August 7, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- It's total bulls**t & the Epstein lifestyle
- Victims of Epstein speak out
- NFL/ESPN deal & California is Crumblin'
- Final Thoughts!
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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 Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and He.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and yedtis hosting a gathering this evening to talk
without to respond to the Epstein situation?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Is he working on what?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hosting some kind of gathering of top advisors this evening
to talk about how to respond to the Epstein situation.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I could ask you that I don't know of it,
but I think here's the man right here.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
I saw a record today and it's completely fake news.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We're not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I think the reporter who reported it needs to
get better sources.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
That the whole thing is a host is put out
by the demographs because we've had the most successful six
months in the history of our country, and that's just
a way of trying to divert attention to something that's
total bo okay.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
So there you go. That's uh.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I love the way Trump steers into bull House adds Bull.
I mean he makes you a wait for.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The it's it's total bone.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's like, uh, you know, the guy from a Godfather movie.
It's like the Sopranos would say.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right, So I guess the supposed or maybe it never
was Epstein dinner at jd Vance's house with the Attorney
General in the FBI director never happened. What's going on
that I don't know. Yesterday we had some Epstein stuff
from this woman Jessica Reid Krautz, who I don't know,
just came to through substack and it was some reporting
on his house in the weirdness. Remember he had a
(01:52):
whole bunch of prosthetic eyeballs on the wall and just
all kinds of weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, and he believed in art that made people like
intensely uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So there's a new version of Jessica Reed Krauss's article
today with an interview with one of the victims. This
is somebody that was a young girl who came into
the orbit and kind of explaining the whole thing with Epstein.
I thought this was pretty damned interesting. Epstein victim exclusive.
The bond was something like a twisted Mantonesque family. She'd
call us her children and kiss us on the head
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saying good night. She was impressive, speaking four languages and
flying helicopters. The other subheadline before I get into it,
is he treated orgasms like meals to be consumed three
times a day, attempting to normalize his actions. He brainwashed
me into thinking my ideas were antiquated and I was
the odd one. He was pretty convincing. He treated orgasms
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like meals is an odd, odd imagery.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yes, indeed, yes, have to set the table or.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
What And this author who I don't know. Editor's note
before we get into some of the first person account
is as we moved through the many layers of the
Epstein saga based on exclusive material I've gathered over the
past three years, I'll continue to remind you that what
follows might not align with your popular narrative. You may
find yourself rethinking what you believed about certain people involved,
(03:15):
and I hope you'll approach it with an open mind.
When we get to the deeper examination of a g
dog that's what we call Ms Maxwell because nobody knows
how to pronounce her name, Especially when I revisit what
I witnessed at her trial, much more will come into focus.
So trying to put all the pieces together over the
multiple Epstein cases and interviews and all that sort of
stuff anyway. So this is from the one of the
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victims who said, I've turned down interviews with all major
television outlets here in internationally, including NBC News, CBS This Morning, Netflix, BBC,
Good Morning, Britain, Sky News Australia. I've been stalked at
my home and my job by creepy journalists, mostly the
ones from the British tabloids. Mainly, I haven't come out
and told my whole story because one, I don't wish
(04:02):
to be clumped in with the other victims of Jeffrey Epstein,
and as I don't relate them too, I don't trust
the media's biased interpretation. In three m introvert, so this
person hadn't come forward before.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Interesting that she doesn't want to be bunched or whatever
she said with the other victims. But I'll wait and
listen figure out why.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Glaine approached me on my college campus about working for
her at her home in Palm Beach. I was skeptical
at first, but offered her advice and where to hang
a job posting she had another young woman with her that,
coupled with her British accent American's love, was enough to
make me feel I could trust her when she asked
me to jump in her Mercedes and come check out
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the house. On the way over, she told me she
had homes all across the world and did not like
to hire Butler's in Florida because it was too stuffy,
so she found college girls instead, paying them twenty dollars
an hour to answer phones and run errands. It seemed
like a dream job to me. Just you know, I'm
not to Celia Thunder. But the ability of the groomer
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and the manipulator to exploit people's positive and negative emotions,
it spans across different you know, scams and exploitation, particularly
young women.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But man, I can already see it take in shape.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Going from making fifty dollars a night waitressing to one
hundred dollars an hour rubbing feet was the beginning of
the grooming process.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You'd have to pay me more than one hundred bucks
to rub anyone's feet, really, especially some of the feet.
They worked in tandem, him constantly trying to normalize his behavior,
and her making me feel like a friend, reminding me
to always be grateful to Jeffrey and to thank him
for his generosity. They were exceptional at painting. Their world
is exciting and glamorous, name dropping all the big shots,
(05:47):
Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Kate Blanchett, Bill Clinton,
Kevin Spacey, and they had all the photos to prove it.
This was the early two thousand, before social media, before
celebrities were accessible as they are now. They made you
want to be part of that world, but there was
a trade off. Sometimes you had to do things you
didn't really want to do. Interesting though that Maxwell's job
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was to be the affectionate, kind person who didn't ask
much at all, certainly nothing objectionable, but then would testify
as the good person, the motherly person, the helpful person,
that what he's asking of you is just fine because
he's a great guy, and it's fine, right, And that's
like good cop perverse cop.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, And if she's nice, if a g dog is
nice and normal acting, you think, well, she puts up
with it, so it must not be that bad, right.
What was Epstein like? Mysterious funny? He loved humor. He
was a deep thinker, a voracious reader, mainly of science.
I never saw him angry. He was serious, and you
knew he had the power to ruin you. If he
was ever upset with me, he used his assistance to
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deliver the message that was almost worse. I would say
ninety percent of the time he was fun and enjoyable
to be around. The other ten percent just got worse
with the abuses. The years went on, and his manipulation
made me believe I wanted it or consented. That's interesting,
soph he's ever upset with you sends somebody else to
mister Epstein's upset. H I was in the circle for
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over five years. There were breaks for different reasons. I
tried to distance myself, but he knew ways of getting
me back in. And the first year, when one other
girl was quitting as the main assistant, he wanted me
to take her place. Tons of money, travel everywhere, no expenses.
You just have to be okay with common vernacular for
oral sex. It also would have required me to drop
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out of school. I told him, psychologically, I can't do it.
I was still a virgin at the time. Wow, I
was not comfortable with any of the sex stuff. I
want sex to be with someone I love, someone who
I can trust. I told him. He was shocked to
learn about my virginity. I was twenty one. It was
years of grooming that got me to first lose my shirt,
then my shorts, then everything else. It would have four
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years in when he stole my virginity. Wow, that's some
patient grooming right there. Four years to get what the
sick of wanted. What he took.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He he had other victims to keep him company in
the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's like developing a baseball prospect from single A until
they're ready to come to the majors. In a sick way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What he took from me, my innocence and virginity and
so much of my identity was irreplaceable. How he did
it by making me feel like I could trust him
in that I was special, and then I owed it
to him for being so generous with me. Man, you've
heard that a million times with people who end up
in situations like this. They make you feel special. Yeah,
and that's people who are lacking someone else to make
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them feel special, often in.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That holiday of course. Yeah, and then accepting a tremendous
amount of luxury and pleasure from them. Then getting the
message he kind of owe me. What are you supposed
to say, Well, You've only flown me to five international
locations and showed me the most amazing time anybody could imagine. No,
(09:02):
I don't know you anything. That's very hard for somebody
to say. I don't quite get this paragraph. I've read
it several times. I still quite understand it. I've often
imagined what I would say if I ran into him
walking the streets of New York pre twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Do you get it now? For years you treated sex
like it was a transactional, purely physical, with no emotional
or spiritual connections. But look at all these women, with
their lawsuits and their trauma. He treated orgasms like meals
to be consumed three times a day. We read that
part from the beginning, and he was very convincing. I
didn't even truly know what consent was. Rape was something
that happened in back alleys. This was before hashtag me
(09:39):
too and this stuff was explained. It was actually when
Harvey Weinstein was exposed that I could really look back
and say, you know what, I never consented to any
of this stuff. I was raped. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't agree with her exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
In what way.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
To be manipulated into the giving of sex is different
than rape. I mean, it's by no means morally acceptable
or good, but it's a different it's a different question.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I mean, it's very much like the difference between being
long conned out of my money and being robbed at gunpoint.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
About g Dog Maxwell, I liked her. She's funny, her
sense of humor was perverted, but she had a light
and airy perspective on life. They were very free. Too
many times I witnessed them stripped naked and jump of
the pool e ocean. She enjoyed having the girls around.
The First time I met her, she was wearing workout clothes,
and every time I saw in Florida she was dressed
very casually. I remember the day I saw in New York.
She had on a cream sweater, a pleated skirt, and
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pointy boots. She sat me down, gave me a book,
and told me to always say thank you to Jeffrey.
That's weird that comes up so often. So what isxlls
deal is she kind of under the sway of him
also in a like a really subservient role.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, and I think she got some sexual pleasure out
of the whole lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
In fact, that was the testimony in the trial. Yeah,
the bond was something like a twisted mansonesque family. She'd
call us her children and kiss us on the head,
saying good night to a twenty one year old. She
was impressive, speaking for a language flying helicopters. She once
invited me over and cooked me dinner, saying she had
been to culinary school. But she was also complicated. I
remember mentioning my hero Princess Die and calling her something.
(11:38):
I don't quite get this. I remember mentioning my hero
Princess Die and ripping into her, calling her selfish and terrible.
I told her I wished to get married one day,
and she told me to never get married, because humans
aren't meant to be monogamous. I genuinely respect and slash
fear for her. I've read her deposition where they asked
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her if she and I had sex a relationship. She
refused to answer. I can unequivocally say we did not. Well,
that's kind of interesting because I've always wondered, you know,
I don't quite get what was going on between g
Dog and Epstein and the women. Was she participating in
all this stuff or not.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Or I've never heards Yeah, and women. Wow, it's interesting
that she refused to answer that question. Gallainne Maxwell did
g dog care? I think care is a tough word
to define. To truly care for someone, you wouldn't subject
them to abuse. But then again, she didn't see it
as abuse abuse.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
They both justified their behaviors because the generosity was so great.
I don't think she truly cared, but I do think
I do think she liked me. I can only speak
to my experience. That's interesting in this interview, she's still
like wrestling with how much the people liked them and
respected her, and you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
People, these these predators, as we all know, have some
sort of like sixth sense that the rest of us
don't have to pick up on people who need that
validation self esteem boost, right and then and then take
advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Then their master manipulators once they, you know, become aware
that you're a suitable prey.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Right. Anyway, there's more on that later. I'll decide if
I think it's worth your while. And we got other
news to get to too. If you have any comment
on any of that text Line four one five two
nine five kftc.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Armstrong, Eddie. That is a complaint that we've heard from
a lot of survivors and victims in recent days and weeks,
is that they feel that they don't have a seat
at the table, and the conversations that are happening, whether
that be here at the White House or Republicans on
Capitol Hill in terms of what they are trying to
do and achieve here with the release of the Epstein
documents that we know lawmakers are seeking.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
That was about the supposed dinner meeting that was going
to happen at jad Vance's house last night, which I
guess didn't occur, talking about Epstein, and then family members
of that poor woman that killed herself who was a
victim of Jeffrey Epstein, were saying that about not having
a seat at the table, et cetera. And we'd just
been reading from an interview transcript with one of the
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other victims that hadn't spoken out before, and I'm god,
there's probably over his whole life. There might be thousands
of people out there, right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, that's alleged.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, certainly hundreds. By the way, so we refer to
Maxwell as g Dog because we don't know how to
pronounce her name. This particular victim said, nobody could ever
pronounce her name right. I've never heard her name butcherd
so badly. The worst I ever heard was gasoline, But
so nobody could say your name. Going on with the
interview about g Dogs and Jeffrey's relationship, which, like I said,
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I've never quite understood. When I first met them, I
assumed them to be a couple, not because I sensed
any affection between them, but because it was clear by
the photos and the houses two of them. The two
of them were pictured all over the world, accompanied by
powerful people. Her portraits were there. There were clearly his
and her separate bathrooms, but I think in New York
she's in her own home most of the time. It
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was a lot to take in on that first trip.
I wish I could go back and relive it with
an iPhone so i'd have pictures. While on that first
trip to New York, I was giving Jeffrey a massage
when he turned over and okay, this gets a I'll
try to be cloud this. I won't use the worst terms,
but this is not for the kids. Obviously. I was
given Jeffrey a massage. When he turned over and told
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me to rub his nipples while he manipulated himself. I said,
I'm not doing this and walked out. We had a
chat later. He was pretty cavalier, stating I obviously wasn't
comfortable with the sex stuff, but they're going to the
island the next day, and if you want to come
to the island, you need to be comfortable. I said, well,
I want to come. There's not going to be like orgies, right,
there were not once there. I still gave him a massage,
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probably in a bikini. I was on a hike in
the Virgin Islands that g dog explained to me why
the other girls were there. She and him must have
discussed me and my hesitancy and made it clear to
me that that's part of your job to get these
kind of massages. It helps calm him down, and that
you have to do it. Say's part of the grooming process.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It reminds me of various cults I've heard of too,
just to all the techniques that they use. That Nexium
cult that had a great deal of sexual activity going
on as well.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Right, and she knew Virginia, the woman that killed herself,
not that long ago and at the time who had
a similar experience. Boy, it's interesting. So they would all
talk to each other and kind of discuss how they
have given into this lifestyle, but talk about the perks
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of it. As she says, there the travel in the world,
the cash.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Sometimes, Katie, do you have something your anxious to throw
on her?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Just the fact that he was able to pinpoint their
vulnerability and go after it is sick.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The thing that strikes me about this so far is
that while it is despicable and less somebody was less
than eighteen years of age, none of it is illegal.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's just immoral from my point of view. It's probably not,
from their point of view, terribly gross.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But you're right, we haven't heard anything yet that was
illegal that I've talked about in that interview. I don't
think so.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty a blockbuster deal between ESPN and the NFL,
ESPN revealing it's acquiring the NFL network, including the popular
Red Zone channel. In exchange, the NFL receives at ten
percent equity stake in ESPN.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Saying the deal will deliver an even more compelling experience
for NFL fans. It all launches August twenty first, along
with ESPN's new streaming service.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
And the NFL basically starts today with the preseason there.
You know, Thursday night football is a thing, So there
are three games today preseason games. Now. Most of the
analysis I've read of this for the most popular television
show in America is the games are going to be
spread out of over more channels than have been in
the past, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Have to be a more compelling experience according to the commissioner.
The hell does that mean?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't know, but it's going to be harder to
find your game, what channel it's on, your favorite team
will be on a different channel every week, or who
knows how that's all gonna work. And then there's also
the people have brought up the ESPN. Are they going
to cover the NFL the way they have in years past?
If you got a player who beat up his wife
last night and or got arrested driving one hundred and
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fifty miles an hour in Vegas or whatever the story is,
are they going to kind of you know, the soft
pedal those stories now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Commissioner Roger going to make a little phone call. Hey,
let's let's keep this one quiet for now, so let's
go easy on that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, it's almost impossible that that doesn't happen, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah? Yeah, would you at least owns the media, I
mean they already cow tew a little bit. But yeah,
of course that'll soften the coverage. That's I mean, it's
not the biggest problem we got in America. But how
in the heck would you be the news director and think, oh,
let's go top of every hour, let's do the player
that beat up his wife last night. No, you're not
right right, interesting, Michael? Are we ready as metal guy
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tuned up his seven string guitar because.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
California is crumbling? That's right, Metal people play seven string guitars.
What do you do with that extra string?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Shred? Stupid? What else are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I know, I know your alternate guitars with extra strings.
I can barely master that. I haven't mastered the regular
one anyway. A trio of story is all reported by
the fabulous folks at the California Globe about California crumbling,
and the first one's kind of revisiting. Do you remember
we talked to a few weeks ago about the behest
thing that I'd never even heard of. But it's legal
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in certain circumstances. For for instance, GOV gave and some
of the other officials, but mostly GOV gave to strong
arm quote unquote donations from various entities to his wife's
charity or some other things, as we'll hear about in
return for well, no, not in return for anything. It's
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just because they're generous. And the next week he does
something incredibly important for the person who made the donation.
There's nothing to see you laugh, I laughed.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Bribery laws are like prostitution laws. You just realized there's
no way you can stop prostitutions. You just try not
to have the most overt right there on the street
corner in front of the school, exchange of money for sex.
But you know you can't really stop it. And the
bribery is that way too. You don't want to have
the most overt. Hey, I'll give you one hundred dollars
if you vote one hundred dollars. I'll give you a
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hundred thousand dollars to vote this way. But you know
you can't stop this sort of thing. A donation to
his wife's charity.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, ask the Biden family anyway, No, kire, Here's a
few examples for you. Gov Gav used his office to
try to block a small tribe from opening a casino
in northern California after taking nearly two million dollars from
a different group of Indians, a major California political donor,
which operates its own gambling compound about fifteen miles away
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from the proposed site, they broke around on a one
billion dollar expansion in twenty twenty three. So he took
nearly two million dollars at where what charities did they
go to? Known as Behested payments, not Governor, This is
not the governor's first rodeo. He accepted more than seven
hundred thousand dollars from two major law firms in twenty
(21:29):
twenty one. To do you remember this both create and
defend his executive order to repeal death penalty rules and
dismantle the death chamber at San Quentin. He got seven
hundred thousand dollars from two major law firms. Governor Gav
behested three and a half million dollars in twenty eighteen,
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the year he was elected governor twenty nineteen, he reported
behested payments of twelve point one million dollars.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That casino story should be a bigger story. I wonder
if that will uh if he runs for president and
there's like a serious race between him and Josh Shapiro
with somebody, if some other Democrat digs that up because
that's death. Oh, that one stinks.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They'll hammer that. But wait, there's more. In twenty twenty,
during the COVID nineteen pandemic and when the governor's emergency
powers were greatly expanded, payments to various entities at Newsom's
be hassed shot up to a whopping two hundred and
twenty six million dollars, according to data from the state's
Fair Political Practices Commission. For instance, Fox News reported forty
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five million dollars from Blue Shield to California and Kaiser
Permanente for his housing initiatives. Those two healthcare giants just decided, yes,
we will fund your pet project for you out of nowhere,
and then the governor chose both Blue Shield and Kaiser
Permanende to help manage vaccine distribution in California. Wow. Between
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twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, United Health donated two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars to political committees controlled by news who
later awarded four hundred and ninety two million dollars in
contracts to United Health subsidiaries in no bid and expedited situations.
What more about you get the point?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
What I'm hearing is a lot of coincidences with no evidence.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So the free beacon continues. In April twenty four, a
few months before Newsom sent his letter to the Biden
Interior Department about the Indian tribe thingy, the Democratic governor
requested the grotten ranch area contributed half a million dollars
to his wife charity. His wife's charity, the California Partners Project,
And in April twenty five, one month before Newsom filed
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his lawsuit against the Trump administration, he again asked Grotten
Rnchuria to contribute another half million dollars to his wife's charity.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Not having your wife have a charity is a good one.
That's a good one right there.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, and what a charity it is, Jennifer C. Sybel
Newsom's California Partners Project quote champion's gender equity across the
state and insures our states media and technology industries are
a force for good in lives of all children and
of car left gender bending madness advocate, and she also
produces gender justice films and sells them to California's public.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
School Well, even if it was something I agree with
her charity, we all know how the whole nonprofit things work, says.
We've explained many many times. It's nonprofit, just part of
your You know, you're running the place. What are you
supposed to provide your own car to go to the
various meetings? Now the charity provides a car in the hotel,
and the food in the flight and all the different things.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But that's enough of that. How about some of this?
Brian Jones and John Cabotec in the California Grow Globe
writing small businesses still paying for Sacramento's mistakes. Imagine someone
breaking your windows, handing you the bill and calling it
even It's exactly what's happening to small businesses in California.
While every other state that borrowed federal money to cover
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unemployment costs during the pandemic has paid off its debt,
every single one, California is still on the hook for
more than twenty one billion dollar dollars, and instead of
fixing the problem, progressives in control of the legislature forcing
small business owners, the very people they shut down during
the pandemic to cover the interest. It's not just Unferret's outrageous.
(25:13):
Remember over five years ago when COVID struck, the state
ordered small businesses to close, in many cases with little warnings,
sometimes by force, not giant corporations with deep pockets. Family
run restaurants, hair salons, hardware stores, local gyms, the backbone
of our community communities. One out of every three never reopened. Wow,
that's brutal.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I know.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I had a friend who had a small business and
he barely made it. He barely survived.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Then, as unemployment skyrocketed, California borrowed billions of dollars from
the federal government to keep jobless benefits flowing. But thanks
to a broken system, lack of oversight and share in competence,
the state lost control of the process, paying out over
thirty billion dollars in fraudulent claims. Money was stolen by
scam artists, criminal syndicates, inmates, tax mayor. Money drained from
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the system at record speed, and to this day, almost
no one has been held accountable, few arrests, no serious
effort to recover the money, and now, instead of going
after the criminals or creating a responsible plan to pay
off the debt, progressive lawmakers and Sacramento are sending the
bill to small business owners through higher taxes, higher taxes
and fees for small businesses. I could get you into
(26:22):
the details. It's very well reported, and they will escalate
year after year.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
This is one of the most depressing things you've ever done,
and that is saying that's what I do, That's what
I do. You're afraid I was gonna have a good
day or what was your deal there exactly?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I noticed you were kind of buoyant after the last segment.
I thought this will not stand. And then finally this
Hector Barajas in the fabulous California Globe, which you ought
to check on. They do a better job of covering
California news than anybody I've seen. He writes, by any
reasonable standard, if someone breaks into your home, they should
(26:57):
be arrested. Someone moves onto your fire ravaged lane end
and sets up camp, they should be removed. And if
someone forges a lease or claims rights to your property
without a shred of ownership. The law should be on
your side, but in California and other parts of the country,
that's not how it works. So this one guy, Luke
Melchior of Melchior Construction, has been posting these videos showing
(27:19):
the southern California fire victims who lost everything in the
wildfires now facing new night nightmare. In Melchior's videos, you
see trailers and makeshift shelters appearing on burned out lots.
These people moved in without permission, and law enforcement told
the residents, sorry, you gotta pursue civil action, meaning these
(27:42):
families now face spending thousands of dollars and months after
months after months to reclaim their land or they were
burnt off of.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So there's a fire, you're ordered to leave, your house
burns down. You finally go back and somebody else has
set up a camper there and you get rid of them.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In Joe Getty's America, you would tell him you got
ten minutes to leave, Otherwise me and all my buddies
are gonna whoop your ass. And if that makes me
a bad person, I'm a bad person. A favor of that.
But instead they get and I'm sorry, it's a civil matter.
You got to hire an attorney and start pursuing this
through the courts.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It's amazing anybody follows the law since you get screwed
so often in situations like that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, oh, that is it again.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
This is one of the most depressing segments you've ever done.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh no, it's supposed to be angering. I'm sorry, I've
got to check my bad vibes. Gun. Oh I had
it set on depressed, not anger.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Sorry now, and they're close friends. You stay depressed long enough,
you turn angry and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, either way, you drink. The only way people ought
to be rioting in the streets. They should be, They
honestly should be. We're not advocating rioting. Yeah, let me
rephrase that, by all laws of God and man, people
should be rioting in the No, that one won't work either.
(29:12):
How about in all of human history this sort of
abuse and theft spawned riots, true, which we disapprove of.
Here at the Armstrong in Giddy show, that was there issue.
That one we.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Will finished strong.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The next stretches, Why I on a.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
That is a big cup? You got there, Katie, Your
big dumb cup that is a giant one is that
a forty eight or sixty four forty eight and I
drink like five of these a day. Good for you,
so water, uh huh, vodka, whisky. So I posted a
picture of myself in American Eagle Genius last night, trying
(30:00):
to do a joke, as Sidney Sweeney joke. I was
laying on the floor doing the pose and the denim
shirt and the jeans, and I had my son take
a picture of it, and he was really horrified by
He said, I'm not taking your tender profile pictures. I
have no idea. He's thirteen. I haven't got the slightest
idea why he's ever heard of tinder, knows what a
profile picture is. I don't know. Such as the world
(30:23):
of what teenagers talk to each other about, I guess.
But so somebody took that photo of me lying sexually
on the floor and turned it into an AI video.
Did you look at that, Joe?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I did? It is disturbing, isn't it? And so incredibly convincing.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So I've seen a lot of AI videos, we all have,
and they're you know, they weird you out, you know
they're fake. But when you see one of yourself, something
happens in your brain. I mean, it's like, I know
I didn't do that, and that's not me, but it
looks just like me doing that. It's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, it is you. It's your picture manipulated. So if
it ain't you, who is it? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Right? But yeah, well it's just the idea of somebody
could have taken a picture of Well, there's plenty of
pictures of me exist anywhere, you know, as a minor celebrity.
They're all over the place, So somebody could take a
picture and turn it into video of me doing what
kicking a dog or worse, you know today anything, And
then I got to deny that it's real. It'd be
(31:33):
hard to deny it was real, because the quality on
that is pretty good, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You grimacing, It's it's Jack attempting to rise from his
pose as a would be saxy gene model.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Somebody had made the joke that if I laid on
the floor like her, I wouldn't be able.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
To get up right. And it's Jack rolling on to
his side and trying to struggle to his feet and
cursing and grimacing. But as you curse in grimace, you
got kind of a Bruce Willis look going there. I
could see you was kind of a cut right action star.
Even in the gym lately I've cut rate.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
I'd say, yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
This is your next chapter. The aging action start Jason Statham,
the Bruce Willis, God rest him with his health problems. Uh,
you know, I'm telling you you need an agent. I'll
be your agent.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm a highly disturbed where AI is taking us. There's
no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Your roles are going to be humiliating. Just get used
to that idea. But I think I can get your work.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And it probably wasn't a pro that did that. Is
just a listener who has one of the apps, you know,
Jack Armstrong and to GETTI final I'm a haunting echo
there of final thoughts. That's where it really.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Here's back when you had to like produce your own
song and not have a computer do it for you.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Right, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe getting.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Let's get final thought from everybody on and the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons in the control room. Michael Angelo, what's
your final thought? Michael?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
After seeing that video, I've got to get better at
the AI stuff. I know chat GPT a little bit,
but I've got to sit down and start creating.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I got to learn this stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It's fun. It takes a lot less skill than you'd think.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's disturbing and weird, but you're right. Yeah, Katie Green
are esteemed new as woman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
From another one of Jack's tweets yesterday, all the listeners
looking at your grill are suggesting a gofund me to
get you a new grill or a small table for
your spatula.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Wow. Yeah, even like a twelve dollars little plastic thing.
It's at the Walmart or something. Jack a final thought for.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Us, I got the Nazi jeans, the white supremacist eugenic jeans,
and I'm perfectly happy with them. And they're like thirty
eight dollars. I didn't realize you that. In addition to
the fact that she was pitching jeans, just pitching pretty
cheap jeans whatever reasonably priced thrifty.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I like it. My final thought. We didn't really get
to this story, but I tell you I'm becoming just
absolutely militant on this topic. Like so many others. The
article is how letting your mind wander can reset your brain.
How important it is to just think about nothing in
particular for significant chunks of your life. Give your brain
(34:22):
a break.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Can we talk about that more in the one More
Thing podcast?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We could?
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That's interesting. Armstrong and Getty wrapick up another grueling four
hour workday.
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Damn straight see you tomorrow. God bless America.
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You just got your luck. Don't eat pleasant.
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Thank you for that, shoy no comedy anymore, Thank.
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You for that.
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Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jetty and He.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Armstrong and yedtis hosting a gathering this evening to talk
without to respond to the Epstein situation?
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Is he working on what?
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Hosting some kind of gathering of top advisors this evening
to talk about how to respond to the Epstein situation.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (00:37):
I could ask you that I don't know of it,
but I think here's the man right here.
Speaker 6 (00:43):
I saw a record today and it's completely fake news.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
We're not meeting to talk about the Epstein situation.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
And I think the reporter who reported it needs to
get better sources.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
That the whole thing is a host is put out
by the demographs because we've had the most successful six
months in the history of our country, and that's just
a way of trying to divert attention to something that's
total bo okay.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
So there you go. That's uh.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I love the way Trump steers into bull House adds Bull.
I mean he makes you a wait for.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
The it's it's total bone.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
It's like, uh, you know, the guy from a Godfather movie.
It's like the Sopranos would say.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right, So I guess the supposed or maybe it never
was Epstein dinner at jd Vance's house with the Attorney
General in the FBI director never happened. What's going on
that I don't know. Yesterday we had some Epstein stuff
from this woman Jessica Reid Krautz, who I don't know,
just came to through substack and it was some reporting
on his house in the weirdness. Remember he had a
(01:52):
whole bunch of prosthetic eyeballs on the wall and just
all kinds of weird stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Well, and he believed in art that made people like
intensely uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So there's a new version of Jessica Reed Krauss's article
today with an interview with one of the victims. This
is somebody that was a young girl who came into
the orbit and kind of explaining the whole thing with Epstein.
I thought this was pretty damned interesting. Epstein victim exclusive.
The bond was something like a twisted Mantonesque family. She'd
call us her children and kiss us on the head
(02:21):
saying good night. She was impressive, speaking four languages and
flying helicopters. The other subheadline before I get into it,
is he treated orgasms like meals to be consumed three
times a day, attempting to normalize his actions. He brainwashed
me into thinking my ideas were antiquated and I was
the odd one. He was pretty convincing. He treated orgasms
(02:44):
like meals is an odd, odd imagery.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yes, indeed, yes, have to set the table or.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
What And this author who I don't know. Editor's note
before we get into some of the first person account
is as we moved through the many layers of the
Epstein saga based on exclusive material I've gathered over the
past three years, I'll continue to remind you that what
follows might not align with your popular narrative. You may
find yourself rethinking what you believed about certain people involved,
(03:15):
and I hope you'll approach it with an open mind.
When we get to the deeper examination of a g
dog that's what we call Ms Maxwell because nobody knows
how to pronounce her name, Especially when I revisit what
I witnessed at her trial, much more will come into focus.
So trying to put all the pieces together over the
multiple Epstein cases and interviews and all that sort of
stuff anyway. So this is from the one of the
(03:40):
victims who said, I've turned down interviews with all major
television outlets here in internationally, including NBC News, CBS This Morning, Netflix, BBC,
Good Morning, Britain, Sky News Australia. I've been stalked at
my home and my job by creepy journalists, mostly the
ones from the British tabloids. Mainly, I haven't come out
and told my whole story because one, I don't wish
(04:02):
to be clumped in with the other victims of Jeffrey Epstein,
and as I don't relate them too, I don't trust
the media's biased interpretation. In three m introvert, so this
person hadn't come forward before.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Interesting that she doesn't want to be bunched or whatever
she said with the other victims. But I'll wait and
listen figure out why.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
Glaine approached me on my college campus about working for
her at her home in Palm Beach. I was skeptical
at first, but offered her advice and where to hang
a job posting she had another young woman with her that,
coupled with her British accent American's love, was enough to
make me feel I could trust her when she asked
me to jump in her Mercedes and come check out
(04:42):
the house. On the way over, she told me she
had homes all across the world and did not like
to hire Butler's in Florida because it was too stuffy,
so she found college girls instead, paying them twenty dollars
an hour to answer phones and run errands. It seemed
like a dream job to me. Just you know, I'm
not to Celia Thunder. But the ability of the groomer
(05:03):
and the manipulator to exploit people's positive and negative emotions,
it spans across different you know, scams and exploitation, particularly
young women.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
But man, I can already see it take in shape.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Going from making fifty dollars a night waitressing to one
hundred dollars an hour rubbing feet was the beginning of
the grooming process.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
You'd have to pay me more than one hundred bucks
to rub anyone's feet, really, especially some of the feet.
They worked in tandem, him constantly trying to normalize his behavior,
and her making me feel like a friend, reminding me
to always be grateful to Jeffrey and to thank him
for his generosity. They were exceptional at painting. Their world
is exciting and glamorous, name dropping all the big shots,
(05:47):
Bruce Willis, Bruce Willis, Ashton Kutcher, Kate Blanchett, Bill Clinton,
Kevin Spacey, and they had all the photos to prove it.
This was the early two thousand, before social media, before
celebrities were accessible as they are now. They made you
want to be part of that world, but there was
a trade off. Sometimes you had to do things you
didn't really want to do. Interesting though that Maxwell's job
(06:10):
was to be the affectionate, kind person who didn't ask
much at all, certainly nothing objectionable, but then would testify
as the good person, the motherly person, the helpful person,
that what he's asking of you is just fine because
he's a great guy, and it's fine, right, And that's
like good cop perverse cop.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Yeah, And if she's nice, if a g dog is
nice and normal acting, you think, well, she puts up
with it, so it must not be that bad, right.
What was Epstein like? Mysterious funny? He loved humor. He
was a deep thinker, a voracious reader, mainly of science.
I never saw him angry. He was serious, and you
knew he had the power to ruin you. If he
was ever upset with me, he used his assistance to
(06:49):
deliver the message that was almost worse. I would say
ninety percent of the time he was fun and enjoyable
to be around. The other ten percent just got worse
with the abuses. The years went on, and his manipulation
made me believe I wanted it or consented. That's interesting,
soph he's ever upset with you sends somebody else to
mister Epstein's upset. H I was in the circle for
(07:13):
over five years. There were breaks for different reasons. I
tried to distance myself, but he knew ways of getting
me back in. And the first year, when one other
girl was quitting as the main assistant, he wanted me
to take her place. Tons of money, travel everywhere, no expenses.
You just have to be okay with common vernacular for
oral sex. It also would have required me to drop
(07:34):
out of school. I told him, psychologically, I can't do it.
I was still a virgin at the time. Wow, I
was not comfortable with any of the sex stuff. I
want sex to be with someone I love, someone who
I can trust. I told him. He was shocked to
learn about my virginity. I was twenty one. It was
years of grooming that got me to first lose my shirt,
then my shorts, then everything else. It would have four
(07:55):
years in when he stole my virginity. Wow, that's some
patient grooming right there. Four years to get what the
sick of wanted. What he took.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
He he had other victims to keep him company in
the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
It's like developing a baseball prospect from single A until
they're ready to come to the majors. In a sick way.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
What he took from me, my innocence and virginity and
so much of my identity was irreplaceable. How he did
it by making me feel like I could trust him
in that I was special, and then I owed it
to him for being so generous with me. Man, you've
heard that a million times with people who end up
in situations like this. They make you feel special. Yeah,
and that's people who are lacking someone else to make
(08:39):
them feel special, often in.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
That holiday of course. Yeah, and then accepting a tremendous
amount of luxury and pleasure from them. Then getting the
message he kind of owe me. What are you supposed
to say, Well, You've only flown me to five international
locations and showed me the most amazing time anybody could imagine. No,
(09:02):
I don't know you anything. That's very hard for somebody
to say. I don't quite get this paragraph. I've read
it several times. I still quite understand it. I've often
imagined what I would say if I ran into him
walking the streets of New York pre twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Do you get it now? For years you treated sex
like it was a transactional, purely physical, with no emotional
or spiritual connections. But look at all these women, with
their lawsuits and their trauma. He treated orgasms like meals
to be consumed three times a day. We read that
part from the beginning, and he was very convincing. I
didn't even truly know what consent was. Rape was something
that happened in back alleys. This was before hashtag me
(09:39):
too and this stuff was explained. It was actually when
Harvey Weinstein was exposed that I could really look back
and say, you know what, I never consented to any
of this stuff. I was raped. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't agree with her exactly.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
In what way.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
To be manipulated into the giving of sex is different
than rape. I mean, it's by no means morally acceptable
or good, but it's a different it's a different question.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
I mean, it's very much like the difference between being
long conned out of my money and being robbed at gunpoint.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
About g Dog Maxwell, I liked her. She's funny, her
sense of humor was perverted, but she had a light
and airy perspective on life. They were very free. Too
many times I witnessed them stripped naked and jump of
the pool e ocean. She enjoyed having the girls around.
The First time I met her, she was wearing workout clothes,
and every time I saw in Florida she was dressed
very casually. I remember the day I saw in New York.
She had on a cream sweater, a pleated skirt, and
(10:50):
pointy boots. She sat me down, gave me a book,
and told me to always say thank you to Jeffrey.
That's weird that comes up so often. So what isxlls
deal is she kind of under the sway of him
also in a like a really subservient role.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
Yeah, and I think she got some sexual pleasure out
of the whole lifestyle.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
In fact, that was the testimony in the trial. Yeah,
the bond was something like a twisted mansonesque family. She'd
call us her children and kiss us on the head,
saying good night to a twenty one year old. She
was impressive, speaking for a language flying helicopters. She once
invited me over and cooked me dinner, saying she had
been to culinary school. But she was also complicated. I
remember mentioning my hero Princess Die and calling her something.
(11:38):
I don't quite get this. I remember mentioning my hero
Princess Die and ripping into her, calling her selfish and terrible.
I told her I wished to get married one day,
and she told me to never get married, because humans
aren't meant to be monogamous. I genuinely respect and slash
fear for her. I've read her deposition where they asked
(11:58):
her if she and I had sex a relationship. She
refused to answer. I can unequivocally say we did not. Well,
that's kind of interesting because I've always wondered, you know,
I don't quite get what was going on between g
Dog and Epstein and the women. Was she participating in
all this stuff or not.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Or I've never heards Yeah, and women. Wow, it's interesting
that she refused to answer that question. Gallainne Maxwell did
g dog care? I think care is a tough word
to define. To truly care for someone, you wouldn't subject
them to abuse. But then again, she didn't see it
as abuse abuse.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
They both justified their behaviors because the generosity was so great.
I don't think she truly cared, but I do think
I do think she liked me. I can only speak
to my experience. That's interesting in this interview, she's still
like wrestling with how much the people liked them and
respected her, and you know that sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
People, these these predators, as we all know, have some
sort of like sixth sense that the rest of us
don't have to pick up on people who need that
validation self esteem boost, right and then and then take
advantage of it.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Then their master manipulators once they, you know, become aware
that you're a suitable prey.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Right. Anyway, there's more on that later. I'll decide if
I think it's worth your while. And we got other
news to get to too. If you have any comment
on any of that text Line four one five two
nine five kftc.
Speaker 7 (13:22):
Armstrong, Eddie. That is a complaint that we've heard from
a lot of survivors and victims in recent days and weeks,
is that they feel that they don't have a seat
at the table, and the conversations that are happening, whether
that be here at the White House or Republicans on
Capitol Hill in terms of what they are trying to
do and achieve here with the release of the Epstein
documents that we know lawmakers are seeking.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
That was about the supposed dinner meeting that was going
to happen at jad Vance's house last night, which I
guess didn't occur, talking about Epstein, and then family members
of that poor woman that killed herself who was a
victim of Jeffrey Epstein, were saying that about not having
a seat at the table, et cetera. And we'd just
been reading from an interview transcript with one of the
(14:07):
other victims that hadn't spoken out before, and I'm god,
there's probably over his whole life. There might be thousands
of people out there, right.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, that's alleged.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Yeah, certainly hundreds. By the way, so we refer to
Maxwell as g Dog because we don't know how to
pronounce her name. This particular victim said, nobody could ever
pronounce her name right. I've never heard her name butcherd
so badly. The worst I ever heard was gasoline, But
so nobody could say your name. Going on with the
interview about g Dogs and Jeffrey's relationship, which, like I said,
(14:41):
I've never quite understood. When I first met them, I
assumed them to be a couple, not because I sensed
any affection between them, but because it was clear by
the photos and the houses two of them. The two
of them were pictured all over the world, accompanied by
powerful people. Her portraits were there. There were clearly his
and her separate bathrooms, but I think in New York
she's in her own home most of the time. It
(15:01):
was a lot to take in on that first trip.
I wish I could go back and relive it with
an iPhone so i'd have pictures. While on that first
trip to New York, I was giving Jeffrey a massage
when he turned over and okay, this gets a I'll
try to be cloud this. I won't use the worst terms,
but this is not for the kids. Obviously. I was
given Jeffrey a massage. When he turned over and told
(15:23):
me to rub his nipples while he manipulated himself. I said,
I'm not doing this and walked out. We had a
chat later. He was pretty cavalier, stating I obviously wasn't
comfortable with the sex stuff, but they're going to the
island the next day, and if you want to come
to the island, you need to be comfortable. I said, well,
I want to come. There's not going to be like orgies, right,
there were not once there. I still gave him a massage,
(15:44):
probably in a bikini. I was on a hike in
the Virgin Islands that g dog explained to me why
the other girls were there. She and him must have
discussed me and my hesitancy and made it clear to
me that that's part of your job to get these
kind of massages. It helps calm him down, and that
you have to do it. Say's part of the grooming process.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
It reminds me of various cults I've heard of too,
just to all the techniques that they use. That Nexium
cult that had a great deal of sexual activity going
on as well.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Right, and she knew Virginia, the woman that killed herself,
not that long ago and at the time who had
a similar experience. Boy, it's interesting. So they would all
talk to each other and kind of discuss how they
have given into this lifestyle, but talk about the perks
(16:39):
of it. As she says, there the travel in the world,
the cash.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Sometimes, Katie, do you have something your anxious to throw
on her?
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Just the fact that he was able to pinpoint their
vulnerability and go after it is sick.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
The thing that strikes me about this so far is
that while it is despicable and less somebody was less
than eighteen years of age, none of it is illegal.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
That's a good point.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
It's just immoral from my point of view. It's probably not,
from their point of view, terribly gross.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
But you're right, we haven't heard anything yet that was
illegal that I've talked about in that interview. I don't
think so.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
Armstrong and Getty a blockbuster deal between ESPN and the NFL,
ESPN revealing it's acquiring the NFL network, including the popular
Red Zone channel. In exchange, the NFL receives at ten
percent equity stake in ESPN.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
Disney CEO Bob Iger.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
Saying the deal will deliver an even more compelling experience
for NFL fans. It all launches August twenty first, along
with ESPN's new streaming service.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
And the NFL basically starts today with the preseason there.
You know, Thursday night football is a thing, So there
are three games today preseason games. Now. Most of the
analysis I've read of this for the most popular television
show in America is the games are going to be
spread out of over more channels than have been in
the past, and you'll.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Have to be a more compelling experience according to the commissioner.
The hell does that mean?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't know, but it's going to be harder to
find your game, what channel it's on, your favorite team
will be on a different channel every week, or who
knows how that's all gonna work. And then there's also
the people have brought up the ESPN. Are they going
to cover the NFL the way they have in years past?
If you got a player who beat up his wife
last night and or got arrested driving one hundred and
(18:25):
fifty miles an hour in Vegas or whatever the story is,
are they going to kind of you know, the soft
pedal those stories now.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Commissioner Roger going to make a little phone call. Hey,
let's let's keep this one quiet for now, so let's
go easy on that.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Yeah, it's almost impossible that that doesn't happen, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah? Yeah, would you at least owns the media, I
mean they already cow tew a little bit. But yeah,
of course that'll soften the coverage. That's I mean, it's
not the biggest problem we got in America. But how
in the heck would you be the news director and think, oh,
let's go top of every hour, let's do the player
that beat up his wife last night. No, you're not
right right, interesting, Michael? Are we ready as metal guy
(19:06):
tuned up his seven string guitar because.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
California is crumbling? That's right, Metal people play seven string guitars.
What do you do with that extra string?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Shred? Stupid? What else are you gonna do with it?
Speaker 4 (19:20):
Okay?
Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I know, I know your alternate guitars with extra strings.
I can barely master that. I haven't mastered the regular
one anyway. A trio of story is all reported by
the fabulous folks at the California Globe about California crumbling,
and the first one's kind of revisiting. Do you remember
we talked to a few weeks ago about the behest
thing that I'd never even heard of. But it's legal
(19:45):
in certain circumstances. For for instance, GOV gave and some
of the other officials, but mostly GOV gave to strong
arm quote unquote donations from various entities to his wife's
charity or some other things, as we'll hear about in
return for well, no, not in return for anything. It's
(20:06):
just because they're generous. And the next week he does
something incredibly important for the person who made the donation.
There's nothing to see you laugh, I laughed.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Bribery laws are like prostitution laws. You just realized there's
no way you can stop prostitutions. You just try not
to have the most overt right there on the street
corner in front of the school, exchange of money for sex.
But you know you can't really stop it. And the
bribery is that way too. You don't want to have
the most overt. Hey, I'll give you one hundred dollars
if you vote one hundred dollars. I'll give you a
(20:37):
hundred thousand dollars to vote this way. But you know
you can't stop this sort of thing. A donation to
his wife's charity.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Right, ask the Biden family anyway, No, kire, Here's a
few examples for you. Gov Gav used his office to
try to block a small tribe from opening a casino
in northern California after taking nearly two million dollars from
a different group of Indians, a major California political donor,
which operates its own gambling compound about fifteen miles away
(21:06):
from the proposed site, they broke around on a one
billion dollar expansion in twenty twenty three. So he took
nearly two million dollars at where what charities did they
go to? Known as Behested payments, not Governor, This is
not the governor's first rodeo. He accepted more than seven
hundred thousand dollars from two major law firms in twenty
(21:29):
twenty one. To do you remember this both create and
defend his executive order to repeal death penalty rules and
dismantle the death chamber at San Quentin. He got seven
hundred thousand dollars from two major law firms. Governor Gav
behested three and a half million dollars in twenty eighteen,
(21:50):
the year he was elected governor twenty nineteen, he reported
behested payments of twelve point one million dollars.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
That casino story should be a bigger story. I wonder
if that will uh if he runs for president and
there's like a serious race between him and Josh Shapiro
with somebody, if some other Democrat digs that up because
that's death. Oh, that one stinks.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They'll hammer that. But wait, there's more. In twenty twenty,
during the COVID nineteen pandemic and when the governor's emergency
powers were greatly expanded, payments to various entities at Newsom's
be hassed shot up to a whopping two hundred and
twenty six million dollars, according to data from the state's
Fair Political Practices Commission. For instance, Fox News reported forty
(22:33):
five million dollars from Blue Shield to California and Kaiser
Permanente for his housing initiatives. Those two healthcare giants just decided, yes,
we will fund your pet project for you out of nowhere,
and then the governor chose both Blue Shield and Kaiser
Permanende to help manage vaccine distribution in California. Wow. Between
(22:54):
twenty eighteen twenty nineteen, United Health donated two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars to political committees controlled by news who
later awarded four hundred and ninety two million dollars in
contracts to United Health subsidiaries in no bid and expedited situations.
What more about you get the point?
Speaker 4 (23:11):
What I'm hearing is a lot of coincidences with no evidence.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
So the free beacon continues. In April twenty four, a
few months before Newsom sent his letter to the Biden
Interior Department about the Indian tribe thingy, the Democratic governor
requested the grotten ranch area contributed half a million dollars
to his wife charity. His wife's charity, the California Partners Project,
And in April twenty five, one month before Newsom filed
(23:36):
his lawsuit against the Trump administration, he again asked Grotten
Rnchuria to contribute another half million dollars to his wife's charity.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Not having your wife have a charity is a good one.
That's a good one right there.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Well, and what a charity it is, Jennifer C. Sybel
Newsom's California Partners Project quote champion's gender equity across the
state and insures our states media and technology industries are
a force for good in lives of all children and
of car left gender bending madness advocate, and she also
produces gender justice films and sells them to California's public.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
School Well, even if it was something I agree with
her charity, we all know how the whole nonprofit things work, says.
We've explained many many times. It's nonprofit, just part of
your You know, you're running the place. What are you
supposed to provide your own car to go to the
various meetings? Now the charity provides a car in the hotel,
and the food in the flight and all the different things.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
But that's enough of that. How about some of this?
Brian Jones and John Cabotec in the California Grow Globe
writing small businesses still paying for Sacramento's mistakes. Imagine someone
breaking your windows, handing you the bill and calling it
even It's exactly what's happening to small businesses in California.
While every other state that borrowed federal money to cover
(24:52):
unemployment costs during the pandemic has paid off its debt,
every single one, California is still on the hook for
more than twenty one billion dollar dollars, and instead of
fixing the problem, progressives in control of the legislature forcing
small business owners, the very people they shut down during
the pandemic to cover the interest. It's not just Unferret's outrageous.
(25:13):
Remember over five years ago when COVID struck, the state
ordered small businesses to close, in many cases with little warnings,
sometimes by force, not giant corporations with deep pockets. Family
run restaurants, hair salons, hardware stores, local gyms, the backbone
of our community communities. One out of every three never reopened. Wow,
that's brutal.
Speaker 2 (25:34):
I know.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
I had a friend who had a small business and
he barely made it. He barely survived.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Then, as unemployment skyrocketed, California borrowed billions of dollars from
the federal government to keep jobless benefits flowing. But thanks
to a broken system, lack of oversight and share in competence,
the state lost control of the process, paying out over
thirty billion dollars in fraudulent claims. Money was stolen by
scam artists, criminal syndicates, inmates, tax mayor. Money drained from
(26:02):
the system at record speed, and to this day, almost
no one has been held accountable, few arrests, no serious
effort to recover the money, and now, instead of going
after the criminals or creating a responsible plan to pay
off the debt, progressive lawmakers and Sacramento are sending the
bill to small business owners through higher taxes, higher taxes
and fees for small businesses. I could get you into
(26:22):
the details. It's very well reported, and they will escalate
year after year.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
This is one of the most depressing things you've ever done,
and that is saying that's what I do, That's what
I do. You're afraid I was gonna have a good
day or what was your deal there exactly?
Speaker 1 (26:35):
I noticed you were kind of buoyant after the last segment.
I thought this will not stand. And then finally this
Hector Barajas in the fabulous California Globe, which you ought
to check on. They do a better job of covering
California news than anybody I've seen. He writes, by any
reasonable standard, if someone breaks into your home, they should
(26:57):
be arrested. Someone moves onto your fire ravaged lane end
and sets up camp, they should be removed. And if
someone forges a lease or claims rights to your property
without a shred of ownership. The law should be on
your side, but in California and other parts of the country,
that's not how it works. So this one guy, Luke
Melchior of Melchior Construction, has been posting these videos showing
(27:19):
the southern California fire victims who lost everything in the
wildfires now facing new night nightmare. In Melchior's videos, you
see trailers and makeshift shelters appearing on burned out lots.
These people moved in without permission, and law enforcement told
the residents, sorry, you gotta pursue civil action, meaning these
(27:42):
families now face spending thousands of dollars and months after
months after months to reclaim their land or they were
burnt off of.
Speaker 4 (27:51):
So there's a fire, you're ordered to leave, your house
burns down. You finally go back and somebody else has
set up a camper there and you get rid of them.
Speaker 1 (28:01):
In Joe Getty's America, you would tell him you got
ten minutes to leave, Otherwise me and all my buddies
are gonna whoop your ass. And if that makes me
a bad person, I'm a bad person. A favor of that.
But instead they get and I'm sorry, it's a civil matter.
You got to hire an attorney and start pursuing this
through the courts.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
It's amazing anybody follows the law since you get screwed
so often in situations like that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Yeah, oh, that is it again.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
This is one of the most depressing segments you've ever done.
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Oh no, it's supposed to be angering. I'm sorry, I've
got to check my bad vibes. Gun. Oh I had
it set on depressed, not anger.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Sorry now, and they're close friends. You stay depressed long enough,
you turn angry and vice versa.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Right, either way, you drink. The only way people ought
to be rioting in the streets. They should be, They
honestly should be. We're not advocating rioting. Yeah, let me
rephrase that, by all laws of God and man, people
should be rioting in the No, that one won't work either.
(29:12):
How about in all of human history this sort of
abuse and theft spawned riots, true, which we disapprove of.
Here at the Armstrong in Giddy show, that was there issue.
That one we.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Will finished strong.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The next stretches, Why I on a.
Speaker 4 (29:38):
That is a big cup? You got there, Katie, Your
big dumb cup that is a giant one is that
a forty eight or sixty four forty eight and I
drink like five of these a day. Good for you,
so water, uh huh, vodka, whisky. So I posted a
picture of myself in American Eagle Genius last night, trying
(30:00):
to do a joke, as Sidney Sweeney joke. I was
laying on the floor doing the pose and the denim
shirt and the jeans, and I had my son take
a picture of it, and he was really horrified by
He said, I'm not taking your tender profile pictures. I
have no idea. He's thirteen. I haven't got the slightest
idea why he's ever heard of tinder, knows what a
profile picture is. I don't know. Such as the world
(30:23):
of what teenagers talk to each other about, I guess.
But so somebody took that photo of me lying sexually
on the floor and turned it into an AI video.
Did you look at that, Joe?
Speaker 1 (30:38):
I did? It is disturbing, isn't it? And so incredibly convincing.
Speaker 4 (30:42):
So I've seen a lot of AI videos, we all have,
and they're you know, they weird you out, you know
they're fake. But when you see one of yourself, something
happens in your brain. I mean, it's like, I know
I didn't do that, and that's not me, but it
looks just like me doing that. It's disturbing.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Well, it is you. It's your picture manipulated. So if
it ain't you, who is it? You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (31:12):
Right? But yeah, well it's just the idea of somebody
could have taken a picture of Well, there's plenty of
pictures of me exist anywhere, you know, as a minor celebrity.
They're all over the place, So somebody could take a
picture and turn it into video of me doing what
kicking a dog or worse, you know today anything, And
then I got to deny that it's real. It'd be
(31:33):
hard to deny it was real, because the quality on
that is pretty good, you know.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
You grimacing, It's it's Jack attempting to rise from his
pose as a would be saxy gene model.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Somebody had made the joke that if I laid on
the floor like her, I wouldn't be able.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
To get up right. And it's Jack rolling on to
his side and trying to struggle to his feet and
cursing and grimacing. But as you curse in grimace, you
got kind of a Bruce Willis look going there. I
could see you was kind of a cut right action star.
Even in the gym lately I've cut rate.
Speaker 4 (32:04):
I'd say, yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
This is your next chapter. The aging action start Jason Statham,
the Bruce Willis, God rest him with his health problems. Uh,
you know, I'm telling you you need an agent. I'll
be your agent.
Speaker 4 (32:20):
I'm a highly disturbed where AI is taking us. There's
no doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
Your roles are going to be humiliating. Just get used
to that idea. But I think I can get your work.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
And it probably wasn't a pro that did that. Is
just a listener who has one of the apps, you know,
Jack Armstrong and to GETTI final I'm a haunting echo
there of final thoughts. That's where it really.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Here's back when you had to like produce your own
song and not have a computer do it for you.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
Right, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe getting.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Let's get final thought from everybody on and the crew
to wrap things up for the day. There he is
pressing the buttons in the control room. Michael Angelo, what's
your final thought? Michael?
Speaker 5 (33:05):
After seeing that video, I've got to get better at
the AI stuff. I know chat GPT a little bit,
but I've got to sit down and start creating.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I got to learn this stuff.
Speaker 4 (33:13):
It's fun. It takes a lot less skill than you'd think.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
It's disturbing and weird, but you're right. Yeah, Katie Green
are esteemed new as woman. As a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 7 (33:22):
From another one of Jack's tweets yesterday, all the listeners
looking at your grill are suggesting a gofund me to
get you a new grill or a small table for
your spatula.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Wow. Yeah, even like a twelve dollars little plastic thing.
It's at the Walmart or something. Jack a final thought for.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Us, I got the Nazi jeans, the white supremacist eugenic jeans,
and I'm perfectly happy with them. And they're like thirty
eight dollars. I didn't realize you that. In addition to
the fact that she was pitching jeans, just pitching pretty
cheap jeans whatever reasonably priced thrifty.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
I like it. My final thought. We didn't really get
to this story, but I tell you I'm becoming just
absolutely militant on this topic. Like so many others. The
article is how letting your mind wander can reset your brain.
How important it is to just think about nothing in
particular for significant chunks of your life. Give your brain
(34:22):
a break.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
Can we talk about that more in the one More
Thing podcast?
Speaker 1 (34:26):
We could?
Speaker 4 (34:26):
That's interesting. Armstrong and Getty wrapick up another grueling four
hour workday.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
So many people who thinks so a little time. Go
to Armstrong geeddy dot com. Got a lot of good
hot links for you. Pick up some ang swag, a
nice t shirt, a had a hoodie. Helps to keep
everybody on the payroll during these trouble times. And if
you see something we ought to be talking about, send
it along mail bag at Armstrong e geddy dot com.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Damn straight see you tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
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Speaker 1 (35:00):
You just got your luck. Don't eat pleasant.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
Thank you for that, shoy no comedy anymore, Thank.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
You for that.
Speaker 4 (35:15):
Bye Bye, Armstrong and Getty.
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