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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, Katty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Armstrong and Jattie and now Key Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
So before we go to our London bureau for a
special guest. I'm a little bit embarrassed that I had
to look this up. But I think for most of
my life I would use Great Britain in England interchangeably,
not knowing that they were different things. I think that
happens with a lot of people. Great Britain means if
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you say Great Britain, you mean England, Scotland and Wales.
Those three places are Great Britain. But if you say UK,
I didn't know this. If you say the United Kingdom,
it's those places plus Northern Ireland. So Great Britain's three countries.
United Kingdom is four countries. Okay, I didn't know that,
and I probably won't remember it anyway. In England, Joe Getty,
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the other half of the Armstrong Angetty show, probably in London.
How are you this morning?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Joe?
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I am in London and it is five o'clock in
the evening here roughly, I am ridiculously jet lagged and
sleep deprived, but otherwise in fine feddle.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Still after you got there Friday, No Saturday morning, late
Saturday morning here, I for some reason, I just couldn't
sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Wired too much espresso or something.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
But anyway, I celebrated total sleeplessness by walking for six
hours straight with my sweet wife around London town today,
seeing a museum and that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
So did you five or five o'clock in the afternoon.
Are you supposed to do afternoon tea or some bs
or something.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
I could use a beer.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I think we may do high tea at some point,
depends on how hard my wife twists my arm. But
mostly we've just we did the British Museum today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, that's that's awesome. That's one of the greatest museums
in the world.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Oh, it's it's breathtaking. It's I wasn't sure exactly what
to expect. I hadn't done a lot of research, honestly,
but the collection of antiquities from the ancient world, your
Goths and Visigoths, your Romans, your Greeks, so your Persians
throwing a few Persians.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
There and Assyrians.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
Yeah, it's it's amazing though. I saw the oldest books
that exists and the oldest library, and I was gazing
at the Rosetta stone.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
The actual thing just amazing.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
So how is the weather.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
It's a ball me, it's absolutely beautiful, seventy five.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There are no bugs.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
It's not no, it's not. That's fahrenheit. What is it
in Celsius.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Let's see the air conditioners set at twenty two?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Whatever that means? Oh my god, that's warm work or cold?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Yeah, I don't know. It is comfortable, honey.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
The air conditioners said twenty two? What do we say
to ood?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Bye?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
So I don't want to get into serious stuff really,
but I just Katie mentioned there were huge anti immigration
protests over the weekend. Did you are you become aware
of that?
Speaker 2 (03:13):
No? Not really.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
We saw cops going here and there, and we saw
some bobby sporting.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
They don't look like bobbies, they just look like cops.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
You're talking fahrenheit and cops.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
I just don't know. You're not taking to England. No,
not yet. But yeah, we saw a couple of smallest protests.
They didn't seem to be anti immigration protests. But here's
something interesting for you. Every Londoner we have talked to
for an extended period, be the Uber driver, tour guide, waiter,
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et cetera, has mentioned the immigration situation really unprompted.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I didn't ask them about it.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
In describing various things to see and do in London. Uh,
it comes up a time.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
And I tell you what, it's not.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
These damn dan Tai immigrant jerks are No, it's like
you probably don't want to go there and over here
it's you hear a lot. Frankly, it's funny. I'm hesitating
to say this out loud, but what it was said
to me. You hear a lot of so many Arabs. Really,
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it's funny. They refer to them as Arabs mostly. But yeah, yeah,
it's it's interesting. There is tension, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Yeah, well that's good information. I didn't know. I suppose
I had never thought about it. They have Uber in London.
Oh yeah, yeah, exactly the same using the same app
you used here.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh yeah, okay, easy peasy, no lyft though, don't even try.
I'll tell you another thing about London is it is
more teeming with humanity. Then well, it's like Times Square
in New York in this summertime, or like Union Square
in San Francisco before it got all poopy. I mean,
just millions and millions of human beings everywhere. Really, it's unbelievable. Yeah,
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I mean you can still have a good time and
see the sites and such, but it's it's it's a
thriving metropolis, no doubt. And today's some sort of or
this weekend a Giant Bank holiday they call it. It's
a three day end of summer holiday. So it's it's
extra crazy. What have you been eating a lot of
fish and chips?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
No joke?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I know when I when I was in England, I
have fishing chips every meal and they were all different,
which was interesting.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
Well, right, yeah, we we like to when like in Mexico,
we'd always try the guacamole. And when I was in Vienna,
not that I travel that much. It sounds like I'm
some sort of world traveler, but I'm not. I would
try the veen or schnitzel everywhere we went.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
What did you eat when you were in Hamburg?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Uh? A hot dog?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But yeah, it's I had a couple of pints and
as I mentioned last week, I guess we had dinner
with our next door neighbors at home last night here
in London.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They happen to be here too, so that was that
was delightful. It was funny.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
What what beer are you drinking that they have on
tap there?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
You know, honestly I can't even It's not but light,
is it?
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Good lord?
Speaker 1 (06:21):
No, No, I did have a peroni at lunch today.
That's an Italian logger, I think. But you know, I'll
go in and you know, order whatever's on tap and
they'll do that weird tap that's not even refrigerated and
it's like more of a pump.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Than a like electrified American tap.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
But I do enjoy the pub thing though. I remember
you saying how much you enjoyed thinking your dress days.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
I love the atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Yeah, it's very very cool.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah, it's you know, quiet ish unless there's a soccer
match going on.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm sorry, football football match going on and just I
don't know. It's it's it's good. I like it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yes, Michael has a question.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Yeah, do you constantly hear the Benny theme and we
go through the streets of.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
You want me to lose at one and a half speed?
That's right, No, Michael, no, forgot.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Oh that is funny.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
We did the big double decker bus trip bus tour
thing yesterday. I just rode around more or less all day.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
I never did that and.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Saw the site. Say it was fun. It was good.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Uh, you know, just get the lay of the land,
getting get a mental picture of the city and how
it lays out, and make mental notes of places you
want to go back to.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Got an eight and a quarter hour walking tour tomorrow. Wow,
so all day, sucker. Yeah, I don't know what I
was thinking. That's a lot about help me, God, help me.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I yelled at an old man at sailing lessons. Missed
that story. Oh really, Yeah, you haven't come in the
old bastard, the old man in the sea. He was
about to be the old man in the sea. Yeah,
he had it coming, and keep telling me what to do.
Me and him were.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Sure a bull telling you what to do. So I don't.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I don't like some guy who's also in the beginning
sailing class telling you me what to do.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Yes, Katie, yeah, Joe. This man has no name, he's
just known as sir.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Yeah, I yelled at him, sir, I'm going to do
what the instructor told.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Me to do sir.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Wow, well there you go. Sorry it turned ugly.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, me too. Anyway, back to England.
Speaker 2 (08:27):
So Katie might be interested in this.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
It's uh, it's a never ending fashion show walking the
streets here. I guess most big cities are, really but
because it's you know, a cosmopolitan euro and you know,
just good lord, the things the women wear. It's amazing,
everything from the full bee keeper to like are they
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filming a porn around here?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
A porn?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
And and like you know that's that's within five people
walking by you.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
I never so many navels in my life before, but
it's very summary here in London.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Well, as Samuel Johnson said, when a man is tired
of London, he is tired of life. You can drink
at the pub where he used to write all that stuff.
By the way, maybe you've done that.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Oh you know what I did? Oh, I was thinking
of you.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
I got to send you the picture as I stood
next to the desk where Karl Marx troke dust capita.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Oh wow, awesome.
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Yeah, yeah, the leech ne'er do well money on it,
and and and he even but did you tell me
this here?
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Bregnated the maze or something. Yeah, he's a sku.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Short snecker stuff, and then asked his friend Engels to take.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
The blame for it.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
Right, he was all kinds of awful. It's unbelievable that
anybody respects him. What I had another question about England
and the pubs and the what you were doing in
the and I remember what it was. It'll flip back
into my head. I'm an old man.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, yeah, that's fine. Go to the How did the
tour tomorrow? Is the Tower of London? Spending a couple
of hours there them, super fascinating cool? Yeah, off to
Parliament in the afternoon, I think, so. Yeah, I'm super
excited about it. It's just, oh my god, the walking
we've done.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
But it's good. This may be the first vacation in
my life. I'm gonna lose weight. We're on that trend
so far.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I do that a lot. If
you go to big cities like that and you walk
most places, you couldn't eat enough galleries to counterbalance how
much walking you're doing. When I you know, my trip
got kind of was weird. I've only been to England
once and it was there over nine to eleven, so
everything got really weird right when nine to eleven happened.
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Everything was locked down and all that sort of stuff.
But one of the coolest things I ever got to
see was just because of the timing of it all,
is when they did the national anthem in front of
Buckingham Palace. Oh wow, to try to stay in solidarity
with the United States. That had to be moving, and
they had a there's a giant is it Eisenhower DR statue?
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I don't remember which. I think there's both, but one
of them where everybody was and it was putting flowers
and everything like that, And it was interesting to me
that I think it was FDR that they hold FDR
in such high regard there for helping win England, but
you know, half the country doesn't in the United States
doesn't like FDR. And the reverse with Winston Churchill. There
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we so idolize Winston Churchill over here and over there.
It's gone. Oh it's a mixed bag.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, Yeah, indeed, it was interesting.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
The tour guide and I were chatting about contemporary politics
a little bit. We hired a guide for the British Museum.
We went a little nuts, but it was it was
super interesting. This guy was a history professor, and oh
my god, did he have a grasp of the ancient world.
I mean, it was all a bit of a swirrel
by the end. But I'll tell you what a couple
of takeaways. Number one, what I was going to say
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is he was talking about how the country's growing broke
and they've over promised pensions to all the civil service,
just like you know, I talked about the pension bomb
in Californy in the US. And the other thing he
said that was interesting was after COVID, they can't get
anybody to work. There's a worker shortage. It's just like
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in the States.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Because people got used to not working and getting a check.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, people are on the dole and one on one
program or another. And are we talking about Oh, one
of the galories was closed. He said, yeah, they can't
get workers. Can't get workers over here. He put into
a restaurant. We can't get security people over here. Just
nobody wants to work.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Wow. So we had that, but it didn't It wasn't
that bad for that long. I remember at the beginning
when things opened up, all kinds of restaurants, you know,
they'd have half the thing knocked off because they didn't
have enough people to work there. But that's still going
on there.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Wow, right right.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And then the other takeaway, the final takeaway from Big Tour,
what time is it?
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I'm talking your ear off.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
The other big takeaway was that as we went, it's
through the various wrestling matches over who would control what
ground across Europe and Asia and North Africa and everything
like that. The idea that the people just before you
who had the land, they're the rightful owners, right and
you should feel guilty that now you and your people
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are sitting on it is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
When you're in New Europe. Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Oh my god, every square inch of the earth has
traded hands so many times through the millennia. It's just
just silly. But you know, as I'm always lecturing people,
it's not about justice or anything like that. It's a
it's a method of it's a tool of takeover. It's
a way to cow you into saying sorry, sorry, it's yours.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
Before we take a break, and I hope you can
call in again maybe tomorrow. But what's the conversion rate
on the money?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
I think it's about a buck thirty five to a pound.
The dollars a little weaker than it's been in recent
years from what I understand.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I remember back in the day though, when it was
like two to one, so it was really expensive to
go to Europe.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Yeah, the dollar was crazy strong there for a while.
But no, it's not bad. Well it's not bad big
city prices. But you know, we went up to big
steak dinner last night and it was about what a
big steak dinner is going to cost you?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Right? And did you yell bloody hell when you saw
the check?
Speaker 2 (14:17):
I wish I had.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Okay, maybe we'll talk to you tomorrow. Joe Getty are
from our London bureau. Thank you. We got more ways
to one and all more of the ways to hear.
Speaker 8 (14:30):
Farm strong he Getty time flies and all too quickly
it was in the country. There was no electricity, no
warming water, so everything had to be done hard. We
The wedding was the seven o'clock and mister Turney was
late sold.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
The wedding was the seven thirty.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
The Guinness World Record for longest marriage is eighty eight years,
three hundred and forty nine days. That means currently Ray
and g McKay are just under fourteen years, shy nothing.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
Probably will get divorced before then. No secret, just patience
and keep on talk.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Them couple celebrating their seventy fifth wedding anniversary, which obviously
you got to be pretty old to be able to
pull off, even if you were fifteen when you got married.
I don't know how they were in this in this case.
I think this is of course, mister Tarti was late,
so the wedding started at seven thirty. That's funny. Uh.
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She still remembers that he was late for their wedding
seventy five years ago.
Speaker 7 (15:37):
She is still bringing that up.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Of course, mister Tarti here, I was precious. Yeah, that
was cute and I like that. I don't know that
I liked whoever the news correspondent was having to present.
It is like a failure. Of course, the world record
is eighty some years, so they're a long way from that.
Speaker 7 (15:57):
Oh, these guys got them beat.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So there's no point in really talking about this since
seventy five, since the world record is fourteen years longer
than what's you throw them that nugget.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Four Gene is ninety six and ray is one hundred
and two.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I don't like their chances for breaking the all time record,
he'd have to be one hundred and sixteen.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You never know one of two and ninety eight to
four years apart. They may at work. Patient cyz a key.
I would say that is a true with all relationships
of any kind. Yeah, patient size key and the h
and the recognizing that you always ain't so great to
deal with yourself is also a very big help.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
I'm looking at another quote from then.
Speaker 6 (16:38):
I tell Jane that I tell people that Gene and
I do a little bit of traveling these days. I
drive her up the wall and she drives me up.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
The other wall.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Hey, no, oh, they're good.
Speaker 7 (16:49):
They're darling. I love this story.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
They got a comedy routine. Good for them. That's fed
the man. That is a long time Wow. Coming up,
Donald Trump had a impromptu, as he always does, press
conference practically every day. Took a ton of questions on
a ton of issues, a ton of issues, and some
of them are pretty darn interesting his replies. So we'll
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get to that. Coming up. We still got a minute left.
Speaker 10 (17:14):
Cool.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I was just reading over the protests from the weekend.
They had protests just this weekend, really big protests in
England where Joe is. It's around a hotel on the
outskirts of London where immigrants somebody from the Middle East
tried to kiss a fourteen year old girl. That's what
is being alleged. He says he didn't. Other people say
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they saw it. That has been the issue in a
lot of the dust ups with immigration over there. You know,
in the Middle East have a different view of the
relationship between men and women, and no age barrier on
any of that, as you might be aware of. So
that's what caused the spark, and they're hoping it doesn't
turn super violent like it did last year. But they're
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up fifty percent in terms of illegal channel crossings this
year from last and they set the record two years ago.
So I got a lot of people still coming in
and things could turn even uglier, all right, what Trump
had to say, and a whole bunch of different topics
coming up next to them, of it's pretty entertaining.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 10 (18:18):
We want to go from here to other places. But
I was telling some of the people that in a certain.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Way, you really want to be asked to go.
Speaker 10 (18:30):
You know, I hate to barge in on a city
and then be treated to horribly by corrupt politicians and
bad politicians like a.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
Guy like Pritzkert. He had to spend more time in
the gym. Actually, I had.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
To do a fat shot at the fat governor of
Illinois there at the end. Spend more time on the gym.
By the way, I love it. That is funny. Donald
Trump saying he'd like to be invited before he sends
the National Guard troops into Chicago. That's what Republican house
Member Tom mclint set on our show a little bit earlier,
that he'd be okay with it if they were asked,
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but he doesn't like the idea of the federal government
just sending troops unasked. Ay you Trump talking about DC
and how crime is there since he decided to get involved.
Speaker 10 (19:17):
But in the last eleven days, we've had no murders,
and that's the first time that's taking place in.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Years.
Speaker 10 (19:25):
Actually years, we always have a murder a week, they
call it a murder a week. You come here from Iowa,
you come here from Indiana, you come here from Idaho,
because you're so proud of your country, you love your country,
and then you get murdered, your son gets murdered, you
do it, or gets murdered. You get murdered, see the media,
you get murdered. Many of you have been mugged in Washington.
You just don't want to talk about it. And I
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know that every time I do this with you, you almost everything.
But every time I do this with you, people are
saying to yourselves, he's right, he's right, and then you
write a negative.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
So the crime statistics in Chicago are being argued just
like what happened in Washington, DC a week or so ago.
The mayor of the socialist mayor of Chicago and the
fat governor of Illinois are both claiming crime is actually
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down in Chicago, so they don't need the National Guard troops.
So we'll see how that story turns out later in
this week. But Trump, doing his impromptu press conference today,
did get asked about Gavin Newsom, Gavin.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Dison, You mentioned Gavin Newsom on crime.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Is there a federal mechanism you're hoping to use to
fight back against his redistricting constitutional amendment or is that call?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
I think I'm going to be filing a lawsuit pretty soon,
and I think we're going to be very successful in it.
We're going to be filing it through the Department of Justice.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
That's going to happen.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
He had to get into the new scum thing. I
don't know if that does him any good or not,
but so a different topic. On Friday, the hot story
was the FBI rating John Bolton's home, former National security
advisor under Trump, who has turned to Trump critic and
the mainstream media claiming it is some sort of retribution
or a just targeting people he hates and lawfully that
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sort of thing. I was kind of surprised because Chris Christy,
huge Trump critic, former governor of New Jersey, never has
anything positive to say about anything Trump does, was ask
about the whole thing on ABC this week and his
answer was a little bit surprising to me.
Speaker 10 (21:42):
It had to get two separate judges to sign off
on those search warrants, so they have to have some
evidence of probable calls.
Speaker 11 (21:51):
Absolutely, and look, let's be fair. When we talked about
this in the context of the raid of mar A Lago,
I said the same thing at that point, that a
federal judge had found probable cause to sign off on
a search warrant, which means there's something it doesn't necessarily
mean that there's evidence beyond a reasonable doubts of guilt
to a violation of a federal law. What it means
there's probable cause that a crime. Evidence of a crime
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was kept at the residence where he was searched.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Okay, so that's good Chris Christie. So he was asked,
was the reason was this? And I think I watched
it twice, actually several times too, because it seemed to
me that Jonathan carl really thought he was teeing up
Chris Christie to say. So Chris Christie can say this
is a retribution presidency. All he's trying to do is
target political enemies. And Chris Christy said no, two federal
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judges signed off from warrants, so there's got to be
something there or the federal doesn't mean the guy's guilty,
but there is something there. It's it's not just made up.
So I was happy to see that. Now Chris Christie
might have been trying to stay on the good side
of Trump because Trump might be coming after Chris Christie,
and you know, federal agents going there and once you
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get past all the McDonald's rappers and everything like that,
they try to find some classified documents of some sort.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
Now he's taking fat shots exactly.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
I'm just working Trump's side of the street. I guess
that's the way you do things. You constantly body shame.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
People body shaming. That's where we're at, Michael.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
Anyway, this is Trump talking about Christy.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Look, Chris is a slob. Everybody knows that.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
I stop it for a second. I need I need,
I need to reset here, I need to resets.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
Are always off.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
My god, he starts with that, Chris is a slob.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Okay, Chris is a slob, all right?
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh man, I like the way Trump always presents that
as like evidence of something else. A person being overweight
or having a thin neck, or not being able to
hit golf ball very far, or being a slob is
evidence of the other thing you're about to say. But anyway,
let's get back to the response.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Look, Chris is the slob. Everybody knows that. I know
Chris better than anybody in the room. I always felt
he was guilty. But what he did is he took
the George Washington Bridge, which is very serious. He closed
down the George Washington Bridge, and you had medical.
Speaker 10 (24:18):
People, you had ambulances caught up, you know this thing
was closed down, and obviously.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
He knew about it, but he blamed the young lady
that worked for him and another person, and they got
into a lot of trouble. She ultimately was I don't know, exonerated,
but she got out of it a little bit, but
she went through hell. She was a young mother, nice person.
I knew her a little bit. And another man went
to jail and Chris got off. And so when I
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listened to Chris speak his hey, I say, oh, what
about the George Washington Bridge? You know, tell me about
the George Washington Bridge. He blamed other people. He knew
all about it. So I don't know if they want
to look at it. It's not for me.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
We're not going to get into at Bridgegate probably ever
at this point. But Chris is a swob, as we
all know, which has to do with what not exactly sure.
Did you see the video of speaking to politicians and
criticizing their body shapes and strength? Did you see the
video of mom Dani trying to lift the weights? Just pathetic?
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I don't I can't imagine why he set himself up
for that.
Speaker 6 (25:29):
And it was at some event called Men's Day in
Brooklyn and yeah, like this was a display of guys
showing off their strength and here comes this toothpick.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah. So there's all these big giant dudes out there
lifting weights and he's doing the political thing going around
shaking babies and kissing hands and U and wants to
get involved in the workout. Well he is he unaware
of his own physical strength.
Speaker 7 (25:56):
Did he maybe think he could lift that? Well, he
only got a root awake.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
If you're a regular gym goer, I've known at a
glance what that weighs for I don't know forty years.
If you go to the gym a lot, one plate
on each side, an Olympic bar is going to be
one hundred and thirty five pounds. Yeah, and you can
either lift that or you can you get two plates
on there. It's two twenty five. I mean, people just
know this. If you go to Jim's a lot. Did
he just not know? Apparently he did not know that.
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But anyway, he lays down underneath the bar, he really struggles.
They have to help it up, help him get it
up off his chest, or he would have dined. They
should have just left him there. You're on your own, dude,
he would have died under that thing.
Speaker 6 (26:33):
There was a guy on either side of the bar,
and one standing directly over mom Donnie with both of
his hands under I mean this, I don't even know
if mom Donnie was.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Touching it, But why did he set himself up for
that ridicule? What an odd thing to do? That would
be like would be an example of me? Uh, I
don't know. I haven't played golf in twenty five years.
If there's some golf of it, hey, oh, let me
take a shot and just step up there, having not
swung a golf club in a quarter of a cent.
I'm setting myself up for ridicule by shanking it off,
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Which is why would I do that?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Mab Do you think his ego's so big that that
wasn't even on his radar? That maybe he could just
go in there and the fact that he was there
was cool.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
I don't know. That's a weird one though, and it's
not significant. I don't care how much some may can lift.
I care about their brain and what their opinions are.
But I just thought that was like such a weird
self own. I'm happy it happened. He is a He
is a scrawny little communist.
Speaker 7 (27:31):
Man got those weird little hands.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
I haven't noticed his tiny little.
Speaker 7 (27:38):
I have a hand, say, I have a weird thing
about hands.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
And I just noticed, like the way he the way
his mannerisms are.
Speaker 3 (27:44):
And uh, I've noticed how a lot of women do.
Why why do a lot of women pay so much
attention to men's hands.
Speaker 7 (27:49):
I don't know, I think I don't know. I actually
I don't have an answer for that.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
I've known half a dozen women, kno have comments about
men's hands.
Speaker 7 (28:01):
And you now you know more than that. I'm the
same way.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
I never think about somebody's hands. I wonder if it's
some sort of strength thing or I.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Think there's a strength and cleanliness aspect cliness. Yeah, but
like when you have like weak, little like soft looking
hands on a dude, I'm sorry for you.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
That's interesting. Okay, we will finish strong next farm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 12 (28:29):
I don't think they were close friends or I certainly
never witnessed the president in any of I don't recall
it ever seeing him in his house.
Speaker 13 (28:39):
And did you ever hear mister Epstein or anybody say
that President Trump had done anything inappropriate with Messuss or
with anybody in your world.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
Absolutely never in any context.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
So that's Kleine Maxwell and the interview that she did
with the number two who at the Justice Department, what
a couple of Fridays ago, eight nine hours of questioning.
Nobody's exactly sure why she was being questioned at all,
but asked if Trump and Epstein how good of friends
they were, she said, not close friends and she never
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saw Trump do anything inappropriate ever. Of course, the backstory
is that she did that interview, said that, and like
three days later got moved from a pretty serious prison
to a club fed which is kind of like being
at a community college campus. You're not allowed to leave
as so far as the prison goes. So you know,
(29:35):
there was some speculation that there was an exchange there.
I don't know. I still don't have any Even back
to Chris Christie, who hates Donald Trump, he was asked
about this yesterday on ABC This Week, and he said,
he said, I have no indication in all my years
of being around Donald Trump that he's the kind of
(29:56):
guy that would have been involved in this sort of stuff.
Even Chris Christie said that. Anyway, I want to hear
a little more from Maxwell. Does she think that Epstein
killed himself or not?
Speaker 2 (30:09):
So you think he was? He was?
Speaker 3 (30:11):
He did not die by suicide given all the things we.
Speaker 8 (30:13):
Just talked about.
Speaker 12 (30:14):
Do you not believe that, paciously.
Speaker 14 (30:16):
And do you believe that? Do you have any speculation
or view of who killed him?
Speaker 3 (30:24):
I don't, So she thinks Epstein did not kill himself,
which is interesting. And she goes on to explain a
little bit about the blackmail and how easy it is
to get somebody killed in prison.
Speaker 14 (30:37):
If you don't believe that there's any truth to the
allegations of blackmail, or that he had kind of a list,
or that he had reasons to how people hate him,
why would somebody kill him in prison?
Speaker 15 (31:01):
Where I am, they'll kill you before they don't pay.
Somebody can pay a prisoner to kill you. Four twenty
five daughter is worth of commissary. There's about the going
rate for a hit with a lock today.
Speaker 14 (31:25):
So that goes to the third reason, which is kind
of the mismanagement or the short fallings are shortcomings of
the fear of prisons.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
Yes, so, well, she's been lying in her whole life,
as we all know. She's a scumbag. She was finding
teen troubled teen girls, underage teen girls and literally pimping
them out, turning them into sex slaves, basically for Epstein
(31:56):
for years. So she's a bad person, and she got convicted,
and she was in a real prison. But would she
have knowledge that the going rate for a hit in
prison is twenty five dollars worth of stuff at the commissary.
I just find that hard to believe. I would. I
would feel like there'd be a lot more prison murders
(32:19):
if it were that. I mean, she made it seem
like it just constantly happening. People being killed. You only
have to pay twenty five bucks. It's just so easy
to kill somebody and you get away with it. I guess,
I just I know what happens in prison, but it's
not constant.
Speaker 6 (32:32):
Yeah, and I didn't like the way that that whole
clip was kind of mapped to the way she said,
well in prison where I am.
Speaker 7 (32:39):
It was just like a.
Speaker 6 (32:40):
Real SOB story almost right when she doesn't deserve that.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't want to be in prison,
Maybe don't find some troubled fifteen year old and set
her up to be raped by an old prince.
Speaker 6 (32:59):
Prince Andrew, This is a I never really looked at
the facility where she is. Now, you're right, it's a
it's a it's a community college campus. She can't leave, Oh,
sprawling grounds. I see a garden, some tables and shares
with umbrellas.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
And you basically have like dorm rooms for your for
your cells. Using my finger quotes, I know, I mean
I wouldn't. I wouldn't want to be confined. Who would
away from your family and all that. But I could
spend the rest of my life somewhere there and be
moderately happy, I mean, if I had to. Yeah, So
what was that deal all about? Nobody's exactly sure. There's
(33:37):
eight and a half hours of this audio tape. I've
only heard those clips and it's been out since Friday,
so I'm guessing there's nothing else there of any note,
or you would have heard it already. And we don't
have any idea if she's being honest or not, because
she's a line scumback and she's going to say whatever
benefits are the most, which is the problem with ever
(33:58):
talking to people in prison. They got lots to gain
by lying sometimes, so they do. I would like to know, Ay,
she got moved from a real prison to the cushy
prison though.
Speaker 7 (34:11):
Yeah, do you think it's that easy.
Speaker 3 (34:12):
To have somebody killed in prison? No? I don't.
Speaker 7 (34:16):
I don't think so, twicks Worth of Commissary.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
I just I don't believe that we would know that,
wouldn't we if it was that, If it was that
Shawshank redemption in there.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
Well, yeah, it would be I mean prison, Like you said,
prison hits would be way more common if it was
twenty five bucks a commissary, right did.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
There'd be protests and people standing up for it, and
it would be an issue about what we need to
do to make our prison step because I'm I am
not while while I, on the one hand, I don't
care much about what happens to scumbags. We can't have
extrajudicial killings and rapings in that sort of stuff willy nilly,
because that's that's not good for anybody. It's final thoughts.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Use so well her.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
Comments and.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
Yes, closer Ah the show.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
Love that, huh, Blind Boys of Alabama. There here's your
host for final thoughts, me Jack Armstrong is Joe's on
vacation in Great Britain. Let's check in with our what
do we call you? Technical director? Michael Aangelo this morning. Michael,
what do you got for us?
Speaker 5 (35:29):
All I can say, Jack is I really wouldn't have
blamed you if you had tipped over that boat, you know,
on that old man. I think you were well within
your right to tip over that boat on that guy.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
I almost did on accident. Well that's I mean, man,
it's really easy to flip a sailboat.
Speaker 10 (35:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Yeah, he was not wearing a life preserver. I'm swimming
as fast as I can to save you. I really am.
Here's her Katie Katy the news Lady Katie Green with
a final thought.
Speaker 7 (35:56):
Mine's more of like a state. You never told us
what you wore to your sailing.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
Oh. I just wore stuff to keep the sun off
me because it was so sunny out. There's one hundred
and four degrees in sunny.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
But all right, fair enough.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
But one of the old women who did show up,
I was the youngest person there. One of the older
women that showed up, she showed up in a I'm
super cute sailor outfit. She had a little sailor skirt
and a sailor hat and everything like that. She didn't
come back for day two. I don't think it was
quite as fun and relaxing as she was hoping, because
it was not relaxing. Sailing is hard. Here's my final thought.
Trump's meeting with the president of South Korea and wearing
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a Make America Shipbuilding Great Again hat? Did you know
that South Korea is the number two shipbuilder in the
world and we're doing deals with them to get our
shipbuilding caught back up to speed. We'll probably have more
details on that tomorrow. Armstrong and Getty wrapping up another
grueling four hour workday. Buy some of our gear at
Armstrong and Getty dot com. We'll see tomorrow. God Bliss America.
(36:51):
I'm Strong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
There have been so many magnificent moments on today's Armstrong
and Getty show, perhaps none.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
Fine other than this.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Yes, Michael has a question.
Speaker 5 (37:04):
Yeah, do you constantly hear the Benny Hill theme and
you go through the streets.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
Of things like you're gonna lose it one.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
And a half speed?
Speaker 1 (37:13):
That's right, No, Michael, No, forgot so Armstrong and Getty