July 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of A&G features...
- The deal with the EU
- Tariffs & what they do to costs
- Subhuman scumbag update & cell phone problems
- The "E" word list.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty arm.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Strong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
One two pitch high in the air, deep to right.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
That ball is foul. Oh, go on, That ball was
absolutely launched, law Dog posing them up at the dish.
He knew it off the bat. It was just a
matter of how far well you and somebody loosen.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
That ball is foul, I mean gone, that's not your
perfect home run calls.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
The guy's jogging around.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Guys are running around the bases, so perhaps it was. Indeed,
Fair got a of a couple of big.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
News stories that hit like right as we're coming on
the air today, just to repeat briefly and we can
get him to him later. But Trump was doing a
press conference and got the European tariff deal done. They
settled on a number whatever. This will either cause inflation
and ruin your life will or be the greatest thing
that ever happened.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't know which, or somewhere in between. But that
is done.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Trump's calling it the biggest financial deal in the history
of the world, which it actually monetarily might be until
he does the deal with China later this week hopefully.
The other thing is Trump said the fifty day pause
for Russia.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
To see some movement by Putin. Forget it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Putin's showing no effort whatsoever toward a ceasefire, so he
doesn't get the full fifty days. He didn't follow up
on what that means or what the timeline is now,
although the Patriot missile batteries are in Ukraine and are
being used.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So that happened lickety split.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I don't know if that's going to be true with
other weapons and money and all that sort of stuff too.
And there's one other thing. What was the other thing
that he threw out there? There's another big one. I
don't remember what it was. I don't think of it later.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So a couple of headlines about the big deals with
Europe politico breaking. EU admits it cannot guarantee the six
hundred billion dollars it promised to Trump that was announced
an hour ago. The extra investments pledged under the trade
deal would come from private companies, which Brussels conceded it
has no power to control.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So what does that mean to you? There is no
deal or the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
On Sunday, they struck a deal blah blah blah to
avoid a US trade war. The deal included a pledge
to invest an extra six hundred billion dollars of EU
money into the US overcoming years, but speaking today, two
senior European officials clarified that the money would come exclusively
from private companies, with public investment contributing nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And there aren't like cops that will come to their
houses and put them in cuffs and track them to
jail if not a dime was invested. And then this
from Gerard Baker, is a terrific writer for the Wall
Street Journal, Europe will never keep its promises to Trump
on defense, and he mentions how great it is that
the NATO members pledged to promise to increase their defense
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spending five percent or domestic product UH from the current
average of below two percent.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Uh blah blah bah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The idea that Europe is finally rising to meet its
own needs is common currency on both sides of the Atlantic.
After decades of cheaply sheltering under America's security umbrella, Europpeans
were told are now ready to take up the lion's
share of the cost of their own defense. And if
you believe that I have several bridges over the Rhine,
the Thames, and the Danube to sell you, really, writes Baker.
(03:49):
So yeah, is there a reason I haven't heard anybody
say this but me? Maybe I'm just wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Sometimes if I like we're saying something, it's because I'm
way off pace. But I don't understand how Trump continues
to be portrayed as somebody who's anti alliances, anti European Union,
anti NATO.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They're anti NATO.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
The other countries in NATO seem to be anti NATO
if they're not willing to fund it. They're the ones
that don't care about the alliance, not us. We fund
the majority of it. I heard it this morning on
NPR Trump, who's never been a big fan of NATO,
the countries and NATO are not fans of NATO, at
least by their actions. I don't care about their words.
Their words don't mean anything. The fact that they don't
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fund it means they don't care and we do, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In this one rare instance, you are not wrong, and
you are not crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, they were rotting it out from within through laziness
and just you know, enjoying the warm, sugary milk of
the American taxpayer's tea anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The overa taxpayers teat.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's true that Baker writes, in the past three years,
the twin that's right, sir, the twin shocks of Europe's
invasion of Ukraine and the verbal hostility blah blah blah
have jolted European leaders out of their feckless complacency.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's a good phrase.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The five percent of GDP math agreed to by all
members except lazy, stupid Spain, is on closer inspection, a
little fuzzy with three and a half percent. Remember the
big giant total everybody's bragging about is five percent. Three
and a half percent is allotted to actual defense spending
and one point five percent to areas like critical infrastructure
(05:36):
and civil preparedness.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, which could be anything.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, although I get that you do have to have
critical infrastructure to move arms.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Right, but you could also just you know, take the
money you were going to spend on fixing your highways
anyway and claim that was your civil preparedness. Be very
easy to fudge that stuff. But anyway he gets to
he gets to his main point. Don't be fooled by
all the Chilean talk. Well, it's true that some countries
like Poland and Finland will be serious about their defense
as they have been. The big euro nations Germany, France,
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Italy and the UK face economic, demographic, political and cultural
challenges so deep that it'll take much more than statements
of intent to enable them to actually build their own
conventional defenses. Okay, So who doesn't care about NATO if
you can't get your own population to go along with
spending money on keeping NATO a fighting force.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Right, right, No, you're absolutely correct on that point. But
the reality of it is you've got enormous expensive welfare
states in all these countries, and Italy's public debt right
now is one hundred and thirty five percent of its GDP,
France is one hundred and thirteen percent, Spain's one hundred
and two, the UK more than one hundred. Germany's is
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above sixty percent but set to rise. Massive welfare programs
are adding to those fiscal debt piles, and to give
a small illustration of the policy challenge, last month Armer's
Labor government in Britain, elected with a massive parliamentary majority,
tried to advance a small measure to trim seven billion
dollars off to spectacular growth of one social program that
(07:12):
are set to cost more than one hundred and thirty
seven billion dollars within a couple of years. So it's
what is that, It's like two and a half percent
something like that. Even such a meager effort at budget
restraint was defeated by a revolt by the party's back ventures.
So the idea that these big euro countries are going
to restructure their fiscal houses to free up lots more
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money for defense, good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And we're supposed to care about it more than them,
even though it's their backyard that Russia's starting to encroach into.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah yeah, Oh, and then Baker gets into their demographic problems.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They're they're not having babies.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We haven't talked about the biggest protests in Ukraine since
the war started, the biggest anti government.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Protests since the war started.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
So Zelensky got elected primarily on an anti corruption platform.
He was a YouTube comedian with no tie to either party,
and so it seemed like he'd be the perfect guy
to come in and try to deal with corruption because
he doesn't have you know, he's not involved in any
(08:24):
of the parties. They still have corruption in Ukraine. Corruption
is hard to root out and we should be thankful
we have as little as we have because culturally it's
really really hard to get rid of.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But they still it's the number one problem for post
Soviet countries.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So they still have a corruption problem in Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
They've got a special panel, legislative body whatever that is
supposed to look into corruption and deal with it. Zelensky
said it had been intro it's snuck in that were
pro Russian and didn't care about corruption. In fact, they
(09:05):
were for corruption, and so he couldn't count on that
body to deal with corruption anymore. So he got legislation
passed to take hold of the corruption thing himself. So
now me, the president, I'm going to be in charge
of rooting out corruption, not this independent body. And there
was a revolt among tens of thousands of people in
Ukraine in the streets, protesting at wartime when Putin has
(09:29):
been targeting groups, I mean, so it was pretty brave
to get out there and protest this. Zelensky realized he
was on the wrong side of this, or you know,
is politically not good, and so they've already walked that
back or trying to change it so he no longer
is the guy who is in charge of corruption, because
that's a bad look.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah. I heard a really interesting conversation between a couple
of people, one of whom is very supportive of arming
Ukraine and helping them, and one who's been pretty cynical
about it. And interestingly, the cynical guy said, I got
to give some Linz in his government credit. They let
people have their free speech and protest against this law
to the point that they said, you know what, you're
(10:08):
you're right, we're wrong, will change it. And the guy
who's been very supportive of the Ukrainians and generally of
Zelensky said, yeah, that was a misstep. That even if
he was sincere, that was a bad idea because it
looks terrible and it's a good thing they're rescinding that
law and getting back to the old lie.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I assumed he was sincere. I mean, there's I don't
have any reason to think he's corrupt.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It didn't surprise me that a bunch of people who
are also corrupt got into that body, and we're going
to be people you couldn't count on to root out corruption.
That wouldn't surprise me, Yeah, when you got a history
of corruption in your country. But yeah, him taking it
(10:51):
over was a bad look politically, and they loosened the reins.
But something to see those kind of protests. I wonder
if he will get if he'll ever have elections, he'll
get re elected.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I wonder how that'll play out.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Will he go down in Ukrainian history as a as
a hero as he should I think?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Or not? Who knows, well, time we'll tell. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Part of that discussion went on to discuss the fact
that they haven't had an election for a while and
that they should. Although if some pro Russian faction, you know,
floods the polls are legitimately Jin's up popular opinion or
something like that, and he loses and a pro Russian
guy gets elected, the Ukraine is over as a country.
(11:31):
How do they compare it to the US elections during
the Civil War?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
But how would you have an election when what is it,
twenty percent of your country is occupied by another How
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's an absolutely legitimate question, and anybody Tucker, who's portrayed
it as an obvious sign that he's assumed dictatorial powers
and is a monster. Is that is just well, you're
a propagandist. I mean, Tucker is brilliant. He wouldn't get
that wrong. It's propaganda. But yeah, how are you going
to run on a plus anytime people gather? Other than
that demonstration the Russians bomb the vlad Putin said, eh,
(12:08):
hold off on those drones. This is anti Zelenski. Let's
not kill people. Now, wait till tonight. We'll hit a hospital,
in a school or two.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Here's one of my favorite headlines I've seen today, Cottage
cheese popularity sores. Cottage cheese is having a moment, full
team coverage. I also wanted to get to. She's known
as the woman with the world's largest lips. Okay, you
crazy person? And the Washington Post going big on mermaiding.
(12:40):
Mermaiding gaining popular in DC? How about mermaids wee cottage
cheese with big lips? How popular is that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Off the day mermaids sucking down cottage cheese in a
local pool.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Stay with Us Film at eleven and Real News on
the way. Stay here.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Uber is a new feature that pairs female drivers with
female riders, and there's no option for a quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ride anti woman because women talk a lot. I guess
is this point. Last week we had the story that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So we're still trying to figure out if there's inflation
going on or not because or at least prices going
up because of tariffs. And he got Amazon, which has
raised its price some stuff. Walmart's saying they're not. And
then I heard some economists saying that Walmart is eating
(13:40):
the price hikes in an attempt to take business away
from Amazon, also probably to drive the last remaining brick
and mortars in the world out of business, as they
can't do that. They can't eat the increase in their
costs the way Walmart can. And then this story that
(14:00):
came out of the weekend that I missed. Target has
ended its price match policy that they've had forever, where
if there's an advertising price somewhere else, they would match it,
handing Amazon and Walmart a huge pricing advantage.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So Target, let alone your mom and pop store.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Target just decided we can't keep up with them eating
some of these increases in price to drive everybody out.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's something.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, wow, that's it begun, all of it, you think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Wow, this could be huge. I mean that seems like
a big deal to me. That's somebody's biggest target said
we're out. We can't compete with you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, and a lot of the trade agreements that are
just being reached, and there are plenty that haven't been
reached yet. The tariffs then will go in place, and
we haven't seen how that will shake out either, So
just yet.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't want this because I'm I don't have Trump
arrangement syndrome, so I don't want negative outcomes.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
But it wouldn't be shocking if.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Three months from now, six months from now, in time
for Christmas or whatever, this is the biggest story in
America what tariffs did to prices. You talk about a
story that would dominate all other stories.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Epstein.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Who if everything as all of a sudden, like you know,
covid era inflation more expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I wonder, Yeah, and the whole you know, organized labor,
for instance, the UAW we mentioned this last year or
last week, Rather that the American made cars, which depend
heavily on parts from Canada and Mexico, are going to
be tariffed at a higher rate than euro cars. So
your Ford made you know, your quote unquote American made
Ford is going to have a higher tariff on it,
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at least the foreign parts of it then your BMW.
I mean that's and that's going to hurt the sales
and the jobs for the UAW. So there's a bunch
of rastling that's going to take place. This is just
again a huge pile of question marks, and the angst
has just begun.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
If Walmart actually is just eating some of these costs
to try to take on Target or whoever else, Man,
that's a Trump esque bold move right there.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's a China esque bold move dumping. They're essentially product
dumping on the American public, losing money for a while
to eliminate competition. I mean, I'm not saying they're the
legal definition of dumping. They have lawyers and they're very
good at their jobs. It just yeah, they're trying to
undercut the competition to drive them out.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's something. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And if you're right and we are going to see
a lot more of this, whooh, that'll be exciting. I
didn't get to the woman at the World's Biggest lips
I wanted to talk about something I saw at the
State Fair over the weekend that fit into that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Maybe later, Wow, she could be a display at state Fair.
I mean this kind of nineteen ten.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Is should have been.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I should have just grabbed my hands said could when
you come over here and sold tickets for people to
gak at her. I don't know if her husband would barnumacks.
I don't know if her husband would appreciated that. We
got a lot more on the way.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
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Okay, we'll see if that works. I could see a
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Speaker 3 (17:48):
Update on the Woman of the World's biggest lips coming up.
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So in sub human scumbag rule, I'm sorry news, I'm sorry,
I'm reading while I'm talking. Idiot sub human scumbag update.
Idiot guy from Idaho. Yeah, here a couple of stories
about his future, a bit of yin and yang for you.
(18:12):
First of all, he will not be totally caught off,
cut off from the world outside. He can even send
messages to young women across the country, though not via
any dating apps. While prisoners don't technically have access to
the Internet at the Idaho Department of Corrections, they can
purchase tablets from the commissary and load them up with
(18:35):
a ton of approved apps. This means Scumbag and his
fellow inmates can access select music radio stations, perhaps the
Armstrong e Getty Show, podcasts, movies, televisions, games, and books.
They can also fire off emails and make phone calls,
so have a lifeline to life outside the prison wall.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I didn't catch that all that list because I was
thinking about what you're saying. So, do you have access
to the Internet, I mean the news basically?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, So what is the thinking behind allowing them to
like just scroll through a tablet or.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Phone the way a lot of us do with our
lives and kind of have a semi enjoyable life.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
What's the theory on that you're a murder make trouble.
They don't make trouble, they're compliant. They don't want their
tablet taken away.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I mean, I'm sure he doesn't really address that, but
that's the answer. I got two teenagers that basically spend
their entire days if I let them doing what he's
going to do. So it doesn't seem like much round
peacefully right, doesn't seem like much of a punishment or
supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Is it supposed to be a deterrent? What kind of
a deterrent is? You get to do what every teenager
wishes they could do with their parents won't let them.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that's a wrestling match that people never discuss. I've
actually talked about this to corrections officers and people in
the in business. I've got a friend who's actually a
recently retired warden. But anyway, it's the tension is between punishment,
making it harsh and unpleasant so you never want to
go back there again, but having the inmates be compliant.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I mean, if I could sit in a cell and
scroll the Internet and you're gonna feed me. I could
do that for a long time. I'd prefer freedom. But
I mean that ain't the worst thing that ever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Uh right, Yeah, I get it. They can let and
if scumbag uses his email to find love, well it'll
be a chaste marriage because the Idaho Department of Corrections
does not allow conjugal vistas.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, thank god.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
If he was getting laid and scrolling the internet, then
why why is anybody not commit a crime?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh my, especially because he butchered those poor people, probably
in part because he couldn't get a girl.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
On the other hand, Jack, well, remind me of that.
You just trip something in my mind. Remind remind me
that the whole in cell thing. I got something on that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right, stay tuned, Michael, you remember it. I'll never
remember it. And so here's your yang. Scumbag will spend
the rest of his life and die in one of
America's worst prisons, a maximum security hell hole that, according
to The New York Post, faces accusations of feces, smeared cages,
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violent guards, riding in mats in a biohazard level ventilation
system that's too Bad, Idaho Maximum Security Institution IMSI, where
he's expected to be sentenced to life.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well he was. I'm sorry this is written just before
the sentencing.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Hosts the GEM states most Did you know Idaho is
the GEM state? Jack anyway, this prison hosts the GEM
State's most disruptive male residents and violent criminals. It has
developed a reputation as not just the toughest prison in
the state, but one of the harshest in the nation.
It was named one of the fifteen worst prisons in
America by Security Journal America's You're twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You're one of the harshest prisons in the nation where
if you're a scumbag murderer who should have gotten the
death penalty, you get to sit in your cell and
scroll the Internet all day long.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, I know. This is a bit of a head scratcher.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It joins such infamous institutions as the Louisiana State penn AKA,
the Farm San Quentin in California, and the Attica Attica
Correctional Facility in eastern New York.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I am so.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I know this will never happen in our modern soft
world that we live in. He should be out there
doing freaking manual labor in the sun all day for
the rest of his life. There are plenty of people
that do it to support their families. How about he's
out there, you know, paving roads like in the old days,
freaking after work, freaking not look forward to getting up
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every day. Lots of people don't look forward to getting
up every day and going to do a job.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He gets to get up and oh, I go sleep
late and then scroll the Internet all day long and
take a nap. As a guy who murdered a bunch
of college yeah, I hate that. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
There's there's got to be a balance. Here's one guy,
he is quoted. Who is this guy?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Some guy? He's her way too soft, way too soft. Yeah,
I would agree. I would agree in a lot of
ways they are. Here's one guy.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh, he's talking about solitary confinement and miss abuse of prisoners.
Ninety seven percent of these guys are going to get
out and walk into an Idaho community if you treat
them like crap, if you treat them like animals, they're
going to walk out of prison like that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Okay, you're talking about everybody in general. This guy is
an animal. I don't care how he gets treated.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right well, and he's not walking out into anybody's community ever,
thank god. Anyway, I did not know you can get
a tablet and connect it to the internet.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Me neither. Like I said, I got two teenagers who
would love to get to spend all day every day.
They would if I let them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They'll probably sue the the Department of Corrections in the
state for giving them.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
What do they call that?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That internet neck or phone neck where you get like
a stiff neck from looking at your phone all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I cash settlement so on in cells, Yes, Katie, Oh,
there's tech neck technic right, technick. I hate to say
this because this makes me sound incredibly soft, but I
think I gave myself tennis elbow from holding my phone
in a certain way all the time. I get to
this horrible pain in my elbow, and I think, and
I realized it if I don't hold my phone the
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way I hold it, like when I'm sitting doing work,
the pain.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So I've caused this. You have carpal tunnel syndrome from
your phone? Is that it? Or something similar? Yeah, Katy.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Also from the Pathetic file, I had to get one
of those pop sockets that you put on the back
because I have rested my phone on this part of
my pinky above my knuckle for so long that I
have a dent. So I was like, wow, I need
to find a new way to hold my phone or
put the phone down.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So now so when I'm letting in bed, stop socket.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
When I'm laying in bed reading my phone, I hold
it with my right hand and keep my left arm
straight so it can heal.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Wow, talk about a soft beast.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
Coming up fitness hints so you can hold your iPhone
without pain.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
So on the in cell topic, I just accidentally came
across this and I don't remember where or why, but
it was somebody who had written into some site about
dating is something like are there any guys who have
given up on dating? And the responses will shock you
(25:38):
or not shock you, but I'll have those right after this.
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Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't think I screen captured the responses I should have,
but I can summarize them more or less.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So somebody had written, you.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Know, into whatever site, have any other guys given up
on dating in the modern world or something like that,
And then I just looked at the responses to that,
and it was all these blame women, or blame society
or blame something.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Crowd that had.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Completely given up on the idea of ever being in
any kind of relationship at all.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And I mean it was just an endless stream of them.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And I thought, this is the most pathetic thing I've
ever seen. I mean, if I had a friend or
my kids did this, I.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Would think, what is wrong with you? Yeah, the world?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And it was it was everybody had their own Well,
there's there's no way you can get a girlfriend after
age thirty, or there were somebody else said after in
your forties or in your fifties. So they all, you know,
their particular time in life was the worst time it
has ever been. And because of you know, and then
name it the economy and the politics or whatever it was,
(27:47):
they all had a reason why they'd completely given up
on the idea of ever having a relationship.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, humankind cannot survive the internet. That is my conclusion.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And I am the worst of mankind are now reinforced.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Instead of being told over and over again, Hey Joe,
that's dumb, or you're giving up or that's pathetic. No,
don't be like that. You just go online find people
who are like minded. And haven't reinforced all day long.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, I didn't even think about that aspect, but that
is exactly what was going on there. All those people
were able to read that thread and said, yep, I
was right all along. It's impossible to go out and
get a relationship in the modern world. So that's why
I've given up and I'll just drink, do drugs, watch porn.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Whatever it is, but I won't go out and be
in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, there are kind of horrif questions here because you
might be right about the hurdles that you would have
to leap over, but that doesn't mean you're right in
not leaping over them.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So, like I said, there are a couple layers to it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The fact that many young women are leftist lunatics and
won't even consider being with you unless you too are
leftist lunatic. That's a significant problem. It's a real issue
for young men. That doesn't mean you give up and
just spout angrily on the internet.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But I don't know. I know a lot.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I know a lot of non left it not a lot,
but I know some non leftist lunatic women who have
the same complaint about they can't find any guys.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So if you all would get together, I think things
would work out for you.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Fully, They were like, I don't know, a website or
something as those kids too.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Turned weird too. Yeah, I think that's a dry hole.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But as opposed to going on sites where you all
complain about why you can't be in a relationship, if
you could somehow put those two it's funny. If you
could take the thread for the women and the thread
for the men and meet them up, like all get
them together in a room, I think you might have
a bunch of love.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Blooming sparks would fly. That's exactly right. They still haven't
gotten to the woman with the world's biggest lips. Trump
said some interesting Epstein stuff. Do you have a stomach
for that or not? FLA, Yeah, yeah I do. I
took the weekend off of it, mostly nine.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Hour interview with Gal Maxwell by the Justice Department Thursday
and Friday last week. What are they hoping for? What
are they even looking for?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Anything they can release to calm the masses, That's what
I believe they're looking for. Any revelation that sounds like
they're now, we're telling you the truth, the evil truth
that we said in our podcast for years that we
would find if we ever got power.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Here it is how many how many FBI agents were
on this case.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The number will shock you, among other things on the way, Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The rush yet they steel don's a normal JBFC story.
How you got to be kiddy with it? No, I
had nothing to do with it. Only you would think
that not had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So Trump announce was the big European tariff deal. They
came to a number. What's the number, doesn't matter. They
agreed on a number because the big high number was
going to kick in on August.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
First, which is Friday.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
So Trump's calling it the biggest financial deal's ever been
done in world history, which may be true. I think
the Louisiana purchase adjusted for inflation might be bigger.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But that reporter asked, if you couldn't hear it, was
this deal just done to bump up Epstein off.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
The front page? Trump said, you gotta be kidding with
that question.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I mean some of the other stuff that's happened in
the last couple of weeks, like when he announced what
did he announce announced something like went after Rosie O'Donnell
one day, are something's.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
In charge Obama with treason?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah, that stuff might be to distract from Epstein, But
I don't think this big European tariff deal that he's
been talking about his entire adult life was timed to
do that. He was also asked, and everybody's wondered, why
did he and Epstein have a falling out, because famously
(32:01):
Trump stopped talking to Epstein at all. They had a
break before Epstein got nabbed the first time in Florida. Anyway,
he was asked about that today.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I free not borrow all.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Can you sell that?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What caused the breach?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
That's such old history, very easy to explain, but I
don't want to waste your time by explaining it. But
for years I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't
talk because he did something that was inappropriate. He hired help,
and I said, don't ever do that again. He stole
people that work for me. I said, don't ever do
(32:41):
that again. He did it again, and I threw him
out of the place, persona on grata. I threw him
out and that was it. I'm glad I did so.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It wasn't a sexuality, wouldn't complain, he wouldn't explain that.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He explained, which is very Trump Like. But it wasn't
a sexual thing.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Wasn't everybody kind of assuming that, like he hit on
somebody's daughter or something and traps one of the stories,
or he snuck in at the last second and out
did Trump on some real estate or something.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I'd heard too, but he was raiding him for staff.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Okay, So again, the most extraordinary thing that happened in
the last few days in the world's weirdest scandal is
that the number two in the Justice Department, not like
some lower level person, the second most powerful person in
the entire Justice Department, personally questioned Glaine Maxwell for nine
(33:42):
hours Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And as you commented earlier, the number two, it's Justice
is the operational chief is really the number one in
terms of the stuff you actually do.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
It's like your boss going and dealing with something that
normally a lower level person would do. And both Chris Christy,
who I don't trust at all but has a lot
of knowledge about the Justice Department, and Sarah Isger on
ABC this Week yesterday both said that's just extraordinary that
somebody that high up would go and revisit a case
that was settled a long time ago. I mean, she's
(34:16):
in jail for twenty years, that's done. Was what's going
on there? I think your theory is really good. They're
just trying to come up with anything they can tell
the masses who believe. Oh, here's the other nugget that
came out of there. I think Sarah Iger said this
of the Dispatch. There are one time nearly a thousand
FBI agents on the Epstein case when Trump first took over,
(34:41):
because they were either so convinced there was there there
or so desperately needed to find some there there in
terms of the child abduction, sex trafficking, bang, Pizzagate, Hillary Clinton,
Michelle Obama's a man, a whole.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Thing trying to come up with something. They had nearly
a thousand FBI agents working on that. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I was just reading I've never listened to more than
a few minutes of Not Cash Matella, Dan Bongino's podcast
back in the day, but I came across some quotes
from it, and and and he was definitely an enthusiastic
(35:31):
builder of attention and suspicion and anger about the whole deal,
and so I could see and then Pambonni with her
infamous the list is on my desk or it is
on my desk. In response to a question about the list,
I get that they're in a very very bad position now,
(35:52):
assuming that they're on the up and up, that there's
just no there there as they say. But yeah, I
think the number two of the Justice was sent down
there to come up with something anything. We'll trade you
three years off your sentence if you just reveal anything
to us.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That seems like a big revelation, just to make everybody
shut up about it. I wonder if anything came out. Well,
I guess we'll find out if you miss an hour
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Fair got a of a couple of big.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
News stories that hit like right as we're coming on
the air today, just to repeat briefly and we can
get him to him later. But Trump was doing a
press conference and got the European tariff deal done. They
settled on a number whatever. This will either cause inflation
and ruin your life will or be the greatest thing
that ever happened.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I don't know which, or somewhere in between. But that
is done.
Speaker 4 (01:23):
Trump's calling it the biggest financial deal in the history
of the world, which it actually monetarily might be until
he does the deal with China later this week hopefully.
The other thing is Trump said the fifty day pause
for Russia.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
To see some movement by Putin. Forget it.
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Putin's showing no effort whatsoever toward a ceasefire, so he
doesn't get the full fifty days. He didn't follow up
on what that means or what the timeline is now,
although the Patriot missile batteries are in Ukraine and are
being used.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
So that happened lickety split.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
I don't know if that's going to be true with
other weapons and money and all that sort of stuff too.
And there's one other thing. What was the other thing
that he threw out there? There's another big one. I
don't remember what it was. I don't think of it later.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
So a couple of headlines about the big deals with
Europe politico breaking. EU admits it cannot guarantee the six
hundred billion dollars it promised to Trump that was announced
an hour ago. The extra investments pledged under the trade
deal would come from private companies, which Brussels conceded it
has no power to control.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
So what does that mean to you? There is no
deal or the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
On Sunday, they struck a deal blah blah blah to
avoid a US trade war. The deal included a pledge
to invest an extra six hundred billion dollars of EU
money into the US overcoming years, but speaking today, two
senior European officials clarified that the money would come exclusively
from private companies, with public investment contributing nothing.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
So I have no idea what that means.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
And there aren't like cops that will come to their
houses and put them in cuffs and track them to
jail if not a dime was invested. And then this
from Gerard Baker, is a terrific writer for the Wall
Street Journal, Europe will never keep its promises to Trump
on defense, and he mentions how great it is that
the NATO members pledged to promise to increase their defense
(03:18):
spending five percent or domestic product UH from the current
average of below two percent.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Uh blah blah bah.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
The idea that Europe is finally rising to meet its
own needs is common currency on both sides of the Atlantic.
After decades of cheaply sheltering under America's security umbrella, Europpeans
were told are now ready to take up the lion's
share of the cost of their own defense. And if
you believe that I have several bridges over the Rhine,
the Thames, and the Danube to sell you, really, writes Baker.
(03:49):
So yeah, is there a reason I haven't heard anybody
say this but me? Maybe I'm just wrong.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Sometimes if I like we're saying something, it's because I'm
way off pace. But I don't understand how Trump continues
to be portrayed as somebody who's anti alliances, anti European Union,
anti NATO.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
They're anti NATO.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
The other countries in NATO seem to be anti NATO
if they're not willing to fund it. They're the ones
that don't care about the alliance, not us. We fund
the majority of it. I heard it this morning on
NPR Trump, who's never been a big fan of NATO,
the countries and NATO are not fans of NATO, at
least by their actions. I don't care about their words.
Their words don't mean anything. The fact that they don't
(04:36):
fund it means they don't care and we do, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
In this one rare instance, you are not wrong, and
you are not crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
You're one hundred percent right.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yes, they were rotting it out from within through laziness
and just you know, enjoying the warm, sugary milk of
the American taxpayer's tea anyway.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
The overa taxpayers teat.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It's true that Baker writes, in the past three years,
the twin that's right, sir, the twin shocks of Europe's
invasion of Ukraine and the verbal hostility blah blah blah
have jolted European leaders out of their feckless complacency.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's a good phrase.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
The five percent of GDP math agreed to by all
members except lazy, stupid Spain, is on closer inspection, a
little fuzzy with three and a half percent. Remember the
big giant total everybody's bragging about is five percent. Three
and a half percent is allotted to actual defense spending
and one point five percent to areas like critical infrastructure
(05:36):
and civil preparedness.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
Ah, which could be anything.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, although I get that you do have to have
critical infrastructure to move arms.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Right, but you could also just you know, take the
money you were going to spend on fixing your highways
anyway and claim that was your civil preparedness. Be very
easy to fudge that stuff. But anyway he gets to
he gets to his main point. Don't be fooled by
all the Chilean talk. Well, it's true that some countries
like Poland and Finland will be serious about their defense
as they have been. The big euro nations Germany, France,
(06:09):
Italy and the UK face economic, demographic, political and cultural
challenges so deep that it'll take much more than statements
of intent to enable them to actually build their own
conventional defenses. Okay, So who doesn't care about NATO if
you can't get your own population to go along with
spending money on keeping NATO a fighting force.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Right, right, No, you're absolutely correct on that point. But
the reality of it is you've got enormous expensive welfare
states in all these countries, and Italy's public debt right
now is one hundred and thirty five percent of its GDP,
France is one hundred and thirteen percent, Spain's one hundred
and two, the UK more than one hundred. Germany's is
(06:49):
above sixty percent but set to rise. Massive welfare programs
are adding to those fiscal debt piles, and to give
a small illustration of the policy challenge, last month Armer's
Labor government in Britain, elected with a massive parliamentary majority,
tried to advance a small measure to trim seven billion
dollars off to spectacular growth of one social program that
(07:12):
are set to cost more than one hundred and thirty
seven billion dollars within a couple of years. So it's
what is that, It's like two and a half percent
something like that. Even such a meager effort at budget
restraint was defeated by a revolt by the party's back ventures.
So the idea that these big euro countries are going
to restructure their fiscal houses to free up lots more
(07:34):
money for defense, good luck.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
And we're supposed to care about it more than them,
even though it's their backyard that Russia's starting to encroach into.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Yeah yeah, Oh, and then Baker gets into their demographic problems.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
They're they're not having babies.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
We haven't talked about the biggest protests in Ukraine since
the war started, the biggest anti government.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Protests since the war started.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
So Zelensky got elected primarily on an anti corruption platform.
He was a YouTube comedian with no tie to either party,
and so it seemed like he'd be the perfect guy
to come in and try to deal with corruption because
he doesn't have you know, he's not involved in any
(08:24):
of the parties. They still have corruption in Ukraine. Corruption
is hard to root out and we should be thankful
we have as little as we have because culturally it's
really really hard to get rid of.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But they still it's the number one problem for post
Soviet countries.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So they still have a corruption problem in Ukraine.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
They've got a special panel, legislative body whatever that is
supposed to look into corruption and deal with it. Zelensky
said it had been intro it's snuck in that were
pro Russian and didn't care about corruption. In fact, they
(09:05):
were for corruption, and so he couldn't count on that
body to deal with corruption anymore. So he got legislation
passed to take hold of the corruption thing himself. So
now me, the president, I'm going to be in charge
of rooting out corruption, not this independent body. And there
was a revolt among tens of thousands of people in
Ukraine in the streets, protesting at wartime when Putin has
(09:29):
been targeting groups, I mean, so it was pretty brave
to get out there and protest this. Zelensky realized he
was on the wrong side of this, or you know,
is politically not good, and so they've already walked that
back or trying to change it so he no longer
is the guy who is in charge of corruption, because
that's a bad look.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Yeah. I heard a really interesting conversation between a couple
of people, one of whom is very supportive of arming
Ukraine and helping them, and one who's been pretty cynical
about it. And interestingly, the cynical guy said, I got
to give some Linz in his government credit. They let
people have their free speech and protest against this law
to the point that they said, you know what, you're
(10:08):
you're right, we're wrong, will change it. And the guy
who's been very supportive of the Ukrainians and generally of
Zelensky said, yeah, that was a misstep. That even if
he was sincere, that was a bad idea because it
looks terrible and it's a good thing they're rescinding that
law and getting back to the old lie.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I assumed he was sincere. I mean, there's I don't
have any reason to think he's corrupt.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
It didn't surprise me that a bunch of people who
are also corrupt got into that body, and we're going
to be people you couldn't count on to root out corruption.
That wouldn't surprise me, Yeah, when you got a history
of corruption in your country. But yeah, him taking it
(10:51):
over was a bad look politically, and they loosened the reins.
But something to see those kind of protests. I wonder
if he will get if he'll ever have elections, he'll
get re elected.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
I wonder how that'll play out.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Will he go down in Ukrainian history as a as
a hero as he should I think?
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Or not? Who knows, well, time we'll tell. Obviously.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Part of that discussion went on to discuss the fact
that they haven't had an election for a while and
that they should. Although if some pro Russian faction, you know,
floods the polls are legitimately Jin's up popular opinion or
something like that, and he loses and a pro Russian
guy gets elected, the Ukraine is over as a country.
(11:31):
How do they compare it to the US elections during
the Civil War?
Speaker 4 (11:34):
But how would you have an election when what is it,
twenty percent of your country is occupied by another How
would you do that?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Right?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
It's an absolutely legitimate question, and anybody Tucker, who's portrayed
it as an obvious sign that he's assumed dictatorial powers
and is a monster. Is that is just well, you're
a propagandist. I mean, Tucker is brilliant. He wouldn't get
that wrong. It's propaganda. But yeah, how are you going
to run on a plus anytime people gather? Other than
that demonstration the Russians bomb the vlad Putin said, eh,
(12:08):
hold off on those drones. This is anti Zelenski. Let's
not kill people. Now, wait till tonight. We'll hit a hospital,
in a school or two.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
Here's one of my favorite headlines I've seen today, Cottage
cheese popularity sores. Cottage cheese is having a moment, full
team coverage. I also wanted to get to. She's known
as the woman with the world's largest lips. Okay, you
crazy person? And the Washington Post going big on mermaiding.
(12:40):
Mermaiding gaining popular in DC? How about mermaids wee cottage
cheese with big lips? How popular is that?
Speaker 2 (12:47):
Off the day mermaids sucking down cottage cheese in a
local pool.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
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Speaker 5 (12:59):
Uber is a new feature that pairs female drivers with
female riders, and there's no option for a quiet.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Ride anti woman because women talk a lot. I guess
is this point. Last week we had the story that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
So we're still trying to figure out if there's inflation
going on or not because or at least prices going
up because of tariffs. And he got Amazon, which has
raised its price some stuff. Walmart's saying they're not. And
then I heard some economists saying that Walmart is eating
(13:40):
the price hikes in an attempt to take business away
from Amazon, also probably to drive the last remaining brick
and mortars in the world out of business, as they
can't do that. They can't eat the increase in their
costs the way Walmart can. And then this story that
(14:00):
came out of the weekend that I missed. Target has
ended its price match policy that they've had forever, where
if there's an advertising price somewhere else, they would match it,
handing Amazon and Walmart a huge pricing advantage.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
So Target, let alone your mom and pop store.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
Target just decided we can't keep up with them eating
some of these increases in price to drive everybody out.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
That's something.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Yeah, wow, that's it begun, all of it, you think, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Wow, this could be huge. I mean that seems like
a big deal to me. That's somebody's biggest target said
we're out. We can't compete with you guys.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Well, and a lot of the trade agreements that are
just being reached, and there are plenty that haven't been
reached yet. The tariffs then will go in place, and
we haven't seen how that will shake out either, So
just yet.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
I hope not.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
I don't want this because I'm I don't have Trump
arrangement syndrome, so I don't want negative outcomes.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
But it wouldn't be shocking if.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Three months from now, six months from now, in time
for Christmas or whatever, this is the biggest story in
America what tariffs did to prices. You talk about a
story that would dominate all other stories.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Epstein.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Who if everything as all of a sudden, like you know,
covid era inflation more expensive.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I wonder, Yeah, and the whole you know, organized labor,
for instance, the UAW we mentioned this last year or
last week, Rather that the American made cars, which depend
heavily on parts from Canada and Mexico, are going to
be tariffed at a higher rate than euro cars. So
your Ford made you know, your quote unquote American made
Ford is going to have a higher tariff on it,
(15:49):
at least the foreign parts of it then your BMW.
I mean that's and that's going to hurt the sales
and the jobs for the UAW. So there's a bunch
of rastling that's going to take place. This is just
again a huge pile of question marks, and the angst
has just begun.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
If Walmart actually is just eating some of these costs
to try to take on Target or whoever else, Man,
that's a Trump esque bold move right there.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That's a China esque bold move dumping. They're essentially product
dumping on the American public, losing money for a while
to eliminate competition. I mean, I'm not saying they're the
legal definition of dumping. They have lawyers and they're very
good at their jobs. It just yeah, they're trying to
undercut the competition to drive them out.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
That's something. Wow.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
And if you're right and we are going to see
a lot more of this, whooh, that'll be exciting. I
didn't get to the woman at the World's Biggest lips
I wanted to talk about something I saw at the
State Fair over the weekend that fit into that.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Maybe later, Wow, she could be a display at state Fair.
I mean this kind of nineteen ten.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Is should have been.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
I should have just grabbed my hands said could when
you come over here and sold tickets for people to
gak at her. I don't know if her husband would barnumacks.
I don't know if her husband would appreciated that. We
got a lot more on the way.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Stay here.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
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and police, inflicting non legal damage to the substeps or
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Speaker 2 (17:36):
Okay, we'll see if that works. I could see a
usefulness of it, certainly. I mean, it's not fool proof,
but it's better than not having it.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
Update on the Woman of the World's biggest lips coming up.
Stay tuned.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
So in sub human scumbag rule, I'm sorry news, I'm sorry,
I'm reading while I'm talking. Idiot sub human scumbag update.
Idiot guy from Idaho. Yeah, here a couple of stories
about his future, a bit of yin and yang for you.
(18:12):
First of all, he will not be totally caught off,
cut off from the world outside. He can even send
messages to young women across the country, though not via
any dating apps. While prisoners don't technically have access to
the Internet at the Idaho Department of Corrections, they can
purchase tablets from the commissary and load them up with
(18:35):
a ton of approved apps. This means Scumbag and his
fellow inmates can access select music radio stations, perhaps the
Armstrong e Getty Show, podcasts, movies, televisions, games, and books.
They can also fire off emails and make phone calls,
so have a lifeline to life outside the prison wall.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I didn't catch that all that list because I was
thinking about what you're saying. So, do you have access
to the Internet, I mean the news basically?
Speaker 4 (19:04):
Yeah, So what is the thinking behind allowing them to
like just scroll through a tablet or.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Phone the way a lot of us do with our
lives and kind of have a semi enjoyable life.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
What's the theory on that you're a murder make trouble.
They don't make trouble, they're compliant. They don't want their
tablet taken away.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I mean, I'm sure he doesn't really address that, but
that's the answer. I got two teenagers that basically spend
their entire days if I let them doing what he's
going to do. So it doesn't seem like much round
peacefully right, doesn't seem like much of a punishment or
supposed to be.
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Is it supposed to be a deterrent? What kind of
a deterrent is? You get to do what every teenager
wishes they could do with their parents won't let them.
Speaker 2 (19:53):
Yeah, that's a wrestling match that people never discuss. I've
actually talked about this to corrections officers and people in
the in business. I've got a friend who's actually a
recently retired warden. But anyway, it's the tension is between punishment,
making it harsh and unpleasant so you never want to
go back there again, but having the inmates be compliant.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
I mean, if I could sit in a cell and
scroll the Internet and you're gonna feed me. I could
do that for a long time. I'd prefer freedom. But
I mean that ain't the worst thing that ever happened.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Uh right, Yeah, I get it. They can let and
if scumbag uses his email to find love, well it'll
be a chaste marriage because the Idaho Department of Corrections
does not allow conjugal vistas.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
Well, thank god.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
If he was getting laid and scrolling the internet, then
why why is anybody not commit a crime?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Oh my, especially because he butchered those poor people, probably
in part because he couldn't get a girl.
Speaker 4 (20:54):
On the other hand, Jack, well, remind me of that.
You just trip something in my mind. Remind remind me
that the whole in cell thing. I got something on that.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
All right, stay tuned, Michael, you remember it. I'll never
remember it. And so here's your yang. Scumbag will spend
the rest of his life and die in one of
America's worst prisons, a maximum security hell hole that, according
to The New York Post, faces accusations of feces, smeared cages,
(21:23):
violent guards, riding in mats in a biohazard level ventilation
system that's too Bad, Idaho Maximum Security Institution IMSI, where
he's expected to be sentenced to life.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Well he was. I'm sorry this is written just before
the sentencing.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Hosts the GEM states most Did you know Idaho is
the GEM state? Jack anyway, this prison hosts the GEM
State's most disruptive male residents and violent criminals. It has
developed a reputation as not just the toughest prison in
the state, but one of the harshest in the nation.
It was named one of the fifteen worst prisons in
America by Security Journal America's You're twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
You're one of the harshest prisons in the nation where
if you're a scumbag murderer who should have gotten the
death penalty, you get to sit in your cell and
scroll the Internet all day long.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, I know. This is a bit of a head scratcher.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
It joins such infamous institutions as the Louisiana State penn AKA,
the Farm San Quentin in California, and the Attica Attica
Correctional Facility in eastern New York.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I am so.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I know this will never happen in our modern soft
world that we live in. He should be out there
doing freaking manual labor in the sun all day for
the rest of his life. There are plenty of people
that do it to support their families. How about he's
out there, you know, paving roads like in the old days,
freaking after work, freaking not look forward to getting up
(22:48):
every day. Lots of people don't look forward to getting
up every day and going to do a job.
Speaker 3 (22:53):
He gets to get up and oh, I go sleep
late and then scroll the Internet all day long and
take a nap. As a guy who murdered a bunch
of college yeah, I hate that. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
There's there's got to be a balance. Here's one guy,
he is quoted. Who is this guy?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Some guy? He's her way too soft, way too soft. Yeah,
I would agree. I would agree in a lot of
ways they are. Here's one guy.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
Oh, he's talking about solitary confinement and miss abuse of prisoners.
Ninety seven percent of these guys are going to get
out and walk into an Idaho community if you treat
them like crap, if you treat them like animals, they're
going to walk out of prison like that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Okay, you're talking about everybody in general. This guy is
an animal. I don't care how he gets treated.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Right well, and he's not walking out into anybody's community ever,
thank god. Anyway, I did not know you can get
a tablet and connect it to the internet.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Me neither. Like I said, I got two teenagers who
would love to get to spend all day every day.
They would if I let them.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They'll probably sue the the Department of Corrections in the
state for giving them.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
What do they call that?
Speaker 2 (24:03):
That internet neck or phone neck where you get like
a stiff neck from looking at your phone all the time.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
I cash settlement so on in cells, Yes, Katie, Oh,
there's tech neck technic right, technick. I hate to say
this because this makes me sound incredibly soft, but I
think I gave myself tennis elbow from holding my phone
in a certain way all the time. I get to
this horrible pain in my elbow, and I think, and
I realized it if I don't hold my phone the
(24:31):
way I hold it, like when I'm sitting doing work,
the pain.
Speaker 3 (24:36):
So I've caused this. You have carpal tunnel syndrome from
your phone? Is that it? Or something similar? Yeah, Katy.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Also from the Pathetic file, I had to get one
of those pop sockets that you put on the back
because I have rested my phone on this part of
my pinky above my knuckle for so long that I
have a dent. So I was like, wow, I need
to find a new way to hold my phone or
put the phone down.
Speaker 3 (24:59):
So now so when I'm letting in bed, stop socket.
Speaker 4 (25:01):
When I'm laying in bed reading my phone, I hold
it with my right hand and keep my left arm
straight so it can heal.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Wow, talk about a soft beast.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
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Speaker 4 (25:15):
So on the in cell topic, I just accidentally came
across this and I don't remember where or why, but
it was somebody who had written into some site about
dating is something like are there any guys who have
given up on dating? And the responses will shock you
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or not shock you, but I'll have those right after this.
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Speaker 4 (26:42):
I don't think I screen captured the responses I should have,
but I can summarize them more or less.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
So somebody had written, you.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Know, into whatever site, have any other guys given up
on dating in the modern world or something like that,
And then I just looked at the responses to that,
and it was all these blame women, or blame society
or blame something.
Speaker 3 (27:05):
Crowd that had.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Completely given up on the idea of ever being in
any kind of relationship at all.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
And I mean it was just an endless stream of them.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And I thought, this is the most pathetic thing I've
ever seen. I mean, if I had a friend or
my kids did this, I.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Would think, what is wrong with you? Yeah, the world?
Speaker 4 (27:26):
And it was it was everybody had their own Well,
there's there's no way you can get a girlfriend after
age thirty, or there were somebody else said after in
your forties or in your fifties. So they all, you know,
their particular time in life was the worst time it
has ever been. And because of you know, and then
name it the economy and the politics or whatever it was,
(27:47):
they all had a reason why they'd completely given up
on the idea of ever having a relationship.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, humankind cannot survive the internet. That is my conclusion.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
And I am the worst of mankind are now reinforced.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Instead of being told over and over again, Hey Joe,
that's dumb, or you're giving up or that's pathetic. No,
don't be like that. You just go online find people
who are like minded. And haven't reinforced all day long.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Yeah, I didn't even think about that aspect, but that
is exactly what was going on there. All those people
were able to read that thread and said, yep, I
was right all along. It's impossible to go out and
get a relationship in the modern world. So that's why
I've given up and I'll just drink, do drugs, watch porn.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
Whatever it is, but I won't go out and be
in a relationship.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Yeah, there are kind of horrif questions here because you
might be right about the hurdles that you would have
to leap over, but that doesn't mean you're right in
not leaping over them.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
So, like I said, there are a couple layers to it.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
The fact that many young women are leftist lunatics and
won't even consider being with you unless you too are
leftist lunatic. That's a significant problem. It's a real issue
for young men. That doesn't mean you give up and
just spout angrily on the internet.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
But I don't know. I know a lot.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
I know a lot of non left it not a lot,
but I know some non leftist lunatic women who have
the same complaint about they can't find any guys.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
So if you all would get together, I think things
would work out for you.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Fully, They were like, I don't know, a website or
something as those kids too.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Turned weird too. Yeah, I think that's a dry hole.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
But as opposed to going on sites where you all
complain about why you can't be in a relationship, if
you could somehow put those two it's funny. If you
could take the thread for the women and the thread
for the men and meet them up, like all get
them together in a room, I think you might have
a bunch of love.
Speaker 3 (29:38):
Blooming sparks would fly. That's exactly right. They still haven't
gotten to the woman with the world's biggest lips. Trump
said some interesting Epstein stuff. Do you have a stomach
for that or not? FLA, Yeah, yeah I do. I
took the weekend off of it, mostly nine.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Hour interview with Gal Maxwell by the Justice Department Thursday
and Friday last week. What are they hoping for? What
are they even looking for?
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Anything they can release to calm the masses, That's what
I believe they're looking for. Any revelation that sounds like
they're now, we're telling you the truth, the evil truth
that we said in our podcast for years that we
would find if we ever got power.
Speaker 3 (30:28):
Here it is how many how many FBI agents were
on this case.
Speaker 4 (30:33):
The number will shock you, among other things on the way, Okay.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
The rush yet they steel don's a normal JBFC story.
How you got to be kiddy with it? No, I
had nothing to do with it. Only you would think
that not had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
So Trump announce was the big European tariff deal. They
came to a number. What's the number, doesn't matter. They
agreed on a number because the big high number was
going to kick in on August.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
First, which is Friday.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
So Trump's calling it the biggest financial deal's ever been
done in world history, which may be true. I think
the Louisiana purchase adjusted for inflation might be bigger.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Anyway, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
But that reporter asked, if you couldn't hear it, was
this deal just done to bump up Epstein off.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
The front page? Trump said, you gotta be kidding with
that question.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
I mean some of the other stuff that's happened in
the last couple of weeks, like when he announced what
did he announce announced something like went after Rosie O'Donnell
one day, are something's.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
In charge Obama with treason?
Speaker 4 (31:39):
Yeah, that stuff might be to distract from Epstein, But
I don't think this big European tariff deal that he's
been talking about his entire adult life was timed to
do that. He was also asked, and everybody's wondered, why
did he and Epstein have a falling out, because famously
(32:01):
Trump stopped talking to Epstein at all. They had a
break before Epstein got nabbed the first time in Florida. Anyway,
he was asked about that today.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
I free not borrow all.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
Can you sell that?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
What caused the breach?
Speaker 5 (32:20):
That's such old history, very easy to explain, but I
don't want to waste your time by explaining it. But
for years I wouldn't talk to Jeffrey Epstein. I wouldn't
talk because he did something that was inappropriate. He hired help,
and I said, don't ever do that again. He stole
people that work for me. I said, don't ever do
(32:41):
that again. He did it again, and I threw him
out of the place, persona on grata. I threw him
out and that was it. I'm glad I did so.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
It wasn't a sexuality, wouldn't complain, he wouldn't explain that.
Speaker 3 (32:55):
He explained, which is very Trump Like. But it wasn't
a sexual thing.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
Wasn't everybody kind of assuming that, like he hit on
somebody's daughter or something and traps one of the stories,
or he snuck in at the last second and out
did Trump on some real estate or something.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
I'd heard too, but he was raiding him for staff.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Okay, So again, the most extraordinary thing that happened in
the last few days in the world's weirdest scandal is
that the number two in the Justice Department, not like
some lower level person, the second most powerful person in
the entire Justice Department, personally questioned Glaine Maxwell for nine
(33:42):
hours Thursday and Friday.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
And as you commented earlier, the number two, it's Justice
is the operational chief is really the number one in
terms of the stuff you actually do.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
It's like your boss going and dealing with something that
normally a lower level person would do. And both Chris Christy,
who I don't trust at all but has a lot
of knowledge about the Justice Department, and Sarah Isger on
ABC this Week yesterday both said that's just extraordinary that
somebody that high up would go and revisit a case
that was settled a long time ago. I mean, she's
(34:16):
in jail for twenty years, that's done. Was what's going
on there? I think your theory is really good. They're
just trying to come up with anything they can tell
the masses who believe. Oh, here's the other nugget that
came out of there. I think Sarah Iger said this
of the Dispatch. There are one time nearly a thousand
FBI agents on the Epstein case when Trump first took over,
(34:41):
because they were either so convinced there was there there
or so desperately needed to find some there there in
terms of the child abduction, sex trafficking, bang, Pizzagate, Hillary Clinton,
Michelle Obama's a man, a whole.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Thing trying to come up with something. They had nearly
a thousand FBI agents working on that. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
I was just reading I've never listened to more than
a few minutes of Not Cash Matella, Dan Bongino's podcast
back in the day, but I came across some quotes
from it, and and and he was definitely an enthusiastic
(35:31):
builder of attention and suspicion and anger about the whole deal,
and so I could see and then Pambonni with her
infamous the list is on my desk or it is
on my desk. In response to a question about the list,
I get that they're in a very very bad position now,
(35:52):
assuming that they're on the up and up, that there's
just no there there as they say. But yeah, I
think the number two of the Justice was sent down
there to come up with something anything. We'll trade you
three years off your sentence if you just reveal anything
to us.
Speaker 3 (36:06):
That seems like a big revelation, just to make everybody
shut up about it. I wonder if anything came out. Well,
I guess we'll find out if you miss an hour
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