Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jet Dad can he I'm wrong? Even from the
Speaker 1: studio scene, say he's in your Little Friday. We're deep
Speaker 1: with when the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
Speaker 1: compound and hey, y'all, today we're under the tutelage of
Speaker 1: our general manager. Just for the record, did you say
Speaker 1: Little Friday or Lowell Friday Friday? Oh interesting? Today's general
Speaker 1: manager lies damn lies and statistics Yester GDP report being
Speaker 1: called the weirdest gd Report GDP Report Ever, Oh really,
Speaker 1: I don't know anything about this. Oh boy, howdy completely
Speaker 1: changes the story. Oh really, Well, I want to hear
Speaker 1: about that cruel good That's what I'm shooting for. I
Speaker 1: like that sort of thing. I don't know that story
Speaker 1: at all. I like it. You know what, there are
Speaker 1: a couple of stories today that are incredibly important, significant
Speaker 1: that people will not hear elsewhere because they take a
Speaker 1: minute to explain. And by a minute, I mean like
Speaker 1: sixty seconds. But so much of our media, whether broadcast
Speaker 1: or even online, to a large extent, is so hit
Speaker 1: and run if it takes more than twenty two seconds
Speaker 1: or however long a damn TikTok video is. People don't
Speaker 1: even pay attention to it. But you, my friends, you
Speaker 1: will be well informed. I like the fact that overnight
Speaker 1: Trump called Jerome Powell stupid. That's my favorite thing. Ah
Speaker 1: that entertaining. Jerome too late Powell. That's the guy that
Speaker 1: runs a federal reserve and has a hand and whether
Speaker 1: interest rates go up or not. And he didn't. He
Speaker 1: didn't lower interest rates this week, like Trump is all
Speaker 1: it's they. But yeah, go on, Jerome too late Powell.
Speaker 1: That's why I said has a hand in. Jerome too
Speaker 1: late Powell has done it again. He is too late
Speaker 1: and actually too angry. This is all in caps. He's
Speaker 1: actually too angry, too stupid, and too political to have
Speaker 1: the job of FED chair. He's costing our country trillions
Speaker 1: of dollars in addition to being one of the most incompetent,
Speaker 1: corrupt renovations of a building in the history of construction.
Speaker 1: Too stupid, You're too stupid to do your job. That's
Speaker 1: an insult. I've never had that one. I've had bosses
Speaker 1: yell at me for everything. Variety of things. But I've
Speaker 1: never had anybody say, you know what your problem is,
Speaker 1: you're too stupid to do your job. Oh that's a guy,
Speaker 1: you know, PhD in economics and a storied career. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it's just stupid. What a funny part of the personality
Speaker 1: of the president. I'm glad you find it funny. Well,
Speaker 1: today you're lucky some chuckling some days. I don't Today,
Speaker 1: for whatever, I just think it's just so absurd. It
Speaker 1: is so absurd. I mean, what do you think, I mean,
Speaker 1: in any workplace set, in any setting whatsoever, with adults,
Speaker 1: What do you think you're accomplishing by saying you're too stupid? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're amused. What do you think he thinks
Speaker 1: he's accomplishing. I have no idea. I think he's an
Speaker 1: undisciplined child half the time. I mean, it was one
Speaker 1: of your middle of the night tweets or truths or whatever.
Speaker 1: You're a total loser. You know. There's a certain core
Speaker 1: constituency is that loves that. It loves the brawling and
Speaker 1: the tough talk and the insults and all well brawling, yes, may,
Speaker 1: but I don't know some of the trumpiest people I
Speaker 1: know at stuff like that, they roll their eyes and
Speaker 1: say why I would agree, Yeah, that's my experience as well.
Speaker 1: You asked, and so I attempted to come up with
Speaker 1: an answer. It's just so amazing. I feel like if
Speaker 1: I ever did that, I would like the next day
Speaker 1: think I need to reevaluate my way I handle things.
Speaker 1: Sorry for well, Ron is stupid in the middle of
Speaker 1: the night, and if he weren't famously sober, I think
Speaker 1: all of us would sink. Oh, for God's sake, Melanie
Speaker 1: has got to take the phone out of his hand
Speaker 1: after that second trying. Yeah. Yeah, if it wasn't that,
Speaker 1: he's you know, no caffeine, no booze, no nothing ever
Speaker 1: his whole life. Yeah, you'd automatically think, because this happens
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night so often, you'd absolutely
Speaker 1: think he's drunk, because that is such a drunk post
Speaker 1: all the capital letters, too angry, too stupid, and a
Speaker 1: total loser. All right, all right, that's good. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: on nicazines or kratom. There are not one, but two
Speaker 1: stories about weird new drugs that are killing people by
Speaker 1: the hundreds and soon to be the thousands. Oh, it's
Speaker 1: just like a fentanyl thing, like people are getting high
Speaker 1: on them. I thought you were talking about that's going
Speaker 1: to mention a sleep drug or weight loss drug or something. No, No,
Speaker 1: these are both getting high drugs, okay. And what do
Speaker 1: they do to you? Like they leave holes in your
Speaker 1: legs and like trank, you just don't have any brain
Speaker 1: activity anymore, like you lean over. But there must be
Speaker 1: some upside or you wouldn't take it right, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: In the case of the one, it's the cleverness of
Speaker 1: Chinese scientists who keep coming up with synthetic opioids to
Speaker 1: feed to the decadent Americans and we keep gobbling them up. Wow,
Speaker 1: innovative fellas those Chinese. There were several truth socials overnight
Speaker 1: announcing some big tariff deals that we can get to
Speaker 1: a little bit later, as the deadline is tomorrow for
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of that stuff. Canada hasn't been worked
Speaker 1: out yet, And Canada announced in the last couple of
Speaker 1: hours that they are going to also recognize Palestine as
Speaker 1: a state, breaking with the United States for the first time.
Speaker 1: So that is starting to crumble. I hope it doesn't
Speaker 1: end up just being US and Israel completely alone in
Speaker 1: the UN. That would not be good. I don't think
Speaker 1: for anybody. Somebody's got to explain to me what that
Speaker 1: means exactly to recognize as a state. Just a amorphous
Speaker 1: mass of people've got some land, but nobody's sure what.
Speaker 1: They don't have a functioning government because the last one
Speaker 1: was run by a brutal terrorist organization. But we're going
Speaker 1: to recognize them as a country. You gotta send an
Speaker 1: ambassador Canada where to. I don't think it means anything concretely,
Speaker 1: but I think it means a Lotreally countries are starting
Speaker 1: to peel off, and it could end up just being
Speaker 1: I mean, because there's always been the United States and
Speaker 1: a handful of like the important countries in the world
Speaker 1: that stood by us in Israel and all these resolutions
Speaker 1: and everything in the UN. And if that all falls away,
Speaker 1: I mean, you excuse me. Did a bug fly in
Speaker 1: my throat? What happened there? I don't know. I have
Speaker 1: to examine the footage, you know, for the crowd that
Speaker 1: hates Jews and conspiracy theorists and everything like that, When
Speaker 1: it's just the United States and Israel alone on all
Speaker 1: this stuff, that's that's not going to be a good look.
Speaker 1: I would agree yeah, it is not a good look.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite writers said Hamas will never surrender.
Speaker 1: It's time for a Plan B for Israel, which I
Speaker 1: found intriguing. We can touch on that. What could that
Speaker 1: possibly be? Well, the point is that you will never
Speaker 1: actually defeat them. They will be a brutal gorilla force
Speaker 1: for one hundred years. You have to come up with
Speaker 1: I don't know, you're too stupid. Yeah you're I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try that with my wife. I don't know. Friend, if
Speaker 1: I had a disagreement, whatever, kids, sure, every neighbors please
Speaker 1: please Hey your gardener is blowing like your leaves onto
Speaker 1: ar lawn. Well, you're too stupid to clean up leaves?
Speaker 1: See for one? What number two? What? Let's start the
Speaker 1: show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
Speaker 1: It is Thursday, the last day of July thirty one.
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Speaker 1: So the net result being if you if your energy
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Speaker 1: with someone you find unattractive. Uh, perhaps you got one
Speaker 1: of those art to call your boss too stupid to
Speaker 1: do his job. Perhaps Hey, I got energy and I
Speaker 1: can't remember my problem. I don't know if I feel
Speaker 1: more energetic, but I feel pretty good. I felt real
Speaker 1: energetic for a while. Now I don't feel energetic at all.
Speaker 1: If you hammered down a whole can of vodka, you'd
Speaker 1: be feeling something. I guarantee you. Oh wow, Well, we
Speaker 1: got Katie's headlines on the weekd we mail bag this hour.
Speaker 1: We do have to get into some of the actual
Speaker 1: announcements where it wasn't just calling people stupid for various
Speaker 1: things that are going around the world. Made some strong
Speaker 1: statements about Russia. Russia just hammered Kiev again last night.
Speaker 1: So apparently Trump's new fifty days, schmifty days. I don't
Speaker 1: trust you. Vladimir didn't hurt Vladimir's feelings because he went
Speaker 1: after Kiev last night. Number of people killed, three hundred
Speaker 1: drones all at the capitol, and Trump with some strong
Speaker 1: words about that last night. So we'll see where that's going.
Speaker 1: All on the way, here's our text line four one
Speaker 1: five two nine five KFTC Trump, uh truths out. I
Speaker 1: don't care what India does with Russia. They can take
Speaker 1: their debt economies down together, for all I care. We
Speaker 1: have done very little business with in the other tarifs
Speaker 1: or two high among the highest in the world. Likewise,
Speaker 1: Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let's
Speaker 1: keep it that way and tell med Vedev that the
Speaker 1: failed former president of Russia who thinks he's still present
Speaker 1: to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory. Wow,
Speaker 1: so much for wooing India. They can take their debt
Speaker 1: economies down together. I don't care. It's this interesting that
Speaker 1: that's the way we're communicating our policy toward two some
Speaker 1: of the biggest economies in the world. Right, And it's
Speaker 1: worth throwing in that a number of things that Trump
Speaker 1: has done and is doing, are are yielding very good result?
Speaker 2: Sure.
Speaker 1: On the other hand, I can see it in the
Speaker 1: faces of the world leaders. This is so weird. We
Speaker 1: just need to get through this. It's a few years
Speaker 1: of our lives and they'll elect somebody else and it'll
Speaker 1: purely be more normal. That's what they're thinking. You can
Speaker 1: read it behind their eyes. It's just odd times, all right.
Speaker 1: A lot to get to this hour, including the fact
Speaker 1: that the gross domistic product report that got so much
Speaker 1: attention yesterday is is probably wildly misleading or in the
Speaker 1: right direction or wrong direction. You're not gonna love it.
Speaker 1: But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
Speaker 1: lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3: Katie all right, he's starting with MSNBC. Trump threatens trade
Speaker 3: war with Canada over recognition of Palestinian state.
Speaker 1: Yeah. His response to what was, Wow, it's going to
Speaker 1: be very difficult to get a trade deal now that
Speaker 1: Canada's recognized Palestine.
Speaker 3: From CNN, Trump says, quote fastest way to end humanitarian
Speaker 3: crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to release remaining hostages.
Speaker 1: Immediately left out of every story is Hamas has a
Speaker 1: saying this too. They could stop declaring all Jews need
Speaker 1: to die and let the hostages loose if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: and that would change things quite a bit. If they
Speaker 1: and the leadership before them, and the leadership before them
Speaker 1: had seriously wanted peace with Israel, they would have had
Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of what they asked for. In a
Speaker 1: Homeland to day, ask Bill Clinton, ask Jimmy Carter, asks
Speaker 1: you know any successive president it's a jihadist maniac Middle
Speaker 1: Ages organization.
Speaker 3: From the Wall Street Journal, New York shooting puts Mandami
Speaker 3: on the spot over his views on police.
Speaker 1: Well, so he backed off his uh anti police rhetoric yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's a clever fella, no doubt, he's an articulate boy.
Speaker 1: But yeah, his his past is haunting him in terms
Speaker 1: of crime and the police and the rest of it.
Speaker 1: And it's really really interesting. I also read a perspective
Speaker 1: about the percentage of young voters who think it was
Speaker 1: justified to murder that young father who happen to work
Speaker 1: for a healthcare company in cold blood on the streets,
Speaker 1: who think all sorts of violence and horror is justified.
Speaker 1: This is an odd generation coming up. Well, we let
Speaker 1: them get miseducated in government schools.
Speaker 3: I think kind of along with that from Fox News,
Speaker 3: Cincinnati City councilwoman victims of mob attack quote begged for
Speaker 3: that beat down.
Speaker 1: Well, I still don't. I haven't looked into the story
Speaker 1: because it sounds so horrible. Is any is anybody going
Speaker 1: to pay a price, go to prison anything for this?
Speaker 1: Or maybe? Yeah? Fox News is finally reporting that it
Speaker 1: was all black people beating down two white people and
Speaker 1: trying to kill them in the streets. And there is
Speaker 1: talk of hate crime charges, and there absolutely should be
Speaker 1: if the exist anywhere in the country, it's appropriate. Here
Speaker 1: clearly had a racial component.
Speaker 3: From the Washington Post, the federal government is paying more
Speaker 3: than one hundred and fifty four thousand people to not work.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of sub through early resignation offers and
Speaker 3: other programs have reduced the workforce, but we're paying for it.
Speaker 1: How do I get one of those deals? Seriously, sign
Speaker 1: me up. I could kick ass at that job.
Speaker 3: From USA Today, Kamala Harris leaves door open for potential
Speaker 3: twenty twenty eight presidential run.
Speaker 1: Yes, so she announced yesterday she's not running for governor
Speaker 1: of California, And my first thought was, Okay, it's serious.
Speaker 1: Then she is seriously considering running for president, which is
Speaker 1: what the hell is going on. I think she could
Speaker 1: get elected governor of California because we're such a wacky
Speaker 1: state she is, I don't think. I think same as
Speaker 1: the last time she ran. She won't make it to
Speaker 1: Iowa running for president. No, No, it'll be a joke.
Speaker 1: How is she to be humiliated? How is she that deluded?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because she's dumb, or she's surrounded by
Speaker 1: people that because she's too stupid, you're too stupid. She's
Speaker 1: surrounded by people that get, you know, something out of
Speaker 1: tell her you can win.
Speaker 3: For maybec Brown University joins the list of colleges reaching
Speaker 3: million dollar deals with the White House to unfreeze their funding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the universities are clearly discriminating by race and religion
Speaker 1: as well, just openly, or if it's not openly, behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and there's huge paper trails available. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that more later too. But yeah, it's it's shameless.
Speaker 1: This is one of the things that Trump administration that
Speaker 1: is doing that is fantastic.
Speaker 3: From the New York Post, Louisiana medicaid millionaire bought a
Speaker 3: Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was the the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of
Speaker 1: Medicare and Medicaid. We should go through some of the
Speaker 1: numbers over those decades of what has and hasn't been accomplished.
Speaker 1: Bigger emphasis on what hasn't been accomplished other than spending
Speaker 1: tax payer money that has been accomplished to a great.
Speaker 3: Great level study fines and I apologize for this.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: Oh poop pee and perspiration and the deceptive smell of chlorine.
Speaker 1: How jermy really.
Speaker 3: Is a swimming pool? M Some of the details in
Speaker 3: this are grim.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would guess.
Speaker 3: And finally the Babylon Bee, which is usually satire, but
Speaker 3: maybe they're right here. Kamala announced that she will step
Speaker 3: away from politics to spend more time with vodka.
Speaker 1: Wow, I'll bet she never even runs for president. When
Speaker 1: she starts trying to get people behind her to back her,
Speaker 1: and the money people and everything like that, it just
Speaker 1: ain't gonna happen. Maybe a little preliminary quiet polling comes
Speaker 1: back dismally. Yeah, I could see her, although I'm holding
Speaker 1: out hope because I would love to see that. It
Speaker 1: would be hilarious. I would like it too. She was
Speaker 1: at the top of the poles in California even though
Speaker 1: it's very very early, and decided not to run Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Geddy.
Speaker 4: An earthquake struck off the coast of Russia yesterday that
Speaker 4: measured an eight point eight magnitude on the Richter scale.
Speaker 4: It was so powerful that Putin's associates were falling off
Speaker 4: balconies by accident.
Speaker 1: I like that, and he joke at the expense of
Speaker 1: Putin being evil as good joke Here before Joe inexplicably
Speaker 1: throws a wet blanket on a good news story from yesterday.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he wants to bring us down.
Speaker 1: Apparently he wanted Kamla to win. But before mainenance malice.
Speaker 1: Before Joe gets to that, two things. One got really
Speaker 1: interesting news about Kamala Harris I hadn't come across since
Speaker 1: yesterday's announcement. And two homework assignment for you, Katie, because
Speaker 1: I assumed Joe hasn't looked into this. The orange thing
Speaker 1: in the picture of Epstein's cell. They got all the
Speaker 1: attention all day yesterday. Can you fill us in on
Speaker 1: that story, Katie, coming.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's it's they're calling it quote.
Speaker 1: End plane site. Yeah, coming up. I want you to
Speaker 1: nail that down for us, because that was Is that
Speaker 1: related to the green thing seen on the court in
Speaker 1: the WNBA game? No, it's not at all. Okay, there is.
Speaker 1: What is that in Epstein's cell became a storied yesterday,
Speaker 1: so I'll have that on the way too. Fascinating. So
Speaker 1: yesterday the news was that the economy grew at a
Speaker 1: three percent annualized basis, which is pretty good, and various
Speaker 1: people were saying, this makes it clear that AB and C,
Speaker 1: including that the tariff thing hasn't hurt the economy. I
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd say that it didn't know that
Speaker 1: we weren't official. People were saying that, yeah, it didn't
Speaker 1: mean we are official. Weren't officially in a recession, which
Speaker 1: would have been, like I said, thank god I avoided
Speaker 1: that conversation. And a lot of Trump fans or conservatives
Speaker 1: are touting the fact that a wasted bill Maher say,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought the tariff thing might cousinflation are
Speaker 1: screwed up, but you got to give him credit. It
Speaker 1: hasn't well. As I said yesterday and have said for
Speaker 1: quite a while, many birds have not yet come home
Speaker 1: to roost. And here's in defense of the people that
Speaker 1: said the things you were just saying. A lot of
Speaker 1: those people were saying they would have happened by now, yes,
Speaker 1: although a lot of that talk was based on the
Speaker 1: so called Liberation Day tariffs, which never happened. So that's
Speaker 1: ancient pushback nailing down who meant what? At what point
Speaker 1: is well, that's hidious and so moving along, This may
Speaker 1: be the weirdest GDP report ever, according to the fellows
Speaker 1: of the Walls Street Journal, who would know. The top
Speaker 1: line growth number looks good in the White House touted
Speaker 1: of course, and it reversed a zero point five percent
Speaker 1: decline in the GDP in the first quarter, which was
Speaker 1: largely explained by a huge surge of imports as businesses
Speaker 1: tried to front run the anticipated tariff barrage. Remember the
Speaker 1: quirk of the GDP accounting that it's essentially domestic production
Speaker 1: minus imports. Okay, so growth in the first half of
Speaker 1: the year turned out to be about one point two
Speaker 1: percent annualized. Most striking are the second quarter reports wild
Speaker 1: internal details. Net exports minus, which is exports minus imports,
Speaker 1: added a remarkable five percent to GDP as imports fell
Speaker 1: by more than thirty percent. That's a big number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an astonishing number. In one imports. Yes, imports subtract
Speaker 1: from growth in the Nashal accounts because GDP measures domestic production,
Speaker 1: imports are produced over CAS. But they point out imports
Speaker 1: are still crucial to US economic well being because A
Speaker 1: consumers buy them and B businesses use them as inputs
Speaker 1: for what they produce, whether for domestic use or for export.
Speaker 1: Often for export, we import you know, the simple stuff
Speaker 1: or you know, or the raw materials, and we export
Speaker 1: sophisticated stuff or you know. There are many, many variations
Speaker 1: of it. But anyway, the crazy swing and imports shows
Speaker 1: how much Trump's up and down trade policies have disrupted
Speaker 1: business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems
Speaker 1: to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment,
Speaker 1: which fell almost sixteen percent in the second quarter after
Speaker 1: a surge in the first. So in short, everybody's flailing
Speaker 1: in business at not sure or what the tariffs are
Speaker 1: going to be, not sure what the situation is important
Speaker 1: export wise, and the birds have not yet come home
Speaker 1: to roost. Well, that doesn't make me happy. You didn't
Speaker 1: need to tell me that. No, so you wish Kamalah
Speaker 1: had won? Is your excellent labs? Exactly my point? Yeah,
Speaker 1: before we go. Oh and the other giant story, which
Speaker 1: we mentioned later in the show yesterday is that federal
Speaker 1: appeals judges are considering the legality of the president's widespread
Speaker 1: tariffs moves today. God that huge court case. Wouldn't that
Speaker 1: be something if the courts decide he can't do that?
Speaker 1: What what have we been talking about for five months? Right?
Speaker 1: Redoing the entire world trade situation? Oh, he can do that? Okay,
Speaker 1: never mind then, And I don't think he's helped his
Speaker 1: case either. And I'll explain that in a second. The
Speaker 1: deliberation day tariffs and all sorts of all the tariff
Speaker 1: thing has been based on or they use this rationale.
Speaker 1: The Trump administration a nineteen seventies law, the International Emergency
Speaker 1: Economic Powers Act. It lets the president do certain things.
Speaker 1: And I could get into the verbiage of the law,
Speaker 1: but it has to be a quote unquote international emergency.
Speaker 1: And there is a serious disagreement over whether mild trade
Speaker 1: deficits are an emergency. And the second thing, the reason
Speaker 1: I say Trump hurt his case is that he just
Speaker 1: raised tariffs on Brazil sky high because he doesn't like
Speaker 1: how the government of Brazil is treating their ex president,
Speaker 1: his friend Bolsonaro. Or he just threatened overnight to not
Speaker 1: do a tariff deal with Canada because they're going to
Speaker 1: recognize Palestine as a state. Yeah. Yeah, So if I
Speaker 1: were a bettman, wait a min and I am a
Speaker 1: betting man. I don't like his chances in court, but
Speaker 1: I am far from a legal expert. Okay, before we
Speaker 1: get to the hilarity of Kamala Harrison for president, is
Speaker 1: there anything to yesterday's Epstein story? I will preface it
Speaker 1: with this. Mark Halpern, who is in the top handful
Speaker 1: of most trusted journalists I believe what he is reporting,
Speaker 1: thinks the Epstein thing is a giant point of vulnerability.
Speaker 1: Still for Trump, I don't quite get it. I don't
Speaker 1: understand how or why, but he still thinks so. Anyway,
Speaker 1: so yesterday, and I'm a little mystified by that too,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Yesterday's story with and I don't
Speaker 1: get this because these have been around forever. Some photo
Speaker 1: of Epstein's jail cell and somebody noticed something in the
Speaker 1: background Hey, what is that? And that became a story
Speaker 1: for the day. Can you tell you? Can you explain
Speaker 1: this to me, Katie?
Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's it's actually it's the video of the
Speaker 3: surveillance video that they had released.
Speaker 1: Somebody caused it and said, what is that? Right?
Speaker 3: Well, as frequent in jail in prison there, they have
Speaker 3: orange jumpsuits, and so they're suspecting that it was an
Speaker 3: inmates walking somewhere near Epstein's cell. And the big speculation
Speaker 3: is that they said that the staircase was visible by
Speaker 3: that camera, but that orange figure goes out of screen,
Speaker 3: which means that the staircase obviously wasn't.
Speaker 1: So that this is some of the evidence that somebody
Speaker 1: was allowed in to kill him, or their speculation.
Speaker 3: I mean, they can't really nail anything down, but they're
Speaker 3: going back and forth as to whether this figure was
Speaker 3: possibly an inmate headed towards Epstein.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a stretched called the Epstein story
Speaker 1: in industry, yeah, because there is a great deal of
Speaker 1: money made around it and they need a new chapter.
Speaker 1: They need to keep it juiced up. That sounds like
Speaker 1: a good wrinkle. It's like watching a soap opera or
Speaker 1: one of those you know long running series, We'll hit
Speaker 1: you a series will hit you with some of the
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Speaker 1: annoyed by the dance of are you going to run
Speaker 1: for president? I have no plans currently. He had no
Speaker 1: plans currently. He didn't rule it out. That whole conversation
Speaker 1: has made me tired my whole life. I just don't
Speaker 1: understand it. Apparently we're not going to do that with Kamala, though,
Speaker 1: because the information is out there. She announced yesterday she's
Speaker 1: not running for governor of California, which the election is
Speaker 1: next year. In twenty six the presidential election, forty million
Speaker 1: people breathed a sigh of relief. I think she would
Speaker 1: have won just because we're a stupid state, but presidency
Speaker 1: is in twenty eight she announced he's not running for governor.
Speaker 1: My first thought was, okay, I guess she is serious
Speaker 1: about wanting to run for president. New York Times today.
Speaker 1: Kamala is expected to form an organization shortly that would
Speaker 1: allow her to raise funds and pay for travel and
Speaker 1: political activities. A representative of California said yesterday that he
Speaker 1: had spoken with miss Harris about traveling to competitive House
Speaker 1: districts beginning this fall to assist Democratic candidates. She's going
Speaker 1: to be all across the country for the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six mid terms. She wants to help us flip the House.
Speaker 1: What democrat wants? Kamala Harris on stage with her. You know,
Speaker 1: I loved the first sentence when I said, Dan, can
Speaker 1: you read that again? Uh, she's got a form an organization. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's expected to form an organization shortly that would allow
Speaker 1: her to raise funds and pay for travel and political
Speaker 1: activities exactly, And Al Shopton responds, raise funds. We must,
Speaker 1: we much be raising funds so we can live on
Speaker 1: the hug Well pretending to be a politician. You can
Speaker 1: pretend to run for office, get donations, and just travel
Speaker 1: around flying first class or private jet. If you're getting
Speaker 1: enough donations, staying in the best hotels, eating meals, having
Speaker 1: a car, you can live quite the life's as a
Speaker 1: pretend candidate. Finger. So I see Kamala Harris intervening and
Speaker 1: maybe making a speech at the the toss up fourth
Speaker 1: District of Hawaii and the very Purple Aspen District in Colorado.
Speaker 1: Then in the winter time, perhaps assists that close close
Speaker 1: race in Miami Beach. Okay, but here's the most important paragraph.
Speaker 1: Because we got to take a break so she can
Speaker 1: get the mailbag. This is the most important paragraph. This
Speaker 1: is what's got me. I'm just I'm moist with excitement.
Speaker 1: Oh boy. Miss Harris, who was widely criticized last year
Speaker 1: for doing very few media interviews, is expected to beginning
Speaker 1: talking with podcast hosts and journalists beginning after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: According to a person who has spoken to her about
Speaker 1: her plans, she thinks, you're right. It was a mistake.
Speaker 1: I didn't do enough interviews. I'm gonna do lots of interviews.
Speaker 1: Bring it on, Oh do it? Get ready for radio
Speaker 1: gold laugh. I laughed finally about the passage of time.
Speaker 1: There's so much meaning to the passage of time. Finally,
Speaker 1: go on the Joe Rogan podcast, which I know she
Speaker 1: feels like she has to do. I mean, that would
Speaker 1: be hanging out there as a She still hasn't done
Speaker 1: Joe Rogan unless she goes on Joe Rogan. So much giggling. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be great. We got mail bag coming up
Speaker 1: a look back at what Medicare and Medicaid haven't haven't
Speaker 1: done on this sixtieth birthday Lyndon Johnson signing them into
Speaker 1: laws sixty years ago this week. Costs trillions, many trillions
Speaker 1: of dollars to taxpayers, and no indication really that it's
Speaker 1: accomplished a single good thing, which is why it's being
Speaker 1: canceled you soon. I mean, like any private enterprise would do,
Speaker 1: or any family would do. How odd Anyway, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. Here's your freedom loving cool of the day.
Speaker 1: Continuing from Javier Milay, the new fabulous libertarian leader of Argentina,
Speaker 1: that is, who is reviving that country. Echoing Milton Friedman,
Speaker 1: by the way, he says, quote, socialism is always in
Speaker 1: everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries
Speaker 1: where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally,
Speaker 1: and it has also murdered over one hundred million human beings. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Hayek and Milton Friedman are his heroes. It's interesting that
Speaker 1: he got elected. Things got so bad down there that
Speaker 1: they turned to a guy like him. Yeah, And it's
Speaker 1: also just fascinating as you look at human beings, that
Speaker 1: such a miserable failure is so easily sold to people,
Speaker 1: and generation after generation falls for it. Yeah, because if
Speaker 1: you're a child, it makes sense. Maybe we'll talk about
Speaker 1: that later. Indeed, mailbag drop's note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Giddy dot com keep it to you know, reasonably brief.
Speaker 1: Nice note here from Bill, who discovered the show in
Speaker 1: two thousand and eight after moving to northern California from
Speaker 1: Southern California. For what that's worth, and he says some
Speaker 1: very nice things and got a nasty diagnosis of cancer
Speaker 1: in May of twenty four. Things are going well, but
Speaker 1: the side effects of the treatment were not fun. I'm
Speaker 1: getting better. I want to thank you for brightening my
Speaker 1: spirits when I was feeling like crap. And he now
Speaker 1: is back in southern California and listens three hours a
Speaker 1: day on seven ninety KABC ABC. Yeah, Bill, thank you
Speaker 1: for a very very nice note. And it's an honor
Speaker 1: that our drivel would elevate any human being in any way.
Speaker 1: Is a pleasant sit but it would make anybody's day
Speaker 1: better rather than worse. Is I consider it and it
Speaker 1: would improve anything. It is pretty sung. It is shot Michael.
Speaker 1: But thank you Bill, that that touch me. Let's see
Speaker 1: how about this? Oh, then you have Tim, who is
Speaker 1: our most consistent email hater. You people are so stupid.
Speaker 1: A hotter planet directly impacts the jet stream, causing global
Speaker 1: climate patterns to change. Right now, the jet stream is
Speaker 1: currently blocked or broken, causing major climate disruptions. So at
Speaker 1: the ocean's a hotter and getting hotter ocean causes the
Speaker 1: global circulation occurrence to slow down, thus causing fluckation fluctuations
Speaker 1: in world tempts. Get it, doubt it anyway, You're wrong,
Speaker 1: and that lunatic running the EPA into the ground should
Speaker 1: hang for a stupid, stupid, stupid deregulation edict. But what
Speaker 1: am I stupid about. I'm not doubting that. I'm saying
Speaker 1: I don't care. That's what I'm saying. I have never
Speaker 1: looked into it because it doesn't matter to me. I
Speaker 1: tell you. That's some good punchy writing, though, I mean
Speaker 1: it was very readable. It's just it was super easy
Speaker 1: to follow. I thought the insults and facts were nicely balanced.
Speaker 1: I would maybe he can respond to this, But what
Speaker 1: is the hole? Why would we destroy our economy or
Speaker 1: or or you know, or live with the tiny crappy
Speaker 1: cars or whatever when we can't make a dent because
Speaker 1: of China and Indian everybody else. What's your response to that,
Speaker 1: I honestly would like to hear that. Yeah, I honestly
Speaker 1: I would. I would leave the tiny crappy cars out
Speaker 1: of it, just because you make an argument we don't
Speaker 1: need bigger cars, and that's a distraction. But why would
Speaker 1: be with the thousand of one hundred thousand effects of
Speaker 1: a truly decimated economy for a meaningless gesture, why would
Speaker 1: that be a good idea? But anyway, good note Tim
Speaker 1: uh Andy and Sack hm Oh on the question of
Speaker 1: earthquake sex scales, which we discussed on the Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Getty One More Thing podcast yesterday. Fascinating and amusing. Joe,
Speaker 1: you poor soul. I don't envy you the emails you'll
Speaker 1: get about earthquake magnitude basics, so you can have AI
Speaker 1: tell you any details you need to school rude chumps.
Speaker 1: The Richter scale was logarhythmic, but we stopped using it.
Speaker 1: We now use the more accurate moment magnitude scale. Now
Speaker 1: when you get those emails, you can say, I know
Speaker 1: you absolute douche pill. That is a term I do
Speaker 1: not use. I can't imagine why a canoe would be
Speaker 1: designed to do any canoe. Yes, you douche canoe. I'm
Speaker 1: using that today. What a douche canoe? No, stop saying it.
Speaker 1: Saying it once was terrible, and I apologize. Is it terrible?
Speaker 1: It's just anyway, as we're about out of time, My
Speaker 1: point was what was my point? Where were talking about? Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm the rector's I'm pretty sure that when I heard
Speaker 1: about the earthquake, they kept mentioning everybody it was a
Speaker 1: blankety blank on the Richter scale, in the same way
Speaker 1: that the media constantly cites the Dow Industrial Average, which
Speaker 1: is a horrifically useless thing to site to gauge the
Speaker 1: overall health. O. So you're saying they're using the old
Speaker 1: scale that people have heard of, even though it's not
Speaker 1: as accurate. This guy's saying there's a new scale that
Speaker 1: people in the no use. Yes, okay, okay, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it's got some more great email. I wish we
Speaker 1: had time for him. Maybe we'll sprinkle it in next hour.
Speaker 1: That's kind of interesting actually, And there they're gonna hang
Speaker 1: on to the dumb old. Still happening. We're experiencing earthquake. Please,
Speaker 1: that's what they were saying in Russian. Oh and interestingly,
Speaker 1: well we don't have time for that either. We have
Speaker 1: time for nothing. So little time. Yeah yeah, life is short,
Speaker 1: goes by waste time or time will waste you muse
Speaker 1: it's a good song. Listen to it. Someday we will
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