July 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- No response from Putin, burn bags & words
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- The Epstein Files & the abysmal democrat approval rating
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty enough he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Progress getting Russia to agree to a peace deal going nowhere,
despite the President cutting the window to ten days before
approving sweeping sanctions.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ten days from today. I haven't got I haven't had
any response.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a shame Putin's sending a low level spokesperson to
issue this message.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
For the special military operation is continuing, and we also
remain committed to a peace process. So no idea where
that story is going whatsoever not the slightest Does Trump
follow through on that? How does spoot and react? Does
he pumped again? No idea, So we'll wait and see.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I guess this is an is whatever that's to happen
going to be incremental or striking in its boldness or
no idea?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
This is sort of breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Cash Batel, the chief of the FBI, said he found
thousands of sensitive Trump Russia probe documents inside burn bags
in a secret room at the FBI. So that's either
the biggest story of the week or we'll never hear
it about it again.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So there's another thing we'll check back in on later
if there's.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You know, this is a damned if you do, damned
if you don't situation. I mean, if that is true,
that's really interesting. Is that routine? I don't know, or
is it a desperate attempt to redirect the conversation away
from Epstein for the base Damned if you do or
(01:55):
if you don't is cash btel.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They've called off the tsunami warnings in Hawaii and the
California coast after one of the biggest earthquakes in modern
history happened near Russia last night, and I was hoping
to hell there wasn't going to be another one of
those tsunamis that killed hundreds of thousands of people, like
happened in two thousand and four. Two hundred and fifty
(02:17):
thousand people died in like a half an hour in
two thousand and four when a tsunami hit.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Holy crap, Mother Nature's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh yeah, the deathicul toll could be just unimaginable in
La say sure and San Diego especially you're low lying
coastal areas. Oh crazy. Anyway, I hope it doesn't happen.
So I love this. This is funny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like words.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that's just terrific. The
guy starts with goh, shopping online, just about everything you
look at will have a star rating based on you know,
previous customers, right, many of them phony, which makes shopping
online a bit different. But and he says it's less
easy to quantify things in such a way in day
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to day life. For instance, if your friend was telling
you about a product, or a restaurant or whatever, where
would their description fall on the star scale? Blah blah blah.
Well he said, you're in the dark no longer. A
new Yugov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the
population perceives various words or descriptions to be. They have
(03:31):
a few dozen words, then ask people to score them
on a scale from zero to ten, with zero being
very negative to ten being very positive.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And as an explanation, I.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Will tell you that of the forty words tested, abysmal.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Was seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Okay, so this is like, so you asked me, how
how was that restaurant you went to? And I say, great,
they figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative. Well to you,
so what do you think of that restaurant you said
it was abysmal? I wouldn't try it. I mean, it's
not like I would. I think, Oh, that's just his opinion.
Would there be any doubt as to what my opinion
is using the word abysmal? No, slightly less bad comes
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the closely clustered fighting it out for second place. Awful,
terrible and very bad. Now on the other end of
the scale.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So awful, terrible, and very bad obviously a fairly negative review.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And all the story, but measurably above abysmal. Yeah, abysmal
is the clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying to imagine
all that happened at a restaurant before I would say that.
I mean, the waiter would have to punch me in
the face and give me rantid meat, I think as.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was being attacked by rats. Yes, a bism was
my experience.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
At the other end of the scale, perfect is the
most positively regarded word, with an average score nine point
one six. Only one other word managed to break the
nine point barrier.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember we're on a zero to.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ten scale, which was outstanding per just edging out excellent
for second place.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Perfect is similar to Abysmo. It'd be a hard to reach. Also,
they gave me Kobe's Steak, didn't charge me, and I
had an orgasm.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I hope you excused yourself before that last one. Anyway,
I had one.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I've had a couple dining experiences I probably have described
as perfect or something close to it, but they also
went with an enormous price tag. Right, Yeah, there's somebody
like your your anniversary, not like your twenty first, only
like your twentieth and twenty fifth, that sort of place
you go.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, that's that is a good point too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I say that to the kids a lot because I
rarely complain about service, but like sometimes if we're in
a really, really fancy place, I don't expect to sit
around thirsty for very long if I'm gonna drop a
whole bunch of money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And right, see, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
Now don't come back to refill my water. That's what
I expected. Yeah, yeah, all right, so let's I think
it would be better, more entertaining to go from the
best to the worst the words as rated by thousands
of people. All Right, we'll start with perfect and ork
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our way down perfect concluded asm as we remember, each
one gets less and less appealing perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible.
I would have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is
a pole me toys some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb.
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This is getting less impressive as we go.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I've never used I don't think I've ever used the
word superb, but oh I do constantly.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm superb at using the word superb.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
The difference is between these various words very very, I'd say,
do you use.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It seriously or sarcastic?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
No, I mean, like the point total, uh, depends on
my setting, on the setting.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For me, it's always made me laugh.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Super oh, super, But this is super This is superb
with the B shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome,
very good, really good, which is not as good as
very good, great good. Oh that's right, I forgot to
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tell you. It's it's actually bang in the middle is
average bridge. I mean that is exactly in the middle
of these descriptors.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Average.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Isn't that funny, you know? I mean, of course it is,
but it's funny that it is.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And I will go to a place if somebody tells
me it's average, if the price is low, probably and
it's convenient to me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And Delaney and I went to the other day, and
a lot of our friends go to it, and once
again we're like, it's okay. But the one word people
use constantly describe it as consistent. Their food is really consistent.
We have a place like a B minus every time
you go.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, we have a place it's like a B minus.
But it's the charm that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We go for. It's kind of like the food. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Anyway, so remember these words are getting less impressive, great, good,
pretty good, above average, decent, quite good, somewhat good, fine, satisfactory.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad average,
And again that was the average score weird, mediocre, below average.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
We've definitely departed thumbs up, folks, we're in thumbs down territory.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
We're in probably not going back territory.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, so all right, so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad,
pretty bad, quite bad, poor, and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish.
The original version of this poll was in Britain, then
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they did it in America. Slight differences but not meaningful
enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
There was really bad, there was a hair in my
there was more hair in my salad, and then once
again hair in my mentree. The experience went from really
bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling, Can I
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get a razor to shave some of my food?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Everything has hair in it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Finally appalling, dismal, abysmal thers although if somebody told me
our experience was appalling, I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Who decided to rank these words?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
The great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is they
make for a good story.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story, you wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
But something like abysmal you're gonna be telling people about
it having laughs.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'd tell that story way more than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona once,
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Anyway, that was.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
When I we never got our food, and I went
up to the kitchen to try to figure out what
was going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
and the cook quit and left right in front of me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It was really quite the thing to see.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But I still talk about that because it was an
appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So all right, finally, final note, So if you've had
an experience that was just completely average but slightly better,
you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse, not bad.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, that story, Katie quickly is. So we sat there,
We sat there, We sat there with that there, like,
so what's going on? I go up to the kitchen
where you can like you know, there's a like a
bar there and you can see into the kitchen in
a place like, dn't the made her d saying it's
a diner, and and the waitresses standing there, and the
cook is in there, completely ignoring her with a blank
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look on his face, like flipping burgers and baking stuff
like and she keeps saying, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are you going to are you going to make the food?
What are you doing? What is happening here?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And he just kept looking straight ahead and kind of
doing things slowly, And then pretty soon he just walked.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out and I assume he left. Wow, I don't know
what happened. That had been bruined for a while. I
have a feeling she couldn't get a response out of him.
That's dreadful.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He kept awful sandwich a turd sandwich. But we didn't
ask about that one. We still laugh about that experience
of Denny's. Oh so I got something out of it. Again,
I'd rather have appalling than below average.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What would be.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Worse a ts I'm not going to repeat the phrase,
or a fuster clock And mine was really more of
a fuster cluck than the food being bad.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Because we never got the food. We had to go
somewhere else. That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Trump changed his story, it seems again on the Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's pretty interesting if you haven't heard that, we'll get
to this hour. Among other things, stare excel seor.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
He's a terrible he's a terrible feed chair.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I think he's a total step It talked to the guy.
It's like talking to nothing. It's like talking to a chair.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It's like talking to a chair. That's Donald Trump referring
to FED chairman Jerome Powell, who this afternoon is going
to announce a rate cut or not, And nearly one
percent of economists predict he will not cut to interest
rates at this time, even though or I shouldn't say,
even though it doesn't make any sense. In addition, other
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economic news that came out today, the economy grew at
three percent analyzed for the quarter. We had shrunk last
quarter if you remember, and if it had shrunk again,
we would technically be in a recession. People would argue
about that, and I would get bored.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And have to leave the room speaking for all of us. Yes,
but it grew at three percent, so thank god we
don't have to have that discussion. Speaking of oh, Trump also.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Gave us some brand new information about Epstein and their
and their why they split and couldn't be friends anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Why he's drip drip drip dripping this like is he
trying to keep the story going anyway? We'll get to
that next segment. Speaking of Trump, I didn't see this.
Maybe you did the video of Trump hitting his golf
shot at his new golf course in Scotland. Did he
ceremonial drive? Did he hit it pretty well? Because I
heard he made some crack about Biden? Uh No, I
(14:58):
I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I saw a different that's popular online whereas Caddy gets
to his ball and tosses it into a better spot
for him quickly before anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Anti Trump site.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Apparently he hit the ball quite well in his inaugural
drive at his new golf course.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh yeah, he's a good player for his age, especially
he is amazing. He cheats like crazy, but yeah, he's
a good player.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
A couple more notes, just going through my notes. The
watermelon diet has gone viral. Here's what experts say about
this weight loss trend. Do you know anything about the
watermelon diet? Katie usually knows about this stuff that we
don't know, But I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Diet, I guess, and you a lot of watermelon in
this diet, that would be my guess.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, but there's clapping back. What does Sydney Sweeney think
about it? Is it racist? Also?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I read this article, I thought it was kind of interesting.
I co parent with chat GPT. I love turning off
my brain and letting AI help raise my child. That
sentence seems designed to get people to be angage bait bait.
But I have used chat GBT for a number of
like sort of questions you might normally ask a therapist
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about a kid's behavior, and gotten answers that I thought, Wow,
that really is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
So that's just my personal experience. Yeah, I don't know
if that Yeah, you know, it makes me. I'm distracted
because I'm thinking about two avenues in which I might
use it today for help in that sort of thing
with various family dynamics.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I've mentioned it a few times.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
It has helped me through the IVF process beyond any
phone call I could make.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Really give us a general example.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Well, like right now I'm getting some results back and
instead of having to call my doctor and track her
down I just plugged him into chat GPT and said,
can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You know I've done that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I had a blood test a while back, and I
could have googled it, but it would have been more
cumbersome and complicated. Just I just like, whatever one thing
they tested in my blood, this being high?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
What could this mean?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And it just listed the things and had links if
you wanted them. It was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And it also gives you like, you know, this looks great,
like piece of encouragement, makes you feel better.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's weird. That is a little weird.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's also weird what Trump said on the plane, Yes,
say about Epstein's So stay.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Did you get to.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
See my drive in the first hall? You get it straight,
pretty long, pretty long.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
That's that's now, Joe Biden, let me tell you that
sound bite, right, was good. That was a good drive.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Come on, that's Donald Trump on the plane.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You get to see my first drive on my golf
course that I cut the ribbon for while on this
government trip.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But she is an odd duck.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I'm not criticizing that. It's just an interesting confluence of
events that he's opening his golf course and answering really
important global questions about tariffs and war and all that
sort of stuff while he's in his golf outfit at
his new course cutting the ribbon. As I pointed out
though the other day, the Biden family only does government business,
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but somehow ends up very, very wealthy.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So what's the difference?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, oh yeah, on the merits place, I have no
time for that. But I have been borderline obsessed with
the game of golf since I was a child.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I have never.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Come across a golfer who would refer hours later to
a shot he'd hit. Hey, did you see that shot?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I hit? Something? Wasn't it? Not even once? He is
an odd duck Donald J.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Trump, But he is the very odd duck we need
to paddle through these times.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I have said this one hundred times in the last
two weeks. I don't understand the Ebstein scandal.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It is now.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well beyond the point that it has become the biggest
scandal he has dealt with in either.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Term, even if it's even as it's half a dozen
different scandals depending on who you ask to describe it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, not counting the Russia thing. But the Russian
thing was all one sided. This has got, you know,
elements of a scandal, and that it's got both sides
are involved. Speaker Johnson said the other day it's not
a hoax. Various Republican committees have voted for releasing more
of this than that, and so what is exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Going on, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But then yesterday Trump drops some information that keeps the
story going and makes it reasonable to ask even more questions.
So he's continuing to being to be asked about how
did you and Epstein have that falling out, because he's
given slightly different answers at different times. What happened in
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the break between two guys that seemed to be pretty
friendly and then went to not speaking to each other,
and it had to do with poaching employees, But then
he got more specific about what employees. So that's that's
what the reporter's asking about here, and then you'll hear
his answer.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I think you're calling out Victifrey see some workers from
your business, but your immanisation and not because he was
a cret.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well maybe they're the same thing, you know, it's sort
of a little bit of the same thing.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
But no, he took people that work for me and
I told him, don't do it, and he already did it,
and I said, stay the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So the question was, you've said in the past that
you broke ties with him because he was a creep.
Now you're saying it's because he poached some employees. What's
the you know, how do you explain the difference stories?
He said, well, those are the same thing, little boat,
which can be true. But in this question, and this
is what was news making the most famous woman victim.
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We all know from the pictures if you've been following
Epstein at all, she was a beautiful seventeen year old
blonde woman standing there with Prince Andrew one of Empstein's parties.
Apparently he's having sex with freaking fifty year old powerful man.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's just a horrible story. She ended up killing herself
last year.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Got an enormous settlement too. At one point, just ad
a really troubled young gale. Anyway, it turns out she
worked at Trump's place. I guess, so well, here's how
the questioning went.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
One of those stolen you.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Know persons that include from Virginia if free.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I think she worked at the spot. I think so
I think that was one of the pig with it.
He stole her.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
And by the way, she had no complaints about us,
as you know, done whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Did she work for you?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is new?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I mean, how have we been this far into the
Epstein thing after all these years and just found out
the most famous chick from the whole thing used to
work at Trump's.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It seems like somebody would have pointed that out. But
so when he's asked did she work there? I don't know. Yeah,
maybe she did. She did, In fact, she did, and
she had no complaints.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So you went from as he it weirdly negotiates against himself.
I mean, he was thinking out loud obviously, all right,
what can I say? What can I not say about
or what should I say? What an His answer just
evolved in the space of like ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That was interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Why does he remember one particular woman from twenty plus
years ago who worked at his golf club? How many
thousands of people have worked at his golf club's many
many golf clubs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, I again, I suspect somebody reminded him of it
when her name first became public, probably said to him, Hey,
she worked at mar a lago she was one of
the gals that Epstein poached.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I suspect that's a fairly innocent explanation that I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I don't for a second or so far, I haven't
for a second believed that Trump's like really implicated in
anything awful in the whole epsteinc thing. I've never thought that, right,
So I'm not you know, So why are you attacking
him like that?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I just can't imagine why he would keep this story going.
Why didn't he just say, well.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Because I don't remember, well, I don't, I don't know. Well, honestly,
now you've dragged me into it. I don't understand why
I wouldn't say, uh, what was the question?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Originally?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Did she work for you? So obviously the reporters had
gotten some information that she worked there.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That she did.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I have no specific recollection. It would have been perfectly fine, Yeah,
and believable answer.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Ser migrated though that creates a perception of that's odd.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I feel like all the answers have been migrating,
so that gives the conspiracy theorists, you know, fuel for
their fire.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Like I said, I don't believe there's a conspiracy to be.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Found but if your story about why you broke with
Epstein is a little different every time we.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Ask, I might as well keep asking, right right, It
seems odd to me that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The most famous woman from the whole thing we just
now found out worked at Trump's golf course and was.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Part of the falling out between Trump and Epstein. I mean,
that's that's big. I mean, it's not necessarily significant in
any way, but it's very notable. Yeah, I don't know,
there's a lot of MRK around this, and where there
is merk, conspiracy websites thrive.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
And so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Chuck Schumer, leader of the Senate for the Democrats, tweeted out,
I'm fighting for the FBI to conduct a counter and
tel diligence threat assessment to determine the risk proposed or
the risk posed if a foreign adversary were to gain
access to the Epstein files. Whatever is in the Epstein
files is clearly concerning enough that Donald Trump is running
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scared our adversaries could try to use it to gain
influence on her, American and Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So, Chuck Schumer, your party is terrible and nobody likes you.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The mainstream media, of course, conveniently ignoring the fact that
he was the leader of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
For many years when.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
The Democrats controlled all the levers of every department and
have released every tiny bit of the Epstein information had
they wanted to. I know, you would have to be
truly ignoramous to fall for Chucky's latest judo move.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I see you don't know your judo wells.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So it's pretty obvious that the Democrats know that most
people don't pay close enough attention to put two and
two together and figure that out. Wait a second, you
gotta release it whenever you wanted, so there must not
be anything there. So the Democrats know there's nothing there.
Most Republicans, I think, know there's nothing there. That one
guy who runs that one committee seems to be convinced,
or he has to pretend he's convinced, because his constituents
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are all into it. But he seems to be convinced
that that whole QAnon child trafficking Hillary Clinton runs it
thing is real. When does this nothing burger finally get
thrown in the trash because somebody says this is no meat,
send it back.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I want a new Hamburger, you know, I just I
got rid of a quote from Yeah, maybe, I guess
find it real quick.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
From uh, there's not even cheese and sauce on this
nothing burger. It's just there you go. Here's mtguh.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
She was not the congress person you're discussing, but I
have a feeling he is of a similar mind to
her quote. If you tell the base of people who
support you of deep state trees in his crime, election interference, blackmail,
and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take
down every enemy of the people. If not, the base
(27:08):
will turn and there's no going back. Dangling bits of
red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak
dinner and will accept nothing else.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do you think the base would turn.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
To what?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Toward what? I do think that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I know a couple and I have no idea if
that's a half a one percent of the Republican Party
or fifteen percent of the Republican Party. But I know
people that will not probably vote in the midterm because
they're just so disgusted by not getting what they were
promised out of this.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Right well, in response to your question, they'll turn to
what to not have sites and podcasts and not voting,
but not Yeah, not voting is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah. If your most enthusiastic voters decide screw it. Yeah,
that hurts.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Hurts, we see well, and you know, Marjorie, actually it's
an indictment of honestly, the whole harm. Scare them right
wing conspiracy podcast world, you know. And I'll beat up
on lefties in a minute, everybody, So just be patient.
(28:21):
But if you tell the base of people who support
you of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail and
rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down
every enemy of the people. So and I would say
to Margie, and we are close friends after greeting each
other briefly in an airport once they could see the
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sparks fly between us. On anyway, there are two answers
to what you're saying, Margie. One, as you said, you
must take down every enemy of the people. Or Two,
what they told you, what they sold you was bunk
(29:10):
or at least exaggerations, extra exciting click baity exaggerations to
keep you tuned in and to sell you stuff and
to make money from you.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Well, so to flip it to the other side, did
the Democratic base. How did they react to the nothing
burger that was the Russia hoax. They were promised all
these things by Adam Schiff and all these different people
that were going to happen, and they never did.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Maybe that's part of the reason the Democratic Party is
at the lowest rating they've ever been. Is that abandonment there.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You know what's funny, Jack is I was going to
say the mainstream media, which is their mouthpiece. Those people
were pretty skilled in a despicable low crawling what's a
belly crawling?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
What's that expression? You're lower than a whatever?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
You belly crawling snakes maglin, what's that expression? The ease
it in the Westerns all the time. You're a low
riding I can't reme anyway, they were very good in
an evil way at saying while Muller was not able
to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump colluded with Putin,
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the signs were many. The meetings are still there, and
they splat it to their people like we almost got them,
we almost got them. I was gonna say that, but
now that you mention it played out over the long term,
that had to play a role in their current abysmal
approval rate, lack.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Of enthusiasm for their own party. Sure, yeah, we will
finish strong. Next, do you want to play?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Persia?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Sixty eight is Corey Booker going nuts on the Senate floor,
desperately trying to become the face of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
There's too much going on in this country.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
When are we going to stand together for principles that
I just heard that we're agreed with. When are we
going to stand together? If we don't stand as Democrats,
we deserve to lose.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
All right, They're about to unanimously pass this measure, and
he decided to stop it and yell at people for
a while. And even his own party is like, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Who brought us this meme?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Who cares? But I like I just so.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
There's some horrible version of the Titanic song somebody played
on the recorder that has become a meme. You put
it underneath like serious stuff to mock it, for instance.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This there's too much on the line right now in America.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
As people's do process rights and freedom to speech rights,
and secret police are running around this country picking people
off off the streets who have a legal rights there's
too much going on in this country.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh I need that for I wouldn't actually do this,
but i'd like to use that sometime when one of
my teenagers is going on one of the rants about
how rough their life is.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Play that song.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Oh if you had that handy on your phone, saying
with that in voice memos, Yeah, is that one note that?
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, if you ever did you play the recorder in
fourth grade? It's not easy. You know, the fingering is wrong,
but you can't remember that, you like over correct the
wrong way. No, there it is. That is Oh my goodness. Yeah,
well let's see.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
That's how we wooed Fang Fang was playing the recorder,
playing his fancy licks um.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So yeah, oh we got breaking news.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says there is a century
old law that he can use to compel the Department
of Justice to release.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The Epstein files, So he's gonna attempt to do that today.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I wish they would release the Epstein files. I wish
every word about Epstein would be put out there. No,
that's the thing though, That's one of the things you
can't uh for for perfectly good reasons. There's peoples who
have their names in there, just tangentially, it's got nothing
to do with the crime or anything.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You can't be putting their names out there and in
all sorts of information about the victims. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right, So then if you have anything that's like blacked out,
then you get to continue to claim there's a conspiracy
and that not even.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's not even clear to me that Congress could do
that because of our judicial system.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
Gentlemen, this is Final Pots Manifest with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
I see you know you'll Judo.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Well, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. How
about a final thought from everybody on the crew to
wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michaelangelo. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Okay, I'm thinking you used that Titanic theme at a
city council meetium when somebody's up there discussing a really
important topic and you're just out in the audience. You've
got on a little bluetooth speaker, just pretend nothing's going on.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
It would go on for a while and they say,
excuse me, who's playing that? Who's can you please stop
that place?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And everybody be cracking up.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I love that idea Katie Greener, a Steam Newswoman. As
a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Today is my daddy O's birthday, So happy birthday to
my dad.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Happy birthday, Judge Larry Jack. Final thought for us. We
got this text. I think I'm in this boat.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
This texture said, I'm a sixty something old guy and
I'm gonna buy a pair of American Eagle jeans today.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
What a bunch of idiots. You know. I'm going to
order a pair of my size today too. I'll do
it right now.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
During the break, I'm gonna drink a bud light to
support Dylan mulvaney, to show you bigots. So Glenn Kessler,
fact checker of the Washington Post, resigned.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Nice fella, really nice man, But.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Some of our favorite journalists are kicking the hell out
of him because he got it so badly wrong so
many times.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Oh yeah, is a fact checker.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
But he was better than like ninety eight percent of
the fact checkers out there.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Oof.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
We'll talk about that tomorrow, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Armstrong and getdy right. I got but a goodnother grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
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and giddy Dot com got a lot of great clicks
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, what is today? Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Come?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We got two days left this week. I don't know
if I can do it. See tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
There were so many great moments on Today's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Show, but no as great.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Was it like the sort of thing that a couple
would use in a loving way or was it like
novelty side It's like some Lura Circus act sort of deal.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
It was it was you could use it. Okay, I'll
take your word, Florida, but thank you. Hr is walking
down the hall right now, and something I have to go,
so Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty arm Strong
and Jetty enough he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Progress getting Russia to agree to a peace deal going nowhere,
despite the President cutting the window to ten days before
approving sweeping sanctions.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Ten days from today. I haven't got I haven't had
any response.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's a shame Putin's sending a low level spokesperson to
issue this message.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
For the special military operation is continuing, and we also
remain committed to a peace process. So no idea where
that story is going whatsoever not the slightest Does Trump
follow through on that? How does spoot and react? Does
he pumped again? No idea, So we'll wait and see.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
I guess this is an is whatever that's to happen
going to be incremental or striking in its boldness or
no idea?
Speaker 1 (01:06):
This is sort of breaking news.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Cash Batel, the chief of the FBI, said he found
thousands of sensitive Trump Russia probe documents inside burn bags
in a secret room at the FBI. So that's either
the biggest story of the week or we'll never hear
it about it again.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
So there's another thing we'll check back in on later
if there's.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
You know, this is a damned if you do, damned
if you don't situation. I mean, if that is true,
that's really interesting. Is that routine? I don't know, or
is it a desperate attempt to redirect the conversation away
from Epstein for the base Damned if you do or
(01:55):
if you don't is cash btel.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
They've called off the tsunami warnings in Hawaii and the
California coast after one of the biggest earthquakes in modern
history happened near Russia last night, and I was hoping
to hell there wasn't going to be another one of
those tsunamis that killed hundreds of thousands of people, like
happened in two thousand and four. Two hundred and fifty
(02:17):
thousand people died in like a half an hour in
two thousand and four when a tsunami hit.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Holy crap, Mother Nature's amazing.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Oh yeah, the deathicul toll could be just unimaginable in
La say sure and San Diego especially you're low lying
coastal areas. Oh crazy. Anyway, I hope it doesn't happen.
So I love this. This is funny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like words.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I think that's obvious, but they're fun to play with.
And I came across this article that's just terrific. The
guy starts with goh, shopping online, just about everything you
look at will have a star rating based on you know,
previous customers, right, many of them phony, which makes shopping
online a bit different. But and he says it's less
easy to quantify things in such a way in day
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to day life. For instance, if your friend was telling
you about a product, or a restaurant or whatever, where
would their description fall on the star scale? Blah blah blah.
Well he said, you're in the dark no longer. A
new Yugov study reveals exactly how positively and negatively the
population perceives various words or descriptions to be. They have
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a few dozen words, then ask people to score them
on a scale from zero to ten, with zero being
very negative to ten being very positive.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
And as an explanation, I.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
Will tell you that of the forty words tested, abysmal.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Was seen as the most negative.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
Okay, so this is like, so you asked me, how
how was that restaurant you went to? And I say, great,
they figured out what great means to people. Yes, okay,
right where it fits on the scale.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So abysmal is seen as the most negative. Well to you,
so what do you think of that restaurant you said
it was abysmal? I wouldn't try it. I mean, it's
not like I would. I think, Oh, that's just his opinion.
Would there be any doubt as to what my opinion
is using the word abysmal? No, slightly less bad comes
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the closely clustered fighting it out for second place. Awful,
terrible and very bad. Now on the other end of
the scale.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
So awful, terrible, and very bad obviously a fairly negative review.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
And all the story, but measurably above abysmal. Yeah, abysmal
is the clear winner, clear winner. I'm trying to imagine
all that happened at a restaurant before I would say that.
I mean, the waiter would have to punch me in
the face and give me rantid meat, I think as.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I was being attacked by rats. Yes, a bism was
my experience.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
At the other end of the scale, perfect is the
most positively regarded word, with an average score nine point
one six. Only one other word managed to break the
nine point barrier.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Remember we're on a zero to.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ten scale, which was outstanding per just edging out excellent
for second place.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Perfect is similar to Abysmo. It'd be a hard to reach. Also,
they gave me Kobe's Steak, didn't charge me, and I
had an orgasm.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I hope you excused yourself before that last one. Anyway,
I had one.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
I've had a couple dining experiences I probably have described
as perfect or something close to it, but they also
went with an enormous price tag. Right, Yeah, there's somebody
like your your anniversary, not like your twenty first, only
like your twentieth and twenty fifth, that sort of place
you go.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, that's that is a good point too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I say that to the kids a lot because I
rarely complain about service, but like sometimes if we're in
a really, really fancy place, I don't expect to sit
around thirsty for very long if I'm gonna drop a
whole bunch of money, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And right, see, you have different standards. I met Denny's.
Now don't come back to refill my water. That's what
I expected. Yeah, yeah, all right, so let's I think
it would be better, more entertaining to go from the
best to the worst the words as rated by thousands
of people. All Right, we'll start with perfect and ork
(06:43):
our way down perfect concluded asm as we remember, each
one gets less and less appealing perfect, outstanding, excellent, incredible.
I would have incredible ahead of excellent. But this is
a pole me toys some of the crowns. Yeah, brilliant, superb.
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This is getting less impressive as we go.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
I've never used I don't think I've ever used the
word superb, but oh I do constantly.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm superb at using the word superb.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
The difference is between these various words very very, I'd say,
do you use.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
It seriously or sarcastic?
Speaker 4 (07:22):
No, I mean, like the point total, uh, depends on
my setting, on the setting.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
He's been good at using super as a sarcastic comment.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
For me, it's always made me laugh.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Super oh, super, But this is super This is superb
with the B shows sophistication. Anyway, moving along, fantastic, awesome,
very good, really good, which is not as good as
very good, great good. Oh that's right, I forgot to
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tell you. It's it's actually bang in the middle is
average bridge. I mean that is exactly in the middle
of these descriptors.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Average.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Isn't that funny, you know? I mean, of course it is,
but it's funny that it is.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
And I will go to a place if somebody tells
me it's average, if the price is low, probably and
it's convenient to me.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Yeah, yeah, it's funny. There's a restaurant Judy.
Speaker 4 (08:20):
And Delaney and I went to the other day, and
a lot of our friends go to it, and once
again we're like, it's okay. But the one word people
use constantly describe it as consistent. Their food is really consistent.
We have a place like a B minus every time
you go.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, we have a place it's like a B minus.
But it's the charm that.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
We go for. It's kind of like the food. Yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Anyway, so remember these words are getting less impressive, great, good,
pretty good, above average, decent, quite good, somewhat good, fine, satisfactory.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Fine is yeah, okay, all right, fair, not bad average,
And again that was the average score weird, mediocre, below average.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
We've definitely departed thumbs up, folks, we're in thumbs down territory.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
We're in probably not going back territory.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Yeah, so all right, so average, mediocre, below average, somewhat bad,
pretty bad, quite bad, poor, and then just bad, unsatisfactory, rubbish.
The original version of this poll was in Britain, then
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they did it in America. Slight differences but not meaningful
enough to mention rubbish.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Really bad, very bad, very bad.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Is seen as zero point nine percent worse than very bad.
There was really bad, there was a hair in my
there was more hair in my salad, and then once
again hair in my mentree. The experience went from really
bad to very bad, terrible, awful, dreadful, appalling, Can I
(10:18):
get a razor to shave some of my food?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Everything has hair in it?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Finally appalling, dismal, abysmal thers although if somebody told me
our experience was appalling, I mean even clear enough, that's hilarious.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Who decided to rank these words?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
The great thing about appalling and abysmal experiences is they
make for a good story.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
It's almost better than.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
Slightly below average, because then you just you know, you
don't have a story, you wasted your money, you're not satisfied.
But something like abysmal you're gonna be telling people about
it having laughs.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
I'd tell that story way more than like a perfect dinner.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Oh yeah, like my kids and I have a coincidentally
because I mentioned it, a Denny story from Arizona once,
from way way back when they tried to get these
when they were little kids. So they tried to get
these pancakes. It was at Christmas time, and they made
like a Santa out of the pancakes.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Anyway, that was.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
When I we never got our food, and I went
up to the kitchen to try to figure out what
was going on, and the waitress was yelling at the cook,
and the cook quit and left right in front of me.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
It was really quite the thing to see.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
But I still talk about that because it was an
appalling experience, but it was entertaining.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
So all right, finally, final note, So if you've had
an experience that was just completely average but slightly better,
you'd say mediocre and just slightly worse, not bad.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah, that story, Katie quickly is. So we sat there,
We sat there, We sat there with that there, like,
so what's going on? I go up to the kitchen
where you can like you know, there's a like a
bar there and you can see into the kitchen in
a place like, dn't the made her d saying it's
a diner, and and the waitresses standing there, and the
cook is in there, completely ignoring her with a blank
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look on his face, like flipping burgers and baking stuff
like and she keeps saying, can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Are you going to are you going to make the food?
What are you doing? What is happening here?
Speaker 3 (12:21):
And he just kept looking straight ahead and kind of
doing things slowly, And then pretty soon he just walked.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Out and I assume he left. Wow, I don't know
what happened. That had been bruined for a while. I
have a feeling she couldn't get a response out of him.
That's dreadful.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
He kept awful sandwich a turd sandwich. But we didn't
ask about that one. We still laugh about that experience
of Denny's. Oh so I got something out of it. Again,
I'd rather have appalling than below average.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
What would be.
Speaker 4 (12:53):
Worse a ts I'm not going to repeat the phrase,
or a fuster clock And mine was really more of
a fuster cluck than the food being bad.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Because we never got the food. We had to go
somewhere else. That's a pretty good story.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Trump changed his story, it seems again on the Epstein thing.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I don't know why.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It's pretty interesting if you haven't heard that, we'll get
to this hour. Among other things, stare excel seor.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
He's a terrible he's a terrible feed chair.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I think he's a total step It talked to the guy.
It's like talking to nothing. It's like talking to a chair.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
It's like talking to a chair. That's Donald Trump referring
to FED chairman Jerome Powell, who this afternoon is going
to announce a rate cut or not, And nearly one
percent of economists predict he will not cut to interest
rates at this time, even though or I shouldn't say,
even though it doesn't make any sense. In addition, other
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economic news that came out today, the economy grew at
three percent analyzed for the quarter. We had shrunk last
quarter if you remember, and if it had shrunk again,
we would technically be in a recession. People would argue
about that, and I would get bored.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
And have to leave the room speaking for all of us. Yes,
but it grew at three percent, so thank god we
don't have to have that discussion. Speaking of oh, Trump also.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Gave us some brand new information about Epstein and their
and their why they split and couldn't be friends anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Yesterday?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Why he's drip drip drip dripping this like is he
trying to keep the story going anyway? We'll get to
that next segment. Speaking of Trump, I didn't see this.
Maybe you did the video of Trump hitting his golf
shot at his new golf course in Scotland. Did he
ceremonial drive? Did he hit it pretty well? Because I
heard he made some crack about Biden? Uh No, I
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I didn't see that.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
I saw a different that's popular online whereas Caddy gets
to his ball and tosses it into a better spot
for him quickly before anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Anti Trump site.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Apparently he hit the ball quite well in his inaugural
drive at his new golf course.
Speaker 4 (15:13):
Oh yeah, he's a good player for his age, especially
he is amazing. He cheats like crazy, but yeah, he's
a good player.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
A couple more notes, just going through my notes. The
watermelon diet has gone viral. Here's what experts say about
this weight loss trend. Do you know anything about the
watermelon diet? Katie usually knows about this stuff that we
don't know, But I don't know that.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Diet, I guess, and you a lot of watermelon in
this diet, that would be my guess.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
Yeah, but there's clapping back. What does Sydney Sweeney think
about it? Is it racist? Also?
Speaker 3 (15:45):
I read this article, I thought it was kind of interesting.
I co parent with chat GPT. I love turning off
my brain and letting AI help raise my child. That
sentence seems designed to get people to be angage bait bait.
But I have used chat GBT for a number of
like sort of questions you might normally ask a therapist
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about a kid's behavior, and gotten answers that I thought, Wow,
that really is a good idea.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
So that's just my personal experience. Yeah, I don't know
if that Yeah, you know, it makes me. I'm distracted
because I'm thinking about two avenues in which I might
use it today for help in that sort of thing
with various family dynamics.
Speaker 1 (16:27):
I've mentioned it a few times.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
It has helped me through the IVF process beyond any
phone call I could make.
Speaker 1 (16:34):
Really give us a general example.
Speaker 5 (16:39):
Well, like right now I'm getting some results back and
instead of having to call my doctor and track her
down I just plugged him into chat GPT and said,
can you explain this?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
You know I've done that.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
I had a blood test a while back, and I
could have googled it, but it would have been more
cumbersome and complicated. Just I just like, whatever one thing
they tested in my blood, this being high?
Speaker 1 (16:58):
What could this mean?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
And it just listed the things and had links if
you wanted them. It was fantastic.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
And it also gives you like, you know, this looks great,
like piece of encouragement, makes you feel better.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
It's weird. That is a little weird.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's also weird what Trump said on the plane, Yes,
say about Epstein's So stay.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
Tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (17:16):
Did you get to.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
See my drive in the first hall? You get it straight,
pretty long, pretty long.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
That's that's now, Joe Biden, let me tell you that
sound bite, right, was good. That was a good drive.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Come on, that's Donald Trump on the plane.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
You get to see my first drive on my golf
course that I cut the ribbon for while on this
government trip.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But she is an odd duck.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
I'm not criticizing that. It's just an interesting confluence of
events that he's opening his golf course and answering really
important global questions about tariffs and war and all that
sort of stuff while he's in his golf outfit at
his new course cutting the ribbon. As I pointed out
though the other day, the Biden family only does government business,
(18:08):
but somehow ends up very, very wealthy.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
So what's the difference?
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Yeah, oh yeah, on the merits place, I have no
time for that. But I have been borderline obsessed with
the game of golf since I was a child.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
I have never.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Come across a golfer who would refer hours later to
a shot he'd hit. Hey, did you see that shot?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
I hit? Something? Wasn't it? Not even once? He is
an odd duck Donald J.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Trump, But he is the very odd duck we need
to paddle through these times.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
I have said this one hundred times in the last
two weeks. I don't understand the Ebstein scandal.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
It is now.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Well beyond the point that it has become the biggest
scandal he has dealt with in either.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
Term, even if it's even as it's half a dozen
different scandals depending on who you ask to describe it.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I mean, not counting the Russia thing. But the Russian
thing was all one sided. This has got, you know,
elements of a scandal, and that it's got both sides
are involved. Speaker Johnson said the other day it's not
a hoax. Various Republican committees have voted for releasing more
of this than that, and so what is exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Going on, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
But then yesterday Trump drops some information that keeps the
story going and makes it reasonable to ask even more questions.
So he's continuing to being to be asked about how
did you and Epstein have that falling out, because he's
given slightly different answers at different times. What happened in
(19:54):
the break between two guys that seemed to be pretty
friendly and then went to not speaking to each other,
and it had to do with poaching employees, But then
he got more specific about what employees. So that's that's
what the reporter's asking about here, and then you'll hear
his answer.
Speaker 7 (20:08):
I think you're calling out Victifrey see some workers from
your business, but your immanisation and not because he was
a cret.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Well maybe they're the same thing, you know, it's sort
of a little bit of the same thing.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
But no, he took people that work for me and
I told him, don't do it, and he already did it,
and I said, stay the hell out of here.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
So the question was, you've said in the past that
you broke ties with him because he was a creep.
Now you're saying it's because he poached some employees. What's
the you know, how do you explain the difference stories?
He said, well, those are the same thing, little boat,
which can be true. But in this question, and this
is what was news making the most famous woman victim.
(20:52):
We all know from the pictures if you've been following
Epstein at all, she was a beautiful seventeen year old
blonde woman standing there with Prince Andrew one of Empstein's parties.
Apparently he's having sex with freaking fifty year old powerful man.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It's just a horrible story. She ended up killing herself
last year.
Speaker 4 (21:12):
Got an enormous settlement too. At one point, just ad
a really troubled young gale. Anyway, it turns out she
worked at Trump's place. I guess, so well, here's how
the questioning went.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
One of those stolen you.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
Know persons that include from Virginia if free.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
I think she worked at the spot. I think so
I think that was one of the pig with it.
He stole her.
Speaker 9 (21:40):
And by the way, she had no complaints about us,
as you know, done whatsoever?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Did she work for you?
Speaker 4 (21:48):
This is new?
Speaker 3 (21:49):
I mean, how have we been this far into the
Epstein thing after all these years and just found out
the most famous chick from the whole thing used to
work at Trump's.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
It seems like somebody would have pointed that out. But
so when he's asked did she work there? I don't know. Yeah,
maybe she did. She did, In fact, she did, and
she had no complaints.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
So you went from as he it weirdly negotiates against himself.
I mean, he was thinking out loud obviously, all right,
what can I say? What can I not say about
or what should I say? What an His answer just
evolved in the space of like ten seconds.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
That was interesting.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
Why does he remember one particular woman from twenty plus
years ago who worked at his golf club? How many
thousands of people have worked at his golf club's many
many golf clubs.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Yeah, I again, I suspect somebody reminded him of it
when her name first became public, probably said to him, Hey,
she worked at mar a lago she was one of
the gals that Epstein poached.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I suspect that's a fairly innocent explanation that I don't.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
I don't for a second or so far, I haven't
for a second believed that Trump's like really implicated in
anything awful in the whole epsteinc thing. I've never thought that, right,
So I'm not you know, So why are you attacking
him like that?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I just can't imagine why he would keep this story going.
Why didn't he just say, well.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Because I don't remember, well, I don't, I don't know. Well, honestly,
now you've dragged me into it. I don't understand why
I wouldn't say, uh, what was the question?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Originally?
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Did she work for you? So obviously the reporters had
gotten some information that she worked there.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
That she did.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I have no specific recollection. It would have been perfectly fine, Yeah,
and believable answer.
Speaker 4 (23:52):
Ser migrated though that creates a perception of that's odd.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
Well, I feel like all the answers have been migrating,
so that gives the conspiracy theorists, you know, fuel for
their fire.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Like I said, I don't believe there's a conspiracy to be.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
Found but if your story about why you broke with
Epstein is a little different every time we.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
Ask, I might as well keep asking, right right, It
seems odd to me that.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The most famous woman from the whole thing we just
now found out worked at Trump's golf course and was.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Part of the falling out between Trump and Epstein. I mean,
that's that's big. I mean, it's not necessarily significant in
any way, but it's very notable. Yeah, I don't know,
there's a lot of MRK around this, and where there
is merk, conspiracy websites thrive.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Oh yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:49):
And so.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Chuck Schumer, leader of the Senate for the Democrats, tweeted out,
I'm fighting for the FBI to conduct a counter and
tel diligence threat assessment to determine the risk proposed or
the risk posed if a foreign adversary were to gain
access to the Epstein files. Whatever is in the Epstein
files is clearly concerning enough that Donald Trump is running
(25:13):
scared our adversaries could try to use it to gain
influence on her, American and Americans.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
So, Chuck Schumer, your party is terrible and nobody likes you.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
The mainstream media, of course, conveniently ignoring the fact that
he was the leader of the Senate.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
For many years when.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
The Democrats controlled all the levers of every department and
have released every tiny bit of the Epstein information had
they wanted to. I know, you would have to be
truly ignoramous to fall for Chucky's latest judo move.
Speaker 1 (25:50):
I see you don't know your judo wells.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
So it's pretty obvious that the Democrats know that most
people don't pay close enough attention to put two and
two together and figure that out. Wait a second, you
gotta release it whenever you wanted, so there must not
be anything there. So the Democrats know there's nothing there.
Most Republicans, I think, know there's nothing there. That one
guy who runs that one committee seems to be convinced,
or he has to pretend he's convinced, because his constituents
(26:16):
are all into it. But he seems to be convinced
that that whole QAnon child trafficking Hillary Clinton runs it
thing is real. When does this nothing burger finally get
thrown in the trash because somebody says this is no meat,
send it back.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
I want a new Hamburger, you know, I just I
got rid of a quote from Yeah, maybe, I guess
find it real quick.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
From uh, there's not even cheese and sauce on this
nothing burger. It's just there you go. Here's mtguh.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
She was not the congress person you're discussing, but I
have a feeling he is of a similar mind to
her quote. If you tell the base of people who
support you of deep state trees in his crime, election interference, blackmail,
and rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take
down every enemy of the people. If not, the base
(27:08):
will turn and there's no going back. Dangling bits of
red meat no longer satisfies. They want the whole steak
dinner and will accept nothing else.
Speaker 1 (27:17):
Do you think the base would turn.
Speaker 8 (27:20):
To what?
Speaker 1 (27:21):
Toward what? I do think that a lot of people.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I know a couple and I have no idea if
that's a half a one percent of the Republican Party
or fifteen percent of the Republican Party. But I know
people that will not probably vote in the midterm because
they're just so disgusted by not getting what they were
promised out of this.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
Right well, in response to your question, they'll turn to
what to not have sites and podcasts and not voting,
but not Yeah, not voting is a big deal.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah. If your most enthusiastic voters decide screw it. Yeah,
that hurts.
Speaker 4 (27:59):
Hurts, we see well, and you know, Marjorie, actually it's
an indictment of honestly, the whole harm. Scare them right
wing conspiracy podcast world, you know. And I'll beat up
on lefties in a minute, everybody, So just be patient.
(28:21):
But if you tell the base of people who support
you of deep state treasonous crimes, election interference, blackmail and
rich powerful elite evil cabals, then you must take down
every enemy of the people. So and I would say
to Margie, and we are close friends after greeting each
other briefly in an airport once they could see the
(28:46):
sparks fly between us. On anyway, there are two answers
to what you're saying, Margie. One, as you said, you
must take down every enemy of the people. Or Two,
what they told you, what they sold you was bunk
(29:10):
or at least exaggerations, extra exciting click baity exaggerations to
keep you tuned in and to sell you stuff and
to make money from you.
Speaker 3 (29:21):
Well, so to flip it to the other side, did
the Democratic base. How did they react to the nothing
burger that was the Russia hoax. They were promised all
these things by Adam Schiff and all these different people
that were going to happen, and they never did.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
Maybe that's part of the reason the Democratic Party is
at the lowest rating they've ever been. Is that abandonment there.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
You know what's funny, Jack is I was going to
say the mainstream media, which is their mouthpiece. Those people
were pretty skilled in a despicable low crawling what's a
belly crawling?
Speaker 1 (29:57):
What's that expression? You're lower than a whatever?
Speaker 4 (30:00):
You belly crawling snakes maglin, what's that expression? The ease
it in the Westerns all the time. You're a low
riding I can't reme anyway, they were very good in
an evil way at saying while Muller was not able
to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Trump colluded with Putin,
(30:22):
the signs were many. The meetings are still there, and
they splat it to their people like we almost got them,
we almost got them. I was gonna say that, but
now that you mention it played out over the long term,
that had to play a role in their current abysmal
approval rate, lack.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
Of enthusiasm for their own party. Sure, yeah, we will
finish strong. Next, do you want to play?
Speaker 1 (30:51):
Persia?
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Sixty eight is Corey Booker going nuts on the Senate floor,
desperately trying to become the face of the Democratic Party.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
There's too much going on in this country.
Speaker 8 (31:05):
When are we going to stand together for principles that
I just heard that we're agreed with. When are we
going to stand together? If we don't stand as Democrats,
we deserve to lose.
Speaker 4 (31:19):
All right, They're about to unanimously pass this measure, and
he decided to stop it and yell at people for
a while. And even his own party is like, what
are you talking about?
Speaker 7 (31:30):
So?
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Who brought us this meme?
Speaker 4 (31:33):
This?
Speaker 6 (31:33):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
Who cares? But I like I just so.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
There's some horrible version of the Titanic song somebody played
on the recorder that has become a meme. You put
it underneath like serious stuff to mock it, for instance.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
This there's too much on the line right now in America.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
As people's do process rights and freedom to speech rights,
and secret police are running around this country picking people
off off the streets who have a legal rights there's
too much going on in this country.
Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh I need that for I wouldn't actually do this,
but i'd like to use that sometime when one of
my teenagers is going on one of the rants about
how rough their life is.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Play that song.
Speaker 4 (32:17):
Oh if you had that handy on your phone, saying
with that in voice memos, Yeah, is that one note that?
Speaker 10 (32:32):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (32:32):
Well, if you ever did you play the recorder in
fourth grade? It's not easy. You know, the fingering is wrong,
but you can't remember that, you like over correct the
wrong way. No, there it is. That is Oh my goodness. Yeah,
well let's see.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
That's how we wooed Fang Fang was playing the recorder,
playing his fancy licks um.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So yeah, oh we got breaking news.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer says there is a century
old law that he can use to compel the Department
of Justice to release.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
The Epstein files, So he's gonna attempt to do that today.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
I wish they would release the Epstein files. I wish
every word about Epstein would be put out there. No,
that's the thing though, That's one of the things you
can't uh for for perfectly good reasons. There's peoples who
have their names in there, just tangentially, it's got nothing
to do with the crime or anything.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
You can't be putting their names out there and in
all sorts of information about the victims. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
Right, So then if you have anything that's like blacked out,
then you get to continue to claim there's a conspiracy
and that not even.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
It's not even clear to me that Congress could do
that because of our judicial system.
Speaker 10 (33:43):
Gentlemen, this is Final Pots Manifest with Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
I see you know you'll Judo.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Well, here's your host for final thoughts, Joe Getty. How
about a final thought from everybody on the crew to
wrap things up for the day. There is our technical director, Michaelangelo. Michael,
what's your final thought?
Speaker 9 (34:03):
Okay, I'm thinking you used that Titanic theme at a
city council meetium when somebody's up there discussing a really
important topic and you're just out in the audience. You've
got on a little bluetooth speaker, just pretend nothing's going on.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
It would go on for a while and they say,
excuse me, who's playing that? Who's can you please stop
that place?
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And everybody be cracking up.
Speaker 4 (34:23):
I love that idea Katie Greener, a Steam Newswoman. As
a final thought, Katie.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Today is my daddy O's birthday, So happy birthday to
my dad.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
Happy birthday, Judge Larry Jack. Final thought for us. We
got this text. I think I'm in this boat.
Speaker 3 (34:38):
This texture said, I'm a sixty something old guy and
I'm gonna buy a pair of American Eagle jeans today.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
What a bunch of idiots. You know. I'm going to
order a pair of my size today too. I'll do
it right now.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
During the break, I'm gonna drink a bud light to
support Dylan mulvaney, to show you bigots. So Glenn Kessler,
fact checker of the Washington Post, resigned.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Nice fella, really nice man, But.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Some of our favorite journalists are kicking the hell out
of him because he got it so badly wrong so
many times.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Oh yeah, is a fact checker.
Speaker 3 (35:12):
But he was better than like ninety eight percent of
the fact checkers out there.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Oof.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
We'll talk about that tomorrow, which is unfortunate.
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Armstrong and getdy right. I got but a goodnother grueling
four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:24):
So many people, thanks so a little time. Good Armstrong
and giddy Dot com got a lot of great clicks
for you. The hot links Kati's Corner. Pick up some swag,
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Speaker 1 (35:37):
Yeah, what is today? Wednesday?
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Come?
Speaker 3 (35:38):
We got two days left this week. I don't know
if I can do it. See tomorrow. God bless America.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
There were so many great moments on Today's Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Show, but no as great.
Speaker 4 (35:54):
Now.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Was it like the sort of thing that a couple
would use in a loving way or was it like
novelty side It's like some Lura Circus act sort of deal.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
It was it was you could use it. Okay, I'll
take your word, Florida, but thank you. Hr is walking
down the hall right now, and something I have to go,
so Armstrong and Getty
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