July 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour three of A&G features...
- The Wall Street Journal story about the alleged Trump/Epstein letter...
- Tucker Carlson talks to "a historian"...
- Joe's new feature, "The A&G Weekend Report"!...
- The reason why Jack's kids continue to mock him!
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Where are my fellow weaklings at? Because that's what Trump
called us yesterday?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He also during a press conference said that we were
stupid for still caring about the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So I think now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We're arriving at the important question here, which is who
is Trump protecting? Because he's clearly protecting someone. Is it himself?
Is it someone in his family?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's Candice Owens. She's part of the hardcore Mago Wright
online online podcast Commento sphere, her and Tucker and and
so she's who's Trump? Where I'm call me a weekling?
Who are you trying to protect Trump? So Wall Street
(01:07):
Journal with a big, giant, blockbuster exclusive that came out
today around Epstein that Trump spent the week trying to
keep the Wall Street Journal from printing. He was on
the phone with people the Wall Street Journal. He even
called up Murdoch and said, if you print this, I
will sue. Joe Getty will tell us what it is.
It's not that big a deal. I don't know. Oh wow,
(01:30):
who are you protecting? All right? Fat, you have caught me?
Got I admit it all now.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
He back in two thousand and three, old Gilaane Maxwell
Geelane Giselaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift for Jeffrey
Epstein's fiftieth She turned Epstein's family and friends to write
him happy birthday wishes. She's going to compile them into
a book for him, and one of them appears to
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be from Donald J.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The letter bearing Trump's name is body like others in
the album Jack, It contains several lines of typewritten text,
framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears
to be hand drawn with a heavy marker. A pair
of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the future
president's signature is a squiggly donald lower waist, mimicking perhaps.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Her horror down there. Neil Trump says, now.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, I'm sorry, And it's several lines, but it ends
with the very odd So yeah, this is the big part.
Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh what now.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's kind of infamous for his wonderful secrets. In quotes
right now and it's like sex and up teenage.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Girls, if you so so. Trump denies this, He says
that ain't me. I've never drawn a quote.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
This is not me. This is a fake thing. It's
a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a
picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women.
It's not my language, it's not my words. See I
could say that too and be certain that I was right.
I've never squiggled out a naked woman on a birthday
card in my life, I'm positive oft. But whether Trump
(03:25):
did or not, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But like, if you got some sort of shady, maybe
even illegal thing like between you and a friend on
the birthday card, do you sign sure cool that you
could get me all those drugs happy birthday? You know
what would you do that? Would you hit at it?
(03:49):
Even with the have another good secret day?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, would you yeah, have a sticky day, have
a green day, as Green Day would put it?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Uh No, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You wouldn't think so if it was the really illicit stuff.
And you know what's funny about this is I can
so easily picture ms Maxwell hitting Donald J up through
his people or directly or whatever, and him.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Tasking somebody with dealing with him.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Then he signed it, and he probably looked at it
and thought, that's kind of clever. It looks almost like
a cartoon out of Playboy or something whatever, and never
thought about it again his entire life. The other day,
I ran into one of our beloved listeners who re
thanked us for doing a video for I think it
was their wife's birthday, and it was like really elaborate,
(04:42):
and I'd totally forgotten about it completely. I barely had
a shred of a memory of doing it. And it
took us several minutes because it kind of came trickling
back to me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So you're saying, perhaps I have signed a birthday card
where I sketched a naked woman and wrote have a
beautiful secret day or whatever the hell that is. Oh no,
it was. I'm saying all Donald J did was sign it.
Do you think he wrote to have a good secret
day or another great secret day or whatever that phrases?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No idea, may every day be another wonderful secret I.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Just can't imagine. I mean, because if the claim is
Trump's in on hiding this just giant global secret sex
ring masade thing, would you hint at it in the
birthday card. It just seems so crazy to me. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Among those who submitted letters were billionaire Leslie Wexner, who's
at the center of a lot of theories about this
attorney Alan Derschwitz. Album also contained a letter from now
deceased Harvard economist, one of Epstein's report cards from Twain
Junior High School in Brooklyn, a note from a former
assistant that included an across stick with his name, and
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all sorts of dopey birthday card the stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So, to my mind, the best political journalist in America
is Mark Halprin. He's been on a bunch of shows
this week talking about this whole thing, and specifically talking
about this big, exclusive Wall Street Journal piece.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So on the democratic side, it's a little complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'll just say I think the significance of the journal
story is if the letter's true, the President's lied about it.
But more significantly, it speaks to a relationship which we
still don't really understand. Still don't really understand the contours
that the extent these two guys were palsed. This letter
suggests a very intimate relationship and that's I think the
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significance is that it may cause other people to go
look at that question. I'm not sure where that might lead,
but there are a lot of unanswered questions there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's kind of interesting. Regardless the phrase and the picture,
it would suggest a fairly close relationship, probably that Trump
has denied. Well, one of the biggest mystery to me,
and the whole Epstein thing always has been. And this
is long before anybody ever said a word about trafficking
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children in the massade. He had in his home, the
biggest home in Manhattan, New York. Have you been in
that Manhattan, New York. There's a lot of giant homes
and a lot of really related rich people. And Epstein
had the biggest home on the entire island. And when
you walked in the door, you were greeted with a
giant painting of Bill Clinton in a dress and heels
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pointing at you. What the hell is that? And I
think it's been mysterious since the first time I've ever
heard it. Isn't it more mysterious now? I mean, what
the hell is that? Yeah? It sure adds to the
side that there's something major going on in terms of
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him having sway over a lot of powerful people, which
I heard a couple go ahead, well you go, because
my thing is long.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was just going to say, I heard a couple
of New Yorkers talking about how incredibly big he was
on the social scene for a very long time, and
how he would say to a Katie kurrk Kate, you
want to come to a dinner. Bill Gates and his
wife are going to be there and so and so,
and Katie'd say, yeah, of course, And he'd say to
Bill Gates, you know, Katie Kirk's going to be there,
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And he'd have super famous musicians and Wall Street legends
and the scientists of note of the day and have
these incredible gatherings of the heavyweights. And so the fact
that Trump would know him, and I'm not defending Trump
in this, I'm just following my.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nose as I usually do.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The idea that Trump would know him, hang with him,
and want to be friendly with him is if the
opposite were true, that would be surprising.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He would have had to go out of his way
to not be in Ebstein's orbit. It would have been.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Almost they were like automatically in the same circles.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, because Manhattan's not that big. So Tucker Carlson put
out a podcast last night. He'd been teasing it all
week long. It aired live at eight o'clock, and I
jumped on it and listened. It was three hours long.
I listened to an hour of it. I got sucked
into it and couldn't stop. He had on that Daniel Cooper, dude,
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who Tucker claims is the best historian in America, America's
most honest historian, who I'd never heard of in my life.
And I'm a history freak. But Tucker would say, that's
because you're taking in all the mainstream lying historians, and
this Daniel Cooper is the only one telling the truth.
He's the guy. He's not a historian by any description.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He's just a guy who has an affinity for reading
history and talking about it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well, Tucker calls him a historian, but I agree with you,
and he says he's not a historian himself. When he
got challenged about his whole riff about Winston Churchill being
the cause of World War Two, he said, well, I'm
not a historian, but Tucker calls him America's most important
historian and had him on for three hours doing a
deep dive on Epstein. And one of the reasons I
(10:02):
kept listening was how far a feel. I mean, like
every event of the last thirty years got somehow tied
into Epstein. I finally turned it off when I was
fifteen minutes into his involvement in Iran Contra. Yeah, yeah,
(10:23):
Epstein deeply tied into Iran Contra. And fifteen minutes of
dates and names of things that you know, it would
take me a week to verify or falsify whether that
were true or not.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Iran Contra was Bush one, right end of Reagan and
Bush one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And who was in charge of that, George H. W. Bush.
And Tucker would go, oh yeah, George HW. Bush. So
you remember his big scandal was Iran Contra. So Epstein's
lawyer who worked for Bush's chief of staff. I mean,
it's just all stuff like that, right, And that might
all even be true, some of it may not, or
it might all be true. It doesn't I don't know
(11:02):
that it proves anything. Part of the thing with well,
what you were just saying about the powerful, the world
of the powerful is very, very small, and it's disturbingly small,
and I'm amazed how often it will turn out that,
like you know, the former Secretary of State wants his name,
(11:23):
who was it? Und Lincoln by Blincoln, Blincoln worked with whoever,
and then they're tied to whoever. And it's just it's
always like and they went to school that they both
went to college together.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No, they those two were roommate. I mean, just how
total them we're married to the networks?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and how small that world is is
disturbing and it really helps with this whole Epstein thing.
So the guy that hired Epstein is a twenty year
old math teacher with no resume at one of the
most exclusive schools private schools in Manhattan is Gas. Name
is Barr. Bill Barr's dad, Yes, the Attorney General's dad
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is the guy that hired Epstein to be the math teacher.
Bill Barr ends up being the Attorney General and being
the guy who was in charge of the Justice Department
when Epstein died in prison, for instance. Do the mass
I mean, so there's just like a hundred of those
and and well, I don't think that it proves anything,
(12:27):
but it's easy to lay that out. And they just
kept going. There's three hours that like I said, I
took in one hour and I had enough. But that's
you know, that's how conspiracies work. And I've gotten into
him before. It's kind of fun as they continue to
connect dots, or at least layout dots that can be connected.
It's kind of fun. I've done it with like the
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Kennedy assassination and a variety of things. But the end
of the day, there's no proof of anything. Of course,
you would say some of you would say there's no
proof because Trump and others are working very hard to
keep it from us. I'm reminded of six degrees of
Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yes, yeah, Do we want to talk about the whole
Tucker Darryl Cooper thing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We'll have it off air meeting. Uh, yeah, we could.
I do want to talk about Colbert losing his show?
Is that political or not. If it's not, the timing
is certainly suspect. So there you go. We had a
lot of stuff. We got to get to stay here.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Heyety, Trump keeps telling people to move on from asking
about the Epstein files. In fact, he's so tired of
talking about it. He started singing about it. Really take
a look, let it go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I really don't want to talk about it anymore. Okay,
I don't care about all of the things that they
will tweet you and the fake dus he's going on
and long. That list never bothered me anyway. I never
even heard of this guy. But that's okay. So Jimmy
(14:05):
found on the Tonight Show is going to have one
less competitor soon because Stephen Colbert's show is going away.
And is it political that Stephen Colbert got fired or not?
So let's get into that. Here's what Stephen Colbert said
last night when he came out on his show.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And yeah, I share your feelings.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late show on CBS. I'm not
being replaced. This is all just going away.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, So lay out the timeline of this what CNN, MSNBC,
NPR or talking about in terms of it being political?
How's it political? Bernie sand lays it out in a tweet.
CBS's billionaire owners pay Trump sixteen million dollars to settle
a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to
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Sky dance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most
popular late night host, slams the deal he did. Stephen
Colbert on the air like went really hard at CBS
and Paramount said it was a bribe, pathetic, He's embarrassed,
blah blah blah. Days later he's fired. Bernie tweets do
I think this is a coincidence? No, this is Bernie.
(15:32):
CBS says it's merely a financial thing. It's a cost
cutting thing. Now The Atlantic has got a peace out today.
CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert's financial
but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted
men in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt.
They write in The Atlantic and they go through the
timeline and think it's political. Also if it's not political,
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and I tend to think it's financial. In the nature
of all media has changed, and these shows have a
tiny percentage of the audience that they used to have
in all different sort of stuff. But the timing is
really bad. I mean, if you come out and bad
mouth your bosses really hard on Monday and you get
fired on Wednesday, I'm supposed to overlook that. And I
(16:19):
must point out that sometimes a humble straw can cause serious.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Spinal injuries to a camel. If you know what I'm saying.
It's a combination of things. Like everything. The timing is terrible,
absolutely terrible. If you want to say, no, no, no, it's
not at all political, I think it's exactly what you said.
We've been kind of involved in these sorts of things before.
If there's a big financial deal about to be made,
and there is, I mean this company that's trying to
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buy CBS Paramount. That's crazy, insane money. You don't want
any snags whatsoever. And Colbert's out there bad mouthing the company.
Now that's a snag.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And you were thinking this show is kind of a
little too expensive anyway, Again, straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, yeah, if you're dealing with tens of billions of
dollars a show that clears I don't know what their
their revenue picture is, but it clears a few million
dollars a year, even thirty million dollars a year, please,
that's a fraction.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't think the math works on those big late
night shows anymore. I'll but they're all going to go
away eventually. They're the scourge of the lake. They're being banned.
We'll tell you about it, Armstrong and Getty. I'm having
trouble getting into real news today, but I do want
to get to the latest and I think final assessment
of how much damage we did to the Iranian nuclear program.
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And it's good news if you're wanting to blast the
hell out of their nuclear program.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
From the New York Times. So stay t all right,
Debbie Downer, I'm into having fun. It's the Armstrong and
Getty Weekend Report. Hit the theme music, boy, they cut
our theme music budgets anocractically nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So this is the weekend report?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is what this is? Is that what I call it?
The arms Strong and Getty weekend Report? Or wait a minute,
how about Armstrong and Getty on the weekend?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Anyway, I thought this is interesting because I'm familiar with
this and I've actually watched people do it. I haven't
done it myself. Super crazy, controversial, getting banned on lakes
all across America. It's the wakeboarding boats speedboats that are
designed to produce a wave so tall that you can
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surf behind the boat without a rope.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I didn't. I didn't know that you use special boats
for that. Didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know if it's always been that way,
because I saw it done years and years and years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Quick quick tangent. That reminds me briefly, while we're in
Miami South Beach and we're like looking at various things
to do around there, and it's a very tourist area
and stuff like that, they had what do you call
the thing where you got like a kite on your
head and they pull you and then you go float
(19:09):
up in the air paras behind a boat. Yeah. Do
you have to be able to water ski to do that? No?
I don't think so anyway. No, Henry, my youngest, briefly
was really wanting to do that, like really wanting to
do it bad, and uh so I looked into it,
how much it was going to cost, and for his age,
we do it together. We'd do a dual one and
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everything like that. I wasn't really digging the idea of it.
I mean, I would do it. I'm not scared of
I just I'm past the age of needing to do
anything that's thrilling. I just don't need to.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I think they actually they put the shootout then
release you from the boat up into the air.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I think your eye rope then they lower you
back down. Anyway, I watched a lot of people do it.
You go pretty high over the water and everything like that.
It would be thrilling. Anyway. I finally talked about it
because I thought, there's no way you're going to be
able to do. We're gonna get out there, it's gonna
be time to start, and you're gonna say no. I
just know this is gonna happen. Oh boy, he finally
changed his mind. But so this one is the one.
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I get these all mixed up. This one you're like
on a ski or is this one where you're sitting
on a seat that's on a ski.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Either way you can be on or like a surfboard
or whatever. But it creates a wave behind the boat
that's high enough that you can surf on it essentially, but.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can picture the problem.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
This is a boat, and these things can cost well
over one hundred thousand dollars. These boats, which are sometimes
called the monster trucks of lake life. They intentionally create
enormous wakes which if you're a kayaker, or you're a
bunch of sixty pluses on a pontoon boat enjoying a
glass of wine, or you know. Actually they erode shorelines
(20:54):
and damage lake bottoms too, allegedly, But so they become
extremely controversial and.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
They're being banned all over the place.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
In Wisconsin, around sixty municipalities, including Lando Lakes, have banned
the boats from using their full wake enhancing mode.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And that's because people on other boats don't want a
giant wake. Or the jet ski people probably like it
because you get to jump the waves, which is what
you do on a jet ski.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, probably so, but like everybody else doing everything else,
I mean, it's violent wakes that smack you up and
down and spill everything, or terrify and overturn kayakers or
what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'm surprised there aren't more deaths on lakes. Oh yeah,
I mean, whenever you know, you hear in the news
the horrible stories almost always of somebody dying in a
boat or getting hit on jet ski or whatever. I'm
surprised it doesn't happen every weekend, every lake. I mean,
at least in my experience. I know this isn't true
for everybody, but my experience when I was young, everybody
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was hammerd I mean everybody was absolutely hammered driving around
a boat, hammered water skiing, jet skiing, everything like that.
And you know, there are no rules to the road,
there are no lanes. Everybody's just going every direction. At
the same time, I'm amazed there aren't more injuries.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, they cracked down a lot more than they used
to on drunken boating, just like they did with drunken driving,
which was way way more acceptable way back in the
day quote unquote acceptable. So anyway, I spent a fair
amount of time for a number of years bass fishing
with Craig, the healthcare guru, as a matter of fact,
And and a lot of bass fishermen refer to the
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jet ski people as lake lice or your pleasure boaters
zooming back and forth. So the bass fishermen hate those
boaters that the kayakers hate. The pontoon people hate these
wake borders. All right, do what you like.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And then speaking of recreation, with my floaties on, just
trying to get a tan, I.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Hate y'all right, right, all oiled up with criscom smelling
like a he's a rag chicken. This is adline from
the Wall Street Journal that I found oddly, weirdly amusing.
But Jack you, I want to hear your take. One
man's quest to break a record for birthday freebies. Competitive
(23:17):
free loaders plan for months to cash in on as
many offers as they can on the big day, says
the subject of this article.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I like to push myself. That's kind of funny. I've
known people that like have a like a circuit they
do on their birthday, and it's just kind of a
joke of they get their free taco at Taco Bell,
you go through Starbucks, that's a quick one. You get
your free drink, you know, just a variety of places.
(23:47):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'll go ahead and get to the punchline. I can't
decide if this is a great example of a human
being trying to overcome a challenge to plan to Babba ba,
or if this is a jackass wasting his time. He's
in La Clint, shout out, brother, I'll bet you're a
fun guy to hang out with. But the night before
(24:10):
his birthday, Clint was up late worrying about whether everything
would go to plan.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
His schedule was packed with stops all over LA. I
think he's starting at six am. I think that's hilarious.
You map out a route where you can hit the
most places on your birthday. Get my appetizer to Applebee's
of course.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Wait no, no, no no, don't don't throw out your imagined list,
wait for the real one he was getting. He anticipated
eating a lot of sweets, receiving a bunch of gifts,
and returning home exhausted. The thirty eight year old Aquatics manager, Hell,
Aquatics aren't going to manage themselves.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, you don't want them completely unorganized or unmanaged. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
He's part of a proud breed of competitive birthday freeloaders.
Each year, they celebrate the big day by trying to
get one over on big retail. It requires hours of
meticulous planning, careful strategize his stamina for sugar crashes. This year,
Savata Clint was hoping to break his record of thirty
five freebies set last year.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was stressed about it. How am I gonna get it?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Donnie said, But once I started with Starbucks first and
got my quad shot coffee, it was adrenaline for the
first half of the day. That's not adrenaline. That's caffeine, Clint.
But the real work starts months before.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The big day.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
He spent about fifteen hours sifting through emails, reinstalling loyalty apps,
racking his brain for loggins and passwords, reading through the
dreaded terms and conditions of rewards to make sure he's
made any necessary purchases to qualify. Then he builds a
spreadsheet with meticulous notes to map out the rute he's
going to take. He prioritizes rewards with the highest monetary value,
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tries to include shopping centers because they're a jackpot jack
multiple opportunities for rewards in one location the shopping center.
Then he looks for the that He prioritizes true freebies
and avoids buy one, get one deals or anything that
requires them to spend more than ten dollars to get
his freebie. Ugh, he knows his energy eleven flow, so
(26:13):
he schedules free coffees at intervals. He also brings his
four children along for parts of the day. Even those
teenagers think it's a little embarrassing. Sometimes they slow him
down by wanting to stop in stores that have no freebies,
but they make up for it by helping him devour
the sweet treats so he can stave off a sugar crash. Anyway,
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there's the actual list. Arbi's, Annie Ann's Baja Fresh, Baskin, Robbins,
Ben and Jerry's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger, King, Cheesecake Factory,
Chick fil A, Chipotlely Cinnabon, Coldstone Creamery, Corner Bakery, Crumble, Firehouse,
Habit Burger, That's a Fine Burger, hot Dog on a stick,
(26:59):
Jack in the Box, Jamba Juice, Jersey, Mike's, McKenna Coffee,
McDonald's Nothing, Bunt Cakes, Panda Express, Panera, Pize's Coffee, Popeyes, Portillo's,
Red Robin, Regal, San Fernando Coffee Company, Sabarro, Share a Tea, Sharky's, Starbucks, Subway,
Taco Bell, Wendy's Wetzels Pretzels, and finally, yogurt Land.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh my god, I can't believe you can do both
of the different kinds of cinnamon roll, fast food things
and a crumble in the same day, along with some
of those others. Oh that makes me want to vomit.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yes, so many sweets, and again I can't decide whether
I should be mocking this guy or holding him up
as a testament to humans something or other.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
By the end of the day, he's got to be thinking,
I don't know if I can eat an anti and
cinnamon roll right now. Maybe I got it. I get
one more cup of free coffee. Oh, Clint, we salute you.
That's fantastic. This report on Iran will make it brief,
but it's good news. If you're hoping it was successful,
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it was. Stay here, army.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
The New York Times editorial claims defunding NPR and PBS
is like defunding the police.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's true.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Think of all the times you've been violently assaulted, and thought, man,
if only the cast of Downton Abbey were here.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Man, do I have a day tomorrow I want to
talk about But I'll do it after this New York
Times reporting on how much damage we did to the
nuclear facility in Iran. Remember somebody leaked a negative report
early that turned out to be incredibly misleading, and then
every report since then has been much more positive in
(29:04):
terms of our success. So I don't know who that was,
but they're not patriots to this country. I'll tell you
that Iran's deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Florida was
badly damaged and potentially destroyed by the twelve massive bombs
that the US Air Force B two bombers dropped on
it last month, according to new American intelligence assessments. This
(29:28):
is from The New York Times. Two other nuclear sites
targeted in the attacks were not as badly damaged, but
facilities at the sites that would likely be key to
fabricating a nuclear weapon were destroyed and could take years
to rebuild. According to the latest story, A senior Israeli
officials said last week that the strikes most likely did
not eliminate the stockpile of the uranium bomb grade uranium,
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but without the facilities to a manufacture a weapon, the
fuel would be of little use even if the Uranians
can dig it out of the rubble, which they probably can't.
The new assessment helps create a clearer picture of what
combined strikes between US and Israeli achieved, probably crippling Rand's
ability to make nuclear fuel for years to come. Well,
(30:11):
that's a much more good news report than we were
initially told by whoever wanted to bad mouth the Trump
administration from ours. Whatever they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Right, that need to quickly announce something critical and negative.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, like you say, they are no patriot. Absolutely not.
So my son comes back from his weak long boy
scout camp tomorrow and I go pick him up. I
got a text yesterday that the wagon one of the
adult scouts had pulled a wagon. You have to hike
(30:50):
from the lake for two miles I think to the
camp spot up steep hill, and they had a wagon
carrying the tents and a bunch of other stuff. Of
the wagon broke and they like a Kna Stoga wagon
with a horse team or don't remember seeing the heavy
duty one you pull. We had these at the farm.
You can get these really heavy duty home depot. You
(31:12):
can haul nine hundred pounds on them, depending on which
wagon you bought. Wagons. They look like a kid's wagon,
but they're very, very sturdy. Anyway, their wagon broke and
they wanted to know because I was just going to
drive up there, pick up kids there at the base,
and drive home. It's going to be five hours of driving,
but pretty simple deal. Now yesterday I had to go
buy a wagon. Now I'm going to drive there, get
there very early, hike up there pulling the wagon, meet
(31:36):
them all there, load it all up, then hike back
down with the rest of them, then drive home. So
it's going to end up being like a ten to
twelve hour day probably, but you know, you do what
you gotta do. That would be my exercise.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, some nice exercise and nice physical exertion in nature.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What I need is proper footwear. If you'll remember the story, Gladys,
can you tell us remember I told this story? Well,
but the last time I hiked, I'm not much of
a hiker. I get a lot of exercise, but not
much of a hiker, and mostly just because I don't
I don't know, I don't know. Why don't I like hiking.
Whenever I do it, I'm pro hiking. But last time
I hiked with my kids, I fell down. I wore
slippery shoes. There were boots, but they had a very flat,
(32:15):
slippery bottom on them, and it was a dry time
of the year where all the weeds were laid flat
and it was like ice, and I fell. Because the
kids started counting, I fell on this hike nine times,
which is a lot. Wow, that's a lot of times
to fall completely to the ground. That is, as the
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kids would say, at least a few years ago, a
complete fell If you fell twice on a hike, because
generally you fall zero, If you fell twice in a hike,
that would seem like a lot. Then if you doubled that,
it would seem crazy. You're at four, then you double
that again to eight, and then one in extra on
the way down. Nine times I fell completely to the
(32:57):
ground on that hike. Oh my, They still mocked me
to this day. For that. I would be asking does
he have some sort of neurological condition or right you
would enter ear problem. They had to be thinking, should
dad be doing this? Do we have cell phone service here?
Or are we going to to call a helicopter to have
him carried out of here?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, you'd have been better stripping off your boots and
walking barefoot like the native people's Wow, I should have
thought of. I think wore some sort of shoes. Anyway,
became almost a game.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I mean when I got to like six or seven, like,
how many times am I gonna completely on my back?
And you say they still mock you. Yes, yeah, it's
hard to imagine starting to hear that it's disrespectful. I'll
let you know how it goes.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, hiking boots are kind of the antithesis of what you're.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Describing, completely flat on the surface. Uh, like designs to
make you fall. Yeah. Really, the one thing they try
to do is grip, grip, grip. At least it's going
to be good and hot. I quick prediction is, are
(34:05):
we done? Are we done with the E word? Next week?
It's over? Gotta be right, gotta be has to be.
That's a great question. I don't know. I'm torn.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I've heard some people I respect say, yeah, it's got
to tap her off. But then Wall Street that's a
pretty big piece. Yeah, and then and the Trump administration
is under pressure legitimately to release more comes somewhere close
to living up to your promises. Pam Bondi, Cash Pateel,
(34:41):
Dan Bongino. And you know what we haven't really talked
about much is the shouting match between Bongino and Bondi
at the Justice Department last week where Bongino didn't even
show up for work Friday he was so pissed off.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here's one of the pieces from Tucker Carlson's three hour
PIECEE Last Night about the whole Epstein thing. So the
first rich person that comes to Epstein that helps launch
him into grazy wealth. Last name Koshogi yep, father of
the Koshogi that got bone sawed, and that Koshogi was
somehow tied into the Masad and just blah blah blah.
(35:17):
I mean, so yeah, if it's all true, I mean,
the tentacles of the thing are just insane.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
Shorter to list people who aren't involved. Next Hour is
going to be a blockbuster. What you don't get Next Hour,
just subscribe to our podcast, Armstrong and Getty on demand
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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and Jettie and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Where are my fellow weaklings at? Because that's what Trump
called us yesterday?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Right.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He also during a press conference said that we were
stupid for still caring about the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
So I think now.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
We're arriving at the important question here, which is who
is Trump protecting? Because he's clearly protecting someone. Is it himself?
Is it someone in his family?
Speaker 1 (00:44):
That's Candice Owens. She's part of the hardcore Mago Wright
online online podcast Commento sphere, her and Tucker and and
so she's who's Trump? Where I'm call me a weekling?
Who are you trying to protect Trump? So Wall Street
(01:07):
Journal with a big, giant, blockbuster exclusive that came out
today around Epstein that Trump spent the week trying to
keep the Wall Street Journal from printing. He was on
the phone with people the Wall Street Journal. He even
called up Murdoch and said, if you print this, I
will sue. Joe Getty will tell us what it is.
It's not that big a deal. I don't know. Oh wow,
(01:30):
who are you protecting? All right? Fat, you have caught me?
Got I admit it all now.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
He back in two thousand and three, old Gilaane Maxwell
Geelane Giselaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift for Jeffrey
Epstein's fiftieth She turned Epstein's family and friends to write
him happy birthday wishes. She's going to compile them into
a book for him, and one of them appears to
(01:58):
be from Donald J.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Trump.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
The letter bearing Trump's name is body like others in
the album Jack, It contains several lines of typewritten text,
framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears
to be hand drawn with a heavy marker. A pair
of small arcs denotes the woman's breasts, and the future
president's signature is a squiggly donald lower waist, mimicking perhaps.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Her horror down there. Neil Trump says, now.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
Oh, I'm sorry, And it's several lines, but it ends
with the very odd So yeah, this is the big part.
Happy birthday, and may every day be another wonderful secret.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Oh what now.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
He's kind of infamous for his wonderful secrets. In quotes
right now and it's like sex and up teenage.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Girls, if you so so. Trump denies this, He says
that ain't me. I've never drawn a quote.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
This is not me. This is a fake thing. It's
a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a
picture in my life. I don't draw pictures of women.
It's not my language, it's not my words. See I
could say that too and be certain that I was right.
I've never squiggled out a naked woman on a birthday
card in my life, I'm positive oft. But whether Trump
(03:25):
did or not, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
But like, if you got some sort of shady, maybe
even illegal thing like between you and a friend on
the birthday card, do you sign sure cool that you
could get me all those drugs happy birthday? You know
what would you do that? Would you hit at it?
(03:49):
Even with the have another good secret day?
Speaker 4 (03:51):
I mean, would you yeah, have a sticky day, have
a green day, as Green Day would put it?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Uh No, Well, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:00):
You wouldn't think so if it was the really illicit stuff.
And you know what's funny about this is I can
so easily picture ms Maxwell hitting Donald J up through
his people or directly or whatever, and him.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Tasking somebody with dealing with him.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Then he signed it, and he probably looked at it
and thought, that's kind of clever. It looks almost like
a cartoon out of Playboy or something whatever, and never
thought about it again his entire life. The other day,
I ran into one of our beloved listeners who re
thanked us for doing a video for I think it
was their wife's birthday, and it was like really elaborate,
(04:42):
and I'd totally forgotten about it completely. I barely had
a shred of a memory of doing it. And it
took us several minutes because it kind of came trickling
back to me.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
So you're saying, perhaps I have signed a birthday card
where I sketched a naked woman and wrote have a
beautiful secret day or whatever the hell that is. Oh no,
it was. I'm saying all Donald J did was sign it.
Do you think he wrote to have a good secret
day or another great secret day or whatever that phrases?
Speaker 4 (05:08):
No idea, may every day be another wonderful secret I.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
Just can't imagine. I mean, because if the claim is
Trump's in on hiding this just giant global secret sex
ring masade thing, would you hint at it in the
birthday card. It just seems so crazy to me. Let's see.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Among those who submitted letters were billionaire Leslie Wexner, who's
at the center of a lot of theories about this
attorney Alan Derschwitz. Album also contained a letter from now
deceased Harvard economist, one of Epstein's report cards from Twain
Junior High School in Brooklyn, a note from a former
assistant that included an across stick with his name, and
(05:57):
all sorts of dopey birthday card the stuff.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So, to my mind, the best political journalist in America
is Mark Halprin. He's been on a bunch of shows
this week talking about this whole thing, and specifically talking
about this big, exclusive Wall Street Journal piece.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
So on the democratic side, it's a little complicated.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
I'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'll just say I think the significance of the journal
story is if the letter's true, the President's lied about it.
But more significantly, it speaks to a relationship which we
still don't really understand. Still don't really understand the contours
that the extent these two guys were palsed. This letter
suggests a very intimate relationship and that's I think the
(06:35):
significance is that it may cause other people to go
look at that question. I'm not sure where that might lead,
but there are a lot of unanswered questions there.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
That's kind of interesting. Regardless the phrase and the picture,
it would suggest a fairly close relationship, probably that Trump
has denied. Well, one of the biggest mystery to me,
and the whole Epstein thing always has been. And this
is long before anybody ever said a word about trafficking
(07:08):
children in the massade. He had in his home, the
biggest home in Manhattan, New York. Have you been in
that Manhattan, New York. There's a lot of giant homes
and a lot of really related rich people. And Epstein
had the biggest home on the entire island. And when
you walked in the door, you were greeted with a
giant painting of Bill Clinton in a dress and heels
(07:32):
pointing at you. What the hell is that? And I
think it's been mysterious since the first time I've ever
heard it. Isn't it more mysterious now? I mean, what
the hell is that? Yeah? It sure adds to the
side that there's something major going on in terms of
(07:53):
him having sway over a lot of powerful people, which
I heard a couple go ahead, well you go, because
my thing is long.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
I was just going to say, I heard a couple
of New Yorkers talking about how incredibly big he was
on the social scene for a very long time, and
how he would say to a Katie kurrk Kate, you
want to come to a dinner. Bill Gates and his
wife are going to be there and so and so,
and Katie'd say, yeah, of course, And he'd say to
Bill Gates, you know, Katie Kirk's going to be there,
(08:24):
And he'd have super famous musicians and Wall Street legends
and the scientists of note of the day and have
these incredible gatherings of the heavyweights. And so the fact
that Trump would know him, and I'm not defending Trump
in this, I'm just following my.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Nose as I usually do.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
The idea that Trump would know him, hang with him,
and want to be friendly with him is if the
opposite were true, that would be surprising.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
He would have had to go out of his way
to not be in Ebstein's orbit. It would have been.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Almost they were like automatically in the same circles.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Yeah, because Manhattan's not that big. So Tucker Carlson put
out a podcast last night. He'd been teasing it all
week long. It aired live at eight o'clock, and I
jumped on it and listened. It was three hours long.
I listened to an hour of it. I got sucked
into it and couldn't stop. He had on that Daniel Cooper, dude,
(09:19):
who Tucker claims is the best historian in America, America's
most honest historian, who I'd never heard of in my life.
And I'm a history freak. But Tucker would say, that's
because you're taking in all the mainstream lying historians, and
this Daniel Cooper is the only one telling the truth.
He's the guy. He's not a historian by any description.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
He's just a guy who has an affinity for reading
history and talking about it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Well, Tucker calls him a historian, but I agree with you,
and he says he's not a historian himself. When he
got challenged about his whole riff about Winston Churchill being
the cause of World War Two, he said, well, I'm
not a historian, but Tucker calls him America's most important
historian and had him on for three hours doing a
deep dive on Epstein. And one of the reasons I
(10:02):
kept listening was how far a feel. I mean, like
every event of the last thirty years got somehow tied
into Epstein. I finally turned it off when I was
fifteen minutes into his involvement in Iran Contra. Yeah, yeah,
(10:23):
Epstein deeply tied into Iran Contra. And fifteen minutes of
dates and names of things that you know, it would
take me a week to verify or falsify whether that
were true or not.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Iran Contra was Bush one, right end of Reagan and
Bush one.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And who was in charge of that, George H. W. Bush.
And Tucker would go, oh yeah, George HW. Bush. So
you remember his big scandal was Iran Contra. So Epstein's
lawyer who worked for Bush's chief of staff. I mean,
it's just all stuff like that, right, And that might
all even be true, some of it may not, or
it might all be true. It doesn't I don't know
(11:02):
that it proves anything. Part of the thing with well,
what you were just saying about the powerful, the world
of the powerful is very, very small, and it's disturbingly small,
and I'm amazed how often it will turn out that,
like you know, the former Secretary of State wants his name,
(11:23):
who was it? Und Lincoln by Blincoln, Blincoln worked with whoever,
and then they're tied to whoever. And it's just it's
always like and they went to school that they both
went to college together.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
No, they those two were roommate. I mean, just how
total them we're married to the networks?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, and how small that world is is
disturbing and it really helps with this whole Epstein thing.
So the guy that hired Epstein is a twenty year
old math teacher with no resume at one of the
most exclusive schools private schools in Manhattan is Gas. Name
is Barr. Bill Barr's dad, Yes, the Attorney General's dad
(12:06):
is the guy that hired Epstein to be the math teacher.
Bill Barr ends up being the Attorney General and being
the guy who was in charge of the Justice Department
when Epstein died in prison, for instance. Do the mass
I mean, so there's just like a hundred of those
and and well, I don't think that it proves anything,
(12:27):
but it's easy to lay that out. And they just
kept going. There's three hours that like I said, I
took in one hour and I had enough. But that's
you know, that's how conspiracies work. And I've gotten into
him before. It's kind of fun as they continue to
connect dots, or at least layout dots that can be connected.
It's kind of fun. I've done it with like the
(12:48):
Kennedy assassination and a variety of things. But the end
of the day, there's no proof of anything. Of course,
you would say some of you would say there's no
proof because Trump and others are working very hard to
keep it from us. I'm reminded of six degrees of
Kevin Bacon.
Speaker 4 (13:02):
Yes, yeah, Do we want to talk about the whole
Tucker Darryl Cooper thing.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We'll have it off air meeting. Uh, yeah, we could.
I do want to talk about Colbert losing his show?
Is that political or not. If it's not, the timing
is certainly suspect. So there you go. We had a
lot of stuff. We got to get to stay here.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Heyety, Trump keeps telling people to move on from asking
about the Epstein files. In fact, he's so tired of
talking about it. He started singing about it. Really take
a look, let it go, let it go.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I really don't want to talk about it anymore. Okay,
I don't care about all of the things that they
will tweet you and the fake dus he's going on
and long. That list never bothered me anyway. I never
even heard of this guy. But that's okay. So Jimmy
(14:05):
found on the Tonight Show is going to have one
less competitor soon because Stephen Colbert's show is going away.
And is it political that Stephen Colbert got fired or not?
So let's get into that. Here's what Stephen Colbert said
last night when he came out on his show.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Next year will be our last season. The network will
be ending the Late Show in May.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
And yeah, I share your feelings.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
It's not just the end of our show, but it's
the end of the Late show on CBS. I'm not
being replaced. This is all just going away.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, So lay out the timeline of this what CNN, MSNBC,
NPR or talking about in terms of it being political?
How's it political? Bernie sand lays it out in a tweet.
CBS's billionaire owners pay Trump sixteen million dollars to settle
a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to
(15:10):
Sky dance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most
popular late night host, slams the deal he did. Stephen
Colbert on the air like went really hard at CBS
and Paramount said it was a bribe, pathetic, He's embarrassed,
blah blah blah. Days later he's fired. Bernie tweets do
I think this is a coincidence? No, this is Bernie.
(15:32):
CBS says it's merely a financial thing. It's a cost
cutting thing. Now The Atlantic has got a peace out today.
CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert's financial
but the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted
men in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt.
They write in The Atlantic and they go through the
timeline and think it's political. Also if it's not political,
(15:58):
and I tend to think it's financial. In the nature
of all media has changed, and these shows have a
tiny percentage of the audience that they used to have
in all different sort of stuff. But the timing is
really bad. I mean, if you come out and bad
mouth your bosses really hard on Monday and you get
fired on Wednesday, I'm supposed to overlook that. And I
(16:19):
must point out that sometimes a humble straw can cause serious.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Spinal injuries to a camel. If you know what I'm saying.
It's a combination of things. Like everything. The timing is terrible,
absolutely terrible. If you want to say, no, no, no, it's
not at all political, I think it's exactly what you said.
We've been kind of involved in these sorts of things before.
If there's a big financial deal about to be made,
and there is, I mean this company that's trying to
(16:45):
buy CBS Paramount. That's crazy, insane money. You don't want
any snags whatsoever. And Colbert's out there bad mouthing the company.
Now that's a snag.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
And you were thinking this show is kind of a
little too expensive anyway, Again, straw that broke the camel's back.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yeah, yeah, if you're dealing with tens of billions of
dollars a show that clears I don't know what their
their revenue picture is, but it clears a few million
dollars a year, even thirty million dollars a year, please,
that's a fraction.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't think the math works on those big late
night shows anymore. I'll but they're all going to go
away eventually. They're the scourge of the lake. They're being banned.
We'll tell you about it, Armstrong and Getty. I'm having
trouble getting into real news today, but I do want
to get to the latest and I think final assessment
of how much damage we did to the Iranian nuclear program.
(17:35):
And it's good news if you're wanting to blast the
hell out of their nuclear program.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
From the New York Times. So stay t all right,
Debbie Downer, I'm into having fun. It's the Armstrong and
Getty Weekend Report. Hit the theme music, boy, they cut
our theme music budgets anocractically nothing.
Speaker 1 (17:56):
So this is the weekend report?
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Is what this is? Is that what I call it?
The arms Strong and Getty weekend Report? Or wait a minute,
how about Armstrong and Getty on the weekend?
Speaker 1 (18:09):
No, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Anyway, I thought this is interesting because I'm familiar with
this and I've actually watched people do it. I haven't
done it myself. Super crazy, controversial, getting banned on lakes
all across America. It's the wakeboarding boats speedboats that are
designed to produce a wave so tall that you can
(18:35):
surf behind the boat without a rope.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
I didn't. I didn't know that you use special boats
for that. Didn't know that.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Yeah, I don't know if it's always been that way,
because I saw it done years and years and years ago.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Quick quick tangent. That reminds me briefly, while we're in
Miami South Beach and we're like looking at various things
to do around there, and it's a very tourist area
and stuff like that, they had what do you call
the thing where you got like a kite on your
head and they pull you and then you go float
(19:09):
up in the air paras behind a boat. Yeah. Do
you have to be able to water ski to do that? No?
I don't think so anyway. No, Henry, my youngest, briefly
was really wanting to do that, like really wanting to
do it bad, and uh so I looked into it,
how much it was going to cost, and for his age,
we do it together. We'd do a dual one and
(19:30):
everything like that. I wasn't really digging the idea of it.
I mean, I would do it. I'm not scared of
I just I'm past the age of needing to do
anything that's thrilling. I just don't need to.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yeah, I think they actually they put the shootout then
release you from the boat up into the air.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah, I think your eye rope then they lower you
back down. Anyway, I watched a lot of people do it.
You go pretty high over the water and everything like that.
It would be thrilling. Anyway. I finally talked about it
because I thought, there's no way you're going to be
able to do. We're gonna get out there, it's gonna
be time to start, and you're gonna say no. I
just know this is gonna happen. Oh boy, he finally
changed his mind. But so this one is the one.
(20:09):
I get these all mixed up. This one you're like
on a ski or is this one where you're sitting
on a seat that's on a ski.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Either way you can be on or like a surfboard
or whatever. But it creates a wave behind the boat
that's high enough that you can surf on it essentially, but.
Speaker 1 (20:28):
You can picture the problem.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
This is a boat, and these things can cost well
over one hundred thousand dollars. These boats, which are sometimes
called the monster trucks of lake life. They intentionally create
enormous wakes which if you're a kayaker, or you're a
bunch of sixty pluses on a pontoon boat enjoying a
glass of wine, or you know. Actually they erode shorelines
(20:54):
and damage lake bottoms too, allegedly, But so they become
extremely controversial and.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
They're being banned all over the place.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
In Wisconsin, around sixty municipalities, including Lando Lakes, have banned
the boats from using their full wake enhancing mode.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And that's because people on other boats don't want a
giant wake. Or the jet ski people probably like it
because you get to jump the waves, which is what
you do on a jet ski.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Yeah, probably so, but like everybody else doing everything else,
I mean, it's violent wakes that smack you up and
down and spill everything, or terrify and overturn kayakers or
what happened.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
I'm surprised there aren't more deaths on lakes. Oh yeah,
I mean, whenever you know, you hear in the news
the horrible stories almost always of somebody dying in a
boat or getting hit on jet ski or whatever. I'm
surprised it doesn't happen every weekend, every lake. I mean,
at least in my experience. I know this isn't true
for everybody, but my experience when I was young, everybody
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was hammerd I mean everybody was absolutely hammered driving around
a boat, hammered water skiing, jet skiing, everything like that.
And you know, there are no rules to the road,
there are no lanes. Everybody's just going every direction. At
the same time, I'm amazed there aren't more injuries.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Yeah, they cracked down a lot more than they used
to on drunken boating, just like they did with drunken driving,
which was way way more acceptable way back in the
day quote unquote acceptable. So anyway, I spent a fair
amount of time for a number of years bass fishing
with Craig, the healthcare guru, as a matter of fact,
And and a lot of bass fishermen refer to the
(22:34):
jet ski people as lake lice or your pleasure boaters
zooming back and forth. So the bass fishermen hate those
boaters that the kayakers hate. The pontoon people hate these
wake borders. All right, do what you like.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
And then speaking of recreation, with my floaties on, just
trying to get a tan, I.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Hate y'all right, right, all oiled up with criscom smelling
like a he's a rag chicken. This is adline from
the Wall Street Journal that I found oddly, weirdly amusing.
But Jack you, I want to hear your take. One
man's quest to break a record for birthday freebies. Competitive
(23:17):
free loaders plan for months to cash in on as
many offers as they can on the big day, says
the subject of this article.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
I like to push myself. That's kind of funny. I've
known people that like have a like a circuit they
do on their birthday, and it's just kind of a
joke of they get their free taco at Taco Bell,
you go through Starbucks, that's a quick one. You get
your free drink, you know, just a variety of places.
(23:47):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (23:47):
I'll go ahead and get to the punchline. I can't
decide if this is a great example of a human
being trying to overcome a challenge to plan to Babba ba,
or if this is a jackass wasting his time. He's
in La Clint, shout out, brother, I'll bet you're a
fun guy to hang out with. But the night before
(24:10):
his birthday, Clint was up late worrying about whether everything
would go to plan.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
His schedule was packed with stops all over LA. I
think he's starting at six am. I think that's hilarious.
You map out a route where you can hit the
most places on your birthday. Get my appetizer to Applebee's
of course.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
Wait no, no, no no, don't don't throw out your imagined list,
wait for the real one he was getting. He anticipated
eating a lot of sweets, receiving a bunch of gifts,
and returning home exhausted. The thirty eight year old Aquatics manager, Hell,
Aquatics aren't going to manage themselves.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
No, you don't want them completely unorganized or unmanaged. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
He's part of a proud breed of competitive birthday freeloaders.
Each year, they celebrate the big day by trying to
get one over on big retail. It requires hours of
meticulous planning, careful strategize his stamina for sugar crashes. This year,
Savata Clint was hoping to break his record of thirty
five freebies set last year.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
I was stressed about it. How am I gonna get it?
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Donnie said, But once I started with Starbucks first and
got my quad shot coffee, it was adrenaline for the
first half of the day. That's not adrenaline. That's caffeine, Clint.
But the real work starts months before.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
The big day.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
He spent about fifteen hours sifting through emails, reinstalling loyalty apps,
racking his brain for loggins and passwords, reading through the
dreaded terms and conditions of rewards to make sure he's
made any necessary purchases to qualify. Then he builds a
spreadsheet with meticulous notes to map out the rute he's
going to take. He prioritizes rewards with the highest monetary value,
(25:47):
tries to include shopping centers because they're a jackpot jack
multiple opportunities for rewards in one location the shopping center.
Then he looks for the that He prioritizes true freebies
and avoids buy one, get one deals or anything that
requires them to spend more than ten dollars to get
his freebie. Ugh, he knows his energy eleven flow, so
(26:13):
he schedules free coffees at intervals. He also brings his
four children along for parts of the day. Even those
teenagers think it's a little embarrassing. Sometimes they slow him
down by wanting to stop in stores that have no freebies,
but they make up for it by helping him devour
the sweet treats so he can stave off a sugar crash. Anyway,
(26:37):
there's the actual list. Arbi's, Annie Ann's Baja Fresh, Baskin, Robbins,
Ben and Jerry's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger, King, Cheesecake Factory,
Chick fil A, Chipotlely Cinnabon, Coldstone Creamery, Corner Bakery, Crumble, Firehouse,
Habit Burger, That's a Fine Burger, hot Dog on a stick,
(26:59):
Jack in the Box, Jamba Juice, Jersey, Mike's, McKenna Coffee,
McDonald's Nothing, Bunt Cakes, Panda Express, Panera, Pize's Coffee, Popeyes, Portillo's,
Red Robin, Regal, San Fernando Coffee Company, Sabarro, Share a Tea, Sharky's, Starbucks, Subway,
Taco Bell, Wendy's Wetzels Pretzels, and finally, yogurt Land.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Oh my god, I can't believe you can do both
of the different kinds of cinnamon roll, fast food things
and a crumble in the same day, along with some
of those others. Oh that makes me want to vomit.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
Yes, so many sweets, and again I can't decide whether
I should be mocking this guy or holding him up
as a testament to humans something or other.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
By the end of the day, he's got to be thinking,
I don't know if I can eat an anti and
cinnamon roll right now. Maybe I got it. I get
one more cup of free coffee. Oh, Clint, we salute you.
That's fantastic. This report on Iran will make it brief,
but it's good news. If you're hoping it was successful,
(28:14):
it was. Stay here, army.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
The New York Times editorial claims defunding NPR and PBS
is like defunding the police.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
It's true.
Speaker 7 (28:29):
Think of all the times you've been violently assaulted, and thought, man,
if only the cast of Downton Abbey were here.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Man, do I have a day tomorrow I want to
talk about But I'll do it after this New York
Times reporting on how much damage we did to the
nuclear facility in Iran. Remember somebody leaked a negative report
early that turned out to be incredibly misleading, and then
every report since then has been much more positive in
(29:04):
terms of our success. So I don't know who that was,
but they're not patriots to this country. I'll tell you
that Iran's deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Florida was
badly damaged and potentially destroyed by the twelve massive bombs
that the US Air Force B two bombers dropped on
it last month, according to new American intelligence assessments. This
(29:28):
is from The New York Times. Two other nuclear sites
targeted in the attacks were not as badly damaged, but
facilities at the sites that would likely be key to
fabricating a nuclear weapon were destroyed and could take years
to rebuild. According to the latest story, A senior Israeli
officials said last week that the strikes most likely did
not eliminate the stockpile of the uranium bomb grade uranium,
(29:51):
but without the facilities to a manufacture a weapon, the
fuel would be of little use even if the Uranians
can dig it out of the rubble, which they probably can't.
The new assessment helps create a clearer picture of what
combined strikes between US and Israeli achieved, probably crippling Rand's
ability to make nuclear fuel for years to come. Well,
(30:11):
that's a much more good news report than we were
initially told by whoever wanted to bad mouth the Trump
administration from ours. Whatever they're trying to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Right, that need to quickly announce something critical and negative.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, like you say, they are no patriot. Absolutely not.
So my son comes back from his weak long boy
scout camp tomorrow and I go pick him up. I
got a text yesterday that the wagon one of the
adult scouts had pulled a wagon. You have to hike
(30:50):
from the lake for two miles I think to the
camp spot up steep hill, and they had a wagon
carrying the tents and a bunch of other stuff. Of
the wagon broke and they like a Kna Stoga wagon
with a horse team or don't remember seeing the heavy
duty one you pull. We had these at the farm.
You can get these really heavy duty home depot. You
(31:12):
can haul nine hundred pounds on them, depending on which
wagon you bought. Wagons. They look like a kid's wagon,
but they're very, very sturdy. Anyway, their wagon broke and
they wanted to know because I was just going to
drive up there, pick up kids there at the base,
and drive home. It's going to be five hours of driving,
but pretty simple deal. Now yesterday I had to go
buy a wagon. Now I'm going to drive there, get
there very early, hike up there pulling the wagon, meet
(31:36):
them all there, load it all up, then hike back
down with the rest of them, then drive home. So
it's going to end up being like a ten to
twelve hour day probably, but you know, you do what
you gotta do. That would be my exercise.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Yeah, some nice exercise and nice physical exertion in nature.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
What I need is proper footwear. If you'll remember the story, Gladys,
can you tell us remember I told this story? Well,
but the last time I hiked, I'm not much of
a hiker. I get a lot of exercise, but not
much of a hiker, and mostly just because I don't
I don't know, I don't know. Why don't I like hiking.
Whenever I do it, I'm pro hiking. But last time
I hiked with my kids, I fell down. I wore
slippery shoes. There were boots, but they had a very flat,
(32:15):
slippery bottom on them, and it was a dry time
of the year where all the weeds were laid flat
and it was like ice, and I fell. Because the
kids started counting, I fell on this hike nine times,
which is a lot. Wow, that's a lot of times
to fall completely to the ground. That is, as the
(32:36):
kids would say, at least a few years ago, a
complete fell If you fell twice on a hike, because
generally you fall zero, If you fell twice in a hike,
that would seem like a lot. Then if you doubled that,
it would seem crazy. You're at four, then you double
that again to eight, and then one in extra on
the way down. Nine times I fell completely to the
(32:57):
ground on that hike. Oh my, They still mocked me
to this day. For that. I would be asking does
he have some sort of neurological condition or right you
would enter ear problem. They had to be thinking, should
dad be doing this? Do we have cell phone service here?
Or are we going to to call a helicopter to have
him carried out of here?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
Yeah, you'd have been better stripping off your boots and
walking barefoot like the native people's Wow, I should have
thought of. I think wore some sort of shoes. Anyway,
became almost a game.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
I mean when I got to like six or seven, like,
how many times am I gonna completely on my back?
And you say they still mock you. Yes, yeah, it's
hard to imagine starting to hear that it's disrespectful. I'll
let you know how it goes.
Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, hiking boots are kind of the antithesis of what you're.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Describing, completely flat on the surface. Uh, like designs to
make you fall. Yeah. Really, the one thing they try
to do is grip, grip, grip. At least it's going
to be good and hot. I quick prediction is, are
(34:05):
we done? Are we done with the E word? Next week?
It's over? Gotta be right, gotta be has to be.
That's a great question. I don't know. I'm torn.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
I've heard some people I respect say, yeah, it's got
to tap her off. But then Wall Street that's a
pretty big piece. Yeah, and then and the Trump administration
is under pressure legitimately to release more comes somewhere close
to living up to your promises. Pam Bondi, Cash Pateel,
(34:41):
Dan Bongino. And you know what we haven't really talked
about much is the shouting match between Bongino and Bondi
at the Justice Department last week where Bongino didn't even
show up for work Friday he was so pissed off.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Here's one of the pieces from Tucker Carlson's three hour
PIECEE Last Night about the whole Epstein thing. So the
first rich person that comes to Epstein that helps launch
him into grazy wealth. Last name Koshogi yep, father of
the Koshogi that got bone sawed, and that Koshogi was
somehow tied into the Masad and just blah blah blah.
(35:17):
I mean, so yeah, if it's all true, I mean,
the tentacles of the thing are just insane.
Speaker 4 (35:26):
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