Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe, Katty Armstrong and Jetty
Speaker 1: and now he.
Speaker 2: Armsronged live from studio scene. Say, senor, it is a
Speaker 2: dimly lit.
Speaker 3: Room deeper from the bowels of the Armstrong and Getting
Speaker 3: communications compound. And hey y'all today or under the tutelage
Speaker 3: of our general.
Speaker 2: Manager, Donald J.
Speaker 4: Trump, peacemaker, gotcha no Bel price Peacemaker. Perhaps that's right,
Speaker 4: Phoebe Nett Yahoo showed him the letter he's nominating him.
Speaker 2: Not at all, A schmikind took his moment.
Speaker 4: At all. What I'm fluenting you this year? Not at all,
Speaker 4: but kissing?
Speaker 2: What was that phrase you used, boy? I probably better
Speaker 2: left unsaid. Freaking yiddsha.
Speaker 3: I was trying to explain as we went through La
Speaker 3: Guardia Airport on vacation with our bags and stuff like
Speaker 3: that at the end of the day we were retired, traveling,
Speaker 3: et cetera. I was trying to explain schlep to them.
Speaker 3: Schlep is one of the greatest words. Oh that doesn't exist,
Speaker 3: you know in other ways that schlep is such a
Speaker 3: good word for just that whole trying to get your
Speaker 3: luggage out of the plane to the car, and then
Speaker 3: you gotta get to the bus that takes you.
Speaker 4: To the There's no better better words than lapping the
Speaker 4: luggage and the kids through the airport and then slapping
Speaker 4: them into the hotel and up to the room.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I got something stuck in my craw I
Speaker 3: gotta deal with it off the bat. Otherwise, if you
Speaker 3: leave it in your craw your craw gets all red
Speaker 3: and infected.
Speaker 2: You need dinabiotics. You don't want that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael, break out mister Armstrong's craw cream. Would you
Speaker 4: got it? We're gonna have to you if you administer that.
Speaker 4: Now I started it and now I'm disgusted by it.
Speaker 2: I win. You win.
Speaker 3: That is funny when somebody makes like an inappropriate job again,
Speaker 3: then you take it like further to where they are.
Speaker 3: They're the ones that feel uncomfortable, right.
Speaker 4: But the coverage of the poor, the tragedy in Texas,
Speaker 4: and we don't do tragedy on this show in the
Speaker 4: way that almost every other media outlet always has, and
Speaker 4: we never have for whatever reason.
Speaker 3: Luckily, Joe and I agree on this, But I just
Speaker 3: and I realize I'm an outlier on this sort of stuff.
Speaker 4: Maybe, But is there any benefit to society from rolling
Speaker 4: around in the awfulness of these kids drowning? Any benefit whatsoever?
Speaker 4: Is there any news value? Well, that's always the question
Speaker 4: for us. Is there a greater significance other than the
Speaker 4: horror and grief? Is there policy that needs to be changed?
Speaker 4: Does it show something that ought to happen? Or is
Speaker 4: it just an unspeakable tragedy that's occurred. And and you know,
Speaker 4: I'm for recognizing it and talking about it a little bit,
Speaker 4: but wallowing in it.
Speaker 2: And I just I don't get that.
Speaker 3: First of all, if I ever, if one of my
Speaker 3: kids ever dies tragically and you stick a camera in
Speaker 3: my face and ask me questions, I'm gonna punch in
Speaker 3: the freaking face. I don't understand that at all. I
Speaker 3: don't know how you do that for a living.
Speaker 4: I think you are an outlier in that, as several
Speaker 4: of the girls who are at the camp or camp counselors.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's twenty four hours later, the bodies are
Speaker 4: still not counted, and they're doing interviews on various news outlets,
Speaker 4: a right, I know, dialed up and looking nice and I.
Speaker 3: Was thinking about this last night, and I'm wondering if
Speaker 3: maybe some of it is because I've been in the
Speaker 3: news industry my whole life. And I know I'm not
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not. News reporters aren't callous a holes.
Speaker 3: But there is a certain amount of ooh, this would
Speaker 3: be good ratings that goes on that I find troublesome.
Speaker 3: I guess maybe having been around.
Speaker 4: Getting one of the camp counselors who survived is a
Speaker 4: good It's a great get, yeah, as they say in
Speaker 4: the news business, and it's really interest and compelling, and
Speaker 4: you'd be praised by your boss for securing that interview,
Speaker 4: so you would persuade and cajole in whatever way you
Speaker 4: thought was necessary to get that interview. And I just
Speaker 4: but yeah, having seen the sausage made it's it's gross.
Speaker 2: But the.
Speaker 3: Now when I see I saw a bunch of these
Speaker 3: yesterday and what is a now haunting vintio here the
Speaker 3: girls playing volleyball just hours before?
Speaker 2: What is that? I just don't get that. I understand
Speaker 2: they were alive and now they're not any right.
Speaker 4: And every parent in the world spends every moment of
Speaker 4: their life from when their kid is born trying to
Speaker 4: avoid this sort of trategy tragedy and thinking about the
Speaker 4: possibility of it.
Speaker 2: So I don't really need.
Speaker 4: A Oh that's what it would be like to have
Speaker 4: my cute little kid die. And we have all all
Speaker 4: parents have kind of worked through that day. We understand. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's no doubt that there is a market for grief
Speaker 4: porn or horror porn. We just choose not to serve
Speaker 4: that market. So anyway, it's amazing to.
Speaker 3: Me, and I've always wondered does the market exist as
Speaker 3: much as the news things? I guess that's my question.
Speaker 3: Does the market for that exist as much as news
Speaker 3: outlets think it does?
Speaker 2: I think it does, honestly. All Right, Yeah, that's just
Speaker 2: an outlier. I guess.
Speaker 4: Well, the whole pulp fiction, true crime novels and magazines
Speaker 4: was seen in you know, like the early twentieth century
Speaker 4: as the entertainment of the roup, the more base instincts
Speaker 4: of humanity.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm just an outlier and I need to accept that.
Speaker 3: And you know, you bring that up. There's a reason
Speaker 3: Dateline in twenty twenty and all those shows are so popular.
Speaker 2: That sort of thing.
Speaker 3: When you immediately hear about something like this as a parent,
Speaker 3: Your automatic evolutionary response is what happened? How can I
Speaker 3: avoid this happening to my kids? So there's interest on
Speaker 3: that level, certainly, But you don't have to dive very
Speaker 3: deep on this to me and realize it's just one
Speaker 3: of those freak things that happened for the most part.
Speaker 3: And you know, I definitely have them.
Speaker 4: I definitely have a minute or two to consider some
Speaker 4: of the incredible heroism of the people who risk their
Speaker 4: own next to save others, and that's good, and the
Speaker 4: kindness of strangers and community coming together, that sort of thing.
Speaker 4: I enjoy those stories, certainly.
Speaker 3: I do think we've got a problem being in super
Speaker 3: safe first world America whenever there is a tragedy that
Speaker 3: we've just got to figure out who's to blame, because
Speaker 3: we it's part of being so safe. I think we're
Speaker 3: not used to having just toured museums and stuff like that,
Speaker 3: and ancient Egyptians and all this.
Speaker 2: You know, the thousands of years.
Speaker 4: I was talking to my kids about this, it's just
Speaker 4: amazing how awful life was for almost everybody who's ever
Speaker 4: lived compared to us.
Speaker 2: I mean just awful.
Speaker 3: But you were so surrounded by death throughout human history,
Speaker 3: you almost certainly had a kid die. If you didn't,
Speaker 3: you know, you're an outlier and your neighbors did so.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not unusual.
Speaker 4: We and it's worth saying you were suffering from some
Speaker 4: malady which at the time could not be dealt with,
Speaker 4: whether it was tooth decay or arthritis or some sort
Speaker 4: of fungal infection that itched. All the time it was,
Speaker 4: it was not nearly so pleasant as it is now.
Speaker 4: You get something stuck in your craw back in ancient Egypt,
Speaker 4: you're out of luck, for instance, but now they walk
Speaker 4: that way like an Egyptian.
Speaker 3: But now we're all so safe fraud, we're also safe,
Speaker 3: and we expect everybody to live to a ripe old age.
Speaker 3: And it's just so anytime there is an unfortunate death,
Speaker 3: we feel like somebody's got to be to blame for this.
Speaker 3: There's got to be somebody to blame that did something wrong.
Speaker 3: U's Trump's cutbacks, it's Doge, Doge cutting back on the
Speaker 3: FEMA stuff.
Speaker 2: That's what caused it.
Speaker 4: There has to be something that caused it, and there
Speaker 4: doesn't have to be, especially with Mother Nature.
Speaker 3: Have to be somebody to blame. It's too terrifying a
Speaker 3: notion for a lot of right. Right, That's what I'm
Speaker 3: saying us to unfortunate things happening.
Speaker 2: Boy, I'd really like.
Speaker 4: To talk more about this, but I'm super anxious to
Speaker 4: get to tariffs. I really really want to talk about.
Speaker 4: I mean, specific rates, untry by country.
Speaker 3: Trade deficit figures I just heard about to what the Bangladesh.
Speaker 3: Get ready for your underwear to be three times as expensive.
Speaker 3: Your socks and underwear come from Bangladesh, Ladies and gentlemen. Anyway,
Speaker 3: we do have a lot to talk about. We got
Speaker 3: to start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe
Speaker 3: Getty on this It is Tuesday, July eighth, year, twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. We're Armstrong and Geddy, and we approve of
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Speaker 5: Gonna have a UFC fight. We're gonna have a UFC fight.
Speaker 5: Think of this on the grounds of the White House.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of land there. We're gonna build
Speaker 5: a little We're not Dan's gonna do it.
Speaker 2: Dan's great, one of a kind.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have a UFC fight championship fight, full fight,
Speaker 5: like twenty eight twenty five thousand people, and we're gonna
Speaker 5: do that as part of two fifty. Also, we're gonna
Speaker 5: have some incredible events.
Speaker 3: So probably two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Birth
Speaker 3: of the United States, because next July fourth will be
Speaker 3: that there is going to be a lawn UFC Championship
Speaker 3: fight on the White House lawns.
Speaker 4: I had missed the deterroided acrobats pretending to hit each
Speaker 4: other in the head.
Speaker 2: That's correct, Yes, I had missed that story last week,
Speaker 2: are you O? Huh? I like it? I like it.
Speaker 4: It is uncomfortably close to Adiocracy, the classic movie of
Speaker 4: yesterdayear but oh.
Speaker 3: Boy, oh man, oh man, they're gonna build the little
Speaker 3: mini stadium that will hold twenty five thousand people on
Speaker 3: the White House lawn.
Speaker 2: The Secret Service is thinking, wait, what oh that is?
Speaker 2: That's a good one right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh boy, eh tariff talk, freaking tariff talk. Good
Speaker 3: lord hang you oh and uh, since Joe's general manager
Speaker 3: was Donald Trump peacemaker, why did we do a deep
Speaker 3: dive in the Nobel Peace Prize years ago? But we
Speaker 3: did it might have been when Obama won it, yeah,
Speaker 3: or did he Actually, that's right, he won, Yeah, he
Speaker 3: won when he'd been president for a couple of months, right,
Speaker 3: because of the promise of the youth, of the brilliants
Speaker 3: of the young Obama.
Speaker 2: He wasn't George W. Bush. It was Bush derangement syndrome. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: So, Yeah, we looked into how incredibly easy and meaningless
Speaker 4: it is to be nominated. If you know, like a
Speaker 4: college history professor, they could nominate you. I mean, the
Speaker 4: number of people that qualify to nominate someone for the
Speaker 4: Nobel Peace Prize is it's it's amazing that way more
Speaker 4: people don't get nominated. I think more people were aware
Speaker 4: of how easy. More people It's like the star in
Speaker 4: the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I mean, you would just
Speaker 4: buy one.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised that, you know, Arnold Swarzenegger or whoever hasn't
Speaker 3: figured out I need to be nominated for the Nobel
Speaker 3: Peace Prize and those sorts of things, and you know,
Speaker 3: find somebody to do it for them.
Speaker 2: Yes, I recall at.
Speaker 4: The time it was only a twenty five dollars fee
Speaker 4: or something like that to nominate somebody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so being nominated is not the huge deal. And
Speaker 3: then the winning is always very quite political. A number
Speaker 3: of horrible human beings won the Nobel Peace Prize. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: but maybe Trump will. I mean, what he's done with
Speaker 3: is a few things is pretty amazing.
Speaker 4: There are a number of maneuvers going on read the
Speaker 4: Middle East that are worth talking about. Absolutely, the so
Speaker 4: called Piece deal that they're working on. The recent declaration
Speaker 4: by a high ranking US official that Hezbollah is not
Speaker 4: a terrorist group.
Speaker 2: They're a political party, let's work together.
Speaker 4: Intriguing, troubling at first, but intriguing, so that to come,
Speaker 4: among many other things.
Speaker 3: And Katie's got our headlines on the way, and there's
Speaker 3: one headline in particular that I am so excited about,
Speaker 3: and that's coming up next. Got a big self improvement
Speaker 3: thing I'm trying to work on. I want to talk
Speaker 3: about later. See if it's a stupid idea or not.
Speaker 4: But is it improving your gut health? No, I've got
Speaker 4: information on improving your gut health.
Speaker 2: I've been craze. I've been trying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it is a crazy and I don't
Speaker 3: know if it's one of those you know, the latest
Speaker 3: it'll go away.
Speaker 2: Or it's really important.
Speaker 4: I've been trying to eat certain kinds of yogurt every
Speaker 4: day because people swear by it. You know, it helps
Speaker 4: your gut health. Ice plunges, right exactly. And kale and
Speaker 4: go lots of kale. Yes, yes, all right, So more
Speaker 4: on all of that stuff to come plunge into a
Speaker 4: tub of frozen kale. Oh boy, Oh you nipping's killing
Speaker 4: multiple birds with.
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 4: Oh plates place. Yes, hey, let's figure out who's reporting what.
Speaker 4: It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 6: Katie, starting with Fox News, you asked, will quote have
Speaker 6: to send weapons to Ukraine? Trump's as days after Pentagon pause.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big deal.
Speaker 3: If you didn't see this late in the day yesterday,
Speaker 3: Trump said, Ukraine's got to be able to defend itself.
Speaker 3: I'm very unhappy with Putin, and we're gonna give them
Speaker 3: the stuff again.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hope it's a steadfast policy and not on again,
Speaker 4: off again and mercurial, because you can't fight a war
Speaker 4: like that.
Speaker 6: From ABC News, Hard hit Texas County had no flood
Speaker 6: warning sirens despite years of discussions.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: I got into a conversation with our boss about that yesterday.
Speaker 3: You know, all of the emergency alert stuff in the
Speaker 3: world of radio and everything else has been moving towards smartphones.
Speaker 3: And now we all go on vacation to places where
Speaker 3: we can't wait to get away from our smartphone, like
Speaker 3: those campers, and we want our kids to be away
Speaker 3: from the smartphone.
Speaker 2: And that's our new emergency alert system.
Speaker 4: Whereas when I was growing up, for instance, if there's
Speaker 4: a tornado warning, the town siren went off, that's how
Speaker 4: you knew, and right they got, we did away with that.
Speaker 4: I read an interesting piece about how the left will
Speaker 4: try to blame you know, the violations of the Great
Speaker 4: Green renewable energy this, that and the other, or blame
Speaker 4: DOGE or whatever, and how that's a load of crap
Speaker 4: because this happens semi regularly in that part of the
Speaker 4: country because of the geography and blah blah blah, And
Speaker 4: it's actually pretty interesting if you're in the geography and
Speaker 4: water and the rest. But if that is true, though,
Speaker 4: then you'd think they would have some sort of system
Speaker 4: in place that was reliable for issuing warnings, because there
Speaker 4: have been horrific losses of life there through the years.
Speaker 4: But it is a good point, though, If our emergency
Speaker 4: alert system is going to be our phones, ditching the
Speaker 4: phone to relax.
Speaker 2: How are we gonna do that? Right?
Speaker 6: CBS News Alvarado ice facility attack. Eleven charged in ambush
Speaker 6: on ICE officers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the mill tent anti Ice activity by parts of
Speaker 4: the American left is getting more and more troubling. I've
Speaker 4: got more details on that. It's gone mainstream too. There
Speaker 4: are now big organizations, websites, the rest how to screw
Speaker 4: with Ice, how to follow them, when to figure out
Speaker 4: when they're doing raids, the rest of it. So now
Speaker 4: you know in La Trump has the National Guard out
Speaker 4: protecting the ICE guys, and it looks a lot like
Speaker 4: you know, the army is taken to the streets of America.
Speaker 2: I don't like the look of it. No, it's not
Speaker 2: a bad visual, no doubt from the.
Speaker 6: Wall Street Journal tsa to allow shoes to stay on
Speaker 6: for airport security screening. O, our long national nightmare of
Speaker 6: taking off your shoes is over.
Speaker 3: They've already rolled it out at certain airports. I guess
Speaker 3: not the ones I went to. And I was thinking.
Speaker 2: About this one. I was in line the other day.
Speaker 3: On how that one freaking guy tried to set his
Speaker 3: shoes on fire, and for the next quarter of a century,
Speaker 3: everybody takes the shoes off.
Speaker 4: Where's a phead. I don't know, had a bag full
Speaker 4: of food, there'd have been no more eating on plant.
Speaker 2: So it was just it was your reaction to one thing.
Speaker 2: But anyway, those days are over. Leave your shoes on.
Speaker 2: From the Washington.
Speaker 6: Post, a Marco Rubio impostor is using AI voice to call.
Speaker 2: High level officials. It's a good story. Oh boy.
Speaker 3: At least four dignitaries of foreign countries contacted by fake
Speaker 3: Marco Rubio.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, hilarious and troubling.
Speaker 6: Study fines young drivers are glancing at their phones during
Speaker 6: a frightening twenty one percent of every trip.
Speaker 2: That numbers low. That number is way low. It's higher
Speaker 2: than that.
Speaker 6: And finally, the Babylon Bee Iran puts McDonald's signs in
Speaker 6: front of remaining nuclear facilities so Trump doesn't think about
Speaker 6: bombing them.
Speaker 2: No, come on, sa, I doubt that would work as
Speaker 2: a ploy. K. You know your.
Speaker 4: Point about that halfwit jackass with the shoe bomb. What
Speaker 4: if you'd had like exploding headphones. So they have to
Speaker 4: banhead and sax, so everybody just has to listen to
Speaker 4: their audio out loud through the speaker on their phones.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Everything that is exactly right.
Speaker 4: We react to whateverthing happened, not anticipating something else.
Speaker 2: It is the way we do it. Anyway, we got
Speaker 2: so much to talk about. I hope you can stay
Speaker 2: with it. Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: People have been pushing for this release, really for years.
Speaker 7: Fox News is told in internal memos circulated with indoj
Speaker 7: definitively states that Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide. In that quote,
Speaker 7: this systematic review revealed no incriminating client lists. There was
Speaker 7: also no credible evidence that found that Epstein blackmailed prominent
Speaker 7: individuals as part of his actions.
Speaker 2: End quote.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 7: Epstein, the disgrace billionaire, was charged with having sex with
Speaker 7: underage girls. He died in twenty nineteen inside his cell
Speaker 7: at a New York City prison.
Speaker 3: Okay, the Epstein thing not a story. Joe and I
Speaker 3: I've spent a lot of time talking about. Elon tweeted
Speaker 3: this out yesterday. I don't know if you're familiar with
Speaker 3: the clown meme, where you have different levels of clown makeup.
Speaker 3: The guy's applying his clown makeup as you go stage
Speaker 3: by stage by stage.
Speaker 2: I'm not familiar with it, but I like it. I
Speaker 2: like the sound of it.
Speaker 3: And here's Elon Musk's tweet about the whole Epstein thing.
Speaker 3: We will release the Epstein list, we just need more time.
Speaker 3: The Epstein list is on my desk.
Speaker 4: I remember that a month or so ago, Pam or
Speaker 4: Cash Bettel said that, and then yesterday the announcement there
Speaker 4: is no Epstein list. So I haven't been following this story.
Speaker 4: But that is a confusing. I think I have an
Speaker 4: explanation for it a little bit. But Laura Lumer, the
Speaker 4: Trump whisper that I think has more influence than she should,
Speaker 4: demands Pan Bondi resign. That's the attorney general having lied
Speaker 4: to Trump's base and creating a liability for his administration.
Speaker 4: She's an embarrassment, and she doesn't do anything to help
Speaker 4: Trump over the idea that she had been claiming, there's
Speaker 4: a lot, and we're going to give it to you
Speaker 4: for a while.
Speaker 2: And well in Cash, Mattel.
Speaker 4: And Dan Bongino had made a living, you know, speculating
Speaker 4: about that sort of thing. And although Bongino said, hey,
Speaker 4: look you made a great statement yesterday, I'm not paid
Speaker 4: for my opinion anymore. I'm paid for the facts and evidence,
Speaker 4: and there is no facts.
Speaker 2: There are no there's no evidence.
Speaker 3: Well, how about this is the headline from which newspaper
Speaker 3: Times or something. Trump administration acknowledges lack of evidence from
Speaker 3: Epstein documents after Attorney General Pambondi promised big revelations for months.
Speaker 3: Why the attorney general? I mean, why did she promise
Speaker 3: big revelations? She wasn't doing a talk show. The Justice
Speaker 3: Department noted a lack of evidence for conspiracy theories, including
Speaker 3: a client list in a jailhouse murder.
Speaker 4: Something untoward is going on here. It might just be.
Speaker 4: You know, Pam Bondi is part of the political entertainment
Speaker 4: complex that is Trump World. But it does seem odd
Speaker 4: that they're hiding the fact that Michelle Obama is a
Speaker 4: man and part of.
Speaker 2: A child sex trafficking ring.
Speaker 4: And the fires at Palisades Park were all to destroy
Speaker 4: the homes of the Hollywood type who have tunnels leading
Speaker 4: to places where they ship kids for their sex. That
Speaker 4: is the belief of people.
Speaker 2: I know. I don't really have time for that.
Speaker 4: I'd rather tweak America's domestican foreign policy slightly in directions
Speaker 4: of sanity. I don't have time to deal with a
Speaker 4: lunatic fringe.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know what percentage of y'all believe that,
Speaker 3: but it's enough to make the Epstein thing a story,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: I tell you what.
Speaker 4: If the Epstein thing is as straightforward as his being claimed,
Speaker 4: he was a rich perv like to swing with young chicks,
Speaker 4: everybody who deserves to have been busted has been busted.
Speaker 4: He was looking at life in prison. He killed himself
Speaker 4: in his cell. Yeah, we should have fixed those cameras.
Speaker 4: But it's all as straightforward as I just described it here.
Speaker 4: If that is the case, Fate has done a really
Speaker 4: good job of supplying folks with a hell of a
Speaker 4: lot of weird questions that aren't answered.
Speaker 2: I will admit that, all right, which happens sometimes.
Speaker 4: So the guy who shot Kennedy like two days later
Speaker 4: gets shot himself, transferring him from jail to jail right
Speaker 4: by a very well connected mobbed up restraw tour blah
Speaker 4: blah blah.
Speaker 2: Right, But it.
Speaker 4: Seems after decades of looking at it and no one
Speaker 4: knew evidence that that is what happened.
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that's a tough one.
Speaker 3: So what's the worst case scenario is not what I
Speaker 3: just laid out, the tunnels under the Hollywood homes. No that,
Speaker 3: and well that's ridiculous. But so what's the more manageable
Speaker 3: Epstein theory out there? That they the Democrats are running
Speaker 3: a child sex ring, but then the Republicans are in
Speaker 3: on it too and wanted to hide it.
Speaker 2: Pam Bondi and Bongino.
Speaker 3: I know people personally very disappointed that Cash Betel and
Speaker 3: Bongino and various people have like turned and must be
Speaker 3: in on it too or must be compromised or they
Speaker 3: have something on them.
Speaker 4: Right, And the manipulators, the online manipulators, the QAnon types.
Speaker 4: So we'll find a way to spin that and explain
Speaker 4: that in a way that draws people in even more strongly.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, that's that's how deep it calls, which
Speaker 4: is why it's so exciting. It's like an ongoing serial
Speaker 4: to follow. But I'm sorry, what was your original question?
Speaker 4: I don't know now, is that the is that the
Speaker 4: prevailing thinking of like a big chunk of people, Oh gosh.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I think a more reasonable explanation.
Speaker 4: Would be that the if the list were to be released,
Speaker 4: it would embarrass legitimately or or not enough very important
Speaker 4: people at the top of the political financial pyramid of
Speaker 4: America that it would damage both parties and it would
Speaker 4: be hurting folks who are very very well connected.
Speaker 2: So we're going to leave it alone.
Speaker 3: Wait a second, you just broke news on the Armstrong
Speaker 3: and Getty Show with yours.
Speaker 2: I think I did.
Speaker 3: So you believe there is a list, no, and the
Speaker 3: administration is claiming there's not.
Speaker 2: That's what you just said. That are you? Are you changing?
Speaker 2: You don't remember what you just said.
Speaker 4: Michael Jack graduated from Tucker Carlson's How to Argue Unfairly
Speaker 4: University of London is anxious to try out his newfound knowledge.
Speaker 2: Oh, they're calling him.
Speaker 4: They're calling Tucker Teyran Tucker now in the Free Beacon,
Speaker 4: all right, because he had a soft bally interview with
Speaker 4: the President of RAN that was like his softball ass
Speaker 4: kissing interview.
Speaker 2: Putin or I saw Tucker Qatar. It's Katarlson, Yeah, Tucker Katarlson.
Speaker 4: Wowrying really hard, speaking of dredging up the past. I
Speaker 4: know that's one more thing on Epstein though, all right,
Speaker 4: for God's sake, I thought we were gonna touch on
Speaker 4: it and move on.
Speaker 2: Well, you're a conspiracy theorist. As much as it.
Speaker 3: The attention to the amount of attention to guy yesterday,
Speaker 3: I mean, it's surprising to me because it's.
Speaker 2: A non story to me.
Speaker 3: But so the reality is the guy was a full
Speaker 3: on pervert. A whole bunch of people didn't know about
Speaker 3: his pervy stuff. They were just hanging around what they
Speaker 3: thought was, you know, fun sexy parties but not like
Speaker 3: underage and all that sort of weird stuff, right yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: And so Clinton and mill Gates and all these people, they.
Speaker 4: Just wanted to go to parties where there were hot chicks.
Speaker 4: I have known guys like that kind of uh. And
Speaker 4: folks who I tend to I tend to miss these things.
Speaker 4: They're engaged in things that are are pretty out there
Speaker 4: in perverse drugs, swinging, whatever. And I never have a
Speaker 4: clue because I'm because people have a way.
Speaker 2: It was like back in the day when when Pott.
Speaker 4: Was it was illegal, and gay folks back in the
Speaker 4: day too knew this. You had ways of hinting and
Speaker 4: using terminology and winking and nodding and establishing, oh, okay,
Speaker 4: you're cool, we can talk about this a little more.
Speaker 4: And guys like that who again I miss out on
Speaker 4: because I'm faithfully married. I don't do drugs, and I
Speaker 4: have no interest in, you know, that sort of debauchery
Speaker 4: at least not at this point in my life. I
Speaker 4: don't get I don't return those signals. So I am
Speaker 4: always kept out on that outer circle. And then maybe
Speaker 4: you're down to party and you get a little closer
Speaker 4: to the inner circle of the really evil stuff going on.
Speaker 4: But just because I said, yeah, I'll part you know,
Speaker 4: I hear Epstein throws these incredible parties.
Speaker 2: He's got an island. It's it's cool.
Speaker 4: That doesn't mean you know about the real PERV stuff necessarily.
Speaker 3: Another interesting thing, you said, you don't engage in that
Speaker 3: sort of debauchery at this time in your life, but
Speaker 3: maybe in the future, like five years from now, you
Speaker 3: will in retirement You're going to Is that what you're suggesting?
Speaker 2: What are you doing here? What do you not at
Speaker 2: this point in my life?
Speaker 4: Now, in retirement, I have plans to really go crazy.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, hot and cold, run into vauchery, and I'm
Speaker 4: looking into buying my own island.
Speaker 6: Yes, I thought that was just a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 4: Jack just oh no, oh yeah, not for his new
Speaker 4: Tucker Carlson inspired inquisitorial style to.
Speaker 2: Become a monster. All right, that's enough.
Speaker 3: Then it got a cover. The Epstein thing got coverage
Speaker 3: on every news outlet yesterday.
Speaker 2: So it just for whatever reason. Well, I tell you what, gosh,
Speaker 2: dang it, what the heck?
Speaker 4: Yes, stick to plass. You know, as long as we're
Speaker 4: talking about it, where is that? Where's that other stinking there?
Speaker 4: It is, got all sorts of great audio. Give me
Speaker 4: ptell in bond GINO forty three.
Speaker 2: As far as you know, he killed himself. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you he killed himself. I'm not paid for my opinions anymore.
Speaker 2: I'm paid on evidence. That's it.
Speaker 5: The evidence we have in our files clearly indicates that
Speaker 5: it was in fact a suicide.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 4: Employees of Pam Bondi who said this in February hit
Speaker 4: us with forty two Michael.
Speaker 6: The DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Speaker 2: Well that really happened. It's sitting on my desk right
Speaker 2: now to review. See.
Speaker 3: There's there's the that's the crime. That's where things went wrong.
Speaker 3: The Attorney General should not have hinted that there's some
Speaker 3: there there when there's not. That's not what you're supposed
Speaker 3: to be doing.
Speaker 4: Well, right, That is in defense. I mean, she didn't
Speaker 4: say all of the Epstein facts are on my desk
Speaker 4: or the file is on my desk. He said, is there?
Speaker 4: Are you going to release the list? And she said
Speaker 4: it's on my desk for review. I mean that was
Speaker 4: an unequivocal statement, inference, implication that the list exists. She
Speaker 4: didn't couch it in anything. And if I was looking
Speaker 4: for a conspiracy, I tell you what, that's some pretty
Speaker 4: good grist for the mill. As far as him killing himself,
Speaker 4: I've thought from day one that it made perfect sense
Speaker 4: for him to kill himself. The life he lived, the
Speaker 4: kind of lifestyle he had, and now you're going to
Speaker 4: spend the rest of your life in jail.
Speaker 3: You're guilty, you know you're nailed. Why would you stay alive?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: And the fact that nobody was watching him, which adds
Speaker 3: to the conspiracy. That's because that's what happens at lots
Speaker 3: of prisons. The people are supposed to make the rounds
Speaker 3: or whatever, but they take naps or do they don't
Speaker 3: pay attention.
Speaker 4: They're supposed to, but they don't Yeah, witness the ten
Speaker 4: guys walking out of the easy and jailing notes.
Speaker 2: Right, that wasn't an outlier either.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I tell you what, though, Pambondy and the
Speaker 4: other guys, in their effort to really keep the uh
Speaker 4: the conspiracy theory crowd excited, they I think they stepped
Speaker 4: in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 4: You don't You don't want to be playing around with
Speaker 4: stuff like that just to know, keep people interested or
Speaker 4: on your side.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I have some friends who really really like Pambondi because
Speaker 4: she's fully invested in the this is show business, this
Speaker 4: is partisan, let's do this thing. I don't like that
Speaker 4: in the Attorney General, and I've thought she was great
Speaker 4: for a long time, very bright, aggressive, smart.
Speaker 2: I just said no, no.
Speaker 4: No, Let other people be that. Hopefully you went force
Speaker 4: the law. Hopefully the Epstein thing from the mass majority
Speaker 4: of people is over. As of yesterday, that story is over,
Speaker 4: I think for most people.
Speaker 2: For most people.
Speaker 3: Yes, So we got mail bag on the way. We'll
Speaker 3: have to get in some more of the news of
Speaker 3: the day. The fact that Trump came out late yesterday
Speaker 3: and said We're gonna arm New Ukraine.
Speaker 4: What is going on there? Among other things, to talk about.
Speaker 4: Stay with us. I'm being serious here. I often people
Speaker 4: can't tell when I'm serious. I realize that. So this
Speaker 4: is a serious, my serious tone and voice. Our kids
Speaker 4: are fat and depressed at higher levels than they've ever been,
Speaker 4: and it's going up according to study just out today.
Speaker 4: We'll have to talk about that inn hour two of
Speaker 4: the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: And they hate their country too, other major poll. Wow,
Speaker 2: that's nice.
Speaker 3: So our kids are fat, and actually it might be
Speaker 3: tied together because you know, feeling like you live in
Speaker 3: a horrible country probably doesn't help with your mental health.
Speaker 4: Right, And we've been in charge of raising them, so
Speaker 4: look at the mirror. We'll talk about that, but not
Speaker 4: in a discouraging, sad, depressing way, in a hopeful, positive
Speaker 4: way kind of speaking of which, gender Bending Madness update
Speaker 4: Sanity strikes Back edition coming up later in the show.
Speaker 4: Right now, it's a freedom loving quote of the day again,
Speaker 4: celebrating the Great Thamasol's ninety fifth birthday while we were
Speaker 4: on vacation. Could do to a day for the next
Speaker 4: year and not exhaust his brilliance. But when you want
Speaker 4: to help people, you tell them the truth. When you
Speaker 4: want to help yourself, you tell them what they want
Speaker 4: to hear.
Speaker 2: Boy, that's pretty good. That's the truth.
Speaker 4: Bomb place, that thirty thousand pound truth bunker buster. That
Speaker 4: is a good one. That that should be. I should
Speaker 4: have heard that before in my life.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, in the number of policies that and social programs
Speaker 4: that violate that principle.
Speaker 2: I mean we could talk about that for hours.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't even talking about government or anything like that,
Speaker 3: just interpersonal relationships or parenting or all kinds of different things.
Speaker 2: Right, Right.
Speaker 4: When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
Speaker 4: When you want to help yourself, you tell them what
Speaker 4: they want to hear. Mailbag, wooo, please do drops a
Speaker 4: no mailbag at armstrong a geeddy dot com is the
Speaker 4: email address.
Speaker 3: And sometimes that telling them what they want to hear
Speaker 3: is not like to take advantage of them. It's just
Speaker 3: like to avoid the difficult conversation, which is what you want, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Indeed, on the topic of wallowing in grief and tragedy
Speaker 4: Scott and pleasant Hill Rights on flood News, Dennis Miller
Speaker 4: once said he could not digest and feel sorry for
Speaker 4: every tragedy in the end the country, right, it was
Speaker 4: just not possible right, He apologized. He said, I know
Speaker 4: it sounds uncaring, but I can't live my life thinking
Speaker 4: about every tragedy a laws.
Speaker 3: Now that we started the show with this, and I
Speaker 3: was trying to figure out if I'm an outlier or not.
Speaker 3: What are we gonna we gonna confine it to Americans
Speaker 3: or do we want to go abroad? Because you could
Speaker 3: find one of these somewhere in the world every single day,
Speaker 3: and they're every bit as awful.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's just you know, bad things happen, damn it.
Speaker 4: And as we've discussed many times, human beings are not
Speaker 4: made for this. We're not meant to take on the complexity,
Speaker 4: the pain, the ugliness and the horror of the entire world.
Speaker 4: We're just supposed to be able to take in what's
Speaker 4: around us, what we can see and hear.
Speaker 2: It wasn't possible until fairly recently.
Speaker 3: If you heard about it at all, it would have
Speaker 3: been a paragraph in a newspaper that you read, which
Speaker 3: wouldn't be near the emotional thing.
Speaker 2: As you know, watching interviews with parents.
Speaker 4: Garrick and Davis loved your story about the drunken chess
Speaker 4: coach in New York City. Jack, if you missed that.
Speaker 4: I believe it was our four of the Armstrong and
Speaker 4: Getty show. I don't know the Armstrong Getty on demand.
Speaker 4: Whatever it was, you try not to miss a segment anyway.
Speaker 4: It was absolutely charming. But one of the lessons that
Speaker 4: the drunk chess coach tried to impart to your son
Speaker 4: is that if you got a giant gorilla and two dogs,
Speaker 4: mena saying you you got to.
Speaker 2: Deal with the gorilla first, right right.
Speaker 4: Anyway, Garrick writes, I know you guys like to talk
Speaker 4: about it, but the deficit as a dog to use
Speaker 4: the drunk chessman's lesson, and you can name whatever else
Speaker 4: you want for the second dog. However, make no mistake,
Speaker 4: woke ideology is the gorilla and it might be a
Speaker 4: little hurt now, but it's snapping arms and tearing testicles off.
Speaker 2: Believe that unnecessarily graphic.
Speaker 4: But the problem, Garrick, is that in chess you really
Speaker 4: have to fend off one challenge at a time because
Speaker 4: you can only move one piece at a time, whereas
Speaker 4: insiding government. Indeed, you can deal with both gorillas, a
Speaker 4: couple of dogs, and I don't know a crazy zebra
Speaker 4: as well if you Yeah.
Speaker 3: But what's your focus? We often focus on the dogs
Speaker 3: and not the gorilla. Like the gorilla might be the
Speaker 3: national debt, and we are ignoring that gorilla. I tell
Speaker 3: you what, Between the national debt and an ideology that
Speaker 3: teaches the young to despise their country, it's difficult to choose, right,
Speaker 3: which one's actually the gorilla.
Speaker 4: Maybe we got two gorillas. Now we're in a world
Speaker 4: of hurt. Oh as we don't really have time for Yeah, boy,
Speaker 4: this is a really great point from Henry uh the listener,
Speaker 4: But we don't really have time to get to it
Speaker 4: about Mamdani the communist.
Speaker 2: Oh, I want to hear that. We got three more hours.
Speaker 3: We'll fit that in along with a whole bunch of
Speaker 3: other stuff if you missed a segment of an hour.
Speaker 3: As Joe said, get the podcast, Armstrong and Getty undemanded
Speaker 3: that a report that's out today about kids and it's
Speaker 3: going the wrong direction. How long are we going to
Speaker 3: let it go the wrong direction before we make it
Speaker 3: a national crisis? Good God, More to come on the
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Getty Show.
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