July 17, 2025 • 35 mins
On the Thursday July 17, 2025 edition of The Armstrong & Getty Show...
- Elmo, troops leaving LA and astronauts on the moon...
- Headlines...
- The Epstein Saga
- Mailbag.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he Arms.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Some reason, it was extra delicious to listen to NPR
report how their funding got cut last night.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I really listened to them report on their own funding
being cut.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Drove to work live from studio. See see say you're
dimly lit room deep with them the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getdy Communications Compound, and hey, y'all, little Friday,
we're under the two ledge of our general manager.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't know you got a nominee.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh wow, uh uh uh, I don't know. I might
go NPR funding the general manager, I think this minute. Sorry,
sorry obviously el moo, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
General manager as almost some sort of communist that the
fascist Trump administration has got to take him out at
his free red knees.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was about to say so many Republican presidents and
Republican congresses have claimed they were gonna pull funding from
NPR and PBS, but never did it. And just like
so many things, only Trump actually has the ball to
do it. But part of the pushback has always been
Elmo in education for little children, and the Republicans get
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scared off. Oh what the hell? Ever, first of all,
it's just me streets, so damn woke. Now you can't
make that argument. But and the pushback has always been,
we don't get that much funding, well, then fine, deal
without it. If it's not that much, you shouldn't get
a dollar from taxpayers with that absolutely progressive horse ass
(02:05):
that you get to have commercial free in every city
in America, including towns that can't afford to have any
other kind of media. You got NBR there, given them
a crap news and I'm paying for it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Whenever we talk about cutting the funding, they respond by saying,
but this is what we do. No, that's what you're
supposed to do. You haven't done that for decades. You've
been proselytizing for the dismantling of Western civilization for the
Dowt thirty years, not to mention insidious racialist policies. Now
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you've become a muster, You've become such a perversion of
what you were. But you know, it's interesting to the
broader point about the number of things Trump has done
that the powers that be warned us the repercussions would
be severe and unmistaken, unpredictable.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But whether it's.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Moving or just admitting the capital of Israel, for instance,
the chaos and hate that would unferl from that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Now now, now.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Got a good example of that with yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was a like a third tier story that the
remaining National Guard troops are leaving Los Angeles today that
Trump sent Remember when he sent the National Guard troops
and it was some sort of giant constitutional crisis and
he was doing what dictators does, and then they're going
to shoot people in the streets and all nothing happened
other than they secured federal buildings from the thugs and
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then they went home. It was perfectly fine.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Tried to protect the ice officers, God bless them, or
in some of the riskiest duty in America right now
now speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Of NPR, you know what I just heard on NPR
and I had somehow forgotten this or missed it or
something like that. We're putting people on the moon next year,
twenty twenty six. We're gonna have freaking American astronauts walking
on the moon.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow, next year, who's carrying them? SpaceX?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think it's an it's a NASA thing I believe.
Oh really yeah, huh, well I don't. I don't even
figure out who's providing the hardware later. But that's uh,
that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And especially because now we'll have like four K video
of I know, doing the moon thing.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Would imagine we'll have only slightly delayed audio and perfect
video of them standing on the moon. Look behind me,
here here's a moon rock. Look, I'm picking up some
moon dust and you know that it'll be amazing. Sure, yeah,
how cool will that be? And uh and letting Chinese, No,
that's our moon, stay up our moon, China. Did they
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put up a flag when they were up there? Well,
they just landed a probe, right, They landed on the
dark side, didn't they?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Right? All right, Well they can have it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That doesn't surprise me. What are they doing over on
the dark side of the moon?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Who know?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Probably making fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
To ship to America to take our jobs.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh I kind of lost a thread there midway through anyway,
A damn comedies.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's the point.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh man, there's another one other story that I'm excited about.
Before I drop an E bomb, I didn't want to
drop an E bomb.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh boy, Oh boy, did you see? Oh, speaking of SpaceX,
did you see? Elon Musk has waited into the the
you know what story, the E bomb I did?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh? I'd have to find it. I found it. Let's see. Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
He attached a screenshot of Trump's truth social statement earlier
in the day, in which he blasted his former followers
who were stupid and weak and whatever else. He said,
this is in the running for worst post ever made. Seriously,
Musk said, he said, am I allowed to say it?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He said Epstein half a dozen times?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein, just release
the files as promised. And then Musk a few minutes
later respond to a separate post calling the Epstein case
Trump's achilles Heel, rebuking the president for pledging to release
the files on the campaign trail and now dismissing the
significance of the case. Quote, this is a very big deal.
But how kind of system are we living in? If
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thousands of kids were abused, the government has videos of
the abusers, and yet none of the abusers are even
facing charges. Well that none of that is accurate, according
to everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, I don't think that stuff happened, which I realize
is very angering for a lot of you. So there's
new polling on what y'all believe about this, with one
of the numbers that stands out is that two thirds
of all voters believe there is some sort of government cover.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Up going on with the Epstein thing. Two thirds. I'd
be a no on that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
This.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Here's one where I would be an outlier with all
y'all differentiating between cover up and not releasing everything. I
think there's stuff that's not being released for all kinds
of legitimate legal reasons, but covering up something that we
should know.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, I don't believe that's happening.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You read my mind.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I was just about to say, I think there are
a lot of people interpreting the normal withholding of various
stuff while Julane Maxwell does her appeals process. And just
as we've talked about multiple times on the show, if
you are investigated, but the investigatoris decide no, we can't
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or shouldn't bring charges here, they don't release you know,
all the dirty laundry they uncovered of everybody they looked at.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If they're not going to file charges.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, I think it was Elon or somebody said yesterday,
so why is she in prison if there's nothing there?
That doesn't make sense? Well, yeah, does he was? He
was using under Age's.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Not that there's nothing there at all, that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well right, but he was using underage girls for sex
and that's a crime, and she was involved because that
happened doesn't mean I mean, I don't know how you
get the leap that then that proves there's a nation
wide child sex pedal ring run by the Clintons and
the Obamas and Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean, those are very different things.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And Epstein saw that his gallpal was just utterly nailed
to the wall. They prosecuted the crap out of her
one on all the major charges, and he knew what
his fate was going to be. So yeah, the idea
that there's nothing there, no, the other the king in
killed himself in a prison cell. And I know you're yelling,
you're a fool, you're idiot, Hillary did it or whatever,
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But no, that's that's that's stupid Elon for a super genius,
that's really a dumb tweet.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I have heard people that I really like and respect
pundit say figuring out why Epstein was so rich is
pretty difficult, Like why so rich?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He had the biggest house in all of Manhattan, New.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
York, right, and four or five others right houses all
around the world, and an island and his private and
all these different sorts of things. And that's not clear
why he was so freaking rich? Right, yeah, fair enough,
but not at all. Think kinds of things that could
be other than running a child sex national ring that
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Michelle Obama, who's a man, is behind all right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So here's here's a I almost let that go by me.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So here's a question for you, And it comes on
the heels of are praising Trump's undeniable lack of Why
this could be my most convoluted sentence ever, Folks, you
might need to jot it down.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And look back on it to try to comprehend it.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
After just praising Trump's undeniable lack of regard for conventional
wisdom when it's stupid. Sometimes Trump has a lack of
regard for ventional wisdom when it's really good, solid wisdom, right, Like,
for instance, I have not found anybody, anybody who thinks
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it was a good idea to call out all of
his followers and say you're stupid, you know, hoax loving,
the weak minded pieces of crap, and I don't want
your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
What was gained by that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I mean, I mean, all I can say is he's
stressed out, he's got a lot on his plate. He's
thinking this is blank and stupid, and he shot off
his mouth when he shouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, i'll tell you what Mark Halpern's interpretation was of that.
He's a very fair reporter. He said, that makes me
think there's something Trump related in the Epstein stuff he
doesn't want out. Oh no, that's the only explanation I
can come up with.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
It could absolutely be, and I'm not looking for innocent explanations,
but it could absolutely be what I was just talking
about that, you know, in a list of associations and
social engagements and who was at what party, Trump's name
might appear multiple times before he had that falling out
quite a number of years ago with Epstein.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But that's the point.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
They're a hell of a lot of people because there
was a serious period where he was a big, swinging
port metaphor. He was a big, big part of the
New York financial and social scene before people knew he
was a PERV, and then there was that period after
the charges were filed in Florida that people should have
damn well known he was a PERV, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Some people still associated with him then.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
But the list of names that would have come up
in the course of routine investigations has got to be long.
And you know, if, for instance, I don't know, if
one of our names came up and we were in
some sort of hot radio battle back then, like he
used to happen to the day War, maybe you know,
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our opponents would hammer us with that, yeah, and try
to imply that because we once went to a cocktail
party raising money for the Marsh of Dimes and Jeffrey
Epstein had thrown it trying to imply that we're there
on perv Island molested thirteen year olds.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We got more on the story later, much later, or
maybe never. We got to start the show.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Keepstein himself. This story will not die.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Let's get the show started.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday,
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Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, with NPR going away, it's more important than ever
that we start officially according the FCC rules or eggs
at Mark show.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Hey, Otani couldn't make it tonight, man, I hope his
interpreter didn't bet that he was going to be here.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Show.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Hey is a once in a generation talent. No one's
been able to do what he does at so many positions. Pitcher,
Hitter and Bookie Hey. Bookie is what Bill Belichick reads
to his girlfriend before bedtime. Sugar Red Leonards here, ellieh
Sugar Regg, You're the man, But what in ten years,
Jake Paul is going to try to knock you out,
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So take it easy.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He also had a joke.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
He said, uh oh, man, there was an Epstein joke
here on the teleprompter, but it got it deleted itself.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's pretty fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We got headlines coming up next, a bunch of other stuff.
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I would like to point out that while I am
quite sick of the whole Epstein thing, and I mean
truly getting tired of it, the whole the Republicans built
this mess by claiming they had something that turned out
not to be true, conveniently forgetting years of promises about
the Russia hoax on every damn show that existed on
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mainstream and left wing media, and there was nothing to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Report, and you just let it drop.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Now, that's why we have to be better, more careful
as conservatives. You're right, though, you're absolutely right. I'm looking
forward to reading a multi part I thought maybe we
could run with it real quick. But the Free Press
has like multiple writers on what the Epstein fight is
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really about.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh okay, I want to hear that what it's really about.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, Well I hope it won't hurt anybody's feelings, Jack,
because that's one thing we never do around here, is
to hurt people's feelings. All right, So Katie is off
today taking a look at some news headlines. Evidently Trump
is not going to fire Jerome Powell because everybody is
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against it, including his.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Cabinet, including the stock market, it would seem. So there's
some belief that he was testing the waters yesterday. So
it leaked out that he told Republicans he wanted to
fire Powell. Stock market drops quite a bit. Then he
announces like a half an hour later, no, no, no,
I'm not going to fire him. Stock market goes back up,
and so that might have been a trial balloon.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I don't know, right right meanwhile, somebody in Trump world
is trying to float this narrative that the remodeling process
there at the Federal Reserve headquarters was right wastefuler run poorly.
I mean, it's the classic example of you know, gambling
in Casablanca. It's everybody does the same things and then
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you just called them out for it and then call
it corruption.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
When you need to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Anyway, you gotta cease fire in Syria, Syrian and Drew's
officials and the Israelis all right, that came and went. Probably,
I've been reading about the Drews interesting religion. I would
say I'd look into joining it, but then we'd get
fifty emails saying that my soul would be damned and
blah blah blah, and don't bother folks my soul is.
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It's well, it's a foregone conclusion. I'm going to Helice,
thank you for your concern.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I assumed it's people who worship anyone named Drew. Is
that not correct?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Incorrect? Jack?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
As a matter of fact, it's an interesting Deis religion.
It's like it's an Abrahamic religion, but isn't really into
choosing which branch of that Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They're like, hey,
can we just all get along and have a nice
desert party here, peace loving folks.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Not really, let's see.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Oh, the third party deportations have continued. The reason that's
caught my eye was the Trump administration deported five migrants
to why is it migrants not immigrants to the small
African nation of You know what, I'm tempted to play
a game here. I was going to come up with
three names and you tell me which of them is
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not made up. But he deported them to Swatini.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
See that?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, absolutely, that's either true or you're drinking me around.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Which sounds like something my twenty five year old daughter
might order when she's out for cocktails.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, I'll try the Slatini.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know why you're not drinking them? Everybody's drinking them.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's got just touch ament and a little uh, lavender oil,
pink salt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Of course, it's pink. Of course it's Pink's some more
of the news that we've got to get to coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's not Epstein, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
The FDA has approved certain GLP ones for kids twelve
and up, and there are studies showing they're safe and effective,
though the authors of this new report say more study
is needed of newer GLP one drugs. Just like adults,
there can be side effects for kids like gastro intestinal symptoms, headaches,
and fatigue, and rarely pancreatitis. The American Academy of Pediatrics
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guidance says doctors can offer these weight loss drugs to
treat kids who are twelve and up if they're just
treating obesity. If there are other more immediate life threatening
factors like diabetes, doctors could consider prescribing these kinds of
drugs for kids as young as eight.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Approving weight loss drugs for kids which could be perfectly
fine or really really not. And there's no flipping way
they know because they haven't been around and tried on kids.
They're just impossible to know. You'd need so many years
to know this, well, I don't know what I would do.
I'd need to have a really obese kid with dangerous
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medical threat because of that before I'd be willing to
do this personally. Katie had this headline for US yesterday
and this kind of fits in with it. Maybe if
you're worried about having an overweight kid, you go ahead
and change the genetic makeup of the embryo so that
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the kid is not predisposed to be obese. Is the
headline in the New York Times yesterday, Inside the Silicon
Valley push to breed super babies.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's not a scary headline at all.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Oh geez, yeah, let's put Silicon Valley in charge of it,
including the ethics.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Go ahead and teach us so wise ones.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Inside the Silicon Valley Push to breed super babies is
a hell of a headline. Investors say genetic prediction services
for embryos used by Elon Musk and others are a
trust fund for future children. Scientists are skeptical. We've talked
about this a lot. It's just going well, it's going
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exactly where everybody thought it was going to go. And
of course it's happening with the super rich first. And
then the question here in the New York Times is
whether it becomes available to everybody over time. The idea
of genetic preselection around a whole bunch of different things,
and not just trying to eliminate some.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Of the worst ailments that could happen to kids. But
getting into.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Height, weight, hair, color, athletic ability, intelligence, all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, all sorts of talents too. This is head and
straight in an HG. Wells direction of two distinct classes
of human beings, the proved and unimproved.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Right, especially if it becomes a you can do it,
if you can afford it, insurance doesn't cover.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Its situation, then you're exactly exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, I just would like you the improved class to
know that we're easily angered and we like guns.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
So well, just just like, based on what you know
so far, would you be willing to do this?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Like people are already.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Doing whatever genetic modifications, for instance, to try to avoid
the genetic mutation that causes cystic fibrosis or Down syndrome
or a number of other things. Although even then you
don't really know if possibly there's some evolutionary reason for
Down syndrome to exist that we don't know about. But
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I could certainly see why I would be willing to,
you know, take that gene out, so my kids much
less likely to have Down syndrome.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Right, And there are so many maladies that are just
terrible and the child suffers and the family suffers that. Yeah,
I would think let it exist over there. I want
to save my child from it if I can. Yeah,
that would be practically irresistible temptation, I think. I mean,
for instance, you know, clearly nobody knows what causes autism,
what's the genetic component of it. But you know, if
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Judy and I were to have a fourth kid, it'd
be somebody else's or an immaculate conception as I have
been snipped.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But putting that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Aside, you can get reversal. They can tie your tubes
back together.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, I don't like my chances. It's been too long,
I think. Anyway, consult your local urologist, get a plumber.
But you know, if we could prevent autism, for instance,
I just assume.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I'm sure not enough is known about autism at
this point to do that, but someday probably will be.
They're already working on genetic propensity for ailments such as
the super rich are to toward bipolar disorder, various kinds
of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, schizophrenia, number of things like that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I wonder if someday science will discover the awesomeness gene,
if there's a single gene that they realize is responsible
for awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This general awesomeness.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Right, the more we study it, the more fascinating it becomes.
Apparently this gene dictates to a hundred other genes how
to be awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
God damn it, boy, if you get into that sort
of stuff, it's so difficult because like, I'm fairly happy
with the way things have turned out with me, for
like career wise, or ability to make a living wise.
But I've got all kinds of flaws that are included
in my mix of things that allow me to make
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my way through life, you know, So which ones those
would it be a benefit to get rid of or
or somehow help me?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Then?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
In ways I don't know, I don't know. Nobody knows
these things.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Right, what I would put it like this, nobody knows
the tales of the head's side of a lot of genes, right,
If you know what I mean, and we're you know,
this smacks so much of the utter hubris and stupidity
of so much science in the twentieth century, where we
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quite literally learned just enough to be dangerous well, and
then strutted around as a people, as a scientific community,
pronouncing that we've figured it all out, when.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
In fact we had just scratched the south.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
When I hear that news report about obesity drugs for kids.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Many scientists say this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Is fine, there's no way you know that, or where
other scientists are really worried about it.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, he probably should be right now.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
At twenty five hundred dollars per embryo screening, on top
of the average twenty thousand dollars for a single cycle
of IVF that lots of people do. This social network
in Silicon Valley and other tech labs are going further
than that. For the super connected or wealthy, you buy
smart rings, consume boutique services like annual full body MRIs
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for some reason, a lot of this could just be
completely bunk and just you know, milking rich people, which
is fine, Yeah, true, A brave new world of probabilistic
data driven medical decision making and all kinds of different
things to try to give your child a genetic edge
and a leg up when they come out of the womb.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Wow, cybermetrics comes to making babies.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Right, Wow, I kind of like the old fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, there's to my mind, there's zero chance this is bad.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ultimately, it's like zero.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
What is bad?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Starting to genetically select all these different things and work
around evolution? You said there's zero chance that's bad. Isn't bad?
I left forward out. I guess this is this is
a bad idea. This is going to have negative results. Ultimately.
I think that's yeah, maybe into the world of nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, you know what I went with H. G. Wells earlier.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Let's say, sprinkle in a little bit of Mary Shelley
and Frankenstein as well, so we could be heading towards
some sort of two class full of genetic mistake, science
gone wild folks running around.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hey, I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, this company, Orchid, that has its meetings in Silicon
Valley with the super rich, including some of Elon Musk's
baby mama's at least one of Musk's fourteen children was
an Orchid client, according to people close to the company
speaking on condition of anonymity to The New York Times,
and that he selected for all of these different things
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that I already that are mentioned in a way that
very few people have done anywhere in the world. So
how this is going to turn out we do not know, right,
but you are right about the whole. I mean, this
takes haves and have nots to a completely different level.
If you've got rich people who can have taller, better looking,
well that already happens just from an evolutionary standpoint, but taller,
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better looking, faster, smarter, musically talented, all kinds of different
things kids in the way that other people can.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
And knowing what you know about humanity again, what are
the chances that does not turn into virulent racism? All right,
on the part of the superior people who feel that
way because they are what's the word superior?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They genetically chose monsters, it'd be difficult to argue against it. Yeah,
I genetically chose, at the cost of a lot of
money and lots of scientists to have a superior child.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
So yes, we are superior. I mean that would be
their argument.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, it's dumb people again, easily angered, and we like guns.
So watch your back there, Richie.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I mean, aren't we I mean we already self select
a certain amount this way. I mean see online dating
from there are online dating outfits that are like for
wealthy people or whatever. So there's a certain amount of
selection going on there where women are choosing rich men,
or rich men are choosing extra hot women or whateverver's
going on always has. Yeah, but if it gets to
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a level where we're like one generation from oh no, no,
I only date orchid babies somebody else that came out
of this orchid corporation like I did, and we have
got to be.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
A certification because you can't have us troglodytes claiming orchid status.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Right, yeah, yeah, you have to have a certificate of authenticity.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So just as an aside, I went, I played golf
in a place not long ago with some friends that
there's i mean, like crazy money and it's like within
a bigger community. So it's got like its own little
store that people go to, because to leave it and
go to a grocery store would probably be I don't know,
twenty twenty five minutes something like that. And so but
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my buddy stopped into the store and he said, every
woman in there was a model, like like a TV
quality magazine cover model.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Wow, And it was just the gals of the hood.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And then you know, we ended up having dinner and
a drink after the round at the restaurant complex there,
and sure enough it was exactly it was selective breeding.
It was like you know, a state fair bound four
h club or something, or professional cattle breeders on the
only meat on the hoof in that place, Jack was
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us DA.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Prime select Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So I guess your point being we're already doing this
to a great extent.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, well, just turbo sharks it and then the race wars.
But that's the next chapter, folks, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, so I guess from that standpoint, it wouldn't be
much of a change. The problem is if any of
the science yields things that we just don't understand your
point about. We don't know what the flip side is
of some what we might call like I wish I
was less impatient, but I don't know what the flip
side of impatience is that you.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Know, allows me to do various things. I have no idea,
nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
But there's all kinds of personality traits or traits that
we don't know what comes with the whole stew of them.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Well, right, and for instance, you know, why do certain
genetic conditions, including down syndrome include physical characteristics, right, because
that's the way genes work. They like and I am
not a geneticist, but they carry information for a bunch
of different things, as we do and are as human beings.
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So you alter gene a to achieve purpose, A god
knows what you're doing down the line.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know, Brave New World, buckle up, everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And aren't a lot of us, particularly music geniuses, but
like math geniuses whatever, they're freaks, they're one off weirdos.
It's just that it happens to be something that we
find to be a positive attribute.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Right right, And a lot of those people are miserable.
It's worth pointing out.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's awesome. That's that is worth pointing out. And that's
not the last we've heard of this story.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And not a surprise that Elon's got at least one
of his fourteen kids about a lot of his kids
are part of that. Why wouldn't he do that if
it's available and the way he thinks about the world, well, uh,
there will be our test case.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The Musk children.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We've got mail bag on the way stay here, so man,
I could easily stay away from the E word all
day long today, but there's some new polling around on Epstein.
That's pretty darned interesting if you're wondering if your thinking
is in line with everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We'll get to that an hour two. Man.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Trump went hard against his base supporters yesterday for who
knows what reason.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
But more on that later.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I have resisted the temptation to include any of the
emails on that topic because it's impossible to start talking
about it and talk about it briefly anyway. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day from the great Tomas Soa.
This is another one of his all time greatest hits.
If you have always believed that someone should play by
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the same rules and be judged by the same standards,
that would have gotten you labeled as a radical sixty
years ago, a liberal thirty years ago, and a racist today.
He wrote those words, I think a decade ago, when
the whole woke affirmative action thing was really getting going again.
Treat everybody the same, everybody's equal under the law and
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the eyes of God would have made you a radical
sixty years ago, call it eighty years ago, a liberal
fifty years ago, and a racist today.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, That's part of the whole Ebra Mex Kendy thing was.
If you say I don't care about people's skin color,
I just treat them as individuals, is proof you're a racist?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah? Good, good, Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Mailbag probs an old mail bag at Armstrong in getty
dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You're gonna move swiftly. Here there's a lot of good.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Stuff, including comments on the Scotty Scheffler what's the point
of it all?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Press conference answer that we played yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Let's see this is from first initial b Hey, guys,
I would remind you I was talking about how the level,
the humble level that you use in carpentry and construction
is a bubble, suspended and liquid, and that's still like
the state of the art.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Said.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Reminded you that the Egyptians built the pyramids with a water.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Level and a plumb bob.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
They initially graded the foundations by flooding the areas to
find the high and low spots.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Can't improve on it. Here's the water go.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Those slaves were crafty.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I believe it was their whip wielding overlords Jack who
commanded them.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
But anyway, on the topic of diabetes.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Barbie, all right, Stephen wrights, and this is overdue.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Handicapped barbies aren't new. My sister regularly.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Played with amputee barbie after I ripped an armor leg
off when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, I had a few Johnny West's or g I
Joe's that were limbless.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Well, what happens missing at least one limb.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Let's see reflections on Scottie Scheffler Barry from Thailand rights.
The great drama of the human condition is that the
greatest moments in.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Our life are so fleeting.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well, the awful things we may experience stay with us
for life. Or, as Woody Allen once famously said, life
is divided divided between the horrible and the miserable, So
be grateful you're only miserable.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
And then another. I think we had one more light
heart one, where is it? Never mind, here's the more
serious one. I actually found this helpful and I hope
you do too, and we'll post it at Armstrong and
Yeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Vincent from Sacramento sent this along. Commented on Scotti Scheffler's interview,
Jack's comment about his father's statement about the simple things
in life taking out the garbage that's what life is
made him think of a quote he heard several years
ago from L. R.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Ghost with a K. I don't know, mister or missus
Ghost's work.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Life is amazing, and then it's awful, and then it's
amazing again.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
And in between the amazing and the awful, it's ordinary
and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on
through the offul relax, and inhale during the ordinary. That's
just living, heartbreaking, soul, healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life, and
it's breathtakingly beautiful, never a tear.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I've never gotten to that last part.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I wish I could, but I wish I was better
because like when something when things are going really well
or something really good happened has happening, I think, well,
this isn't gonna last. When something bad is happening, I
think this is my permanent state.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Now you unfortunately have the chief dark cloud gene right.
Getting back to our discussion of last hour or last segment.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, I I've never been able to find the beauty
in the in the painful, awful parts that some of
you can, and good for you that that's part of
the whole, the part of the whole mix.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Part of No No, that's exactly the point. That's the
beauty is in the mix.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I don't like the mix. I want all good
all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Okay, good, start a religion, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Jetty and he Arms.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Some reason, it was extra delicious to listen to NPR
report how their funding got cut last night.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
I really listened to them report on their own funding
being cut.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Drove to work live from studio. See see say you're
dimly lit room deep with them the bowels of the
Armstrong and Getdy Communications Compound, and hey, y'all, little Friday,
we're under the two ledge of our general manager.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Yeah, I don't know you got a nominee.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh wow, uh uh uh, I don't know. I might
go NPR funding the general manager, I think this minute. Sorry,
sorry obviously el moo, there you go.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
General manager as almost some sort of communist that the
fascist Trump administration has got to take him out at
his free red knees.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
I was about to say so many Republican presidents and
Republican congresses have claimed they were gonna pull funding from
NPR and PBS, but never did it. And just like
so many things, only Trump actually has the ball to
do it. But part of the pushback has always been
Elmo in education for little children, and the Republicans get
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scared off. Oh what the hell? Ever, first of all,
it's just me streets, so damn woke. Now you can't
make that argument. But and the pushback has always been,
we don't get that much funding, well, then fine, deal
without it. If it's not that much, you shouldn't get
a dollar from taxpayers with that absolutely progressive horse ass
(02:05):
that you get to have commercial free in every city
in America, including towns that can't afford to have any
other kind of media. You got NBR there, given them
a crap news and I'm paying for it.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Right.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Whenever we talk about cutting the funding, they respond by saying,
but this is what we do. No, that's what you're
supposed to do. You haven't done that for decades. You've
been proselytizing for the dismantling of Western civilization for the
Dowt thirty years, not to mention insidious racialist policies. Now
(02:39):
you've become a muster, You've become such a perversion of
what you were. But you know, it's interesting to the
broader point about the number of things Trump has done
that the powers that be warned us the repercussions would
be severe and unmistaken, unpredictable.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
But whether it's.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Moving or just admitting the capital of Israel, for instance,
the chaos and hate that would unferl from that.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Now now, now.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Got a good example of that with yesterday.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was a like a third tier story that the
remaining National Guard troops are leaving Los Angeles today that
Trump sent Remember when he sent the National Guard troops
and it was some sort of giant constitutional crisis and
he was doing what dictators does, and then they're going
to shoot people in the streets and all nothing happened
other than they secured federal buildings from the thugs and
(03:31):
then they went home. It was perfectly fine.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Tried to protect the ice officers, God bless them, or
in some of the riskiest duty in America right now
now speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Of NPR, you know what I just heard on NPR
and I had somehow forgotten this or missed it or
something like that. We're putting people on the moon next year,
twenty twenty six. We're gonna have freaking American astronauts walking
on the moon.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Wow, next year, who's carrying them? SpaceX?
Speaker 2 (03:59):
I think it's an it's a NASA thing I believe.
Oh really yeah, huh, well I don't. I don't even
figure out who's providing the hardware later. But that's uh,
that's exciting.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
And especially because now we'll have like four K video
of I know, doing the moon thing.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Well yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Would imagine we'll have only slightly delayed audio and perfect
video of them standing on the moon. Look behind me,
here here's a moon rock. Look, I'm picking up some
moon dust and you know that it'll be amazing. Sure, yeah,
how cool will that be? And uh and letting Chinese, No,
that's our moon, stay up our moon, China. Did they
(04:36):
put up a flag when they were up there? Well,
they just landed a probe, right, They landed on the
dark side, didn't they?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Right? All right, Well they can have it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
That doesn't surprise me. What are they doing over on
the dark side of the moon?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Who know?
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Probably making fentanyl.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
To ship to America to take our jobs.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
Oh I kind of lost a thread there midway through anyway,
A damn comedies.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
That's the point.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Oh man, there's another one other story that I'm excited about.
Before I drop an E bomb, I didn't want to
drop an E bomb.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
Oh boy, Oh boy, did you see? Oh, speaking of SpaceX,
did you see? Elon Musk has waited into the the
you know what story, the E bomb I did?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
What did he say?
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Oh? I'd have to find it. I found it. Let's see. Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
He attached a screenshot of Trump's truth social statement earlier
in the day, in which he blasted his former followers
who were stupid and weak and whatever else. He said,
this is in the running for worst post ever made. Seriously,
Musk said, he said, am I allowed to say it?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He said Epstein half a dozen times?
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Well, telling everyone to stop talking about Epstein, just release
the files as promised. And then Musk a few minutes
later respond to a separate post calling the Epstein case
Trump's achilles Heel, rebuking the president for pledging to release
the files on the campaign trail and now dismissing the
significance of the case. Quote, this is a very big deal.
But how kind of system are we living in? If
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thousands of kids were abused, the government has videos of
the abusers, and yet none of the abusers are even
facing charges. Well that none of that is accurate, according
to everybody.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Yeah, I don't think that stuff happened, which I realize
is very angering for a lot of you. So there's
new polling on what y'all believe about this, with one
of the numbers that stands out is that two thirds
of all voters believe there is some sort of government cover.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
Up going on with the Epstein thing. Two thirds. I'd
be a no on that.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
This.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Here's one where I would be an outlier with all
y'all differentiating between cover up and not releasing everything. I
think there's stuff that's not being released for all kinds
of legitimate legal reasons, but covering up something that we
should know.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
No, I don't believe that's happening.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
You read my mind.
Speaker 4 (07:01):
I was just about to say, I think there are
a lot of people interpreting the normal withholding of various
stuff while Julane Maxwell does her appeals process. And just
as we've talked about multiple times on the show, if
you are investigated, but the investigatoris decide no, we can't
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or shouldn't bring charges here, they don't release you know,
all the dirty laundry they uncovered of everybody they looked at.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
If they're not going to file charges.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, I think it was Elon or somebody said yesterday,
so why is she in prison if there's nothing there?
That doesn't make sense? Well, yeah, does he was? He
was using under Age's.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Not that there's nothing there at all, that's not the case.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Well right, but he was using underage girls for sex
and that's a crime, and she was involved because that
happened doesn't mean I mean, I don't know how you
get the leap that then that proves there's a nation
wide child sex pedal ring run by the Clintons and
the Obamas and Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
I mean, those are very different things.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
And Epstein saw that his gallpal was just utterly nailed
to the wall. They prosecuted the crap out of her
one on all the major charges, and he knew what
his fate was going to be. So yeah, the idea
that there's nothing there, no, the other the king in
killed himself in a prison cell. And I know you're yelling,
you're a fool, you're idiot, Hillary did it or whatever,
(08:33):
But no, that's that's that's stupid Elon for a super genius,
that's really a dumb tweet.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I have heard people that I really like and respect
pundit say figuring out why Epstein was so rich is
pretty difficult, Like why so rich?
Speaker 3 (08:50):
He had the biggest house in all of Manhattan, New.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
York, right, and four or five others right houses all
around the world, and an island and his private and
all these different sorts of things. And that's not clear
why he was so freaking rich? Right, yeah, fair enough,
but not at all. Think kinds of things that could
be other than running a child sex national ring that
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Michelle Obama, who's a man, is behind all right.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
So here's here's a I almost let that go by me.
Speaker 4 (09:28):
So here's a question for you, And it comes on
the heels of are praising Trump's undeniable lack of Why
this could be my most convoluted sentence ever, Folks, you
might need to jot it down.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
And look back on it to try to comprehend it.
Speaker 4 (09:46):
After just praising Trump's undeniable lack of regard for conventional
wisdom when it's stupid. Sometimes Trump has a lack of
regard for ventional wisdom when it's really good, solid wisdom, right, Like,
for instance, I have not found anybody, anybody who thinks
(10:10):
it was a good idea to call out all of
his followers and say you're stupid, you know, hoax loving,
the weak minded pieces of crap, and I don't want
your support anymore.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
What was gained by that? I don't know.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
I mean, I mean, all I can say is he's
stressed out, he's got a lot on his plate. He's
thinking this is blank and stupid, and he shot off
his mouth when he shouldn't have.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Well, i'll tell you what Mark Halpern's interpretation was of that.
He's a very fair reporter. He said, that makes me
think there's something Trump related in the Epstein stuff he
doesn't want out. Oh no, that's the only explanation I
can come up with.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
It could absolutely be, and I'm not looking for innocent explanations,
but it could absolutely be what I was just talking
about that, you know, in a list of associations and
social engagements and who was at what party, Trump's name
might appear multiple times before he had that falling out
quite a number of years ago with Epstein.
Speaker 1 (11:14):
But that's the point.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
They're a hell of a lot of people because there
was a serious period where he was a big, swinging
port metaphor. He was a big, big part of the
New York financial and social scene before people knew he
was a PERV, and then there was that period after
the charges were filed in Florida that people should have
damn well known he was a PERV, and.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Some people still associated with him then.
Speaker 4 (11:41):
But the list of names that would have come up
in the course of routine investigations has got to be long.
And you know, if, for instance, I don't know, if
one of our names came up and we were in
some sort of hot radio battle back then, like he
used to happen to the day War, maybe you know,
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our opponents would hammer us with that, yeah, and try
to imply that because we once went to a cocktail
party raising money for the Marsh of Dimes and Jeffrey
Epstein had thrown it trying to imply that we're there
on perv Island molested thirteen year olds.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
We got more on the story later, much later, or
maybe never. We got to start the show.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Keepstein himself. This story will not die.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Let's get the show started.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty on this it is Thursday,
July seventeenth, year, twenty twenty five or Armstrong and getting
we approve of this program.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Well, with NPR going away, it's more important than ever
that we start officially according the FCC rules or eggs
at Mark show.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Hey, Otani couldn't make it tonight, man, I hope his
interpreter didn't bet that he was going to be here.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Show.
Speaker 5 (12:50):
Hey is a once in a generation talent. No one's
been able to do what he does at so many positions. Pitcher,
Hitter and Bookie Hey. Bookie is what Bill Belichick reads
to his girlfriend before bedtime. Sugar Red Leonards here, ellieh
Sugar Regg, You're the man, But what in ten years,
Jake Paul is going to try to knock you out,
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So take it easy.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
He also had a joke.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
He said, uh oh, man, there was an Epstein joke
here on the teleprompter, but it got it deleted itself.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's pretty fun, all right.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We got headlines coming up next, a bunch of other stuff.
Stay here.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
I would like to point out that while I am
quite sick of the whole Epstein thing, and I mean
truly getting tired of it, the whole the Republicans built
this mess by claiming they had something that turned out
not to be true, conveniently forgetting years of promises about
the Russia hoax on every damn show that existed on
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mainstream and left wing media, and there was nothing to.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Report, and you just let it drop.
Speaker 4 (14:07):
Now, that's why we have to be better, more careful
as conservatives. You're right, though, you're absolutely right. I'm looking
forward to reading a multi part I thought maybe we
could run with it real quick. But the Free Press
has like multiple writers on what the Epstein fight is
(14:28):
really about.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Oh okay, I want to hear that what it's really about.
Maybe I'm missing something.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Yeah, yeah, Well I hope it won't hurt anybody's feelings, Jack,
because that's one thing we never do around here, is
to hurt people's feelings. All right, So Katie is off
today taking a look at some news headlines. Evidently Trump
is not going to fire Jerome Powell because everybody is
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against it, including his.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Cabinet, including the stock market, it would seem. So there's
some belief that he was testing the waters yesterday. So
it leaked out that he told Republicans he wanted to
fire Powell. Stock market drops quite a bit. Then he
announces like a half an hour later, no, no, no,
I'm not going to fire him. Stock market goes back up,
and so that might have been a trial balloon.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
I don't know, right right meanwhile, somebody in Trump world
is trying to float this narrative that the remodeling process
there at the Federal Reserve headquarters was right wastefuler run poorly.
I mean, it's the classic example of you know, gambling
in Casablanca. It's everybody does the same things and then
(15:37):
you just called them out for it and then call
it corruption.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
When you need to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Anyway, you gotta cease fire in Syria, Syrian and Drew's
officials and the Israelis all right, that came and went. Probably,
I've been reading about the Drews interesting religion. I would
say I'd look into joining it, but then we'd get
fifty emails saying that my soul would be damned and
blah blah blah, and don't bother folks my soul is.
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It's well, it's a foregone conclusion. I'm going to Helice,
thank you for your concern.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
I assumed it's people who worship anyone named Drew. Is
that not correct?
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Incorrect? Jack?
Speaker 4 (16:13):
As a matter of fact, it's an interesting Deis religion.
It's like it's an Abrahamic religion, but isn't really into
choosing which branch of that Judaism, Christianity, Islam. They're like, hey,
can we just all get along and have a nice
desert party here, peace loving folks.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Not really, let's see.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Oh, the third party deportations have continued. The reason that's
caught my eye was the Trump administration deported five migrants
to why is it migrants not immigrants to the small
African nation of You know what, I'm tempted to play
a game here. I was going to come up with
three names and you tell me which of them is
(16:56):
not made up. But he deported them to Swatini.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
See that?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Yeah, absolutely, that's either true or you're drinking me around.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
Which sounds like something my twenty five year old daughter
might order when she's out for cocktails.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You know, I'll try the Slatini.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
You know why you're not drinking them? Everybody's drinking them.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
Oh my god.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
It's got just touch ament and a little uh, lavender oil,
pink salt.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Of course, it's pink. Of course it's Pink's some more
of the news that we've got to get to coming up.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
That's not Epstein, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
The FDA has approved certain GLP ones for kids twelve
and up, and there are studies showing they're safe and effective,
though the authors of this new report say more study
is needed of newer GLP one drugs. Just like adults,
there can be side effects for kids like gastro intestinal symptoms, headaches,
and fatigue, and rarely pancreatitis. The American Academy of Pediatrics
(17:50):
guidance says doctors can offer these weight loss drugs to
treat kids who are twelve and up if they're just
treating obesity. If there are other more immediate life threatening
factors like diabetes, doctors could consider prescribing these kinds of
drugs for kids as young as eight.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Approving weight loss drugs for kids which could be perfectly
fine or really really not. And there's no flipping way
they know because they haven't been around and tried on kids.
They're just impossible to know. You'd need so many years
to know this, well, I don't know what I would do.
I'd need to have a really obese kid with dangerous
(18:26):
medical threat because of that before I'd be willing to
do this personally. Katie had this headline for US yesterday
and this kind of fits in with it. Maybe if
you're worried about having an overweight kid, you go ahead
and change the genetic makeup of the embryo so that
(18:47):
the kid is not predisposed to be obese. Is the
headline in the New York Times yesterday, Inside the Silicon
Valley push to breed super babies.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's not a scary headline at all.
Speaker 4 (18:58):
Oh geez, yeah, let's put Silicon Valley in charge of it,
including the ethics.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Go ahead and teach us so wise ones.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Inside the Silicon Valley Push to breed super babies is
a hell of a headline. Investors say genetic prediction services
for embryos used by Elon Musk and others are a
trust fund for future children. Scientists are skeptical. We've talked
about this a lot. It's just going well, it's going
(19:23):
exactly where everybody thought it was going to go. And
of course it's happening with the super rich first. And
then the question here in the New York Times is
whether it becomes available to everybody over time. The idea
of genetic preselection around a whole bunch of different things,
and not just trying to eliminate some.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
Of the worst ailments that could happen to kids. But
getting into.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Height, weight, hair, color, athletic ability, intelligence, all kinds of
different things.
Speaker 4 (19:51):
Yeah, all sorts of talents too. This is head and
straight in an HG. Wells direction of two distinct classes
of human beings, the proved and unimproved.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Right, especially if it becomes a you can do it,
if you can afford it, insurance doesn't cover.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
Its situation, then you're exactly exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 4 (20:11):
Yeah, I just would like you the improved class to
know that we're easily angered and we like guns.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
So well, just just like, based on what you know
so far, would you be willing to do this?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Like people are already.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Doing whatever genetic modifications, for instance, to try to avoid
the genetic mutation that causes cystic fibrosis or Down syndrome
or a number of other things. Although even then you
don't really know if possibly there's some evolutionary reason for
Down syndrome to exist that we don't know about. But
(20:49):
I could certainly see why I would be willing to,
you know, take that gene out, so my kids much
less likely to have Down syndrome.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Right, And there are so many maladies that are just
terrible and the child suffers and the family suffers that. Yeah,
I would think let it exist over there. I want
to save my child from it if I can. Yeah,
that would be practically irresistible temptation, I think. I mean,
for instance, you know, clearly nobody knows what causes autism,
what's the genetic component of it. But you know, if
(21:19):
Judy and I were to have a fourth kid, it'd
be somebody else's or an immaculate conception as I have
been snipped.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
But putting that.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Aside, you can get reversal. They can tie your tubes
back together.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Yeah, I don't like my chances. It's been too long,
I think. Anyway, consult your local urologist, get a plumber.
But you know, if we could prevent autism, for instance,
I just assume.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, I'm sure not enough is known about autism at
this point to do that, but someday probably will be.
They're already working on genetic propensity for ailments such as
the super rich are to toward bipolar disorder, various kinds
of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, obesity, schizophrenia, number of things like that.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
I wonder if someday science will discover the awesomeness gene,
if there's a single gene that they realize is responsible
for awesomeness.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
This general awesomeness.
Speaker 4 (22:21):
Right, the more we study it, the more fascinating it becomes.
Apparently this gene dictates to a hundred other genes how
to be awesome.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
God damn it, boy, if you get into that sort
of stuff, it's so difficult because like, I'm fairly happy
with the way things have turned out with me, for
like career wise, or ability to make a living wise.
But I've got all kinds of flaws that are included
in my mix of things that allow me to make
(22:51):
my way through life, you know, So which ones those
would it be a benefit to get rid of or
or somehow help me?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Then?
Speaker 3 (22:59):
In ways I don't know, I don't know. Nobody knows
these things.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Right, what I would put it like this, nobody knows
the tales of the head's side of a lot of genes, right,
If you know what I mean, and we're you know,
this smacks so much of the utter hubris and stupidity
of so much science in the twentieth century, where we
(23:24):
quite literally learned just enough to be dangerous well, and
then strutted around as a people, as a scientific community,
pronouncing that we've figured it all out, when.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
In fact we had just scratched the south.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
When I hear that news report about obesity drugs for kids.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Many scientists say this.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Is fine, there's no way you know that, or where
other scientists are really worried about it.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Yeah, he probably should be right now.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
At twenty five hundred dollars per embryo screening, on top
of the average twenty thousand dollars for a single cycle
of IVF that lots of people do. This social network
in Silicon Valley and other tech labs are going further
than that. For the super connected or wealthy, you buy
smart rings, consume boutique services like annual full body MRIs
(24:14):
for some reason, a lot of this could just be
completely bunk and just you know, milking rich people, which
is fine, Yeah, true, A brave new world of probabilistic
data driven medical decision making and all kinds of different
things to try to give your child a genetic edge
and a leg up when they come out of the womb.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Wow, cybermetrics comes to making babies.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Right, Wow, I kind of like the old fashioned way.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, there's to my mind, there's zero chance this is bad.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Ultimately, it's like zero.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
What is bad?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Starting to genetically select all these different things and work
around evolution? You said there's zero chance that's bad. Isn't bad?
I left forward out. I guess this is this is
a bad idea. This is going to have negative results. Ultimately.
I think that's yeah, maybe into the world of nightmarish.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, you know what I went with H. G. Wells earlier.
Speaker 4 (25:23):
Let's say, sprinkle in a little bit of Mary Shelley
and Frankenstein as well, so we could be heading towards
some sort of two class full of genetic mistake, science
gone wild folks running around.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Hey, I tell you what.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Well, this company, Orchid, that has its meetings in Silicon
Valley with the super rich, including some of Elon Musk's
baby mama's at least one of Musk's fourteen children was
an Orchid client, according to people close to the company
speaking on condition of anonymity to The New York Times,
and that he selected for all of these different things
(26:01):
that I already that are mentioned in a way that
very few people have done anywhere in the world. So
how this is going to turn out we do not know, right,
but you are right about the whole. I mean, this
takes haves and have nots to a completely different level.
If you've got rich people who can have taller, better looking,
well that already happens just from an evolutionary standpoint, but taller,
(26:25):
better looking, faster, smarter, musically talented, all kinds of different
things kids in the way that other people can.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
And knowing what you know about humanity again, what are
the chances that does not turn into virulent racism? All right,
on the part of the superior people who feel that
way because they are what's the word superior?
Speaker 2 (26:50):
They genetically chose monsters, it'd be difficult to argue against it. Yeah,
I genetically chose, at the cost of a lot of
money and lots of scientists to have a superior child.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
So yes, we are superior. I mean that would be
their argument.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
Well, it's dumb people again, easily angered, and we like guns.
So watch your back there, Richie.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
I mean, aren't we I mean we already self select
a certain amount this way. I mean see online dating
from there are online dating outfits that are like for
wealthy people or whatever. So there's a certain amount of
selection going on there where women are choosing rich men,
or rich men are choosing extra hot women or whateverver's
going on always has. Yeah, but if it gets to
(27:33):
a level where we're like one generation from oh no, no,
I only date orchid babies somebody else that came out
of this orchid corporation like I did, and we have
got to be.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
A certification because you can't have us troglodytes claiming orchid status.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
Right, yeah, yeah, you have to have a certificate of authenticity.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
So just as an aside, I went, I played golf
in a place not long ago with some friends that
there's i mean, like crazy money and it's like within
a bigger community. So it's got like its own little
store that people go to, because to leave it and
go to a grocery store would probably be I don't know,
twenty twenty five minutes something like that. And so but
(28:18):
my buddy stopped into the store and he said, every
woman in there was a model, like like a TV
quality magazine cover model.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Wow, And it was just the gals of the hood.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
And then you know, we ended up having dinner and
a drink after the round at the restaurant complex there,
and sure enough it was exactly it was selective breeding.
It was like you know, a state fair bound four
h club or something, or professional cattle breeders on the
only meat on the hoof in that place, Jack was
(28:55):
us DA.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Prime select Wow.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
So I guess your point being we're already doing this
to a great extent.
Speaker 4 (29:03):
Yeah, well, just turbo sharks it and then the race wars.
But that's the next chapter, folks, stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Yeah, so I guess from that standpoint, it wouldn't be
much of a change. The problem is if any of
the science yields things that we just don't understand your
point about. We don't know what the flip side is
of some what we might call like I wish I
was less impatient, but I don't know what the flip
side of impatience is that you.
Speaker 3 (29:30):
Know, allows me to do various things. I have no idea,
nobody knows.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
But there's all kinds of personality traits or traits that
we don't know what comes with the whole stew of them.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
Well, right, and for instance, you know, why do certain
genetic conditions, including down syndrome include physical characteristics, right, because
that's the way genes work. They like and I am
not a geneticist, but they carry information for a bunch
of different things, as we do and are as human beings.
(30:02):
So you alter gene a to achieve purpose, A god
knows what you're doing down the line.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I don't know, Brave New World, buckle up, everybody.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
And aren't a lot of us, particularly music geniuses, but
like math geniuses whatever, they're freaks, they're one off weirdos.
It's just that it happens to be something that we
find to be a positive attribute.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Right right, And a lot of those people are miserable.
It's worth pointing out.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
That's awesome. That's that is worth pointing out. And that's
not the last we've heard of this story.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
And not a surprise that Elon's got at least one
of his fourteen kids about a lot of his kids
are part of that. Why wouldn't he do that if
it's available and the way he thinks about the world, well, uh,
there will be our test case.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The Musk children.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
We've got mail bag on the way stay here, so man,
I could easily stay away from the E word all
day long today, but there's some new polling around on Epstein.
That's pretty darned interesting if you're wondering if your thinking
is in line with everybody else's.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
We'll get to that an hour two. Man.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Trump went hard against his base supporters yesterday for who
knows what reason.
Speaker 3 (31:14):
But more on that later.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 4 (31:18):
I have resisted the temptation to include any of the
emails on that topic because it's impossible to start talking
about it and talk about it briefly anyway. Here's your
freedom loving quote of the day from the great Tomas Soa.
This is another one of his all time greatest hits.
If you have always believed that someone should play by
(31:38):
the same rules and be judged by the same standards,
that would have gotten you labeled as a radical sixty
years ago, a liberal thirty years ago, and a racist today.
He wrote those words, I think a decade ago, when
the whole woke affirmative action thing was really getting going again.
Treat everybody the same, everybody's equal under the law and
(32:02):
the eyes of God would have made you a radical
sixty years ago, call it eighty years ago, a liberal
fifty years ago, and a racist today.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
Well, That's part of the whole Ebra Mex Kendy thing was.
If you say I don't care about people's skin color,
I just treat them as individuals, is proof you're a racist?
Speaker 1 (32:19):
Yeah? Good, good, Okay, So.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Mailbag probs an old mail bag at Armstrong in getty
dot com.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
You're gonna move swiftly. Here there's a lot of good.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
Stuff, including comments on the Scotty Scheffler what's the point
of it all?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Press conference answer that we played yesterday.
Speaker 4 (32:35):
Let's see this is from first initial b Hey, guys,
I would remind you I was talking about how the level,
the humble level that you use in carpentry and construction
is a bubble, suspended and liquid, and that's still like
the state of the art.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Said.
Speaker 4 (32:48):
Reminded you that the Egyptians built the pyramids with a water.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
Level and a plumb bob.
Speaker 4 (32:52):
They initially graded the foundations by flooding the areas to
find the high and low spots.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Can't improve on it. Here's the water go.
Speaker 3 (33:01):
Those slaves were crafty.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
I believe it was their whip wielding overlords Jack who
commanded them.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
But anyway, on the topic of diabetes.
Speaker 4 (33:12):
Barbie, all right, Stephen wrights, and this is overdue.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Handicapped barbies aren't new. My sister regularly.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Played with amputee barbie after I ripped an armor leg
off when we were kids.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Yeah, I had a few Johnny West's or g I
Joe's that were limbless.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
Well, what happens missing at least one limb.
Speaker 4 (33:34):
Let's see reflections on Scottie Scheffler Barry from Thailand rights.
The great drama of the human condition is that the
greatest moments in.
Speaker 1 (33:42):
Our life are so fleeting.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
Well, the awful things we may experience stay with us
for life. Or, as Woody Allen once famously said, life
is divided divided between the horrible and the miserable, So
be grateful you're only miserable.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
And then another. I think we had one more light
heart one, where is it? Never mind, here's the more
serious one. I actually found this helpful and I hope
you do too, and we'll post it at Armstrong and
Yeddy dot com.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
Let's see.
Speaker 4 (34:12):
Vincent from Sacramento sent this along. Commented on Scotti Scheffler's interview,
Jack's comment about his father's statement about the simple things
in life taking out the garbage that's what life is
made him think of a quote he heard several years
ago from L. R.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
Ghost with a K. I don't know, mister or missus
Ghost's work.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Life is amazing, and then it's awful, and then it's
amazing again.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
And in between the amazing and the awful, it's ordinary
and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on
through the offul relax, and inhale during the ordinary. That's
just living, heartbreaking, soul, healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life, and
it's breathtakingly beautiful, never a tear.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I've never gotten to that last part.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
I wish I could, but I wish I was better
because like when something when things are going really well
or something really good happened has happening, I think, well,
this isn't gonna last. When something bad is happening, I
think this is my permanent state.
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Now you unfortunately have the chief dark cloud gene right.
Getting back to our discussion of last hour or last segment.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Yeah, I I've never been able to find the beauty
in the in the painful, awful parts that some of
you can, and good for you that that's part of
the whole, the part of the whole mix.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
Part of No No, that's exactly the point. That's the
beauty is in the mix.
Speaker 3 (35:35):
Yeah, I don't like the mix. I want all good
all the time.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Okay, good, start a religion, Armstrong and Getty
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