24:41] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[24:42] Speaker 4: Yeah.
[24:43] Speaker 2: He responds in that way to all sorts of reporters' questions.
[24:48] Speaker 2: One of the absolute great reporters for the free press,
[24:53] Speaker 2: Audrey Falberg, asked him to clarify his most controversial positions.
[25:00] Speaker 2: with less than a month before Election Day, and she
[25:05] Speaker 2: was asking about some of the Hasan Piker garbage, and
[25:10] Speaker 2: she snapped at him. That's all irrelevant. It's not relevant
[25:15] Speaker 2: to people's lives. I'm just not interested in this dog
[25:17] Speaker 2: and pony show to create media clicks. I'm just going
[25:19] Speaker 2: to tell you, if you look at the legacy of
[25:21] Speaker 2: this war, if you look what's happening in the war,
[25:23] Speaker 2: the gas prices, the grocery prices, all that Donald Trump
[25:26] Speaker 2: has done to devastate the lives of Michiganders because of
[25:29] Speaker 2: this war, I think all of us regret this war
[25:31] Speaker 2: ever happened. And then he said, ask smart questions. Audrey Fulberg.
[25:37] Speaker 2: He probably doesn't like a woman speaking her mind, I
[25:41] Speaker 2: would guess, in his heart. But then Audrey points out
[25:46] Speaker 2: his sensitivity to questions.
[25:47] Speaker 3: That's a good point right there that gets left out
[25:50] Speaker 3: a lot.
[25:50] Speaker 2: Why, you know, the whole NATO of.
[25:56] Speaker 3: grievances or all those different things where these different ideologies
[26:01] Speaker 3: that don't fit together in any way, gays for Palestine,
[26:04] Speaker 3: you know, they get together because as a block they
[26:06] Speaker 3: can win elections. But particularly on the women's stuff, for women,
[26:10] Speaker 3: lefty women who are into the whole handmaid's tale and
[26:13] Speaker 3: dressing up like from the handmaid's tale because that's what
[26:15] Speaker 3: Republicans want to do. Muslims are actually doing that.
[26:20] Speaker 2: It's not like it could happen in the future.
[26:23] Speaker 3: It's been happening for a long time and is happening
[26:26] Speaker 3: right now.
[26:26] Speaker 2: How does that not bother you? Yeah, millions of women
[26:29] Speaker 2: and little girls are beaten, raped, abused, killed. Routinely. Routinely.
[26:36] Speaker 2: And you don't care.
[26:37] Speaker 3: Or I see occasionally in my super liberal town, the
[26:40] Speaker 3: women in the beekeepers outfit where they're forced to wear
[26:43] Speaker 3: some clothes where all they have is that little slit
[26:44] Speaker 3: to look out of. That's more handsmaid's tale-y than anything
[26:48] Speaker 3: Trump has done. Right.
[26:50] Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, it's, it's, it's... His quest for political power
[26:55] Speaker 2: masquerading as principle when they talk about the handmade tail thing. Anyway, oh,
[27:00] Speaker 2: the hijacker of that flight to Israel a couple of
[27:03] Speaker 2: weeks ago, I had all sorts of stuff we never
[27:04] Speaker 2: got to about his online postings. And he despised women
[27:09] Speaker 2: and believed that women should be subjugated and beaten. He
[27:12] Speaker 2: talked about stomping their heads a lot if they get
[27:16] Speaker 2: mouthy or what have you. And Al Sayed's got to
[27:19] Speaker 2: be a little more restrained than that, clearly. But Audrey
[27:22] Speaker 2: Falberg gives a bunch of different examples where he was
[27:24] Speaker 2: asked in various forums, debates, all sorts of legitimate things.
[27:29] Speaker 2: about what he said about Ayatollah Khamenei and his death,
[27:33] Speaker 2: about the IRGC, about the Muslim Brotherhood. And he likes
[27:36] Speaker 2: to snap, that's a stupid question, has nothing to do
[27:39] Speaker 2: with the voters' lives, right? Which is a pretty good
[27:41] Speaker 2: political dodge. But as she points out, he spent the
[27:45] Speaker 2: entire primary campaign talking about foreign policy, railing against Israel,
[27:51] Speaker 2: railing against AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, railing about
[27:56] Speaker 2: the Iran war. Now, all of a sudden, hey, you're
[27:59] Speaker 2: really chummy with radical imams is out of bounds. That
[28:05] Speaker 2: has nothing to do with grocery prices.
[28:08] Speaker 3: So he's cut off contact, it seems, with Hassan Piker
[28:13] Speaker 3: since the night.
[28:14] Speaker 2: Before the primary.
[28:20] Speaker 3: What I wonder is if he wins, becomes a U.S. senator,
[28:24] Speaker 3: which he might. Is Hassan Piker back in the mix
[28:28] Speaker 3: like immediately? Are we going to see him as a
[28:31] Speaker 3: guest in the well of the Senate?
[28:34] Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe. And Piker is only important in that he
[28:40] Speaker 2: influences a lot of young people who have been taught
[28:43] Speaker 2: to despise their own country and the West and liberal democracies.
[28:48] Speaker 2: So I despise him for that. But it's the radical
[28:52] Speaker 2: Islamist folks who bother me a lot more. And I
[28:55] Speaker 2: think Assam Piker might have a bit of that. I
[28:58] Speaker 2: can't decide. Is he just your rich socialist dilettante phony
[29:02] Speaker 2: like all of them or is he got to stripe
[29:05] Speaker 2: a vislimist in him because he's muslim too.
[29:07] Speaker 3: He might just be a full-on grifter drives a fancy
[29:11] Speaker 3: car lives in a fancy house in la and uh
[29:13] Speaker 3: you know talks about how awful this country is all
[29:16] Speaker 3: day long for money.
[29:17] Speaker 2: That's what i think he is just a grifter yeah
[29:19] Speaker 2: i'd like to get at some point to megan kelly
[29:21] Speaker 2: who is coming out pro al say you know what
[29:24] Speaker 2: let's go ahead and play speaking of grifters 54.
[29:26] Speaker 6: Michael I mean, that's one of the reasons El-Sayed is
[29:29] Speaker 6: doing so well, is because he is very firmly against
[29:34] Speaker 6: the United States getting involved in any more of Israel's conflicts.
[29:39] Speaker 6: And Mike Rogers is more your typical Republican neocon. As
[29:44] Speaker 6: you guys know, the There's a large portion of the
[29:46] Speaker 6: Republican base now that is not neoconny and is tired
[29:49] Speaker 6: of foreign wars and really wants the president to be
[29:52] Speaker 6: laser focused on domestic issues, not Israel, not Iran, not
[29:57] Speaker 6: the Middle East, and certainly not another war.
[30:00] Speaker 2: I'm guessing Cutter doesn't actually write her checks. They just
[30:03] Speaker 2: wire the money directly into her bank account.
[30:07] Speaker 3: So now she's part of the whole Israel pushes us
[30:10] Speaker 3: around and tells us what wars to get into crowd.
[30:12] Speaker 2: It's the Jews, the Epstein crowd. The Epstein class, I believe,
[30:16] Speaker 2: is the correct term. Wow, her and Tucker. Yeah, it's
[30:19] Speaker 2: absolutely Epstein. And I'm telling you, either believe this or not,
[30:24] Speaker 2: I'm not paranoid. I'm not a bigot. I... Study political movements.
[30:29] Speaker 2: Always have since I was a kid. Abdul, I'll say it.
[30:34] Speaker 2: Walks like a duck. Quacks like a duck. Flies like
[30:36] Speaker 2: a duck. Eats what ducks eat. He has duck DNA
[30:39] Speaker 2: and calls himself a duck when he's among other ducks.
[30:44] Speaker 2: I think he's a duck.
[30:48] Speaker 3: In kind of mainstream Democratic lefty policy stuff, Byron York
[30:54] Speaker 3: in the Washington Examiner today is all about his Al
[30:57] Speaker 3: Sayed's Medicare for All. On Meet the Press the other
[31:01] Speaker 3: day when Al Sayed was on there, he said we
[31:04] Speaker 3: should have cradle to grave medical vision dental for every
[31:10] Speaker 3: human in the United States. Every single, no copay, everything
[31:14] Speaker 3: paid for all the time.
[31:16] Speaker 2: Whoa. How do you structure that?
[31:19] Speaker 3: And Byron York in the Washington Examiner points out the
[31:21] Speaker 3: math of that, that it would be somewhere between 32
[31:23] Speaker 3: and 36 trillion dollars. over the next decade. And the
[31:29] Speaker 3: answer to that is always three words, tax the billionaires.
[31:34] Speaker 3: But if you took every dollar from every billionaire in
[31:39] Speaker 3: the country, it adds up to something like, I forget
[31:43] Speaker 3: what it was, but it did not even close to
[31:46] Speaker 3: covering that amount of money.
[31:48] Speaker 2: If you took every cent they have, including the stuff
[31:50] Speaker 2: they own. Yeah. I would finance it for a month
[31:52] Speaker 2: or whatever the number is. Yeah. Um, Because they're billionaires.
[31:58] Speaker 2: They're not trillionaires. Right.
[32:01] Speaker 3: You can't get to $ 36 trillion by taking, you know,
[32:05] Speaker 3: $ 80 billion worth of stuff or whatever.
[32:08] Speaker 2: The government does squander trillions of dollars, but they're uninterested
[32:11] Speaker 2: in that.
[32:12] Speaker 3: Boy, that's so incredibly unworkable. Cradle to grave, all medical, dental, vision, everything,
[32:19] Speaker 3: no copay, no prescription drug price, nothing.
[32:22] Speaker 2: If El-Sayed was going to be truthful to you, he'd say, look...
[32:27] Speaker 2: I'm in the business of getting votes. This gets votes.
[32:29] Speaker 2: People are stupid. People cheer. That's what Byron York pointed
[32:31] Speaker 2: out when he says that people cheer like crazy. Yep.
[32:34] Speaker 3: Any thoughts on that? Text line 415-295-KFTC. Armstrong and Getty.
[32:44] Speaker 3: I don't know why we have this, but we have
[32:45] Speaker 3: back-to-back underwear jokes.
[32:49] Speaker 2: I read that because of shoplifting, a Target store in
[32:51] Speaker 2: New York is now locking up their underwear. Meanwhile, over
[32:56] Speaker 2: at Walmart, they're using underwear as a face mask to
[32:58] Speaker 2: cook meth. Oh, oh.
[33:02] Speaker 6: According to a new study, nearly half of Americans have
[33:05] Speaker 6: worn the same pair of underwear at least two days
[33:07] Speaker 6: in a row.
[33:09] Speaker 2: That's right.
[33:09] Speaker 6: Nearly half of Americans are men.
[33:13] Speaker 2: Ew. Oh, boy. Do we have time for this? Not really.
[33:19] Speaker 4: Yes?
[33:20] Speaker 2: Oh, we don't? Because this is how I was going
[33:22] Speaker 2: to get into this story. Go ahead. We'll try it. I.
[33:25] Speaker 3: When we were talking about the televised execution that Hegzeth
[33:30] Speaker 3: said about last week, I said I'm not going to
[33:31] Speaker 3: watch it because I don't generally watch that sort of stuff.
[33:34] Speaker 2: I don't think it's good for your soul. But....
[33:38] Speaker 3: I kind of want to see the full video of
[33:39] Speaker 3: that guy that got attacked by the tiger who jumped
[33:41] Speaker 3: into the tiger den there in England.
[33:45] Speaker 2: Oh, my.
[33:46] Speaker 3: And they showed part of it last night on the
[33:48] Speaker 3: news with him, like, yelling at the tiger and pointing
[33:51] Speaker 3: at it. And the tiger was pawing at him. And
[33:53] Speaker 3: I just want to kind of see, like, how does
[33:55] Speaker 3: a tiger go about dealing with this annoyance?
[33:59] Speaker 2: Wow. So you're okay with seeing a mentally ill man killed,
[34:03] Speaker 2: but not a stone cold savage murderer.
[34:08] Speaker 3: Obviously, I phrase that as prejudicially as possible. They come
[34:11] Speaker 3: from two completely different points of view, though, don't they?
[34:14] Speaker 3: I mean, one of them is we're punishing someone for
[34:16] Speaker 3: doing something awful, and why am I watching that?
[34:21] Speaker 2: But I'm kind of interested in what does a tiger
[34:24] Speaker 2: do to you? I don't have any idea. Clamps on
[34:27] Speaker 2: your neck. I've studied this at length. Was the goal
[34:33] Speaker 2: for the tiger, was the tiger's goal to eat him? No.
[34:37] Speaker 2: At some point? It's possible, yeah. Yeah, kill your prey,
[34:39] Speaker 2: then let it sit around and, you know, spend a
[34:41] Speaker 2: little time in the sun. It's nice and tender.
[34:44] Speaker 4: Marinate?
[34:45] Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, in its own juices, yes. Correct.
[34:48] Speaker 3: You think the guy was mentally ill? He shouldn't disparage
[34:50] Speaker 3: the deceased. No, I think he was perfectly sane.
[34:54] Speaker 2: He went down into the tiger enclosure and attempted to
[34:57] Speaker 2: speak with it and worship it somehow, and it ate him.
[35:00] Speaker 2: I think he was perfectly well-adjusted. Just having a bad day.
[35:04] Speaker 2: You don't believe in free will? No, I believe in
[35:08] Speaker 2: mental illness. So we really don't have time for this.
[35:11] Speaker 2: That was a funny clip, Michael. It really was. The
[35:18] Speaker 2: argument in favor of the death penalty coming up next hour.
[35:21] Speaker 2: I'm sorry, not the death penalty, the firing squad.
[35:24] Speaker 3: We got a text from somebody who seems to know
[35:26] Speaker 3: something about it who is against it for maybe the
[35:29] Speaker 3: opposite reasons of what you're saying. So I want to
[35:30] Speaker 3: get into that. Against the firing squad?
[35:32] Speaker 2: Yeah, as a way to kill yourself. Or to be killed. Yeah, great.
[35:37] Speaker 3: Is it still your belief that it's not actually going
[35:40] Speaker 3: to happen on December 3rd as it's currently planned?
[35:42] Speaker 2: It will not be live streamed. Not a chance. They
[35:45] Speaker 2: will absolutely execute him.
[35:46] Speaker 4: Good.
[35:47] Speaker 2: But just not quote unquote publicly. Who's going to pull
[35:50] Speaker 2: the plug?
[35:52] Speaker 3: And at whose behest is Trump going to say no, no, no?
[35:54] Speaker 3: You think he'll say this is too much?
[35:56] Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they'll find a way to do it. In
[35:59] Speaker 2: breaking stupid, utterly lacking in impact news, Kimberly Guilfoyle has
[36:05] Speaker 2: resigned as the ambassador to Greece. Adjust your sails. I
[36:10] Speaker 2: tell you what, everything's going to be different from here
[36:14] Speaker 2: on out.
[36:14] Speaker 3: I don't know how to tell my kids. If you
[36:17] Speaker 3: missed a segment of the show, get the podcast Armstrong
[36:19] Speaker 3: and Getty on demand.
[36:20] Speaker 2: Hilarious. Armstrong and Getty.

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