July 25, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- Hanson explains his AI musical masterpieces
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- South Park & the Epstein files
- The Air India pilot
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
kat Katie and He Armstrong and Hetty. We're doing on workshop,
(00:23):
a primer tutorial how to when it comes to making
AI songs with our executive producer Hanson.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He has unleashed upon us a couple of times in
recent days, absolutely hilariously over the top but authentic sounding
little songs, and we keep asking, how are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So he's gonna explain it. I think executive producer hands
joined us. So you're gonna play some examples of these
songs first before we get into the Yeah, ok so
we did.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We did a show open today and it was you
and I just pulled that together a matter of seconds.
I've got an alternate version. So today's was an R
and B. I think I just put like sixties R
and B and we wrote a couple of lines real quick,
and so here would be the nineteen eighties springsteenish with
a female singer.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's one hundred okay, coming off the sound, I'm strong
and ready show show. So sazzle boom?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Should I like that?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Wow? Yeah? So scorm One. I really liked the background singers,
Roy Bitten on piano. There no kidding, I make it stop.
Does that make you feel good?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Though?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I mean that's a good way to start.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I like the I like the vibe of that, and
the quality of the music is getting so much better
than when we first started doing it, because there was
there was something kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Weird about it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
How long you been doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not too long?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Like months?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Sure, so it's gotten better in months, Yeah, it gets Yeah,
it's a weekly. I've noticed improvements that have been well so, just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
As I for instance, how long did it take you
soup to nuts as they say, to put that song together?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
That one was thirty seconds. But we didn't put a
lot of it rit lyrics. We didn't put a lot
of thought into those words. That was a quick Yeah,
it was like what are we gonna do tomorrow? And
it's one, two, three and then boom.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But even if you paid version of something.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm paying for it, but it's
it's a pittance. It's it's so little amount given what
I'm getting, Like, I could never have a house band.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I wish I could have a house band. Wouldn't that
be fun if we had a we had a band, fun,
if we had a band that showed up every morning
at like four in the morning and be fantastic a delight.
That's probably why Colbert doesn't have a show anymore. He
is he couldn't pay those guys that was like pott
in here and they know kidding, leaving their crap everywhere. Please, hey,
just play one play one on one.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We don't have to do the whole thing because it's
just it's the same words but a different take. And
this time I went with I was like a Susian
Banshee's vibe that I wanted to gain.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's pretty cool coming up the cell on the Armstrong
Getdy Show. This is more my grove. Trump says Obama
should go to I love that.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Epstein's girlfriend is ready to.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Gender madness.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Boris's So, what's the name of the program that you
used for that one?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
This one was Suno Suno, so I could download Is
it an app? It's a site. It's a site. So
I go to the Suno website and it costs not
very much money to use it, and then like anybody
could do this absolutely wow and listen I gotta do that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I'm not a musician. I'm not a singer, I'm not
a voiceover guy. I am marginally talented radio person. So
I'm just any old schlub walking down the street could
get this and put it together and put something fun
together for whatever purpose.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah. So if you're not, I mean the reasons you
could use this obviously are endless. You know, your anniversary,
your dad's birthday, your boy scout troop. I mean, you
could come up with anything that would be so many
examples of stuff that would be very.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Entertaining for people.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh yeah, I would love to try my hand at
just writing humorous songs.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I would get it right. I would get into it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Would it takes so long.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
To produce them in the in the past. I would
get in on it earlier rather than later, because I
think it's going to become just ubiquitous once everybody catches on.
I'll walk in the door, my kids will have a
song about how they want me to make lunch for them.
I mean, it'll it' that's where it's gonna end up,
all right, But then it'll be less.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
About uh, novelty and more about quality. Yeah, so true,
Like like virtually anything in the vein of what.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You're talking about, Mike, why don't you play one oh four?
So they told me to join them on the air
to talk about this vake music and how I maintain
(05:54):
my hair. But I har there some resent.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Dude, Yesterday's big old b It.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Is a Maria hero and Jack and Joe deserve a
body slam. But I'll do what they tell me, handsome
(06:29):
that that so, so, what what did you tell the
computer to do? There?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh, just a few prompt style tempo, you know, male
or female singer of music, but the perfect Baker's Field
guitar style.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I know, Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's frightening and disturbing, honestly and awesome. I'm amused, yeah
and awesome. Yeah that is cool.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So I would write some words and then I would
tell it the style, type in the style, and then
you just wait thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, roughly vaguely, and then it's probably not gonna like
for me. I'm gonna put something together and then I'll
hear it and go, oh, that could be better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I can do.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh it needs this or maybe one more rhyming line.
That that just a bridge to the next thing, because
so you can massage it after you hear it the
first time. Yeah, and then it'll give me it'll spit
out a remix or it'll give me a completely different version.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And Aaron Hair was a really lazy Yeah. I didn't
want to overthink it and I was accomplished. That's beautiful.
And then we will Yeah, those keep them coming and
keeps springing them on us, because that's that's what's so fun.
(07:41):
I can't imagine how much time fourteen year old me
would have spent on this if this had emerged when
I was a kid. So we we did show up
fortunate couplets, yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
There'd be. I gotta give this to Henry and see
what he comes up with.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh lord, oh that is that is so wild in
the in in radio obviously back in the day, if
you could come up with a song that was about
today's news or whatever it was, there's there's you know
Rick D's in La or whatever. There's lots of shows
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that made their made their money with that sort of thing.
But the the budget you had to have to pull
it off, right, it was just incredible. Right now, I
need their careers on it. Yeah, now, anybody can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't know what does that mean?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Is there anything important happening? I mean, it's happened, so
it doesn't make any difference. There's no star, right, So
here's what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm wrestling with as an alleged musician. You know, I'm
still writing songs and recording him and stuff like that,
but instead of because I can't play keyboards worth squat,
so I always have to find a keyboardist to play
whatever I want in the song. But I'm pretty certain
now I could lay down all the basic tracks the
old fashioned way and then say, look, hey, I need
(08:59):
this coorp fragish and on the piano and the style
of this piano player at this tempo and tweak it
like Hanson's been doing, and the song would be eighty
five percent organic. But it would save me a little
time in trouble, maybe a couple of bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Is that wrong? Well, I'm sure it's happening or going
to happen. Yeah, yeah, I want bucco and style guitar
in this song done.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
This is the computer.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
How long would it take you to find somebody that good?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
A long time and you'd have to pay him something, yeah,
and wait for him.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
To come to your house and record it and set
up the mics and have the amp and yeah, you
don't have to.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And they'd be smelling a pot and leave his crap
all over the place right talking the group, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's liberating.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think if you've got an idea and you're creative,
and you're you're inhibited by the realities of booking a studio,
finding the musicians and all that, and you just want
to express that idea, and then that there are tools
to do that. I don't know if this one in
particular is meant for what you're talking about, Joe, but
I think there's you know, you want to I have
some satisfaction, a hobby, or express yourself, and this is
(10:04):
a way to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I was I going to say something about the music
and hiring somebody and.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, but for me, the pleasure I mean expressing myself.
I don't know. I express myself for hours every day.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
My contract says I have to to me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I just I love, love, love.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I can't even describe to you how much I love
the process of building it, of arranging it and producing
it and making all the parts fit and mixing it
and the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Rest of it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And if a machine is doing x amount for me,
how much is too much? At what point am I,
as a guy who loves building birdhouses, just setting my
computer and saying, you know, I do the roof for me?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well? Well, do you think there will reach a point
where music will have a label on it? This is
one hundred percent human created and played. Does that matter
to people at that level? Or Yeah, I don't know.
I was wondering the same thing in the back of
my head. Yeah, I don't know. There's a fake band
right now. It's uh.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Succeeding on on Apple Music completely. It's it's it's the
way it's described it. It's mostly artificial, but it was
arranged by a person. They didn't just say make this
stuff in this this genre. Yet it's there's not a
single musician that's real on the on the entire ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Interesting, No, go ahead, that's fine. Just from my angle.
You're standing behind Michael, and I can't see when you're talking.
Really there, Michael moved to block you more effectively. There
you go, Okay, now we're doing it anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I can't now I can't remember what we were talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh yeah, I was totally underwhelmed by that story about
the Artificial AI band because a if number one, you
look at their picture and it was obviously AI number two.
Most pop music is so formulaic and factory produced anyway,
it's a subtle difference.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, and there's already no money in having a hit
song unless you go out and tour and get people
to show up. So that'll take care of that, because
that that that does. That's not going to kill the
money you could make by having a hit song, because
that already dead.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That's been dead for a while. M So if you can,
you can't have.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't think anybody would fill an arena to watch
a computer set up on the stage you play music.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It seems like a lot of people do that now, Yeah,
that's funny. I was walking that Rick Bato or whatever
the name is, that fat famous music producer. He was
explaining the other day in a way that I found
very troubling how much of what you see in concerts
is recorded already and people don't know it, like a lot,
a lot a lot. Well, Paris Hilton's a big DJ.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
How much is she actually doing up there, other than
waving her hand in the air and pretending she's doing
something out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But even you're more like you would feel like you
would be surprised because they're such an organic, like real
band are doing that, and so he said, that's been
an illusion for a very long time.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
All Right, I don't know, We'll figure it out. Life
will go on.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That's good stuff, though, Hanson, I'm gonna try that to
I'm definitely what I'm gonna do is get that website
for my son, sign up and let him have his
way with it. What a fun creative about what that is.
We've got more on the way to stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Thorny's and Tennessee recently arrested a former Brava reality star
for allegedly hitting a customer and in Nashville Walmart with
a sock filled with rocks set A spokesperson for Walmart,
I'm not even sure why we sell those.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
New York Post headline Trump stuns reporters on Epstein. I'll
give you a list. Okay, We've Trump just did a
press conference, and we've got some of the highlights we'll
hit you with. And a new poll about his approval
ratings from the Wall Street Journal. That's better than other
recent polls. So stay tuned for.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That interesting a list. Wow, I will stay tuned. Hendful
of headlines worth touching on. We'll delve into him as
much as we feel like as they fly by. Federal
Appeals court rules Trump's birthright citizenship band on constitutional. It
was the Ninth Circuit Court a two to one ruling.
It's just a step on the road toward an inevitable
(14:10):
Asking the Supreme Court what they think of the question,
I can't snow bake.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I can't bash the Ninth Circuit because yesterday they went
ahead and went along with the idea that you can't
make people jump through hoops to buy ammunition in California.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Right, a law so egregiously unconstitutional. Even the Ninth Circuit
Court said, Kevin, what are you doing democratic supermajority in
cal unicornee if you've lost your minds, No, you can't
do this anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So moving along, Israel's twelve day war revealed alarming gap
in America's missile stockpile during the conflict, the SAD operators,
that's one of our anti missile systems burned through nearly
a quarter of the interceptors ever purchased by the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wow. In twelve days, Israel went through a quarter of
our entire stock. I've talked about this last week with Ukraine,
but I feel like with Israel, Ukraine and then hopefully
not US, at some point you run out, right, you
keep getting attracted with drones and missiles. You've got your
amazing defense, iron dome or whatever you've got, but at
(15:19):
some point, if you run out of your stockpile, then
all of a sudden, the drones and missiles get through fast,
and man, things would change quickly, right, And the math
is fairly easy to do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How long it would take to run out, and you know,
depending on how quickly you can manufacture them, how long
it would take to restock to any degree. And the
numbers are ridiculously discouraging if, for instance, we were to
get into any sort of significant conflict with China.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I'm guarantee you they're paying close attention to this.
And it wasn't just the THAD.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The US ran through large numbers of shipborne interceptors as well,
and Israel quickly drained stockpiles for its own systems.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Dozens of Iranian missiles got through any way. You anti interventionists.
This is your argument all the time, and you have
a good point. Oh it's a solid one. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I mean even if you think it causes righteous you
can't render yourself you know how Fenn was right?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, exactly, That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Another quick note, hunter Biden warns Democrats he won't go
quietly and foul mouthed podcast tour.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
This article, recounting a number of the half baked, crazy
ass things he said in recent days, sprinkled all with many,
many F bombs. The interesting part of this piece that
struck me, though, was the number of younger gen Z
voters who were singing his praises, saying, Hunters singing everything
I've been yelling for the last six months. Finally he's
(16:41):
speaking out.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Trump also said a few minutes ago, I never watched
South Park. I don't know anything about South Park. I
don't know what the question was. I can tell you
what it was that prompted that response. Oh you can cool.
I'll stay tuned for that. Armstrong and getty stupid, don't
take an Essene me, huh, I'm not in the mood
(17:07):
right now.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Another random bitch commented on my Instagram that you're on
the Epstein list the list.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
How are you still talking about that?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Who are you on the list or not? It's weird
that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm not telling everyone to relax, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So that is the latest South Park episode, which is
highly critical of Donald J. Trump, very sarcastic and insulting
toward the president.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
No way, Why did Cartman say a boot? There has
to be a joke there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Must have something Canadian happened.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yes, yeah, I'll have to watch, so Trump said, I have.
I don't watch I never watched South Park. I don't
know anything about South Park, which is probably the first
time a sitting US president has ever said that he's sure.
Some reporter asked him, what do you think of the
latest episode? Yes, I don't know. Uh, you'll be able
to figure out from context. I think, or we have
(18:03):
the questions. It doesn't make any difference. Trump did another
one of his long press conferences where he answers questions
from hostile sources about a variety of topics. Let's just
run through them. Start with the first one, Michael, which
is the first one.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Well, I don't want to talk about that. What I
do want to say is that Todd is a great attorney.
But you ought to be speaking about Larry Summers. You
ought to be speaking about some of his friends that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Are Hedge fun guys. They're all over the place.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton, who went
to the island twenty eight times.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I never went to the island. So the most interesting
thing to me about that is, so he's leaving the
White House to go get on a plane to go somewhere.
That's got the the play the very beginning of that again, Michael,
So we know that sound. That's the sound of a
(19:03):
feeding frenzy when something hot's happening. I mean that was
that was everybody screaming different kinds of Epstein questions the
longest running scandal so far of either present Trump term
what is it?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I don't even know what it is, but they're Trump.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Seems to think it's about him. Well, the which makes
people tongues wag there. Why is he so concerned it's
about him? Is there a reason he's concerned? It's about him.
I don't think of all of Trump's faults, I don't
think one of them is he is going out of
his way to try to sex up under age of women.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I just don't think that's his lane. I'm not worried
about that. But I don't know. He must feel like
he's got a vulnerability on this story.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Somewhere, or everything's about him most of the time in
his mind. True.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
And here's another Epstein something or other.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Letter.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I don't even know what they're talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Now. Somebody could have written a letter and used my name.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
But that's happened a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
All you have to do is take a look at
the dossier, the fake Dosier. Everything's fake with that administration.
Everything's faked with the Democrats. Take a look at what
they just found about about the dossier. Everything is fake.
There are a bunch of sick people.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Where did you see the people laying outside? Okay, so
that goes so the Epstein thing, it's all fake. He'd
called it a hoax again today. He's called it a
hoax all week long. One to revisit this as a speaker, Johnson,
Republican being asked about the hoax thing, yesterday. Well, I've
never seen the Epstein evidence. It wasn't in my lane.
But I have the same concern and question that a
(20:44):
lot of people do. And look, I think the presidence
is not a hoax. In other words, it was not
a hoax.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Do you think that's a big deal the speak her
House said it's not a hoax. I mean that is
directly flying in the face of what obviously Trump's talking.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Point are this week.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, it could be, I suppose, But this whole thing
is just so jumbled and confused, and there are so
many unholy motives behind a lot of people's grands standing
about this. Plus there's just outsized interest in a weird way.
Like the Journal again today has a couple of articles
and editorials about this. But one of the articles they've
(21:23):
got a couple of Epstein articles today and editorials yes, wow,
And and one is all about the big Jeffrey Epstein
birthday book that included letters from Bill Clinton, Wall Street
titan Leon Black, all sorts of fashion designer Vera Wang,
media owner Mark mort Zuckerman, and Trump who denies it?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
But did they?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But there's but it's all like either innocent or slightly naughty,
and it's of no significance to anybody on any level.
I've read the entire article in all the examples, and
it's all sorts of heavy hitters in Manhattan knew new
Epstein before he was exposed as a PERV. That's what
I was gonna ask you. Is there any there? There
(22:08):
is there anything to tie this into why there's a scandal,
the fact that a guy that turned out to be
a super pervo, all these people knew him. That's so
well known and doc there are definite hints that he
was known as a ladies man in the birthday notes,
(22:32):
but it was all of the sort of thing that
guys would say to each other and or you know,
women would say with a wink.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, it's it's a complete nothing burger. But I don't
think Trump is doing himself any favors because it seems
that indeed his note was.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Him, but it's of no significance. I don't know why
he doesn't just say I don't remember writing a note
twenty two years ago, neither a you or And he
should have said the other day about the Wall Street
journals reporting your name was in the files, Yeah, probably
so's John Kerrey's, so's Bill Clinton, so's Larry Summers. So
(23:11):
I can name one hundred people that you are you
asking them this question? I mean, so what? Yeah, Yeah,
I guess I don't know. I've said this one hundred
times in the last ten days.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I can't wrap my head around what the scandalieve it is?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, because it's different everyone you ask, what are you
trying to get to the bottom of? Well, there are
some people who have a very specific, very sane answer
to that question. There are plenty of people who have
all sorts of crazy ideas or just like the Democrats,
(23:48):
every single damn one of them grand standing right now,
from Haking Jeffries, who's a congenital liar, as is Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's hilarious that they're saying we need full disclosure transparency. Well,
whatever committee it was that allowed this to move forward
with the releasing of the files, all the Democrats plus
three Republicans voted yes the other day, which is one
step toward this stuff coming out, except it's not. I
(24:16):
think that was just grand standy show voting signifying nothing
to slutter. They can't they legally cannot release a lot
of stuff, so if you released it and kind of
using my finger quotes, this happens a lot with.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
In government.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They release things, but you have to black out a
bunch of stuff for obvious reasons. Well, if you black
out even one line from one page, that allows the
conspiracy minded to say, what the hell was that? Sure,
and then you see you haven't solved anything. You haven't
accomplished anything. If there's one black mark on the pages,
(24:54):
and there's going to be lots of them, then you
haven't accomplished anything.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
So one of the.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Editorials in the journalists from the editorial border, are there
any grown ups left in Washington? Politicians who've never seen
the government files on Jeffrey Epstein are demanding full quote
unquote transparency, which is easy to say if you aren't
responsible for the consequences of disseminating unproved accusations, victim details, hearsay,
and who knows what else, even as law enforcement thinks
(25:21):
that none of it supports further criminal investigation.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Something is happening here. You kind of mentioned it earlier.
This is the first ever, and I hope this isn't
just the way it's going to be from here on out.
This is the first like post post modern Internet age
scandal where there's like you don't even know what it is, right,
and it just keeps going. Man, what the hell are
(25:44):
we even talking about?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's a different beast for you know, distinct groups of people.
But everybody's talking as if you know, I'm an Epstein
minimalist and I'm like yelling at the Epstein maximalists. Meanwhile,
fellow minimalists think I'm yelling at them and telling them no,
there's no reason to think there are other people who
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are perven on sixteen year olds who.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ought to get their asses kicked for it. But I
actually agree with you. I was talking about the maximalists
who think the Jews are in charge. So, yeah, this
is exhausting. Well, I was hoping that maybe we've seen
the end of it. I've said that now for a
week and a half. But if the Wall Street Journal
has multiple articles and editorials about it today, it probably
(26:29):
ain't over. And you heard the questions screamed at the president.
It doesn't sound like the press is calming down about it, right, Well,
they what's the next round of questions? I don't even
know what you would ask. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But as the journal points out and listeners have and
we have too. Both parties have had access to all
this information and they're leaky, leaky. Justice departments have had
access to it, and they're law fair, especially the Democrats.
They're lawfair, happy lawyers have had access to all this
(27:05):
stuff and nothing's happened. It's because there's nothing actionable in.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It, right, That's my belief. One more question they ask
Trump about the Ebstein thing. Would you consider a pardon or.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A commutation for Kiln Mackville if you something I haven't
thought about it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Really?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
If I recommend you, it's something I'm allowed to do it,
but it's something I have not thought about.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Would you consider a pardon for Dalaine? Why would he
pardon her to get her at spill the beans? Oh,
it would be part of a deal, right, which is
what they're negotiating right now in Florida. Is the Justice
Department guys meet with her and her lawyers. Do presidents
do pardons where there's a you get something for it.
(27:47):
I don't remember that happening. Does that ever happen? I
don't know exactly, Like a pardon that's contingent upon you
do this, I don't remember that ever happened. Yeah, you'd
have to go back to the sentencing judge unless it's
just a pardoner a commutation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But the president can do that no matter what the judge.
Thanks God thinking about So Yeah, I don't know. And
I mean, you want to talk about an unreliable witness.
The woman's a congenital liar.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
She's a.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Criminal, a child procureur't and has every single motivation to
save her own ass or get her ass out of prison,
and would be willing. I would tell you anything you
wanted if I was a woman of fifty or sixty
years old whatever she is looking at a twenty year
stretch in the federal pen because you don't get out
(28:41):
after serving a third like you do, like maybe in
a state prison.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I would say freaking anything you want. Yeah, it was
a talking dog. Did it Okay? There? Where do I sign?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's kind of one of the reasons torture doesn't work.
People will say anything to get it to stop. She'll
say anything to get her prison sentence to stop. But
pretty interesting. And then I want to get this on
just because there are homeless people outside the White House
and Trump was asked about that.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Oh, I saw home people take them right outside the
case of the White House. Are you concerned about I
think it's terrible and we'll have them removed immediately.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We do remove it.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We've got to get the mayor to run this city properly.
This city has to be run, you know, I have
the right to take it over, and I think it's there.
But where are they?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Where did you say?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm right up right outside?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm on uh he Sylvania.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
By the near the Treasury right afrock.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I love the dynamics of that because the journal says
there are homeless people right outside the White House. What
do you think of that? Trump says, Yeah, we got
to get them removed.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, you're talking about two different things there. Yeah. Yeah,
isn't that an iore versus capitalism is so cruel for
God's sake. Okay, we got more in the waist there.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Disney Plus has announced the new partnership with the pool
sharing platform swimply to offer a dive in movie theater
experience in Los Angeles where guests can swim while they
watch films and you won't even have to miss anything
when you need to pee.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's an interesting idea, huh. Be kind of hard to
pay attention to the movie while you're swimming or waiting
in line for the dining board or whatever. Well, no,
I think you're you're lounging in floaty chairs. I sat
in the heat. Well, then there will be a lot
of urinating in the pool. Yes, I agree with the
joke and getting back to the key aspect of this question, right, Yes, so,
(30:42):
I think one of the great undiscussed aspects of life
now on in our global world is that so many
Americans think everybody thinks like us around the world, or
everybody has the same ethics or the same view of
the world, the same culture in essence, you know, they
(31:03):
have different music like and food. But you think what
is considered ethical or unethical, or honest or dishonest is
the same around the world. It's not at all, not
at all. There are a bunch of examples of that.
But here's a weird one.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's about you remember that terrible of plane crashing in
India a few weeks ago where that Boeing seven eighty
seven went down shortly after takeoff, and there was a
preliminary report about how the fuel switches got switched off
and everything, but the initial report by the Indian authorities
left out several critical things, and one of them is
(31:43):
and they had this information, and that's who said what
in what order, and a couple of other facts which
lead clearly to the conclusion that the head pilot, who'd
had some severe emotional problems, flipped off the switch, denied
having done it, and when the co pilot flipped him
(32:03):
back on, it was too late and the plane crashed.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He killed himself and a whole bunch of other people
with him, because he's a selfish bastard or whatever psycho.
He was right, but this is where it gets nutty.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Or he was having it would look like an accident,
so he wasn't a guy who killed himself.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
But so the question is, why the hell are the
Indian authorities like not covering it up but strategically leaving
things out that are pretty easily obtained if you dig
into this at all, as the American authorities have. It's
i oh, after twenty five years, the Egyptian government still
(32:42):
rejects the US specialist findings that the crash of egypt
There nine to ninety off Long Island was deliberate by
its pilot, an act of mass murder that killed two
hundred and seventeen. The feeling in Egypt, said an aviation
expert in a detailed reconstruction. That whole thing the feeling
in Egypt was that all Arabs were under attack. So
(33:06):
we can't admit anything because it looks bad for the
air of world.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Likewise, Indonesia issued no finding about a nineteen ninety seven
crash that the US National Transportation Safety Board called a
pilot suicide. China Eastern Flight fifty seven thirty five, no
finding by China's government, despite leak devidis showing that the
twenty twenty two crash was intentional. The notorious disappearance of
MH three seventy and twenty fourteen, no conclusion from the
(33:33):
Malaysian government in report that left out evidence that the
pilot had practiced on his own computer, departing from the
flight plan in nearly identical fashion, exhausting his fuel and
crashing into the sea.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
But is this like a half a dozen different major
crashes that were the pilot committing suicide while committing mass murder. Yes, yeah,
that's a pretty common thing then, and third world the
governments feel like they can't admit that so contrast, just
real quick. But in contrast, French and German authorities quickly
(34:07):
concluded that the twenty fifteen crash of German Wings flight
ninety five to twenty five was a deliberate act by
its first officer France. In another example, it said, the
evidence leads us here clearly. Yeah, I understand why you're
focused on the cultural differences, which that is very, very interesting.
But how about the fact that there are hardly ever
any plane crashes and if it happens, it seems like
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the most likely cause of a major airline going down
is your pilot was suicidal or bad.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Like you remember that when the seven thirty seven Max,
the Boeing seven thirty seven Max came out, and there
are a couple of Third World crashes pretty one right
after the other. The local investigators would not admit the
critical role of pilot error in those crashes. But yeah,
I get your point, and you're right, it's disturbing.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
God.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I'd say, if you miss a segment or an hour,
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand. Armstrong and
Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Ketty Armstrong and
kat Katie and He Armstrong and Hetty. We're doing on workshop,
(00:23):
a primer tutorial how to when it comes to making
AI songs with our executive producer Hanson.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
He has unleashed upon us a couple of times in
recent days, absolutely hilariously over the top but authentic sounding
little songs, and we keep asking, how are you doing that?
Speaker 1 (00:46):
So he's gonna explain it. I think executive producer hands
joined us. So you're gonna play some examples of these
songs first before we get into the Yeah, ok so
we did.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
We did a show open today and it was you
and I just pulled that together a matter of seconds.
I've got an alternate version. So today's was an R
and B. I think I just put like sixties R
and B and we wrote a couple of lines real quick,
and so here would be the nineteen eighties springsteenish with
a female singer.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's one hundred okay, coming off the sound, I'm strong
and ready show show. So sazzle boom?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Should I like that?
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Wow? Yeah? So scorm One. I really liked the background singers,
Roy Bitten on piano. There no kidding, I make it stop.
Does that make you feel good?
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Though?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I mean that's a good way to start.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I like the I like the vibe of that, and
the quality of the music is getting so much better
than when we first started doing it, because there was
there was something kind of.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Weird about it.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
How long you been doing this?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Not too long?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Like months?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Right? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Sure, so it's gotten better in months, Yeah, it gets Yeah,
it's a weekly. I've noticed improvements that have been well so, just.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
As I for instance, how long did it take you
soup to nuts as they say, to put that song together?
Speaker 3 (02:31):
That one was thirty seconds. But we didn't put a
lot of it rit lyrics. We didn't put a lot
of thought into those words. That was a quick Yeah,
it was like what are we gonna do tomorrow? And
it's one, two, three and then boom.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
But even if you paid version of something.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm paying for it, but it's
it's a pittance. It's it's so little amount given what
I'm getting, Like, I could never have a house band.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I wish I could have a house band. Wouldn't that
be fun if we had a we had a band, fun,
if we had a band that showed up every morning
at like four in the morning and be fantastic a delight.
That's probably why Colbert doesn't have a show anymore. He
is he couldn't pay those guys that was like pott
in here and they know kidding, leaving their crap everywhere. Please, hey,
just play one play one on one.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
We don't have to do the whole thing because it's
just it's the same words but a different take. And
this time I went with I was like a Susian
Banshee's vibe that I wanted to gain.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
It's pretty cool coming up the cell on the Armstrong
Getdy Show. This is more my grove. Trump says Obama
should go to I love that.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
Epstein's girlfriend is ready to.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Gender madness.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Boris's So, what's the name of the program that you
used for that one?
Speaker 1 (04:12):
This one was Suno Suno, so I could download Is
it an app? It's a site. It's a site. So
I go to the Suno website and it costs not
very much money to use it, and then like anybody
could do this absolutely wow and listen I gotta do that.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
I'm not a musician. I'm not a singer, I'm not
a voiceover guy. I am marginally talented radio person. So
I'm just any old schlub walking down the street could
get this and put it together and put something fun
together for whatever purpose.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah. So if you're not, I mean the reasons you
could use this obviously are endless. You know, your anniversary,
your dad's birthday, your boy scout troop. I mean, you
could come up with anything that would be so many
examples of stuff that would be very.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Entertaining for people.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh yeah, I would love to try my hand at
just writing humorous songs.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I would get it right. I would get into it.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Would it takes so long.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
To produce them in the in the past. I would
get in on it earlier rather than later, because I
think it's going to become just ubiquitous once everybody catches on.
I'll walk in the door, my kids will have a
song about how they want me to make lunch for them.
I mean, it'll it' that's where it's gonna end up,
all right, But then it'll be less.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
About uh, novelty and more about quality. Yeah, so true,
Like like virtually anything in the vein of what.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You're talking about, Mike, why don't you play one oh four?
So they told me to join them on the air
to talk about this vake music and how I maintain
(05:54):
my hair. But I har there some resent.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Dude, Yesterday's big old b It.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Is a Maria hero and Jack and Joe deserve a
body slam. But I'll do what they tell me, handsome
(06:29):
that that so, so, what what did you tell the
computer to do? There?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Uh, just a few prompt style tempo, you know, male
or female singer of music, but the perfect Baker's Field
guitar style.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
I know, Oh, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
It's frightening and disturbing, honestly and awesome. I'm amused, yeah
and awesome. Yeah that is cool.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
So I would write some words and then I would
tell it the style, type in the style, and then
you just wait thirty seconds.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, roughly vaguely, and then it's probably not gonna like
for me. I'm gonna put something together and then I'll
hear it and go, oh, that could be better.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I can do.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh it needs this or maybe one more rhyming line.
That that just a bridge to the next thing, because
so you can massage it after you hear it the
first time. Yeah, and then it'll give me it'll spit
out a remix or it'll give me a completely different version.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
And Aaron Hair was a really lazy Yeah. I didn't
want to overthink it and I was accomplished. That's beautiful.
And then we will Yeah, those keep them coming and
keeps springing them on us, because that's that's what's so fun.
(07:41):
I can't imagine how much time fourteen year old me
would have spent on this if this had emerged when
I was a kid. So we we did show up
fortunate couplets, yes, oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
There'd be. I gotta give this to Henry and see
what he comes up with.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Oh lord, oh that is that is so wild in
the in in radio obviously back in the day, if
you could come up with a song that was about
today's news or whatever it was, there's there's you know
Rick D's in La or whatever. There's lots of shows
(08:17):
that made their made their money with that sort of thing.
But the the budget you had to have to pull
it off, right, it was just incredible. Right now, I
need their careers on it. Yeah, now, anybody can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
I don't know what does that mean?
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Is it?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Is there anything important happening? I mean, it's happened, so
it doesn't make any difference. There's no star, right, So
here's what.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
I'm wrestling with as an alleged musician. You know, I'm
still writing songs and recording him and stuff like that,
but instead of because I can't play keyboards worth squat,
so I always have to find a keyboardist to play
whatever I want in the song. But I'm pretty certain
now I could lay down all the basic tracks the
old fashioned way and then say, look, hey, I need
(08:59):
this coorp fragish and on the piano and the style
of this piano player at this tempo and tweak it
like Hanson's been doing, and the song would be eighty
five percent organic. But it would save me a little
time in trouble, maybe a couple of bucks.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Is that wrong? Well, I'm sure it's happening or going
to happen. Yeah, yeah, I want bucco and style guitar
in this song done.
Speaker 4 (09:23):
This is the computer.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
How long would it take you to find somebody that good?
Speaker 4 (09:27):
A long time and you'd have to pay him something, yeah,
and wait for him.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
To come to your house and record it and set
up the mics and have the amp and yeah, you
don't have to.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And they'd be smelling a pot and leave his crap
all over the place right talking the group, Yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
Don't think there's anything wrong with that. It's liberating.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think if you've got an idea and you're creative,
and you're you're inhibited by the realities of booking a studio,
finding the musicians and all that, and you just want
to express that idea, and then that there are tools
to do that. I don't know if this one in
particular is meant for what you're talking about, Joe, but
I think there's you know, you want to I have
some satisfaction, a hobby, or express yourself, and this is
(10:04):
a way to do it.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
I was I going to say something about the music
and hiring somebody and.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Yeah, but for me, the pleasure I mean expressing myself.
I don't know. I express myself for hours every day.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
My contract says I have to to me.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I just I love, love, love.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
I can't even describe to you how much I love
the process of building it, of arranging it and producing
it and making all the parts fit and mixing it
and the.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Rest of it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
And if a machine is doing x amount for me,
how much is too much? At what point am I,
as a guy who loves building birdhouses, just setting my
computer and saying, you know, I do the roof for me?
Speaker 1 (10:42):
Well? Well, do you think there will reach a point
where music will have a label on it? This is
one hundred percent human created and played. Does that matter
to people at that level? Or Yeah, I don't know.
I was wondering the same thing in the back of
my head. Yeah, I don't know. There's a fake band
right now. It's uh.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Succeeding on on Apple Music completely. It's it's it's the
way it's described it. It's mostly artificial, but it was
arranged by a person. They didn't just say make this
stuff in this this genre. Yet it's there's not a
single musician that's real on the on the entire ahead.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
Interesting, No, go ahead, that's fine. Just from my angle.
You're standing behind Michael, and I can't see when you're talking.
Really there, Michael moved to block you more effectively. There
you go, Okay, now we're doing it anyway.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
I can't now I can't remember what we were talking about.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Oh yeah, I was totally underwhelmed by that story about
the Artificial AI band because a if number one, you
look at their picture and it was obviously AI number two.
Most pop music is so formulaic and factory produced anyway,
it's a subtle difference.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, and there's already no money in having a hit
song unless you go out and tour and get people
to show up. So that'll take care of that, because
that that that does. That's not going to kill the
money you could make by having a hit song, because
that already dead.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
That's been dead for a while. M So if you can,
you can't have.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I don't think anybody would fill an arena to watch
a computer set up on the stage you play music.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
I wouldn't.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
It seems like a lot of people do that now, Yeah,
that's funny. I was walking that Rick Bato or whatever
the name is, that fat famous music producer. He was
explaining the other day in a way that I found
very troubling how much of what you see in concerts
is recorded already and people don't know it, like a lot,
a lot a lot. Well, Paris Hilton's a big DJ.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
How much is she actually doing up there, other than
waving her hand in the air and pretending she's doing
something out of it.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
But even you're more like you would feel like you
would be surprised because they're such an organic, like real
band are doing that, and so he said, that's been
an illusion for a very long time.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
All Right, I don't know, We'll figure it out. Life
will go on.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
That's good stuff, though, Hanson, I'm gonna try that to
I'm definitely what I'm gonna do is get that website
for my son, sign up and let him have his
way with it. What a fun creative about what that is.
We've got more on the way to stay here.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Thorny's and Tennessee recently arrested a former Brava reality star
for allegedly hitting a customer and in Nashville Walmart with
a sock filled with rocks set A spokesperson for Walmart,
I'm not even sure why we sell those.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
New York Post headline Trump stuns reporters on Epstein. I'll
give you a list. Okay, We've Trump just did a
press conference, and we've got some of the highlights we'll
hit you with. And a new poll about his approval
ratings from the Wall Street Journal. That's better than other
recent polls. So stay tuned for.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
That interesting a list. Wow, I will stay tuned. Hendful
of headlines worth touching on. We'll delve into him as
much as we feel like as they fly by. Federal
Appeals court rules Trump's birthright citizenship band on constitutional. It
was the Ninth Circuit Court a two to one ruling.
It's just a step on the road toward an inevitable
(14:10):
Asking the Supreme Court what they think of the question,
I can't snow bake.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
I can't bash the Ninth Circuit because yesterday they went
ahead and went along with the idea that you can't
make people jump through hoops to buy ammunition in California.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
So I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Right, a law so egregiously unconstitutional. Even the Ninth Circuit
Court said, Kevin, what are you doing democratic supermajority in
cal unicornee if you've lost your minds, No, you can't
do this anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So moving along, Israel's twelve day war revealed alarming gap
in America's missile stockpile during the conflict, the SAD operators,
that's one of our anti missile systems burned through nearly
a quarter of the interceptors ever purchased by the Pentagon.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Wow. In twelve days, Israel went through a quarter of
our entire stock. I've talked about this last week with Ukraine,
but I feel like with Israel, Ukraine and then hopefully
not US, at some point you run out, right, you
keep getting attracted with drones and missiles. You've got your
amazing defense, iron dome or whatever you've got, but at
(15:19):
some point, if you run out of your stockpile, then
all of a sudden, the drones and missiles get through fast,
and man, things would change quickly, right, And the math
is fairly easy to do.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
How long it would take to run out, and you know,
depending on how quickly you can manufacture them, how long
it would take to restock to any degree. And the
numbers are ridiculously discouraging if, for instance, we were to
get into any sort of significant conflict with China.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
And I'm guarantee you they're paying close attention to this.
And it wasn't just the THAD.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
The US ran through large numbers of shipborne interceptors as well,
and Israel quickly drained stockpiles for its own systems.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Dozens of Iranian missiles got through any way. You anti interventionists.
This is your argument all the time, and you have
a good point. Oh it's a solid one. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
I mean even if you think it causes righteous you
can't render yourself you know how Fenn was right?
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Yeah, exactly, That's what I was looking for.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Another quick note, hunter Biden warns Democrats he won't go
quietly and foul mouthed podcast tour.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
It's actually pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
This article, recounting a number of the half baked, crazy
ass things he said in recent days, sprinkled all with many,
many F bombs. The interesting part of this piece that
struck me, though, was the number of younger gen Z
voters who were singing his praises, saying, Hunters singing everything
I've been yelling for the last six months. Finally he's
(16:41):
speaking out.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
That's interesting.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Trump also said a few minutes ago, I never watched
South Park. I don't know anything about South Park. I
don't know what the question was. I can tell you
what it was that prompted that response. Oh you can cool.
I'll stay tuned for that. Armstrong and getty stupid, don't
take an Essene me, huh, I'm not in the mood
(17:07):
right now.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
Another random bitch commented on my Instagram that you're on
the Epstein list the list.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
How are you still talking about that?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Who are you on the list or not? It's weird
that whenever it comes up, you just tell everyone to relax.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
I'm not telling everyone to relax, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
So that is the latest South Park episode, which is
highly critical of Donald J. Trump, very sarcastic and insulting
toward the president.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
No way, Why did Cartman say a boot? There has
to be a joke there.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I have no idea.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Must have something Canadian happened.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
Yes, yeah, I'll have to watch, so Trump said, I have.
I don't watch I never watched South Park. I don't
know anything about South Park, which is probably the first
time a sitting US president has ever said that he's sure.
Some reporter asked him, what do you think of the
latest episode? Yes, I don't know. Uh, you'll be able
to figure out from context. I think, or we have
(18:03):
the questions. It doesn't make any difference. Trump did another
one of his long press conferences where he answers questions
from hostile sources about a variety of topics. Let's just
run through them. Start with the first one, Michael, which
is the first one.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
Well, I don't want to talk about that. What I
do want to say is that Todd is a great attorney.
But you ought to be speaking about Larry Summers. You
ought to be speaking about some of his friends that.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Are Hedge fun guys. They're all over the place.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You ought to be speaking about Bill Clinton, who went
to the island twenty eight times.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
I never went to the island. So the most interesting
thing to me about that is, so he's leaving the
White House to go get on a plane to go somewhere.
That's got the the play the very beginning of that again, Michael,
So we know that sound. That's the sound of a
(19:03):
feeding frenzy when something hot's happening. I mean that was
that was everybody screaming different kinds of Epstein questions the
longest running scandal so far of either present Trump term
what is it?
Speaker 4 (19:17):
I don't even know what it is, but they're Trump.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Seems to think it's about him. Well, the which makes
people tongues wag there. Why is he so concerned it's
about him? Is there a reason he's concerned? It's about him.
I don't think of all of Trump's faults, I don't
think one of them is he is going out of
his way to try to sex up under age of women.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I just don't think that's his lane. I'm not worried
about that. But I don't know. He must feel like
he's got a vulnerability on this story.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Somewhere, or everything's about him most of the time in
his mind. True.
Speaker 4 (19:56):
And here's another Epstein something or other.
Speaker 6 (20:00):
Letter.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
I don't even know what they're talking about.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Now. Somebody could have written a letter and used my name.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
But that's happened a lot.
Speaker 6 (20:08):
All you have to do is take a look at
the dossier, the fake Dosier. Everything's fake with that administration.
Everything's faked with the Democrats. Take a look at what
they just found about about the dossier. Everything is fake.
There are a bunch of sick people.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Where did you see the people laying outside? Okay, so
that goes so the Epstein thing, it's all fake. He'd
called it a hoax again today. He's called it a
hoax all week long. One to revisit this as a speaker, Johnson,
Republican being asked about the hoax thing, yesterday. Well, I've
never seen the Epstein evidence. It wasn't in my lane.
But I have the same concern and question that a
(20:44):
lot of people do. And look, I think the presidence
is not a hoax. In other words, it was not
a hoax.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Of course not.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
Do you think that's a big deal the speak her
House said it's not a hoax. I mean that is
directly flying in the face of what obviously Trump's talking.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Point are this week.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Yeah, it could be, I suppose, But this whole thing
is just so jumbled and confused, and there are so
many unholy motives behind a lot of people's grands standing
about this. Plus there's just outsized interest in a weird way.
Like the Journal again today has a couple of articles
and editorials about this. But one of the articles they've
(21:23):
got a couple of Epstein articles today and editorials yes, wow,
And and one is all about the big Jeffrey Epstein
birthday book that included letters from Bill Clinton, Wall Street
titan Leon Black, all sorts of fashion designer Vera Wang,
media owner Mark mort Zuckerman, and Trump who denies it?
Speaker 8 (21:47):
But did they?
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But there's but it's all like either innocent or slightly naughty,
and it's of no significance to anybody on any level.
I've read the entire article in all the examples, and
it's all sorts of heavy hitters in Manhattan knew new
Epstein before he was exposed as a PERV. That's what
I was gonna ask you. Is there any there? There
(22:08):
is there anything to tie this into why there's a scandal,
the fact that a guy that turned out to be
a super pervo, all these people knew him. That's so
well known and doc there are definite hints that he
was known as a ladies man in the birthday notes,
(22:32):
but it was all of the sort of thing that
guys would say to each other and or you know,
women would say with a wink.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Yeah, it's it's a complete nothing burger. But I don't
think Trump is doing himself any favors because it seems
that indeed his note was.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
Him, but it's of no significance. I don't know why
he doesn't just say I don't remember writing a note
twenty two years ago, neither a you or And he
should have said the other day about the Wall Street
journals reporting your name was in the files, Yeah, probably
so's John Kerrey's, so's Bill Clinton, so's Larry Summers. So
(23:11):
I can name one hundred people that you are you
asking them this question? I mean, so what? Yeah, Yeah,
I guess I don't know. I've said this one hundred
times in the last ten days.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
I can't wrap my head around what the scandalieve it is?
Speaker 8 (23:27):
Right?
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Well, because it's different everyone you ask, what are you
trying to get to the bottom of? Well, there are
some people who have a very specific, very sane answer
to that question. There are plenty of people who have
all sorts of crazy ideas or just like the Democrats,
(23:48):
every single damn one of them grand standing right now,
from Haking Jeffries, who's a congenital liar, as is Chuck Schumer.
Speaker 1 (23:55):
It's hilarious that they're saying we need full disclosure transparency. Well,
whatever committee it was that allowed this to move forward
with the releasing of the files, all the Democrats plus
three Republicans voted yes the other day, which is one
step toward this stuff coming out, except it's not. I
(24:16):
think that was just grand standy show voting signifying nothing
to slutter. They can't they legally cannot release a lot
of stuff, so if you released it and kind of
using my finger quotes, this happens a lot with.
Speaker 4 (24:33):
In government.
Speaker 1 (24:34):
They release things, but you have to black out a
bunch of stuff for obvious reasons. Well, if you black
out even one line from one page, that allows the
conspiracy minded to say, what the hell was that? Sure,
and then you see you haven't solved anything. You haven't
accomplished anything. If there's one black mark on the pages,
(24:54):
and there's going to be lots of them, then you
haven't accomplished anything.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
So one of the.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Editorials in the journalists from the editorial border, are there
any grown ups left in Washington? Politicians who've never seen
the government files on Jeffrey Epstein are demanding full quote
unquote transparency, which is easy to say if you aren't
responsible for the consequences of disseminating unproved accusations, victim details, hearsay,
and who knows what else, even as law enforcement thinks
(25:21):
that none of it supports further criminal investigation.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Something is happening here. You kind of mentioned it earlier.
This is the first ever, and I hope this isn't
just the way it's going to be from here on out.
This is the first like post post modern Internet age
scandal where there's like you don't even know what it is, right,
and it just keeps going. Man, what the hell are
(25:44):
we even talking about?
Speaker 8 (25:46):
Right?
Speaker 2 (25:46):
It's a different beast for you know, distinct groups of people.
But everybody's talking as if you know, I'm an Epstein
minimalist and I'm like yelling at the Epstein maximalists. Meanwhile,
fellow minimalists think I'm yelling at them and telling them no,
there's no reason to think there are other people who
(26:06):
are perven on sixteen year olds who.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
Ought to get their asses kicked for it. But I
actually agree with you. I was talking about the maximalists
who think the Jews are in charge. So, yeah, this
is exhausting. Well, I was hoping that maybe we've seen
the end of it. I've said that now for a
week and a half. But if the Wall Street Journal
has multiple articles and editorials about it today, it probably
(26:29):
ain't over. And you heard the questions screamed at the president.
It doesn't sound like the press is calming down about it, right, Well,
they what's the next round of questions? I don't even
know what you would ask. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
But as the journal points out and listeners have and
we have too. Both parties have had access to all
this information and they're leaky, leaky. Justice departments have had
access to it, and they're law fair, especially the Democrats.
They're lawfair, happy lawyers have had access to all this
(27:05):
stuff and nothing's happened. It's because there's nothing actionable in.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
It, right, That's my belief. One more question they ask
Trump about the Ebstein thing. Would you consider a pardon or.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
A commutation for Kiln Mackville if you something I haven't
thought about it?
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Really?
Speaker 6 (27:22):
If I recommend you, it's something I'm allowed to do it,
but it's something I have not thought about.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Would you consider a pardon for Dalaine? Why would he
pardon her to get her at spill the beans? Oh,
it would be part of a deal, right, which is
what they're negotiating right now in Florida. Is the Justice
Department guys meet with her and her lawyers. Do presidents
do pardons where there's a you get something for it.
(27:47):
I don't remember that happening. Does that ever happen? I
don't know exactly, Like a pardon that's contingent upon you
do this, I don't remember that ever happened. Yeah, you'd
have to go back to the sentencing judge unless it's
just a pardoner a commutation.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
But the president can do that no matter what the judge.
Thanks God thinking about So Yeah, I don't know. And
I mean, you want to talk about an unreliable witness.
The woman's a congenital liar.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
She's a.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Criminal, a child procureur't and has every single motivation to
save her own ass or get her ass out of prison,
and would be willing. I would tell you anything you
wanted if I was a woman of fifty or sixty
years old whatever she is looking at a twenty year
stretch in the federal pen because you don't get out
(28:41):
after serving a third like you do, like maybe in
a state prison.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
I would say freaking anything you want. Yeah, it was
a talking dog. Did it Okay? There? Where do I sign?
Speaker 8 (28:51):
Right?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
It's kind of one of the reasons torture doesn't work.
People will say anything to get it to stop. She'll
say anything to get her prison sentence to stop. But
pretty interesting. And then I want to get this on
just because there are homeless people outside the White House
and Trump was asked about that.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Oh, I saw home people take them right outside the
case of the White House. Are you concerned about I
think it's terrible and we'll have them removed immediately.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
We do remove it.
Speaker 6 (29:16):
We've got to get the mayor to run this city properly.
This city has to be run, you know, I have
the right to take it over, and I think it's there.
But where are they?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
Where did you say?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm right up right outside?
Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm on uh he Sylvania.
Speaker 6 (29:29):
By the near the Treasury right afrock.
Speaker 8 (29:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
I love the dynamics of that because the journal says
there are homeless people right outside the White House. What
do you think of that? Trump says, Yeah, we got
to get them removed.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
That's what I think.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah, you're talking about two different things there. Yeah. Yeah,
isn't that an iore versus capitalism is so cruel for
God's sake. Okay, we got more in the waist there.
Speaker 7 (30:00):
Disney Plus has announced the new partnership with the pool
sharing platform swimply to offer a dive in movie theater
experience in Los Angeles where guests can swim while they
watch films and you won't even have to miss anything
when you need to pee.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
That's an interesting idea, huh. Be kind of hard to
pay attention to the movie while you're swimming or waiting
in line for the dining board or whatever. Well, no,
I think you're you're lounging in floaty chairs. I sat
in the heat. Well, then there will be a lot
of urinating in the pool. Yes, I agree with the
joke and getting back to the key aspect of this question, right, Yes, so,
(30:42):
I think one of the great undiscussed aspects of life
now on in our global world is that so many
Americans think everybody thinks like us around the world, or
everybody has the same ethics or the same view of
the world, the same culture in essence, you know, they
(31:03):
have different music like and food. But you think what
is considered ethical or unethical, or honest or dishonest is
the same around the world. It's not at all, not
at all. There are a bunch of examples of that.
But here's a weird one.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
It's about you remember that terrible of plane crashing in
India a few weeks ago where that Boeing seven eighty
seven went down shortly after takeoff, and there was a
preliminary report about how the fuel switches got switched off
and everything, but the initial report by the Indian authorities
left out several critical things, and one of them is
(31:43):
and they had this information, and that's who said what
in what order, and a couple of other facts which
lead clearly to the conclusion that the head pilot, who'd
had some severe emotional problems, flipped off the switch, denied
having done it, and when the co pilot flipped him
(32:03):
back on, it was too late and the plane crashed.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
He killed himself and a whole bunch of other people
with him, because he's a selfish bastard or whatever psycho.
He was right, but this is where it gets nutty.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Or he was having it would look like an accident,
so he wasn't a guy who killed himself.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
But so the question is, why the hell are the
Indian authorities like not covering it up but strategically leaving
things out that are pretty easily obtained if you dig
into this at all, as the American authorities have. It's
i oh, after twenty five years, the Egyptian government still
(32:42):
rejects the US specialist findings that the crash of egypt
There nine to ninety off Long Island was deliberate by
its pilot, an act of mass murder that killed two
hundred and seventeen. The feeling in Egypt, said an aviation
expert in a detailed reconstruction. That whole thing the feeling
in Egypt was that all Arabs were under attack. So
(33:06):
we can't admit anything because it looks bad for the
air of world.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
That's interesting.
Speaker 2 (33:12):
Likewise, Indonesia issued no finding about a nineteen ninety seven
crash that the US National Transportation Safety Board called a
pilot suicide. China Eastern Flight fifty seven thirty five, no
finding by China's government, despite leak devidis showing that the
twenty twenty two crash was intentional. The notorious disappearance of
MH three seventy and twenty fourteen, no conclusion from the
(33:33):
Malaysian government in report that left out evidence that the
pilot had practiced on his own computer, departing from the
flight plan in nearly identical fashion, exhausting his fuel and
crashing into the sea.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
But is this like a half a dozen different major
crashes that were the pilot committing suicide while committing mass murder. Yes, yeah,
that's a pretty common thing then, and third world the
governments feel like they can't admit that so contrast, just
real quick. But in contrast, French and German authorities quickly
(34:07):
concluded that the twenty fifteen crash of German Wings flight
ninety five to twenty five was a deliberate act by
its first officer France. In another example, it said, the
evidence leads us here clearly. Yeah, I understand why you're
focused on the cultural differences, which that is very, very interesting.
But how about the fact that there are hardly ever
any plane crashes and if it happens, it seems like
(34:28):
the most likely cause of a major airline going down
is your pilot was suicidal or bad.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Like you remember that when the seven thirty seven Max,
the Boeing seven thirty seven Max came out, and there
are a couple of Third World crashes pretty one right
after the other. The local investigators would not admit the
critical role of pilot error in those crashes. But yeah,
I get your point, and you're right, it's disturbing.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
God.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
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