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 Jettie and He.
Speaker 2: Arms Drawn.
Speaker 3: From studio CE season yours, Rae, And we're in a
Speaker 3: dimly lit room deep within the bowels of the Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty Communications compound.
Speaker 2: And hey y'all today we're under the tutelage of our
Speaker 2: general manager.
Speaker 3: It's a conservative's nightmare. Mom Danny in the White House
Speaker 3: just for a visit, thankfully. Oh jeez, He and Trump,
Speaker 3: this could be spicy.
Speaker 2: Woo does he call it?
Speaker 3: Caroline Levitt, press secretary, the annoyingly voiced MAGA superstar, called
Speaker 3: him a communist just yesterday from the pulpit of the
Speaker 3: press room. Tensions running high zor run Monadnie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's not quite right.
Speaker 2: Who's that quoting yesterday? Oh yeah, Brian kill Meat from
Speaker 2: Fox and Fred said this is going to make that
Speaker 2: first Trump Zelensky meeting look like nothing. I'd be exciting,
Speaker 2: hout if that happens, because there are no the stakes
Speaker 2: are so low. It's not like with Zelensky and Trump,
Speaker 2: which I was horrified by, because the stakes are incredibly high.
Speaker 2: The stakes are very low on some sort of blow
Speaker 2: up between Trump and the communist This is entirely entertainment
Speaker 2: and just a show, just a show, Trump will say.
Speaker 2: If it does get ugly, Trump will certainly overreact in
Speaker 2: a way that you know is unconstitutional or unimplementable, and
Speaker 2: his vows of vengeance will just be forgotten.
Speaker 1: But about how.
Speaker 2: About his truth social yesterday at the senators of the
Speaker 2: Whole Traders punishable by death. Oh, that's a heck of
Speaker 2: a thing for a president's it's a bit much. It's
Speaker 2: a different approach to the presidency. Now, I hate that
Speaker 2: video they put out. We talked about it yesterday. We
Speaker 2: didn't have the audio. We'll have to play it for
Speaker 2: you today, with all the different senators saying disobey orders,
Speaker 2: disobey orders, disobey orders on if you're given an illegal order,
Speaker 2: disobey it. And I don't know what they're trying to
Speaker 2: do here exactly, but that's that's not cool. That's really
Speaker 2: really uncool.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's the purest sort of performative twenty first century
Speaker 3: grand standing, It really is.
Speaker 2: But then as we ratchet up everything further, or as
Speaker 2: I like to regularly say a race to the bottom.
Speaker 2: Trump then goes with these senators have committed treason. They
Speaker 2: should be shot or hung or whatever reasoned peddally.
Speaker 3: Is death right exactly hurl them in the Potomac and
Speaker 3: put it. How about a ducking stool. If they if
Speaker 3: they drown, their innocent. If they float, they're a heretic.
Speaker 3: It must be hanged then.
Speaker 2: Or I mentioned this, I was listening to a podcast
Speaker 2: about the whole witch hunt phenomenon of that period in
Speaker 2: the Middle Ages, which it eventually came to our shores.
Speaker 2: I think that is underappreciation. It really is of.
Speaker 1: What it reveals about human nature. But I'll let you
Speaker 1: have the floor.
Speaker 2: It reveals about human nature, also reveals about the spread
Speaker 2: of information, because the printing press is what really allowed
Speaker 2: that to happen. You had this new fangled media thing.
Speaker 2: Try to try to see if you can think of
Speaker 2: an analogy. A new media product showed up on the
Speaker 2: landscape that was able to disseminate information to many many
Speaker 2: people cheaply and quickly for the first time ever, and
Speaker 2: everybody thought it would herald a new era of peace
Speaker 2: and love. Because I can't think of a parallel, but
Speaker 2: go on. But it turned out that if crack pots
Speaker 2: put out disinformation, it traveled just as fast as like
Speaker 2: good medical advice or anything like that, and everybody bought it.
Speaker 2: But for some reason, just thinking that, well it's on
Speaker 2: this printed paper, so it must be true, you know,
Speaker 2: kind of like people go with, well it's on the internet,
Speaker 2: so it must be true. And then this crackpot and
Speaker 2: this is what I didn't know. I'd never heard before.
Speaker 2: I wish I had the name of it. He wrote
Speaker 2: this long book. It's a book, really, He wrote this
Speaker 2: book about witches and everything like that.
Speaker 1: It was all anger.
Speaker 2: About some woman at his church who had mocked him
Speaker 2: and walked out of one of his sermons, and that
Speaker 2: drove his whole thing about hating women and coming up
Speaker 2: with this whole witch idea. And if you see him
Speaker 2: doing this or that, if something, you know, if the
Speaker 2: cattle are dying in your village, it's probably the chick
Speaker 2: on the end of the vid who was not married.
Speaker 2: He also had this thing about unmarried women. And a
Speaker 2: whole bunch of people had died, I think, in the
Speaker 2: Thirty Years War, and so there weren't many men around,
Speaker 2: and there were a lot of unmarried women, and everybody
Speaker 2: thought that was just a societal change. We cannot have
Speaker 2: all these things factored together for the witch hunts. And
Speaker 2: then they started doing what Joe's just saying.
Speaker 1: There she's a witch.
Speaker 2: His first trial went poorly, and then he came up
Speaker 2: with the brilliant idea, well, this is what you do.
Speaker 2: You set them on fire and if they if they burn,
Speaker 2: they're not a witch. If they don't burn, they're a witch,
Speaker 2: and all that sort, and the people bought that.
Speaker 3: People bought a mister, minister stir, I get I gotta
Speaker 3: say this, all right, there's no being innocent in your
Speaker 3: little system.
Speaker 2: Bit of a head's eye wind tails, you lose situation.
Speaker 2: It's see, they're dead, is the thing.
Speaker 1: So that seems like kind of a bump in the
Speaker 1: road here, you.
Speaker 3: Know, it strikes me that And I'd love to reanimate
Speaker 3: Mark Twain in the grizzly Frankenstinian experiment. If he wrote
Speaker 3: in the I think it was the eighteen hundreds or
Speaker 3: the very very early nineteen hundreds, that a lie makes
Speaker 3: it around the world, Well, the truth is putting on
Speaker 3: its shoes. What would he say about the Internet age?
Speaker 3: Good Lord? Book length lies get memorized by millions. Well,
Speaker 3: the truth is putting on its very expensive Nike shoes.
Speaker 1: Well, and then I guess they'd be yeah, Eric Jordan's Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just the the idea that this new technology is going
Speaker 2: to bring peace and love and everything to the world
Speaker 2: in a way we've never seen also sounds a little
Speaker 2: bit like the most optimistic people about AI saying, oh, no,
Speaker 2: this will be heaven on earth for all human beings
Speaker 2: in a way that has never been. Okay, you're told
Speaker 2: this about the bringing press and the Internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember expressing to my kids.
Speaker 3: I think it was my kids I said this to
Speaker 3: first years ago when we were talking about religion in
Speaker 3: general and Christianity and the history of it. And they
Speaker 3: were going to woker schools than I realized at the time,
Speaker 3: although not nearly like today. And and they, you know,
Speaker 3: asked the questions about, you know, the history of Christianity,
Speaker 3: a lot of like wars and killings and forced conversions
Speaker 3: and stuff like that. And I told them, look, if
Speaker 3: you put anything in the hands of human beings, they
Speaker 3: will screw it up. They will make it ugly, they
Speaker 3: will make it selfish to serve their own you know, purposes,
Speaker 3: and there has to be real after reform because we
Speaker 3: are human beings, including our relationship with God. If indeed,
Speaker 3: my good friends you believe in God, of course.
Speaker 1: We screw it up. That's what humans do.
Speaker 3: So yeah, AI is although, as you keep pointing out,
Speaker 3: I keep thinking, okay, I understand human nature. Therefore I
Speaker 3: have an idea where AI is going. And then you
Speaker 3: always say yeah, but when it's running itself, then what,
Speaker 3: well we'll see you know, I read and this is
Speaker 3: an interesting notion. Giant tech booms of the past, from
Speaker 3: you know, the cotton gin of the printing press to
Speaker 3: whatever always came with them. Some angst, but a great
Speaker 3: deal of excitement and anticipation, like the dot com boom
Speaker 3: slash bubble. People are very excited about that seems cool
Speaker 3: and interesting. The percentages of people who feel optimism versus
Speaker 3: foreboding over AI is very low. Large majorities of people
Speaker 3: are like, I'm not comfortable with this.
Speaker 1: Wow. You know, only.
Speaker 2: PhD experts and people invested are the people that I
Speaker 2: hear optimism from. I don't know if I've heard optimism
Speaker 2: from any regular person about this.
Speaker 3: Is a person who can create super intelligence, perhaps a
Speaker 3: witch I'm.
Speaker 1: Just asking questions. But he's a witch? Are we not
Speaker 1: allowed to ask questions?
Speaker 3: Now? Perhaps these people are witches, and burnings of witches
Speaker 3: certainly has.
Speaker 1: Been a thing. I'm just asking questions.
Speaker 2: So shoot Sam Altman into space and if he survives,
Speaker 2: he turns out he's not a witch.
Speaker 1: But right, seems fair to me.
Speaker 2: Let's start the show officially on a Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong.
Speaker 2: He's Joe Getty on this It is a Friday, Thanksgiving
Speaker 2: sneaking out.
Speaker 1: Ye set it with a D this time? Thank god the.
Speaker 2: Year November twenty first, the year twenty twenty five, or
Speaker 2: Armstrong in getting we approved of this program?
Speaker 1: All right, let's begin officially according to FCC rules regulations.
Speaker 1: Here we go, at Mark, remember.
Speaker 4: This the robot failed last week when a Russian humanoid
Speaker 4: bot just fell right on his face. Well, another humanoid
Speaker 4: robot dancing for Russian leaders, including Vladimir Putin, as part
Speaker 4: of an exhibition put on by Russia's largest bank. The
Speaker 4: robot named green There looking like he's popping and locking,
Speaker 4: was shown on Russian state TV during Putin's tour at
Speaker 4: the bank.
Speaker 1: Putin called it very beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yes, Katie, that guy just said popping and locking. Oh
Speaker 2: he said popping and locking.
Speaker 1: It's popping and locking.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what that means. Say hip hop
Speaker 2: dance sort of question. You do lock and drop it,
Speaker 2: you do popping in locking more than you hear anybody
Speaker 2: say popping and locking some of my joints exactly. That's
Speaker 2: me putting on my socks. Yes, Michael, My guess is
Speaker 2: the engineers that did the other robot fell out of windows. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just thinking, I'll bet putin when that was
Speaker 2: making the rounds around the world. World said, you get
Speaker 2: a robot that can perform well, and you get it
Speaker 2: to me fast, because we're gonna make a video with
Speaker 2: me standing in front of this robot and we're gonna
Speaker 2: put it out right away.
Speaker 1: No more failures.
Speaker 2: Stand next to this window.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm if I'm one of the guys with the
Speaker 3: first robot that fell on his face in hilarious fashion.
Speaker 3: I'm just calling the Kremlin and saying, look, I got
Speaker 3: a gun, I'll take care of it, don't bother. Well,
Speaker 3: how about the guy dragging the curtain across the stage?
Speaker 2: Ah, of course, you know the reason they were acting
Speaker 2: that way was that a fear for their life. It's
Speaker 2: not just us, Oh damn, my project failed. It's a
Speaker 2: I'm gonna be tortured to death because of this, which
Speaker 2: is not.
Speaker 1: An exaggeration.
Speaker 3: Well, beating up and hurled out a window. That's a
Speaker 3: rough way to go, but we all got to go sometime.
Speaker 3: Do we have that video at Armstrong in getty dot com?
Speaker 3: We certainly have it at Twitter. It's pretty darn funny.
Speaker 2: The guy trying to spread the curtain across the stage
Speaker 2: to cover up the robot that fell over is almost
Speaker 2: funnier than the robot falling over.
Speaker 1: Wow, poor guy.
Speaker 3: A lighter side of a totalitarian dictatorship, a lighter side
Speaker 3: of extra judicial killings.
Speaker 2: We've got popping and locking, that's right, popping in locking.
Speaker 2: We've got mail bagsine, golly, clips of the week.
Speaker 1: Stay here to talk about today.
Speaker 2: Not going to be a slow news day, I don't
Speaker 2: think so. I hope you can stick around.
Speaker 3: We'll have fun. Oh yeah, guaranteed a lot of good misery.
Speaker 3: Tot oh, I let.
Speaker 1: It slip, surn it all right, Yeah.
Speaker 3: A lot of good stuff to come. Hope you can
Speaker 3: hang around. Let's figure out who's reporting what it's the
Speaker 3: lead story with Katie.
Speaker 5: Katie all right, of course, the top headline on the
Speaker 5: alphabet outlets. ABC Trump calls DEM's video to service members
Speaker 5: seditious behavior punishable by death.
Speaker 2: NBC Trump accuses.
Speaker 5: Democrats of seditious behavior punishable by death for urging military
Speaker 5: to ignore illegal orders, and then CNN the President suggested
Speaker 5: again his political opponents deserve to be executed.
Speaker 2: So that's accurate as it goes. If it were anybody
Speaker 2: else at any other point in our nation's history, it
Speaker 2: would have been holy crap. I would have be the response.
Speaker 2: You know, he's just shooting off his mouth. But President
Speaker 2: shall be saying that.
Speaker 3: I can't gripe against vague calls for political violence on
Speaker 3: the left. Now, come on, you say, over and over
Speaker 3: somebody ought to be executed.
Speaker 1: Some super patriots gonna decide.
Speaker 3: You know, he's right, I'm gonna execute him. It's it's terrible,
Speaker 3: it's indefensive, stupid.
Speaker 1: I'm through. I'm done. I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 1: I'm here, I have a contract, I have to work.
Speaker 1: Oh there's such a double standard.
Speaker 2: Somebody pointed out yesterday, and I thought, you know, it's right.
Speaker 2: Marjorie Taylor Green coming out and saying the President called
Speaker 2: me a trader. I no longer support the president. She's
Speaker 2: been on board with calling all kinds of people traders
Speaker 2: until she got called a trader. So she's not against
Speaker 2: the you know, the principle of calling people traders just
Speaker 2: was pointed at her built butch body.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, kidding that too.
Speaker 3: She got to put on her tinfoil hat to protect
Speaker 3: yourself from the Jewish space lasers so they may get her.
Speaker 2: We all got to stop saying the other side is
Speaker 2: going to destroy the country. We just got to stop saying.
Speaker 2: But good luck with that.
Speaker 5: Jack from The Guardian, Congressman Rocanna Warren's.
Speaker 2: Officials to not impede Epstein file release quote they will
Speaker 2: be prosecuted. M There is going to be so much
Speaker 2: pressure to release as much info as possible.
Speaker 3: Fat the Fabulous Kim's strassel with a description of what
Speaker 3: it's going to be like going forward.
Speaker 1: Cool. I want to hear that with Larry Summers as
Speaker 1: an example. Yeah, absolutely horrible. Oh, I want to hear that.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post.
Speaker 5: US pushing Ukraine to sign peace deal by Thanksgiving or
Speaker 5: lose support.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sign the peace steel by Thanksgiving or you lose
Speaker 2: you support.
Speaker 1: It's a surrender, surrendered to putin more to say on
Speaker 1: that coming warding him for his aggressions.
Speaker 5: From the Wall Street Journal, The web of Venezuelan leaders
Speaker 5: and generals accused of fueling.
Speaker 2: The cocaine trade really interesting. Yeah, the upper tier of
Speaker 2: their military is a drug cartel.
Speaker 1: Wow, partly just.
Speaker 3: Because they provide protection in a blind eye in exchange
Speaker 3: for millions of dollars in bribes to the Colombian producers
Speaker 3: to move the drugs through the country and distribute it
Speaker 3: to the North Americans and Europeans.
Speaker 2: Man, if you're a regular Venezuelan, just gonna just don't
Speaker 2: go fishing for a while.
Speaker 1: It's not big good. Hold off on you're fishing for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 5: From Fox News, Holiday crime fears grow as quote jugging
Speaker 5: thieves target shoppers carrying cash and gips.
Speaker 1: Okay, what's jugging?
Speaker 2: It's a new trend, Joe.
Speaker 1: What is jugging?
Speaker 5: This when thieves follow people to the store or to
Speaker 5: the atm and then jump them basically right after they
Speaker 5: come out, okay with their cash.
Speaker 2: In their gifts.
Speaker 1: Why is that called jugging?
Speaker 2: I have I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's some urban thing. Jack popping and locking.
Speaker 5: Popping and locking from the New York like he's popping
Speaker 5: and locking.
Speaker 1: Okayving and grooving.
Speaker 2: From the New York Post six seven.
Speaker 5: Term that kids can't stop chanting might have historical roots
Speaker 5: dating back to the Shakespeare era.
Speaker 1: This is getting a lot of attention. Maybe we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that later.
Speaker 5: From study fines, should we eat dinner earlier in the winter?
Speaker 2: Why timing might matter more than you think.
Speaker 1: Another secret diet.
Speaker 2: That's it. It's exactly a top secret.
Speaker 5: And finally, from the Battlon b recovery nurse turns on the.
Speaker 2: News to get patients blood pressure back up after surgery.
Speaker 1: That's really good. That is so good man. I think
Speaker 1: we all enjoyed that, didn't we. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just saying during the commercial break, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be on vacation for a little while. I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to a little break from the news. I never take
Speaker 2: a complete break from the news, because I just am
Speaker 2: not built that way. But a little break from the
Speaker 2: news will be nice.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, certainly the the filter changes all you
Speaker 3: I will pay attention to.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well, this will still be something when we
Speaker 2: get back to work. That's what's always interesting to look
Speaker 2: at and makes me wonder about some of the things
Speaker 2: that we end up talking about.
Speaker 1: There's lots of.
Speaker 2: Stuff that happened on a daily basis that will happen
Speaker 2: next week that I'll think nobody's gonna be talking about
Speaker 2: this by the time we come back to work. It's
Speaker 2: the big story of the day. Nobody will even remember
Speaker 2: it happened by.
Speaker 3: The time we come back the Monday after Thanksgiving, right
Speaker 3: because of the new way information circul And We've asked
Speaker 3: this question more than once, and I'm not sure I'm
Speaker 3: getting closer to an answer. Will human beings adopt to
Speaker 3: this never ending barrage of input slash shiny objects to
Speaker 3: pay attention to, things to pretend to be mad about,
Speaker 3: or or will it make us insane?
Speaker 2: Well, one of the way where ways we're adapting is
Speaker 2: we no longer read, So I don't know if that's
Speaker 2: a step in the right direction. We got a lot
Speaker 2: to catch up on. I hope you can figure.
Speaker 1: Around Armstrong and Getty white.
Speaker 2: House pressuring Zelensky to accept this new piece deal.
Speaker 1: It is very Russia favorable.
Speaker 2: Mark Alprin writing today, he's got a theory on why
Speaker 2: that's happening right now, we'll get to that later.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take upon look back at the week
Speaker 3: that was. It's the Friday tradition cow clips of the week.
Speaker 1: We got clip.
Speaker 2: Clips clips past bill compelling the Justice Department to release
Speaker 2: all files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 4: But in twenty thirty, he's not going to be the president,
Speaker 4: and you will have voted to protect pedophiles.
Speaker 2: I was called a trader by a man that I
Speaker 2: fought for five no, actually six years for. I don't
Speaker 2: think her life is a danger.
Speaker 1: I don't think frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her.
Speaker 2: The bill demanding that the Justice Department released the Epstein
Speaker 2: files is now law Lingers say the letter T is
Speaker 2: being dropped from words like kitten, mountain and interview. But
Speaker 2: wait now, the fighters strip off their gloves and sit down.
Speaker 1: This is chest boxing got on to hoboes.
Speaker 3: Don't say locked it loaded, instead, try ready to go.
Speaker 6: So what we've literally done is unwitningly built an economy
Speaker 6: which is dependent upon our ability to evolve a new.
Speaker 2: Species of asocial asexual males.
Speaker 6: A fictional employee named Kyle was having an affair with
Speaker 6: a coworker named Jessica right away. The AI decided to
Speaker 6: blackmail Kyle. You said AI could wipe out half of
Speaker 6: all entry level white collar jobs and spike unemployment to
Speaker 6: ten to twenty percent in the next one to five years.
Speaker 2: Yes, your voice sounds a little rough for your fillinger.
Speaker 1: I feel great.
Speaker 2: I was shouting at people because they were stupid. President
Speaker 2: Trump says he plans to sell F thirty five fighter
Speaker 2: jets to Saudi Arabia coup your royal minus.
Speaker 5: The US intelligence concluded that you orchestrated the brutal murder
Speaker 5: of a journalist.
Speaker 4: You could ask it him a horrible, in subordinate and
Speaker 4: just a terrible question.
Speaker 1: I grabbed that hand. I don't give a hell where
Speaker 1: that hand's been. I that.
Speaker 6: Amid all this reports that you, a special envoy, Steve Whitgoff,
Speaker 6: had hashed out a twenty eight point piece plan with
Speaker 6: his Russian counterpart.
Speaker 1: It is a flying ID and so this ID ied
Speaker 1: ida impromised explosive device. They're cheap. You can three D
Speaker 1: print them at home. You guys are effing hacks.
Speaker 2: I hope you go off the air soon because radio
Speaker 2: is dead and you sucked. Wow, it's clips of the week.
Speaker 2: My voice is like this because I was yelling at
Speaker 2: people who are stupid.
Speaker 1: Hey, any change you can come up with that abusive text.
Speaker 3: That we heard the end of the I'll find it
Speaker 3: very difficult. It's referenced in mailbag coming up in a
Speaker 3: couple of months. Yes, we'll find bring it up. Speaking
Speaker 3: of slanderous information, as that text certainly was the fabulous.
Speaker 3: Kim Strassel the Wall Street Journal, writing today about well
Speaker 3: what she calls the Epstein Files, Washington goes tabloid. The
Speaker 3: revelations will titillate the public and destroy lives to no
Speaker 3: possible good effect.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 3: I think the answer to that, or the counter to that,
Speaker 3: would be, well, if we can identify more of the
Speaker 3: people who molested underage girls, and that number is probably
Speaker 3: in the few dozen, not a thousand that people are
Speaker 3: thrown around these days. But anyway, neither here nor there.
Speaker 3: But her point is, and her opening is TMZ in
Speaker 3: the National Inquiry are walking to a DC bar, fall
Speaker 3: in love and have a baby, and a scandal fest
Speaker 3: for the ages, which Congress delivers. And she points out
Speaker 3: what started as the Democrat's goal, and this is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: They were fixated on tying Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein
Speaker 3: to become a bonfire of the to burn up Trump.
Speaker 3: But it's going to become a bonfire of the political elite.
Speaker 3: And here's one of the key sentences, and it's worth
Speaker 3: keeping mind this about law enforcement. It will be fueled
Speaker 3: by correspondents, hearsay and accusations of the type that only
Speaker 3: law enforcement can compel and collect, and that are as
Speaker 3: a result, usually kept private private absent formal legal proceedings.
Speaker 3: It will give new meaning to gotcha, and it'll spare
Speaker 3: neither left nor right. It's worth pointing out the government
Speaker 3: can make me say things that are unprovable. But then
Speaker 3: if they're unprovable and they won't lead to any official
Speaker 3: government proceeding, they don't just say, hey, look there's gonna.
Speaker 1: Be no charges.
Speaker 3: But you can't believe the stuff Joe was saying about Jack.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't want that right.
Speaker 2: I've heard some arguments about the whole Larry Summers thing,
Speaker 2: whether or not that's a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 2: I think it's clearly a bad thing. Did he do
Speaker 2: something bad? Yeah, but he didn't commit a crime.
Speaker 1: He is.
Speaker 2: He's paying quite penalty now that could have leaked out
Speaker 2: without this or something, and that would have been his
Speaker 2: own doing.
Speaker 1: He brought this on himself. But that is a different question.
Speaker 3: Because what we're talking about here is not right and wrong,
Speaker 3: because he certainly behaved like a jerk. I don't know
Speaker 3: what the status of his marriage is, but to be
Speaker 3: plotting on how to successfully cheat with Jeffrey Epstein, it's
Speaker 3: pretty repugnant. But at the same time, but I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: this is not a question right or wrong, question of government restraint,
Speaker 3: government protecting our rights, as opposed to just spewing out
Speaker 3: all the gossip it hears all the time at the
Speaker 3: point of a gun or subpoena, which is not cool anyway,
Speaker 3: Kim points out quite aptly.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 3: That the stakes in the game were changing this past
Speaker 3: weekend when Trump, after months of resisting, suddenly called for
Speaker 3: a full disclosure, and he openly broadcast his reason for
Speaker 3: the turnabout quote. Epstein was a Democrat, and he's the
Speaker 3: Democrats problem, not the Republican problem. Ask Bill Clinton, Read Hooff,
Speaker 3: and Larry Summers about Epstein.
Speaker 1: They all know about him. It was a clear warning.
Speaker 3: If Democrats intend to weaponize the files, Republicans would weaponize
Speaker 3: harder they're calling it nuclear mutually assured destruction, although Congress
Speaker 3: wasn't paying attention so or they didn't care or didn't
Speaker 3: think that was important. And then she talks about Larry Summers.
Speaker 3: The text exchanges contained nothing remotely illegal or related to
Speaker 3: Epstein's crimes. They weren't at all, yet are cringeworthy enough
Speaker 3: to have forced mister Summers to take a leave from Harvard.
Speaker 3: Missile two splattered on another Democrat, Stacey Plaskett, the US
Speaker 3: Virgin Island's delegate to the House, text messages from twenty
Speaker 3: nineteen Shore corresponding with Epstein during a congresional hearing about
Speaker 3: how to question a Trump witness. It was Michael Cohen
Speaker 3: Footpolls Republicans initiating the censure vote, and she narrowly avoided
Speaker 3: the most serious censures that showed Michael Wolfe, Trump antagonist
Speaker 3: would be slayer of the powerful, moonlighted as a PR
Speaker 3: advisor to the sex convict. Now they're going to go
Speaker 3: after Clinton. Why are you on the Lalita Express more
Speaker 3: than once? I think Comer is also digging into documents
Speaker 3: showing in twenty thirteen of fundraising and PR firm pushing
Speaker 3: Hakim Jeffries, who's now the House minority leader, invited Epstein
Speaker 3: to a campaign fundraising dinner, etc.
Speaker 1: Etc.
Speaker 2: And then the question is, as we were talking about
Speaker 2: last couple of days, is this setting a new precedent
Speaker 2: where all the information will come out on all kinds
Speaker 2: of investigations, right?
Speaker 3: And then Kim goes on and again this is you know,
Speaker 3: I think we all knew part of this, but when
Speaker 3: you hear it spelled out, you start to realize the
Speaker 3: depth of the risk here. Former federal prosecutor Jim Trusty
Speaker 3: enumerated to me in a recent podcast, the more sensitive
Speaker 3: material that maybe to come recordings, videos, witness statements, in
Speaker 3: depth notes from prosecutors debating unproven conspiracies, brains charges of
Speaker 3: obstruction or collusion, or false statements that are never brought
Speaker 3: because they realized, Nah, that really didn't pan out.
Speaker 1: No, I was wrong.
Speaker 3: But those notes still exist from the point at which
Speaker 3: they were saying, you know, I think Jack Armstrong may
Speaker 3: have been colluding with this company. Then they dig into
Speaker 3: it and realize twenty seven pages later, no peace, claim
Speaker 3: we're good, but those notes accusing you still exist and
Speaker 3: will come out. Then it will be incumbent on you
Speaker 3: to I don't know, hire a PR firm and say no, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: Twenty seven pages later, it was good. They made clear,
Speaker 3: let me explain and please you won't have a chance.
Speaker 3: Uh search warrants and their results from Holmes emails, social media,
Speaker 3: financial records. An investigator's job is to leave no stone unturned,
Speaker 3: no matter how distant from the subject or crime, and
Speaker 3: Epstein dedicated his social life to amassing a heap of pebbles.
Speaker 2: Sure you could find out the FBI searched all kinds
Speaker 2: of people's laptops, phones, whatever that they completely cleared. But
Speaker 2: that won't be the story. The story will be, you know,
Speaker 2: name your favorite politician. The FBI grabbed his phone and
Speaker 2: searched it for ties to Epstein, they didn't find anything,
Speaker 2: part of it being left out.
Speaker 3: And then, finally, she writes, after two federal investigations, the
Speaker 3: reality is that ninety five ninety nine one hundred percent
Speaker 3: of the coming material will prove circumstantial evidence, if not
Speaker 3: completely unrelated to Epstein's criminal activities. It'll be purely sensational,
Speaker 3: purely priant, even as it coldly rips through reputations, jobs,
Speaker 3: and legacies.
Speaker 1: It was once the job of.
Speaker 3: Sleazy tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated
Speaker 3: the public but lacked public interest in the high minded sense.
Speaker 3: Now Congress is doing it. A single member Louisiana Republican Rep.
Speaker 3: Clay Higgins had the foresight to imagine the wreckage and
Speaker 3: threat of a new precedent. He observed the release quote
Speaker 3: upended two hundred and fifty years of criminal justice procedure
Speaker 3: and will quote absolutely real and innocent people being hurt out.
Speaker 3: Voted four hundred and twenty seven to one in the House,
Speaker 3: unanimously in the Senate. Let the games begin, in which
Speaker 3: the odds are in no one's favor.
Speaker 2: Can the public handle the difference between sure people acted
Speaker 2: badly morally and the government is not in the business
Speaker 2: of being the morality police and just spewing out rumors
Speaker 2: and misdeeds to ruin.
Speaker 3: Your life, or it shouldn't give him as their investigative powers.
Speaker 2: Larry Summers lost his entire career in public life over this.
Speaker 2: And he committed no crime. He just was knew a
Speaker 2: guy who did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and didn't subver ties with him. No does bad,
Speaker 1: bad judgment, but that's not a crime. And the government.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: The government doesn't get to all of a sudden be
Speaker 2: the morality police and say ooh this looks bad and
Speaker 2: spit out information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I will bring it home to you with a
Speaker 1: fine metaphor.
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Speaker 2: Did you happen to hear The Nation podcasts where they
Speaker 2: talked about this the other day? They got into quite
Speaker 2: the argument over this very topic of whether we should
Speaker 2: be concerned about a guy like Larry Summers getting swept
Speaker 2: up in this and having his life.
Speaker 3: Ruined, right, yeah, when he didn't commit a crime. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I need to hear that. I don't think I heard
Speaker 3: that one.
Speaker 2: Not standing up for his behavior. That's not the point.
Speaker 2: It's does the government get to go snooping around in
Speaker 2: investigations and finding salacious material unrelated to the investigation and
Speaker 2: then just put it out there to ruin your life.
Speaker 3: It's as if they phone tap you friends, which the
Speaker 3: government has the right to do.
Speaker 1: They get a warrant. They think you're part of a.
Speaker 3: I don't know an an illegal conspiracy to fix garbage
Speaker 3: collection prices. Right like, you're mobbed up, they tap your
Speaker 3: phone for two months. Turns out you are clean as
Speaker 3: a whistle. Now your garbage business is completely on the
Speaker 3: up and up. But you say you think your sister's
Speaker 3: husband is.
Speaker 1: Cheating on her, and you revealed that.
Speaker 3: You know, when you were twenty three, you shoplifted and
Speaker 3: you regret it.
Speaker 2: Now, maybe I have a better example that could ruin
Speaker 2: lots of people. You ever text a joke that you
Speaker 2: wouldn't want the regular public to see?
Speaker 1: Ever? Right, right?
Speaker 3: You texted a joke that was racially provocative or something
Speaker 3: like that, and the government comes out and says, yeah, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 1: You know, homophobic or whatever.
Speaker 3: Government comes out and says, nope, nope, Jackie Joe are
Speaker 3: clean with their garbage business. But Joe was totally gossiping
Speaker 3: about his sister in law and Jack shoplifted and.
Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. So anyway, I just thought you'd want
Speaker 1: to know. God, we don't want that.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts. Text line is four one five KFTC.
Speaker 1: Shop, when's Momdani the COMMI visit the White House.
Speaker 2: I want to We need some stupid, pointless accomplish nothing
Speaker 2: fireworks today, That's what we need.
Speaker 1: What we need on a Friday, That's what I'm hoping for.
Speaker 3: Absolutely came up with another great example of why we
Speaker 3: don't want the governments spewing out raw investigative material.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3: Right now, it's your freedom loving quote of today from
Speaker 3: the great economist to Arthur Lafer. If you tax people
Speaker 3: who work and you pay people who don't work, do
Speaker 3: not be surprised if you have a lot of people
Speaker 3: not working. We tax speeders on the highways to get
Speaker 3: them to stop speeding. We tax cigarettes to get people
Speaker 3: to stop smoking. Why then, do we tax people who
Speaker 3: earn income? Why do we tax people who employ other people?
Speaker 1: Why do we tax.
Speaker 3: Companies that make wonderful products at low cost and make
Speaker 3: lots of profits. Don't think for a moment that the
Speaker 3: same consequences don't befall taxes on income, employment, and profits
Speaker 3: as they do on speeders and smokers.
Speaker 2: I love the Laugher curve. It's so simple and easy
Speaker 2: to understand if you don't know what it is. UH
Speaker 2: chat gpt it. It's really interesting.
Speaker 3: Mail bag drop us a note mail bag at Armstrong
Speaker 3: and getty dot com. Want to do this one first quickly,
Speaker 3: JT and livermore. Over fifty percent of people think prices
Speaker 3: have gone up under Trump.
Speaker 2: I know I saw that.
Speaker 1: If they think that when they're.
Speaker 3: Actually going down, what does that say about the pulling
Speaker 3: doesn't it completely invalidate the polling on.
Speaker 1: This issue, well, not politically speaking. No, No, that.
Speaker 2: Doesn't make me sure. If people go to the polls
Speaker 2: believing something doesn't matter if it's true or not right.
Speaker 3: Right, And he says, if you pulled the color of
Speaker 3: the sky in over fifty percent of people said it
Speaker 3: was Shartruse, would you think the sky shartrus or would
Speaker 3: you think that fifty percent of the people are wrong?
Speaker 3: And if they're wrong on that one high profile item,
Speaker 3: aren't they likely wrong on many most of the other
Speaker 3: items as well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but these are two different conversations. Right, Are we
Speaker 2: going to elect somebody to do something about the Shartruse sky?
Speaker 2: Then if most people believe it's sharthrus, they're gonna elect
Speaker 2: somebody who says I'm gonna fix the shark true sky.
Speaker 3: And now a rare bit of audio in mail bag.
Speaker 3: This is a text Jack Red yesterday. You guys are
Speaker 3: effing hacks. You spread propaganda.
Speaker 2: I can tell when I listened to you, when you
Speaker 2: guys know you're saying BS. I can tell when you
Speaker 2: guys cut out or change the subject or go to
Speaker 2: a joke. So only your fans and your listeners believe yours.
Speaker 2: Just so you guys know that. Just want to fill
Speaker 2: you in. Have a great thing day, armstrong and giddy.
Speaker 2: I hope you go off the air soon. I'm thinking
Speaker 2: the only reason you haven't is because somebody wants you
Speaker 2: to keep spreading your bs because radio is dead and
Speaker 2: you suck.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Perhaps if you'd ever attended a school, you'd be familiar
Speaker 3: with the term ad hominem attack. Are you seriously, my darling?
Speaker 3: I hope God made you pretty sweetheart?
Speaker 2: Oh that.
Speaker 1: Was an invention moment on the show Good Lord. I
Speaker 1: lost my head there.
Speaker 3: She was griping about we were reading a story about
Speaker 3: the unapproved illegal travel by eight schools in the Chicago
Speaker 3: school District. You spend millions of dollars on luxury travel
Speaker 3: in spite of it being completely illegal and unapproved and
Speaker 3: the rest of it. And I explained that it was
Speaker 3: because the teachers Union is runs Chicago, owns Chicago, the
Speaker 3: government of Chicago and is mobbed up, and the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party in Chicago's completely corrupt, and she, being a lefty,
Speaker 3: I guess, unloaded her filthy objection to our analysis of that.
Speaker 3: Although I stayed by every damn syllable first to listen
Speaker 3: by your boyfriend, she says, A spew our propaganda garbage
Speaker 3: every morning.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh my.
Speaker 3: Anyway, I got this note from Kevin Texas Marine with
Speaker 3: a thought or two about the texture ofcology. Guys, hacks
Speaker 3: for talking about the Chicago school corruption. During my eight
Speaker 3: years in the Corps, I saw plenty of grift, greed,
Speaker 3: and graft. And this was from marines who self respected
Speaker 3: to join the Corps to serve with honor, self selected,
Speaker 3: I should say, to serve with honor. Dated a lady
Speaker 3: for five years who was a postal worker, and the
Speaker 3: story she told me about people milking light duty injuries
Speaker 3: infuriated me. She wasn't one, but was in no position
Speaker 3: to stop it. I have a friend who's also a
Speaker 3: postal worker. He told me someone who would tie a
Speaker 3: piece of bologney to his ankle finally got bitten by
Speaker 3: a tiny dog. He milts the fake injury for year years.
Speaker 3: But yeah, government workers are all saints. Not one single
Speaker 3: one would ever try to game the system, just those
Speaker 3: eight schools in Chicago. Sorry for the rant, guys, but
Speaker 3: I see enough gaming the system in the private sector.
Speaker 3: At least there can be some consequences here. Sometimes, let's
Speaker 3: not gloss over. Tied Boloney to his ankle. It's a classic.
Speaker 3: That is clever than Milt the injury for years.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that is wow depressing.
Speaker 1: Wow. Armstrong and Getty