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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong and.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
They lost a lot of faith in certain people, and yeah,
they got duped by the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
President Trump's wiping at what he calls his past supporters,
calling them weaklings for falling prey to quote Democratic bs
over what he's now branded the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look at the Steele dossier that turned out to be
a total hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some
stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You're stupid if you believe the whole Epstein thing. And
he doesn't want your vote anymore. So we talked about
this yesterday because it happened while we were on the air,
and we played all the clips for you. It's kind
of hard to explain you would use this tact to
try to deal with getting out of this mess. So
(01:11):
Charlie Kirk, he is a huge MAGA leader among particularly
the young crowd. He had that event the other day
where a number of right wing hosts say, who thinks
there's a cover up in the crowd, cheers wily wildly
and all that sort of stuff. So then Charlie Kirk
put out a statement, what like the next day, Joe
(01:32):
that it seemed like Trump had given him a call
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Because he said it's own that Trump called him.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay, and he and Charlie we're going out of a
statement where he basically said, look, there there's nothing there.
Let's all move on and make America great again or
I'm something. He was ready to turn the page. And
then I don't know if he got huge blowback from
his audience or what, but he has sounded different since then,
and yesterday this Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, on
his podcast yesterday attempted some damage can on Trump's behalf
(02:01):
don't take too seriously the whole truth social Here, Kirk
told his audience, I know some people are getting fired
up about this. I don't believe he was trying to
insult anybody personally. All right, well, you know, if you
call me, if you call me stupid and a dupe,
it seems fairly personal.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But and Charlie Kirk, counting on the fact that those
people are stupid and dupes.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Apparently Still, he expressed frustration about the administration's handling of
the issue himself. We are now Wednesday, going into Thursday.
People are very very confused, and some people are very
disappointed and mad. Charlie Kirk said, we made so much
progress with gen Z and this is a big vulnerability
online on TikTok, this story is not landing.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, let's fix this and we can.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He does make a good point the Republican Party doing
better with young people than it has in my going
back to Reagan, right, and if this is the thing
that blows it up. But I don't, I don't know.
Guess where I break down on this story all the time.
Is it seems so obvious to me what's happened that
(03:06):
I don't There was never any there there there's not
a child sex ring being run by Democrats in Hollywood.
Podcasters were saying it to get clicks and listeners.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what I assumed all along.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's true. It turns out to be true. They're even
saying it's true. Right, and it's over. And maybe you
can be mad at them. If you fell for it
fell forward as a prejudicial you don't fall for something.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's not on you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
If somebody you trust lies to you, that's not your fault.
You're not a dupe or week or any of those things.
You trusted somebody and they lied to you. You trusted
Dan Bongino or Pam Bondi and they lied to you.
Now you know, I don't know what you.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Do with that, but right, right, yeah, gosh, dang it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This thing has so many tentacles. I think one of
the more interesting aspects of this is that the sort
of people that would pitch this sort of infotainment, they're
so much closer to power than they've ever been before.
On the right in Republican circles, that sort of which
(04:14):
Hunty all Republicans are racist, bigot, evil, you know, beer swinging,
cross burning.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, fictions existed on the left very very close
to power for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But the Republican Party, for you know, try to be
the party of realists and grown ups and the rest
of it. You know. I've been reading more about this
sort of thing, not necessarily the Epstein conspiracy theory in general,
and it's called it's referred to as.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What's it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There's a term for it, pedo critical pedo theory. That's
got the fair history on the right going back probably
fifteen years and stuff. It is just those who would
hook you have realized that certain elements, it's like writing
a hit song, certain elements like child victims, you know,
(05:13):
the powerful in the government, evil doers who are fairly
easily identified, like the Jews, which doesn't factor into every
version of this, but it factors into a hell of
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's the that's the markers of a hit song.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's like, you know, all pop music now is completely
formulaa computer generator. They've realized what trips your triggers. This
has all of it, and so it's it's super compelling.
And then you've got people now who are very very
close to power who used to be pitching it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We're working up to the latest polling which will show
you if your attitude is where most of Americas is.
We did get this text yesterday just to represent a
chunk of you that we know are out there YouTube
protecting and siding with Petos is shocking and horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, we're not, and never would. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I would be calling for the death penalty for all
of them. If I thought that was happening if hundreds
of thousands of children were being sex trafficked by the
Democratic Party and business leaders and maybe some Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, you know what again, Charlie Kirkin turning point, USA
have done some great stuff among young people.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It reminds me of certain people I've known who have
been wonderful in some ways and just utterly corrosive in others.
But they've done some fabulous things, giving conservative kids, young
people confidence to speak their beliefs, etc. On the other hand, Charlie,
I think in the last several days has been the
perfect illustration of my point of view. This was the
(06:45):
most important thing in the world, and it must be
exposed and it must be brought down. Until Donald said, hey,
would you cool your jets on this? Is this cause
on Maggus some real problems. And he said, I'm done
talking about this for now, and I think everybody should
be and everything's fine. And then he got a backlash
like later that day from his audience who said no, no, no,
(07:08):
And so he came out and changed his mind again
and said, I demand these fifteen things because we've got
to get to the bottom of this some entertainment.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Two things that get conflated a lot, which I think
confused the conversation and maybe some of this polling. I'm
about to tell you is the difference between documents, the
case files, and a list. Sometimes those get used interchangeably.
Is there an Epstein file, Well, of course there is.
There was an investigation, So there's a file showing an
(07:39):
investigation that ultimately led nowhere is there a list apparently
of clients and blackmail?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, there is not, so.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
According to people inside and outside and people leaking and
everything else. But people conflate those two regularly. They said
there wasn't a file. There is a file, so there
where's the list? Well, those two different things.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as Alan Dershowitz pointed out, lots and lots of
names come up in an investigation, so you could say
there's a list of names, but those are being kept
secret for the reason they always.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Are, as we discussed earlier.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
If you're not being charged and you just happen to
be somewhere, the Feds aren't going to come out and say, hey,
Joe Getty was at that party, by the way, just
saying they're not in that business.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Except when James Comey's in charge.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But when you're firing people up about a list, you mean,
is there a list of clients? And the listing, you know,
is proof of blackmail for child molestation, right, and the
blackmail and all that. So here's the polling from Morning consult,
a respected polling organization, the statement there's no evidence of
(08:48):
a client list or blackmail scheme involving Epstein and prominent people.
The plurality the biggest number no, at fifty one percent
only so so you know, I don't know why they
present it is no. But so over half or roughly
half of America says yes, there is there is a
(09:09):
blackmail list.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It exists.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Only twenty five percent of people say no, There isn't
a quarter people say I don't have any idea, But
so a plurality of America thinks there is a blackmail
list out there. You want to break it down by party, Democrats,
it's sixty percent of Democrats think there's a list, which
is interesting given the fact that the prevailing thought is
that it's a Democrats in Hollywood running the child trafficking scheme.
(09:36):
And sixty percent of Democrats think there is a blackmail
list of that it's only forty one percent of Republicans
that think it is. So that's where it gets confusing
on this whole thing. But I guess it could completely fuddled.
But I guess they're all the young crowd and very
worked up about it. And that's why Charlie Kirk speakin
to it, right. But overall, it's half of America now
on just this question Epstein committed suicide in prison? No
(10:03):
is the plurality forty two biggest chunk of voters say no,
twenty three percent say I don't know, only thirty five
percent say only a thirty people say yes, he committed suicide.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'd be in that crowd. I believe he committed suicide.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But the biggest chunk of people, and again you break
it down by Republicans and Democrats, and the theory is that,
like if he was killed, it's the Democrats that did it. Right,
the jokes about Hillary Clinton's sensible shoes click clacking away
through the prison. I don't think Hillary Clinton stuffed him.
But that's the biggest chunk that believes he didn't commit suicide. Democrats.
(10:39):
Half of Democrats think he did not commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Right, Virtually all of the big names you ever hear
whispered well spoken out loud these days that it might
have been partying with him are Democrats, virtually all of them.
So yeah, this again, I'm completely befuddled. And only thirty.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Seven percent are Republicans think he commit didn't commit suicide.
So it doesn't fit with the narrative of everything we're
hearing the last couple of times, right, except that shouldn't
Trump be in shouldn't Trump be talking about all the
Democrat dupes have felt for it based on this polling.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yes, one hundred percent, And shouldn't be addressing his followers
at all?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Why would he?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Again? I get his frustration, but it was dumb politics.
So what I was about to say was the thing
you have to remember, because they're just pulling Democrats and Republicans,
is that there are subsets of both of those parties.
I mean, it's obvious within the Democratic Party because it's
just a mosaic of completely unrelated grievance groups that have said,
(11:45):
all right, i'll yell about your grievance if you'll yell
about mine, okay, And we're all borderline Marxists, so everybody
knows that that's a patchwork. But within conservatism, within the
Republican Party, I should say, now you have classic conservatives
have salted the earth's red state, maga folks, you have
online Pizzagate types, you have you know, to various other
(12:10):
you know, stripes of Republicanism. So yeah, it's a plurality
of Republicans that say now that it's more or less
unfolded the way it seems it unfolded. But there is
a substantial minority that thinks very very differently.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
But you know, and I'm ready to be done talking
about this, but the media narrative of the last several days,
since its mainstream media and left media that loves this
story so much, and talking about conspiracy minded Republicans, it
would appear there are more conspiracy minded Democrats than there
are Republicans. And since they probably weren't listening to Dan
(12:46):
Bongino or Pam Bondi, where did they come by their
conspiracy That's what I'm confused by.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're not listening to the Dan Bongino podcast every day.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Right, So other plank in the conspiracy platform coming up
in a little bit, got a great email about it too.
What it boils down to, it's because it become a symbol.
Pretty good insight. We'll get to that in a little
bit too.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
If you can figure out the confusion around this where
it seems to be more Democrats and Republicans that are
into this story text line four one five two nine
five k ftcar.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Some more political news. Trump is so facing criticism for
his handling of the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, the excuses are getting worse and worse today. Trump
was like a doug ate the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Then people in Ohio ate the dog. That's pretty funny joke.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Here's the story for you will get to do. You
know who Steve Miller is. Some people call what is
the Pomptous of Love. Some people call me the space cowboy.
That Steve Miller has canceled his tour because of climate change,
and his statement is ridiculous, even though I'm a giant fan.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Of his music, He's an ignoramus. So we got that
coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The number of guitar heroes who are morons is surprising.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
A couple of things very quickly, A couple of emails.
Robert Julaine Maxwell wasn't even arrested until a year after
Epstein's death. Yes, I got that timeline wrong. I apologize
deeply and humbly thank you for the email. I like
this from a frequent correspondent to me to the initials,
I just thought I would chime in about the whole
Epstein infatuation. Way I see it, Epstein is transcended being
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the image of a person and become a symbol, my opinion,
symbolizes two things that deeply unnerve the right, if not all,
of America. One, we American citizens never get answers anymore
on things like this, like pervos in power. There's always
some investigation that manages to find nothing but relevant facts
are locked away behind a court order. Sure too, the
belief to the belief that there's a two tier system
(14:57):
of justice. We all know there is has Hunter Biden
and convicted of anything? Well, actually he was, but that
he was pardoned. Did Jesse Smollett serve any time? Did
he as innocent of everything? Right? Remember oj Simpson? Of
course there's old Ted Kennedy. You never answered for anything.
Epstein is a symbol of the idea that no matter
how bad you are, as long as you're well connected,
you'll never truly have to answer to the American people.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There is that failing out there.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Who leaked the Supreme Court decision to try to discredit
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No answer, right, right, yeah, yeah. It's really frustrating.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So if I were in the business of like perpetuating QAnon, Pizzagate,
Epstein conspiracy theory type stuff, I would be going heavy
on this, and they probably will be by noon today
if they aren't already. The Justice Department just fired a
prosecutor in Manhattan, a woman by the name of Maureen Komy.
(16:00):
My last name sound vaguely familiar. She's the daughter of
James Comy. I hope dot dot cover up, dot dot
dot something something just it writes itself.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I don't know about a cover up, but I hope
that she was fired just as part of the They're
firing people in Justice Apartment and lots of different departments.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And not specifically because he hates James call me so much. Wait,
there's more, Jack.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
She was also a prosecutor who worked on the and
she took a leading role in the Julane Maxwell case
and was part of the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
All right, so were one hundred FBI officers according to
hundreds of FBI officers, which is nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, But my point it is, indeed I have one,
is is that you would have to work as hard
to debunk all of this as the people are working
to bunk it. In other words, James Freaking Comy's daughter,
who was investigating both of these scumbags, just get fired
by the Trump administration. I don't have enough time in
(17:04):
my day to build a case where that has an
innocent explanation because it sounds thirty as.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
L it does.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You don't get to see Steve Miller on tour because
of climate change, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
On the way Armstrong and Getty, Stevie Wonder denied rumors
that he's not really blind.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
True, the guy had nine kids with five.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Different women and he thought he was being faithful.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We did that whole story the other day.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Stevie Wonder apparently is blind, but has played into that
joke for many, many years, which is kind of funny.
He does have nine kids with five women, which lots
of musicians, athletes, etc. Do and we just kind of
turn a blind eye to that very odd lifestyle. I'm
speaking of musicians named Steve a different one Steve Miller.
(17:57):
What's your favorite Steve Miller band song? Had to beat
the Joker.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's like you're asking me
to pick my favorite kid. I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I love them all.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Steve Miller, whose Greatest Hits album was like the number
one selling album in the in the world for years
and years and years and years because all his giant
hits were on there. Interesting story. I remember when he
was on Charlie Rose a couple of years back and
he played the Joker alone with a guitar for Charlie Rose,
and it was very, very good. But you see, some
people call him the space cowboy. But he told the
(18:30):
story about how he he had he put out an
album giant hits. He was like the biggest thing in
all of music, and then the record company tried to
tell him what to do and he just said no
and had to leave music. He left the music business
rather than do what they told him to do because
he's just like, I.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Don't have to I'm rich now, screw you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, and he was an actual like kippie yeah, I
mean nonformist hippie.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well, he has canceled this tour. I would have actually
paid to go see Steve Miller, but he's not going
to tour because of it's not safe, the unacceptable risks
of natural disasters. What yes, you put out this post yesterday.
He's supposed to tour starting like in August, in a
couple of weeks and for many, many months around the country.
(19:19):
He cannot put his people in the band and the
crowd who would come to see him in harm's way
with all the natural disasters that are happening due to
climate change.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Here's his statement.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You make music with your instincts, You live life by
your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Band
is canceled all of our upcoming dates. The combination of
extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, massive forest fires. A
forest fire was going to get your concert made these
risks for the audience and my band and crew unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So when was the last time of flood canceled a
concert like in progress?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Steve, So you can blame it on the weather. The
tour is canceled. I don't know where, I don't know when.
We hope to see you again. Wishing you peace, love
and happiness. Please take care of each other, Steve, the
band and crew.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, my instincts say you're an octagenarian hippie whose mind
doesn't work right anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, you're here an eighty something hippie who's like, really,
you're probably taking in the most ridiculous Twitter feeds yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Chrissy Hind, also an ancient rocker of The Pretenders, set
a couple of weeks ago at an outdoor concert. Outdoor
concerts will be coming to a close soon. We won't
be able to do it anymore because it's so hot.
I've had to stripe ass ice packs to my waist
to survive this. It's because you're an old woman. You're
now an old woman out of heat. It's not the
same as being twenty five. Those are hot flashes, she's
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feeling exactly. Yeah, she's a little old fraud flashes. But anyway,
that's pretty funny, these old hippies.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I mean, that's you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Can believe climate change all you want, but the idea
that it's not safe for your crew because of the
floods that happen in Texas or earthquake somewhere, whatever the
hell I mean, it's just what is how when's the
last time anybody died at a concert in America because
of anything? Climate change? Related, or you could even claim
was climate change related.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I know, that's that's hilarious. I know, and it's so
wildly disconnected from reality. It's it's it's almost beyond hilarious.
It's troubling. And I'll bet there's somebody listening. And if
that's you, feel free to email us mail bag at
armstrong andgeddi dot com. But there has got to be
like a known psychological profile about the sort of person
who defines themselves so completely with being cause oriented that they'll,
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you know, even at their advanced age, sees onto what
seems to be the hot cause of the day and
throw themselves into it with one hundred percent a conviction,
but more importantly, one hundred percent belief in whatever they
have to believe to make that conviction seem righteous all
of them that it defines them completely.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I can't imagine what all goes into scheduling a major tour,
the logistics, the venues, the ticket sales, the sponsors. There
had to be tons of sponsors like Ford and Verizon Wireless.
Last night they were like, what, yeah, you're canceling, but
there are like eight thousand concert tours that are gonna
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be going on this summer of various sizes and they're
all gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, good lord, that is just loney tunes. You can't
you can't argue logically to somebody who comes to that conclusion.
That's like the ancient Armstrong and Getting principle of if
you see somebody doing something so incredibly crazy, you can't
explain to them why it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Forget it, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The doing of the act is evidence that it's that
you can't reason with them. Monni slightly less Steve Miller,
although your your sponsors, look, you're doing business with the
crazed old hippie do crazy things, all right, You just
got to accept that the probably ought to have a
rider in the contract or insurance or something.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Anyway, I found this so interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Katie Grime's doing some great writing for the California Globe
as usual, and it's about cal Unicornia and Gavin Newsom
and the shameless climate grift and how many trillions of
dollars have been spent needlessly.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And one of the more interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Aspects of it is and she quotes Gavey, who's just
been a average cheerleader for this grift, but she points
out that one of the main parts of it is
that we've got to replace all of the like fossil
fuel generated electric power with green electric power, windmills, unicorn farts,
(23:46):
you know, solar or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
But as this couple of.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Scientists are recording in this article, but as one of
them points out, only twenty percent of the world's energy
consumption is electrical at all. So if that were entirely green,
well thanks, I mean that helped a little bit, but
very very little. Supplying eighty percent of the world's primary energy, coal, oil,
(24:14):
and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization.
They power everything that's not electrical, and so it's just
a myth that if we can go green on the
electric grid, we will have won the battle and we
can eliminate fossil fuels. It's not even close. It's a tiny,
(24:35):
tiny fraction. And then let's see who is this VJ
jaijiraal Giraj writes, consensus on climate change is become a
form of bullying, intimidation, and censorship. Katie rites, which is
exactly what Julie from Canada tried to do. A blah
blah bah. It's been used to bludget and attack the
(24:55):
character of anyone who questions the very shallow claims. It
is a cult completely forced from science and reality. And
the larger problem with these climate change cultists is they
lack humility and any interest in self reflection. And it
goes into a great deal of detail on that and
how it's an excuse just to control things, which is
usually what the left wants to do. But they're one
(25:17):
other update. This is also in the Californian Globe, written
by somebody else. You know California's vaunted famous cap and
trade program where corporations have to pay for the right
to pollute, and if some other company isn't polluting, they
can sell their shares on the free market cap and
trade program, and that is going to take care of
(25:40):
climate change and also raise a bunch of money for California. Well,
it reminds me of that internet meme. How it started,
how it's going. So there's an auction every year, and
in past years the state has actually turned a profit
with these auctions, offset with business revenue. Ten years ago,
the state made one and a half billion dollars with
(26:01):
cap and trade auctions. But the market for it has
gone down, down, down, as fewer and fewer companies are
interested in participating in it, and California is going to
lose three billion dollars a year starting this year on
the cap and trade auctions. It's it's a miserable failure.
(26:23):
Hasn't worked.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Have you ever when you bought an airline ticket checked
that box where you like, donate some money to offset
your carbon footprint?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Who are you talking to You must not be talking
to me. How many people do that? And have I
ever met anybody who did that? I think?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, all right, no, no.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No, I will not do that. Oh my god, amazing.
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Speaker 4 (28:00):
So why don't you jump on your big jet airliner
fly like an eagle, you joker, take the money and
run back to your jungle hideout. It be not very
well crafted. I'll bet Steve Miller does. I'll bet if
he flies southwest he checks the little box of I
need to offset my carbon credits and donate one hundred dollars.
(28:22):
What do you think they're doing with that money, you joker? Yeah, yeah,
that's hilarious. It kind of makes me sad that a
lot of things make me sad with the modern world
in the Internet.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But it used to be I didn't know a damn
thing about what Steve Miller thought. Any of my musical heroes,
you can guess, like between the lines of the lyrics.
Maybe they do an interview with the Rolling Stone and
they say something. But you know they're smart, they're savvy there,
Like Michael Jordan. They're like, hey, I make music. I'm
not going to lecture people about who ought to be
(28:57):
in Congress. Why would I do that. It's getting in
the way of my thing. Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
One of the best developments to happen yet between the
United States and Ukraine. Absolutely, I don't see how you
could argue with this thing that Trump and Zolensky are
trying to get a deal going. If this is true,
I hope it is. Tell you about that, among other things,
stay with us.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Armstrong Hetty.
Speaker 5 (29:25):
Doctor say gaming for older Americans has benefits, allowing them
to use the brain, stay engaged, and maintain cognition. Research
shows puzzles, Skill and Chance, and arcade video games are
the most popular with older players.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I hadn't thought about video games for old people to
help their minds stay engaged. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I heard gaming and I thought gambling, because the gambling
industry is tried to rename it gaming because it sounds better.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I guess because I have teenagers, I hear gaming and
I think Call of Duty. Yeah, which, speaking of just
came across is this stat Thanks to our friend Tim
Sanderfer who tweeted it out, gamers specifically playing Call of
Duty have logged more than twenty five billion hours since
(30:12):
it first came out, equivalent to two point eight five
million years, surpassing the entire timeline of human history.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Wow. Meanwhile, a few of those people, well, you know
what I was gonna say, a few of the people
have actually answered a call to duty, although I'll bet
a hell of a lot of our military guys play
those games in their free time.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Well, we played a clip earlier of Shane Gillis, the comedian.
He hosted the sp Awards last night. He was the
MC and he had some funny stuff. We'll play have
more clips later, but one of his jokes that he
does in his stand up routine is how it's one
of his problems is like he really loves his girlfriend
and they have a great relationship, But as soon as
they're done having sex, he just wants her to leave,
(31:01):
and the crowd always groans and and he says, oh, yeah,
I'm the only guy that likes play an Xbox alone,
and then all the dudes cheer. I guess that is
a thing, play an Xbox alone by yourself. I'm I
got one kid who loves video games and one that
doesn't like them at all, for better or worse. So
another thing you can do that's supposed to be helpful
(31:23):
is journaling.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Have you ever journaled consistently for a couple of months?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Really? And and why did you do it? When you
did it years and years ago?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I thought I was going to be delivering my drivel
in print as opposed to verbally for a living.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And you just trying to write more good practice?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Okay, interesting, Yeah, it's a lot of people claim it's
good for your mental health, get thoughts out of your
head or whatever. New York Times has a thing today
how to start journaling and actually stick with it, and
it's setting goals and all these different things. I'm still
very interested in whether handwriting is necessary for this stuff
or if typing counts. This particular person in the New
(32:05):
York Times says just do whatever, it doesn't make any difference,
and I'm not sure that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, given the fascinating discoveries scientists have made about the
way handwriting connects various centers in your brain and gets
them to work in concert, it's really intriguing and discouraging.
Since I'm left handed and I despise handwriting.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
But one of the things I want to bring up
about handwriting somebody mentioned this to me. Well, I had
noticed this in myself, but just kind of blown it off.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I thought maybe it was age or something.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I got to write, which I very rarely do, like
I fill it out a check or whatever. My handwriting
is so horrible, and I didn't know if it was
just age or like I need a new pen or what.
But somebody had pointed out to me that they thought
they had gotten real their handwriting had gotten really bad,
worse just from lack of doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't know, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You're out of I'm out of practice.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
I haven't I haven't written regularly in decades, and so
I go to do it now and I look like
a third grader. That wasn't that bad when I was
in third grade. But man, I am now. It's just
it looks like there's no way an adult wrote.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
This check third grader or a maniac exactly the pinched,
angry handwriting of the maniac. We've received those letters back
when we used to get letters.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I know how you're going to react to this. I
had a teacher who I really really like say the
other day and I don't.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Well, I won't say this particular student doesn't spell well
and it's not their fault, but they can't spell. And
the teacher said, doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I don't
care about spelling anymore. That's never going to be a
thing again. You just got to get close and the
computer tells you you fix it, and you move on.
So I don't drill spelling anymore. Do you think that
makes sense or not?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No? No, because you the various autocorrect stuff is cumbersome. Well,
and I don't as certain autocorrects are pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
It depends what platform you're using.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's I tell you what if somebody really struggled with
spelling and it would take an enormous amount of time
and energy to get them up to speed. No, I
probably wouldn't devote that time and energy. I think it's
a real time saver to be a good speller. But
I see their point. You know what's funny is I
(34:30):
mentioned I'm a lefty, and and I always reacted horribly
to stories of back in the day parents would force
their kids to write right handed. They'd even, like, you
know whatever, put a mitten on the left hand and
make them right handed, or you know. Certainly I wouldn't
be in favor of beating a kid or whatever. But
recently I've been on this kick of I will occasionally
(34:53):
because I do things I'm partially I'm ambidextrous. It's practically
at random what I do with my right hand what
I do with my left, and I will occasionally realize, oh,
that's funny, I use my right hand for that. I'm
going to try it left handed for a week, and
so I'll try to do that because I've heard that's
good for the brain too.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I've interesting new corrections, and I've never tried to do
things left handed. Maybe I will, but I got I
got really good.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I got pretty damn good at brushing my teeth with
the opposite hand.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And I thought, you know, what.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Writing right handed is much more efficient than left handed,
and if I put a little time into it, I
can learn to do that. As a kid, it would
have been, you know, a little more difficult than learning
to write left handed, which was what my brain wanted.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But it would have been fine.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I'll try brushing my teeth with my left hand a nine.
See if I or a Saturday. I brushed my teeth
every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Fair warning, you will jab yourself in the gums, right
in the eye. Brush it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, that happened too.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I have had the thing come out of my mouth
and smeared toothpaste toothpaste all over my cheek.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Gently gently Trump's making a deal with Zelensky that I
think everybody will be on board with, no matter how
interventionists or non interventionous you are. That's that I'm pretty
excited about. We can talk about that an hour three
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
They lost a lot of faith in certain people, and yeah,
they got duped by the Democrats.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
President Trump's wiping at what he calls his past supporters,
calling them weaklings for falling prey to quote Democratic bs
over what he's now branded the Epstein hoax.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Look at the Steele dossier that turned out to be
a total hoax. It's perpetrated by the Democrats, and some
stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
You're stupid if you believe the whole Epstein thing. And
he doesn't want your vote anymore. So we talked about
this yesterday because it happened while we were on the air,
and we played all the clips for you. It's kind
of hard to explain you would use this tact to
try to deal with getting out of this mess. So
(01:11):
Charlie Kirk, he is a huge MAGA leader among particularly
the young crowd. He had that event the other day
where a number of right wing hosts say, who thinks
there's a cover up in the crowd, cheers wily wildly
and all that sort of stuff. So then Charlie Kirk
put out a statement, what like the next day, Joe
(01:32):
that it seemed like Trump had given him a call
or something like that.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Because he said it's own that Trump called him.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Okay, and he and Charlie we're going out of a
statement where he basically said, look, there there's nothing there.
Let's all move on and make America great again or
I'm something. He was ready to turn the page. And
then I don't know if he got huge blowback from
his audience or what, but he has sounded different since then,
and yesterday this Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, on
his podcast yesterday attempted some damage can on Trump's behalf
(02:01):
don't take too seriously the whole truth social Here, Kirk
told his audience, I know some people are getting fired
up about this. I don't believe he was trying to
insult anybody personally. All right, well, you know, if you
call me, if you call me stupid and a dupe,
it seems fairly personal.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
But and Charlie Kirk, counting on the fact that those
people are stupid and dupes.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Apparently Still, he expressed frustration about the administration's handling of
the issue himself. We are now Wednesday, going into Thursday.
People are very very confused, and some people are very
disappointed and mad. Charlie Kirk said, we made so much
progress with gen Z and this is a big vulnerability
online on TikTok, this story is not landing.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Well, let's fix this and we can.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
He does make a good point the Republican Party doing
better with young people than it has in my going
back to Reagan, right, and if this is the thing
that blows it up. But I don't, I don't know.
Guess where I break down on this story all the time.
Is it seems so obvious to me what's happened that
(03:06):
I don't There was never any there there there's not
a child sex ring being run by Democrats in Hollywood.
Podcasters were saying it to get clicks and listeners.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
That's what I assumed all along.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
It's true. It turns out to be true. They're even
saying it's true. Right, and it's over. And maybe you
can be mad at them. If you fell for it
fell forward as a prejudicial you don't fall for something.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It's not on you.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
If somebody you trust lies to you, that's not your fault.
You're not a dupe or week or any of those things.
You trusted somebody and they lied to you. You trusted
Dan Bongino or Pam Bondi and they lied to you.
Now you know, I don't know what you.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Do with that, but right, right, yeah, gosh, dang it.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This thing has so many tentacles. I think one of
the more interesting aspects of this is that the sort
of people that would pitch this sort of infotainment, they're
so much closer to power than they've ever been before.
On the right in Republican circles, that sort of which
(04:14):
Hunty all Republicans are racist, bigot, evil, you know, beer swinging,
cross burning.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
You know, fictions existed on the left very very close
to power for a very long time.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
But the Republican Party, for you know, try to be
the party of realists and grown ups and the rest
of it. You know. I've been reading more about this
sort of thing, not necessarily the Epstein conspiracy theory in general,
and it's called it's referred to as.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
What's it.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There's a term for it, pedo critical pedo theory. That's
got the fair history on the right going back probably
fifteen years and stuff. It is just those who would
hook you have realized that certain elements, it's like writing
a hit song, certain elements like child victims, you know,
(05:13):
the powerful in the government, evil doers who are fairly
easily identified, like the Jews, which doesn't factor into every
version of this, but it factors into a hell of
a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
That's the that's the markers of a hit song.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
It's like, you know, all pop music now is completely
formulaa computer generator. They've realized what trips your triggers. This
has all of it, and so it's it's super compelling.
And then you've got people now who are very very
close to power who used to be pitching it.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
We're working up to the latest polling which will show
you if your attitude is where most of Americas is.
We did get this text yesterday just to represent a
chunk of you that we know are out there YouTube
protecting and siding with Petos is shocking and horrible.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Yeah, we're not, and never would. That's the point.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
I would be calling for the death penalty for all
of them. If I thought that was happening if hundreds
of thousands of children were being sex trafficked by the
Democratic Party and business leaders and maybe some Republicans.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Yeah, you know what again, Charlie Kirkin turning point, USA
have done some great stuff among young people.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
You know, it's a shame.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
It reminds me of certain people I've known who have
been wonderful in some ways and just utterly corrosive in others.
But they've done some fabulous things, giving conservative kids, young
people confidence to speak their beliefs, etc. On the other hand, Charlie,
I think in the last several days has been the
perfect illustration of my point of view. This was the
(06:45):
most important thing in the world, and it must be
exposed and it must be brought down. Until Donald said, hey,
would you cool your jets on this? Is this cause
on Maggus some real problems. And he said, I'm done
talking about this for now, and I think everybody should
be and everything's fine. And then he got a backlash
like later that day from his audience who said no, no, no,
(07:08):
And so he came out and changed his mind again
and said, I demand these fifteen things because we've got
to get to the bottom of this some entertainment.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Two things that get conflated a lot, which I think
confused the conversation and maybe some of this polling. I'm
about to tell you is the difference between documents, the
case files, and a list. Sometimes those get used interchangeably.
Is there an Epstein file, Well, of course there is.
There was an investigation, So there's a file showing an
(07:39):
investigation that ultimately led nowhere is there a list apparently
of clients and blackmail?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, there is not, so.
Speaker 4 (07:48):
According to people inside and outside and people leaking and
everything else. But people conflate those two regularly. They said
there wasn't a file. There is a file, so there
where's the list? Well, those two different things.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And as Alan Dershowitz pointed out, lots and lots of
names come up in an investigation, so you could say
there's a list of names, but those are being kept
secret for the reason they always.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Are, as we discussed earlier.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
If you're not being charged and you just happen to
be somewhere, the Feds aren't going to come out and say, hey,
Joe Getty was at that party, by the way, just
saying they're not in that business.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Except when James Comey's in charge.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
But when you're firing people up about a list, you mean,
is there a list of clients? And the listing, you know,
is proof of blackmail for child molestation, right, and the
blackmail and all that. So here's the polling from Morning consult,
a respected polling organization, the statement there's no evidence of
(08:48):
a client list or blackmail scheme involving Epstein and prominent people.
The plurality the biggest number no, at fifty one percent
only so so you know, I don't know why they
present it is no. But so over half or roughly
half of America says yes, there is there is a
(09:09):
blackmail list.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It exists.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Only twenty five percent of people say no, There isn't
a quarter people say I don't have any idea, But
so a plurality of America thinks there is a blackmail
list out there. You want to break it down by party, Democrats,
it's sixty percent of Democrats think there's a list, which
is interesting given the fact that the prevailing thought is
that it's a Democrats in Hollywood running the child trafficking scheme.
(09:36):
And sixty percent of Democrats think there is a blackmail
list of that it's only forty one percent of Republicans
that think it is. So that's where it gets confusing
on this whole thing. But I guess it could completely fuddled.
But I guess they're all the young crowd and very
worked up about it. And that's why Charlie Kirk speakin
to it, right. But overall, it's half of America now
on just this question Epstein committed suicide in prison? No
(10:03):
is the plurality forty two biggest chunk of voters say no,
twenty three percent say I don't know, only thirty five
percent say only a thirty people say yes, he committed suicide.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I'd be in that crowd. I believe he committed suicide.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
But the biggest chunk of people, and again you break
it down by Republicans and Democrats, and the theory is that,
like if he was killed, it's the Democrats that did it. Right,
the jokes about Hillary Clinton's sensible shoes click clacking away
through the prison. I don't think Hillary Clinton stuffed him.
But that's the biggest chunk that believes he didn't commit suicide. Democrats.
(10:39):
Half of Democrats think he did not commit suicide.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Right, Virtually all of the big names you ever hear
whispered well spoken out loud these days that it might
have been partying with him are Democrats, virtually all of them.
So yeah, this again, I'm completely befuddled. And only thirty.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Seven percent are Republicans think he commit didn't commit suicide.
So it doesn't fit with the narrative of everything we're
hearing the last couple of times, right, except that shouldn't
Trump be in shouldn't Trump be talking about all the
Democrat dupes have felt for it based on this polling.
Speaker 1 (11:17):
Yes, one hundred percent, And shouldn't be addressing his followers
at all?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Why would he?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Again? I get his frustration, but it was dumb politics.
So what I was about to say was the thing
you have to remember, because they're just pulling Democrats and Republicans,
is that there are subsets of both of those parties.
I mean, it's obvious within the Democratic Party because it's
just a mosaic of completely unrelated grievance groups that have said,
(11:45):
all right, i'll yell about your grievance if you'll yell
about mine, okay, And we're all borderline Marxists, so everybody
knows that that's a patchwork. But within conservatism, within the
Republican Party, I should say, now you have classic conservatives
have salted the earth's red state, maga folks, you have
online Pizzagate types, you have you know, to various other
(12:10):
you know, stripes of Republicanism. So yeah, it's a plurality
of Republicans that say now that it's more or less
unfolded the way it seems it unfolded. But there is
a substantial minority that thinks very very differently.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
But you know, and I'm ready to be done talking
about this, but the media narrative of the last several days,
since its mainstream media and left media that loves this
story so much, and talking about conspiracy minded Republicans, it
would appear there are more conspiracy minded Democrats than there
are Republicans. And since they probably weren't listening to Dan
(12:46):
Bongino or Pam Bondi, where did they come by their
conspiracy That's what I'm confused by.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
They're not listening to the Dan Bongino podcast every day.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Right, So other plank in the conspiracy platform coming up
in a little bit, got a great email about it too.
What it boils down to, it's because it become a symbol.
Pretty good insight. We'll get to that in a little
bit too.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
If you can figure out the confusion around this where
it seems to be more Democrats and Republicans that are
into this story text line four one five two nine
five k ftcar.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Some more political news. Trump is so facing criticism for
his handling of the Epstein files.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah, the excuses are getting worse and worse today. Trump
was like a doug ate the Epstein files.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Then people in Ohio ate the dog. That's pretty funny joke.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Here's the story for you will get to do. You
know who Steve Miller is. Some people call what is
the Pomptous of Love. Some people call me the space cowboy.
That Steve Miller has canceled his tour because of climate change,
and his statement is ridiculous, even though I'm a giant fan.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
Of his music, He's an ignoramus. So we got that
coming up.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
The number of guitar heroes who are morons is surprising.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
A couple of things very quickly, A couple of emails.
Robert Julaine Maxwell wasn't even arrested until a year after
Epstein's death. Yes, I got that timeline wrong. I apologize
deeply and humbly thank you for the email. I like
this from a frequent correspondent to me to the initials,
I just thought I would chime in about the whole
Epstein infatuation. Way I see it, Epstein is transcended being
(14:36):
the image of a person and become a symbol, my opinion,
symbolizes two things that deeply unnerve the right, if not all,
of America. One, we American citizens never get answers anymore
on things like this, like pervos in power. There's always
some investigation that manages to find nothing but relevant facts
are locked away behind a court order. Sure too, the
belief to the belief that there's a two tier system
(14:57):
of justice. We all know there is has Hunter Biden
and convicted of anything? Well, actually he was, but that
he was pardoned. Did Jesse Smollett serve any time? Did
he as innocent of everything? Right? Remember oj Simpson? Of
course there's old Ted Kennedy. You never answered for anything.
Epstein is a symbol of the idea that no matter
how bad you are, as long as you're well connected,
you'll never truly have to answer to the American people.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
There is that failing out there.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Who leaked the Supreme Court decision to try to discredit
the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
No answer, right, right, yeah, yeah. It's really frustrating.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
So if I were in the business of like perpetuating QAnon, Pizzagate,
Epstein conspiracy theory type stuff, I would be going heavy
on this, and they probably will be by noon today
if they aren't already. The Justice Department just fired a
prosecutor in Manhattan, a woman by the name of Maureen Komy.
(16:00):
My last name sound vaguely familiar. She's the daughter of
James Comy. I hope dot dot cover up, dot dot
dot something something just it writes itself.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
I don't know about a cover up, but I hope
that she was fired just as part of the They're
firing people in Justice Apartment and lots of different departments.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
And not specifically because he hates James call me so much. Wait,
there's more, Jack.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
She was also a prosecutor who worked on the and
she took a leading role in the Julane Maxwell case
and was part of the Epstein investigation.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
All right, so were one hundred FBI officers according to
hundreds of FBI officers, which is nuts.
Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, But my point it is, indeed I have one,
is is that you would have to work as hard
to debunk all of this as the people are working
to bunk it. In other words, James Freaking Comy's daughter,
who was investigating both of these scumbags, just get fired
by the Trump administration. I don't have enough time in
(17:04):
my day to build a case where that has an
innocent explanation because it sounds thirty as.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
L it does.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
You don't get to see Steve Miller on tour because
of climate change, among other things.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
On the way Armstrong and Getty, Stevie Wonder denied rumors
that he's not really blind.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
True, the guy had nine kids with five.
Speaker 4 (17:26):
Different women and he thought he was being faithful.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
We did that whole story the other day.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Stevie Wonder apparently is blind, but has played into that
joke for many, many years, which is kind of funny.
He does have nine kids with five women, which lots
of musicians, athletes, etc. Do and we just kind of
turn a blind eye to that very odd lifestyle. I'm
speaking of musicians named Steve a different one Steve Miller.
(17:57):
What's your favorite Steve Miller band song? Had to beat
the Joker.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean it's like you're asking me
to pick my favorite kid. I don't.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
I love them all.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Steve Miller, whose Greatest Hits album was like the number
one selling album in the in the world for years
and years and years and years because all his giant
hits were on there. Interesting story. I remember when he
was on Charlie Rose a couple of years back and
he played the Joker alone with a guitar for Charlie Rose,
and it was very, very good. But you see, some
people call him the space cowboy. But he told the
(18:30):
story about how he he had he put out an
album giant hits. He was like the biggest thing in
all of music, and then the record company tried to
tell him what to do and he just said no
and had to leave music. He left the music business
rather than do what they told him to do because
he's just like, I.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Don't have to I'm rich now, screw you.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Well, and he was an actual like kippie yeah, I
mean nonformist hippie.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Well, he has canceled this tour. I would have actually
paid to go see Steve Miller, but he's not going
to tour because of it's not safe, the unacceptable risks
of natural disasters. What yes, you put out this post yesterday.
He's supposed to tour starting like in August, in a
couple of weeks and for many, many months around the country.
(19:19):
He cannot put his people in the band and the
crowd who would come to see him in harm's way
with all the natural disasters that are happening due to
climate change.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Here's his statement.
Speaker 4 (19:29):
You make music with your instincts, You live life by
your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The Steve Miller Band
is canceled all of our upcoming dates. The combination of
extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, massive forest fires. A
forest fire was going to get your concert made these
risks for the audience and my band and crew unacceptable.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
So when was the last time of flood canceled a
concert like in progress?
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Steve, So you can blame it on the weather. The
tour is canceled. I don't know where, I don't know when.
We hope to see you again. Wishing you peace, love
and happiness. Please take care of each other, Steve, the
band and crew.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah, my instincts say you're an octagenarian hippie whose mind
doesn't work right anymore.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah, you're here an eighty something hippie who's like, really,
you're probably taking in the most ridiculous Twitter feeds yourself.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Chrissy Hind, also an ancient rocker of The Pretenders, set
a couple of weeks ago at an outdoor concert. Outdoor
concerts will be coming to a close soon. We won't
be able to do it anymore because it's so hot.
I've had to stripe ass ice packs to my waist
to survive this. It's because you're an old woman. You're
now an old woman out of heat. It's not the
same as being twenty five. Those are hot flashes, she's
(20:42):
feeling exactly. Yeah, she's a little old fraud flashes. But anyway,
that's pretty funny, these old hippies.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I mean, that's you.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Can believe climate change all you want, but the idea
that it's not safe for your crew because of the
floods that happen in Texas or earthquake somewhere, whatever the
hell I mean, it's just what is how when's the
last time anybody died at a concert in America because
of anything? Climate change? Related, or you could even claim
was climate change related.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I know, that's that's hilarious. I know, and it's so
wildly disconnected from reality. It's it's it's almost beyond hilarious.
It's troubling. And I'll bet there's somebody listening. And if
that's you, feel free to email us mail bag at
armstrong andgeddi dot com. But there has got to be
like a known psychological profile about the sort of person
who defines themselves so completely with being cause oriented that they'll,
(21:41):
you know, even at their advanced age, sees onto what
seems to be the hot cause of the day and
throw themselves into it with one hundred percent a conviction,
but more importantly, one hundred percent belief in whatever they
have to believe to make that conviction seem righteous all
of them that it defines them completely.
Speaker 4 (22:01):
I can't imagine what all goes into scheduling a major tour,
the logistics, the venues, the ticket sales, the sponsors. There
had to be tons of sponsors like Ford and Verizon Wireless.
Last night they were like, what, yeah, you're canceling, but
there are like eight thousand concert tours that are gonna
(22:22):
be going on this summer of various sizes and they're
all gonna be fine.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah, good lord, that is just loney tunes. You can't
you can't argue logically to somebody who comes to that conclusion.
That's like the ancient Armstrong and Getting principle of if
you see somebody doing something so incredibly crazy, you can't
explain to them why it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
Forget it, you're wasting your time.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
The doing of the act is evidence that it's that
you can't reason with them. Monni slightly less Steve Miller,
although your your sponsors, look, you're doing business with the
crazed old hippie do crazy things, all right, You just
got to accept that the probably ought to have a
rider in the contract or insurance or something.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Anyway, I found this so interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Katie Grime's doing some great writing for the California Globe
as usual, and it's about cal Unicornia and Gavin Newsom
and the shameless climate grift and how many trillions of
dollars have been spent needlessly.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
And one of the more interesting.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Aspects of it is and she quotes Gavey, who's just
been a average cheerleader for this grift, but she points
out that one of the main parts of it is
that we've got to replace all of the like fossil
fuel generated electric power with green electric power, windmills, unicorn farts,
(23:46):
you know, solar or whatever.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
But as this couple of.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Scientists are recording in this article, but as one of
them points out, only twenty percent of the world's energy
consumption is electrical at all. So if that were entirely green,
well thanks, I mean that helped a little bit, but
very very little. Supplying eighty percent of the world's primary energy, coal, oil,
(24:14):
and natural gas make up the lifeblood of modern civilization.
They power everything that's not electrical, and so it's just
a myth that if we can go green on the
electric grid, we will have won the battle and we
can eliminate fossil fuels. It's not even close. It's a tiny,
(24:35):
tiny fraction. And then let's see who is this VJ
jaijiraal Giraj writes, consensus on climate change is become a
form of bullying, intimidation, and censorship. Katie rites, which is
exactly what Julie from Canada tried to do. A blah
blah bah. It's been used to bludget and attack the
(24:55):
character of anyone who questions the very shallow claims. It
is a cult completely forced from science and reality. And
the larger problem with these climate change cultists is they
lack humility and any interest in self reflection. And it
goes into a great deal of detail on that and
how it's an excuse just to control things, which is
usually what the left wants to do. But they're one
(25:17):
other update. This is also in the Californian Globe, written
by somebody else. You know California's vaunted famous cap and
trade program where corporations have to pay for the right
to pollute, and if some other company isn't polluting, they
can sell their shares on the free market cap and
trade program, and that is going to take care of
(25:40):
climate change and also raise a bunch of money for California. Well,
it reminds me of that internet meme. How it started,
how it's going. So there's an auction every year, and
in past years the state has actually turned a profit
with these auctions, offset with business revenue. Ten years ago,
the state made one and a half billion dollars with
(26:01):
cap and trade auctions. But the market for it has
gone down, down, down, as fewer and fewer companies are
interested in participating in it, and California is going to
lose three billion dollars a year starting this year on
the cap and trade auctions. It's it's a miserable failure.
(26:23):
Hasn't worked.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Have you ever when you bought an airline ticket checked
that box where you like, donate some money to offset
your carbon footprint?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Who are you talking to You must not be talking
to me. How many people do that? And have I
ever met anybody who did that? I think?
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Okay, all right, no, no.
Speaker 2 (26:43):
No, I will not do that. Oh my god, amazing.
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Speaker 4 (28:00):
So why don't you jump on your big jet airliner
fly like an eagle, you joker, take the money and
run back to your jungle hideout. It be not very
well crafted. I'll bet Steve Miller does. I'll bet if
he flies southwest he checks the little box of I
need to offset my carbon credits and donate one hundred dollars.
(28:22):
What do you think they're doing with that money, you joker? Yeah, yeah,
that's hilarious. It kind of makes me sad that a
lot of things make me sad with the modern world
in the Internet.
Speaker 1 (28:36):
But it used to be I didn't know a damn
thing about what Steve Miller thought. Any of my musical heroes,
you can guess, like between the lines of the lyrics.
Maybe they do an interview with the Rolling Stone and
they say something. But you know they're smart, they're savvy there,
Like Michael Jordan. They're like, hey, I make music. I'm
not going to lecture people about who ought to be
(28:57):
in Congress. Why would I do that. It's getting in
the way of my thing. Uh.
Speaker 4 (29:04):
One of the best developments to happen yet between the
United States and Ukraine. Absolutely, I don't see how you
could argue with this thing that Trump and Zolensky are
trying to get a deal going. If this is true,
I hope it is. Tell you about that, among other things,
stay with us.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
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Speaker 5 (29:25):
Doctor say gaming for older Americans has benefits, allowing them
to use the brain, stay engaged, and maintain cognition. Research
shows puzzles, Skill and Chance, and arcade video games are
the most popular with older players.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I hadn't thought about video games for old people to
help their minds stay engaged. Yeah, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
I heard gaming and I thought gambling, because the gambling
industry is tried to rename it gaming because it sounds better.
Speaker 4 (29:52):
I guess because I have teenagers, I hear gaming and
I think Call of Duty. Yeah, which, speaking of just
came across is this stat Thanks to our friend Tim
Sanderfer who tweeted it out, gamers specifically playing Call of
Duty have logged more than twenty five billion hours since
(30:12):
it first came out, equivalent to two point eight five
million years, surpassing the entire timeline of human history.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
Wow. Meanwhile, a few of those people, well, you know
what I was gonna say, a few of the people
have actually answered a call to duty, although I'll bet
a hell of a lot of our military guys play
those games in their free time.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Probably. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:39):
Well, we played a clip earlier of Shane Gillis, the comedian.
He hosted the sp Awards last night. He was the
MC and he had some funny stuff. We'll play have
more clips later, but one of his jokes that he
does in his stand up routine is how it's one
of his problems is like he really loves his girlfriend
and they have a great relationship, But as soon as
they're done having sex, he just wants her to leave,
(31:01):
and the crowd always groans and and he says, oh, yeah,
I'm the only guy that likes play an Xbox alone,
and then all the dudes cheer. I guess that is
a thing, play an Xbox alone by yourself. I'm I
got one kid who loves video games and one that
doesn't like them at all, for better or worse. So
another thing you can do that's supposed to be helpful
(31:23):
is journaling.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Have you ever journaled consistently for a couple of months?
Speaker 1 (31:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (31:29):
Really? And and why did you do it? When you
did it years and years ago?
Speaker 1 (31:34):
I thought I was going to be delivering my drivel
in print as opposed to verbally for a living.
Speaker 2 (31:40):
And you just trying to write more good practice?
Speaker 4 (31:43):
Okay, interesting, Yeah, it's a lot of people claim it's
good for your mental health, get thoughts out of your
head or whatever. New York Times has a thing today
how to start journaling and actually stick with it, and
it's setting goals and all these different things. I'm still
very interested in whether handwriting is necessary for this stuff
or if typing counts. This particular person in the New
(32:05):
York Times says just do whatever, it doesn't make any difference,
and I'm not sure that's true.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Well, given the fascinating discoveries scientists have made about the
way handwriting connects various centers in your brain and gets
them to work in concert, it's really intriguing and discouraging.
Since I'm left handed and I despise handwriting.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
But one of the things I want to bring up
about handwriting somebody mentioned this to me. Well, I had
noticed this in myself, but just kind of blown it off.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I thought maybe it was age or something.
Speaker 4 (32:37):
I got to write, which I very rarely do, like
I fill it out a check or whatever. My handwriting
is so horrible, and I didn't know if it was
just age or like I need a new pen or what.
But somebody had pointed out to me that they thought
they had gotten real their handwriting had gotten really bad,
worse just from lack of doing it.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I don't know, but that's it.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
You're out of I'm out of practice.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
I haven't I haven't written regularly in decades, and so
I go to do it now and I look like
a third grader. That wasn't that bad when I was
in third grade. But man, I am now. It's just
it looks like there's no way an adult wrote.
Speaker 1 (33:17):
This check third grader or a maniac exactly the pinched,
angry handwriting of the maniac. We've received those letters back
when we used to get letters.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
I know how you're going to react to this. I
had a teacher who I really really like say the
other day and I don't.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
Well, I won't say this particular student doesn't spell well
and it's not their fault, but they can't spell. And
the teacher said, doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I don't
care about spelling anymore. That's never going to be a
thing again. You just got to get close and the
computer tells you you fix it, and you move on.
So I don't drill spelling anymore. Do you think that
makes sense or not?
Speaker 1 (33:57):
No? No, because you the various autocorrect stuff is cumbersome. Well,
and I don't as certain autocorrects are pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
It depends what platform you're using.
Speaker 1 (34:08):
It's I tell you what if somebody really struggled with
spelling and it would take an enormous amount of time
and energy to get them up to speed. No, I
probably wouldn't devote that time and energy. I think it's
a real time saver to be a good speller. But
I see their point. You know what's funny is I
(34:30):
mentioned I'm a lefty, and and I always reacted horribly
to stories of back in the day parents would force
their kids to write right handed. They'd even, like, you
know whatever, put a mitten on the left hand and
make them right handed, or you know. Certainly I wouldn't
be in favor of beating a kid or whatever. But
recently I've been on this kick of I will occasionally
(34:53):
because I do things I'm partially I'm ambidextrous. It's practically
at random what I do with my right hand what
I do with my left, and I will occasionally realize, oh,
that's funny, I use my right hand for that. I'm
going to try it left handed for a week, and
so I'll try to do that because I've heard that's
good for the brain too.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
I've interesting new corrections, and I've never tried to do
things left handed. Maybe I will, but I got I
got really good.
Speaker 1 (35:19):
I got pretty damn good at brushing my teeth with
the opposite hand.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
And I thought, you know, what.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
Writing right handed is much more efficient than left handed,
and if I put a little time into it, I
can learn to do that. As a kid, it would
have been, you know, a little more difficult than learning
to write left handed, which was what my brain wanted.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
But it would have been fine.
Speaker 4 (35:39):
I'll try brushing my teeth with my left hand a nine.
See if I or a Saturday. I brushed my teeth
every Saturday.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Fair warning, you will jab yourself in the gums, right
in the eye. Brush it.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Well, that happened too.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
I have had the thing come out of my mouth
and smeared toothpaste toothpaste all over my cheek.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
It's funny.
Speaker 4 (36:00):
Gently gently Trump's making a deal with Zelensky that I
think everybody will be on board with, no matter how
interventionists or non interventionous you are. That's that I'm pretty
excited about. We can talk about that an hour three
and a bunch of other different things. If you miss
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