November 13, 2025 • 37 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Affordability, comparing to others & lifestyles
- Jack's embarrassing story
- The Epstein emails & Pascal's wager
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Datty and
he armstrong and Yetty. I'm here at the end with
Tag and that's the way it was meant to be.
(00:28):
We are perfect for each other. You told me you
had confidence in me I'd make their right choice.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I did, and this represents our commitment to love, to
give us time to figure out together what our future holds.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait a second, what do you think? I agree? Definitely
a match. That's her dang show. I'm not for everybody,
He's not for everybody, but we're definitely for each other. Okay.
From The Golden Bachelor last night, Man, there has some
sappy sue music that they played in the background. Michael,
you said you have family members that were into The
Golden Bachelor. Yeah, my mom and my sister. They watch it.
(01:09):
So it's like The Bachelor, except it's an old guy. Yeah.
How old was he ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think it was sixty three. Sixty three years old.
She's sixty six and she's sixty three. I believe dude,
how long have you pulled this act where you like
tell a girl and I've bought you this ring to
signify the fact that we're going to seriously consider being
together and talk it over and see how things turn out.
Whoa wait a second kind of come inmit? Is that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Maybe the shows those shows got tired of announcing the
engagement of the winner and is chosen one and they
always break up and they'd become a running joke.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What because they've known each other for two weeks on
a television show? The concept is so crazy, but it continues,
all right? Who are the family members that like to
watch it? Michael, Oh, it's just my sister, Yeah, my
mom and my sister. Yeah, your sister, your mom, Okay,
(02:08):
well I do chicks it Geve blove blooming. Everybody likes
that right to each their own.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I could see, you know, he'd meet somebody and really
hit it off with him, for sure, entirely possible.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
On a TV.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Idea that you're then going to get married is idiotic
and on a TV should they've abandoned that because it's
like there's all the weird stuff that's going on in.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Other news this coming out of the shutdown, President Trump's
approval on the economy in an apee pole is thirty
three percent. But the Treasury Secretary urges Americans worried about
affordability to be patient.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
There is the inflation line. We've got that under control.
It's leveled out. That is going to start turning down.
Then there's the income line. I would expect in the
first quarter, second quarter of next year, those two lines
are going to cross, and the American people are going
to a feeling better.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Are they. I actually heard what I thought was a
pretty good story on NPR today about this. They're going
with the angle that when inflation was bad, Joe Biden
was telling Americans that it wasn't and you could say
all day long the economy was great. Joe Biden was
out there saying the economies is the best in the world,
and you go to the grocery store and get gas
(03:22):
and everything like that, and you'd think, holy crap. Now
you have almost exactly the same thing going on with
Donald Trump going around saying the economy is the best
in the world, of the best it's ever been. Man, it
don't get the stock market, yeah, but don't feel that
way when you go to the grocery store or buy anything.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Now, the White House messaging in Trump in particular been
terrible on this issue. I mean, like almost suicidally bad.
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
As we talked about yesterday, he ran on, I'm going
to lower prices, which is not really what he meant,
but that's what he said. And people who don't know
a lot about how inflation works thought the prices were
actually going to go back to what prices used to be.
But that's not the way inflation works. Right. So yeah,
so even if you got inflation down to two percent,
(04:07):
people still be a lot of people would still be
pretty unhappy because things are expensive. Like I've been saying
since the inflation thing took, I don't know how long
it takes before you get used to new prices to
where it no longer shocks you. But I'm not there yet.
I'm not there yet. I don't know about everybody else.
Oh no, no, not even close.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, it's very much like the whole Asle solved
the Ukraine Russia thing in one day, which I realized
was her hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How about one month, how about one year? How about ever?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And just making out landish promises about the economy then
when they don't materialize, telling Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, you're wrong, it's great. It's just it's insane messaging. Yeah, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You could have come into office and say, you know,
the day of the inauguration, you could say, look, the
economy super screwed up because Biden was terrible at it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
True, it's probably going to take a solid year to.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Two years to straighten things out, but we're gonna bring
down that inflation level. We're gonna see if we can
even roll prices back a little bit. That's gonna be
tough because the way inflation works, but by god, we're
gonna do everything we can to make your life more affordable.
That would have been great, and then people would have
had a little bit of patience. But between the bad
messaging and the tariff thing, it's just I'm not shocked
(05:18):
his approval numbers are that low thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was his like bulletproof number that he was so
good on all through the first term, and while he
was running that in immigration, he has, as we've said
many many times, he's got the common man, the common touch,
better than practically anybody who's ever run for president in
the history of this country. But it is quite possible
(05:44):
on this one and that a guy that looks at
the stock market to see how the economy is doing
doesn't get that. For everybody else who that isn't their
number one concern. Every single time you go to the
grocery store, you're shocked. Every time if you eat out,
you're shocked at what it costs m shot for your
(06:05):
kids clothes whatever. Oh, yeah, to school. This is amazing,
And I don't know what you do about that. So
that's one angle I find the psychology of all this
interesting because at some point we'll get used to the
new prices and they will no longer shock us, and
that will just be We'll be back to regular life,
(06:25):
Like I don't know how long that takes. So that's
kind of an emotional thing. And it's also kind of
an emotional thing whether you're happy or not. It's got
a lot to do with comparing yourself to other people.
And if you perceive that other people have more than you,
you're less happy, whereas if you perceive that other people
have the same as you, you're happy with the same stuff.
It's just human nature and interesting. Comparison is the thief
(06:46):
of joy. Yeah, and everybody does it. Wait a second,
where's my watch.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I try very very hard not to do it. Every
time I catch myself doing it, I say, dumb, stop
it comparing yourself to other people.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry to get sidetracked, but I don't
know my watch on it and I never take my
watch off. I must have taken it off in my sleep.
Was it when you strip searched Michaelangelo?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know you do that before every show, just to
make sure he's not hiding any weapons, you know, prison style.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I took my watch off to strip search Michaelangelo. Well, yeah,
to you know. Oh oh god took him a minute, folks,
I got I got sidetracked. So then the other thing is,
because this affordability issue is going to be the issue
that both parties are wrangling over, no doubt, for the
next year leading up to the midterms, and I don't
(07:37):
know if there is an answer from either side. The politically,
the answer is to seem like the party that cares
the most about it. In terms of actually doing anything
about it, that's a whole different question. But you got
to seem like the party of the complicator that cares
about it. Well, then let me just say, if the
Republicans lose on that point after the debacle of the
Biden administration and the Democratic Congress. I mean, that'd be
(07:58):
like losing a football game. You're up fifty to nothing
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That well, I'm gonna don my armstrong and getty f
yaolickin party T shirt proudly on that day.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, if you're gonna run for president, honestly, completely honestly
to me, because I don't think there's that much you
can do about it. Had said, look, this is the
way inflation works. You know how a new car cost
two thousand dollars in nineteen sixty five and now they
cost forty thousand dollars. Inflation just things get more and
more expensive over time. We had a period here where
inflation happened really really fast, and it's shocking to us.
(08:31):
And it's gonna take years before we get used to
these prices or wages catch up, and there's nothing I
can do about it. I mean, that's the way I mean,
that would have been the honest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, Or you could rephrase that and just say we're
going to stop prices from rising anymore, from rising so quickly.
We've got to slow it down, and we have the
plan to do it. That'd be good enough, I think.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But he said prices will come down, and then the
idiotic media, much of whom I don't think understand how
inflation works either, talk regularly about they just haven't come
down yet. Well they're not going too. They're gonna stop
going up so fast. Any Who, this meme is seems
to be back, at least on social media. I heard
Ben Shapiro on somebody Else's podcast the other day addressing it.
(09:15):
He got hit with the whole but look, in the fifties,
on a single salary, you could own a home. It
was based on the stat that got everybody's attention last
week that the median first time home buyer is now
forty It was twenty nine nineteen eighty one, it is
now forty years old. Started there. So you used to
be able to just dad working, buy a home, live
(09:38):
the American dream. And Ben Shapiro, in that he's a
very smart guy, sort of way broke it down the
way we have broken it down many times over the years.
That the combination of that was a blip in time
after World War Two, when the entire manufacturing sector of
the world disappeared and we were the only manufacturer of everything,
combined with the fact that those people were living a
(10:00):
a much less extravagant, extravagant lifestyle than everybody does now
tonight way, tiny houses. Ben Shapiro actually said it, and
I think he was right. If you had to live
in the house your parents or grandparents lived in, depending
on your age, you would think this is a crap
hole because it's tiny and a little run down. That's
(10:24):
what I grew up in, a tiny, a little rundown home,
not you know, the giant McMansion everybody thinks they ought
to have. And so so from both ends, it was
a blip in time historically and just a completely fanciful
view of what life used to be. Nobody flew anywhere
(10:44):
back then. Nobody you drove to the local lake in
the summer for vacation or their grandma's house.
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just because we've talked about this a lot. The key
to this, though, that I haven't said yet, is we've
got to do away with this whole comparing life today
(12:10):
to the fifties and acting like we're getting screwed, whether
it's by Republicans or Democrats. It doesn't make any sense
in all the ways that's been laid out a bunch
of different times. But as long as we're going to
hang on to that, we're doomed. The comparison is the
thief of joy. We're comparison selves to something that one
was a blip and two never really happened the way
it's being displayed. So our politics are going to be
(12:31):
miserable until we finally come to grips with that. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Two points number one, Yes, you're right, it's not just
not apples to apples or apples oranges like apples to
golden retrievers. Comparing our lifestyle right now to the nineteen
fifties for instance. Second fascinating Joe Getty revelation. I have
never in my life had my own room. Everybody has
(12:57):
their own room in most modern American households.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, I uh. It was with my sister in our
little apartment when we were young, and then my brother
was born.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We moved to a new house and I was roomed
with my brother. Then I went to college. I always
had roommates, and then I got married while I was
still in college.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've never had my own room. It's pretty great. Yeah,
I'm fine. I shared a bedroom with my brother, and
it would it would have seemed crazy to make my
kids share a bedroom. It would have seemed crazy. I
don't know why. I mean, but that's a difference in
lifestyle right there. Of course, everybody needs to have their
own room. No, that was the exact opposite. When I
(13:37):
was a kid, and we're not one hundred and fifty
years old. Everybody and I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Would play nerf hoops for hours at a time, and
everybody I knew if you went over to their house
to play, they they shared a bedroom, their brother or
sister was there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Everybody. So again apples to Golden nurse shavers. Come on, folks,
that's a good one. Any thoughts on that textas four one, five,
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you maybe next segment. What one prominent Republican House member
said about those who aren't willing to vote to release
(14:11):
the Epstein files. He's putting pressure on his other Republican
House colleagues to vote yes next week on the Epstein
Transparency Act, and he brings it pretty hard. So we'll
get to that at some point. So this will make
you all think less of me, I think less of myself.
But so last night, last yesterday, I don't wash my
(14:37):
betting very often. Speaking of never having your own room,
I have way too not at all speaking of you
saying you've never had your own room in your life,
I have way too often had my own room. And
I've had my own room now for quite some time,
and I sleep alone, and so it's just me. So
I don't get around washing my betting that often. So
(14:59):
I washed all my sheets, pillowcases and comforter, and I
got them all washed and everything like. I don't dry
my comforter because I like the color of it and
I don't want the color to fade out, so I
don't dry it. I spread it out on the bed
and let it dry, which is which is what I've
done in the past. Okay, And if you have enough
time at waita, are you all right with that or what?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
On top of the freshly washed sheets, getting them all
wet again, creating a mildewy situation.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, it didn't have long enough to dry. And when
I got into bed and it was way late and
I was tired, it was so wet in my bed.
My sheets are wet. The comforter's still wet, and it's
freezing cold. You know just how water feels cold and
everything like that. Okay, so it's cold and wet, and
I thought, I really should take off these wet sheets
(15:47):
and put on dry sheets, but I'm so tired. I'm
gonna try to sleep under these on top of the
wet sheets, under a wet comforter. Wow, even though it's
freezing here on Admirald Birds expedition and you know you're
you're hoping to survive. I thought, surely my body heat
will will warm up a little spot here, Sure, and
(16:07):
over time it will dry out. In the middle of
the night, oh, without a doubt. And it just that,
And I just kept laying there. I was like so
cold and so uncomfortable, and you know, wet and cold
is like among the most unpleasant feelings a human being. Cannamp.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, well, your brain is trying to tell you something.
What are you trying to die. Would you like to die?
This is how you die?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So I laid huddled in a ball under those wet sheets,
on top of the wet sheets, under a wet comforter,
so I had wet on both sides of my body.
Just laid there, uncomfortable, awake, hoping it would go away
all night long, Like you escaped from the chain gang
and Mississippian ran off into the woods as the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Hounds bade and the deputies pursued you, and you had
to curl up under a pile of leaves sleep tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I was the New Orleans escapees. That's who I was, Like, Oh,
it was horrible, and I just I kept thinking, you
should really just get up and get some dry sheets,
or move to the couch or do something. But I
was so tired. It just seemed like so much work.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
It's more work for your body to try to not
go into hypothermia because you're sheets are wet.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you finally drift off in your sponge like atmosphere.
I didn't fall asleep, but I woke up. You know,
I'm very very I'm very, very tired because I had
trouble sleeping, and every time I would wake up. I'd
love it. Oh that's right, I'm sleeping on wet sheets
under a like. Oh wow, it was something incredibly unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That is some exciting celebrity lifestyle you're living there?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You rolled over? Was there a giant splash? Squire? Well,
I couldn't really move because I had carved out one
warm little My body heat had kind of made it
a little bit warm up, and I moved a little bit.
It was your amazing freezing cold. Ah yeah, yeah. So again,
I don't know what that says. There's probably much that
that says about my personality. I certainly couldn't have been
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sharing a bed with anybody who would have thought that
was okay with you. We'll just lay here under the
on the wet sheets and be cold all night long.
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Look armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Despite the optics here.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
There's just nothing connecting the president to any crime or
any wrongdoing. He has said he did nothing wrong. Even
the victim, Virginia Guphray, said he didn't do anything wrong,
and so I think the issue continues to dog him politically,
but legally there's no hook there for him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I thought that was interesting that NBC Evening News their
reporter on the story of all the Epstein emails that
came out yesterday. Democrats leaked some out and then the
Republicans put out way more with the idea I think
that it would one give it more context, and two
just like flood the media with so many it was
(18:52):
difficult to talk about him. But the NBC Evening News
even they went with there's nothing to tie Trump legally
to any thing that you know would be a problem
for him, which still is the case. Well, and the
fact that they had Congress and the White House an
access to all of this stuff through the DOJ for
(19:13):
a very very long time, and they would have kneecapped
Trump with delight if there was anything there.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
If that turns out to be a wrong, serie, please
let me know. Until then, I will let others, you know,
delve into this.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So the House voted yesterday, and there are plenty of
Republicans voted along with Democrats to move forward with what
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is now calling
the Epstein Transparency Act, and he said today they're going
to vote on it next week. So there's gonna be
a full House vote on that, and then everything will
come out, and then you got a mix of Republicans Democrats,
including Maggie, Republicans who want it, but Trump does not.
(19:48):
Trump is pressuring Republicans to vote against this. So that's
that on some of the emails it came out yesterday,
some of the ones that are getting the most talk.
In a twenty eleven email to Maxwell the Chick that's
in prison, Epstein referred to Trump as the dog that
hasn't barked, writing that he said a victim. They had
the Democrat's release of it, just said victim because they
(20:10):
didn't want the name out. The Republicans later then put
out the fact that it's that I can't pronounce her name. Jeffrey,
a Virginia girl that killed herself. Yeah recently it was her,
but anyway, Epstein wrote that Virginia had spent hours at
my house with Trump, but Trump's never once been mentioned
in these investigations. Okay, hours with in the same house,
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the talking what well, and she said Trump never did
anything inappropriate. And I would like to think at this
point I have earned a little credibility as neither having
Trump derangement syndrome nor being some sort of always Trump
honk I call him as I see him. He makes
me insane at least half the time. There's nothing here. Yeah,
(20:54):
maybe the most interesting one to me and see that
was on Claude. Let me go to what GPT dug
up for me was the fact that emails showing Epstein
offering to help Russia understand Trump. Yes, with one message
quoted Shirkin, that was the Russian guy he was working with.
(21:16):
Was great. He understood Trump after our conversations. It's not complex.
So he was working with some Russians to help them
understand Trump. Why you helping an enemy of the United
States understand Donald Trump? Because you understand Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Gee, because you're a sociopathic monster and you'll just do
whatever it brings you money or sex.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, you know, if the NBC Evening News is willing
to just state it plainly, there's nothing tying him legally
to any of Epstein's problems after yesterday's email, don't I
don't know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
If you can just separate yourself from the partisanship or
rooting or whatever you want to say and look at
this as kind of a political scientist, it's such an
interesting and weird coalition of people demanding quote unquote transparency,
from the Pizzagate paranoid conspiracy crowd to the Democrats who
just want to smear Trump, to Republican congress people who
(22:13):
are like I think, who is the great philosopher? Who
the bargain was that?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Look, if you espouse belief in God and you live
a godly life, if there is a God, you're saved.
If there's not, well, what the heck doesn't really matter,
Whereas if you go the other side, if there's no God,
it doesn't matter. But if there is a God, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So you know, you might as well live a godly life.
I think a lot of Republicans are, at least a
handful of them are making that bargain. Look, people who
don't care about the Epstein thing, the Joe Getty coalition,
who thinks there's nothing there. They won't penalize me for
demanding the release of the papers. They're worried about other stuff.
They just roll their eyes. But there's no loss in
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me for pretending that I'm fighting bravely against this cabal
of sex crazed pizza proprietors or whatever the hell's shape
it's taking these days so they get to credit and
there's no real harm.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, Trump's pressure and people really really hard to vote
no on this thing. It's the first bipartisan anything I
can remember in like a decade. Yeah, but weirdly, weirdly
bip So let's hear from Representative Thomas Massey. He's a Republican,
he's on one of the big committees around this, and
he's trying to convince Republicans that they need to vote
(23:32):
for it, even though Trump wants them to vote against it.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I've already had a couple of Republicans tell my office
privately that they're going to vote for it, and I
think that could snowball to mean, you know, the deal
for Republicans on this vote is that Trump will protect
you if you vote the wrong way. In other words,
if you vote to cover up for pedophiles, you've got
(23:55):
cover in a Republican primary. But I would remind my
colleagues that vote is going to be on your record
for longer than Trump is going to be president. And
what are you going to do in twenty twenty eight
and twenty thirty when you're in a debate either with
a Republican or a Democrat and they say, how can
we trust you? You cover it up for a pedophile
back in you know, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's pretty strong. So he's presenting it as well, if
you vote no, you're covering up for a pedophile. That's
a pretty strong statement. Yeah, and then you got to
come out and say no, I don't think I I'm
trying to cover up for a pedophile. I just don't
think there's any more to the story. But that's a
tough one. Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But the problem with this, and the real one of
the reasons I get so frustrated with it, is as
long as there is a single victims name redacted, if
every chapter, verse, page, and book, every file of this
is released completely, but there's one redacted victim's name, that
will be enough to fuel the conspiracy theories for the
(25:02):
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Pascal is the philosopher. Pascal's wager is what you were
talking is popped into my head. Pascal's wager on the
whole idea of you might as well pretend there's a god,
because if you turn out you know you're right, you're good.
If you're wrong, what's the harm? And so you're thinking
that with that this vote here, it's certainly going to pass.
There will be enough Republicans and practically all the Democrats
(25:26):
vote for it next week, and so it will pass.
And more of this I almost trumped in his well
more this s is going to come out, and then
I hope it's like, Okay, we didn't find anything more
juicy than Epstein saying he knew there were girls there. Okay,
that doesn't say anything. Well here a vague mentioned that
Trump was at some sort of party, and that'll be
(25:47):
news for two days. Okay, all right, great, But you know, yes,
there is the question of why did he have Lauren
Bobert and Nancy May pressured so hard yesterday to vote no?
Trump had the FBI director the Attorney General leaning on them,
(26:07):
you gotta vote no. They voted yes because their constituents
believe that there's a pedophile ring being covered up with
many major figures in our government that need to go
down right right? Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I cannot come up with a completely innocent explanation of that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I can't. It doesn't look good. Wouldn't the best thing
politically be for Trump to say, I agree, get it
all out there? Yeah? Oh yeah, but he's not that's
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Speaker 2 (27:45):
More on Pascal's wager, which I find more interesting than
the Epstein thing. I a believe in God, so I
don't have to pretend anything. But Christopher Hitchens, the atheist
who would go around the world debating various Christian thinkers
and try to convince them that they're wrong. His argument,
I always thought was pretty good on the Pascal wager.
(28:07):
So you believe in a God that you could pretend
to believe in and he wouldn't know that, or he
would know that, and he'd be okay with the fact
that you pretended the whole time, and then at the
end on the judgment and say, well that's good enough. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't the word pretend, I think is prejudicial. I've
I used the term live a godly life, which may
have been prejudicial. On the other side, I don't speak French,
so I don't know the original, you know, actual statement
that Pescal made.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I believe the idea is not just live a
godly life, it's a believe in God. You might as
well believe in God, right, Yeah, Yeah, I think so too. Yeah,
that was my understanding. But if you're faking it just
in case it is God, well exactly, And Christopher Hitchin's
argument was God would know that that you were just
like playing the odds, like you think, you know, you
(29:00):
got a seventy five percent chance here, so you might
as well go this direction like you're betting on a
football game. Yeah, yeah, you know, I believe what I believe.
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I have a great humbleness about this topic as people,
you know, struggle with this sort of thing. I feel
like I've walked up to a nuclear reactor that's going wrong,
and the technicians turn to me and say, what should
we do.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm like, you're asking the wrong guy. You got to
figure that out. My son, who my youngest, who calls
himself an atheist currently, but he goes back and forth.
I said, well, about two thirds of the time I
believe this, and about the third of the time I don't,
which is where I am. The particulars of it. I'm
not going to get into the particulars, but yeah, and
(29:41):
you know it's lots of people are that way. Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, it's struggling with cited in both the Old and
New Testaments.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Including and I always bring this up because I think
it was really interesting after Mother Teresa died, when they
were going through her letters and everything like that, and
they were released in book four. She had many letters
in there throughout her life where she doubted the existence
of God and she'd say things like I felt for
a fraud. I can't believe I've been living this life
and God doesn't exist. I mean, so she if she's
(30:11):
going to go through those periods of time where she
doesn't buy at all, well, then you know, give yourself
a little slack. Oh, I agree completely one way or
the other. Of course, back to Christopher Higgins, he wrote
a book about the evil of Mother Teresa and how
she should be thrown in prison for her evil or
something like that. That's a different topic.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, yeah, oh, And of course you know he was
a brilliant, brilliant man and unbelievably gifted writer, but smoked
cigarettes and died of lung cancer far far before his time,
which still actually angers me because I so would like
to hear his opinion on various things that are happening,
you know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He Yeah, I would love to too. He would have
absolutely destroyed woke. Oh, he would have been such a
valuable soldier against that. But he smoked.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
On the other hand, young women are getting lung cancer
right now at alarming rates. Young women have never smoked.
And it's raydon in various parts of the country where
there's a great deal of raydon in the soil. It's
a radioactive element. And I was just reading that the
other day. Get a raid on detector, folks, or you know,
(31:18):
bang up a little raydon map of the United States.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I found it so interesting. I don't know, I think
about that. I know I have a radon detector because
the city makes me, but I didn't know it's given
girls lung cancer. Yeah, yeah, I was shocked. Yeah, frightening
numbers of young women, although they're generally able to catch
it in time because it's so weird that young women
have that sort of symptom and so they report it early.
(31:42):
But I don't have it in front of me. But anyway,
by the way, in a very non scientific polling of
you whether or not you're interested in the Epstein thing,
I'd say it's running about nine to one. No, you're
not interested. With some very aggressive language about me and
the fact that I'm talking about it at all, but
if you are, if you are like into it or whatever,
(32:04):
give us a text. I'd like to hear what that's
all about. I think most of you don't care. I
guess not a huge turnout via email, but it is.
It's the first thing. It's the first thing Congress did
after they came back from the longest shutdown in our history.
And it's the first big bill they're going to vote on.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Next week, and that will be cited by historians of
the future as the moment the United States of America
began to die.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Maybe you might be right if you have any thoughts
on that text line four one FIFTC.
Speaker 9 (32:41):
The International Olympic Committee announced it will ban biological mails
from competing in women's Olympic sports. Better luck next time,
Randy Winegarden.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
But that had to be a visual of the mannish looking,
evil evil head of the Teachers Union. I think she's
the former president, but she's still evil.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Randy Weingarten.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
By the way, business before pleasure got to get to this,
I am so excited. This could be my favorite Armstrong
and Getdy T shirt ever. We were brainstorming yesterday came
up with this absolutely lovely design. It says let's see Hanson.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Was that just to me? I haven't seen it. It
was to the crew, Come on, Oh, there it is.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It is entitled with very nice fonts, ruin the Entire
Country Newsome twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, yes, that's simple and powerful. It says so much
in so few words.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Ruin the Entire Country, Newsome twenty twenty eight available.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Laugh, laugh. Have you available now at the Armstrong Yetdy superstore?
Have you trade marked? Because I could see that being
a popular national T shirt. I have absolutely trademarked that.
Of course, fake Chinese knockoffs being sold all over the place,
like the Maga hats. You can't start a real Chinese
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knockoffs anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Armstrongegetdy dot com mentioned this earlier. Here's this young frenchman.
Oh that reminds me next hour. You know how I've
got my features like a look in the China cabinet.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I've got a new one. Oh boy, does it have music?
What doesn't have music?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Of course it does. Stay tuned for a new idiotic featurette.
This young Fronschman, nineteen year old engineering student at the
University Unpronounceable in somewhere France, loved doing wheelies on his
bicycle and riding around doing a wheelie like my son.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Young men do and have for many, many years. It's
more of a thing now than it's ever been though,
riding long distances, in particular riding at people and cars
to try to frighten them and then you turn away
at the last second.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
That's the Oh I had someone do that to me
and that was one of the scariest moments.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
My son, I've forbidden him to ride at people or cars,
but he does this all the time, or riding. He
gets up on his back wheel. He can ride faster
than I can on his back wheel than I can
ride on both wheels. But he'll ride straight at a
park car and just ah and then he just see
swings at the last second. You try to get as
close as you can, like he's he's clipped his pedal
(35:31):
on telephone poles before. You try to get as close
as you can before you turn on your wheelie.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
So this nineteen year old Fronischman did a wheelie for
ninety three miles six and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's incredible. What kind of bike was he riding? Is
it an s he bike? Probably two wheels and pedals.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Looking at the picture, I don't know really much about bikes.
Let's see, he broke the record by h forty three
and a half miles. And as Jason Gay points out
in the Wall Street Journal, think about it. In human history,
twelve people have walked on the moon, just two hundred
and thirty of won the Nobel Prize in physics, but
(36:13):
only one person has done a.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Wheelie for six and a half hours. Our executive Whoster
Hanson was just complaining about it in his part of town. Also, mobin.
That's what my son and his friends call it. They
go mobbing and they get a bunch of bikes and
they go riding around and they're on their back wheels
and call it avocs call the cops. I would call
a cop. Somebody did that to me.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It's a reckless bicycle, and bicycle is a vehicle. My
little town I grew up in Chicago Land went on
like a six month kick of giving out traffic tickets
to bicyclists.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You should have like rolling through stop signs and stuff
like that. You should have been the mayor of the
town in Footloose. That's the kind of person you are.
Don't anybody dam I believed in it. I would report
my friends for violent No, I was kidding. It was funny.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Some bitter old people must have complained that the city
council or something like that. There's like a six month
period where they were giving people two dollars tickets for
rolling stop signs on a bike. Right please anyway, but
we didn't do anything nearly those dangerous Call the police, folks,
if this is the worst kid I thing my son
does is high school or I will be pretty pleased
at the end.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
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Speaker 2 (00:47):
Wait a second, what do you think? I agree? Definitely
a match. That's her dang show. I'm not for everybody,
He's not for everybody, but we're definitely for each other. Okay.
From The Golden Bachelor last night, Man, there has some
sappy sue music that they played in the background. Michael,
you said you have family members that were into The
Golden Bachelor. Yeah, my mom and my sister. They watch it.
(01:09):
So it's like The Bachelor, except it's an old guy. Yeah.
How old was he ninety seven?
Speaker 4 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think it was sixty three. Sixty three years old.
She's sixty six and she's sixty three. I believe dude,
how long have you pulled this act where you like
tell a girl and I've bought you this ring to
signify the fact that we're going to seriously consider being
together and talk it over and see how things turn out.
Whoa wait a second kind of come inmit? Is that.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Maybe the shows those shows got tired of announcing the
engagement of the winner and is chosen one and they
always break up and they'd become a running joke.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
What because they've known each other for two weeks on
a television show? The concept is so crazy, but it continues,
all right? Who are the family members that like to
watch it? Michael, Oh, it's just my sister, Yeah, my
mom and my sister. Yeah, your sister, your mom, Okay,
(02:08):
well I do chicks it Geve blove blooming. Everybody likes
that right to each their own.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I could see, you know, he'd meet somebody and really
hit it off with him, for sure, entirely possible.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
On a TV.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Idea that you're then going to get married is idiotic
and on a TV should they've abandoned that because it's
like there's all the weird stuff that's going on in.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Other news this coming out of the shutdown, President Trump's
approval on the economy in an apee pole is thirty
three percent. But the Treasury Secretary urges Americans worried about
affordability to be patient.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
There is the inflation line. We've got that under control.
It's leveled out. That is going to start turning down.
Then there's the income line. I would expect in the
first quarter, second quarter of next year, those two lines
are going to cross, and the American people are going
to a feeling better.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Are they. I actually heard what I thought was a
pretty good story on NPR today about this. They're going
with the angle that when inflation was bad, Joe Biden
was telling Americans that it wasn't and you could say
all day long the economy was great. Joe Biden was
out there saying the economies is the best in the world,
and you go to the grocery store and get gas
(03:22):
and everything like that, and you'd think, holy crap. Now
you have almost exactly the same thing going on with
Donald Trump going around saying the economy is the best
in the world, of the best it's ever been. Man, it
don't get the stock market, yeah, but don't feel that
way when you go to the grocery store or buy anything.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Now, the White House messaging in Trump in particular been
terrible on this issue. I mean, like almost suicidally bad.
I don't get it.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
As we talked about yesterday, he ran on, I'm going
to lower prices, which is not really what he meant,
but that's what he said. And people who don't know
a lot about how inflation works thought the prices were
actually going to go back to what prices used to be.
But that's not the way inflation works. Right. So yeah,
so even if you got inflation down to two percent,
(04:07):
people still be a lot of people would still be
pretty unhappy because things are expensive. Like I've been saying
since the inflation thing took, I don't know how long
it takes before you get used to new prices to
where it no longer shocks you. But I'm not there yet.
I'm not there yet. I don't know about everybody else.
Oh no, no, not even close.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
You know, it's very much like the whole Asle solved
the Ukraine Russia thing in one day, which I realized
was her hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
How about one month, how about one year? How about ever?
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And just making out landish promises about the economy then
when they don't materialize, telling Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
No, you're wrong, it's great. It's just it's insane messaging. Yeah, yeah,
I was.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You could have come into office and say, you know,
the day of the inauguration, you could say, look, the
economy super screwed up because Biden was terrible at it.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
True, it's probably going to take a solid year to.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Two years to straighten things out, but we're gonna bring
down that inflation level. We're gonna see if we can
even roll prices back a little bit. That's gonna be
tough because the way inflation works, but by god, we're
gonna do everything we can to make your life more affordable.
That would have been great, and then people would have
had a little bit of patience. But between the bad
messaging and the tariff thing, it's just I'm not shocked
(05:18):
his approval numbers are that low thirty percent.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
That was his like bulletproof number that he was so
good on all through the first term, and while he
was running that in immigration, he has, as we've said
many many times, he's got the common man, the common touch,
better than practically anybody who's ever run for president in
the history of this country. But it is quite possible
(05:44):
on this one and that a guy that looks at
the stock market to see how the economy is doing
doesn't get that. For everybody else who that isn't their
number one concern. Every single time you go to the
grocery store, you're shocked. Every time if you eat out,
you're shocked at what it costs m shot for your
(06:05):
kids clothes whatever. Oh, yeah, to school. This is amazing,
And I don't know what you do about that. So
that's one angle I find the psychology of all this
interesting because at some point we'll get used to the
new prices and they will no longer shock us, and
that will just be We'll be back to regular life,
(06:25):
Like I don't know how long that takes. So that's
kind of an emotional thing. And it's also kind of
an emotional thing whether you're happy or not. It's got
a lot to do with comparing yourself to other people.
And if you perceive that other people have more than you,
you're less happy, whereas if you perceive that other people
have the same as you, you're happy with the same stuff.
It's just human nature and interesting. Comparison is the thief
(06:46):
of joy. Yeah, and everybody does it. Wait a second,
where's my watch.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I try very very hard not to do it. Every
time I catch myself doing it, I say, dumb, stop
it comparing yourself to other people.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry to get sidetracked, but I don't
know my watch on it and I never take my
watch off. I must have taken it off in my sleep.
Was it when you strip searched Michaelangelo?
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I know you do that before every show, just to
make sure he's not hiding any weapons, you know, prison style.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
I took my watch off to strip search Michaelangelo. Well, yeah,
to you know. Oh oh god took him a minute, folks,
I got I got sidetracked. So then the other thing is,
because this affordability issue is going to be the issue
that both parties are wrangling over, no doubt, for the
next year leading up to the midterms, and I don't
(07:37):
know if there is an answer from either side. The politically,
the answer is to seem like the party that cares
the most about it. In terms of actually doing anything
about it, that's a whole different question. But you got
to seem like the party of the complicator that cares
about it. Well, then let me just say, if the
Republicans lose on that point after the debacle of the
Biden administration and the Democratic Congress. I mean, that'd be
(07:58):
like losing a football game. You're up fifty to nothing
in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
That well, I'm gonna don my armstrong and getty f
yaolickin party T shirt proudly on that day.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Well, if you're gonna run for president, honestly, completely honestly
to me, because I don't think there's that much you
can do about it. Had said, look, this is the
way inflation works. You know how a new car cost
two thousand dollars in nineteen sixty five and now they
cost forty thousand dollars. Inflation just things get more and
more expensive over time. We had a period here where
inflation happened really really fast, and it's shocking to us.
(08:31):
And it's gonna take years before we get used to
these prices or wages catch up, and there's nothing I
can do about it. I mean, that's the way I mean,
that would have been the honest thing.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Yeah, Or you could rephrase that and just say we're
going to stop prices from rising anymore, from rising so quickly.
We've got to slow it down, and we have the
plan to do it. That'd be good enough, I think.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
But he said prices will come down, and then the
idiotic media, much of whom I don't think understand how
inflation works either, talk regularly about they just haven't come
down yet. Well they're not going too. They're gonna stop
going up so fast. Any Who, this meme is seems
to be back, at least on social media. I heard
Ben Shapiro on somebody Else's podcast the other day addressing it.
(09:15):
He got hit with the whole but look, in the fifties,
on a single salary, you could own a home. It
was based on the stat that got everybody's attention last
week that the median first time home buyer is now
forty It was twenty nine nineteen eighty one, it is
now forty years old. Started there. So you used to
be able to just dad working, buy a home, live
(09:38):
the American dream. And Ben Shapiro, in that he's a
very smart guy, sort of way broke it down the
way we have broken it down many times over the years.
That the combination of that was a blip in time
after World War Two, when the entire manufacturing sector of
the world disappeared and we were the only manufacturer of everything,
combined with the fact that those people were living a
(10:00):
a much less extravagant, extravagant lifestyle than everybody does now
tonight way, tiny houses. Ben Shapiro actually said it, and
I think he was right. If you had to live
in the house your parents or grandparents lived in, depending
on your age, you would think this is a crap
hole because it's tiny and a little run down. That's
(10:24):
what I grew up in, a tiny, a little rundown home,
not you know, the giant McMansion everybody thinks they ought
to have. And so so from both ends, it was
a blip in time historically and just a completely fanciful
view of what life used to be. Nobody flew anywhere
(10:44):
back then. Nobody you drove to the local lake in
the summer for vacation or their grandma's house.
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just because we've talked about this a lot. The key
to this, though, that I haven't said yet, is we've
got to do away with this whole comparing life today
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to the fifties and acting like we're getting screwed, whether
it's by Republicans or Democrats. It doesn't make any sense
in all the ways that's been laid out a bunch
of different times. But as long as we're going to
hang on to that, we're doomed. The comparison is the
thief of joy. We're comparison selves to something that one
was a blip and two never really happened the way
it's being displayed. So our politics are going to be
(12:31):
miserable until we finally come to grips with that. All right.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Two points number one, Yes, you're right, it's not just
not apples to apples or apples oranges like apples to
golden retrievers. Comparing our lifestyle right now to the nineteen
fifties for instance. Second fascinating Joe Getty revelation. I have
never in my life had my own room. Everybody has
(12:57):
their own room in most modern American households.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah, I uh. It was with my sister in our
little apartment when we were young, and then my brother
was born.
Speaker 1 (13:07):
We moved to a new house and I was roomed
with my brother. Then I went to college. I always
had roommates, and then I got married while I was
still in college.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
I've never had my own room. It's pretty great. Yeah,
I'm fine. I shared a bedroom with my brother, and
it would it would have seemed crazy to make my
kids share a bedroom. It would have seemed crazy. I
don't know why. I mean, but that's a difference in
lifestyle right there. Of course, everybody needs to have their
own room. No, that was the exact opposite. When I
(13:37):
was a kid, and we're not one hundred and fifty
years old. Everybody and I.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Would play nerf hoops for hours at a time, and
everybody I knew if you went over to their house
to play, they they shared a bedroom, their brother or
sister was there.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Everybody. So again apples to Golden nurse shavers. Come on, folks,
that's a good one. Any thoughts on that textas four one, five,
nine five k FDC, I think we should play for
you maybe next segment. What one prominent Republican House member
said about those who aren't willing to vote to release
(14:11):
the Epstein files. He's putting pressure on his other Republican
House colleagues to vote yes next week on the Epstein
Transparency Act, and he brings it pretty hard. So we'll
get to that at some point. So this will make
you all think less of me, I think less of myself.
But so last night, last yesterday, I don't wash my
(14:37):
betting very often. Speaking of never having your own room,
I have way too not at all speaking of you
saying you've never had your own room in your life,
I have way too often had my own room. And
I've had my own room now for quite some time,
and I sleep alone, and so it's just me. So
I don't get around washing my betting that often. So
(14:59):
I washed all my sheets, pillowcases and comforter, and I
got them all washed and everything like. I don't dry
my comforter because I like the color of it and
I don't want the color to fade out, so I
don't dry it. I spread it out on the bed
and let it dry, which is which is what I've
done in the past. Okay, And if you have enough
time at waita, are you all right with that or what?
Speaker 7 (15:21):
On top of the freshly washed sheets, getting them all
wet again, creating a mildewy situation.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Well, it didn't have long enough to dry. And when
I got into bed and it was way late and
I was tired, it was so wet in my bed.
My sheets are wet. The comforter's still wet, and it's
freezing cold. You know just how water feels cold and
everything like that. Okay, so it's cold and wet, and
I thought, I really should take off these wet sheets
(15:47):
and put on dry sheets, but I'm so tired. I'm
gonna try to sleep under these on top of the
wet sheets, under a wet comforter. Wow, even though it's
freezing here on Admirald Birds expedition and you know you're
you're hoping to survive. I thought, surely my body heat
will will warm up a little spot here, Sure, and
(16:07):
over time it will dry out. In the middle of
the night, oh, without a doubt. And it just that,
And I just kept laying there. I was like so
cold and so uncomfortable, and you know, wet and cold
is like among the most unpleasant feelings a human being. Cannamp.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Yeah, well, your brain is trying to tell you something.
What are you trying to die. Would you like to die?
This is how you die?
Speaker 2 (16:29):
So I laid huddled in a ball under those wet sheets,
on top of the wet sheets, under a wet comforter,
so I had wet on both sides of my body.
Just laid there, uncomfortable, awake, hoping it would go away
all night long, Like you escaped from the chain gang
and Mississippian ran off into the woods as the.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Hounds bade and the deputies pursued you, and you had
to curl up under a pile of leaves sleep tonight.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
I was the New Orleans escapees. That's who I was, Like, Oh,
it was horrible, and I just I kept thinking, you
should really just get up and get some dry sheets,
or move to the couch or do something. But I
was so tired. It just seemed like so much work.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
It's more work for your body to try to not
go into hypothermia because you're sheets are wet.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Do you finally drift off in your sponge like atmosphere.
I didn't fall asleep, but I woke up. You know,
I'm very very I'm very, very tired because I had
trouble sleeping, and every time I would wake up. I'd
love it. Oh that's right, I'm sleeping on wet sheets
under a like. Oh wow, it was something incredibly unpleasant.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
That is some exciting celebrity lifestyle you're living there?
Speaker 2 (17:41):
You rolled over? Was there a giant splash? Squire? Well,
I couldn't really move because I had carved out one
warm little My body heat had kind of made it
a little bit warm up, and I moved a little bit.
It was your amazing freezing cold. Ah yeah, yeah. So again,
I don't know what that says. There's probably much that
that says about my personality. I certainly couldn't have been
(18:02):
sharing a bed with anybody who would have thought that
was okay with you. We'll just lay here under the
on the wet sheets and be cold all night long.
Makes sense to me.
Speaker 7 (18:10):
Look armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
Despite the optics here.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
There's just nothing connecting the president to any crime or
any wrongdoing. He has said he did nothing wrong. Even
the victim, Virginia Guphray, said he didn't do anything wrong,
and so I think the issue continues to dog him politically,
but legally there's no hook there for him.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
I thought that was interesting that NBC Evening News their
reporter on the story of all the Epstein emails that
came out yesterday. Democrats leaked some out and then the
Republicans put out way more with the idea I think
that it would one give it more context, and two
just like flood the media with so many it was
(18:52):
difficult to talk about him. But the NBC Evening News
even they went with there's nothing to tie Trump legally
to any thing that you know would be a problem
for him, which still is the case. Well, and the
fact that they had Congress and the White House an
access to all of this stuff through the DOJ for
(19:13):
a very very long time, and they would have kneecapped
Trump with delight if there was anything there.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
If that turns out to be a wrong, serie, please
let me know. Until then, I will let others, you know,
delve into this.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
So the House voted yesterday, and there are plenty of
Republicans voted along with Democrats to move forward with what
Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is now calling
the Epstein Transparency Act, and he said today they're going
to vote on it next week. So there's gonna be
a full House vote on that, and then everything will
come out, and then you got a mix of Republicans Democrats,
including Maggie, Republicans who want it, but Trump does not.
(19:48):
Trump is pressuring Republicans to vote against this. So that's
that on some of the emails it came out yesterday,
some of the ones that are getting the most talk.
In a twenty eleven email to Maxwell the Chick that's
in prison, Epstein referred to Trump as the dog that
hasn't barked, writing that he said a victim. They had
the Democrat's release of it, just said victim because they
(20:10):
didn't want the name out. The Republicans later then put
out the fact that it's that I can't pronounce her name. Jeffrey,
a Virginia girl that killed herself. Yeah recently it was her,
but anyway, Epstein wrote that Virginia had spent hours at
my house with Trump, but Trump's never once been mentioned
in these investigations. Okay, hours with in the same house,
(20:34):
the talking what well, and she said Trump never did
anything inappropriate. And I would like to think at this
point I have earned a little credibility as neither having
Trump derangement syndrome nor being some sort of always Trump
honk I call him as I see him. He makes
me insane at least half the time. There's nothing here. Yeah,
(20:54):
maybe the most interesting one to me and see that
was on Claude. Let me go to what GPT dug
up for me was the fact that emails showing Epstein
offering to help Russia understand Trump. Yes, with one message
quoted Shirkin, that was the Russian guy he was working with.
(21:16):
Was great. He understood Trump after our conversations. It's not complex.
So he was working with some Russians to help them
understand Trump. Why you helping an enemy of the United
States understand Donald Trump? Because you understand Donald Trump?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Gee, because you're a sociopathic monster and you'll just do
whatever it brings you money or sex.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah, you know, if the NBC Evening News is willing
to just state it plainly, there's nothing tying him legally
to any of Epstein's problems after yesterday's email, don't I
don't know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
If you can just separate yourself from the partisanship or
rooting or whatever you want to say and look at
this as kind of a political scientist, it's such an
interesting and weird coalition of people demanding quote unquote transparency,
from the Pizzagate paranoid conspiracy crowd to the Democrats who
just want to smear Trump, to Republican congress people who
(22:13):
are like I think, who is the great philosopher? Who
the bargain was that?
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Look, if you espouse belief in God and you live
a godly life, if there is a God, you're saved.
If there's not, well, what the heck doesn't really matter,
Whereas if you go the other side, if there's no God,
it doesn't matter. But if there is a God, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
So you know, you might as well live a godly life.
I think a lot of Republicans are, at least a
handful of them are making that bargain. Look, people who
don't care about the Epstein thing, the Joe Getty coalition,
who thinks there's nothing there. They won't penalize me for
demanding the release of the papers. They're worried about other stuff.
They just roll their eyes. But there's no loss in
(23:01):
me for pretending that I'm fighting bravely against this cabal
of sex crazed pizza proprietors or whatever the hell's shape
it's taking these days so they get to credit and
there's no real harm.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Well, Trump's pressure and people really really hard to vote
no on this thing. It's the first bipartisan anything I
can remember in like a decade. Yeah, but weirdly, weirdly
bip So let's hear from Representative Thomas Massey. He's a Republican,
he's on one of the big committees around this, and
he's trying to convince Republicans that they need to vote
(23:32):
for it, even though Trump wants them to vote against it.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
I've already had a couple of Republicans tell my office
privately that they're going to vote for it, and I
think that could snowball to mean, you know, the deal
for Republicans on this vote is that Trump will protect
you if you vote the wrong way. In other words,
if you vote to cover up for pedophiles, you've got
(23:55):
cover in a Republican primary. But I would remind my
colleagues that vote is going to be on your record
for longer than Trump is going to be president. And
what are you going to do in twenty twenty eight
and twenty thirty when you're in a debate either with
a Republican or a Democrat and they say, how can
we trust you? You cover it up for a pedophile
back in you know, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
That's pretty strong. So he's presenting it as well, if
you vote no, you're covering up for a pedophile. That's
a pretty strong statement. Yeah, and then you got to
come out and say no, I don't think I I'm
trying to cover up for a pedophile. I just don't
think there's any more to the story. But that's a
tough one. Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
But the problem with this, and the real one of
the reasons I get so frustrated with it, is as
long as there is a single victims name redacted, if
every chapter, verse, page, and book, every file of this
is released completely, but there's one redacted victim's name, that
will be enough to fuel the conspiracy theories for the
(25:02):
rest of my life.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Pascal is the philosopher. Pascal's wager is what you were
talking is popped into my head. Pascal's wager on the
whole idea of you might as well pretend there's a god,
because if you turn out you know you're right, you're good.
If you're wrong, what's the harm? And so you're thinking
that with that this vote here, it's certainly going to pass.
There will be enough Republicans and practically all the Democrats
(25:26):
vote for it next week, and so it will pass.
And more of this I almost trumped in his well
more this s is going to come out, and then
I hope it's like, Okay, we didn't find anything more
juicy than Epstein saying he knew there were girls there. Okay,
that doesn't say anything. Well here a vague mentioned that
Trump was at some sort of party, and that'll be
(25:47):
news for two days. Okay, all right, great, But you know, yes,
there is the question of why did he have Lauren
Bobert and Nancy May pressured so hard yesterday to vote no?
Trump had the FBI director the Attorney General leaning on them,
(26:07):
you gotta vote no. They voted yes because their constituents
believe that there's a pedophile ring being covered up with
many major figures in our government that need to go
down right right? Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
I cannot come up with a completely innocent explanation of that.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
I can't. It doesn't look good. Wouldn't the best thing
politically be for Trump to say, I agree, get it
all out there? Yeah? Oh yeah, but he's not that's
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Speaker 2 (27:45):
More on Pascal's wager, which I find more interesting than
the Epstein thing. I a believe in God, so I
don't have to pretend anything. But Christopher Hitchens, the atheist
who would go around the world debating various Christian thinkers
and try to convince them that they're wrong. His argument,
I always thought was pretty good on the Pascal wager.
(28:07):
So you believe in a God that you could pretend
to believe in and he wouldn't know that, or he
would know that, and he'd be okay with the fact
that you pretended the whole time, and then at the
end on the judgment and say, well that's good enough. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I don't the word pretend, I think is prejudicial. I've
I used the term live a godly life, which may
have been prejudicial. On the other side, I don't speak French,
so I don't know the original, you know, actual statement
that Pescal made.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah, I believe the idea is not just live a
godly life, it's a believe in God. You might as
well believe in God, right, Yeah, Yeah, I think so too. Yeah,
that was my understanding. But if you're faking it just
in case it is God, well exactly, And Christopher Hitchin's
argument was God would know that that you were just
like playing the odds, like you think, you know, you
(29:00):
got a seventy five percent chance here, so you might
as well go this direction like you're betting on a
football game. Yeah, yeah, you know, I believe what I believe.
It's funny.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I have a great humbleness about this topic as people,
you know, struggle with this sort of thing. I feel
like I've walked up to a nuclear reactor that's going wrong,
and the technicians turn to me and say, what should
we do.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I'm like, you're asking the wrong guy. You got to
figure that out. My son, who my youngest, who calls
himself an atheist currently, but he goes back and forth.
I said, well, about two thirds of the time I
believe this, and about the third of the time I don't,
which is where I am. The particulars of it. I'm
not going to get into the particulars, but yeah, and
(29:41):
you know it's lots of people are that way. Oh
my god.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, it's struggling with cited in both the Old and
New Testaments.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Including and I always bring this up because I think
it was really interesting after Mother Teresa died, when they
were going through her letters and everything like that, and
they were released in book four. She had many letters
in there throughout her life where she doubted the existence
of God and she'd say things like I felt for
a fraud. I can't believe I've been living this life
and God doesn't exist. I mean, so she if she's
(30:11):
going to go through those periods of time where she
doesn't buy at all, well, then you know, give yourself
a little slack. Oh, I agree completely one way or
the other. Of course, back to Christopher Higgins, he wrote
a book about the evil of Mother Teresa and how
she should be thrown in prison for her evil or
something like that. That's a different topic.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Yeah, yeah, oh, And of course you know he was
a brilliant, brilliant man and unbelievably gifted writer, but smoked
cigarettes and died of lung cancer far far before his time,
which still actually angers me because I so would like
to hear his opinion on various things that are happening,
you know.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
He Yeah, I would love to too. He would have
absolutely destroyed woke. Oh, he would have been such a
valuable soldier against that. But he smoked.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
On the other hand, young women are getting lung cancer
right now at alarming rates. Young women have never smoked.
And it's raydon in various parts of the country where
there's a great deal of raydon in the soil. It's
a radioactive element. And I was just reading that the
other day. Get a raid on detector, folks, or you know,
(31:18):
bang up a little raydon map of the United States.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
I found it so interesting. I don't know, I think
about that. I know I have a radon detector because
the city makes me, but I didn't know it's given
girls lung cancer. Yeah, yeah, I was shocked. Yeah, frightening
numbers of young women, although they're generally able to catch
it in time because it's so weird that young women
have that sort of symptom and so they report it early.
(31:42):
But I don't have it in front of me. But anyway,
by the way, in a very non scientific polling of
you whether or not you're interested in the Epstein thing,
I'd say it's running about nine to one. No, you're
not interested. With some very aggressive language about me and
the fact that I'm talking about it at all, but
if you are, if you are like into it or whatever,
(32:04):
give us a text. I'd like to hear what that's
all about. I think most of you don't care. I
guess not a huge turnout via email, but it is.
It's the first thing. It's the first thing Congress did
after they came back from the longest shutdown in our history.
And it's the first big bill they're going to vote on.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Next week, and that will be cited by historians of
the future as the moment the United States of America
began to die.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
Maybe you might be right if you have any thoughts
on that text line four one FIFTC.
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Speaker 1 (32:56):
But that had to be a visual of the mannish looking,
evil evil head of the Teachers Union. I think she's
the former president, but she's still evil.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Randy Weingarten.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
By the way, business before pleasure got to get to this,
I am so excited. This could be my favorite Armstrong
and Getdy T shirt ever. We were brainstorming yesterday came
up with this absolutely lovely design. It says let's see Hanson.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Was that just to me? I haven't seen it. It
was to the crew, Come on, Oh, there it is.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
It is entitled with very nice fonts, ruin the Entire
Country Newsome twenty twenty eight.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yes, yes, that's simple and powerful. It says so much
in so few words.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
Ruin the Entire Country, Newsome twenty twenty eight available.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
Laugh, laugh. Have you available now at the Armstrong Yetdy superstore?
Have you trade marked? Because I could see that being
a popular national T shirt. I have absolutely trademarked that.
Of course, fake Chinese knockoffs being sold all over the place,
like the Maga hats. You can't start a real Chinese
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knockoffs anyway.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Armstrongegetdy dot com mentioned this earlier. Here's this young frenchman.
Oh that reminds me next hour. You know how I've
got my features like a look in the China cabinet.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
I've got a new one. Oh boy, does it have music?
What doesn't have music?
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Of course it does. Stay tuned for a new idiotic featurette.
This young Fronschman, nineteen year old engineering student at the
University Unpronounceable in somewhere France, loved doing wheelies on his
bicycle and riding around doing a wheelie like my son.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
Young men do and have for many, many years. It's
more of a thing now than it's ever been though,
riding long distances, in particular riding at people and cars
to try to frighten them and then you turn away
at the last second.
Speaker 7 (35:06):
That's the Oh I had someone do that to me
and that was one of the scariest moments.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
My son, I've forbidden him to ride at people or cars,
but he does this all the time, or riding. He
gets up on his back wheel. He can ride faster
than I can on his back wheel than I can
ride on both wheels. But he'll ride straight at a
park car and just ah and then he just see
swings at the last second. You try to get as
close as you can, like he's he's clipped his pedal
(35:31):
on telephone poles before. You try to get as close
as you can before you turn on your wheelie.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
So this nineteen year old Fronischman did a wheelie for
ninety three miles six and a half hours.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
That's incredible. What kind of bike was he riding? Is
it an s he bike? Probably two wheels and pedals.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Looking at the picture, I don't know really much about bikes.
Let's see, he broke the record by h forty three
and a half miles. And as Jason Gay points out
in the Wall Street Journal, think about it. In human history,
twelve people have walked on the moon, just two hundred
and thirty of won the Nobel Prize in physics, but
(36:13):
only one person has done a.
Speaker 2 (36:15):
Wheelie for six and a half hours. Our executive Whoster
Hanson was just complaining about it in his part of town. Also, mobin.
That's what my son and his friends call it. They
go mobbing and they get a bunch of bikes and
they go riding around and they're on their back wheels
and call it avocs call the cops. I would call
a cop. Somebody did that to me.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It's a reckless bicycle, and bicycle is a vehicle. My
little town I grew up in Chicago Land went on
like a six month kick of giving out traffic tickets
to bicyclists.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
You should have like rolling through stop signs and stuff
like that. You should have been the mayor of the
town in Footloose. That's the kind of person you are.
Don't anybody dam I believed in it. I would report
my friends for violent No, I was kidding. It was funny.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Some bitter old people must have complained that the city
council or something like that. There's like a six month
period where they were giving people two dollars tickets for
rolling stop signs on a bike. Right please anyway, but
we didn't do anything nearly those dangerous Call the police, folks,
if this is the worst kid I thing my son
does is high school or I will be pretty pleased
at the end.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
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