August 25, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 1 of A&G features...
- National Guard headed to more US cities & Ukraine/Russia war continues
- Katie Green's Headlines!
- Flesh eating maggots, crime in Chicago & Epstein
- Tariffs on packages & Ozempic prices
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty Armstrong and Jeddie and.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
No Kee.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Live from the studio c, a dimly lit room deeper
than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound,
kicking off a brand new week that isn't exciting when
you start a new week.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All the possibilities, things that could happen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
This could be a week and you get the big
promotion you're running the mister Wright at the grocery store,
missus right coming out of you the gym or whatever,
or could be the week you they tell you they
don't need you anymore and they march you to your
car with the cardboard box. Could be you don't know.
The week is pregnant with possibilities. That's my point. So
I'll welcome, Glad you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How you doing. Joe is in England on vacation. Thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Michael with his wife Judy, and he is going to
call into the program a little bit later and we'll
find out which English beer he's drinking or whatever the
heck is going on there. We have a whole bunch
of guests lined up for today on a whole bunch
of different topics that I really look forward to getting to.
There are not really any news stories, thank god, but
(01:25):
develop on all the old stories that we've been covering
for quite a while, including National Guard troops in DC
are carrying firearms starting over the weekend on the order
of second Deaf Pete Hegzath. And my brother was a
National Guard troop for a while, and I don't know.
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I'm pretty certain they don't get a lot of training
in urban crime arrests and that sort of thing. And
I do think there's an opportunity for something to go
horribly wrong if any of these National Guards troops end
up in a situation with some sort of you know,
gang bangers or something like that, and they got to
figure out what their situation is with their firearms. They're
(02:08):
not they're only supposed to use as self defense. But
obviously I would get very difficult, very fast. But the
most interesting part of that whole story is, I guess
Trump is going to send troops into Chicago now under
exactly what law. That's where it gets complicated. There is
a stretch of ability to do it with the idea
(02:33):
that Chicago's out of control crime is rampant, the police
force is failing, and so the federal government's going to
step in. That's stretch. I don't know if the courts
will allow him to do that. It's a little less
of a stretch, but still a bit of a stretch
to claim that because of cartel gang drug situations being
orchestrated by a foreign country, the Mexican cartels in Chicago,
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that the president has the right to send the troops in.
That one's less of a stretch, but still will require
probably a court to sign off on it, as it
will get challenged at some point. But anyway, national Guard
troops in Chicago, and they're talking about other cities too,
So where this goes, nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We'll keep our eye on that whole thing. Obviously. You
have the Russia Ukraine thing, which to me seems to.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Be completely dead in terms of a peace process, like
we are back to well, it seems like it's been
a long time, but it's only been like a week
and a half. You go back like a week and
a half when this whole thing started. That's where we
are on the Russia Ukraine peace process. I think it
is completely dead. And now we're just at the point
that Russia is attacking Ukraine every day and they're trying
(03:40):
to defend themselves, which is where we've.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Been on along.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Trump and Europe have some major decisions to make
as to how much they're going to arm the Ukrainians
and the whole sanctioned Singer was an article on the Wall.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Street Journal over the weekend. It was pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Trump has made noises that he's okay with Ukraine firing
some of our weapons into Russia. However, the Pentagon is
not okay with it, and they have stopped it from happening.
So you may have a bit of a the Pentagon
not doing what their boss wants them to do situation,
which is interesting. On the heels of a Washington Post
story that came out over the weekend. You almost certainly
(04:19):
didn't see this. I can't wait to talk about it
later that Back in the day, when Reagan was talking
with then leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev about doing
away with nuclear weapons, the intelligence departments and the Pentagon
didn't like that, and they stemied the president on what
(04:40):
he wanted. The elected representative of the people had a plan,
and the permanent bureaucracies stopped him from pulling that off,
which is a serious problem, and we only know about
it now because of some documents that have finally come
loose in the way that it happens after twenty five years,
forty years, fifty years, depending on the ca of documents,
they become a public knowledge.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And we now know that that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So the president being stopped by call it the deep state,
call it the permanent bureaucracy of DC or whatever. Is
an ongoing problem, has been around for well more than
a half century, for a very long time. And I
want to tell you that story later because it's interesting
and troubling, and I wonder to what extent we've got
that going on right now. What is one of the
(05:24):
other stories I wanted to check in on my sailing,
my sailing lessons. We got to check in on that story,
my sailing lessons. One thing on that sailing is way
more complicated than I realized, way harder than I realized.
You know how when you're in a motor boat, you
spend most of your time just kind of like relaxing
(05:46):
and looking around maybe having a drink. It is not
like that on a sailboat. You are constantly working and
making decisions. And yesterday anyway, I was teamed up with
this old guy who wouldn't stop ordering me around. I
can't wait to talk about that because it was so
freaking annoying. But I do need to start to show
officially before we get into trouble with the FCC, before
(06:07):
we move on with a number of news items. I'm
Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty in England on this Monday,
August twenty fifty or twenty twenty five, Armstrong and Geddy,
and we approve of this program on orders of the
Federal Communications Commission.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We begin the show for the week at mark.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No should know by now that never ever Russia deliberately
targeted any sites which are not linked to military abilities
of Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That was spokeshole for Putin, Sergei Lavrov on one of
the talk shows over the weekend, Meet the Press, in
specific saying we have never targeted schools and the children
and the hospitals, and the host to Meet the Press
what's her name, said, well, we've got reporting improving, Show
me the proof, OLP me the proof so play a
(07:01):
longer version of that a little bit later. But he did,
he did his job going on online about it, and
that's to my point that we're right back to square
one on that story.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We got a.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Guest on a little bit later to talk about the
whole redistricting battle which continues.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
UH.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The mainstream media finally got around to discussing how states
are jerry mandered all across the country and have been
for years and years and years, often to the Democrats benefit,
and that this is not a new thing that they're
doing in Texas. If you're a Democrat, I can see
why you wouldn't like it, but it's definitely not a
new thing or outrageous or or or breaking the breaking
(07:39):
the traditions or anything like that. For instance, what California
is hoping hoping to do, UH is quite outrageous and
not getting near enough tension.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So we'll talk about that. Also, want to.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Get into some of the audio from g Dog as
we call our Msmack because nobody knows how to pronounce
first name. They released the audio tapes from the interview
that the Justice Department did with her a couple of
weeks ago. You remember that they talked to her for
like nine hours over two days. Well, they released that.
Some of the things she said kind of interesting, including
(08:16):
she thinks Epstein didn't kill himself, which is interesting I think.
So we'll talk about that a little bit later. Setting
the table for a number of updates on a number
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old guy that was on the sailing with me, nice
enough old guy, but he he believed he knew everything
(09:44):
about sailing, which I don't know why he was in
the beginner sailing class. At the same time, it was
kind of at various times trying to co teach it
with the teacher and ordering people around and including me,
and I found it highly annoying. And then when we
got on the boat, so first day it was the
instructors on the sailboat with us, has showing us what
to do and tell us what to do and everything
(10:04):
like that, and trying to learn the ropes literally on
the sailboat. But on the second day it was just
me and this old guy I got teamed up with
in the sailboat out there by ourselves, and then the
instructor was on a motor boat going around like, you know,
checking on us and stuff like that. He would shout
out instructions, but the old guy couldn't hear because his
hearing is shot because he's old. He couldn't hear the
(10:25):
instructions from the from the teacher of the sailing class.
But he would constantly tell me what to do well
at the same time that the teacher was telling me
what to do. And I one time said, Sir, I
am going to listen to the instructor, not you. I
said it just exactly like that, sir, Yes he did.
Oh man, yeah, I was starting to be really really annoyed.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Were the instructions he was hollering at you matching what
the actual instructor was.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Saying sometimes but not always.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
He hasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
A beginning sailing class is just such a if you're
freaking Christopher Columbus, go make an advanced sailing class, or
get on in your boat and.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Circumnavigate the globe or something.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But don't sit in the beginning sailing class, yelling instructions
at me opposite of what.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The teacher's telling me to do. God dang it. And
he kept saying, I can't hear him. I can't hear him. Okay,
you're probable man, not my problem, sir, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I actually yelled sir like that, just exactly like that
at that volume. So I have to talk more about
that later. We've got Katie. You got headlines for us
coming up possibly, Okay, Katie's headlines are on the way
lots here, stay with us. The guy was sailing with
in my beginning sailing class, by the way, the old
guy that I ended up yelling at my accent, well
(11:44):
not my accident on purpose, but I know exactly his
stance on Donald Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Hamas, and a
number of other topics because he told me, because he
told me in a very strong manner. But he thinks
about all those things. Just blows my mind. That people
want to engage in the most divisive stories in all
(12:04):
of politics.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
In casual settings. Yeah, I don't freaking get that at all. Well,
did they know what you did for a living? He
eventually did. I eventually asked me. But that wasn't at
the beginning.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But I was just wondering why I was telling you
all this stuff. Say, I decided that was a sweet opener.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, I was wondering too. But there's just a lot
of people that that's just their thing. They're willing to
tell you in very strong terms how they feel about politics,
and then you get to either enjoin in the conversation,
disagree with them and have an argument with somebody you
don't know for some reason, or just keep your mouth
shut and let them say all kinds of crap you hate.
Those are your options, and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I hate it. I hate it. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
On the other hand, maybe I have this radio show.
I get to say all my crap here, And maybe
if I didn't have this radio show, maybe i'd say
it in sailing lessons too.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I doubt it anyway, sir, I'm listening to the instructor.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't know why you said that. I was just
so mad. That's what came out.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
That works.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Let's get the headlines now with Katie Green, find out
what's going on in the world.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
All right, you touched on this Fox News Russia, says
Ukrainian drones hit nuclear power plant during Independence Day strikes.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
That's right, Ukrainian, Your Ukrainian independence is going on. They're
fourth of July and Russia decided to really double down
on hit them. Like I said earlier, we're back to
square one on that whole thing. The peace process is over.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
New York Times Democrats are criticizing Trump's push for National
Guard move in more cities.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, we're gonna talk more about that coming up, as
the National Guard is going to be sent to Chicago
soon and what that might mean.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
ABC kilmar Abrego Garcia detained at ICE office in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
This is going to be one of the big stories
of the day, especially for the mainstream media. The Maryland
man who our government believes was smuggling illegals across the country,
perhaps as part of MS thirteen. We sent him to
Al Salvador once. Remember that one't cool because that's in
his home country. What the hell we sent him there for?
(14:14):
Then got him back and now he's in He was
released and is an ICE custody.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Not exactly sure what's going to.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Happen from USA today.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
President Trump threatens Chris Christie with new Bridgegate investigation.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Wow, I haven't off to look into this.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Chris Christie said some nice things about the Trump side
of the story and a couple of things yesterday and
I don't know if these are related, but have that
for you later too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Countries are suspending postal deliveries to the United States due
to the ending tariff exemptions.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
See can't get some mailed here?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, from a lot, especially the European countries.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Really Yeah, okay, I have that story in hotlinks for it.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
From CNN, SpaceX scrubs attempt to launch Starship Mega Rocket
after months and months.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Of mishaps and so it's not just a weather problem,
it's actually the project is it's the project is at
an issue.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, but Elon says we're still going to Mars at
some point.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yees from NBC.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
First human case of flesh eating screwworm parasite is detected
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh, I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, I don't want to get the flesh eating screwworm parasite.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't know what it does, but it's not a
good name.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Oh, this is this is my favorite video of the weekend.
From the New York Post. Mandami fails at bench press
while trying to show off at Men's.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Day in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So I do not want to pick our leaders based
on how much they can bench.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
No, that seems stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But why would you show up to a gym, lay
down and do the photo op. I'm gonna lift some
weights if you're the kind of guy that can't bench
one thirty five, which, if you know anything about Olympic
weights and weight rooms, is one plate on each side.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, the barways forty five.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Each plate weighs forty five ninety forty five one thirty five,
so they had one thirty five on there. He couldn't
do it. But why would you lay down to lift
weights if you're not a super strong guy. I just
I don't understand you're setting yourself up for mockery.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yes, I mean rightfully.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So James Madison probably couldn't bench fifty pounds. I mean,
I don't care how much various leader, but why James
Madison probably didn't woll over to the gym and laid
let it go.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
It's a whirl.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, study fines survey shows seventy four thousand dollars is
the quote perfect salary.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
For Americans, how much seventy four thousand.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, where I'm from in middle of nowhere Kansas, that'd
be a pretty good salary. In uh Marin County, Bay area,
San Francisco, not so much.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Depends where you live.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And finally from the babylon.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Bee, California fines family for building sand castle without Coastal
Commission approval.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I need to know more about this flesh eating screwworm
bacteria thingy. Make sure I don't get it. Signs that's
what I need. Signs that you've got the flesh eating bacteria.
If you could come up with those for me, Katie,
you got it, because we're all going to be wondering
we feel an itch or something like that today. We're
gonna think, Oh, I hope that isn't that flesh eating screworm.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It's the screw worm.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
We got a lot more on the way. I hope
you can stay with.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh Katie, why are you laughing? I see you laughing.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You have me look up the most disgusting things.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
So the flesh eating bacteria screwworm, which has finally arrived
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
We have one case where did the case arrive.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Uh oh, that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Where in the United States is the flesh eating screworm
screwworm detected?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I'm gonna have to look okay, Oh Maryland, Maryland, Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So I'm in California. It's three thousand miles away from me.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, they visited Guatemala and came back with it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Apparently, if you're listening on the East Coast, so I
feel bad for you, probably will have it. By later
this afternoon. You'll probably have the screwworm virus. So tell
me what to look for so I know if I've
got this or not.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Oh boy, get ready? Not good morning talk.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Unexplained non healing or worsening skin lesions that may be
painful or bleed, and the feeling of the feeling or
sight of maggots within the wound.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So you're telling me if I have a out of nowhere,
no reason to have it, open wound with maggots crawling
out of it, I should be concerned.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Okay, I will.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Unexplained non healing.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
They're saying it could stem from the side of a
tick bite or something of that nature. Sure, and also
a foul odor may come from the interfact.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
That's the most disgusting thing we've ever done. Sorry about
that if you were eating a while of that, but
just trying to save you. So if you have a
wound like that shows up out of nowhere, won't heal
and you hear the magos are involved mugghos. So perhaps
you want the French pronunciation. Perhaps you'd want to contact
your doctor. I'd even go to urgent care. Yeah, just
(19:24):
to make sure you get an appointment. Okay, So there's that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Umm.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So this story is getting a lot of attention. Here's
the ABC News version of it.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
As President Trump's mobilization of nearly two thousand National Guard
troops to the nation's capital nears the end of its
second week, planning is underway to potentially expand that mission
and send the National Guard to Chicago, Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker pushing back, saying there is no emergency that warrens
Trump federalizing his state's National Guard or sending active duty
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military within our borders.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
So I don't know about the constitutionality of the President
sending National Guard troops into Chicago. I think we all
understand at this point what's going on in Washington, d C.
The federal government and the president do have the ability
to do this in certain cases. This will work its
way through the courts and all that. I don't know
about Chicago, well, I'm sure that will be challenged and
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then we'll deal with that then. Mark Halpern, writing in
his newsletter today, he sees this just big picture politics
as Trump is goading a lot of Democrats like Pritzker,
the governor of Illinois, and the mayor there, Mayor Johnson
into standing up for criminals or high crime areas, and
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just overall, the way it's going to be taken in
by the average voter is one side wants to do
something about crime and the other side doesn't, and that
that's the way it will land nationwide. Now, if you're
an activist the Democrat, you're not going to be swayed
by any of this anyway. But just the average voter,
I think we'll see President Trump wants to do something
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about crime and the crime ridden I mean, Chicago's got
such a reputation at this point of being crime ridden
and all the shooting statistics you hear every weekend and
all that sort of stuff. I think it'll be a
political win overall for the president. But this is interesting.
So I was wondering where some of the hair on
(21:30):
fire pushback concern from the left is around the federalizing
of the police in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Or the Senate in the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Bill Maher on his show Friday Night, I think this
is nuts, but explains that position.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So you have in the Capitol a sort of permanent
police presence, so when an election dispute might come up,
just hypothetically. I mean, I don't want to be a
big pessimist, and I'm going to pretend for the rest
of the duration that the Democrats do have a chance
(22:07):
of winning, and they might win the next election. I
just don't think they're ever going to take power because
this is what's going to happen, because I think this
coup is going to go off a lot smoother than
the last one.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So there's your argument in case you were wondering, or
you have lefty friends, or this is what you might
run into. Bill Maher stating that this is this breaks
down a little bit with the sending the National Guard
troops to Chicago, because then to me, it just looks
like one he's trying to win the political argument of
our side cares about crime that side doesn't, just in general,
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but then also that this is about crime and some
of our crime ridden major cities. Now, of course, Chicago
has thrown out all kinds of statistics saying crime is
actually down, just like Washington dcated a couple of weeks ago.
Then we turned out some of those statistics were not
only bogus, but were manipulated, and some of those people
maybe going to jail for manipulating the stats. Plus, crime
statistics are easily massaged, like all statistics are, to try
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to make anything look one away or another. Like I said,
I think the impression of Chicago as having a crime
problem is pretty settled at this point. AnyWho, if it
were just Washington, d C. That Trump was using the
National Guard troops and Bill Maher would have a lot
better argument. I think now that they're being sent to
Chicago too kind of waters it down. But anyway, it's
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the idea that Trump wants to have National Guard troops
mostly from red states in Washington, d C. So that
the next time there's a January sixth sort of thing
and Trump tries to hold on power as a Timu Hitler,
as he's been called that you'll have Red State National
Guard troops there to help I guess with the protesters
(23:47):
break into the capitol and take power whatever Trump's third term.
So that's the argument from the bill Maher left there
you go. You're welcome now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You know that's that. We'll be following that over the
next two week or so.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't know when National Guard troops are supposed to
actually arrive in Chicago, but obviously that will get a
heck of a lot of attention. What else did I
want to get on this segment before we take a break?
Joe is in England. He's going to call in a
little bit later, looking forward to that. Oh, I know
what I wanted to do, just wanted to get this on.
(24:23):
We'll do more in depth on this later. This is
from the audio tapes released Friday afternoon, one of your
typical Friday news dumps that they do usually to cover
something up. I don't know why, but.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
This is g Dog Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You know, the short haired brunette that went out looking
for hot fifteen year olds to get Jeffrey Epstein to
sex traffic her. She's in prison for that very crime.
This is from the audio tape of her being questioned
by the Justice Department a couple of weeks ago on
(25:04):
the topic of do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
or not?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
So you think he was he did not die by suicide,
given all.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The things we just talked about, I do not believe
he died.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
And do you believe that? Do you have any speculation
or view of who killed him?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I think that's interesting, So could you look this up, Katie.
I don't know if there's got to be national polling
on what most people think whether Epstein killed himself or not.
Joe and I have been pretty hardcore he killed himself
pretty much from the beginning. I mean, all the jokes
(25:46):
were made when he was arrested. Boy better keep an
eye on him. Mostly around the Clinton's but anybody. There's
a lot of powerful men that were in that orbit
that might want not him to ever be able to
testify anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But I just have always thought he's a super rich guy.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's an old rich guy who's lived the life of
posh and he doesn't want to spend the rest of
his life in prison. He's caught, he knows he's caught.
He knows he's not getting out, So he killed himself.
It doesn't seem that shocking to me, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
This is according to a you gov poll most recent
found that the belief in suicide had fallen to sixteen percent,
while belief a murder had grown to over fifty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Wow, only sixteen percent believe he killed himself.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, so that one got updated in this month because
the month prior it was at twenty percent believed that
he killed himself.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Wow. So Joe and I have been on the tiny
minority all along.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's interesting. I was speaking of Mark Calpern again yesterday.
I was watching his news show. That's where I grabbed
that Epstein clip that we just heard. I was watching
Mark Alpern's news show. He said, I've never believed that
he killed himself. And Mark Alpern's way more plucked in
to the rich and powerful in DC than I'll ever be.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He doesn't think Epstein killed himself.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
People have been rolling their eyes at me since the happened,
and I would always drop in a Epstein didn't kill
himself on the air all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Oh yeah, it just didn't seem right. It was way
too convenient.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well it it's yeah, it's convenient to a lot of people,
and then you got the hole they didn't have the
cameras on, or the cameras are pointing the wrong direction.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Ye guard was asleep.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah quiet, Yeah, come on this?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
What is this Hollywood?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, it might as well be Okay, maybe we'll
get into it. I know we're gonna go into a
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are getting older. I was a hard core sports fan
prior to having children. I'm not happy about it. I
wish I could have some of those hours back. I
remember on a Sunday though, I was always gonna watch
three games, your two afternoon games, in the Sunday night
game every Sunday, and some pre and post game coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So what is that six nine just for the games?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Nine hours and then probably probably a couple more hours
eleven hours of watching football on a Sunday how many
sundays did I do that? Lots and lots and lots
for many many years. Then after I had kids, I
just abandoned it and kind of dropped off to For
the past fifteen years or so, I pretty much only
watched the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
That's about it. And now I might get back into
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I don't want to go back to and I don't
want to lay on my deathbed and think, I'm sure
glad I saw that early season game between two teams
that are never going to make the playoffs. You know,
That's not what I want to do with my deathbed.
But I might pay more attention this year. What else
the redistricting thing. We got a great guest on later.
As I said, the mainstream media is waking up to
(29:44):
the fact that jerry mandering is something everybody's been doing
for a very long time. It's not a new invention
by the Republicans. We got the Maryland Man, is he
going to be released or sent to Uganda or not?
The Maryland man who I think is a human trafficker,
among other things, and a bunch of other stories to
get to. And then I'm gonna I do have to
(30:05):
at some point tell the still full story of my
sailing lessons and the old man that kept older ordering
me around and me yelling at the old guy should.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Have pushed him overboard.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Seriously, you know what, that was an option? Why didn't
I think about that? When the instructor turns his back,
I could have just with a he weighed like eighty
pounds and he's like seventy five years old. I could
have just handled on a hipchack little hand in the chest.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Off he goes, good bye, sir. It wouldn't have been
it so easy.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, we got more on the way next to here,
so I'm gonna try to get it as much information
on the radio show today as possible. That's entertaining information
for you, which I think is why you come here.
And I have a whole bunch of guests, so I'm
to jam in a bunch of stories in between the guests.
Joe is in Great Britain and he will on vacation,
(30:56):
and he didn't move away because he can't stand to
live in trump so America or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
He's just on vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Before we get to any of that, I'm a little
concerned about the topic matter of this joke from Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:12):
The City of New York has filed ten criminal charges
against a man who threw a green dildo onto the
floor of a w NBA game. Ten charges for punishment,
he has to watch a WNBA game.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Katie, I have an assignment for you for later in
the show. If you could look up what those ten
charges are, ten different charges, maybe we can get to
that later. I don't like that word, as I've said,
That's not a word I've ever said. I'm not going
to say the word. And maybe it's the hard deed
that makes it sound so harsh.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Duh. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It just gives me the oogie's. Katie did have this
headline a little bit earlier. I wanted to hear more
on this to see if it affects me or you
this news story, didn't I set that up for I
thought I told you what I wanted there, Michael, did
I not? This would be clip number Sorry, really thought
(32:10):
I said something number twenty.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Some European postal companies have decided to stop shipping to
the US until they figure out how this new rule
is going to work.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So starting Friday, any.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Package coming into the US that's worth under eight hundred
dollars will have to go through customs and will be tariff.
That tariff had been waived under what's called the Dominimus
tariff exemption, but President Trump getting rid of that after
signing an executive order last month. This will affect all
the countries shipping to the US. US Customs only releasing
some technical details about the new rule a week ago.
(32:42):
Still not clear who will collect the tariffs, what additional
information is needed, or how the packages will be processed.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, huge deal or not a huge deal, depending on
what you order. But I've bought a number of things
off eBay or stock list or various places where they
sell you stuff many times that have come from other countries,
and now it would go through a very long, slow
process in which you're going to have to pay more
for a tariff. And also the buyer may not want
(33:10):
to ship to you or you may not want. That's
going to change things a little bit. Check that before
you buy something from eBay with something that's coming from
Uganda or wherever you order it. Different headline I came
across over the weekend. Are you overweight? Which sounds like
I'm about to do an ad I'm not. Ozipic for
all is starting to make economic sense, according to people
(33:32):
in the healthcare industry and economists, as prices are coming down,
and we had this story last week that they've been
cut basically in half for a zipic and some of
these other drugs do the same thing that help you
lose weight, they've been cutting about half. It's starting to
make some sort of sense that it would be paid
for by insurance because it saves so much money overall.
(33:56):
For instance, medical researchers recently estimated for every one hundred
thousand Americans treated with one of these drugs, you'll see
between thirty two and forty five thousand fewer cases of obesity,
so nearly half as much obesity for one hundred thousand
fat people, overweight people, twenty thousand fewer diabetes cases. That
(34:19):
means ten thousand fewer cases of heart heart disease. That
means and that preventative effects would save like thirty thousand
dollars in medical care for each patient. And that doesn't
even include potential savings from addiction, Parkinson's kidney disease, or
a whole bunch of other ailments that they think not
(34:41):
being overweight would help with that means the overall savings
is almost certainly much higher than the cost from buying
the drug that the insurance company has to deal with.
So it's quite possible in the very near future you're
going to find out that on your health plan, Ozimpic
is paid for by your insurance, because I think it's
(35:02):
saved them some more in the long run. So, man,
that's been a barrier for I think a lot of
people of you heard how expensive it was and you thought, oh,
I'm not that overweight and I'm not that worried about it,
or I just plane don't have the money to be
able to afford to get on these expensive drugs. Well,
once the insurance offers it, I would not be shocked
(35:22):
at all that five years from now, half the country's
on one of these drugs, lots and lots and lots
of us. They've also brought down the how overweight you
should be before you take these Originally it was like
you had to be on my six hundred pound life
before they thought it was a good idea for you
to be on these drugs. Now just kind of being
you know, twenty thirty pounds overweight, which gazillions of us are.
(35:47):
They say, so to get okay, to get on these drugs,
and insurance will pay for it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So there you go, for better or worse.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
The stuff about how it could help with Parkinson's or addiction.
I don't quite understand that, and a whole bunch of
other diseases if you lose weight, really interesting stuff. Man,
If they can prove that heart disease, for instance, heart
disease is by far the number one killer in the America.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Did you know that for men and women? Heart disease?
And if it cuts way way.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Way down on the likelihood of heart disease by losing weight,
of course insurance pay for that. Yeah, because heart disease
is a very expensive problem to have, or if you
get it in a bad sense that it's going to
kill you, those last weeks months of you being alive
costs the insurance company tons and tons of money.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Anyhow, a lot more coming up an hour two.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
If you miss a segment or an hour, you can
get our podcast it's called Armstrong and Getty on demand.
We'll find out exactly what the ten charges are for
that poor man who threw a maritalaid onto the court
of the basketball game for instance, among other things in
the coming hours, so I hope you can check that out.
Speaker 6 (36:49):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Armstrong and Yeddy.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Live from the studio c, a dimly lit room deeper
than the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications Compound,
kicking off a brand new week that isn't exciting when
you start a new week.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
All the possibilities, things that could happen.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
This could be a week and you get the big
promotion you're running the mister Wright at the grocery store,
missus right coming out of you the gym or whatever,
or could be the week you they tell you they
don't need you anymore and they march you to your
car with the cardboard box. Could be you don't know.
The week is pregnant with possibilities. That's my point. So
I'll welcome, Glad you're here.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
How you doing. Joe is in England on vacation. Thank
you for that.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Michael with his wife Judy, and he is going to
call into the program a little bit later and we'll
find out which English beer he's drinking or whatever the
heck is going on there. We have a whole bunch
of guests lined up for today on a whole bunch
of different topics that I really look forward to getting to.
There are not really any news stories, thank god, but
(01:25):
develop on all the old stories that we've been covering
for quite a while, including National Guard troops in DC
are carrying firearms starting over the weekend on the order
of second Deaf Pete Hegzath. And my brother was a
National Guard troop for a while, and I don't know.
(01:47):
I'm pretty certain they don't get a lot of training
in urban crime arrests and that sort of thing. And
I do think there's an opportunity for something to go
horribly wrong if any of these National Guards troops end
up in a situation with some sort of you know,
gang bangers or something like that, and they got to
figure out what their situation is with their firearms. They're
(02:08):
not they're only supposed to use as self defense. But
obviously I would get very difficult, very fast. But the
most interesting part of that whole story is, I guess
Trump is going to send troops into Chicago now under
exactly what law. That's where it gets complicated. There is
a stretch of ability to do it with the idea
(02:33):
that Chicago's out of control crime is rampant, the police
force is failing, and so the federal government's going to
step in. That's stretch. I don't know if the courts
will allow him to do that. It's a little less
of a stretch, but still a bit of a stretch
to claim that because of cartel gang drug situations being
orchestrated by a foreign country, the Mexican cartels in Chicago,
(02:57):
that the president has the right to send the troops in.
That one's less of a stretch, but still will require
probably a court to sign off on it, as it
will get challenged at some point. But anyway, national Guard
troops in Chicago, and they're talking about other cities too,
So where this goes, nobody knows.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
We'll keep our eye on that whole thing. Obviously. You
have the Russia Ukraine thing, which to me seems to.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
Be completely dead in terms of a peace process, like
we are back to well, it seems like it's been
a long time, but it's only been like a week
and a half. You go back like a week and
a half when this whole thing started. That's where we
are on the Russia Ukraine peace process. I think it
is completely dead. And now we're just at the point
that Russia is attacking Ukraine every day and they're trying
(03:40):
to defend themselves, which is where we've.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Been on along.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
And Trump and Europe have some major decisions to make
as to how much they're going to arm the Ukrainians
and the whole sanctioned Singer was an article on the Wall.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Street Journal over the weekend. It was pretty damned interesting.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Trump has made noises that he's okay with Ukraine firing
some of our weapons into Russia. However, the Pentagon is
not okay with it, and they have stopped it from happening.
So you may have a bit of a the Pentagon
not doing what their boss wants them to do situation,
which is interesting. On the heels of a Washington Post
story that came out over the weekend. You almost certainly
(04:19):
didn't see this. I can't wait to talk about it
later that Back in the day, when Reagan was talking
with then leader of the Soviet Union Gorbachev about doing
away with nuclear weapons, the intelligence departments and the Pentagon
didn't like that, and they stemied the president on what
(04:40):
he wanted. The elected representative of the people had a plan,
and the permanent bureaucracies stopped him from pulling that off,
which is a serious problem, and we only know about
it now because of some documents that have finally come
loose in the way that it happens after twenty five years,
forty years, fifty years, depending on the ca of documents,
they become a public knowledge.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
And we now know that that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
So the president being stopped by call it the deep state,
call it the permanent bureaucracy of DC or whatever. Is
an ongoing problem, has been around for well more than
a half century, for a very long time. And I
want to tell you that story later because it's interesting
and troubling, and I wonder to what extent we've got
that going on right now. What is one of the
(05:24):
other stories I wanted to check in on my sailing,
my sailing lessons. We got to check in on that story,
my sailing lessons. One thing on that sailing is way
more complicated than I realized, way harder than I realized.
You know how when you're in a motor boat, you
spend most of your time just kind of like relaxing
(05:46):
and looking around maybe having a drink. It is not
like that on a sailboat. You are constantly working and
making decisions. And yesterday anyway, I was teamed up with
this old guy who wouldn't stop ordering me around. I
can't wait to talk about that because it was so
freaking annoying. But I do need to start to show
officially before we get into trouble with the FCC, before
(06:07):
we move on with a number of news items. I'm
Jack Armstrong, he's Joe Getty in England on this Monday,
August twenty fifty or twenty twenty five, Armstrong and Geddy,
and we approve of this program on orders of the
Federal Communications Commission.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
We begin the show for the week at mark.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
No should know by now that never ever Russia deliberately
targeted any sites which are not linked to military abilities
of Ukraine.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That was spokeshole for Putin, Sergei Lavrov on one of
the talk shows over the weekend, Meet the Press, in
specific saying we have never targeted schools and the children
and the hospitals, and the host to Meet the Press
what's her name, said, well, we've got reporting improving, Show
me the proof, OLP me the proof so play a
(07:01):
longer version of that a little bit later. But he did,
he did his job going on online about it, and
that's to my point that we're right back to square
one on that story.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
We got a.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Guest on a little bit later to talk about the
whole redistricting battle which continues.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
UH.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
The mainstream media finally got around to discussing how states
are jerry mandered all across the country and have been
for years and years and years, often to the Democrats benefit,
and that this is not a new thing that they're
doing in Texas. If you're a Democrat, I can see
why you wouldn't like it, but it's definitely not a
new thing or outrageous or or or breaking the breaking
(07:39):
the traditions or anything like that. For instance, what California
is hoping hoping to do, UH is quite outrageous and
not getting near enough tension.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So we'll talk about that. Also, want to.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Get into some of the audio from g Dog as
we call our Msmack because nobody knows how to pronounce
first name. They released the audio tapes from the interview
that the Justice Department did with her a couple of
weeks ago. You remember that they talked to her for
like nine hours over two days. Well, they released that.
Some of the things she said kind of interesting, including
(08:16):
she thinks Epstein didn't kill himself, which is interesting I think.
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old guy that was on the sailing with me, nice
enough old guy, but he he believed he knew everything
(09:44):
about sailing, which I don't know why he was in
the beginner sailing class. At the same time, it was
kind of at various times trying to co teach it
with the teacher and ordering people around and including me,
and I found it highly annoying. And then when we
got on the boat, so first day it was the
instructors on the sailboat with us, has showing us what
to do and tell us what to do and everything
(10:04):
like that, and trying to learn the ropes literally on
the sailboat. But on the second day it was just
me and this old guy I got teamed up with
in the sailboat out there by ourselves, and then the
instructor was on a motor boat going around like, you know,
checking on us and stuff like that. He would shout
out instructions, but the old guy couldn't hear because his
hearing is shot because he's old. He couldn't hear the
(10:25):
instructions from the from the teacher of the sailing class.
But he would constantly tell me what to do well
at the same time that the teacher was telling me
what to do. And I one time said, Sir, I
am going to listen to the instructor, not you. I
said it just exactly like that, sir, Yes he did.
Oh man, yeah, I was starting to be really really annoyed.
Speaker 5 (10:48):
Were the instructions he was hollering at you matching what
the actual instructor was.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Saying sometimes but not always.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
He hasn't.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
A beginning sailing class is just such a if you're
freaking Christopher Columbus, go make an advanced sailing class, or
get on in your boat and.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Circumnavigate the globe or something.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
But don't sit in the beginning sailing class, yelling instructions
at me opposite of what.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
The teacher's telling me to do. God dang it. And
he kept saying, I can't hear him. I can't hear him. Okay,
you're probable man, not my problem, sir, sir.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
I actually yelled sir like that, just exactly like that
at that volume. So I have to talk more about
that later. We've got Katie. You got headlines for us
coming up possibly, Okay, Katie's headlines are on the way
lots here, stay with us. The guy was sailing with
in my beginning sailing class, by the way, the old
guy that I ended up yelling at my accent, well
(11:44):
not my accident on purpose, but I know exactly his
stance on Donald Trump, Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Hamas, and a
number of other topics because he told me, because he
told me in a very strong manner. But he thinks
about all those things. Just blows my mind. That people
want to engage in the most divisive stories in all
(12:04):
of politics.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
In casual settings. Yeah, I don't freaking get that at all. Well,
did they know what you did for a living? He
eventually did. I eventually asked me. But that wasn't at
the beginning.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
But I was just wondering why I was telling you
all this stuff. Say, I decided that was a sweet opener.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
Yeah, I was wondering too. But there's just a lot
of people that that's just their thing. They're willing to
tell you in very strong terms how they feel about politics,
and then you get to either enjoin in the conversation,
disagree with them and have an argument with somebody you
don't know for some reason, or just keep your mouth
shut and let them say all kinds of crap you hate.
Those are your options, and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
I hate it. I hate it. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
On the other hand, maybe I have this radio show.
I get to say all my crap here, And maybe
if I didn't have this radio show, maybe i'd say
it in sailing lessons too.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
I doubt it anyway, sir, I'm listening to the instructor.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
Sir.
Speaker 1 (12:58):
I don't know why you said that. I was just
so mad. That's what came out.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
That works.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Let's get the headlines now with Katie Green, find out
what's going on in the world.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
All right, you touched on this Fox News Russia, says
Ukrainian drones hit nuclear power plant during Independence Day strikes.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
That's right, Ukrainian, Your Ukrainian independence is going on. They're
fourth of July and Russia decided to really double down
on hit them. Like I said earlier, we're back to
square one on that whole thing. The peace process is over.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
New York Times Democrats are criticizing Trump's push for National
Guard move in more cities.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Yeah, we're gonna talk more about that coming up, as
the National Guard is going to be sent to Chicago
soon and what that might mean.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
ABC kilmar Abrego Garcia detained at ICE office in Maryland.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
This is going to be one of the big stories
of the day, especially for the mainstream media. The Maryland
man who our government believes was smuggling illegals across the country,
perhaps as part of MS thirteen. We sent him to
Al Salvador once. Remember that one't cool because that's in
his home country. What the hell we sent him there for?
(14:14):
Then got him back and now he's in He was
released and is an ICE custody.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Not exactly sure what's going to.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Happen from USA today.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
President Trump threatens Chris Christie with new Bridgegate investigation.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
Wow, I haven't off to look into this.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Chris Christie said some nice things about the Trump side
of the story and a couple of things yesterday and
I don't know if these are related, but have that
for you later too.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
From the Washington Post.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
Countries are suspending postal deliveries to the United States due
to the ending tariff exemptions.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
See can't get some mailed here?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yeah, from a lot, especially the European countries.
Speaker 6 (15:01):
Really Yeah, okay, I have that story in hotlinks for it.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
From CNN, SpaceX scrubs attempt to launch Starship Mega Rocket
after months and months.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Of mishaps and so it's not just a weather problem,
it's actually the project is it's the project is at
an issue.
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Yeah, but Elon says we're still going to Mars at
some point.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Yees from NBC.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
First human case of flesh eating screwworm parasite is detected
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh, I don't want that.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, I don't want to get the flesh eating screwworm parasite.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
I don't know what it does, but it's not a
good name.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
No.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Oh, this is this is my favorite video of the weekend.
From the New York Post. Mandami fails at bench press
while trying to show off at Men's.
Speaker 6 (15:53):
Day in Brooklyn.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
So I do not want to pick our leaders based
on how much they can bench.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
No, that seems stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But why would you show up to a gym, lay
down and do the photo op. I'm gonna lift some
weights if you're the kind of guy that can't bench
one thirty five, which, if you know anything about Olympic
weights and weight rooms, is one plate on each side.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, the barways forty five.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Each plate weighs forty five ninety forty five one thirty five,
so they had one thirty five on there. He couldn't
do it. But why would you lay down to lift
weights if you're not a super strong guy. I just
I don't understand you're setting yourself up for mockery.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Yes, I mean rightfully.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
So James Madison probably couldn't bench fifty pounds. I mean,
I don't care how much various leader, but why James
Madison probably didn't woll over to the gym and laid
let it go.
Speaker 6 (16:43):
It's a whirl.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
Yeah, study fines survey shows seventy four thousand dollars is
the quote perfect salary.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
For Americans, how much seventy four thousand.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Well, where I'm from in middle of nowhere Kansas, that'd
be a pretty good salary. In uh Marin County, Bay area,
San Francisco, not so much.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Depends where you live.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And finally from the babylon.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Bee, California fines family for building sand castle without Coastal
Commission approval.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
There you go.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
I need to know more about this flesh eating screwworm
bacteria thingy. Make sure I don't get it. Signs that's
what I need. Signs that you've got the flesh eating bacteria.
If you could come up with those for me, Katie,
you got it, because we're all going to be wondering
we feel an itch or something like that today. We're
gonna think, Oh, I hope that isn't that flesh eating screworm.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
It's the screw worm.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
We got a lot more on the way. I hope
you can stay with.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
Us, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Oh Katie, why are you laughing? I see you laughing.
Speaker 6 (17:50):
You have me look up the most disgusting things.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
So the flesh eating bacteria screwworm, which has finally arrived
in the United States.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
We have one case where did the case arrive.
Speaker 6 (18:01):
Uh oh, that's a great question.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Where in the United States is the flesh eating screworm
screwworm detected?
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I'm gonna have to look okay, Oh Maryland, Maryland, Okay, good.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
So I'm in California. It's three thousand miles away from me.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
Yeah, they visited Guatemala and came back with it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Apparently, if you're listening on the East Coast, so I
feel bad for you, probably will have it. By later
this afternoon. You'll probably have the screwworm virus. So tell
me what to look for so I know if I've
got this or not.
Speaker 6 (18:28):
Oh boy, get ready? Not good morning talk.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Unexplained non healing or worsening skin lesions that may be
painful or bleed, and the feeling of the feeling or
sight of maggots within the wound.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
So you're telling me if I have a out of nowhere,
no reason to have it, open wound with maggots crawling
out of it, I should be concerned.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
Okay, I will.
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Unexplained non healing.
Speaker 5 (18:56):
They're saying it could stem from the side of a
tick bite or something of that nature. Sure, and also
a foul odor may come from the interfact.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
That's the most disgusting thing we've ever done. Sorry about
that if you were eating a while of that, but
just trying to save you. So if you have a
wound like that shows up out of nowhere, won't heal
and you hear the magos are involved mugghos. So perhaps
you want the French pronunciation. Perhaps you'd want to contact
your doctor. I'd even go to urgent care. Yeah, just
(19:24):
to make sure you get an appointment. Okay, So there's that.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Umm.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
So this story is getting a lot of attention. Here's
the ABC News version of it.
Speaker 8 (19:33):
As President Trump's mobilization of nearly two thousand National Guard
troops to the nation's capital nears the end of its
second week, planning is underway to potentially expand that mission
and send the National Guard to Chicago, Illinois Governor JB.
Pritzker pushing back, saying there is no emergency that warrens
Trump federalizing his state's National Guard or sending active duty
(19:56):
military within our borders.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
So I don't know about the constitutionality of the President
sending National Guard troops into Chicago. I think we all
understand at this point what's going on in Washington, d C.
The federal government and the president do have the ability
to do this in certain cases. This will work its
way through the courts and all that. I don't know
about Chicago, well, I'm sure that will be challenged and
(20:20):
then we'll deal with that then. Mark Halpern, writing in
his newsletter today, he sees this just big picture politics
as Trump is goading a lot of Democrats like Pritzker,
the governor of Illinois, and the mayor there, Mayor Johnson
into standing up for criminals or high crime areas, and
(20:45):
just overall, the way it's going to be taken in
by the average voter is one side wants to do
something about crime and the other side doesn't, and that
that's the way it will land nationwide. Now, if you're
an activist the Democrat, you're not going to be swayed
by any of this anyway. But just the average voter,
I think we'll see President Trump wants to do something
(21:07):
about crime and the crime ridden I mean, Chicago's got
such a reputation at this point of being crime ridden
and all the shooting statistics you hear every weekend and
all that sort of stuff. I think it'll be a
political win overall for the president. But this is interesting.
So I was wondering where some of the hair on
(21:30):
fire pushback concern from the left is around the federalizing
of the police in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Or the Senate in the National Guard.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Bill Maher on his show Friday Night, I think this
is nuts, but explains that position.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
So you have in the Capitol a sort of permanent
police presence, so when an election dispute might come up,
just hypothetically. I mean, I don't want to be a
big pessimist, and I'm going to pretend for the rest
of the duration that the Democrats do have a chance
(22:07):
of winning, and they might win the next election. I
just don't think they're ever going to take power because
this is what's going to happen, because I think this
coup is going to go off a lot smoother than
the last one.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
So there's your argument in case you were wondering, or
you have lefty friends, or this is what you might
run into. Bill Maher stating that this is this breaks
down a little bit with the sending the National Guard
troops to Chicago, because then to me, it just looks
like one he's trying to win the political argument of
our side cares about crime that side doesn't, just in general,
(22:42):
but then also that this is about crime and some
of our crime ridden major cities. Now, of course, Chicago
has thrown out all kinds of statistics saying crime is
actually down, just like Washington dcated a couple of weeks ago.
Then we turned out some of those statistics were not
only bogus, but were manipulated, and some of those people
maybe going to jail for manipulating the stats. Plus, crime
statistics are easily massaged, like all statistics are, to try
(23:04):
to make anything look one away or another. Like I said,
I think the impression of Chicago as having a crime
problem is pretty settled at this point. AnyWho, if it
were just Washington, d C. That Trump was using the
National Guard troops and Bill Maher would have a lot
better argument. I think now that they're being sent to
Chicago too kind of waters it down. But anyway, it's
(23:26):
the idea that Trump wants to have National Guard troops
mostly from red states in Washington, d C. So that
the next time there's a January sixth sort of thing
and Trump tries to hold on power as a Timu Hitler,
as he's been called that you'll have Red State National
Guard troops there to help I guess with the protesters
(23:47):
break into the capitol and take power whatever Trump's third term.
So that's the argument from the bill Maher left there
you go. You're welcome now.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
You know that's that. We'll be following that over the
next two week or so.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I don't know when National Guard troops are supposed to
actually arrive in Chicago, but obviously that will get a
heck of a lot of attention. What else did I
want to get on this segment before we take a break?
Joe is in England. He's going to call in a
little bit later, looking forward to that. Oh, I know
what I wanted to do, just wanted to get this on.
(24:23):
We'll do more in depth on this later. This is
from the audio tapes released Friday afternoon, one of your
typical Friday news dumps that they do usually to cover
something up. I don't know why, but.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
This is g Dog Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
You know, the short haired brunette that went out looking
for hot fifteen year olds to get Jeffrey Epstein to
sex traffic her. She's in prison for that very crime.
This is from the audio tape of her being questioned
by the Justice Department a couple of weeks ago on
(25:04):
the topic of do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself
or not?
Speaker 9 (25:08):
So you think he was he did not die by suicide,
given all.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
The things we just talked about, I do not believe
he died.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
And do you believe that? Do you have any speculation
or view of who killed him?
Speaker 3 (25:24):
I think that's interesting, So could you look this up, Katie.
I don't know if there's got to be national polling
on what most people think whether Epstein killed himself or not.
Joe and I have been pretty hardcore he killed himself
pretty much from the beginning. I mean, all the jokes
(25:46):
were made when he was arrested. Boy better keep an
eye on him. Mostly around the Clinton's but anybody. There's
a lot of powerful men that were in that orbit
that might want not him to ever be able to
testify anything.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But I just have always thought he's a super rich guy.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's an old rich guy who's lived the life of
posh and he doesn't want to spend the rest of
his life in prison. He's caught, he knows he's caught.
He knows he's not getting out, So he killed himself.
It doesn't seem that shocking to me, but go ahead.
Speaker 5 (26:16):
This is according to a you gov poll most recent
found that the belief in suicide had fallen to sixteen percent,
while belief a murder had grown to over fifty.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
Wow, only sixteen percent believe he killed himself.
Speaker 5 (26:29):
Yeah, so that one got updated in this month because
the month prior it was at twenty percent believed that
he killed himself.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Wow. So Joe and I have been on the tiny
minority all along.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
That's interesting. I was speaking of Mark Calpern again yesterday.
I was watching his news show. That's where I grabbed
that Epstein clip that we just heard. I was watching
Mark Alpern's news show. He said, I've never believed that
he killed himself. And Mark Alpern's way more plucked in
to the rich and powerful in DC than I'll ever be.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He doesn't think Epstein killed himself.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
People have been rolling their eyes at me since the happened,
and I would always drop in a Epstein didn't kill
himself on the air all the time.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Oh yeah, it just didn't seem right. It was way
too convenient.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Well it it's yeah, it's convenient to a lot of people,
and then you got the hole they didn't have the
cameras on, or the cameras are pointing the wrong direction.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Ye guard was asleep.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
Yeah quiet, Yeah, come on this?
Speaker 6 (27:21):
What is this Hollywood?
Speaker 3 (27:22):
I mean, it might as well be Okay, maybe we'll
get into it. I know we're gonna go into a
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are getting older. I was a hard core sports fan
prior to having children. I'm not happy about it. I
wish I could have some of those hours back. I
remember on a Sunday though, I was always gonna watch
three games, your two afternoon games, in the Sunday night
game every Sunday, and some pre and post game coverage.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
So what is that six nine just for the games?
Speaker 3 (29:01):
Nine hours and then probably probably a couple more hours
eleven hours of watching football on a Sunday how many
sundays did I do that? Lots and lots and lots
for many many years. Then after I had kids, I
just abandoned it and kind of dropped off to For
the past fifteen years or so, I pretty much only
watched the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
That's about it. And now I might get back into
a little bit.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
I don't want to go back to and I don't
want to lay on my deathbed and think, I'm sure
glad I saw that early season game between two teams
that are never going to make the playoffs. You know,
That's not what I want to do with my deathbed.
But I might pay more attention this year. What else
the redistricting thing. We got a great guest on later.
As I said, the mainstream media is waking up to
(29:44):
the fact that jerry mandering is something everybody's been doing
for a very long time. It's not a new invention
by the Republicans. We got the Maryland Man, is he
going to be released or sent to Uganda or not?
The Maryland man who I think is a human trafficker,
among other things, and a bunch of other stories to
get to. And then I'm gonna I do have to
(30:05):
at some point tell the still full story of my
sailing lessons and the old man that kept older ordering
me around and me yelling at the old guy should.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Have pushed him overboard.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
Seriously, you know what, that was an option? Why didn't
I think about that? When the instructor turns his back,
I could have just with a he weighed like eighty
pounds and he's like seventy five years old. I could
have just handled on a hipchack little hand in the chest.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Off he goes, good bye, sir. It wouldn't have been
it so easy.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Okay, we got more on the way next to here,
so I'm gonna try to get it as much information
on the radio show today as possible. That's entertaining information
for you, which I think is why you come here.
And I have a whole bunch of guests, so I'm
to jam in a bunch of stories in between the guests.
Joe is in Great Britain and he will on vacation,
(30:56):
and he didn't move away because he can't stand to
live in trump so America or something like that.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
He's just on vacation.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
Before we get to any of that, I'm a little
concerned about the topic matter of this joke from Greg Guttfeld.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
So here we go.
Speaker 10 (31:12):
The City of New York has filed ten criminal charges
against a man who threw a green dildo onto the
floor of a w NBA game. Ten charges for punishment,
he has to watch a WNBA game.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
Katie, I have an assignment for you for later in
the show. If you could look up what those ten
charges are, ten different charges, maybe we can get to
that later. I don't like that word, as I've said,
That's not a word I've ever said. I'm not going
to say the word. And maybe it's the hard deed
that makes it sound so harsh.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
Duh. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
It just gives me the oogie's. Katie did have this
headline a little bit earlier. I wanted to hear more
on this to see if it affects me or you
this news story, didn't I set that up for I
thought I told you what I wanted there, Michael, did
I not? This would be clip number Sorry, really thought
(32:10):
I said something number twenty.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Some European postal companies have decided to stop shipping to
the US until they figure out how this new rule
is going to work.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
So starting Friday, any.
Speaker 7 (32:21):
Package coming into the US that's worth under eight hundred
dollars will have to go through customs and will be tariff.
That tariff had been waived under what's called the Dominimus
tariff exemption, but President Trump getting rid of that after
signing an executive order last month. This will affect all
the countries shipping to the US. US Customs only releasing
some technical details about the new rule a week ago.
(32:42):
Still not clear who will collect the tariffs, what additional
information is needed, or how the packages will be processed.
Speaker 3 (32:48):
Okay, huge deal or not a huge deal, depending on
what you order. But I've bought a number of things
off eBay or stock list or various places where they
sell you stuff many times that have come from other countries,
and now it would go through a very long, slow
process in which you're going to have to pay more
for a tariff. And also the buyer may not want
(33:10):
to ship to you or you may not want. That's
going to change things a little bit. Check that before
you buy something from eBay with something that's coming from
Uganda or wherever you order it. Different headline I came
across over the weekend. Are you overweight? Which sounds like
I'm about to do an ad I'm not. Ozipic for
all is starting to make economic sense, according to people
(33:32):
in the healthcare industry and economists, as prices are coming down,
and we had this story last week that they've been
cut basically in half for a zipic and some of
these other drugs do the same thing that help you
lose weight, they've been cutting about half. It's starting to
make some sort of sense that it would be paid
for by insurance because it saves so much money overall.
(33:56):
For instance, medical researchers recently estimated for every one hundred
thousand Americans treated with one of these drugs, you'll see
between thirty two and forty five thousand fewer cases of obesity,
so nearly half as much obesity for one hundred thousand
fat people, overweight people, twenty thousand fewer diabetes cases. That
(34:19):
means ten thousand fewer cases of heart heart disease. That
means and that preventative effects would save like thirty thousand
dollars in medical care for each patient. And that doesn't
even include potential savings from addiction, Parkinson's kidney disease, or
a whole bunch of other ailments that they think not
(34:41):
being overweight would help with that means the overall savings
is almost certainly much higher than the cost from buying
the drug that the insurance company has to deal with.
So it's quite possible in the very near future you're
going to find out that on your health plan, Ozimpic
is paid for by your insurance, because I think it's
(35:02):
saved them some more in the long run. So, man,
that's been a barrier for I think a lot of
people of you heard how expensive it was and you thought, oh,
I'm not that overweight and I'm not that worried about it,
or I just plane don't have the money to be
able to afford to get on these expensive drugs. Well,
once the insurance offers it, I would not be shocked
(35:22):
at all that five years from now, half the country's
on one of these drugs, lots and lots and lots
of us. They've also brought down the how overweight you
should be before you take these Originally it was like
you had to be on my six hundred pound life
before they thought it was a good idea for you
to be on these drugs. Now just kind of being
you know, twenty thirty pounds overweight, which gazillions of us are.
(35:47):
They say, so to get okay, to get on these drugs,
and insurance will pay for it.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
So there you go, for better or worse.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
The stuff about how it could help with Parkinson's or addiction.
I don't quite understand that, and a whole bunch of
other diseases if you lose weight, really interesting stuff. Man,
If they can prove that heart disease, for instance, heart
disease is by far the number one killer in the America.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Did you know that for men and women? Heart disease?
And if it cuts way way.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
Way down on the likelihood of heart disease by losing weight,
of course insurance pay for that. Yeah, because heart disease
is a very expensive problem to have, or if you
get it in a bad sense that it's going to
kill you, those last weeks months of you being alive
costs the insurance company tons and tons of money.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Anyhow, a lot more coming up an hour two.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
If you miss a segment or an hour, you can
get our podcast it's called Armstrong and Getty on demand.
We'll find out exactly what the ten charges are for
that poor man who threw a maritalaid onto the court
of the basketball game for instance, among other things in
the coming hours, so I hope you can check that out.
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