July 31, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- Trump calls Powell stupid & boozy energy drinks
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Weirdest GDP report ever, the "orange figure" & Kamala
- Mailbag!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Katty Armstrong
and Jet Dad can he I'm wrong? Even from the
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studio scene, say he's in your Little Friday. We're deep
with when the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications
compound and hey, y'all, today we're under the tutelage of
our general manager. Just for the record, did you say
Little Friday or Lowell Friday Friday? Oh interesting? Today's general
manager lies damn lies and statistics Yester GDP report being
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called the weirdest gd Report GDP Report Ever, Oh really,
I don't know anything about this. Oh boy, howdy completely
changes the story. Oh really, Well, I want to hear
about that cruel good That's what I'm shooting for. I
like that sort of thing. I don't know that story
at all. I like it. You know what, there are
a couple of stories today that are incredibly important, significant
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that people will not hear elsewhere because they take a
minute to explain. And by a minute, I mean like
sixty seconds. But so much of our media, whether broadcast
or even online, to a large extent, is so hit
and run if it takes more than twenty two seconds
or however long a damn TikTok video is. People don't
even pay attention to it. But you, my friends, you
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will be well informed. I like the fact that overnight
Trump called Jerome Powell stupid. That's my favorite thing. Ah
that entertaining. Jerome too late Powell. That's the guy that
runs a federal reserve and has a hand and whether
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interest rates go up or not. And he didn't. He
didn't lower interest rates this week, like Trump is all
it's they. But yeah, go on, Jerome too late Powell.
That's why I said has a hand in. Jerome too
late Powell has done it again. He is too late
and actually too angry. This is all in caps. He's
actually too angry, too stupid, and too political to have
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the job of FED chair. He's costing our country trillions
of dollars in addition to being one of the most incompetent,
corrupt renovations of a building in the history of construction.
Too stupid, You're too stupid to do your job. That's
an insult. I've never had that one. I've had bosses
yell at me for everything. Variety of things. But I've
never had anybody say, you know what your problem is,
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you're too stupid to do your job. Oh that's a guy,
you know, PhD in economics and a storied career. Yeah, okay,
it's just stupid. What a funny part of the personality
of the president. I'm glad you find it funny. Well,
today you're lucky some chuckling some days. I don't Today,
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for whatever, I just think it's just so absurd. It
is so absurd. I mean, what do you think, I mean,
in any workplace set, in any setting whatsoever, with adults,
What do you think you're accomplishing by saying you're too stupid? Oh,
I'm glad you're amused. What do you think he thinks
(03:32):
he's accomplishing. I have no idea. I think he's an
undisciplined child half the time. I mean, it was one
of your middle of the night tweets or truths or whatever.
You're a total loser. You know. There's a certain core
constituency is that loves that. It loves the brawling and
(03:54):
the tough talk and the insults and all well brawling, yes, may,
but I don't know some of the trumpiest people I
know at stuff like that, they roll their eyes and
say why I would agree, Yeah, that's my experience as well.
You asked, and so I attempted to come up with
an answer. It's just so amazing. I feel like if
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I ever did that, I would like the next day
think I need to reevaluate my way I handle things.
Sorry for well, Ron is stupid in the middle of
the night, and if he weren't famously sober, I think
all of us would sink. Oh, for God's sake, Melanie
has got to take the phone out of his hand
after that second trying. Yeah. Yeah, if it wasn't that,
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he's you know, no caffeine, no booze, no nothing ever
his whole life. Yeah, you'd automatically think, because this happens
in the middle of the night so often, you'd absolutely
think he's drunk, because that is such a drunk post
all the capital letters, too angry, too stupid, and a
total loser. All right, all right, that's good. Maybe he's
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on nicazines or kratom. There are not one, but two
stories about weird new drugs that are killing people by
the hundreds and soon to be the thousands. Oh, it's
just like a fentanyl thing, like people are getting high
on them. I thought you were talking about that's going
to mention a sleep drug or weight loss drug or something. No, No,
these are both getting high drugs, okay. And what do
(05:26):
they do to you? Like they leave holes in your
legs and like trank, you just don't have any brain
activity anymore, like you lean over. But there must be
some upside or you wouldn't take it right, right. Yeah,
In the case of the one, it's the cleverness of
Chinese scientists who keep coming up with synthetic opioids to
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feed to the decadent Americans and we keep gobbling them up. Wow,
innovative fellas those Chinese. There were several truth socials overnight
announcing some big tariff deals that we can get to
a little bit later, as the deadline is tomorrow for
a whole bunch of that stuff. Canada hasn't been worked
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out yet, And Canada announced in the last couple of
hours that they are going to also recognize Palestine as
a state, breaking with the United States for the first time.
So that is starting to crumble. I hope it doesn't
end up just being US and Israel completely alone in
the UN. That would not be good. I don't think
for anybody. Somebody's got to explain to me what that
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means exactly to recognize as a state. Just a amorphous
mass of people've got some land, but nobody's sure what.
They don't have a functioning government because the last one
was run by a brutal terrorist organization. But we're going
to recognize them as a country. You gotta send an
ambassador Canada where to. I don't think it means anything concretely,
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but I think it means a Lotreally countries are starting
to peel off, and it could end up just being
I mean, because there's always been the United States and
a handful of like the important countries in the world
that stood by us in Israel and all these resolutions
and everything in the UN. And if that all falls away,
I mean, you excuse me. Did a bug fly in
my throat? What happened there? I don't know. I have
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to examine the footage, you know, for the crowd that
hates Jews and conspiracy theorists and everything like that, When
it's just the United States and Israel alone on all
this stuff, that's that's not going to be a good look.
I would agree yeah, it is not a good look.
One of my favorite writers said Hamas will never surrender.
It's time for a Plan B for Israel, which I
found intriguing. We can touch on that. What could that
(07:44):
possibly be? Well, the point is that you will never
actually defeat them. They will be a brutal gorilla force
for one hundred years. You have to come up with
I don't know, you're too stupid. Yeah you're I'm gonna
try that with my wife. I don't know. Friend, if
I had a disagreement, whatever, kids, sure, every neighbors please
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please Hey your gardener is blowing like your leaves onto
ar lawn. Well, you're too stupid to clean up leaves?
See for one? What number two? What? Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Thursday, the last day of July thirty one.
You're twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong and getting We approve
(08:29):
of this program. All right, then, let's begin the show officially.
Now according to the FCC Rules of Regulations, here we
go at Mark High nun.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Is warning its customers that some of its vodka seltzers
were accidentally labeled as non alcoholic Celsius energy drinks. The
company says the high nun Beach variety packs, which have alcohol,
were mislabeled as the Celsiest astro Vibe energy drink. Those
packs were shipped recently to six states in the eastern
half of the country.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So the net result being if you if your energy
drink causes you to crash your car and or sleep
with someone you find unattractive. Uh, perhaps you got one
of those art to call your boss too stupid to
do his job. Perhaps Hey, I got energy and I
can't remember my problem. I don't know if I feel
(09:16):
more energetic, but I feel pretty good. I felt real
energetic for a while. Now I don't feel energetic at all.
If you hammered down a whole can of vodka, you'd
be feeling something. I guarantee you. Oh wow, Well, we
got Katie's headlines on the weekd we mail bag this hour.
We do have to get into some of the actual
announcements where it wasn't just calling people stupid for various
(09:37):
things that are going around the world. Made some strong
statements about Russia. Russia just hammered Kiev again last night.
So apparently Trump's new fifty days, schmifty days. I don't
trust you. Vladimir didn't hurt Vladimir's feelings because he went
after Kiev last night. Number of people killed, three hundred
drones all at the capitol, and Trump with some strong
(09:59):
words about that last night. So we'll see where that's going.
All on the way, here's our text line four one
five two nine five KFTC Trump, uh truths out. I
don't care what India does with Russia. They can take
their debt economies down together, for all I care. We
have done very little business with in the other tarifs
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or two high among the highest in the world. Likewise,
Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let's
keep it that way and tell med Vedev that the
failed former president of Russia who thinks he's still present
to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory. Wow,
so much for wooing India. They can take their debt
economies down together. I don't care. It's this interesting that
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that's the way we're communicating our policy toward two some
of the biggest economies in the world. Right, And it's
worth throwing in that a number of things that Trump
has done and is doing, are are yielding very good result?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
On the other hand, I can see it in the
faces of the world leaders. This is so weird. We
just need to get through this. It's a few years
of our lives and they'll elect somebody else and it'll
purely be more normal. That's what they're thinking. You can
read it behind their eyes. It's just odd times, all right.
A lot to get to this hour, including the fact
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that the gross domistic product report that got so much
attention yesterday is is probably wildly misleading or in the
right direction or wrong direction. You're not gonna love it.
But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Katie all right, he's starting with MSNBC. Trump threatens trade
war with Canada over recognition of Palestinian state.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah. His response to what was, Wow, it's going to
be very difficult to get a trade deal now that
Canada's recognized Palestine.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
From CNN, Trump says, quote fastest way to end humanitarian
crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to release remaining hostages.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Immediately left out of every story is Hamas has a
saying this too. They could stop declaring all Jews need
to die and let the hostages loose if they wanted to,
and that would change things quite a bit. If they
and the leadership before them, and the leadership before them
had seriously wanted peace with Israel, they would have had
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ninety eight percent of what they asked for. In a
Homeland to day, ask Bill Clinton, ask Jimmy Carter, asks
you know any successive president it's a jihadist maniac Middle
Ages organization.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
From the Wall Street Journal, New York shooting puts Mandami
on the spot over his views on police.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, so he backed off his uh anti police rhetoric yesterday.
He's a clever fella, no doubt, he's an articulate boy.
But yeah, his his past is haunting him in terms
of crime and the police and the rest of it.
And it's really really interesting. I also read a perspective
about the percentage of young voters who think it was
(13:09):
justified to murder that young father who happen to work
for a healthcare company in cold blood on the streets,
who think all sorts of violence and horror is justified.
This is an odd generation coming up. Well, we let
them get miseducated in government schools.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think kind of along with that from Fox News,
Cincinnati City councilwoman victims of mob attack quote begged for
that beat down.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, I still don't. I haven't looked into the story
because it sounds so horrible. Is any is anybody going
to pay a price, go to prison anything for this?
Or maybe? Yeah? Fox News is finally reporting that it
was all black people beating down two white people and
trying to kill them in the streets. And there is
talk of hate crime charges, and there absolutely should be
(13:59):
if the exist anywhere in the country, it's appropriate. Here
clearly had a racial component.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
From the Washington Post, the federal government is paying more
than one hundred and fifty four thousand people to not work.
That's a lot of sub through early resignation offers and
other programs have reduced the workforce, but we're paying for it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How do I get one of those deals? Seriously, sign
me up. I could kick ass at that job.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
From USA Today, Kamala Harris leaves door open for potential
twenty twenty eight presidential run.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, so she announced yesterday she's not running for governor
of California, And my first thought was, Okay, it's serious.
Then she is seriously considering running for president, which is
what the hell is going on. I think she could
get elected governor of California because we're such a wacky
state she is, I don't think. I think same as
the last time she ran. She won't make it to
Iowa running for president. No, No, it'll be a joke.
(15:01):
How is she to be humiliated? How is she that deluded?
I don't know, because she's dumb, or she's surrounded by
people that because she's too stupid, you're too stupid. She's
surrounded by people that get, you know, something out of
tell her you can win.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
For maybec Brown University joins the list of colleges reaching
million dollar deals with the White House to unfreeze their funding.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, the universities are clearly discriminating by race and religion
as well, just openly, or if it's not openly, behind
the scenes and there's huge paper trails available. We'll talk
about that more later too. But yeah, it's it's shameless.
This is one of the things that Trump administration that
is doing that is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
From the New York Post, Louisiana medicaid millionaire bought a
Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yesterday was the the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of
Medicare and Medicaid. We should go through some of the
numbers over those decades of what has and hasn't been accomplished.
Bigger emphasis on what hasn't been accomplished other than spending
tax payer money that has been accomplished to a great.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Great level study fines and I apologize for this.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh poop pee and perspiration and the deceptive smell of chlorine.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
How jermy really.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Is a swimming pool? M Some of the details in
this are grim.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, yeah, I would guess.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And finally the Babylon Bee, which is usually satire, but
maybe they're right here. Kamala announced that she will step
away from politics to spend more time with vodka.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wow, I'll bet she never even runs for president. When
she starts trying to get people behind her to back her,
and the money people and everything like that, it just
ain't gonna happen. Maybe a little preliminary quiet polling comes
back dismally. Yeah, I could see her, although I'm holding
out hope because I would love to see that. It
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would be hilarious. I would like it too. She was
at the top of the poles in California even though
it's very very early, and decided not to run Armstrong
and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
An earthquake struck off the coast of Russia yesterday that
measured an eight point eight magnitude on the Richter scale.
It was so powerful that Putin's associates were falling off
balconies by accident.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I like that, and he joke at the expense of
Putin being evil as good joke Here before Joe inexplicably
throws a wet blanket on a good news story from yesterday.
I don't know why he wants to bring us down.
Apparently he wanted Kamla to win. But before mainenance malice.
Before Joe gets to that, two things. One got really
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interesting news about Kamala Harris I hadn't come across since
yesterday's announcement. And two homework assignment for you, Katie, because
I assumed Joe hasn't looked into this. The orange thing
in the picture of Epstein's cell. They got all the
attention all day yesterday. Can you fill us in on
that story, Katie, coming.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, I mean it's it's they're calling it quote.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
End plane site. Yeah, coming up. I want you to
nail that down for us, because that was Is that
related to the green thing seen on the court in
the WNBA game? No, it's not at all. Okay, there is.
What is that in Epstein's cell became a storied yesterday,
so I'll have that on the way too. Fascinating. So
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yesterday the news was that the economy grew at a
three percent annualized basis, which is pretty good, and various
people were saying, this makes it clear that AB and C,
including that the tariff thing hasn't hurt the economy. I
don't know if i'd say that it didn't know that
we weren't official. People were saying that, yeah, it didn't
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mean we are official. Weren't officially in a recession, which
would have been, like I said, thank god I avoided
that conversation. And a lot of Trump fans or conservatives
are touting the fact that a wasted bill Maher say,
you know, I thought the tariff thing might cousinflation are
screwed up, but you got to give him credit. It
hasn't well. As I said yesterday and have said for
quite a while, many birds have not yet come home
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to roost. And here's in defense of the people that
said the things you were just saying. A lot of
those people were saying they would have happened by now, yes,
although a lot of that talk was based on the
so called Liberation Day tariffs, which never happened. So that's
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ancient pushback nailing down who meant what? At what point
is well, that's hidious and so moving along, This may
be the weirdest GDP report ever, according to the fellows
of the Walls Street Journal, who would know. The top
line growth number looks good in the White House touted
of course, and it reversed a zero point five percent
(20:07):
decline in the GDP in the first quarter, which was
largely explained by a huge surge of imports as businesses
tried to front run the anticipated tariff barrage. Remember the
quirk of the GDP accounting that it's essentially domestic production
minus imports. Okay, so growth in the first half of
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the year turned out to be about one point two
percent annualized. Most striking are the second quarter reports wild
internal details. Net exports minus, which is exports minus imports,
added a remarkable five percent to GDP as imports fell
by more than thirty percent. That's a big number. Yeah,
(20:52):
that's an astonishing number. In one imports. Yes, imports subtract
from growth in the Nashal accounts because GDP measures domestic production,
imports are produced over CAS. But they point out imports
are still crucial to US economic well being because A
consumers buy them and B businesses use them as inputs
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for what they produce, whether for domestic use or for export.
Often for export, we import you know, the simple stuff
or you know, or the raw materials, and we export
sophisticated stuff or you know. There are many, many variations
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of it. But anyway, the crazy swing and imports shows
how much Trump's up and down trade policies have disrupted
business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems
to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment,
which fell almost sixteen percent in the second quarter after
a surge in the first. So in short, everybody's flailing
(21:57):
in business at not sure or what the tariffs are
going to be, not sure what the situation is important
export wise, and the birds have not yet come home
to roost. Well, that doesn't make me happy. You didn't
need to tell me that. No, so you wish Kamalah
had won? Is your excellent labs? Exactly my point? Yeah,
before we go. Oh and the other giant story, which
(22:19):
we mentioned later in the show yesterday is that federal
appeals judges are considering the legality of the president's widespread
tariffs moves today. God that huge court case. Wouldn't that
be something if the courts decide he can't do that?
What what have we been talking about for five months? Right?
(22:43):
Redoing the entire world trade situation? Oh, he can do that? Okay,
never mind then, And I don't think he's helped his
case either. And I'll explain that in a second. The
deliberation day tariffs and all sorts of all the tariff
thing has been based on or they use this rationale.
The Trump administration a nineteen seventies law, the International Emergency
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Economic Powers Act. It lets the president do certain things.
And I could get into the verbiage of the law,
but it has to be a quote unquote international emergency.
And there is a serious disagreement over whether mild trade
deficits are an emergency. And the second thing, the reason
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I say Trump hurt his case is that he just
raised tariffs on Brazil sky high because he doesn't like
how the government of Brazil is treating their ex president,
his friend Bolsonaro. Or he just threatened overnight to not
do a tariff deal with Canada because they're going to
recognize Palestine as a state. Yeah. Yeah, So if I
(23:49):
were a bettman, wait a min and I am a
betting man. I don't like his chances in court, but
I am far from a legal expert. Okay, before we
get to the hilarity of Kamala Harrison for president, is
there anything to yesterday's Epstein story? I will preface it
with this. Mark Halpern, who is in the top handful
(24:10):
of most trusted journalists I believe what he is reporting,
thinks the Epstein thing is a giant point of vulnerability.
Still for Trump, I don't quite get it. I don't
understand how or why, but he still thinks so. Anyway,
so yesterday, and I'm a little mystified by that too,
I don't get it. Yesterday's story with and I don't
(24:31):
get this because these have been around forever. Some photo
of Epstein's jail cell and somebody noticed something in the
background Hey, what is that? And that became a story
for the day. Can you tell you? Can you explain
this to me, Katie?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, So it's it's actually it's the video of the
surveillance video that they had released.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Somebody caused it and said, what is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, as frequent in jail in prison there, they have
orange jumpsuits, and so they're suspecting that it was an
inmates walking somewhere near Epstein's cell. And the big speculation
is that they said that the staircase was visible by
that camera, but that orange figure goes out of screen,
which means that the staircase obviously wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So that this is some of the evidence that somebody
was allowed in to kill him, or their speculation.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I mean, they can't really nail anything down, but they're
going back and forth as to whether this figure was
possibly an inmate headed towards Epstein.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't think it's a stretched called the Epstein story
in industry, yeah, because there is a great deal of
money made around it and they need a new chapter.
They need to keep it juiced up. That sounds like
a good wrinkle. It's like watching a soap opera or
one of those you know long running series, We'll hit
you a series will hit you with some of the
details of Kamala's hilarious idea that she's going to be
(25:55):
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annoyed by the dance of are you going to run
for president? I have no plans currently. He had no
plans currently. He didn't rule it out. That whole conversation
(27:20):
has made me tired my whole life. I just don't
understand it. Apparently we're not going to do that with Kamala, though,
because the information is out there. She announced yesterday she's
not running for governor of California, which the election is
next year. In twenty six the presidential election, forty million
people breathed a sigh of relief. I think she would
have won just because we're a stupid state, but presidency
(27:45):
is in twenty eight she announced he's not running for governor.
My first thought was, okay, I guess she is serious
about wanting to run for president. New York Times today.
Kamala is expected to form an organization shortly that would
allow her to raise funds and pay for travel and
political activities. A representative of California said yesterday that he
had spoken with miss Harris about traveling to competitive House
(28:07):
districts beginning this fall to assist Democratic candidates. She's going
to be all across the country for the twenty twenty
six mid terms. She wants to help us flip the House.
What democrat wants? Kamala Harris on stage with her. You know,
I loved the first sentence when I said, Dan, can
you read that again? Uh, she's got a form an organization. Yeah,
(28:30):
she's expected to form an organization shortly that would allow
her to raise funds and pay for travel and political
activities exactly, And Al Shopton responds, raise funds. We must,
we much be raising funds so we can live on
the hug Well pretending to be a politician. You can
pretend to run for office, get donations, and just travel
(28:52):
around flying first class or private jet. If you're getting
enough donations, staying in the best hotels, eating meals, having
a car, you can live quite the life's as a
pretend candidate. Finger. So I see Kamala Harris intervening and
maybe making a speech at the the toss up fourth
District of Hawaii and the very Purple Aspen District in Colorado.
(29:15):
Then in the winter time, perhaps assists that close close
race in Miami Beach. Okay, but here's the most important paragraph.
Because we got to take a break so she can
get the mailbag. This is the most important paragraph. This
is what's got me. I'm just I'm moist with excitement.
Oh boy. Miss Harris, who was widely criticized last year
(29:36):
for doing very few media interviews, is expected to beginning
talking with podcast hosts and journalists beginning after Labor Day.
According to a person who has spoken to her about
her plans, she thinks, you're right. It was a mistake.
I didn't do enough interviews. I'm gonna do lots of interviews.
Bring it on, Oh do it? Get ready for radio
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gold laugh. I laughed finally about the passage of time.
There's so much meaning to the passage of time. Finally,
go on the Joe Rogan podcast, which I know she
feels like she has to do. I mean, that would
be hanging out there as a She still hasn't done
Joe Rogan unless she goes on Joe Rogan. So much giggling. Oh,
(30:20):
that's gonna be great. We got mail bag coming up
a look back at what Medicare and Medicaid haven't haven't
done on this sixtieth birthday Lyndon Johnson signing them into
laws sixty years ago this week. Costs trillions, many trillions
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of dollars to taxpayers, and no indication really that it's
accomplished a single good thing, which is why it's being
canceled you soon. I mean, like any private enterprise would do,
or any family would do. How odd Anyway, I'm looking
forward to that. Here's your freedom loving cool of the day.
Continuing from Javier Milay, the new fabulous libertarian leader of Argentina,
(31:06):
that is, who is reviving that country. Echoing Milton Friedman,
by the way, he says, quote, socialism is always in
everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries
where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally,
and it has also murdered over one hundred million human beings. Yeah,
(31:26):
Hayek and Milton Friedman are his heroes. It's interesting that
he got elected. Things got so bad down there that
they turned to a guy like him. Yeah, And it's
also just fascinating as you look at human beings, that
such a miserable failure is so easily sold to people,
and generation after generation falls for it. Yeah, because if
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you're a child, it makes sense. Maybe we'll talk about
that later. Indeed, mailbag drop's note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com keep it to you know, reasonably brief.
Nice note here from Bill, who discovered the show in
two thousand and eight after moving to northern California from
Southern California. For what that's worth, and he says some
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very nice things and got a nasty diagnosis of cancer
in May of twenty four. Things are going well, but
the side effects of the treatment were not fun. I'm
getting better. I want to thank you for brightening my
spirits when I was feeling like crap. And he now
is back in southern California and listens three hours a
day on seven ninety KABC ABC. Yeah, Bill, thank you
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for a very very nice note. And it's an honor
that our drivel would elevate any human being in any way.
Is a pleasant sit but it would make anybody's day
better rather than worse. Is I consider it and it
would improve anything. It is pretty sung. It is shot Michael.
But thank you Bill, that that touch me. Let's see
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how about this? Oh, then you have Tim, who is
our most consistent email hater. You people are so stupid.
A hotter planet directly impacts the jet stream, causing global
climate patterns to change. Right now, the jet stream is
currently blocked or broken, causing major climate disruptions. So at
the ocean's a hotter and getting hotter ocean causes the
global circulation occurrence to slow down, thus causing fluckation fluctuations
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in world tempts. Get it, doubt it anyway, You're wrong,
and that lunatic running the EPA into the ground should
hang for a stupid, stupid, stupid deregulation edict. But what
am I stupid about. I'm not doubting that. I'm saying
I don't care. That's what I'm saying. I have never
looked into it because it doesn't matter to me. I
tell you. That's some good punchy writing, though, I mean
(33:40):
it was very readable. It's just it was super easy
to follow. I thought the insults and facts were nicely balanced.
I would maybe he can respond to this, But what
is the hole? Why would we destroy our economy or
or or you know, or live with the tiny crappy
cars or whatever when we can't make a dent because
of China and Indian everybody else. What's your response to that,
(34:02):
I honestly would like to hear that. Yeah, I honestly
I would. I would leave the tiny crappy cars out
of it, just because you make an argument we don't
need bigger cars, and that's a distraction. But why would
be with the thousand of one hundred thousand effects of
a truly decimated economy for a meaningless gesture, why would
(34:23):
that be a good idea? But anyway, good note Tim
uh Andy and Sack hm Oh on the question of
earthquake sex scales, which we discussed on the Armstrong and
Getty One More Thing podcast yesterday. Fascinating and amusing. Joe,
you poor soul. I don't envy you the emails you'll
get about earthquake magnitude basics, so you can have AI
(34:43):
tell you any details you need to school rude chumps.
The Richter scale was logarhythmic, but we stopped using it.
We now use the more accurate moment magnitude scale. Now
when you get those emails, you can say, I know
you absolute douche pill. That is a term I do
not use. I can't imagine why a canoe would be
(35:04):
designed to do any canoe. Yes, you douche canoe. I'm
using that today. What a douche canoe? No, stop saying it.
Saying it once was terrible, and I apologize. Is it terrible?
It's just anyway, as we're about out of time, My
point was what was my point? Where were talking about? Oh,
I'm the rector's I'm pretty sure that when I heard
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about the earthquake, they kept mentioning everybody it was a
blankety blank on the Richter scale, in the same way
that the media constantly cites the Dow Industrial Average, which
is a horrifically useless thing to site to gauge the
overall health. O. So you're saying they're using the old
scale that people have heard of, even though it's not
as accurate. This guy's saying there's a new scale that
(35:48):
people in the no use. Yes, okay, okay, yeah, you
know it's got some more great email. I wish we
had time for him. Maybe we'll sprinkle it in next hour.
That's kind of interesting actually, And there they're gonna hang
on to the dumb old. Still happening. We're experiencing earthquake. Please,
that's what they were saying in Russian. Oh and interestingly,
(36:11):
well we don't have time for that either. We have
time for nothing. So little time. Yeah yeah, life is short,
goes by waste time or time will waste you muse
it's a good song. Listen to it. Someday we will
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compound and hey, y'all, today we're under the tutelage of
our general manager. Just for the record, did you say
Little Friday or Lowell Friday Friday? Oh interesting? Today's general
manager lies damn lies and statistics Yester GDP report being
(01:02):
called the weirdest gd Report GDP Report Ever, Oh really,
I don't know anything about this. Oh boy, howdy completely
changes the story. Oh really, Well, I want to hear
about that cruel good That's what I'm shooting for. I
like that sort of thing. I don't know that story
at all. I like it. You know what, there are
a couple of stories today that are incredibly important, significant
(01:23):
that people will not hear elsewhere because they take a
minute to explain. And by a minute, I mean like
sixty seconds. But so much of our media, whether broadcast
or even online, to a large extent, is so hit
and run if it takes more than twenty two seconds
or however long a damn TikTok video is. People don't
even pay attention to it. But you, my friends, you
(01:45):
will be well informed. I like the fact that overnight
Trump called Jerome Powell stupid. That's my favorite thing. Ah
that entertaining. Jerome too late Powell. That's the guy that
runs a federal reserve and has a hand and whether
(02:06):
interest rates go up or not. And he didn't. He
didn't lower interest rates this week, like Trump is all
it's they. But yeah, go on, Jerome too late Powell.
That's why I said has a hand in. Jerome too
late Powell has done it again. He is too late
and actually too angry. This is all in caps. He's
actually too angry, too stupid, and too political to have
(02:28):
the job of FED chair. He's costing our country trillions
of dollars in addition to being one of the most incompetent,
corrupt renovations of a building in the history of construction.
Too stupid, You're too stupid to do your job. That's
an insult. I've never had that one. I've had bosses
yell at me for everything. Variety of things. But I've
never had anybody say, you know what your problem is,
(02:50):
you're too stupid to do your job. Oh that's a guy,
you know, PhD in economics and a storied career. Yeah, okay,
it's just stupid. What a funny part of the personality
of the president. I'm glad you find it funny. Well,
today you're lucky some chuckling some days. I don't Today,
(03:12):
for whatever, I just think it's just so absurd. It
is so absurd. I mean, what do you think, I mean,
in any workplace set, in any setting whatsoever, with adults,
What do you think you're accomplishing by saying you're too stupid? Oh,
I'm glad you're amused. What do you think he thinks
(03:32):
he's accomplishing. I have no idea. I think he's an
undisciplined child half the time. I mean, it was one
of your middle of the night tweets or truths or whatever.
You're a total loser. You know. There's a certain core
constituency is that loves that. It loves the brawling and
(03:54):
the tough talk and the insults and all well brawling, yes, may,
but I don't know some of the trumpiest people I
know at stuff like that, they roll their eyes and
say why I would agree, Yeah, that's my experience as well.
You asked, and so I attempted to come up with
an answer. It's just so amazing. I feel like if
(04:17):
I ever did that, I would like the next day
think I need to reevaluate my way I handle things.
Sorry for well, Ron is stupid in the middle of
the night, and if he weren't famously sober, I think
all of us would sink. Oh, for God's sake, Melanie
has got to take the phone out of his hand
after that second trying. Yeah. Yeah, if it wasn't that,
(04:39):
he's you know, no caffeine, no booze, no nothing ever
his whole life. Yeah, you'd automatically think, because this happens
in the middle of the night so often, you'd absolutely
think he's drunk, because that is such a drunk post
all the capital letters, too angry, too stupid, and a
total loser. All right, all right, that's good. Maybe he's
(05:04):
on nicazines or kratom. There are not one, but two
stories about weird new drugs that are killing people by
the hundreds and soon to be the thousands. Oh, it's
just like a fentanyl thing, like people are getting high
on them. I thought you were talking about that's going
to mention a sleep drug or weight loss drug or something. No, No,
these are both getting high drugs, okay. And what do
(05:26):
they do to you? Like they leave holes in your
legs and like trank, you just don't have any brain
activity anymore, like you lean over. But there must be
some upside or you wouldn't take it right, right. Yeah,
In the case of the one, it's the cleverness of
Chinese scientists who keep coming up with synthetic opioids to
(05:49):
feed to the decadent Americans and we keep gobbling them up. Wow,
innovative fellas those Chinese. There were several truth socials overnight
announcing some big tariff deals that we can get to
a little bit later, as the deadline is tomorrow for
a whole bunch of that stuff. Canada hasn't been worked
(06:11):
out yet, And Canada announced in the last couple of
hours that they are going to also recognize Palestine as
a state, breaking with the United States for the first time.
So that is starting to crumble. I hope it doesn't
end up just being US and Israel completely alone in
the UN. That would not be good. I don't think
for anybody. Somebody's got to explain to me what that
(06:33):
means exactly to recognize as a state. Just a amorphous
mass of people've got some land, but nobody's sure what.
They don't have a functioning government because the last one
was run by a brutal terrorist organization. But we're going
to recognize them as a country. You gotta send an
ambassador Canada where to. I don't think it means anything concretely,
(06:58):
but I think it means a Lotreally countries are starting
to peel off, and it could end up just being
I mean, because there's always been the United States and
a handful of like the important countries in the world
that stood by us in Israel and all these resolutions
and everything in the UN. And if that all falls away,
I mean, you excuse me. Did a bug fly in
my throat? What happened there? I don't know. I have
(07:21):
to examine the footage, you know, for the crowd that
hates Jews and conspiracy theorists and everything like that, When
it's just the United States and Israel alone on all
this stuff, that's that's not going to be a good look.
I would agree yeah, it is not a good look.
One of my favorite writers said Hamas will never surrender.
It's time for a Plan B for Israel, which I
found intriguing. We can touch on that. What could that
(07:44):
possibly be? Well, the point is that you will never
actually defeat them. They will be a brutal gorilla force
for one hundred years. You have to come up with
I don't know, you're too stupid. Yeah you're I'm gonna
try that with my wife. I don't know. Friend, if
I had a disagreement, whatever, kids, sure, every neighbors please
(08:08):
please Hey your gardener is blowing like your leaves onto
ar lawn. Well, you're too stupid to clean up leaves?
See for one? What number two? What? Let's start the
show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong. He's Joe Getty on this.
It is Thursday, the last day of July thirty one.
You're twenty twenty five. We're Armstrong and getting We approve
(08:29):
of this program. All right, then, let's begin the show officially.
Now according to the FCC Rules of Regulations, here we
go at Mark High nun.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Is warning its customers that some of its vodka seltzers
were accidentally labeled as non alcoholic Celsius energy drinks. The
company says the high nun Beach variety packs, which have alcohol,
were mislabeled as the Celsiest astro Vibe energy drink. Those
packs were shipped recently to six states in the eastern
half of the country.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So the net result being if you if your energy
drink causes you to crash your car and or sleep
with someone you find unattractive. Uh, perhaps you got one
of those art to call your boss too stupid to
do his job. Perhaps Hey, I got energy and I
can't remember my problem. I don't know if I feel
(09:16):
more energetic, but I feel pretty good. I felt real
energetic for a while. Now I don't feel energetic at all.
If you hammered down a whole can of vodka, you'd
be feeling something. I guarantee you. Oh wow, Well, we
got Katie's headlines on the weekd we mail bag this hour.
We do have to get into some of the actual
announcements where it wasn't just calling people stupid for various
(09:37):
things that are going around the world. Made some strong
statements about Russia. Russia just hammered Kiev again last night.
So apparently Trump's new fifty days, schmifty days. I don't
trust you. Vladimir didn't hurt Vladimir's feelings because he went
after Kiev last night. Number of people killed, three hundred
drones all at the capitol, and Trump with some strong
(09:59):
words about that last night. So we'll see where that's going.
All on the way, here's our text line four one
five two nine five KFTC Trump, uh truths out. I
don't care what India does with Russia. They can take
their debt economies down together, for all I care. We
have done very little business with in the other tarifs
(10:20):
or two high among the highest in the world. Likewise,
Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let's
keep it that way and tell med Vedev that the
failed former president of Russia who thinks he's still present
to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory. Wow,
so much for wooing India. They can take their debt
economies down together. I don't care. It's this interesting that
(10:43):
that's the way we're communicating our policy toward two some
of the biggest economies in the world. Right, And it's
worth throwing in that a number of things that Trump
has done and is doing, are are yielding very good result?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Sure.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
On the other hand, I can see it in the
faces of the world leaders. This is so weird. We
just need to get through this. It's a few years
of our lives and they'll elect somebody else and it'll
purely be more normal. That's what they're thinking. You can
read it behind their eyes. It's just odd times, all right.
A lot to get to this hour, including the fact
(11:22):
that the gross domistic product report that got so much
attention yesterday is is probably wildly misleading or in the
right direction or wrong direction. You're not gonna love it.
But first let's figure out who's reporting what. It's the
lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Katie all right, he's starting with MSNBC. Trump threatens trade
war with Canada over recognition of Palestinian state.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah. His response to what was, Wow, it's going to
be very difficult to get a trade deal now that
Canada's recognized Palestine.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
From CNN, Trump says, quote fastest way to end humanitarian
crisis in Gaza is for Hamas to release remaining hostages.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
Immediately left out of every story is Hamas has a
saying this too. They could stop declaring all Jews need
to die and let the hostages loose if they wanted to,
and that would change things quite a bit. If they
and the leadership before them, and the leadership before them
had seriously wanted peace with Israel, they would have had
(12:21):
ninety eight percent of what they asked for. In a
Homeland to day, ask Bill Clinton, ask Jimmy Carter, asks
you know any successive president it's a jihadist maniac Middle
Ages organization.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
From the Wall Street Journal, New York shooting puts Mandami
on the spot over his views on police.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Well, so he backed off his uh anti police rhetoric yesterday.
He's a clever fella, no doubt, he's an articulate boy.
But yeah, his his past is haunting him in terms
of crime and the police and the rest of it.
And it's really really interesting. I also read a perspective
about the percentage of young voters who think it was
(13:09):
justified to murder that young father who happen to work
for a healthcare company in cold blood on the streets,
who think all sorts of violence and horror is justified.
This is an odd generation coming up. Well, we let
them get miseducated in government schools.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
I think kind of along with that from Fox News,
Cincinnati City councilwoman victims of mob attack quote begged for
that beat down.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, I still don't. I haven't looked into the story
because it sounds so horrible. Is any is anybody going
to pay a price, go to prison anything for this?
Or maybe? Yeah? Fox News is finally reporting that it
was all black people beating down two white people and
trying to kill them in the streets. And there is
talk of hate crime charges, and there absolutely should be
(13:59):
if the exist anywhere in the country, it's appropriate. Here
clearly had a racial component.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
From the Washington Post, the federal government is paying more
than one hundred and fifty four thousand people to not work.
That's a lot of sub through early resignation offers and
other programs have reduced the workforce, but we're paying for it.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
How do I get one of those deals? Seriously, sign
me up. I could kick ass at that job.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
From USA Today, Kamala Harris leaves door open for potential
twenty twenty eight presidential run.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Yes, so she announced yesterday she's not running for governor
of California, And my first thought was, Okay, it's serious.
Then she is seriously considering running for president, which is
what the hell is going on. I think she could
get elected governor of California because we're such a wacky
state she is, I don't think. I think same as
the last time she ran. She won't make it to
Iowa running for president. No, No, it'll be a joke.
(15:01):
How is she to be humiliated? How is she that deluded?
I don't know, because she's dumb, or she's surrounded by
people that because she's too stupid, you're too stupid. She's
surrounded by people that get, you know, something out of
tell her you can win.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
For maybec Brown University joins the list of colleges reaching
million dollar deals with the White House to unfreeze their funding.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Yeah, the universities are clearly discriminating by race and religion
as well, just openly, or if it's not openly, behind
the scenes and there's huge paper trails available. We'll talk
about that more later too. But yeah, it's it's shameless.
This is one of the things that Trump administration that
is doing that is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
From the New York Post, Louisiana medicaid millionaire bought a
Lamborghini while claiming government benefits for years.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yesterday was the the sixtieth anniversary of the signing of
Medicare and Medicaid. We should go through some of the
numbers over those decades of what has and hasn't been accomplished.
Bigger emphasis on what hasn't been accomplished other than spending
tax payer money that has been accomplished to a great.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Great level study fines and I apologize for this.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Oh poop pee and perspiration and the deceptive smell of chlorine.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
How jermy really.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Is a swimming pool? M Some of the details in
this are grim.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, yeah, I would guess.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
And finally the Babylon Bee, which is usually satire, but
maybe they're right here. Kamala announced that she will step
away from politics to spend more time with vodka.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Wow, I'll bet she never even runs for president. When
she starts trying to get people behind her to back her,
and the money people and everything like that, it just
ain't gonna happen. Maybe a little preliminary quiet polling comes
back dismally. Yeah, I could see her, although I'm holding
out hope because I would love to see that. It
(17:13):
would be hilarious. I would like it too. She was
at the top of the poles in California even though
it's very very early, and decided not to run Armstrong
and Geddy.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
An earthquake struck off the coast of Russia yesterday that
measured an eight point eight magnitude on the Richter scale.
It was so powerful that Putin's associates were falling off
balconies by accident.
Speaker 1 (17:36):
I like that, and he joke at the expense of
Putin being evil as good joke Here before Joe inexplicably
throws a wet blanket on a good news story from yesterday.
I don't know why he wants to bring us down.
Apparently he wanted Kamla to win. But before mainenance malice.
Before Joe gets to that, two things. One got really
(18:00):
interesting news about Kamala Harris I hadn't come across since
yesterday's announcement. And two homework assignment for you, Katie, because
I assumed Joe hasn't looked into this. The orange thing
in the picture of Epstein's cell. They got all the
attention all day yesterday. Can you fill us in on
that story, Katie, coming.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Well, I mean it's it's they're calling it quote.
Speaker 1 (18:21):
End plane site. Yeah, coming up. I want you to
nail that down for us, because that was Is that
related to the green thing seen on the court in
the WNBA game? No, it's not at all. Okay, there is.
What is that in Epstein's cell became a storied yesterday,
so I'll have that on the way too. Fascinating. So
(18:42):
yesterday the news was that the economy grew at a
three percent annualized basis, which is pretty good, and various
people were saying, this makes it clear that AB and C,
including that the tariff thing hasn't hurt the economy. I
don't know if i'd say that it didn't know that
we weren't official. People were saying that, yeah, it didn't
(19:03):
mean we are official. Weren't officially in a recession, which
would have been, like I said, thank god I avoided
that conversation. And a lot of Trump fans or conservatives
are touting the fact that a wasted bill Maher say,
you know, I thought the tariff thing might cousinflation are
screwed up, but you got to give him credit. It
hasn't well. As I said yesterday and have said for
quite a while, many birds have not yet come home
(19:26):
to roost. And here's in defense of the people that
said the things you were just saying. A lot of
those people were saying they would have happened by now, yes,
although a lot of that talk was based on the
so called Liberation Day tariffs, which never happened. So that's
(19:46):
ancient pushback nailing down who meant what? At what point
is well, that's hidious and so moving along, This may
be the weirdest GDP report ever, according to the fellows
of the Walls Street Journal, who would know. The top
line growth number looks good in the White House touted
of course, and it reversed a zero point five percent
(20:07):
decline in the GDP in the first quarter, which was
largely explained by a huge surge of imports as businesses
tried to front run the anticipated tariff barrage. Remember the
quirk of the GDP accounting that it's essentially domestic production
minus imports. Okay, so growth in the first half of
(20:29):
the year turned out to be about one point two
percent annualized. Most striking are the second quarter reports wild
internal details. Net exports minus, which is exports minus imports,
added a remarkable five percent to GDP as imports fell
by more than thirty percent. That's a big number. Yeah,
(20:52):
that's an astonishing number. In one imports. Yes, imports subtract
from growth in the Nashal accounts because GDP measures domestic production,
imports are produced over CAS. But they point out imports
are still crucial to US economic well being because A
consumers buy them and B businesses use them as inputs
(21:14):
for what they produce, whether for domestic use or for export.
Often for export, we import you know, the simple stuff
or you know, or the raw materials, and we export
sophisticated stuff or you know. There are many, many variations
(21:35):
of it. But anyway, the crazy swing and imports shows
how much Trump's up and down trade policies have disrupted
business decisions and left companies scrambling to adapt. This seems
to have had a negative effect on private domestic investment,
which fell almost sixteen percent in the second quarter after
a surge in the first. So in short, everybody's flailing
(21:57):
in business at not sure or what the tariffs are
going to be, not sure what the situation is important
export wise, and the birds have not yet come home
to roost. Well, that doesn't make me happy. You didn't
need to tell me that. No, so you wish Kamalah
had won? Is your excellent labs? Exactly my point? Yeah,
before we go. Oh and the other giant story, which
(22:19):
we mentioned later in the show yesterday is that federal
appeals judges are considering the legality of the president's widespread
tariffs moves today. God that huge court case. Wouldn't that
be something if the courts decide he can't do that?
What what have we been talking about for five months? Right?
(22:43):
Redoing the entire world trade situation? Oh, he can do that? Okay,
never mind then, And I don't think he's helped his
case either. And I'll explain that in a second. The
deliberation day tariffs and all sorts of all the tariff
thing has been based on or they use this rationale.
The Trump administration a nineteen seventies law, the International Emergency
(23:04):
Economic Powers Act. It lets the president do certain things.
And I could get into the verbiage of the law,
but it has to be a quote unquote international emergency.
And there is a serious disagreement over whether mild trade
deficits are an emergency. And the second thing, the reason
(23:24):
I say Trump hurt his case is that he just
raised tariffs on Brazil sky high because he doesn't like
how the government of Brazil is treating their ex president,
his friend Bolsonaro. Or he just threatened overnight to not
do a tariff deal with Canada because they're going to
recognize Palestine as a state. Yeah. Yeah, So if I
(23:49):
were a bettman, wait a min and I am a
betting man. I don't like his chances in court, but
I am far from a legal expert. Okay, before we
get to the hilarity of Kamala Harrison for president, is
there anything to yesterday's Epstein story? I will preface it
with this. Mark Halpern, who is in the top handful
(24:10):
of most trusted journalists I believe what he is reporting,
thinks the Epstein thing is a giant point of vulnerability.
Still for Trump, I don't quite get it. I don't
understand how or why, but he still thinks so. Anyway,
so yesterday, and I'm a little mystified by that too,
I don't get it. Yesterday's story with and I don't
(24:31):
get this because these have been around forever. Some photo
of Epstein's jail cell and somebody noticed something in the
background Hey, what is that? And that became a story
for the day. Can you tell you? Can you explain
this to me, Katie?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
Yeah, So it's it's actually it's the video of the
surveillance video that they had released.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Somebody caused it and said, what is that? Right?
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, as frequent in jail in prison there, they have
orange jumpsuits, and so they're suspecting that it was an
inmates walking somewhere near Epstein's cell. And the big speculation
is that they said that the staircase was visible by
that camera, but that orange figure goes out of screen,
which means that the staircase obviously wasn't.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
So that this is some of the evidence that somebody
was allowed in to kill him, or their speculation.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
I mean, they can't really nail anything down, but they're
going back and forth as to whether this figure was
possibly an inmate headed towards Epstein.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
I don't think it's a stretched called the Epstein story
in industry, yeah, because there is a great deal of
money made around it and they need a new chapter.
They need to keep it juiced up. That sounds like
a good wrinkle. It's like watching a soap opera or
one of those you know long running series, We'll hit
you a series will hit you with some of the
details of Kamala's hilarious idea that she's going to be
(25:55):
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annoyed by the dance of are you going to run
for president? I have no plans currently. He had no
plans currently. He didn't rule it out. That whole conversation
(27:20):
has made me tired my whole life. I just don't
understand it. Apparently we're not going to do that with Kamala, though,
because the information is out there. She announced yesterday she's
not running for governor of California, which the election is
next year. In twenty six the presidential election, forty million
people breathed a sigh of relief. I think she would
have won just because we're a stupid state, but presidency
(27:45):
is in twenty eight she announced he's not running for governor.
My first thought was, okay, I guess she is serious
about wanting to run for president. New York Times today.
Kamala is expected to form an organization shortly that would
allow her to raise funds and pay for travel and
political activities. A representative of California said yesterday that he
had spoken with miss Harris about traveling to competitive House
(28:07):
districts beginning this fall to assist Democratic candidates. She's going
to be all across the country for the twenty twenty
six mid terms. She wants to help us flip the House.
What democrat wants? Kamala Harris on stage with her. You know,
I loved the first sentence when I said, Dan, can
you read that again? Uh, she's got a form an organization. Yeah,
(28:30):
she's expected to form an organization shortly that would allow
her to raise funds and pay for travel and political
activities exactly, And Al Shopton responds, raise funds. We must,
we much be raising funds so we can live on
the hug Well pretending to be a politician. You can
pretend to run for office, get donations, and just travel
(28:52):
around flying first class or private jet. If you're getting
enough donations, staying in the best hotels, eating meals, having
a car, you can live quite the life's as a
pretend candidate. Finger. So I see Kamala Harris intervening and
maybe making a speech at the the toss up fourth
District of Hawaii and the very Purple Aspen District in Colorado.
(29:15):
Then in the winter time, perhaps assists that close close
race in Miami Beach. Okay, but here's the most important paragraph.
Because we got to take a break so she can
get the mailbag. This is the most important paragraph. This
is what's got me. I'm just I'm moist with excitement.
Oh boy. Miss Harris, who was widely criticized last year
(29:36):
for doing very few media interviews, is expected to beginning
talking with podcast hosts and journalists beginning after Labor Day.
According to a person who has spoken to her about
her plans, she thinks, you're right. It was a mistake.
I didn't do enough interviews. I'm gonna do lots of interviews.
Bring it on, Oh do it? Get ready for radio
(29:56):
gold laugh. I laughed finally about the passage of time.
There's so much meaning to the passage of time. Finally,
go on the Joe Rogan podcast, which I know she
feels like she has to do. I mean, that would
be hanging out there as a She still hasn't done
Joe Rogan unless she goes on Joe Rogan. So much giggling. Oh,
(30:20):
that's gonna be great. We got mail bag coming up
a look back at what Medicare and Medicaid haven't haven't
done on this sixtieth birthday Lyndon Johnson signing them into
laws sixty years ago this week. Costs trillions, many trillions
(30:41):
of dollars to taxpayers, and no indication really that it's
accomplished a single good thing, which is why it's being
canceled you soon. I mean, like any private enterprise would do,
or any family would do. How odd Anyway, I'm looking
forward to that. Here's your freedom loving cool of the day.
Continuing from Javier Milay, the new fabulous libertarian leader of Argentina,
(31:06):
that is, who is reviving that country. Echoing Milton Friedman,
by the way, he says, quote, socialism is always in
everywhere an impoverishing phenomenon that has failed in all countries
where it's been tried out. It's been a failure economically, socially, culturally,
and it has also murdered over one hundred million human beings. Yeah,
(31:26):
Hayek and Milton Friedman are his heroes. It's interesting that
he got elected. Things got so bad down there that
they turned to a guy like him. Yeah, And it's
also just fascinating as you look at human beings, that
such a miserable failure is so easily sold to people,
and generation after generation falls for it. Yeah, because if
(31:49):
you're a child, it makes sense. Maybe we'll talk about
that later. Indeed, mailbag drop's note mail bag at Armstrong
and Giddy dot com keep it to you know, reasonably brief.
Nice note here from Bill, who discovered the show in
two thousand and eight after moving to northern California from
Southern California. For what that's worth, and he says some
(32:09):
very nice things and got a nasty diagnosis of cancer
in May of twenty four. Things are going well, but
the side effects of the treatment were not fun. I'm
getting better. I want to thank you for brightening my
spirits when I was feeling like crap. And he now
is back in southern California and listens three hours a
day on seven ninety KABC ABC. Yeah, Bill, thank you
(32:33):
for a very very nice note. And it's an honor
that our drivel would elevate any human being in any way.
Is a pleasant sit but it would make anybody's day
better rather than worse. Is I consider it and it
would improve anything. It is pretty sung. It is shot Michael.
But thank you Bill, that that touch me. Let's see
(32:54):
how about this? Oh, then you have Tim, who is
our most consistent email hater. You people are so stupid.
A hotter planet directly impacts the jet stream, causing global
climate patterns to change. Right now, the jet stream is
currently blocked or broken, causing major climate disruptions. So at
the ocean's a hotter and getting hotter ocean causes the
global circulation occurrence to slow down, thus causing fluckation fluctuations
(33:17):
in world tempts. Get it, doubt it anyway, You're wrong,
and that lunatic running the EPA into the ground should
hang for a stupid, stupid, stupid deregulation edict. But what
am I stupid about. I'm not doubting that. I'm saying
I don't care. That's what I'm saying. I have never
looked into it because it doesn't matter to me. I
tell you. That's some good punchy writing, though, I mean
(33:40):
it was very readable. It's just it was super easy
to follow. I thought the insults and facts were nicely balanced.
I would maybe he can respond to this, But what
is the hole? Why would we destroy our economy or
or or you know, or live with the tiny crappy
cars or whatever when we can't make a dent because
of China and Indian everybody else. What's your response to that,
(34:02):
I honestly would like to hear that. Yeah, I honestly
I would. I would leave the tiny crappy cars out
of it, just because you make an argument we don't
need bigger cars, and that's a distraction. But why would
be with the thousand of one hundred thousand effects of
a truly decimated economy for a meaningless gesture, why would
(34:23):
that be a good idea? But anyway, good note Tim
uh Andy and Sack hm Oh on the question of
earthquake sex scales, which we discussed on the Armstrong and
Getty One More Thing podcast yesterday. Fascinating and amusing. Joe,
you poor soul. I don't envy you the emails you'll
get about earthquake magnitude basics, so you can have AI
(34:43):
tell you any details you need to school rude chumps.
The Richter scale was logarhythmic, but we stopped using it.
We now use the more accurate moment magnitude scale. Now
when you get those emails, you can say, I know
you absolute douche pill. That is a term I do
not use. I can't imagine why a canoe would be
(35:04):
designed to do any canoe. Yes, you douche canoe. I'm
using that today. What a douche canoe? No, stop saying it.
Saying it once was terrible, and I apologize. Is it terrible?
It's just anyway, as we're about out of time, My
point was what was my point? Where were talking about? Oh,
I'm the rector's I'm pretty sure that when I heard
(35:26):
about the earthquake, they kept mentioning everybody it was a
blankety blank on the Richter scale, in the same way
that the media constantly cites the Dow Industrial Average, which
is a horrifically useless thing to site to gauge the
overall health. O. So you're saying they're using the old
scale that people have heard of, even though it's not
as accurate. This guy's saying there's a new scale that
(35:48):
people in the no use. Yes, okay, okay, yeah, you
know it's got some more great email. I wish we
had time for him. Maybe we'll sprinkle it in next hour.
That's kind of interesting actually, And there they're gonna hang
on to the dumb old. Still happening. We're experiencing earthquake. Please,
that's what they were saying in Russian. Oh and interestingly,
(36:11):
well we don't have time for that either. We have
time for nothing. So little time. Yeah yeah, life is short,
goes by waste time or time will waste you muse
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