Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Kaddy Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jettie and he arms rang the drum studio scene see
Speaker 1: signor We are in a dimly lit room deepening the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Today and
Speaker 1: today Wednesday? Is that right? Middle of the week. We're
Speaker 1: under the tutelage of our general manager. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: Epstein again. No, you can't, Yes, you can't, you can't,
Speaker 1: you can you must shout wow. Congress got called off
Speaker 1: Mike Johnson if that is his real name, the speaker.
Speaker 1: He said, all right, that's enough argument about Epstein. We're
Speaker 1: all going home. I'm taking my gavel and going home.
Speaker 1: There's more to it than that, and we'll tell you
Speaker 1: about it. Okay, look forward to that, do I? And
Speaker 1: I don't look forward to that. I'm whying. That was
Speaker 1: a lie. That was a lie for me. If I
Speaker 1: hooked up to a light detector, a gun, a little need,
Speaker 1: a little bounce, stuff and down, I'm not looking forward
Speaker 1: to that at all. No. Indeed, yeah, hey, I just
Speaker 1: heard Scott bestn't the Treasury Secretary say something interesting about
Speaker 1: and then it kind of relates to a story he
Speaker 1: didn't get to yesterday. He said, So it was about
Speaker 1: the tariff deals, and so Trump's got a new deal
Speaker 1: with Japan, which is a really you know, major economy.
Speaker 1: It's top five time. Yeah, so Japan, Philippines and somebody else.
Speaker 1: But anyway, and then there was the talk of how
Speaker 1: this increase in the tariffs with these countries is gonna
Speaker 1: cause prices to go up inflation and blah blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: and the Scott Best at the Treasury Secretary he said,
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened yet, and I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to happen because retailers are absorbing the costs for themselves
Speaker 1: into their profits. So people are not seeing the price
Speaker 1: go up, which is true to a certain extent, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's for the reason that they like
Speaker 1: or whatever. So you had the story the other day
Speaker 1: about how Amazon stuff has gone up, but Walmart stuff
Speaker 1: has gone down. So there is a battle going on
Speaker 1: between the two biggest retailers in the world, Amazon and Walmart,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to keep prices down and undercutting each
Speaker 1: other partially at least According to a couple of economists
Speaker 1: I was listening to, this is going to drive out
Speaker 1: the last remaining little guy in America or the world
Speaker 1: because they can't do that. So you're a mom and
Speaker 1: pop shop. You can't absorb the tariff causing the stuff
Speaker 1: to go up the way Amazon and Walmart can, and
Speaker 1: you might disappear and then and then it's just Walmart
Speaker 1: and Amazon, which is my goal. Yeah, my only equival
Speaker 1: is that Amazon did go up. It's trying the opposite
Speaker 1: strategy because they have the advantage in Walmart does too,
Speaker 1: really of having instantaneous data about how a price increase
Speaker 1: or decrease affects the consumer. How much less tisity elasticity
Speaker 1: there is nearly instantaneously, which has just been unknown to
Speaker 1: the world of economics. So Bezos in company obviously are
Speaker 1: seeing saying, let's see if we can get away with
Speaker 1: tweaking some prices upward. Meanwhile, over there in Arkansas, Walmart's saying, hey,
Speaker 1: here's a chance for us to recapture a significant chunk
Speaker 1: of market share. We're gonna take it in the in
Speaker 1: the crotch for a quarter or two. Sorry, it's unnecessarily frank,
Speaker 1: We're gonna take it into pants, as they used to say,
Speaker 1: take it up rotch. What does that mean? Right, We're
Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna get to We're gonna get kicked, We're
Speaker 1: gonna get hit profit wise for a couple of quarters.
Speaker 1: The total of tough the total of my official economics learning,
Speaker 1: the one economics class. I took microeconomics in college, and
Speaker 1: I remember ever of the phrase taking it in the crotch. Well,
Speaker 1: that's you didn't send Joe University. Our lessons are frank,
Speaker 1: They're really take it to the point. Yeah. So anyway,
Speaker 1: they're going to take a kick in the grown there
Speaker 1: for a couple but they're trying to recapture market share,
Speaker 1: which is a very different strategy than an Amazon. Well yeah,
Speaker 1: but I think the argument was Amazon would be raising
Speaker 1: their prices probably even more if they weren't looking at
Speaker 1: Walmart across the transom or whatever they're looking what are
Speaker 1: they looking at them across I don't know, the crotch,
Speaker 1: right across the crotch, oh my So, and it remains
Speaker 1: that the little guy is not going to be able
Speaker 1: to play that game on any level. You just have
Speaker 1: to charge what you know you got charged when it
Speaker 1: got dropped off at your toy shop or whatever, so
Speaker 1: you can still make payroll and keep the lights on. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Scott Bessont is Trump's sanity whisperer. He has pulled Trump
Speaker 1: back from several self destructive ideas. I appreciate his presence there.
Speaker 1: I think he's a good man. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: in this topic, he's full of crap and he knows
Speaker 1: he is. I'm sure the reason you just mentioned it,
Speaker 1: and also because a lot of wholesalers and retailers saw
Speaker 1: the tariffs coming because Trump bellowed about them for a
Speaker 1: long time, and they significantly increase their inventories, and so
Speaker 1: there's a delayed effect to the tariffs and their inflationary effects.
Speaker 1: I sure hate the last of the little guys getting
Speaker 1: driven out of business, but it might just be inevitable
Speaker 1: that the current structure of economics in the world, mom
Speaker 1: and pop shops of all different kinds that we all liked,
Speaker 1: toy shops, bookshops, whatever, just can't exist. Really, unless you're
Speaker 1: doing it as a hobby, you can't do it as
Speaker 1: a profit business. I love localism, I always have, but
Speaker 1: the Interstate Highway set it back a certain amount because
Speaker 1: it just it never made sense to have a like
Speaker 1: a beyond a regionable regional grocery chain or something like that.
Speaker 1: It would just be too expensive and cumbersome. Then the
Speaker 1: interstate highways helped, and then you have the advent of
Speaker 1: the Internet, and then the instantaneous data availability and just
Speaker 1: in time shipping and blah blah blah. It just there's
Speaker 1: nothing to grow. The local little guys. They have no
Speaker 1: advantage other than charm service. You know them, You can
Speaker 1: count on them that sort of getting to see the
Speaker 1: product in person and hold it in your hand, which
Speaker 1: is sometimes nice. Yeah, it is good, but you know what,
Speaker 1: people will vote with their dollars, and they are voting.
Speaker 1: So am I unfortunately? I mean, it's just too damned
Speaker 1: convenient to order laying on my couch and having it
Speaker 1: at my door in a couple hours from Amazon. So
Speaker 1: my headline is Jack Armstrong cries about the quote unquote
Speaker 1: guy while thumbing away at Amazon day in day out.
Speaker 1: I'm a blocracy, folks. I guess I'm to blame. We
Speaker 1: should start to show officially because the opening clip I
Speaker 1: find amusing. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is as I said Wednesday, July twenty third, they
Speaker 1: are twenty twenty five Armstrong Getty and we do approve
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Speaker 2: Here we go at markhould I, we have breaking news
Speaker 2: as we come on the air, Ozzy Osbourne has died.
Speaker 1: That It was the lead words from David Muir on
Speaker 1: ABC News. The most important thing that happened on Earth
Speaker 1: was the passing of the near octagenarian metal singer. Some
Speaker 1: days the bat bites you, Ozzy Osbourne has died. Can
Speaker 1: I hear that again? I just found his seriousness and
Speaker 1: it being the lead I found amusing touldit.
Speaker 2: We have breaking news as we come on the air,
Speaker 2: Ozzy Osbourne has died.
Speaker 1: So I realize they're in a for profit business and
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what the majority of people would
Speaker 1: be most interested in and stick around for. It's the
Speaker 1: same day the sitting president accused a previous president of treason. Yes,
Speaker 1: and the lead story was, well, as you just heard
Speaker 1: one more.
Speaker 2: Time tonight, we have breaking news as we come on
Speaker 2: the air, Ozzy Osbourne has died.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if you were unfamiliar with mister Osborne
Speaker 1: is over asking somebody who is who is this? Ozzy
Speaker 1: Osbourne is the Speaker of the House? Is he the president?
Speaker 1: I'm practically that guy. I could not know less about Osborne.
Speaker 1: I have no opinion on Ozzy Osbourne because I've never
Speaker 1: I don't know his music, I never watched his show.
Speaker 1: He seems to be beloved by a certain group of
Speaker 1: left school I wanted to be a plumber. Joe was
Speaker 1: a plumber. That's him. There a bit of a substance
Speaker 1: habit there through the years. Yeah, Ozzy is a pop
Speaker 1: culture curiosity in that the ridiculous but endearing MTV reality
Speaker 1: show The Osborne's elevated his you know, his cultural his
Speaker 1: Q factor. They cat campiness beyond any justification. I mean, okay,
Speaker 1: you know, give the people what they want. I agree.
Speaker 1: Breaking news. As we come on the air this evening,
Speaker 1: we'll play some Osborne has died. We'll play some of
Speaker 1: the clips. Trump has accused the former president of treason,
Speaker 1: which is a you know, in a previous era, like
Speaker 1: ten years ago, would have been a holy crap, everything
Speaker 1: comes to a stop sort of claim. Now it just
Speaker 1: kind of gets lost in the mix of celebrity deaths. Right,
Speaker 1: It's just we say all kinds of stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: But what Trump said, Obama actually replied to it in
Speaker 1: a jumping into the politics of the day. So we
Speaker 1: got all that for You often asked do we go
Speaker 1: back to something closer to normal after Trump passes from
Speaker 1: the political scene, And not entirely, But I've seen several
Speaker 1: examples lately, where like Pam Bondi, for instance, tries to
Speaker 1: be Trump, tries to be trumpy, makes a giant promise
Speaker 1: and then never delivers it really or delivers in some
Speaker 1: form and just laughs it off and then launches several
Speaker 1: other sensation missiles to distract everybody. But nobody's as good
Speaker 1: at it as Trump. They try it, but they fall
Speaker 1: on their faces. So for whatever reason, this is the magic,
Speaker 1: and nobody knows what it is. Trump paters. It really
Speaker 1: drives Trumpeter's crazy. Why does this not stick to him?
Speaker 1: Everything comes off different out of Trump. It just I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Well, he's utterly shameless. He is incapable
Speaker 1: of shame. But I used to think things would go
Speaker 1: back to normal ish. That was pre second term. By
Speaker 1: the time Trump is out of office, we will have
Speaker 1: traversed twelve years of American life, and I have a
Speaker 1: lot of people that there, their whole political lives of
Speaker 1: paying attention to politics has been this. So I just
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's ever going to go back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. Yeah, wow, Epstein was the general manager.
Speaker 1: There is some crazy media jiu jitsu jiu jitsu judo
Speaker 1: going on around the whole Epstein story that is really
Speaker 1: pretty clever from the Democrats standpoint, and I think they're
Speaker 1: pulling it off. Uh, it's wild. Who's in the highway
Speaker 1: seat over this now? When there's still still I don't
Speaker 1: think any there there. Yeah, there are some very strange bedfellows. Yeah, God,
Speaker 1: I well, there's there's plenty of there there. It just
Speaker 1: depends what they're you're talking about. We've been discussing, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we do. You would you like the the Epstein Senior Special,
Speaker 1: it's a lighter portion. Would you like the full Epstein?
Speaker 1: Would you like the Epstein with all the fixings? Or
Speaker 1: would you like the Epstein Fancy Feast, which includes he's
Speaker 1: a massage agent and the Jews run the world. They're
Speaker 1: like at least four distinct versions of what people mean
Speaker 1: by the Epstein thing, So we'll have to get into that,
Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of other stuff coming up. We
Speaker 1: got headlines in just a moment's stay right here. We're
Speaker 1: about to jump in some of the headlines that are
Speaker 1: out there. This one just came across the eight EPA.
Speaker 1: The Environmental Protection Agency is said to draft a plan
Speaker 1: to end its ability to fight climate change. Here's a
Speaker 1: sub paragraph on this. According to two people familiar with
Speaker 1: the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that
Speaker 1: greenhouse gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet,
Speaker 1: which obviously would change all of their goals and things
Speaker 1: that they're trying to constantly accomplish there at the EPA.
Speaker 1: Seems like a major change. Don't know how long I
Speaker 1: suppose it hang around to the end of this administration,
Speaker 1: right the Democrat gets elected, then it's back to it's
Speaker 1: the biggest problem in the world. Uh. Perhaps, Yeah, But
Speaker 1: I think the bloom is really off of the rows
Speaker 1: of you know, existential threat you've stolen by dreams. The
Speaker 1: oceans will be boiling, the Hawaiian islands will disappear by
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine. I just that whole thing feels past me,
Speaker 1: So they might try to drag it back in that direction,
Speaker 1: but I think it's going to be a tougher sled
Speaker 1: than it used to be. The proposed EPA Agency rule
Speaker 1: recinds the two thousand and nine declaration known as the
Speaker 1: Endangerment Finding, which scientifically established that greenhouse gases endanger human lives.
Speaker 1: And then all of the things are many of the
Speaker 1: things that we hate that have happened in the United
Speaker 1: States have come from that two thousand and nine declaration,
Speaker 1: and you know, forcing electric cars on us and all
Speaker 1: kinds of different things. And the Trump administration is ending
Speaker 1: that how dams you so interesting? Elections? Elections matter? Yeah,
Speaker 1: they absolutely do, and the next one sure will too,
Speaker 1: although that doesn't mean I want to talk about it
Speaker 1: interestingly enough. The hot topic no pun intended in European
Speaker 1: politics is air conditioning. Europe is much less air conditioned
Speaker 1: than the United States, partly because you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of it's fairly far north in near oceans and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and they just really haven't needed it. But
Speaker 1: it's getting warmer in recent years. And it's like how
Speaker 1: in San Francisco in the Bay Area, there's a lot
Speaker 1: less air conditioning there is than where I'm from, sure, right,
Speaker 1: But as it has gotten warmer in Europe the last
Speaker 1: several years, heat waves coming a little earlier and staying
Speaker 1: a little longer, they're arguing about whether to have air
Speaker 1: conditioning or not. And interestingly, the right wing is saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: get some air conditioning up in her it's two damn hot,
Speaker 1: But the lefties are saying soccer blue, No, this will
Speaker 1: exascerbits global warming. And the air conditioners vent heat, right,
Speaker 1: they remove heat. They don't actually you know, well's I
Speaker 1: don't want to explain air conditioning, but so they have
Speaker 1: to vent the hot air into the streets. That'll make
Speaker 1: it even worse. And the sweaty Frenchmen are saying, I
Speaker 1: don't care. That sounds like a U problem. I want
Speaker 1: air conditioning in my house. Well, I wish them well.
Speaker 1: Judy and I are going to Europe in a few weeks,
Speaker 1: to London in a few weeks, and I rented a flat,
Speaker 1: as they say, over there with air conditioning. Bye God.
Speaker 1: Because I'm an American, all right, I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: there tossed and turning in my euro juices, trying to
Speaker 1: sleep after a long day of touristing and eating and drinking.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have some ac. One of my favorite headlines
Speaker 1: from yesterday also had anything to do with the Trump administration.
Speaker 1: The US Olympic Committee bans transgender athletes in compliance with
Speaker 1: the Trump order. So US Olympics not gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Not gonna play that game. And we've been wondering about
Speaker 1: that for a long time. If this stuff would rise
Speaker 1: from high school track to it already was in college swimming,
Speaker 1: in all kinds of sports, what is it gonna go
Speaker 1: to the Olympics? Not under Trumpet's not not well, It's
Speaker 1: gone backward in a lot of areas or levels of sports. Hey, Michael,
Speaker 1: play clip fifteen for me.
Speaker 3: The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has effectively barred transgender
Speaker 3: women from competing in women's sports. The panel tells the
Speaker 3: federations overseeing swimming, athletics other sports it has an obligation
Speaker 3: to comply with an executive order issued by President Trump.
Speaker 3: The change follows a similar step taken by the NCAA
Speaker 3: earlier this year.
Speaker 1: I was so annoyed by that, I tweeted at Britt
Speaker 1: Bear's crew. It will do no good. They won't even
Speaker 1: see it. I'm sure, but the US Olympic Committee is
Speaker 1: barred trans women from the sport. Don't call dudes women.
Speaker 1: Trans women is the verbiage of the radical gender theory crowd. Brett,
Speaker 1: stop it. Well, the confusing thing there is them banning
Speaker 1: these people is a declaration that we don't believe they're women. Right,
Speaker 1: that's what they're declaring. Yeah, we're no dudes allowed. I
Speaker 1: mean that those statements don't go together. You can't say
Speaker 1: we banned women from women's sports. That wouldn't make sense
Speaker 1: slip at the top. So they banned what they believe
Speaker 1: are dudes from women's sports. Well, because they're dudes, that's
Speaker 1: why they believe it. Yes, Artro and the.
Speaker 4: Justice Department had an idea of what was really in
Speaker 4: the FBI records of the Epstein case. They released a
Speaker 4: joint statement saying he wasn't murdered in prison, there was
Speaker 4: no conspiracy, there is no clients list, and we're never
Speaker 4: going to say anything about this again. That of course
Speaker 4: just spurred more conspiracy theories. So you have to ask yourself,
Speaker 4: what is in there that is so concerning that they
Speaker 4: don't want to let it out? Is it they over
Speaker 4: promised and the answer is nothing or is there some
Speaker 4: smoking gun in there that scares them first one?
Speaker 1: In my opinion, Yeah, Jonathan John Miller there on CNN
Speaker 1: stoking the fire from the left that maybe Trump was
Speaker 1: like the co rapist with Epstein and he was there
Speaker 1: at all the parties. Let's push this. Plus it's dividing
Speaker 1: the Republicans, so let's let's push it as far as
Speaker 1: we can. Yeah. Yeah, you know, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: mean hoisting them on their own petard as it is said.
Speaker 1: I mean, you created this whole mess by making all
Speaker 1: kinds of claims for a long time, not Trump himself,
Speaker 1: but a lot of the big Trump voices out there, right. Uh.
Speaker 1: One of all I have is like the anecdotal evidence
Speaker 1: that I get through a few people I talked to
Speaker 1: in texts. We get in that sort of stuff of
Speaker 1: how some of you feel about this? Who are really
Speaker 1: into this story? One of the biggest Trump supporters I
Speaker 1: know told me it seems to me that Trump is
Speaker 1: in on it too, and it's very disappointing to me.
Speaker 1: But have you seen the videos and have you seen
Speaker 1: the videos? Asking Joe? There are videos going around of
Speaker 1: young women where these videos came from. And what the
Speaker 1: context is I don't know, but it's young women talking
Speaker 1: about Trump raping them, having sex with them when they
Speaker 1: were under age at these parties. These are videos that
Speaker 1: are floating around. No, I've not seen nor heard.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have come across these either, but they're floating
Speaker 1: around in the world of people who believe that Epstein
Speaker 1: was the top of a child pedophile ring that the
Speaker 1: Democrats have been running with Hollywood for decades, which is
Speaker 1: why the Democrats are pushing so hard now to release
Speaker 1: the Epstein files. I guess there's some explanation as far
Speaker 1: as these things go. Well, they'll explain what you mean
Speaker 1: by that. Why I believe the Democrats are pushing hard
Speaker 1: to release them because they know there's nothing there, and
Speaker 1: so it just is it puts the Republicans in an
Speaker 1: awkward situation. All right, Well, before we get further down
Speaker 1: the road of analyzing what happened, let's tell the good
Speaker 1: folks what happened. It's forty we're gonna be talking about trade.
Speaker 1: From trade.
Speaker 5: Meeting with the Philippine President was dominated by questions about
Speaker 5: other matters, including why the Justice Department now wants to
Speaker 5: meet with Gallaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime associate who's serving
Speaker 5: twenty years in a Florida federal prison.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know about it, but I think it's something
Speaker 3: that would be sounds appropriate to do you do.
Speaker 5: You have any concern that your Deputy Attorney General, who's
Speaker 5: your former attorney, would be conducting the interview given no,
Speaker 5: I have no been sure. The news comes the same
Speaker 5: day House Speaker Mike Johnson cut the House session short
Speaker 5: to avoid votes about whether the government's Epstein files should
Speaker 5: be made public.
Speaker 1: So that's the lead. The whole furor over you know
Speaker 1: what to disclose when and how brought the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives to a standstill. So Johnson, the leadership cut short
Speaker 1: this week's session, put off any action until September because
Speaker 1: some GOP members were demanding votes on more releases and
Speaker 1: wanted to go further down that road. And Johnson's like,
Speaker 1: all right, this has gotten out of control. We're done. Well,
Speaker 1: here's one of them here, Representative Timberchett, who runs one
Speaker 1: of the committees that can look into this. This is
Speaker 1: what he said last night.
Speaker 2: People asking is going to cost me politically, and I say, well, sure,
Speaker 2: it is sure.
Speaker 1: It is. It makes peopel uncomfortable, but it's it doesn't
Speaker 1: have anything to do with that has to do it.
Speaker 4: We've got to do what's right, and this is direct
Speaker 4: thing today as far as I see it.
Speaker 1: He seems to actually believe, or enough of his constituents
Speaker 1: believe that he has to represent them, that this is
Speaker 1: the whole child peto ring thing. And it's ugly and
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough to look at, but we've
Speaker 1: got to do it. Yeah. Yeah, I've actually done a
Speaker 1: ton of reading about this in the last couple of days,
Speaker 1: and one thing has become clear to me. There were
Speaker 1: a hell of a lot of teenage girls who were
Speaker 1: recruited and groomed and had illegal sexual stuff done with
Speaker 1: them by Epstein and Ms Maxwell and quite a few
Speaker 1: other people. And it is absolutely grist for the Mill.
Speaker 1: And I think the Mill has gone crazy with the
Speaker 1: whole Jews run a sex ring with the Democrat. That
Speaker 1: all is looney tunes to me. But it's absolutely true
Speaker 1: that the very rich and the very powerful have been
Speaker 1: parting with Epstein and getting it on with teenage girls,
Speaker 1: not children, but like sixteen seventeen year olds, and those
Speaker 1: names have inexplicably been covered up for a very long time.
Speaker 1: I was reading a very very responsible journalist who's been
Speaker 1: following this story since the bust in Florida and the
Speaker 1: unholy plea bargain that was struck with Epstein by a
Speaker 1: prosecutor who later became Trump's Secretary of Labor, which doesn't
Speaker 1: look great, but a completely corrupt plea bargain. And this
Speaker 1: guy says, you know, the list of victims is huge,
Speaker 1: and there were other people in on it, and we aughtit. No, Well,
Speaker 1: do you think there's a list somewhere that the government
Speaker 1: can release. There are many names within investigative files, and
Speaker 1: that's where it gets Harry. If you're not going to
Speaker 1: bring charges against somebody, you don't as a law enforcement agency,
Speaker 1: you're certainly supposed to not not supposed to say, you know,
Speaker 1: tell you what, Jack Armstrong's name kept coming up in
Speaker 1: this investigation at parties with young girls. If you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, we don't have enough evidence to charge him,
Speaker 1: but anyway, what a purv You can't do that? Well
Speaker 1: you can if you're James Coleman, you're talking about Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1: She did enough here that you probably should charge her.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to, but I mean it was ugly
Speaker 1: right before the election. So yeah, what a whack of dude. Well,
Speaker 1: that's the reason you don't want to do that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. That's a good example of why. Right, So,
Speaker 1: and that's why the point, that's why I made the
Speaker 1: point in the previous segment. The slippery difficult thing about
Speaker 1: discussing this is that there are like the basic, the full,
Speaker 1: the large, and the extra large version of what you
Speaker 1: mean by the Epstein thing, And until you know which
Speaker 1: one of those you're talking about, you don't know how
Speaker 1: to talk about it. Well, I think it's one hundred
Speaker 1: percent legit that this guy was rich and powerful and
Speaker 1: covered up four But a lot of the Trump surrogates
Speaker 1: out there, you're Dan Bongino whatever, they were pushing the big, mega,
Speaker 1: big kohna Epstein thing. Yes, they were pushing the whole
Speaker 1: masade Epstein, hundreds of thousands of children and eyes. Craziness
Speaker 1: that so many people, so many of you believe. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it's true. So, but I think just on
Speaker 1: the politics of it, I think it's incredibly cynical and
Speaker 1: ugly for America. But I think the Democrats are pretty smart.
Speaker 1: And the way they're handling this, the way they've turned
Speaker 1: it completely around, and now it's a what are the
Speaker 1: reports covering up? Why won't they release the files when
Speaker 1: there's nothing there? Right? So the Republicans are in the
Speaker 1: tough position of, well, if we do release the files,
Speaker 1: it will show that we really oversold this. I wish
Speaker 1: we had and I should have asked for it. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked Hakeem Jeffreys, the House Minority Leader, why didn't you
Speaker 1: guys push for all this stuff to get released when
Speaker 1: you had the White House, and you had the Justice Department,
Speaker 1: and at some points you had in Congress. Blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: And he unleashed a word salad that was kamala esque.
Speaker 1: My respect for him as a politician, ak a liar
Speaker 1: dropped a great deal because it was a pathetic attempt
Speaker 1: to answer the question. He had no answer. I think
Speaker 1: it probably worked. I think it's working. I don't like it.
Speaker 1: It's cynical, but I think it's working. Most people are
Speaker 1: not paying close enough attention or think about this stuff
Speaker 1: enough to realize it doesn't make any sense. Speaker Johnson
Speaker 1: tried it yesterday. He said, this doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 1: If there is something damaging to Republicans while they were
Speaker 1: in power for four years, they would have released it.
Speaker 1: And that is some sort of smoking gun. A film
Speaker 1: of Trump with a fourteen year old Oh they sat
Speaker 1: on that right, really that place they made up laws
Speaker 1: to prosecute him in New York. Obviously that makes no sense.
Speaker 1: But I just I think they're counting on and I
Speaker 1: think they're probably right the Democrats, that people aren't doing
Speaker 1: the math on that, and they've managed to make this
Speaker 1: look like I mean, even to Trump's supporters. Even Trump
Speaker 1: supporters are feeling like they're hiding something. They won't release it.
Speaker 1: Trump must be in on it. Yeah. Yeah, So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm of two minds on this. Number One, there have
Speaker 1: been uh soft pedaling cover ups of the rich and
Speaker 1: powerful one hundred percent. But if you were to say,
Speaker 1: just release the grand jury transcripts, which a lot of
Speaker 1: people have been demanding, and the judges say they're going
Speaker 1: to release what they can, but not in a big hurry.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine if your name came up a couple
Speaker 1: of times in the grand jury trial. You're innocent of
Speaker 1: any crimes exactly, but you were there or you thought Yeah,
Speaker 1: what the hell, I'll go to some Caribbean island party
Speaker 1: for a while. He seems like a charming guy because
Speaker 1: Epstein was an utterly brilliant, sociopathic manipulator of people. That
Speaker 1: much is clear. But can you imagine if your name
Speaker 1: came up in that investigation a couple of times, you'd
Speaker 1: be ruined. Yeah, and so the judges are trying to
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Speaker 1: you on your personal phone because I don't want to
Speaker 1: put it out there and spread it. One of the
Speaker 1: videos that was sent to me of a girl talking
Speaker 1: about Trump raping or as a thirteen year old, or
Speaker 1: that's the way it's portrayed. I I'm pretty cynical, as
Speaker 1: you should realize as a listener, but I'm not so
Speaker 1: cynical to believe that there are a variety of things
Speaker 1: that can happen like Obama had a plan to invade
Speaker 1: Texas or Trump raped a thirteen year old. I'm not
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Speaker 1: people involved, like everybody, thousands of people would have to
Speaker 1: keep their mouths shut about stuff like this. So I
Speaker 1: don't believe these like really out there things that get
Speaker 1: catch on in the world. I think I think some
Speaker 1: people are actually believe it or not too cynical. M yeah,
Speaker 1: or paranoid, I suppose, But you know that's in the
Speaker 1: eye of the beholder. Henson, we need a wrench. I
Speaker 1: can't keep my microphone from falling down or it's got
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Speaker 1: It happens to everybody. As the age. I haven't had
Speaker 1: enough sleep and I've had a couple of drinks and
Speaker 1: I just can't keep this thing from Wow. Thanks for that.
Speaker 1: So coming up next hour a couple of things I'm
Speaker 1: really excited about. First of all, a brilliant bit of writing,
Speaker 1: the sort of simplifying something eloquently that I love so much.
Speaker 1: So I love quotes so much about tolerance that goes
Speaker 1: too far. Absolutely wonderful wisdom about that, specifically in terms
Speaker 1: of a particular political system that's also a religion that
Speaker 1: wants to stamp out all tolerance. That's next hour plus.
Speaker 1: The truth has finally come out, Jack, not about Epstein,
Speaker 1: but about Kamala Harris and her job at McDonald's. Oh
Speaker 1: about that, haven't we? Whether she actually worked at McDonald's
Speaker 1: trust will shock you. That's what motivated the whole Trump
Speaker 1: work in the drive through thing, wasn't it. This was
Speaker 1: a great political stunts in American history. Did y'all hear
Speaker 1: our podcast the other day, the One More Thing podcast
Speaker 1: about the pet psychic? We got into that. I have
Speaker 1: a little follow up on the pet psychics, those of
Speaker 1: you who get pet psychics to figure out what your
Speaker 1: dog thinks. Oh, we've got mail peg on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay hear Brett Stevens, calumnist for the New York Times,
Speaker 1: with an opinion piece today, and uh, kudos to the
Speaker 1: New York Times for allowing him to write it and
Speaker 1: printing it. No, Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza
Speaker 1: in the New York Times, which I imagine many people
Speaker 1: in the Neru's newsroom really really hated. We'll get into
Speaker 1: some of that later, didn't Thousands of people cancel their
Speaker 1: subscriptions when The New York Times even hired Brett's Stevenson
Speaker 1: to offer a somewhat different opinion than the progressive hymn book, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people are rigid, aren't you. Here's your freedom love me
Speaker 1: quote of the day. I love this from the Great
Speaker 1: Tom of Soul. The biggest and most deadly tax rate
Speaker 1: on the poor comes from a loss of various welfare
Speaker 1: state benefits, food stamps, housing subsidies, and the like if
Speaker 1: their income goes up. That's the biggest and most deadly
Speaker 1: tax rate on the poor. I would say it's incredibly
Speaker 1: cruel too. We played the audio I don't know a
Speaker 1: week or two ago of a mom demanding that her
Speaker 1: son not get a job, him saying, I want to
Speaker 1: make something in my life. I want to get a house,
Speaker 1: I want to live like other people. She's like, I
Speaker 1: will lose all my benefits if you do that, I'll
Speaker 1: lose my benefits. That is just terrible, and the Left
Speaker 1: portrays that his compassion. It's disgusting mail. Now I'm tempted.
Speaker 1: Let me read a couple and then something very very special. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm betting, let's see, this is a freaking correspondent, Sean.
Speaker 1: I'm betting the Late Show does not come back after
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Speaker 1: and a level of wealth they'd never imagined, We'll do
Speaker 1: the job for a million and a half a year, say,
Speaker 1: could happen? Let's see Adam mentions the voices of the left,
Speaker 1: Armstrong and getting one more thing podcast from the other day.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant and should be featured weekly. Wow. The variety
Speaker 1: of voices helped to highlight how a particular mindset can
Speaker 1: be exploited. No matter who you are. You can do
Speaker 1: the same thing with the extreme right, but the left
Speaker 1: is just more unintentionally hilarious. Mmmm. Okay, thank you for
Speaker 1: the note, and now a very special mail bag if
Speaker 1: you're old enough to remember anytime you heard a very
Speaker 1: special It meant that your show that was usually fun
Speaker 1: or funny and lighthearted, was going to deal with some
Speaker 1: terribly serious topic on a very special Happy Days, as
Speaker 1: Johonzi is diagnosed with testicular cancer, Jony contemplates an abortion
Speaker 1: right exactly well. On a very special mail bag, we
Speaker 1: got this note from Mike, who says, I really loved
Speaker 1: your quote about being in a pool of Satan's you're
Speaker 1: in the other day. I couldn't remember it perfectly, chat
Speaker 1: Gpt remembered it instantly. I decided to train it by saying,
Speaker 1: this is my exact sense of humor, and it continued
Speaker 1: to come back with more and more quotes from the show.
Speaker 1: Below is a link to the full conversation. Incredible Wow.
Speaker 1: And then Mike says, speaking for millions of people, I
Speaker 1: didn't think was possible to replace Rush Limbaugh's a trustworthy, deadly,
Speaker 1: instinctual political authority, but you guys have Wow. That's oh.
Speaker 1: And he says more nice things, which I'll read to
Speaker 1: you now. I love how balanced you are, with your
Speaker 1: source of truth being freedom and the true American has
Speaker 1: posted the majority of talk radio being borderlined. Christian nationalists
Speaker 1: are overly overtly Republican. We just we just try to
Speaker 1: be fair. But anyway, how did you it is? How
Speaker 1: did chck GPT so quickly grab from transcripts? I don't know,
Speaker 1: And I would like to point out to Mike that
Speaker 1: the very people who decided who to replace Rush limp
Speaker 1: Paul with specifically rejected us. Yes, repeatedly, too weird, too
Speaker 1: many dick jokes. No, anyway, man, we have fun doing
Speaker 1: what we do. So anyway, chat GPT, here's been a
Speaker 1: whole long conversation of quotes from the show. Jack Armstrong
Speaker 1: Putin's a war criminal and should be in jail for
Speaker 1: the rest of his life, if not executed. Joe Getty,
Speaker 1: I trust this guy like I trust gas station Sushi.
Speaker 1: And then chat GPT comments they don't hold back on
Speaker 1: blunt global judgments and those instantly memorable visuals. Wow. Then
Speaker 1: that you said something that absurdist twist on paranoia is
Speaker 1: pure a and g chat GPT says, I was talking
Speaker 1: about tearing down the Department of Education brick by brick,
Speaker 1: chat GPT says, anyone who's tired a big government red
Speaker 1: tape will feel this one deep. I feel like chat
Speaker 1: GPT is trying to sleep with me or something. What
Speaker 1: was it going on here? It is definitely kissing her
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