August 6, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Chinese baby mills
- The end of the Sydney Sweeney ad saga
- G-Dogs prison move & the subpoenas
- Texas redistricting & gerrymandering
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
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air quality because of wildfire smoke from Canada drifting down
into the Midwest and East coast.
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to Snoop Dogg's car, then your stepdad's breath, then middle
schoolers vaping a freak here Friday, then the bathroom on
a spirit flight, then the cockpit on a spirit flight,
then teachers lounge on a first day of school, and
(00:55):
lastly exploded tesla.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So these are great yourtings, is what those are? Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We've got a headline out of Moscow as Trump's envoy
met with Putin about the war and the Kremlin says
Witcoff Putin meeting was constructive and useful.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it wasn't, is my response right? Not a chance there's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Sign of peace talks between Hamas and it. No, there's
not right, there's not We get any more on that meeting.
We'll we'll tell you during the show. Plus the perfect end.
Please lord to the Sydney Sweeney controversy, stay with us.
Plus we've got all sorts of important and serious news.
Is Jack indicated. So this story is unbelievable. It's also
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very very long, so I'm going to have to encapsulate.
But in early May, a baby in Arcadia, California, LA
Area was hospitalized with possible signs of child abuse. So
the showed up at a nine bedroom mansion in the
LA suburb, known for lavish homes and residents with roots
in China. Interesting inside, they found fifteen more children, none
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older than three, living under the care of nannies.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that's a lot of babies.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
A staff of nannies at least sixteen children, all under
the age of three. The investigative trail led them to
six more children at other homes in the LA area.
A Chinese born man and woman living in the mansion
said they were the parents of all twenty two children, and.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The birth certificates listed them as such.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What mystified the cops was that the children appear to
have been born all over the US and in rapid
succession to a large group of surrogate mothers. Okay, you've
already read this story, so you know what's going on here.
I am trying to guess and I can't even imagine
what in the world is going on here.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm afraid you may be disappointed by the end of this.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Local authorities removed the kids from the Holmes, placed them
in foster care, and called in the FBI. The mansion
was listed as the headquarters of Mark Surrogacy, which had
arranged many of the children's birth and was managed by
Sylvia Jang, the woman living there. Jang said said, yes,
I'm the legal mother of all of the children. Now
(03:24):
the mother, but she did She's not the birth motter.
She didn't crank out twenty two kids, all surrogates in
three years.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You missed high school biology obviously.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Anyway, the surrogates who carried some of the children did
interviews with The Wall Street Journal and said that Jang
deceived them, saying that she had no kids and she
was just hoping to have a baby. But they were
all like separate from each other. You can have three
sets of sex tuplets that amount of time. Yeah, you're
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still sex tuplets with that's six, right, Yeah, they'd have
to be septuplets and one set of octuplets to get
to twenty two. But you're right, I stand corrected. It
is possible, which reminds me whatever happened to octomom. But
let's not get distracted back to your skirit. Indeed, anyway,
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the investigation is focusing according to the surrogates who talk
to federal agents, it's focusing on whether the couple was
selling babies whose births the agency had arranged. Xang actually
talked briefly to The Wall Street Journal denied it, saying
that she and a man she described as her husband
just wanted to have as many children as they could.
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We would never sell our babies, she said. We take
care of them very well, except for the one that
was hospitalized. The website of the company, you can't take
care of twenty some babies very well. Well, they get
a bunch of nannies. Yeah, it's a corporation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is a freaking baby mill.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So site says it's in the business of connecting surrogates
with American and international couples who need them. And they
mentioned later that Bubba b.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So the probe is raising alarms, that's irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The industry has.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Been fueled in recent years by money from China, where
surrogacy is illegal. In the US, one third of intended
parents were from other countries between twenty fourteen twenty twenty
among surrogates, and forty one percent of those were Chinese nationals,
and those figures are just five years old.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
For reasons or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's unclear whether the Arcadian mansion had direct ties to
China and the Chinese government, among the many mysteries surrounding
the couple, or how many children they had in total,
why a surgacy business was operating out of their home,
and whether the business had any outside clients. Over the
course of numerous conversations in English and Mandarin, Xiang the
woman either declined to respond or gave conflicting answers to
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those and other questions. Her so called husband, by the way,
go Jan Juan, probably pronouncing that wrong, sir, I got
your name wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Gujan is extremely.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well connected in the La super heavyweight Chinese businessman community.
He and Xiang ran a real estate company which they
operated with a group of businessmen based in China. Oh
wait a minute, that's right. Every single Chinese business is
sworn by law, like every Chinese citizen to do the
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bidding of the Communist Party whenever they're asked. Oh yeah, anyway,
using shell companies, this guy purchased more than a hundred
properties in the La area, many a foreclosure auctions, according
to former employees and property records, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
so what's the speculation of what's going on here? Rereading
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babies to sell to Chinese nationals' that's how it looks.
There's more to this like this Juan guy.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But why.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
People can't have babies on their owner? Oh yeah, I guess, well,
you can't have a surrogate in China. It's illegal. So
they're just breeding babies and then sending them back to China.
I guess yeah. There are more questions than answers here.
Like I said before, you're gonna be disappointed because the
authorities are trying to figure out what the frig is
going on here. But so this Juan guy, his company's
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workers called him teacher, and he monitors them on feeds
from surveillance cameras at his home. Just really really weird.
Oh let's see, let me. I wanted to scroll down
to police reports. The trouble with authorities began after reports
to police of fighting at the address. One call reported
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suspecting children at the home were being abused. There are
six to seven children. The woman at the location yell
and shout at the children all the time. Not clear
how cops responded. A two month baby a two month
old baby had inter cranial bleeding, a condition sometimes consistent
with child abuse, hospitalized local police to investigate, and that's
where they came across the uh fifteen babies and toddlers,
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all with buzzed haircuts in the care of six nannies.
Police seized video Footage's feel like the buzzed haircuts is
a extraneous detail.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Really, I don't They're bad? Brace yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Police seized video footage from the surveillance cameras which showed
that the toddlers were spanked, slapped, and forced to do squats.
The footage also showed a nanny shaking the baby that
was later hospitalized.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Forced to do squats. What is that? Well here, I
don't know, it's bizarre. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm kind of focused on the babies being beaten and
shaken by these Chinese nationals running an alleged baby mill
in la I don't know how babies are generally treated
in China. No, I'm not happy about this, but I
just culturally, I don't know, strange country. Yeah, well, squat,
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this is obscene.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't know if you'll get paywalled.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We can post this at armstrong and getty dot com
under hotlinks.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's unfrigging believers.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So it's not a story of Most of our Chinese
stories are some effort by the Chinese Comyist Party to
take over America.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This is more of like a niche rich.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People have figured out a way to get a baby
when they can't have a baby, So it would seem
I mean, that's the most obvious answer, and it's probably
the right one.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Speaking of the more nefarious and typical comedy plots, news
has emerged that China, the Communist Party China has been
financing a lot of the environmental groups in the United States.
We're dedicated to give us giving up fossil fuels, oh really,
and going heavily into green powers. Pretty smart, Pretty smart
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they figure with the compliant lefty progressive media in their money,
that's pretty We can guilt them into destroying their own
economy and becoming a slave to our rare earth minerals
and the like. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So the first report
out of the Kremlin is the talks were good and productive.
(10:32):
There They're what Russia is hoping to avoid, I think,
are the giant tariffs that are going to get slapped
on India, for instance, over Russian oil purchases starting Friday.
If the war doesn't come to an end. The chance
of the war coming to an end or a ceasefire
is roughly zero. So a little more on that coming up. Also,
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everybody's been subpoenaed around Epstein, like everybody, and then the
Russia Gate hoax and everything is everybody's being subpoened around everything,
And I don't know where this is going to go either.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We should talk about that story. Stay tuned, arm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I just saw a video that apparently Republicans think that
the people who are criticizing Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Jeans ad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We're all just jealous of her.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And I just have to say, from my point of view,
I am not jealous of Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I don't have.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
To be famous and I don't have to pedal brands
that are awful, like they're bad taste.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Like, not cute at all.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And I get to do that from the comfort of,
like my beautiful from Porge, drinking my macha this morning,
and I get to wake up every.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Day being me drinking your macha.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh my god, you had to say macha. You know,
I was really hoping for a little eugenics, a little
white supremacy, a little dog with a little Nazi reference
there as kind of a weak clip. Honestly, she's surprisingly
well adjusted for the commenters on this story anyway. Enjoy
your machas, sister.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, but come on, that's not cute. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Most of most men around the world seeing that ad
would agree that's nothing attractive there whatsoever. And they're selling
the genes to women, and there are no women who
would think, Wow, good looking jeans. I wonder if I'd
look that good Innos genes. I bought mine minor on
the way I bought the men's version. I will have
them tomorrow. Yeah, she is sipping on the macha of
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self delusion. Jack, I'm afraid, uh so is my son
got some?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The other day?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He's on the Macha bandwagon. I bought them a Macha
at Starbucks. It was seven dollars. Seems a little Tell them, son,
you can either be team Macha or team Macho. Are
you're going to be a man or a Macha sipper?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Huh? I had some good parenting and right there, feel
free to use that line.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So the headline is the American Eagle Saga only shows
the woke left is out of touch and I was
my trigger was tripped because it's written by Jennifer Say.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think that's how you pronounce her name.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's s Y who was a big executive at Levi's
for years and years till she was forced out in
the height of the woke insanity and I can't remember
exactly why, and Katie is going to remind us.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So she was a huge, outspoke, outspoken advocate for keeping
the schools open during COVID, and she was writing op
eds and going on shows and Levi's actually called her
and said, hey, you need to pipe down, right, and
that was the end of that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, you remember when opening the public schools like the
private schools are and the Red State schools are at
the time, You remember when that was seen as some
sort of fascist, murderous effort to get you know, teachers
killed according to the lefty actual brown shirts who are
keeping people in their homes. Yeah, so she lost her
career over that. So anyway, she weighs in, hot is
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no longer toxic and the normies are back. Hey, Genoah,
popular retailer is using ads for jeans to revive the
Third Reich.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Pretty sneaky right, Pretty sneaky right, except they aren't.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They're just selling jeans the old fashioned way by selling
aspiration rather than activism.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I want to look hot in these genes. I love
that first line. Did you know popular retailer is using.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ads for jeens to revive the Third Reich? Then she
sets it up and the campaign uses a play on words.
Jeans are passed down, Papa, my jeans are blue, she said.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
In the end. Sometimes a pun is just a pun,
and she writes.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
In my thirty year career as a marketer and maker
of jeans, eight of them spent as the chief marketing
officer for Levi's, I've been pitched a simil campaign with
the exact same pun more times than I can count
on two hands.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I never ran with it. It just seemed too obvious.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But in an age of ads featuring featuring morbidly obese
and hairy chested non binary people lounging around in jeans
and underwear, this cliche feels fresh, if only because Sweeney
is hot. After all, when old becomes new again, it's
always about context. Mom Jean and dad shoes became cool
because of the irony, not because anyone actually wants to
look like their mom. And in the age of unwieldy wokeness,
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hot blondes or a breakthrough idea, and she goes on
at some length.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's very, very well written.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
But yes, this is the proper response to these people guffaws.
So that might be the end of the Blue Gene story.
I wish the Epstein's. I thought the Epstein story was over,
but it's back with all the subpoenas yesterday. We'll get
to that coming up in a little bit. That's a
heck of a thing. Let me throw in a couple
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of quick lines. According to I love this line too.
This is as useful as the phrase I've learned recently,
the eternal omni cause that ties queers for whatever, to Palestine,
to whatever, to fund the police, whatever the hell it is,
climate change, ring everything. According to white liberal lady TikTok,
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we've been subject to an endless stream of car videos
telling us how downright clueless or worse evil we are
if we don't see what's happening here. According to these
women who love telling us all what to think, Hitler
is cheering from the grave. One lamented the American Eagle
ad wasn't just a commercial. It was a love letter
to white nationalism and eugenic fantasies.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Do you actually believe that I think they do. Yeah.
They in the same way that occultist believes that their
cult leader is the reincarnation of God.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
And you are a crazy person, Yeah, exactly, Well, you've
certainly been indoctrinated into a crazy philosophy. The Clintons have
been subpoenaed, and like everybody you've ever heard of in
the last fifteen years of politics, has been subpoena around
the whole Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Tell you what, some stranger walks up to you and
asks you whether your your name. Say no, they're about
to serve your papers. You're gonna get subpoena yourself. That's
an excellent point.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's on the way if you miss a second to
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Glen Maxwell said nothing in those two days that would
harm President Trump, and during this meeting with the Justice Department,
sources familiar with its content say she told Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche that Trump did nothing in her presence
that would have caused her concern.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
So I feel like that's not the best timing in
the world if you're going to try to claim there's
no deal between Trump and g Dog. That's what we've
decided to call this Maxwell woman. Since nobody knows how
to pronounce her first name, we need that Frenchman to
tell us it's French that gh It appears to me
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looks very French to me.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Gilaine. So she gets.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Moved from the kind of prison you're supposed to go
to when you're trafficking underage women for sex. She has
had that kind of a prison for twenty years, practically
the rest of her life. She gets moved to a
country club without walls. Where can I spend the rest
of my life there? So you're gonna feed me and
I get to like watch TV and have my own room.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
She gets moved to that prison, no explanation whatsoever from anybody,
even though repeated questions to the Justice Apartment in the
White House and everybody else, no explanation why she got
the prison. No, no explanation for why she got moved
to the softer prison. Then like three days later we
get the story we just heard. Oh, in her interviews,
she said Trump didn't do anything and she never saw
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Trump do anything. Now I don't think Trump did anything.
But that's a pretty bad look. You know, her being
moved at all is inexplicable. I mean, it's obviously a
quid pro cool for something. It's just now, it's wrong.
It's bad. It's not a good look. It's an unforced error.
(19:05):
Do you have a guest as to why they did it. Yeah, well,
it's some sort of quid pro quo. I don't know
for what exactly, Her willingness to do something, say something,
be interviewed, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And then he got all these subpoenas that came down yesterday.
Here's how they reported it on Fox.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton are facing congressional subpoenas to testify in person about
Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee summoning the Clintons in
eight former FBI directors and attorneys general spanning from the
Bush era to the Biden White House. The historic move
comes as pressure grows on Republicans and the Trump administration
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to release the Epstein files, and as President Trump points
his finger away from himself.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Went there supposedly, uh, twenty eight times.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Clinton has denied that, twenty eight to a lot. He's
denied it. Jack. Bill Clinton wouldn't lie. You know, it's
so obvious what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They just they're desperate to appear to be activists on
this topic.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
For that chunk of the base, whose am I obsessed
with this?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Who's desperate to look like activists the Trump administration? Okay,
So for the q noon people out there who think
there's a pedal ring of elite running the world. Yeah,
there are everything from completely sincere people who have very modest,
you know, the modest mental picture of what this is
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all about, to the sincere but delusional, to people who
are purely greed heads who've been profiting off conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
You have a range of people.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But uh, because certain parts of Maga world, both the
sincere and the greed heads, fueled this fire for a
long time, whipping up interest in Epstein and the child
of reduction, sex trafficking rings and blah blah blah. They
didn't realize that they had actually created a monster that
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they couldn't control. And when Trump said essentially now there's
nothing here, we're moving on, They're like, no, we're not.
Why did they move her to a soft prison? I
haven't heard, because I haven't even heard anybody offer a
bad explanation of it, because that doesn't help what you
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just said. If you feel like inside Trump world, they
believe they've really stepped in it, and to keep their
base happy, they got to look like they're going after
this hard. Moving her to a low security prison, which
sure looks like what you said, you know, some sort
of an exchange, doesn't is the opposite of that. I
think that's a mark of how desperate they were to
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come up with something that made them look like, yes,
we're serious about the whole thing. Look we're trying. As
a miscalculation, though, I think you're right look, we're trying.
We moved her to a minimum security prison that exchange home. No, no,
see that's I think it will kind of land like that.
But no, what they were going for is, look, we
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went in there and we grilled her, and we said
we want the list of blah blah blah, and if
we have to give her martial immunity or whatever, we're
going to do it. But by god, we're going to
get to the bottom of this thing. And then days
later the news breaks that she said I never saw
Donald Trump do anything wrong. And she also said, of
course there's no list of the pedophile.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Dudes, which I think is probably true. Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
If you're involved in a criminal conspiracy, you rarely write
down the details. So they subpoened Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton,
Attorney General Letter Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, William Barr, Meck Gardland,
Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales, former FBI directors, James Comy, and
Robert Muller.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's a lot of people. Will any of them talk
to anyone ever answer a single question? I don't know.
I have no idea I have this, I.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Don't have what I don't have any idea of is
how many of the people involved in the subpoenas and
the hearing they'll have and the Dog and Pony show
that we'll go through. Man, if this is televised, whoa
talk about your d and p dog and pony? Because
I don't have I don't have any idea how many
of the people involved in putting on the Dog and
Pony show or sincere at all, if they think we
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got to look like we're trying, or if they mean it,
like if they actually think there's a cabal of elite
running a pedophile ring and it's being covered up. We're
gonna get to the bottom of it, damnit, Or if
they think, well, I guess we got to satisfy the
online crowd.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well Trump saying, look, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There's nothing here, my former followers, you need to shut up.
A bunch of stupid people are getting roped into this.
I'd say that was a fairly clear indication of what
he thinks of it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Good point. Well, but this will be something to watch
if it happens.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
There's no way Bill Clinton, president of the United States,
is going to sit there and let some House members
yell at him.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh no, the the highest paid lawyers on Earth, perhaps
on other planets will be employed to either resist the
subpoenas or or narrow them so much that they're meaningless.
Or you'll hear people recite the Fifth Amendment over and
over again.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yes, yes, yes, no, no.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hillary is not going to be led shackled onto the
you know, into a seat there in the hearing chamber,
to get lectured by somebod Jordan yell at her and
it's not going to happen. And he only got to
drag this out for three and a half years, which
seems like a long time. But as a guy who's
been involved in a couple of illegal things, man, can
you eat up time when you get into stuff in
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the law.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Did you just confess to being your criminal?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
No, I confess to getting divorced, which I think I've
mentioned several times. Well, I thought you said criminal things
or did you say legal legal? I think you said legal. Yeah,
it's funny your mind turned it into criminal things.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I've been watching it carefully.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What's going on there? Michael and I have been trading
tips and suspicions. Read some time. Oh hey, single thing
that happens, it's amazing. Is like somebody will send something
and then somebody else has ninety days to respond or
longer sometimes depending on what it is, and then they
respond with like I just needed a clarification on this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Then it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Then you've got ninety days to respond to the clarification,
and then you're back to the free I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
How much time can get eating up.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And people like Trump and other people who get involved
in lawsuits all the time, they absolutely know how that works.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh sure sure.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Coming up the hilariously ironic fleeing of Thetis Texas Democrats
to Illinois, of all places, the most shamelessly jerrymandered state
in the Union, makes California look fair, just funny.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Let me finish what Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter
today about the Epstein thing. What is really going on
behind the scenes with the Epstein case. It's about Bill
Clinton sex and money, or it's about Donald Trump and sex,
or it's about Epstein and intelligence, or it was about
the withheld reason why Maxwell got moved to Club fed
or it's about all of that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But not about none of that.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Right, Yeah, her getting moved actually happened, So somebody did
that for a reason well, as I've been saying for
a couple of weeks. Now, all right, what version of
the Epstein thing are we discussing here. I don't like
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she's a scumbag, absolutes, comebag. And I don't like the
fact that she gets to live out the rest of
her life in some cush prison.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That sucks, right, And it's crazy and unprecedented. You know
what's not crazy and is precedented, jerry mandering your state
to try to get the maximum number of people you want.
We'll talk about that and other things.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Stay with us. A quarm is not present for.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
The second straight day Texas House Democrats refusing to show
up at the Capitol, therefore blocking the special Legislative Sessions
vote on the state's new congressional map designed to boost
the GOP.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
There's folks saying that we walked out.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Now think everyone behind me will say we're standing up.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
The more than fifty Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state,
many of them to Illinois, are now getting support from
the National Party.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
This is a new Democratic Party.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
We're bringing a knife to a knife fight, and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We are going to fight fire with fire. Hi, Right,
if somebody gets stabbed do we get to blame that
speech for it? Yeah, this isn't a sign, you know what,
just because it would be fun, Michael, play the next
one with Gaviy the bribe taking hypocrite Newsom, and yes,
I will back up that charge.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom is preparing to call a
special election to have voters approve a new congressional map
that would eliminate some Republican districts, but only if Texas
follows through with its plans. Whatever they are doing will
be neutered here in the state of California, and they
will pay that price.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Have to hit you at the stack because it's the
most important thing I heard yesterday. Well, first of all,
California neuter's actual children if they express momentary gender confusions.
So if Gavin Newsom threatens to neuter somebody, I would
take it seriously. It means that the taxpayers will pay
for it. About thirty eight percent of people vote republic
and voted Republican in the last midterm we had. We
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have in California. Seventeen percent of the House members in
California are Republicans, So you're way underrepresentative House members to
a total number of vote, and if Texas does what
they want to do, the numbers will be almost exactly
the same, just coincidentally, where you got about forty percent
of people vote Democrat, but they'll only have seventeen percent
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of the representation.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But jerry mandering happened in California years ago and Illinois
years ago, and that is the biggest missing part of
that one thing for Mark Alpern. And then you'll back
up your claims that he wrote, absolutely will And by
the way, I'm not disfeating your figures, but were those
the congressional votes in California? Because I thought the congressional
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votes were much closer than the presidential votes. And since
we're talking about congressional districts, that that's the apples tackles.
Mark Alpern wrote, imagine if the dominant media covered past
bare knuckles cynical and political jerry mandering by Blue states
the way they're covering the bear uncle cinical political attempt
by Texas Republicans. So most of us aren't claiming what
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Texas is doing is just fantastic for America.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But they're doing what the blue states have already.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Done, right, It's like in the middle of a boxing match,
one of the guys screeching.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Stop stop, he hit me. Did you see that he
hit me? Yes, that's what you're doing there, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Here's my favorite headline, Texas demmi right in the face.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You all saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Here's my favorite headline, Texas Dems fight jerry mandering by
taking seventy six seat private jet to jerrymandered blue state.
If you're not familiar with the politics of Illinois, remember
that at one point three of the last four governors
was in jail. Michael Madigan, who is the longtime mobster
who ran the legislature completely mobbed up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He's now in jail.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Finally, just utterly, utterly corrupt states now run by the
child mutilating idiot JB.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pritsker.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's such a great stat three out of four governors
ended up in prison, although honestly, I think Blokojevitch got
railroaded anyway, So this is absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
How bad is Illinois?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
With all due respect to how jerry mandered in unfair
California is old? JB knows how jerry mandering is done.
Illinois has seventeen House seats fourteen of them held by Democrats.
So Democrats control eighty two and a half percent of
the state's House seats eighty two and a half though
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in the last election they won only fifty two and
a half percent of the House popular vote in those districts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I mean, even in the less lopsided or more lopsided
presidential race, Trump won forty four percent of the vote.
And again, Democrats control eighty two and a half percent
of the state's House seat even though they barely won
over a half of the votes in those districts. And
that's where the Texas Democrats are hiding out to try
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to save America from jerrymandering exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
And how they don't have that on your ABC Evening
newscast or any other channel, but Fox is amazing. Do
they burn irony for heat and they needed to collect
as much of it as they possibly could going to
Illinois for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I mean, you'd be better off going to New York
even which is terrible, but it's not as bad as California.
They guessed correctly.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
The mainstream media is not going to point that out
to anybody, and the average person doesn't pay attention to that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, I know, I know, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
It doesn't work, self government, No, does not work. People
don't pay enough attention, and you can't count on to me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
The only way it.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Works is if the federal government has extremely limited powers.
Because nobody, not even the President of the blank in
United States, can wrap his head around a tenth of
what the federal government does and how it does it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Contemplate that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
There is not a human being who's ever lived on
Earth who could possibly comprehend the federal government. That's by design.
By the way, it's I don't know, I give up.
So the most likely outcome, according to most of the
smart people I know, is Texas will get their way.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
California, Illinois and other.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Blue states already had got their way, but they're now
they're going to try to take it even further, and
we're all just going to go further down the road
of the whole jerrymindering thing. Even though he brought you
the poll numbers yesterday that only six percent of Americans
approve of the idea of gerrymandering districts. If you were
to get some non partisan like scientists and statisticians together,
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I'll bet you could cook up a really reasonable, like
five tier process for forming congressional districts. Districting in short,
and if we spend years and millions of dollars and
a commission were gathered and yielded that report, which George
(34:15):
Washington himself would descend from the clouds and endorse in
his booming voice. That report would then be ignored and
thrown away because the parties have no interest in it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Just saw this headline. McDonald's sales have bounced back from
drastic declines. You remember when we were talking about That
is like a canary in the coal mine for where
things were.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
People stopped going to McDonald's. The new value meals won
over anxious US customers. I don't know what the new
value meals are, but they must be. I might have
to go today. It must be a really good deal. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I don't need it McDonald's because I'm better than you.
But that is good news, so American, so delicious. Oh my,
your poor colon. I weep for your colon and high
fives me. Yeah, I have some good show, it says, wow.
Having a little time processing it, a little tough time
getting it out of here. But colon abuse, clearly, I
(35:13):
wish there was a law. And anyway, what are we
doing next hour? I can't wait. It'll be fantastic. Britain's
government is about to fall apart completely. There will be
a revolution in the streets.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
What, we got a lot of stuff in the NFL
doing a deal with ESPN. What's that going to mean
for watching your games this year? Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong
and Jetty and I know he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Well, that's a lot of the country's dealing with poor
air quality because of wildfire smoke from Canada drifting down
into the Midwest and East coast.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
It's pretty bad. Check out the scale they used to measure.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
First, it starts with moderate, and then it goes up
to Snoop Dogg's car, then your stepdad's breath, then middle
schoolers vaping a freak here Friday, then the bathroom on
a spirit flight, then the cockpit on a spirit flight,
then teachers lounge on a first day of school, and
(00:55):
lastly exploded tesla.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
So these are great yourtings, is what those are? Wow?
Speaker 3 (01:02):
We've got a headline out of Moscow as Trump's envoy
met with Putin about the war and the Kremlin says
Witcoff Putin meeting was constructive and useful.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No, it wasn't, is my response right? Not a chance there's.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
Sign of peace talks between Hamas and it. No, there's
not right, there's not We get any more on that meeting.
We'll we'll tell you during the show. Plus the perfect end.
Please lord to the Sydney Sweeney controversy, stay with us.
Plus we've got all sorts of important and serious news.
Is Jack indicated. So this story is unbelievable. It's also
(01:47):
very very long, so I'm going to have to encapsulate.
But in early May, a baby in Arcadia, California, LA
Area was hospitalized with possible signs of child abuse. So
the showed up at a nine bedroom mansion in the
LA suburb, known for lavish homes and residents with roots
in China. Interesting inside, they found fifteen more children, none
(02:13):
older than three, living under the care of nannies.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Well that's a lot of babies.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
A staff of nannies at least sixteen children, all under
the age of three. The investigative trail led them to
six more children at other homes in the LA area.
A Chinese born man and woman living in the mansion
said they were the parents of all twenty two children, and.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The birth certificates listed them as such.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
What mystified the cops was that the children appear to
have been born all over the US and in rapid
succession to a large group of surrogate mothers. Okay, you've
already read this story, so you know what's going on here.
I am trying to guess and I can't even imagine
what in the world is going on here.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
I'm afraid you may be disappointed by the end of this.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Local authorities removed the kids from the Holmes, placed them
in foster care, and called in the FBI. The mansion
was listed as the headquarters of Mark Surrogacy, which had
arranged many of the children's birth and was managed by
Sylvia Jang, the woman living there. Jang said said, yes,
I'm the legal mother of all of the children. Now
(03:24):
the mother, but she did She's not the birth motter.
She didn't crank out twenty two kids, all surrogates in
three years.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
You missed high school biology obviously.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Anyway, the surrogates who carried some of the children did
interviews with The Wall Street Journal and said that Jang
deceived them, saying that she had no kids and she
was just hoping to have a baby. But they were
all like separate from each other. You can have three
sets of sex tuplets that amount of time. Yeah, you're
(03:57):
still sex tuplets with that's six, right, Yeah, they'd have
to be septuplets and one set of octuplets to get
to twenty two. But you're right, I stand corrected. It
is possible, which reminds me whatever happened to octomom. But
let's not get distracted back to your skirit. Indeed, anyway,
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the investigation is focusing according to the surrogates who talk
to federal agents, it's focusing on whether the couple was
selling babies whose births the agency had arranged. Xang actually
talked briefly to The Wall Street Journal denied it, saying
that she and a man she described as her husband
just wanted to have as many children as they could.
(04:39):
We would never sell our babies, she said. We take
care of them very well, except for the one that
was hospitalized. The website of the company, you can't take
care of twenty some babies very well. Well, they get
a bunch of nannies. Yeah, it's a corporation.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
It is a freaking baby mill.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
So site says it's in the business of connecting surrogates
with American and international couples who need them. And they
mentioned later that Bubba b.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
So the probe is raising alarms, that's irrelevant.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The industry has.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Been fueled in recent years by money from China, where
surrogacy is illegal. In the US, one third of intended
parents were from other countries between twenty fourteen twenty twenty
among surrogates, and forty one percent of those were Chinese nationals,
and those figures are just five years old.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
For reasons or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
It's unclear whether the Arcadian mansion had direct ties to
China and the Chinese government, among the many mysteries surrounding
the couple, or how many children they had in total,
why a surgacy business was operating out of their home,
and whether the business had any outside clients. Over the
course of numerous conversations in English and Mandarin, Xiang the
woman either declined to respond or gave conflicting answers to
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those and other questions. Her so called husband, by the way,
go Jan Juan, probably pronouncing that wrong, sir, I got
your name wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Gujan is extremely.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Well connected in the La super heavyweight Chinese businessman community.
He and Xiang ran a real estate company which they
operated with a group of businessmen based in China. Oh
wait a minute, that's right. Every single Chinese business is
sworn by law, like every Chinese citizen to do the
(06:34):
bidding of the Communist Party whenever they're asked. Oh yeah, anyway,
using shell companies, this guy purchased more than a hundred
properties in the La area, many a foreclosure auctions, according
to former employees and property records, et cetera, et cetera. Well,
so what's the speculation of what's going on here? Rereading
(06:55):
babies to sell to Chinese nationals' that's how it looks.
There's more to this like this Juan guy.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
But why.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
People can't have babies on their owner? Oh yeah, I guess, well,
you can't have a surrogate in China. It's illegal. So
they're just breeding babies and then sending them back to China.
I guess yeah. There are more questions than answers here.
Like I said before, you're gonna be disappointed because the
authorities are trying to figure out what the frig is
going on here. But so this Juan guy, his company's
(07:26):
workers called him teacher, and he monitors them on feeds
from surveillance cameras at his home. Just really really weird.
Oh let's see, let me. I wanted to scroll down
to police reports. The trouble with authorities began after reports
to police of fighting at the address. One call reported
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suspecting children at the home were being abused. There are
six to seven children. The woman at the location yell
and shout at the children all the time. Not clear
how cops responded. A two month baby a two month
old baby had inter cranial bleeding, a condition sometimes consistent
with child abuse, hospitalized local police to investigate, and that's
where they came across the uh fifteen babies and toddlers,
(08:11):
all with buzzed haircuts in the care of six nannies.
Police seized video Footage's feel like the buzzed haircuts is
a extraneous detail.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Really, I don't They're bad? Brace yourself.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Police seized video footage from the surveillance cameras which showed
that the toddlers were spanked, slapped, and forced to do squats.
The footage also showed a nanny shaking the baby that
was later hospitalized.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Forced to do squats. What is that? Well here, I
don't know, it's bizarre. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
I'm kind of focused on the babies being beaten and
shaken by these Chinese nationals running an alleged baby mill
in la I don't know how babies are generally treated
in China. No, I'm not happy about this, but I
just culturally, I don't know, strange country. Yeah, well, squat,
(09:17):
this is obscene.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
I don't know if you'll get paywalled.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
We can post this at armstrong and getty dot com
under hotlinks.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
It's unfrigging believers.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So it's not a story of Most of our Chinese
stories are some effort by the Chinese Comyist Party to
take over America.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
This is more of like a niche rich.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
People have figured out a way to get a baby
when they can't have a baby, So it would seem
I mean, that's the most obvious answer, and it's probably
the right one.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Speaking of the more nefarious and typical comedy plots, news
has emerged that China, the Communist Party China has been
financing a lot of the environmental groups in the United States.
We're dedicated to give us giving up fossil fuels, oh really,
and going heavily into green powers. Pretty smart, Pretty smart
(10:12):
they figure with the compliant lefty progressive media in their money,
that's pretty We can guilt them into destroying their own
economy and becoming a slave to our rare earth minerals
and the like. Yeah, it's unbelievable. So the first report
out of the Kremlin is the talks were good and productive.
(10:32):
There They're what Russia is hoping to avoid, I think,
are the giant tariffs that are going to get slapped
on India, for instance, over Russian oil purchases starting Friday.
If the war doesn't come to an end. The chance
of the war coming to an end or a ceasefire
is roughly zero. So a little more on that coming up. Also,
(10:56):
everybody's been subpoenaed around Epstein, like everybody, and then the
Russia Gate hoax and everything is everybody's being subpoened around everything,
And I don't know where this is going to go either.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
We should talk about that story. Stay tuned, arm Strong
and Getty.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
I just saw a video that apparently Republicans think that
the people who are criticizing Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Jeans ad.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
We're all just jealous of her.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
And I just have to say, from my point of view,
I am not jealous of Sydney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
I don't have.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
To be famous and I don't have to pedal brands
that are awful, like they're bad taste.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Like, not cute at all.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And I get to do that from the comfort of,
like my beautiful from Porge, drinking my macha this morning,
and I get to wake up every.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Day being me drinking your macha.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Oh my god, you had to say macha. You know,
I was really hoping for a little eugenics, a little
white supremacy, a little dog with a little Nazi reference
there as kind of a weak clip. Honestly, she's surprisingly
well adjusted for the commenters on this story anyway. Enjoy
your machas, sister.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, but come on, that's not cute. Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Most of most men around the world seeing that ad
would agree that's nothing attractive there whatsoever. And they're selling
the genes to women, and there are no women who
would think, Wow, good looking jeans. I wonder if I'd
look that good Innos genes. I bought mine minor on
the way I bought the men's version. I will have
them tomorrow. Yeah, she is sipping on the macha of
(12:35):
self delusion. Jack, I'm afraid, uh so is my son
got some?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
The other day?
Speaker 3 (12:42):
He's on the Macha bandwagon. I bought them a Macha
at Starbucks. It was seven dollars. Seems a little Tell them, son,
you can either be team Macha or team Macho. Are
you're going to be a man or a Macha sipper?
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Huh? I had some good parenting and right there, feel
free to use that line.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
So the headline is the American Eagle Saga only shows
the woke left is out of touch and I was
my trigger was tripped because it's written by Jennifer Say.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
I think that's how you pronounce her name.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
It's s Y who was a big executive at Levi's
for years and years till she was forced out in
the height of the woke insanity and I can't remember
exactly why, and Katie is going to remind us.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
So she was a huge, outspoke, outspoken advocate for keeping
the schools open during COVID, and she was writing op
eds and going on shows and Levi's actually called her
and said, hey, you need to pipe down, right, and
that was the end of that.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, you remember when opening the public schools like the
private schools are and the Red State schools are at
the time, You remember when that was seen as some
sort of fascist, murderous effort to get you know, teachers
killed according to the lefty actual brown shirts who are
keeping people in their homes. Yeah, so she lost her
career over that. So anyway, she weighs in, hot is
(14:08):
no longer toxic and the normies are back. Hey, Genoah,
popular retailer is using ads for jeans to revive the
Third Reich.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Pretty sneaky right, Pretty sneaky right, except they aren't.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
They're just selling jeans the old fashioned way by selling
aspiration rather than activism.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I want to look hot in these genes. I love
that first line. Did you know popular retailer is using.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
Ads for jeens to revive the Third Reich? Then she
sets it up and the campaign uses a play on words.
Jeans are passed down, Papa, my jeans are blue, she said.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
In the end. Sometimes a pun is just a pun,
and she writes.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
In my thirty year career as a marketer and maker
of jeans, eight of them spent as the chief marketing
officer for Levi's, I've been pitched a simil campaign with
the exact same pun more times than I can count
on two hands.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
I never ran with it. It just seemed too obvious.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But in an age of ads featuring featuring morbidly obese
and hairy chested non binary people lounging around in jeans
and underwear, this cliche feels fresh, if only because Sweeney
is hot. After all, when old becomes new again, it's
always about context. Mom Jean and dad shoes became cool
because of the irony, not because anyone actually wants to
look like their mom. And in the age of unwieldy wokeness,
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hot blondes or a breakthrough idea, and she goes on
at some length.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It's very, very well written.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
But yes, this is the proper response to these people guffaws.
So that might be the end of the Blue Gene story.
I wish the Epstein's. I thought the Epstein story was over,
but it's back with all the subpoenas yesterday. We'll get
to that coming up in a little bit. That's a
heck of a thing. Let me throw in a couple
(16:00):
of quick lines. According to I love this line too.
This is as useful as the phrase I've learned recently,
the eternal omni cause that ties queers for whatever, to Palestine,
to whatever, to fund the police, whatever the hell it is,
climate change, ring everything. According to white liberal lady TikTok,
(16:26):
we've been subject to an endless stream of car videos
telling us how downright clueless or worse evil we are
if we don't see what's happening here. According to these
women who love telling us all what to think, Hitler
is cheering from the grave. One lamented the American Eagle
ad wasn't just a commercial. It was a love letter
to white nationalism and eugenic fantasies.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Do you actually believe that I think they do. Yeah.
They in the same way that occultist believes that their
cult leader is the reincarnation of God.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
And you are a crazy person, Yeah, exactly, Well, you've
certainly been indoctrinated into a crazy philosophy. The Clintons have
been subpoenaed, and like everybody you've ever heard of in
the last fifteen years of politics, has been subpoena around
the whole Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Tell you what, some stranger walks up to you and
asks you whether your your name. Say no, they're about
to serve your papers. You're gonna get subpoena yourself. That's
an excellent point.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
That's on the way if you miss a second to
get the podcast Armstrong and Getty on demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Glen Maxwell said nothing in those two days that would
harm President Trump, and during this meeting with the Justice Department,
sources familiar with its content say she told Deputy Attorney
General Todd Blanche that Trump did nothing in her presence
that would have caused her concern.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
So I feel like that's not the best timing in
the world if you're going to try to claim there's
no deal between Trump and g Dog. That's what we've
decided to call this Maxwell woman. Since nobody knows how
to pronounce her first name, we need that Frenchman to
tell us it's French that gh It appears to me
(17:57):
looks very French to me.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Gilaine. So she gets.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
Moved from the kind of prison you're supposed to go
to when you're trafficking underage women for sex. She has
had that kind of a prison for twenty years, practically
the rest of her life. She gets moved to a
country club without walls. Where can I spend the rest
of my life there? So you're gonna feed me and
I get to like watch TV and have my own room.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
That sounds pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
She gets moved to that prison, no explanation whatsoever from anybody,
even though repeated questions to the Justice Apartment in the
White House and everybody else, no explanation why she got
the prison. No, no explanation for why she got moved
to the softer prison. Then like three days later we
get the story we just heard. Oh, in her interviews,
she said Trump didn't do anything and she never saw
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Trump do anything. Now I don't think Trump did anything.
But that's a pretty bad look. You know, her being
moved at all is inexplicable. I mean, it's obviously a
quid pro cool for something. It's just now, it's wrong.
It's bad. It's not a good look. It's an unforced error.
(19:05):
Do you have a guest as to why they did it. Yeah, well,
it's some sort of quid pro quo. I don't know
for what exactly, Her willingness to do something, say something,
be interviewed, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
And then he got all these subpoenas that came down yesterday.
Here's how they reported it on Fox.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton are facing congressional subpoenas to testify in person about
Jeffrey Epstein. The House Oversight Committee summoning the Clintons in
eight former FBI directors and attorneys general spanning from the
Bush era to the Biden White House. The historic move
comes as pressure grows on Republicans and the Trump administration
(19:49):
to release the Epstein files, and as President Trump points
his finger away from himself.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
I never went to the island, and Bill Clinton.
Speaker 7 (19:58):
Went there supposedly, uh, twenty eight times.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Clinton has denied that, twenty eight to a lot. He's
denied it. Jack. Bill Clinton wouldn't lie. You know, it's
so obvious what's happening here.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
They just they're desperate to appear to be activists on
this topic.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
For that chunk of the base, whose am I obsessed
with this?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Who's desperate to look like activists the Trump administration? Okay,
So for the q noon people out there who think
there's a pedal ring of elite running the world. Yeah,
there are everything from completely sincere people who have very modest,
you know, the modest mental picture of what this is
(20:43):
all about, to the sincere but delusional, to people who
are purely greed heads who've been profiting off conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
You have a range of people.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
But uh, because certain parts of Maga world, both the
sincere and the greed heads, fueled this fire for a
long time, whipping up interest in Epstein and the child
of reduction, sex trafficking rings and blah blah blah. They
didn't realize that they had actually created a monster that
(21:16):
they couldn't control. And when Trump said essentially now there's
nothing here, we're moving on, They're like, no, we're not.
Why did they move her to a soft prison? I
haven't heard, because I haven't even heard anybody offer a
bad explanation of it, because that doesn't help what you
(21:37):
just said. If you feel like inside Trump world, they
believe they've really stepped in it, and to keep their
base happy, they got to look like they're going after
this hard. Moving her to a low security prison, which
sure looks like what you said, you know, some sort
of an exchange, doesn't is the opposite of that. I
think that's a mark of how desperate they were to
(21:59):
come up with something that made them look like, yes,
we're serious about the whole thing. Look we're trying. As
a miscalculation, though, I think you're right look, we're trying.
We moved her to a minimum security prison that exchange home. No, no,
see that's I think it will kind of land like that.
But no, what they were going for is, look, we
(22:19):
went in there and we grilled her, and we said
we want the list of blah blah blah, and if
we have to give her martial immunity or whatever, we're
going to do it. But by god, we're going to
get to the bottom of this thing. And then days
later the news breaks that she said I never saw
Donald Trump do anything wrong. And she also said, of
course there's no list of the pedophile.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Dudes, which I think is probably true. Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
If you're involved in a criminal conspiracy, you rarely write
down the details. So they subpoened Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton,
Attorney General Letter Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, William Barr, Meck Gardland,
Jeff Sessions, Alberto Gonzales, former FBI directors, James Comy, and
Robert Muller.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
That's a lot of people. Will any of them talk
to anyone ever answer a single question? I don't know.
I have no idea I have this, I.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Don't have what I don't have any idea of is
how many of the people involved in the subpoenas and
the hearing they'll have and the Dog and Pony show
that we'll go through. Man, if this is televised, whoa
talk about your d and p dog and pony? Because
I don't have I don't have any idea how many
of the people involved in putting on the Dog and
Pony show or sincere at all, if they think we
(23:40):
got to look like we're trying, or if they mean it,
like if they actually think there's a cabal of elite
running a pedophile ring and it's being covered up. We're
gonna get to the bottom of it, damnit, Or if
they think, well, I guess we got to satisfy the
online crowd.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well Trump saying, look, this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
There's nothing here, my former followers, you need to shut up.
A bunch of stupid people are getting roped into this.
I'd say that was a fairly clear indication of what
he thinks of it.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Good point. Well, but this will be something to watch
if it happens.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
There's no way Bill Clinton, president of the United States,
is going to sit there and let some House members
yell at him.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
Right.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Oh no, the the highest paid lawyers on Earth, perhaps
on other planets will be employed to either resist the
subpoenas or or narrow them so much that they're meaningless.
Or you'll hear people recite the Fifth Amendment over and
over again.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Yes, yes, yes, no, no.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
Hillary is not going to be led shackled onto the
you know, into a seat there in the hearing chamber,
to get lectured by somebod Jordan yell at her and
it's not going to happen. And he only got to
drag this out for three and a half years, which
seems like a long time. But as a guy who's
been involved in a couple of illegal things, man, can
you eat up time when you get into stuff in
(25:02):
the law.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
Did you just confess to being your criminal?
Speaker 3 (25:06):
No, I confess to getting divorced, which I think I've
mentioned several times. Well, I thought you said criminal things
or did you say legal legal? I think you said legal. Yeah,
it's funny your mind turned it into criminal things.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
I've been watching it carefully.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
What's going on there? Michael and I have been trading
tips and suspicions. Read some time. Oh hey, single thing
that happens, it's amazing. Is like somebody will send something
and then somebody else has ninety days to respond or
longer sometimes depending on what it is, and then they
respond with like I just needed a clarification on this, and.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Then it goes.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Then you've got ninety days to respond to the clarification,
and then you're back to the free I mean, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
How much time can get eating up.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
And people like Trump and other people who get involved
in lawsuits all the time, they absolutely know how that works.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Oh sure sure.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Coming up the hilariously ironic fleeing of Thetis Texas Democrats
to Illinois, of all places, the most shamelessly jerrymandered state
in the Union, makes California look fair, just funny.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Stay with us.
Speaker 3 (26:11):
Let me finish what Mark Alpern wrote in his newsletter
today about the Epstein thing. What is really going on
behind the scenes with the Epstein case. It's about Bill
Clinton sex and money, or it's about Donald Trump and sex,
or it's about Epstein and intelligence, or it was about
the withheld reason why Maxwell got moved to Club fed
or it's about all of that.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But not about none of that.
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Right, Yeah, her getting moved actually happened, So somebody did
that for a reason well, as I've been saying for
a couple of weeks. Now, all right, what version of
the Epstein thing are we discussing here. I don't like
(26:58):
she's a scumbag, absolutes, comebag. And I don't like the
fact that she gets to live out the rest of
her life in some cush prison.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Right.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
That sucks, right, And it's crazy and unprecedented. You know
what's not crazy and is precedented, jerry mandering your state
to try to get the maximum number of people you want.
We'll talk about that and other things.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Stay with us. A quarm is not present for.
Speaker 8 (27:29):
The second straight day Texas House Democrats refusing to show
up at the Capitol, therefore blocking the special Legislative Sessions
vote on the state's new congressional map designed to boost
the GOP.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
There's folks saying that we walked out.
Speaker 3 (27:43):
Now think everyone behind me will say we're standing up.
Speaker 8 (27:46):
The more than fifty Texas Democratic lawmakers who fled the state,
many of them to Illinois, are now getting support from
the National Party.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
This is a new Democratic Party.
Speaker 8 (27:55):
We're bringing a knife to a knife fight, and.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
We are going to fight fire with fire. Hi, Right,
if somebody gets stabbed do we get to blame that
speech for it? Yeah, this isn't a sign, you know what,
just because it would be fun, Michael, play the next
one with Gaviy the bribe taking hypocrite Newsom, and yes,
I will back up that charge.
Speaker 8 (28:15):
In California, Governor Gavin Newsom is preparing to call a
special election to have voters approve a new congressional map
that would eliminate some Republican districts, but only if Texas
follows through with its plans. Whatever they are doing will
be neutered here in the state of California, and they
will pay that price.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
Have to hit you at the stack because it's the
most important thing I heard yesterday. Well, first of all,
California neuter's actual children if they express momentary gender confusions.
So if Gavin Newsom threatens to neuter somebody, I would
take it seriously. It means that the taxpayers will pay
for it. About thirty eight percent of people vote republic
and voted Republican in the last midterm we had. We
(28:59):
have in California. Seventeen percent of the House members in
California are Republicans, So you're way underrepresentative House members to
a total number of vote, and if Texas does what
they want to do, the numbers will be almost exactly
the same, just coincidentally, where you got about forty percent
of people vote Democrat, but they'll only have seventeen percent
(29:21):
of the representation.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
I don't like that.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
But jerry mandering happened in California years ago and Illinois
years ago, and that is the biggest missing part of
that one thing for Mark Alpern. And then you'll back
up your claims that he wrote, absolutely will And by
the way, I'm not disfeating your figures, but were those
the congressional votes in California? Because I thought the congressional
(29:44):
votes were much closer than the presidential votes. And since
we're talking about congressional districts, that that's the apples tackles.
Mark Alpern wrote, imagine if the dominant media covered past
bare knuckles cynical and political jerry mandering by Blue states
the way they're covering the bear uncle cinical political attempt
by Texas Republicans. So most of us aren't claiming what
(30:05):
Texas is doing is just fantastic for America.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
But they're doing what the blue states have already.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Done, right, It's like in the middle of a boxing match,
one of the guys screeching.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
Stop stop, he hit me. Did you see that he
hit me? Yes, that's what you're doing there, Sarah.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Here's my favorite headline, Texas demmi right in the face.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
You all saw it.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Here's my favorite headline, Texas Dems fight jerry mandering by
taking seventy six seat private jet to jerrymandered blue state.
If you're not familiar with the politics of Illinois, remember
that at one point three of the last four governors
was in jail. Michael Madigan, who is the longtime mobster
who ran the legislature completely mobbed up.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
He's now in jail.
Speaker 3 (30:52):
Finally, just utterly, utterly corrupt states now run by the
child mutilating idiot JB.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Pritsker.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
That's such a great stat three out of four governors
ended up in prison, although honestly, I think Blokojevitch got
railroaded anyway, So this is absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
How bad is Illinois?
Speaker 3 (31:13):
With all due respect to how jerry mandered in unfair
California is old? JB knows how jerry mandering is done.
Illinois has seventeen House seats fourteen of them held by Democrats.
So Democrats control eighty two and a half percent of
the state's House seats eighty two and a half though
(31:35):
in the last election they won only fifty two and
a half percent of the House popular vote in those districts.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (31:43):
I mean, even in the less lopsided or more lopsided
presidential race, Trump won forty four percent of the vote.
And again, Democrats control eighty two and a half percent
of the state's House seat even though they barely won
over a half of the votes in those districts. And
that's where the Texas Democrats are hiding out to try
(32:04):
to save America from jerrymandering exactly.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
And how they don't have that on your ABC Evening
newscast or any other channel, but Fox is amazing. Do
they burn irony for heat and they needed to collect
as much of it as they possibly could going to
Illinois for God's sake.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
I mean, you'd be better off going to New York
even which is terrible, but it's not as bad as California.
They guessed correctly.
Speaker 3 (32:32):
The mainstream media is not going to point that out
to anybody, and the average person doesn't pay attention to that.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Yeah, I know, I know, it's hilarious.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
It doesn't work, self government, No, does not work. People
don't pay enough attention, and you can't count on to me.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
The only way it.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
Works is if the federal government has extremely limited powers.
Because nobody, not even the President of the blank in
United States, can wrap his head around a tenth of
what the federal government does and how it does it.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Contemplate that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (33:10):
There is not a human being who's ever lived on
Earth who could possibly comprehend the federal government. That's by design.
By the way, it's I don't know, I give up.
So the most likely outcome, according to most of the
smart people I know, is Texas will get their way.
Speaker 1 (33:30):
California, Illinois and other.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Blue states already had got their way, but they're now
they're going to try to take it even further, and
we're all just going to go further down the road
of the whole jerrymindering thing. Even though he brought you
the poll numbers yesterday that only six percent of Americans
approve of the idea of gerrymandering districts. If you were
to get some non partisan like scientists and statisticians together,
(33:52):
I'll bet you could cook up a really reasonable, like
five tier process for forming congressional districts. Districting in short,
and if we spend years and millions of dollars and
a commission were gathered and yielded that report, which George
(34:15):
Washington himself would descend from the clouds and endorse in
his booming voice. That report would then be ignored and
thrown away because the parties have no interest in it.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
Just saw this headline. McDonald's sales have bounced back from
drastic declines. You remember when we were talking about That
is like a canary in the coal mine for where
things were.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
People stopped going to McDonald's. The new value meals won
over anxious US customers. I don't know what the new
value meals are, but they must be. I might have
to go today. It must be a really good deal. Wow.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
I don't need it McDonald's because I'm better than you.
But that is good news, so American, so delicious. Oh my,
your poor colon. I weep for your colon and high
fives me. Yeah, I have some good show, it says, wow.
Having a little time processing it, a little tough time
getting it out of here. But colon abuse, clearly, I
(35:13):
wish there was a law. And anyway, what are we
doing next hour? I can't wait. It'll be fantastic. Britain's
government is about to fall apart completely. There will be
a revolution in the streets.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Wait.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
What, we got a lot of stuff in the NFL
doing a deal with ESPN. What's that going to mean
for watching your games this year? Armstrong and Getty
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