1 00:00:10,960 --> 00:00:15,280 Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 2 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,960 Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and 3 00:00:20,079 --> 00:00:21,599 Speaker 1: Jetty and he. 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,400 Speaker 2: Arms Wrong. 5 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: Live from Studio C say s you're we're in a 6 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,440 Speaker 1: dimly lit room deep with them, the bowels of the 7 00:00:38,520 --> 00:00:42,480 Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty Communications counbound on Little Friday, and today 8 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager. 9 00:00:45,320 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 2: I'm not saying. 10 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:48,879 Speaker 1: Hit make me. 11 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:53,239 Speaker 2: The secret Hard Court has rolled repeatedly that compelled speech 12 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 2: is every bit is forbidden by the First Amendment is 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:00:58,160 Speaker 2: restricting speech. 14 00:00:58,480 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: Do you want me to say it? 15 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: I won't. 16 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: The General manager today the Jeffrey Epstein Files, or what 17 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:09,160 Speaker 1: is known as when they vote on it next week, 18 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: the Epstein Transparency Act. 19 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,319 Speaker 2: There was a vote yesterday. First thing they did when 20 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:19,080 Speaker 2: they opened the government back up. First thing worth repeating. 21 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: The first thing they did was they swore in this 22 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: new Arizona congress woman who had won in a special election, 23 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,160 Speaker 1: but over the last fifty some days or whatever, hadn't 24 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: had a chance to get sworn in. 25 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:35,880 Speaker 2: There's no time the schedule was for with the shutdown 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:38,520 Speaker 2: and whatnot. And she gave a little speech about this 27 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,560 Speaker 2: and that, including we need to see the Epstein files. 28 00:01:41,600 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: And she was a yes vote, as were many Republicans, 29 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:48,760 Speaker 2: including this guy. Representative Massey will be hearing from him 30 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 2: a little bit later. Who went out there and said, Hey, Republicans, done, 31 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 2: other Republicans. He's a maggat conservative Republican couldn't be more 32 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: in charge of and forcefully advocating for the Epstein Transparency Act. 33 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 2: Who said, hey, other Republicans, before you vote next week, 34 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 2: Donald Trump isn't going to be around forever. This vote 35 00:02:08,360 --> 00:02:10,680 Speaker 2: will be hanging around your neck forever. If you decide 36 00:02:10,680 --> 00:02:14,880 Speaker 2: to stand up for protecting pedophiles when you're in a 37 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: debate in twenty thirty with either a Republican or Democrats, 38 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 2: somebody's going to look at you and say, why did 39 00:02:19,560 --> 00:02:23,240 Speaker 2: you vote to cover up for pedophiles? Wow, that's from 40 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:28,399 Speaker 2: Republican Congressman Massey challenging themself. Loose cannon. But yeah, he's 41 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,839 Speaker 2: pretty magga. Well, so that's where this thing, the whole 42 00:02:31,840 --> 00:02:34,760 Speaker 2: thing gets interesting. I still don't understand what we're talking about. 43 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,360 Speaker 2: I still don't know if there's any there there. Although 44 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: why Trump's fighting so hard to keep this from happening. 45 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:45,919 Speaker 2: So it was a really close vote yesterday, and Trump 46 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 2: was trying to turn some of the Republican votes that 47 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 2: were extra Maggie away from voting for this so that 48 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 2: it wouldn't have a chance to come up for vote 49 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,959 Speaker 2: next week. And for instance, Lauren Bobert, of the type 50 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 2: Jean's high heels and hand jobs in movie theaters, there's 51 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 2: that Lauren Bobert, congressperson from Colorado. Frank there, but go on, 52 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 2: I'm just describing who she's what she's known for. There's 53 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,200 Speaker 2: more than one way, but go on. They actually brought 54 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,720 Speaker 2: her into the White House and had the Attorney General 55 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 2: and the FBI director pressuring her to vote no. 56 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: She voted yes. Anyway, that's a heck of a move. 57 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 1: Why are you doing this? Why you doing it? 58 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: I'm I'm just I'm exhausted, completely exhausted by this. Why 59 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 2: are you? Why you working that hard? And then you 60 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 2: got the whole thing, and we did this on the 61 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 2: area yesterday. The Democrats released whatever, twenty thousand pages or 62 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: some cherry picked emails or whatever, and then the Republicans 63 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: released twenty three thousand pages of the The reason this 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,640 Speaker 2: is so much more interesting than like every other battle 65 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:48,880 Speaker 2: of the last decade is you got a chunk of 66 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:53,119 Speaker 2: the most maga people in our government who are hardcore. 67 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: The Epstein files need to come out, right, And I 68 00:03:57,880 --> 00:04:00,560 Speaker 2: personally know a couple of people that are very maga 69 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: whose biggest disappointment is the Epstein files haven't come out yet, 70 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: and Trump's fighting like hell to keep them from coming out. 71 00:04:08,040 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, I'm gonna strike a bargain with 72 00:04:10,360 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 2: the world right now. World here it is, take it 73 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:16,880 Speaker 2: or leave it. When the Democrats had both houses in 74 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:19,479 Speaker 2: the White House, they didn't come up with anything that 75 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:23,799 Speaker 2: is really damaging to Republicans. Republicans have been in power, 76 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,279 Speaker 2: they haven't really come up with anything damaging to Democrats 77 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 2: or really themselves. Just some innuendo and vaguely worded emails. 78 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 2: The first thing of real significance that comes out, you 79 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 2: tell me, and I'll pay attention to this steam and 80 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: pilot crap. This country faces existential threats, existential and we're 81 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 2: obsessing with this garbage. Makes me insane. I can't take 82 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 2: it anymore. In twenty twelve, mister Epstein emailed one of 83 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,400 Speaker 2: his lawyers. This is one of the emails that came 84 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 2: out of here Stay, saying he needed to get someone 85 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 2: to dig into Donald Trump's finances, including the mortgage on 86 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,479 Speaker 2: Marl and the thirty million dollar loan that mister Epstein 87 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:05,039 Speaker 2: said mister Trump had received, and they needed to be 88 00:05:05,080 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: dug into. 89 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: That there's dirt there, Okay, is. 90 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 2: There or not? That lawyer was contacted yesterday by The 91 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:12,880 Speaker 2: New York Times, he said, attorney client privileges. 92 00:05:12,920 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: I got nothing to say. 93 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 2: Epstein's dead, so can't ask him. As Trump's presidential campaign 94 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 2: gained traction, in December of twenty fifteen, mister Epstein asked 95 00:05:24,800 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: a New York Times reporter, would you like a photo 96 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 2: of Donald and girls in bikinis in my kitchen? It's 97 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 2: unclear whether Epstein actually possessed such photos, and this mister Thomas, 98 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,240 Speaker 2: who doesn't work with The New York Times anymore, says 99 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,200 Speaker 2: mister Epstein never provided him. 100 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: But he did send him that message. Well, and what 101 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: the hell does that mean? 102 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 2: Girls? Did he mean twenty four year old models are 103 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 2: thirteen year olds? I it makes all the difference in 104 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:57,080 Speaker 2: the world. Again, vague innuendo. But then why would you? 105 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,680 Speaker 2: And this isn't really cool? Bringing Lauren Bobert and have 106 00:06:01,760 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 2: the Attorney General and FBI director pressuring her to vote 107 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,279 Speaker 2: knowing this thing. Yes, that's not a good look. No, 108 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 2: you know, you get I don't know the answer to that. 109 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 2: It could be that this Trump is truly like me, 110 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:16,119 Speaker 2: disgusted by this idiotic waste of time. 111 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:21,200 Speaker 1: But at this point, you know, even when a lot 112 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:26,200 Speaker 1: of his magabass is like super on fire for it, well, yeah, 113 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaker 1: it's the. 114 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 2: Kind of paranoid conspiracy base. But at this point, with 115 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,920 Speaker 2: the one caveat that you've got to continue to protect 116 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,039 Speaker 2: the victims' names and that sort of thing, and you 117 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 2: know the usual ways that the Justice Apartment handles. I 118 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,360 Speaker 2: don't think there's any choice but to just flood the 119 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 2: zone with all of it. Just get all of it 120 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:46,720 Speaker 2: out so we can move the hell on. Well, I 121 00:06:46,760 --> 00:06:51,240 Speaker 2: think it's going to happen next week, and then is 122 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 2: that going to be a whole bunch of We got 123 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 2: another email we'll get to later where Epstein says something 124 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: about the dog that didn't bark is how dirty Trump 125 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: is in this whole thing, but doesn't specify in any way. No, no, 126 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: can it all come out next week and then people 127 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: dig through It'll take a while to dig through everything, sure, 128 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:18,720 Speaker 2: and then they just find nothing but like innuendo and 129 00:07:18,800 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: kind of vague suggestions he's pretty dirty. 130 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 1: Wait till you find out. Would you like to see 131 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:25,600 Speaker 1: some pictures that I've never shown anybody in? 132 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: Right? Uh? And then and then what it? And then 133 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 2: does it just go away? And I never have to 134 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:33,240 Speaker 2: hear about it again? Could that happen? My evidence that 135 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,400 Speaker 2: there's nothing really there is entirely circumstantial, which I've described already. 136 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,320 Speaker 2: Everybody's had power, everybody's had access, nothing's happened, So I 137 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:46,160 Speaker 2: don't think anything will happen. Well, there had another point 138 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 2: I was going to make, But while you're thinking of 139 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,920 Speaker 2: that point, I'll go with the circumstantial evidence the other direction. 140 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: As Mark Alprin writes in his newsletter today, m sorry 141 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:57,760 Speaker 1: jumped down to. 142 00:07:57,680 --> 00:08:01,520 Speaker 2: Here until someone explains why Maxwell moved to a cushy prison, 143 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,920 Speaker 2: why Bobert was in the situation room being pressured by 144 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 2: the c the FBI director. The level of suspicion around 145 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 2: this has nothing to do with the emails that were 146 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:12,880 Speaker 2: released on Wednesday. Why is Donald Trump working so hard 147 00:08:13,680 --> 00:08:16,640 Speaker 2: to keep these from coming out? Yeah? Fair enough. I 148 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:19,320 Speaker 2: would not be shocked to find out that he was 149 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 2: up to no good at some point in the past. 150 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 2: He was a millionaire womanizing playboy type and ran in 151 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 2: some racy circles. And that is some pretty decent, circumstantial 152 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 2: evidence that there's something there. Although the Julaine Maxwell thing, 153 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,760 Speaker 2: I still say it was as simple as back, you know, 154 00:08:36,920 --> 00:08:41,839 Speaker 2: two rounds of this crap ago. Trump had her come 155 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 2: out and say Trump never did anything. And this bargain 156 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,240 Speaker 2: he struck with her and her lawyers was that she 157 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,680 Speaker 2: would be moved to a cushy, cushy girls camp, a 158 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Speaker 2: tennis camp with you know, a perimeter. I mean, what 159 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 2: do I have to pay for a week in that 160 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 2: prison camp? Some me take care of my kids. It's 161 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:02,959 Speaker 2: been a week in that prison sounds fair. I don't know. 162 00:09:03,040 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 2: I just feel like I'm watching some sort of mystery movie. 163 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:08,400 Speaker 2: Judy and I like to watch mystery movies. But we're 164 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 2: stuck on the first scene. Well, there's been a murder 165 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 2: most foul. I wonder which of these towns people could 166 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,880 Speaker 2: have done it? But then you never get any more 167 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: like serious clues. You just stay stuck in that first 168 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 2: scene talking about murder most foul. You bring me something, anything, please, 169 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 2: or forget it. 170 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. 171 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 2: Watching MSNBC last night, it was the only story they 172 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 2: had watched Morning Some Morning Joe and MSNBC today they 173 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,840 Speaker 2: were heavy, heavy on the Epstein thing. I watched about 174 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 2: twenty minutes of Fox and Friends and it never came. 175 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:49,640 Speaker 1: Up at all. So Fox has decided a better approach. 176 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,920 Speaker 1: It's not a story that they want to carry, even 177 00:09:52,960 --> 00:09:55,880 Speaker 1: though for a lot of the Magabas it's a huge thing. 178 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: I don't know. 179 00:09:57,760 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 2: I would like to call it the Armstrong and Getty 180 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:01,000 Speaker 2: don't have to talk about it. 181 00:10:00,920 --> 00:10:03,240 Speaker 1: Act that they're going to vote on next week. 182 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 2: If they vote and it comes out and then there's 183 00:10:05,400 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 2: nothing there, and then are we done? So, Nancy mays 184 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 2: without saying that would have my vote to your high 185 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 2: profile MAGA people, Nancy Mace, South Carolina, Lauren Barber Colorado, 186 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:18,320 Speaker 2: Oh Cuckoo, both pressured yesterday to vote no because it 187 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 2: was such a close vote, but they. 188 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: They went ahead and voted. 189 00:10:20,640 --> 00:10:24,320 Speaker 2: Yet, let's release there, let's move on with the Epstein stuff. 190 00:10:24,720 --> 00:10:27,840 Speaker 2: Two congress people who are proof of the whole hot 191 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:31,840 Speaker 2: crazy matrix that was such a popular YouTube video not 192 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 2: too long ago. 193 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: Oh man, what a deal? 194 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,160 Speaker 2: All right? Let's start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, 195 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 2: he's Joe getting on this. How did it already get 196 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 2: to be now that there's no more government shutdown? It's 197 00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 2: everything's changed. Thursday, November thirteenth, the year twenty twenty five. 198 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,320 Speaker 2: We're armstrong and getting and we approve of this program. Okay, 199 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,880 Speaker 2: let's beget officially. Then, according to FCC rules and riggs, 200 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 2: here we goes show starts at mark. 201 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,080 Speaker 3: These emails prove absolutely nothing other than the fact that 202 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,560 Speaker 3: President Seump did nothing wrong. And what President Trump has 203 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 3: always said is that he was from Palm Beach and 204 00:11:05,360 --> 00:11:08,559 Speaker 3: so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at 205 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,839 Speaker 3: mar A Lago until President Trump kicked him out because 206 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,560 Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep. 207 00:11:17,920 --> 00:11:20,440 Speaker 2: If I was gonna try try to put my best 208 00:11:20,559 --> 00:11:23,760 Speaker 2: guess onto what's going on here is Trump did a 209 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 2: lot of party in with Epstein with a lot of 210 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 2: young women, which he'd been hanging around his whole life, 211 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 2: you know, up until not that long ago, right, I mean, 212 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:36,319 Speaker 2: that's his thing, and he thinks he wasn't. 213 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 1: He's not a. 214 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 2: I'm like I was going to name some names, but 215 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,559 Speaker 2: this hasn't been proven in like some names on the 216 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:46,160 Speaker 2: list who I think really liked the idea of having 217 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 2: sex with seventeen year olds. Let's go with Prince Andrew. Okay, 218 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 2: Prince Andrew Matt Gates like that was their thing. It 219 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,160 Speaker 2: turned him on for some reason. I think Donald Trump 220 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 2: might look back at all those partying days and thinking, God, 221 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:02,520 Speaker 2: I am no idea. I didn't ask she was pretty young. 222 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 2: I just assumed they were all of age until I 223 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:06,559 Speaker 2: found out Jeffrey Epstein's into the hole underagenting. 224 00:12:06,679 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: Holy crap. 225 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 2: Right, yeah, I think that's a pretty pretty good supposition. 226 00:12:13,720 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 1: Oh and the whole I didn't know thing. 227 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody would much traction you get 228 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 2: with that? 229 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,719 Speaker 1: What are you gonna do and peach him? What was 230 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: it gonna happen? Anyway? He can't run again, right right? 231 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:31,040 Speaker 2: I just honestly, the fact that this dropped the day 232 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:35,280 Speaker 2: the shutdown ended and the Democrats were shown to have 233 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 2: been show voting for no good purpose, and Chuck Schumer 234 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 2: looks like the grizzled, old, used up bum that he is. Please, 235 00:12:42,920 --> 00:12:46,040 Speaker 2: It's just this is an enormous distraction. I mean, we've 236 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:48,200 Speaker 2: got a thirty eight trillion dollar debt or whatever it is. 237 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 2: It might be fifty by now you know, the house 238 00:12:50,559 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 2: is burning down and we're arguing about the paint color. 239 00:12:53,360 --> 00:12:56,880 Speaker 2: It's just insane. Joe Getti covering up for pedophiles, just 240 00:12:57,040 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 2: like a fair assessment. Just like Massey said, We've got 241 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:02,280 Speaker 2: Katie's headlines on the way and a bunch of other stuff. 242 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: Stay here. 243 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,720 Speaker 2: Well, one thing I'm trying to sense is how many 244 00:13:10,720 --> 00:13:13,439 Speaker 2: of you listeners to the Armstrong and Getty Show give 245 00:13:13,440 --> 00:13:15,960 Speaker 2: a crap about the Epstein thing that I don't actually know. 246 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 2: I just saw a poll that about three quarters of 247 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 2: Americans want the file to come out. Whatever the file means, 248 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 2: probably so we can stop hearing about it. Could be 249 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:31,120 Speaker 2: they are my two favorite headlines. Katie Number one the 250 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 2: college student who did a wheelie for ninety three miles. 251 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:35,480 Speaker 1: Oh wow, I. 252 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: Asked him the all time record by like forty miles. 253 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 2: I got to tell my son about that. I said, 254 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 2: how long far you can do a WHEELI and he 255 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:41,960 Speaker 2: said he did do one all the way downtown once. 256 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 1: That was four miles. 257 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,440 Speaker 2: This guy was six plus hours of wheelies. Wow. His 258 00:13:46,559 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 2: prostate will never work again in your arms is what 259 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,600 Speaker 2: it gives out on you. And my other favorite headline, 260 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,319 Speaker 2: Chinese diplomat threatens to cut off Japanese leader's head. 261 00:13:56,559 --> 00:13:59,959 Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. Now that's a threat. That's a fleck. 262 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,400 Speaker 2: All right. Let's see what Katie's favorite headlines are. Who's reporting? 263 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 2: What is leave story with Katy Green? Katy, here's a 264 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: headline for me. Horrible story. Somebody broke into my house 265 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 2: and stole all my fruit, left me peachless. You could 266 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:15,360 Speaker 2: have given me fifty guesses for the last word of 267 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 2: that sentence. 268 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:21,200 Speaker 1: Wait what Oh? I feel like the governments. 269 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,720 Speaker 4: I feel like the government shutdowns over the jokes are back. 270 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 2: Wow, that's right, that's right, it's the Department of Jokes 271 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 2: now real, Oh god, with all the full. 272 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: Back pay. 273 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:32,880 Speaker 2: All right. 274 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 4: Starting with the Washington Post, Transportation Department freezes at flight 275 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 4: cuts at six percent, citing strum staffing and possible recovery. 276 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: Hm hmm, there you go. 277 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:48,720 Speaker 4: From NBC, Gavin Newsom's former chief of staff accused of 278 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,440 Speaker 4: stealing campaign funds from ex health Secretary of Besara. 279 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:55,840 Speaker 2: That's weird Gavin would associate with a criminal. 280 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:59,400 Speaker 1: Is there any is that paint Gan in any bad way? 281 00:14:59,480 --> 00:15:01,320 Speaker 1: At all, so have anything to do with him? Really? 282 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,280 Speaker 1: Apparently he knew about it and didn't say anything. So 283 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: oh really okay, well that's something I. 284 00:15:07,040 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 2: Was letting the investigation proceede. 285 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 4: From the Free Beacon, NYPD officers say, Mom, Donnie's win 286 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,640 Speaker 4: will lead to an exodus of quote a few hundred officers. 287 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,800 Speaker 1: Wow, I'll be something to see. Yikes. 288 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,640 Speaker 4: From the Wall Street Journal, Streaming prices are soaring and 289 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 4: consumers are still. 290 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: Paying streaming prices like you for your Netflix in there, 291 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Hulu and that sort of thing. Okay, I 292 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 2: don't even know this is the price one, of course 293 00:15:37,920 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 2: I wouldn't. Got it on a want to pay like 294 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 2: everybody does. All right, one goes up three dollars, one 295 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:46,520 Speaker 2: goes up five dollars, the other goes up six dollars, 296 00:15:46,520 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 2: and you don't really notice it until it accumulates. 297 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 4: From the New York Times, Will people trust voting by phone? 298 00:15:55,040 --> 00:15:57,440 Speaker 4: Alaska is going to find out? 299 00:15:57,960 --> 00:15:59,880 Speaker 1: Huh? Apparently they're going to test. 300 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: This out an anchorage, and they think that's better than 301 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:04,240 Speaker 2: voting by mail. 302 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: It might be. 303 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:09,520 Speaker 4: Actually have better security and it'll be easier. 304 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:12,760 Speaker 2: Right. Yeah, I'd have to noodle this through. I want 305 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:16,120 Speaker 2: lower turnout, not higher, because the bottom twenty percent of 306 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 2: the moron population should not be voting for This could 307 00:16:20,440 --> 00:16:21,360 Speaker 2: be the way of the future. 308 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:24,640 Speaker 1: I want poll testing as you know, Yes, love this. 309 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:28,960 Speaker 4: One New York Post seventy nine year old Vietnam veteran 310 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:33,120 Speaker 4: piled as a hero after he shot and killed naked 311 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:36,240 Speaker 4: intruder who broke into female tenants la home. 312 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: Ah God, dang it. 313 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: Good for him, yeah. Page six. 314 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:48,560 Speaker 4: Diddy's prison release date pushed back after rapper allegedly violates 315 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 4: multiple rules. 316 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:53,160 Speaker 1: M what do you do? 317 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 4: Well, there's speculation apparently he was drinking the Bruno. 318 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:00,440 Speaker 2: I likes to get a buzz after a long day. 319 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:03,120 Speaker 2: He is not Christall Bruno. 320 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,120 Speaker 4: And finally, the babylon Be Democrats somberly remove sombreros, signaling 321 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,240 Speaker 4: the end of the shutdown. 322 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,120 Speaker 2: Those a good times, the sombrero days. Oh those were 323 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:17,320 Speaker 2: the best days of the shutdown. The sombrero days. I'd 324 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 2: forgotten about those. We got to catch up on all 325 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,679 Speaker 2: the news of the day on the way if you 326 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:23,800 Speaker 2: miss a segment of the podcast Armstrong and Getty on 327 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 2: demand Armstrong and Getty, Well, guys, let's send us as 328 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,920 Speaker 2: self driving taxi company Weimo said that their cars will 329 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,920 Speaker 2: start taking customers on the freeway for the first time. 330 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:41,399 Speaker 2: They made the announcement after a Weimo accidentally took a 331 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 2: customer on. 332 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:46,520 Speaker 1: The freeway first. That's pretty funny. Yeah, we're doing that now. 333 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 2: That's actually pretty funny joke. We'll see how that goes. 334 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,239 Speaker 2: I promise this is a tease. I will shut up 335 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,360 Speaker 2: about it for a while. But the Speaker of the House, 336 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 2: Mike Johnson, was just asked about the Epstein file vote. 337 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,960 Speaker 2: He said it will happen. He will because he didn't 338 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:04,600 Speaker 2: have to bring it to a vote. He will bring 339 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 2: it to the floor next week for a full House vote. 340 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:12,399 Speaker 2: So it's going to happen. Okay, good, all right. It 341 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:15,879 Speaker 2: reminds me of like oral surgery. The sooner we start, 342 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 2: the sooner it's going to be over. Let's just get 343 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,840 Speaker 2: it all done, please. So a couple of really interesting, 344 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 2: unexpected commentaries on the shutdown in just the politics these days. 345 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,520 Speaker 2: The first one why Schumer had to do it, Some 346 00:18:36,640 --> 00:18:39,480 Speaker 2: really good analysis from Barton swam and yeah it was 347 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:43,840 Speaker 2: AOC and his left right. Everybody knows that he's going 348 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:44,880 Speaker 2: to get primary. 349 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:45,280 Speaker 4: You know. 350 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,000 Speaker 2: The crazy part is He's seventy four freaking years old, 351 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,400 Speaker 2: and he doesn't run again until twenty twenty eight, So 352 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,360 Speaker 2: that means it's just one hundred percent assumed a seventy 353 00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:59,160 Speaker 2: six year old man he's going to run for another 354 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:00,000 Speaker 2: six year terms. 355 00:19:00,119 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 1: Yeah. 356 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be horrifying if he did, regardless of 357 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:08,119 Speaker 2: someone there running against him. Yeah. Yeah. But as Barton 358 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:13,600 Speaker 2: Swain points out in The Wall Street Journal, from the 359 00:19:13,640 --> 00:19:16,359 Speaker 2: beginning of the dispute, Everyone dispute, Everyone seems to have 360 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:18,879 Speaker 2: understood that mister Schumer forced a shut down because he 361 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,080 Speaker 2: needed to show his state's progressive voters he could take 362 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 2: it to Trump and fend off AOC right. Ezra Cline 363 00:19:25,160 --> 00:19:27,080 Speaker 2: in The New York Times wrote, the whole stunt was 364 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,159 Speaker 2: about Trump's authoritarianism. It was about showing their base and 365 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 2: themselves that they could fight back. Guy in Politico says 366 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 2: Democrats achieved their primary political objective, showing a furious base 367 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 2: that they can actually work together effectively. 368 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: Yeah. 369 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,760 Speaker 2: I don't think that's what happened to flee for what 370 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 2: do any of y'all watch? John Stewart on The Daily 371 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,119 Speaker 2: Show Monday night. That was one of his great performances. 372 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,600 Speaker 2: I liked it because he was attacking Democrats as opposed 373 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,960 Speaker 2: to Republicans, and he's really really good at that sort 374 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:55,000 Speaker 2: of thing. But man, he was incensed that the Democrats 375 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 2: caved the way they did, so the whole we showed 376 00:19:58,240 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 2: the base that we fought. 377 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:00,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's. 378 00:20:00,119 --> 00:20:02,440 Speaker 2: Way it landed with a lot of them, right, They're 379 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:05,120 Speaker 2: prepared to fight with every tool at their disposal, says 380 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:09,520 Speaker 2: the political guy. All right, But who are what callum rights? 381 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:12,120 Speaker 2: That's the part I liked. Who's that base to which 382 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:15,200 Speaker 2: these fellows are referring? Poke around you'll find it consists 383 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 2: mainly of cash flush foundations, unions and activist groups, the ACLU, 384 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:24,000 Speaker 2: the Sunrise Movement, other environmental and climate groups, Planned Parenthood, 385 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 2: other abortion rights outfits on an array of immigrants rights 386 00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:29,960 Speaker 2: and associations, some of them so radical is to be 387 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,760 Speaker 2: almost insurrectionist. The American Federation of Teachers. Don't get me 388 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:39,040 Speaker 2: started in the National Education Association, Southern Poverty Law Center, 389 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 2: Black Lives Matter, other racial justice organizations, Human Rights Campaigned, 390 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:45,199 Speaker 2: a sort of LGBTQ plus minus over the power of 391 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 2: three activist groups, scores of foreign connected, Palestinian rights and 392 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:53,159 Speaker 2: otherwise anti Zionist groups and the George Soros funded network 393 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,640 Speaker 2: known as the Open Society Foundations, on and on and on, 394 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:02,000 Speaker 2: and then he points out that it's interesting and revealing 395 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 2: that the Democrats tried to make such a big deal 396 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 2: of the Koch Brothers right back in the day, and 397 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 2: the Koch Brothers are mostly libertarian leaning and are not 398 00:21:11,359 --> 00:21:14,719 Speaker 2: very close to trump Ism at all. But he points 399 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 2: out that the reason the Democrats are always saying that 400 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:23,800 Speaker 2: Republicans are controlled by their activist groups because the Democrats 401 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,399 Speaker 2: are and they really really fear running a foul of 402 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 2: these far left groups that really don't represent Americans at 403 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 2: all except on the left fringe, and a lot of 404 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,760 Speaker 2: them are still like the NAACP, a legendary organization did 405 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,920 Speaker 2: amazing work during the Civil Rights era. They are now 406 00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 2: a far left blackmail organization like the Southern Poverty lawsonerre 407 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:50,240 Speaker 2: just nothing like they were, Which brings us to this 408 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 2: great piece Jeff Blair wrote for National Review. And this 409 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,280 Speaker 2: has happened over and over again, and I just love 410 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,640 Speaker 2: it so much. I'm honored lefty organization in this case, 411 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,720 Speaker 2: the Sierra Club, eaten apart from inside by its woke 412 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:14,800 Speaker 2: staffers and he asks, where does power truly reside? It 413 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,440 Speaker 2: often resides only where people believe it does, and only 414 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 2: up until the moment people believe it to reside there. 415 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:23,440 Speaker 2: And the Sierra Club, once one of America's most formidable 416 00:22:23,440 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 2: ecological activist groups and a group that did very good 417 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: work back in the day, is giving up the illusion 418 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:31,919 Speaker 2: that it wields any power whatsoever as it seizes up 419 00:22:32,040 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 2: arthritically and kneels upon broken joints to display its helpless 420 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:40,440 Speaker 2: incapacity to the world. That's pretty good the New York 421 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 2: Times story. New York Times is out with a story 422 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:47,960 Speaker 2: that should already be familiar. The Sierra Club embraced social justice, 423 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:51,800 Speaker 2: then it tore itself apart, and he points, you know 424 00:22:51,840 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 2: the drill from the headline alone. They're now a flaming wreck. 425 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:59,800 Speaker 2: They've lost sixty percent of their paying donors since twenty nineteen. 426 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 2: And for precisely the reason that all observers watching wokeism 427 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:06,959 Speaker 2: progress through left coded institutions thought it would. It was 428 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,199 Speaker 2: devoured by the never ending financial and political demands of 429 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 2: the progressive omni cause, which encouraged the formerly single minded 430 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,160 Speaker 2: conservationist society to become deeply embroiled in the progressive left's 431 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:23,760 Speaker 2: racial and socio sexual agenda part of its core mission. 432 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,360 Speaker 1: They let themselves get tied up in that. 433 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 2: Yeah so, and this is so typical of the permanent 434 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,280 Speaker 2: omni cause. Social justice was folded into the Sierra Club's 435 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:38,520 Speaker 2: mission through its newer, younger leadership via the now standard 436 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,120 Speaker 2: series of semantic slights of hand. Environmental justice is racial justice, 437 00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:48,880 Speaker 2: is transgender justice, is Palestinian justice. Hey, we're just trying 438 00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 2: to saved pine trees over here, the water clean. Well, 439 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:57,080 Speaker 2: then you've got to embrace transgender Palestinians. And the scattering 440 00:23:57,080 --> 00:23:59,240 Speaker 2: of its focus has not only left the Sierra Club 441 00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:03,120 Speaker 2: flat footed and broke, it's also rendered it indistinguishable from 442 00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:07,879 Speaker 2: other everything bagel progressive organizations, which I thought was a 443 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 2: good description the everything bagel, my favorite bagel, and the 444 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 2: focus of the movie everything all at once, all the time, 445 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 2: everything and oh yeah, yeah, my favorite move. Moment he 446 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:24,480 Speaker 2: talked about the New York Times piece, again illustrative of 447 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 2: the natural progress of activist entriyism, came when a local 448 00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,679 Speaker 2: Sierra Club member responded to a volunteer suggestion that the 449 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 2: club lobby for more protection for wolves. We've got to 450 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 2: protect the wolves, and the response from the leadership was 451 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 2: that's fine, Delia, but what do wolves have to do 452 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 2: with equity, justice and inclusion? Wow? 453 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: What the Sierra freaking Club? 454 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:53,159 Speaker 2: Wow, that is something you're authoric when that happens. I 455 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:56,280 Speaker 2: love this so much. All right, final note, and this 456 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:58,800 Speaker 2: is this is worth remembering. I'd kind of let I'd 457 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:00,240 Speaker 2: space this off. I entered it years in, years and 458 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 2: years ago. Jack, I know you know this. The sovietologist 459 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 2: Robert Kung Quest what a name Dick Army wishes his 460 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:13,240 Speaker 2: name was Bob Khnquest. Anyway, let's see. Ye Oh. He 461 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,200 Speaker 2: once positive a series of laws of politics, the most 462 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,840 Speaker 2: famous of which remains his second. Any organization not explicitly 463 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,320 Speaker 2: right wing sooner or later becomes left wing. Our friend 464 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 2: Tim Sandifer has quoted that on our show a number 465 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,439 Speaker 2: of times, and it's stuck in my head. It seems 466 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,920 Speaker 2: to be true. Unless your goal is to be right wing, 467 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,920 Speaker 2: you overtime become left wing. Yes, And you can see 468 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:39,439 Speaker 2: it all around. Once you become aware of that, you 469 00:25:39,440 --> 00:25:43,120 Speaker 2: see it all the time. Yeah, agreed. I think it's 470 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,359 Speaker 2: mostly because left wing entities are much much easier to 471 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 2: milk for profit. Than right wing entities, which tend to be, 472 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,800 Speaker 2: you know, all about self reliance and following rules or 473 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,439 Speaker 2: I've always would have just taken It's just, you know, 474 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,200 Speaker 2: humans are involved, and humans are emotional, and the left 475 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,320 Speaker 2: is an emotional thing. 476 00:25:59,520 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: I don't know. 477 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and it also it's mats of the iron 478 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:07,160 Speaker 2: law of bureaucracy, which is another great law to memorize 479 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:11,480 Speaker 2: that over time, every institution, and this is the short 480 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 2: version of it, grows less to be about its actual 481 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 2: purpose and more to be about protecting the institution or 482 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 2: protecting the bureaucracy, to the point that you know, in 483 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 2: the latter stages of a Department of Labor or something 484 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 2: like that, nobody even knows what they're supposed to do 485 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:33,320 Speaker 2: except continue to exist, continued ad staff and keep their budget. 486 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,080 Speaker 2: And oh and I'm sorry. And my point being that 487 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:41,479 Speaker 2: that very orientation is very leftist. It's very you know, 488 00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:46,040 Speaker 2: we've got to maintain the bulk of the bureaucracy. I've 489 00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 2: got a story about myself I want to tell later 490 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 2: that will cause you to slap. 491 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: Your head and wonder about me. I wonder about myself. 492 00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: It is a self reveal that is very, very embarrassing. 493 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: You should wonder about yoursel else. It's called introspection, Jack, 494 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,439 Speaker 1: speaking of one of our other favorite sayings. If you 495 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,160 Speaker 1: don't know what introspection is, you need to take a long, 496 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:11,000 Speaker 1: hard look at yourself. Hey, this one isn't hard. This 497 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,560 Speaker 1: is a what is wrong with you? 498 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:13,240 Speaker 2: Oh? 499 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,520 Speaker 1: No, so sorry to hear that. I've got that story 500 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,560 Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later. Look forward to getting 501 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 1: into that. 502 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 2: Oh. I realized what my personal hell would be. I 503 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:24,000 Speaker 2: actually said to my wife as we were walking the dog, sweetheart, 504 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 2: and need to clean up my act and be a 505 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:30,199 Speaker 2: better person, because I just realized what Satan would damn 506 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,600 Speaker 2: me too, my personal hell, and it has to do 507 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 2: with never ending leaf blowers. There would be three to 508 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,440 Speaker 2: four leaf blowers around me every moment of my god 509 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:46,800 Speaker 2: forsaken literally suffering in eighties, just constantly blowing and repige. 510 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: If it were hell, though, it would have to be 511 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:51,520 Speaker 2: like seven point thirty on a Sunday morning, because that's 512 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:53,679 Speaker 2: what makes it worse. I hate them always, But the 513 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 2: fact that this is a beautiful, pristine, quiet weekend morning. 514 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:01,840 Speaker 1: Right next door. 515 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,240 Speaker 2: If I ever gotten used to my suffering, you know 516 00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: what Satan would add someone trying to talk to me 517 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 2: over the sound of it that I couldn't understand because 518 00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 2: it was so loud. So mixing that frustration or with 519 00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,840 Speaker 2: the hellish din least blower. Okay, so we've got lots 520 00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 2: of get too. We've got mail bag on the way. 521 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:24,800 Speaker 2: I'll mention how the text are running on Epstein. I'm 522 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 2: wondering if anybody in our audience is interested about it today. 523 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,400 Speaker 2: It's not scientific in any way, but I can tell 524 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 2: you how the results have gone. 525 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:38,960 Speaker 1: Stay tuned in my. 526 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: Searching for stuff to talk about on Twitter in various 527 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 2: places and listening to podcasts the topic of back in 528 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,440 Speaker 2: the fifties, on one income, you could have a nice 529 00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,000 Speaker 2: house you owned and garn and blah. 530 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,520 Speaker 1: Blah blah, blah blah. 531 00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,840 Speaker 2: Now you can't. As to the whole affordability thing that 532 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,520 Speaker 2: I have. The elections all might be about for the 533 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 2: foreseeable future for both parties want to talk about that 534 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:06,000 Speaker 2: a little bit. We have in the past, but we 535 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,080 Speaker 2: need to talk about it more looking forward to that. 536 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,400 Speaker 2: So has anybody assembled here today been pressured into repeating 537 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 2: something they didn't believe to be true, or sat in 538 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 2: a classroom being browbeaten into believing the country was I 539 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 2: don't know, for instance, founded on racism, or that men 540 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:28,120 Speaker 2: can declare themselves women and shamed into silence. You'll love 541 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 2: our freedom loving quote of the day, Continuing on our 542 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 2: series from John Stuart Mills on liberty society, canon does 543 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,240 Speaker 2: execute its own mandates, and if it issued its wrong 544 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,520 Speaker 2: mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all, in 545 00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 2: things which it ought not to meddle, it practices a 546 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:51,280 Speaker 2: social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression. Wow, 547 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,360 Speaker 2: there's something that is not well understood and very hard 548 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,760 Speaker 2: to control, impossible to control really? Oh yeah, yeah. Mill 549 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 2: was a believer not only in freedom from government oppression, 550 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,120 Speaker 2: but also a tolerance of competing ideas obviously the marketplace 551 00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,040 Speaker 2: of ideas in general. And he was trying to tell 552 00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 2: people in a very different time. Hey, keep an open mind. 553 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:15,320 Speaker 2: That's why every bit is true. 554 00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:16,320 Speaker 1: Now, That's why I. 555 00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:19,800 Speaker 2: Like conversations about the culture of free speech. When anybody 556 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:21,920 Speaker 2: throws it at you know, the you know, the First 557 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:25,760 Speaker 2: Amendment is specifically Congress blah blah blah. The culture of 558 00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:29,400 Speaker 2: free speech is important, two different things. Yeah, I agree completely, mailbag. 559 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,680 Speaker 2: Speaking of exercising your rights drop is a note mail 560 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 2: bag at Armstrong Ageeddy dot com Brian from Kansas City 561 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:40,200 Speaker 2: with a nice note guys our one of the show 562 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,080 Speaker 2: the other day. I have to say, poor Michaelangelo. The 563 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 2: man's done with his Christmas shopping before Thanksgiving, and Jack 564 00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:49,120 Speaker 2: asks like he just announced he's starting a TikTok Dan's career. 565 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:54,840 Speaker 2: The beating of Michaelangelo is completely inappropriate for declaring that 566 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:57,880 Speaker 2: the Christmas season has begun. Jack is the gold medal 567 00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 2: procrastinator here. If they're an Olympic of and for waiting 568 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:03,040 Speaker 2: until December twenty fourth to start shopping, he'd be the 569 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 2: Simone Biles of last minute panic. Meanwhile, Mike Clientelow's over 570 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:11,160 Speaker 2: here with everything wrapped labeled in alphabetized. The guy probably 571 00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:14,880 Speaker 2: has a spreadsheet of stocking stuffers. Instead of mocking him 572 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 2: study his methods are just appoint him director of Holiday 573 00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 2: logistics for TEAMM and G. He's operating on a level 574 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 2: the rest of us mortals can't comprehend. Can it be 575 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,160 Speaker 2: somewhere between waiting for the last minute and finishing mere 576 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 2: Christmas shopping in the. 577 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:29,120 Speaker 1: Summer like Michael Einlode. 578 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: Oh. The beating continues from the bidderl. Thanks for listening 579 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,520 Speaker 2: to us on FM and Kansas City. I wish we 580 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 2: were on more FM stations. Yeah, Brian, don't make this 581 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,120 Speaker 2: the last time. You're right. That's great. And then we're 582 00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:48,440 Speaker 2: going to feature one email in particular from Rob s Guys. 583 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,680 Speaker 2: He writes, the recent discussion on the show about the 584 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,040 Speaker 2: trend to younger Americans towards socialist thinking is really disturbing. 585 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:57,240 Speaker 2: I like Joe's analogy with grades. You know, everybody gets 586 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,320 Speaker 2: a be since most people can understand that immediately. Here's 587 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,320 Speaker 2: another argument. Often capitalists will ask a socialist to name 588 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,240 Speaker 2: one country where socialism has worked, and they'll cite Sweden, 589 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,240 Speaker 2: for instance, since there's little evidence there of the social 590 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 2: tensions that are seen in other country cultures. Actually there 591 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:14,560 Speaker 2: are now, but more on that later. Okay, great, So 592 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,600 Speaker 2: what are the facts Sweden's meeting in the household income 593 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 2: is thirty nine thousand dollars per year. The poverty threshold 594 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:23,440 Speaker 2: in the US for a four person household is thirty 595 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 2: two thousand dollars a year, so half of Sweden is 596 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,840 Speaker 2: living just above the US poverty level. There's the question 597 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,160 Speaker 2: of buying power society to society, which can change those 598 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,040 Speaker 2: numbers a little, but the point still remains. I think 599 00:32:36,280 --> 00:32:39,120 Speaker 2: Sweden's average household income is even less thirty three K year, 600 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,360 Speaker 2: just at the US poverty level. Compare that to the 601 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 2: US with a median income of eighty thousand dollars an 602 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,880 Speaker 2: average income of one hundred and forty four K. So 603 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,400 Speaker 2: what does that mean Americans have a much higher standard 604 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,680 Speaker 2: of living than Swedes? Why in the global economy. The 605 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 2: answer is simple. Americans are four times on average as 606 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,520 Speaker 2: productive as Swedes because capitalism motivates people to work harder 607 00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:01,520 Speaker 2: and take bigger risks. It does because there are rewards 608 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,600 Speaker 2: and more subtle. In Sweden, the average income is less 609 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,240 Speaker 2: than the median. What that means is that the poor 610 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,440 Speaker 2: are more poor than the median because the rich are 611 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 2: more rich than the median. Wow, that sucks. Isn't the 612 00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,760 Speaker 2: whole point of socialism to make sure nobody gets left behind? 613 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,000 Speaker 2: Not only are people just barely above the US poverty threshold, 614 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 2: but a lot of them are way below it. If 615 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: I was in the US, if I was going to 616 00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 2: argue against that, and I'm not on the side that 617 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:28,160 Speaker 2: would really want to. But let's be John Stuart mill 618 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,280 Speaker 2: here and steal man the argument they regularly rank at 619 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,880 Speaker 2: the top in the world of life satisfaction being happy people. 620 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:43,440 Speaker 2: That has declined precipitously in the Nordic countries the Scandinavian 621 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,479 Speaker 2: countries as they let in way too much immigration and 622 00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:52,000 Speaker 2: the homogeneity, nuity, gnuity of their societies, the fact that 623 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,720 Speaker 2: they are all pretty similar people, same culture, same religions 624 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,920 Speaker 2: which are generally atheism, etc. Has now changed and they 625 00:33:57,920 --> 00:34:02,240 Speaker 2: are being torn apart doing non assimilating immigrants. 626 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:04,120 Speaker 1: PhD dissertation on that whole topic. 627 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:08,560 Speaker 2: Oh my lord, Yes, The only possible counter I could 628 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,520 Speaker 2: see for this is for a socialist to say money 629 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:12,719 Speaker 2: isn't everything well good in America. You're free to be 630 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,719 Speaker 2: poor and live like a Swede. Just make sure you 631 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,480 Speaker 2: act like one too, and live contentedly at the poverty 632 00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:22,080 Speaker 2: level and quit complaining. Which fight fits in a little 633 00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,719 Speaker 2: bit with the topic we need to get to on 634 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,799 Speaker 2: the hole. In the fifties, one guy could earn enough 635 00:34:26,840 --> 00:34:29,279 Speaker 2: money to support his whole family in buy house and. 636 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:31,080 Speaker 1: Blah blah blah. 637 00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,520 Speaker 2: And then a Rob has makes his final fabulous argument, Joe, 638 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,719 Speaker 2: I know, Jack, I know your redneck background is struggling 639 00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,880 Speaker 2: with owning an electric vehicle. Not super fast, but still. 640 00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:43,480 Speaker 2: I have a solution. It's a hybrid smoke pressure cooker. 641 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 2: You can install it on the better your truck with 642 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 2: a stack vented to a fake tailpipe. When your social 643 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:51,560 Speaker 2: justice neighbors flip you off, pull up to them, throw 644 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 2: the vent switch in the cab and coal roll their ass, 645 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 2: just like you would add pack in Kansas. 646 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,040 Speaker 1: There you go, roll and coal. 647 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,680 Speaker 2: Cole on me the other day, guy in a great, 648 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:03,600 Speaker 2: big truck, I want to show me in my stupid 649 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:08,560 Speaker 2: cyber truck. Hey, you didn't take that, idiot. I need 650 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 2: to put a sign in my window which is true. 651 00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:13,800 Speaker 2: I also own a big giant diesel truck. I have both. 652 00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,480 Speaker 2: I'm the only one in America who has both. I 653 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:21,120 Speaker 2: am making I like them both. I'm making no political statement. 654 00:35:21,160 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 2: Find out how crazy to believe you drive a car 655 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,719 Speaker 2: with no politics in mind. Yet another concept that if 656 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:30,799 Speaker 2: you try to explain to so many fifteen years ago, 657 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 2: they wouldn't know what you were talking about. The politics 658 00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,319 Speaker 2: around the car you drive. I know we have a car. 659 00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 2: We have a lot on the way. I hope you 660 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,280 Speaker 2: can stick around. Armstrong and Getty