August 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Ghislaine's talk with the AG & Bill in the blue dress
- JD Vance holding an Epstein strategy session?
- Blue city lefty mayors & the damage they do
- Final Thoughts!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty, I'm Strong
and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Gallaine Maxwell trying to stop the DOJ from releasing the
grand jury transcripts in her case.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Maxwell's lawyer essentially filed emotion today opposing those files from
being released because she is appealing her case all the
way to the Supreme Court. Her team writes this, Jeffrey
Epstein is dead. Gilaine Maxwell is not. Whatever interest the
public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a
broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So g dogs, we're calling her because we don't know
how to pronounce her first name?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is her? Either does anyone else?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Herner lawyers are trying to stop the DOJ from releasing
the grand jury testimony. Now that makes sense, and that's
the stuff that Trump said even yesterday. Well, if that
comes out, a whole bunch of people's names are going
to be in there that didn't do anything wrong, and
it's going to complicate this. So there's that. But that's
different from the audio transcript from the interview the other day, Right, Yeah,
(01:22):
so that's this clip on whether or not that transcript is.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Going to come out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Her lawyer has given us really the only details we
have about what was discussed. He has said the answered
questions about roughly one hundred different people, but we don't
know what she said. And now we're learning not only
is their audio, but there's a transcript that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Would review her ANSWER's word for word.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There are discussions I'm going inside the White House about
whether they should release this transcript. It's also not clear
if the Justice Department, she made this recording, and the
White House are on the same page about this decision.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And according to ABC's reporting, that transcript would include and
this is probably one of the reasons the White House
is okaying that coming out is that g Dog said
Trump did nothing in her presence to cause concern. So
that eight nine hour interview with the number two at
the Justice Department, which is completely unheard of, that transcript
(02:17):
might come out. Also completely unheard of is her getting
moved to a club fed type prison, So her getting
moved to a basically or staying on a community college
campus for the next twenty years. At the same time,
she announces I didn't see Trump doing anything wrong, doesn't
look good.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, No, I'm darkly amused by that choice of words.
She didn't see anything that would cause her concern or
cause concern, And I'm like, wait a minute, cause you concern.
You're trafficking teenage girls to get sexed up. So I'm
sure it didn't concern you at all. Not that I
think Trump was guilty of anything in this context, but
(02:59):
that's just a funny choice of words. No, you wouldn't
be who's concerned in this situation.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So if you're bored with that aspect of the story,
this part of the story is kind of interesting. I
think this is from Substack about Bill Clinton in the
Blue Dress. This is the famous painting that hung in
Epstein's most expensive house in Manhattan. This is from someone
named Jessica Reid Kraus. Do you know her work?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I do not. I do not know.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Okay, it's a Substack person and I have no idea
what her belief surpriors are.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But I thought this is an interesting article.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
The artist who actually painted that insists that she lost
track of the Clinton painting after grad school. I've got
the backstory on how it landed in Epstein's Manhattan State
this is kind of interesting. So this person writes, funny
how much attention was paid to that ridiculous birthday card
that Trump supposedly sent Epstein scripted with language and sentiments
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he clearly doesn't use in an inflection. He's likely not
even capable of. Michael Wolfe, who we've interviewed before, written
a couple of political books that I don't know if
we're good or not, but we've had him on before.
His theory is that g Dog linked to the birthday
card thing as a subtle threat, a signal to Trump
that she knows more and can share more about his
(04:14):
relationship with Jeffrey Maga. Sources insists there's no way that
he wrote that card.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But Trump wasn't the only one immortalized in Epstein's surreal collection.
The Clinton portrait was a sheer provocation of some sort.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But what of all what you've been saying for years? Wow?
Is it not me?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Of all the grotesque curiosities in the Jeffrey Epstein Statistic
Manhattan Townhouse, nothing compared captured public attention quite like Bill Clinton,
cross legged and twinkle eyed in a cobalt blue dress
and red heels. Pointing with a cheeky I know something
you don't know gesture. That is a pretty good description
of the painting. A remarkably bold star from a man
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rumored to traffic and political blackmail and covert surveillance. It
wasn't placed there by mistake, of course.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
As he walked in in a room to the right,
a source told The New York Post.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked. Bo who everybody?
But what did it mean?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
A private joke between Epstein and Clinton, a veiled threat,
or just visual fodder for those who weren't in on
the joke. Whatever the joke is. The painting was called
Parsing Bill. It was originally created in twenty twelve by
an Australian artist for her master's thesis at the New
York Academy of Art. It was exhibited for her class,
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she got her grade, then she sold the painting to
an unknown buyer that night. Assumed like most student work,
it ended up storage in storage somewhere it disappeared. She
found out seven years later when it broke as a
giant news story. Holy crap, that's my painting I made.
So the artist didn't painted.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And then they talked to the model and who had
provided the dress and the model for the legs and
all this different sort of stuff, which I don't really
find that interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
The artist said she had no connection with Epstein and
no knowledge of who had bought the work or where
it ended up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The model got.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Docked and all sort of stuff, but the model had
nothing to do with it either.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
The painting didn't seem out of place in the townhouse,
though the townhouse was a theater of unease, curated with disturbing,
surrealed decor, much of it reportedly selected by g Dog.
A female doll in a wedding dress dangled from the chandelier.
A chessboard in the study featured half naked figurines modeled
after Epstein's actual staff.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Ah. That's certainly harassment, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Prosthetic eyeballs originally designed for wounded soldiers were mounted on
the wall like hunting trophies.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
In one hallway, a photorealistic mural depicted Epstein in prison garb,
surrounded barbarbed wire and guards. According to publicist r. Curiy Hay,
who visited the home once, Epstein pointed to the murror
and said, that's me, and I had this painted because
there's always the possibility that could be me again, irony
or something darker, says this author, a calculated display of control.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
All this stuff is weird. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Parsing Bill was theatric satirical in theme. When painted, the
artist intended it as a commentary on perception, power and
the Clinton scandal, but once it entered Epstein's orbit, context
twisted and irony gave way to menace. A student project
became a totem of secret knowledge, a symbol of dominance,
hung like a trophy in Epstein's entryway. I mean, you
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can get the original intent if you don't know anything
about Epstein. The blue Dress Monica, I mean, you know,
it makes sense. I'm not sure it's powerful or anything.
But when Epstein ends up with it, it purchase it somehow
and hangs it, then what does it freaking mean?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Then? All right, read that last sentence again, wash.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A student project became a totem of secret knowledge, a
symbol of dominance, hunk like a trophy in Epstein's entryway.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Or I mean, because that's some really good florid writing,
or Epstein saw it and thought it was really funny,
and he hung it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, that's basically what she's asking here. Is it just
that I mean when people would come in and laugh
or smirk, was there a knowing was it a knowing
smirk or was it just rhylarious?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
On what level is this communication? Yeah, that's such an
interesting I thought.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's still the question of if you're a major figure
in the world, just you know, all of the God,
have you seen the collection of pictures of Epstein with people?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I've seen a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yet he's been photographed with like every important person of
the last sixty years. There is with five different presidents,
there is with Mick Jagger, there is with the Queen
of England.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, just it's unbelievable the connections he had. But
if I heard one person describe it as you would
literally get an invitation saying I'm having Bill Gates and
Kitty Kuric over for dinner tomorrow night or Thursday night.
Are you available?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
But since I assume he was a lefty leaning guy
like most of your big time Manhattan type of dudes
in terms of his politics, why would you have a
mocking picture of one of the most revered people in America,
certainly at the time, Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You wouldn't just do that for fun, Like you wouldn't
do that with somebody like your dad or somebody you respect.
Some picture that mocks him, painting that mocks him and
hang it in your house for fun.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Now, Reagan wearing a mesh stockings and a corset.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, that that your friends wouldn't think that's that? Why
is that funny? I don't get it. Why are you
doing that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I'm like ray Well and some humiliating No, you're right,
you're absolutely of course, I'm not a a pervert and
b you know whatever else he was. But no, I
see what you're saying. My innocent explanation is not the
most likely one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
According to sources familiar with Epstein's home, he was deliberate
with his symbols. A stuffed black poodle sat atop a
grand piano in one room, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh yeah, that symbolizes man's in humanity. To man, I
know that one.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No decorator would ever tell you to do that. But
I want people to think about what it means to
stuff a dog.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
A quote from Epstein, Yes, what the hell? If you
weren't in on the joke, you often were part of
the punchline. This writer says, of course the Internet loves
decoding symbolism, but as possible, Epstein might have just liked
what the painting evoked, unease, confusion, and vulnerability. I just
don't think he would do that with a friend, and like, again,
the most revered person in that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Orbit, right, Yeah, whatever the case is, especially given how
the whole Monica Blue Dress thing was, it was a
rather unpleasant you know, the chapter in the Clinton's Lives.
You wouldn't think they'd want that thrawing faces in a
humorous way right there in your house exactly. Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's I still say, that's a what are you gonna
do about it? Because gesture it's a flex it. What's
anybody gonna say to me about it? You think I
don't know things about you? Been to my island? I
mean his bill had been to his island twenty eight times?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Has that been? I have no idea. They have a
passenger manifests for a lot of the flights, I know,
but if it's four, it ain't good. Well. Yeah, as
I pointed, out, though not everybody was sexing up sixteen
year olds. The guy had legit parties and outings and
(12:21):
vacations and stuff like that. That was how he built
all those connections. He didn't have Bill Gates sitting at
his table and Katie Kurk because Katie want sex up
sixteen year old. It was like an all inclusive resort,
but it was free and he'd fly you there. I'll
finish with this the end of the writing here.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Whatever the case, parsing Bill remains one of the most
unforgettable images from the Epstein saga, not because of what
it says about Clinton, but because what it reveals about Epstein,
how he lived, how he saw other people, what his
relationships were with these other people.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How art could be used as leverage I get. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't know if we'll ever get an answer on that.
The guy that would know the most is Day at
the hands of Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was gonna say, commission an artist, but I could
have AI to it. I want a naked Joe Biden
wearing a dog leash, eating out of a dog bowl,
Big one two, hang it right on the wall. I
think i'd have a hunter walking on a leash or
something like that. Oh wow, wait a minute, now you're
(13:23):
onto something. Anybody have any idea text line? Jill Jill,
Jill is the leash as the naked Biden eats out
of a dog bowl. You all the kibbles.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Our text line is four one FFTC. I got the
Shodenfreud is when you're happy that something bad happened to somebody.
Fetternaid is when you wish you'd ordered the food they ordered.
What is uh what.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Is the term for? I guess just jealous.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I just got a text from a radio call league
who's interviewing ice Cube today.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I thought, Ah, that's so cool. I wish I was
interviewing ice Cube today. Wow on what topic?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Hey everybody, we're sitting here with a crazy mf or
named ice Cube. Ice How are you today? That's how
he described himself at the beginning of Straight Out of Compton. Oh,
I don't know what they're talking to him about. That's
a good question, probably like, because we've had this happen
before many times. Get a really really cool celebrity, but
they got like some specific charity you're not that into,
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and that's all they want.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
To talk about.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And you want to talk to them about the reason
they're so dang famous, or a product.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's an actor now though, right is he still on
the TV cop show? I don't know if he has
he ever been on a TV cop show. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
But he's been in some of my some movies my
kids watch, like kids movies. He's like the dad, the
bumbling dad who the divorced mom meets up with and
likes and they raise the kids together and that's all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's nice, happy ending. Yeah, of course kids aren't getting
together much at all these days. Jack, this is we
don't really have time for this. But as completely taken
by surprise by this story, Google Calendar like dominates every
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waking moment for the current generation. Like that's in college.
Google calendar. Yeah, that their whole day. They need their
whole day spelled out via Google Calendar, what time they
go to sleep, what time they eat, if they're going
on a five minute walk, if they want to grab
lunch with you at one of the dining halls on
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campus that day. And in fact, this one guy sent
a Google Calendar invite come over to my dorm. Oh no,
this was a friend just just wanted to hang out,
but sent a Google calendar invite, and this other guy
sent this girl who he fancied in his class. He
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fancied an event set for eleven thirty pm Friday night.
The event was titled hook Up question Mark, and she
responded yes, and the rest is history. He said. They
saw each other for the rest of the semester, though
the romance fizzled out after that.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hm, I don't know if I know anybody in this
age group that I think would be doing this Google
calendar thing.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, it's just And I saw another piece I think
it was at the Free Press. A Youngish woman was
writing about Katie. Maybe he can help me with this,
how why my generation is terrible at partying? And it
was that invite app oh or yeah, evite. It's an evite.
It's different, it's like a newer Hipper one, but it's
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the same in that you can see who is invited,
who's said yes, who hasn't said yes yet, and it
becomes this whole storm and drong, this whole stressful thing
for that generation. Everything's very premeditated, very carefully done.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Fits in with the whole planning activities things, their whole lives.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Gotcha Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I don't I don't know if I can remember a
story we've ever done in thirty years of doing this
that I understand less than the Epstein story. But we
have breaking Epstein news, breaking Epstein news, ah Void. The
Vice President jd Vance is hosting an Epstein strategy dinner
tonight with Pambondi, Cash Patel and others. A strategy dinner
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led by the Vice President of the United States about
the Epstein story to me, leads me to believe they
think this is a big deal, that they.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Got a dealing from the top down approved leak or
is that an unapproved leak?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
ABC News and variety of other It just came out
in the last hour. Jd Vance on what tonight is
expected to host a group of top administration officials at
his residence for a strategy session.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Dinner, table events. It's right, Mett, thank you. Sources familiar
with the matter told ABC News.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They obviously think this is I don't know what they
think it is. Again, I don't have any idea. I
don't know if they are as flum mixed as anybody else,
but they're just trying to figure out how to massage
some of their core voters, or if there's.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Some choice of words given Epstein's modus operandi, but go on.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Or if there's something real to strategize about, like there's
actual I don't know evidence that's going to come out
about something, or I have no.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Idea it would have come out by now the vice president,
the attorney general, the head of the FBI, and others. Right, wow, ill,
But Trump said, look, you're got to figure out how
to put out this fire quick. All right, I'm sure
they'll be reporting on that tomorrow. I. Yeah, yeah. If
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I'm on that committee, I'm very tempted to say, let
it lie, let it lie, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And just hope that it's overcome by events which I
thought had already happened. I thought, what was it? What
were you talking about over the weekend that got all
the attention? Remember it led to Sunday shows and I
say things that, oh yeah. I even claimed that it
might have been orchestrated to bump Epstein off the map,
and I thought, maybe it had worked.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
This is the way, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's not like it's a month from it's not like
two years from this past Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't remember what the lead story was on almost
Sunday talk shows.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh, him firing the budget.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Woman, Oh, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Quien seemed like, why did we ever talk about that? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That was the only story all weekend long in the news,
and I thought they've killed the Epstein story. He's been
killed again. It's over, but it's back. Yeah, yeah, wow, Okay,
Well we'll all.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Eagerly away to news of JD Vance's conspiratorial dinner party.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh anyway, unless there's something real for them to discuss,
but well, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Complete change topic. There are a bunch of lefty lunatics
running four mayors of big cities, and because the media
is in New York, they focused on Mam Damie the
kami Uh, mostly to the exclusion of a couple other
really well formed nut jobs.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Mark Hauprin has put the latest odds at eighty five
percent that Mumdanni wins because his sense is that the
New York Times has decided that's their guy. They were
kind of against him early on, but they've decided he's
the guy. So with the New York Times help, he's
going to be almost impossible to beat. It's going to
be something for refer Republicans to run on. Give me
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a little mum, Dommy eighty one there, Michael, this is a.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Dark moment to be a stranger in our city, to
be a stranger in our country. An authoritarian government in Washington,
d C. Is dispatching massed agents to abduct immigrants from
our streets. That is not justice, It is cruelty, and
it is criminal.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Okay, you got him. I give you one. Katie Wilson,
who is the left candidate in Seattle in our vision
of future, a city with social housing experience, I didn't
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understand socialized housing, free, efficient, fast, public transit, childcare paid
for by the government, or she may have said affordable.
I don't recall, and no one has to sleep unsheltered.
I believe the crowd loves the free childcare.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
How many of those people have children. I don't believe
you're writing the mass transit. You like the theory of
a mass transit for other people. That's the problem with
mass transit. Everybody thinks it's a good idea for other people.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes, I'm far too busy. And then Omar Fatah, who's
not getting nearly enough attention. It's running for the giant
City of Minneapolis mayor. He's the leader. He just got
the endorsement of the Minnesota Farm and Labor Party, which
is their Democratic party, over the far left incumbent Fry
(22:54):
by name, who is like totally into defunding the police
and like the maximalist view of the George Floyd riots
and need to just shut everything down during COVID and
totally on the side of the teachers union. But he
is getting beat on his left by this fatah guy.
Hit us with eighty two Michael.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
One build in Minneapolis that working people can afford to
call home. Two protect our city from a hostile White house,
and three diversify our city's public safety response.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Give us the other one.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump and is
not letting mpity interacted ice, whether it's for an immigration
rate or not. Our residents deserve a mayor that will
stand up to Donald Trump and say no, not in
our community.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So this guy's a Somali immigrant.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Well, I realize these people are running from area and
they're little areas, and this might work for him, but man,
the ability to paint that is like what all Democrats are.
For the Republicans, it's pretty handy worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's not where most people are. Let's see. He would
enact race based housing policies, prevent evictions from rental properties,
and codify public financing for the state's annual trans Equity Summit,
among other stances. The old trans Equity Summit. Yeah yeah,
(24:22):
I ought to be paid for by the tax payer.
He's vound to quote ensure that events like the trans
Equity Summit are fully funded and prioritized. It's hard.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's hard for me to think like people who think
the way they think. I mean, I just I'm not
a progressive.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Well, married couple with children, when they were deciding what
city to make their home base, they looked up recycling
programs and they moved to the city that had the
best recycling programs.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In America and set up shop there. That was their
one criteria. Well, slap my ass and call me Sally.
Thing I've ever heard that's so crazy to me? Yeah yeah, wow.
So and on that topic, I got this suggestion for
the freedom loving quote of the day at the beginning
of the show from Gail. It's a fellow by the
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name of Jason. I don't know his work, but the
essence of conservatism is gratitude for what you have and
especially for what you've been given. The essence of leftism
is outrage over the gap between reality and your utopian dreams.
That's pretty good. I don't think he's off base there,
And it's funny. This came across my radar screen just
a couple hours after I became aware of this Twitter
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thread by a gal who is a mom. And I'll
bet some of y'all can can relate to this. I
can to some extent. I have a conservative child and
a liberal child, she writes. A conservative child works hard.
He's been steadily employed since graduating from college ecology. He
bought his first home not too long ago. He is adulting.
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We're very proud of him. He never wants to have
to ask for help and wants to make it on
his own. As a matter of fact, he's offered to
pay us back the standard amount it takes to raise
a child. We told him, no, of course, not just
that's not how it works. That's a little much the
first part.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I like that. That's going a little far. I did this,
but he's always I can eat it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But he's always been motivated to do better and be better.
My liberal child recently told me that capitalism is evil.
It's not right to have to spend your childhood going
to school then have to get a job. Do you
just work all the time and never get to have
fun to have a life. Give me your phone and
go to your room. Trust me when I say this
conversation did not end well. I don't think she means
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literally a child. I think this person has grown. They're
both grown. Probably still Give me your phone and go
to your room. Our relationship is a roller coaster, to
say the least. She is disgusted with us for being
pro tramp Maga expresses their disdain for me, especially daily.
She also told us she didn't ask to be born,
so since we decided to have her, we're on the
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hook for life to support her. She has a college
degree as well. Tried once to make it in her
chosen profession. It didn't bring instant success, so she gave up.
She is a creative writer. She wrote a novel, got
it published, but stopped there. There's so much more she
needed to do, but didn't want to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
The I need to take care of you forever. Well,
I get a say in that also, so perhaps I won't, right.
I guess they grew up in the same household.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
One, her conservative child chose a small, private, Christian based university,
and her daughter chose a big liberal arts college, and
she attributes the difference to that. I don't know if
that's accurate, but she said she grew Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
That's probably. I was thinking that she must have tripped
and dropped that kid on the head, her head when
she was little er. I mean to be that far
off base.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, I disagree. That's yeah, It's just it happens. But
I think the college thing probably has a lot to
do with it. She writes. They grew up in the
same household. Both saw our struggles and triumphs. My husband
and I both worked, We were both very involved in
their childhoods. One appreciates everything and so grateful to have
as as parents, always thanking us, et cetera. The other
(28:12):
blames us for everything wrong in her life and expects
us to continually compensate her for it. She is liberal
to the extremists, caused great conflict in our family. What
would you do in that situation? I mean, I should
I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I think it's really unlikely I'm going to end up
in that situation based on where my kids currently are politically, But.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, nothing would be more horrible to
me than being estranged from any of my kids. But man,
on that one might have to tough love it for
a while and hope they come back. I ain't paying
for all this, Oh, while you criticize everything I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
For you, she says. The reason I'm posting all of this.
I guess this is say liberal indoctrination and ideologies, in
my opinion, ruining us as a society, destroying the foundation valuables, principles, morals,
and beliefs of our great country. They've turned to one
of my children into a stranger. I don't know if
I'll ever get her back. Sounds dramatic, but true. She
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expects us to be accepting, intolerant to her views, but
we simply have no right to ours. That's a good way.
That sound familiar, That is a good way to put it.
She's been programmed, and there's no way to break through
the fanatical muck. I. I have a friend who's in
a close to this situation. Uh, I scream close to
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the situation with my kids, and there are interesting and
extenuating circumstances, but they're not They're not like angry, hateful.
But you know, I've got a kid in the Seattle
Tacoma area, and Seattle got off the hook, you know, Portlandia.
If Fred Armison had been from Seattle, the show would
(29:57):
have been Seattle, Stan, I think, because it's every is
Looney's Portlands, no doubt. Yeah, but it's just you go
through an indoctrination in college that most parents have no
ideas happening, except if the kid shows up at Thanksgiving
dinner lecturing everybody about how capitalism is evil. But I'm
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thankful and grateful that I have a very respectful relationship
with my kids. And if they say something I think
is looney to and I tell them, you know, there
is another point of view probably worth considering, and here
it is, and I lay it out and it generally
goes pretty well.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, I've got a friend who has to refer in
certain pronouns oh golly, and they play along. But yeah,
that's an indigretably difficult position.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The hole my kid decided that the reason she's unhappy
is she's a dude. Actually, yeah, that's brutal, brutal.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Videos have gained online that appeared to show a humanoid
robot trying on sneakers at New York Hookus store. Well,
I knew they were going to replace workers. I didn't
know they were going to replace fifty year old white dads.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
The story that jd. Vance is having a meeting in
his house tonight to strategize around Epstein with the Attorney General,
the leader of the FBI, and others is being reported
everywhere now, so everywhere sees that as a juicy store
to cover.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah. The Democrats Barnes storming around the country saying we
demand transparency, having provided none when they had power.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Well, they probably provided as much as was needed, since
I'm not sure there's anything to know, right, Yeah, yeah,
so that's kind of interesting. I'm reading the back to
Epstein again. I'm reading the New York Times story from yesterday.
We never got to inside Epstein's house. A journalist actually
went in there, took a bunch of pictures of the
home and reporting on it. Twenty one thousand square foot
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home right on Central Park. I wish i'd have looked
up the address when I was at Central Park. I
would I like to have looked at it from the outside.
He knew freaking everybody, freaking everybody, and cameras, video cameras
and every danged room.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Among other things.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
They would have you'd be there, And so it might
be MBS from Saudi Arabia and Bill Gates and Elon
Musk and you know name other biggest names of Pope
John Paul the second might be other biggest names in
the world, super duper star athlete. Sure, but the meals
were always very basic. They said, Chinese takeout on fancy
(32:53):
trays or burgers works for me. It works for me too,
love Chinese. Kind of funny that he's kidding me.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah. Uh. The person walking around the house.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Saw that he had a framed first edition copy of Lolita.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
In his bedroom. M Little on the nose, little too much,
isn't it Lolita?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
If you don't know, it's a story about a grown
man having sex with a twelve year old humbered. Humbered
that's a little yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Did you just have a seizure or is that the
name of the character.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
That's the name of the character that's driving around in
a car with the twelve year old girl humbered.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yes, check it out, pretty pretty, pretty gaudy house. Looking
at the picture lots he had a stuffed poodle on
his piano. Weird lots of weird art. I'm strong, strong, Ready.
(34:01):
Here's yours for final thoughts, Joe ol Getty. Let's get
a final tough from everybody on the crew to wrapp
up the show. Why not Michael Angelo in the control room,
would you lead us off? Michael? Yeah, Well, tonight, I'm
in charge of dinner and my wife's tired of always
eating cheese dip every time I make dinner because it's
the only thing I could make. So I'm gonna try
pork chops and I have some side dishes and hopefully
nobody gets sick.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I'd like to have a dinner at cheese dip tonight.
That sounds fantastic, of course, you found. I'll just get
some of those scoop chips and sit there and eat cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Dip like a bear. Katie Green are esteemed newswoman has
a final thought, Katie, so hear me out. We always
like to add new merch to the Armstrong Getty Show store.
Ang Marital aids that can be thrown onto the court
at WNBA Games, all with our logo on them. I'm saying,
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Speaker 4 (34:51):
Go, don't know Jack final thought for us, Yes, I
don't know how I feel about that. Speaking of sex,
watched the first episode of the new King of the
Hill of the Hills made a comeback where Hank and
his wife are old and Bobby is a grown up
chef any who way more extreme sexy than the original was.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Wasn't prepared for that with my thirteen year old Yeah
do boy? Just know that? Wow? Is Luanne still on
the show? I haven't seen her yet. That's what you're old?
Were hot? Luen?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
My final thought is considerably more serious than that. If
you look at all of these civilians who died in
the Pacific Theater World War Two, most of vast majority
of them were slaughtered by Imperial Japan. The dead from
the atomic bombing related folks, it's less than two percent
of the civilian deaths, less than two percent.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Armstrong and Getty, you're wrapping up out other grueling four
hour workday, so.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Many people, thanks a little time, A good Armstrong in
Getty dot com maanor babies, Uncle Hank, we will see tomorrow.
God bless America. I'm strong and Getty. You followed it,
say to the armstrong, and so tune in again for
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(36:13):
I weep for your colon. My colon high fives me. Yeah,
I have some good show.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
It says, wow, having a little time processing it, a
little tough time getting it out of here, but colon abuse.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Ketty, I'm Strong
and Gatty and he Armstrong and Eddy.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Gallaine Maxwell trying to stop the DOJ from releasing the
grand jury transcripts in her case.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Maxwell's lawyer essentially filed emotion today opposing those files from
being released because she is appealing her case all the
way to the Supreme Court. Her team writes this, Jeffrey
Epstein is dead. Gilaine Maxwell is not. Whatever interest the
public may have in Epstein, that interest cannot justify a
broad intrusion into grand jury secrecy.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
So g dogs, we're calling her because we don't know
how to pronounce her first name?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Is her? Either does anyone else?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Herner lawyers are trying to stop the DOJ from releasing
the grand jury testimony. Now that makes sense, and that's
the stuff that Trump said even yesterday. Well, if that
comes out, a whole bunch of people's names are going
to be in there that didn't do anything wrong, and
it's going to complicate this. So there's that. But that's
different from the audio transcript from the interview the other day, Right, Yeah,
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so that's this clip on whether or not that transcript is.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Going to come out.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Her lawyer has given us really the only details we
have about what was discussed. He has said the answered
questions about roughly one hundred different people, but we don't
know what she said. And now we're learning not only
is their audio, but there's a transcript that.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Would review her ANSWER's word for word.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
There are discussions I'm going inside the White House about
whether they should release this transcript. It's also not clear
if the Justice Department, she made this recording, and the
White House are on the same page about this decision.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
And according to ABC's reporting, that transcript would include and
this is probably one of the reasons the White House
is okaying that coming out is that g Dog said
Trump did nothing in her presence to cause concern. So
that eight nine hour interview with the number two at
the Justice Department, which is completely unheard of, that transcript
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might come out. Also completely unheard of is her getting
moved to a club fed type prison, So her getting
moved to a basically or staying on a community college
campus for the next twenty years. At the same time,
she announces I didn't see Trump doing anything wrong, doesn't
look good.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
No, No, I'm darkly amused by that choice of words.
She didn't see anything that would cause her concern or
cause concern, And I'm like, wait a minute, cause you concern.
You're trafficking teenage girls to get sexed up. So I'm
sure it didn't concern you at all. Not that I
think Trump was guilty of anything in this context, but
(02:59):
that's just a funny choice of words. No, you wouldn't
be who's concerned in this situation.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
So if you're bored with that aspect of the story,
this part of the story is kind of interesting. I
think this is from Substack about Bill Clinton in the
Blue Dress. This is the famous painting that hung in
Epstein's most expensive house in Manhattan. This is from someone
named Jessica Reid Kraus. Do you know her work?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I do not. I do not know.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Okay, it's a Substack person and I have no idea
what her belief surpriors are.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But I thought this is an interesting article.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
The artist who actually painted that insists that she lost
track of the Clinton painting after grad school. I've got
the backstory on how it landed in Epstein's Manhattan State
this is kind of interesting. So this person writes, funny
how much attention was paid to that ridiculous birthday card
that Trump supposedly sent Epstein scripted with language and sentiments
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he clearly doesn't use in an inflection. He's likely not
even capable of. Michael Wolfe, who we've interviewed before, written
a couple of political books that I don't know if
we're good or not, but we've had him on before.
His theory is that g Dog linked to the birthday
card thing as a subtle threat, a signal to Trump
that she knows more and can share more about his
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relationship with Jeffrey Maga. Sources insists there's no way that
he wrote that card.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
So I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
But Trump wasn't the only one immortalized in Epstein's surreal collection.
The Clinton portrait was a sheer provocation of some sort.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
But what of all what you've been saying for years? Wow?
Is it not me?
Speaker 4 (04:37):
Of all the grotesque curiosities in the Jeffrey Epstein Statistic
Manhattan Townhouse, nothing compared captured public attention quite like Bill Clinton,
cross legged and twinkle eyed in a cobalt blue dress
and red heels. Pointing with a cheeky I know something
you don't know gesture. That is a pretty good description
of the painting. A remarkably bold star from a man
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rumored to traffic and political blackmail and covert surveillance. It
wasn't placed there by mistake, of course.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
It wasn't.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
As he walked in in a room to the right,
a source told The New York Post.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Everybody who saw it laughed and smirked. Bo who everybody?
But what did it mean?
Speaker 4 (05:22):
A private joke between Epstein and Clinton, a veiled threat,
or just visual fodder for those who weren't in on
the joke. Whatever the joke is. The painting was called
Parsing Bill. It was originally created in twenty twelve by
an Australian artist for her master's thesis at the New
York Academy of Art. It was exhibited for her class,
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she got her grade, then she sold the painting to
an unknown buyer that night. Assumed like most student work,
it ended up storage in storage somewhere it disappeared. She
found out seven years later when it broke as a
giant news story. Holy crap, that's my painting I made.
So the artist didn't painted.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
And then they talked to the model and who had
provided the dress and the model for the legs and
all this different sort of stuff, which I don't really
find that interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:14):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
The artist said she had no connection with Epstein and
no knowledge of who had bought the work or where
it ended up.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
The model got.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Docked and all sort of stuff, but the model had
nothing to do with it either.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Right.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
The painting didn't seem out of place in the townhouse,
though the townhouse was a theater of unease, curated with disturbing,
surrealed decor, much of it reportedly selected by g Dog.
A female doll in a wedding dress dangled from the chandelier.
A chessboard in the study featured half naked figurines modeled
after Epstein's actual staff.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Ah. That's certainly harassment, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Prosthetic eyeballs originally designed for wounded soldiers were mounted on
the wall like hunting trophies.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
What does that mean?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
In one hallway, a photorealistic mural depicted Epstein in prison garb,
surrounded barbarbed wire and guards. According to publicist r. Curiy Hay,
who visited the home once, Epstein pointed to the murror
and said, that's me, and I had this painted because
there's always the possibility that could be me again, irony
or something darker, says this author, a calculated display of control.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
All this stuff is weird. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Parsing Bill was theatric satirical in theme. When painted, the
artist intended it as a commentary on perception, power and
the Clinton scandal, but once it entered Epstein's orbit, context
twisted and irony gave way to menace. A student project
became a totem of secret knowledge, a symbol of dominance,
hung like a trophy in Epstein's entryway. I mean, you
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can get the original intent if you don't know anything
about Epstein. The blue Dress Monica, I mean, you know,
it makes sense. I'm not sure it's powerful or anything.
But when Epstein ends up with it, it purchase it somehow
and hangs it, then what does it freaking mean?
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Then? All right, read that last sentence again, wash.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A student project became a totem of secret knowledge, a
symbol of dominance, hunk like a trophy in Epstein's entryway.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Or I mean, because that's some really good florid writing,
or Epstein saw it and thought it was really funny,
and he hung it.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Well, that's basically what she's asking here. Is it just
that I mean when people would come in and laugh
or smirk, was there a knowing was it a knowing
smirk or was it just rhylarious?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
On what level is this communication? Yeah, that's such an
interesting I thought.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
That's still the question of if you're a major figure
in the world, just you know, all of the God,
have you seen the collection of pictures of Epstein with people?
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I've seen a lot of them.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yet he's been photographed with like every important person of
the last sixty years. There is with five different presidents,
there is with Mick Jagger, there is with the Queen
of England.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
I mean, just it's unbelievable the connections he had. But
if I heard one person describe it as you would
literally get an invitation saying I'm having Bill Gates and
Kitty Kuric over for dinner tomorrow night or Thursday night.
Are you available?
Speaker 4 (09:32):
But since I assume he was a lefty leaning guy
like most of your big time Manhattan type of dudes
in terms of his politics, why would you have a
mocking picture of one of the most revered people in America,
certainly at the time, Bill Clinton.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
That's weird.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
You wouldn't just do that for fun, Like you wouldn't
do that with somebody like your dad or somebody you respect.
Some picture that mocks him, painting that mocks him and
hang it in your house for fun.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Now, Reagan wearing a mesh stockings and a corset.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, that that your friends wouldn't think that's that? Why
is that funny? I don't get it. Why are you
doing that?
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I'm like ray Well and some humiliating No, you're right,
you're absolutely of course, I'm not a a pervert and
b you know whatever else he was. But no, I
see what you're saying. My innocent explanation is not the
most likely one.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
According to sources familiar with Epstein's home, he was deliberate
with his symbols. A stuffed black poodle sat atop a
grand piano in one room, no doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Oh yeah, that symbolizes man's in humanity. To man, I
know that one.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
No decorator would ever tell you to do that. But
I want people to think about what it means to
stuff a dog.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (10:55):
A quote from Epstein, Yes, what the hell? If you
weren't in on the joke, you often were part of
the punchline. This writer says, of course the Internet loves
decoding symbolism, but as possible, Epstein might have just liked
what the painting evoked, unease, confusion, and vulnerability. I just
don't think he would do that with a friend, and like, again,
the most revered person in that.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Orbit, right, Yeah, whatever the case is, especially given how
the whole Monica Blue Dress thing was, it was a
rather unpleasant you know, the chapter in the Clinton's Lives.
You wouldn't think they'd want that thrawing faces in a
humorous way right there in your house exactly. Yeah, that's strange.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
That's I still say, that's a what are you gonna
do about it? Because gesture it's a flex it. What's
anybody gonna say to me about it? You think I
don't know things about you? Been to my island? I
mean his bill had been to his island twenty eight times?
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Has that been? I have no idea. They have a
passenger manifests for a lot of the flights, I know,
but if it's four, it ain't good. Well. Yeah, as
I pointed, out, though not everybody was sexing up sixteen
year olds. The guy had legit parties and outings and
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vacations and stuff like that. That was how he built
all those connections. He didn't have Bill Gates sitting at
his table and Katie Kurk because Katie want sex up
sixteen year old. It was like an all inclusive resort,
but it was free and he'd fly you there. I'll
finish with this the end of the writing here.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Whatever the case, parsing Bill remains one of the most
unforgettable images from the Epstein saga, not because of what
it says about Clinton, but because what it reveals about Epstein,
how he lived, how he saw other people, what his
relationships were with these other people.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
How art could be used as leverage I get. I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
I don't know if we'll ever get an answer on that.
The guy that would know the most is Day at
the hands of Hillary Clinton.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
I was gonna say, commission an artist, but I could
have AI to it. I want a naked Joe Biden
wearing a dog leash, eating out of a dog bowl,
Big one two, hang it right on the wall. I
think i'd have a hunter walking on a leash or
something like that. Oh wow, wait a minute, now you're
(13:23):
onto something. Anybody have any idea text line? Jill Jill,
Jill is the leash as the naked Biden eats out
of a dog bowl. You all the kibbles.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Our text line is four one FFTC. I got the
Shodenfreud is when you're happy that something bad happened to somebody.
Fetternaid is when you wish you'd ordered the food they ordered.
What is uh what.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Is the term for? I guess just jealous.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I just got a text from a radio call league
who's interviewing ice Cube today.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
I thought, Ah, that's so cool. I wish I was
interviewing ice Cube today. Wow on what topic?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Hey everybody, we're sitting here with a crazy mf or
named ice Cube. Ice How are you today? That's how
he described himself at the beginning of Straight Out of Compton. Oh,
I don't know what they're talking to him about. That's
a good question, probably like, because we've had this happen
before many times. Get a really really cool celebrity, but
they got like some specific charity you're not that into,
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and that's all they want.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
To talk about.
Speaker 4 (14:36):
And you want to talk to them about the reason
they're so dang famous, or a product.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
He's an actor now though, right is he still on
the TV cop show? I don't know if he has
he ever been on a TV cop show. I didn't
know that.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
But he's been in some of my some movies my
kids watch, like kids movies. He's like the dad, the
bumbling dad who the divorced mom meets up with and
likes and they raise the kids together and that's all.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
That's nice, happy ending. Yeah, of course kids aren't getting
together much at all these days. Jack, this is we
don't really have time for this. But as completely taken
by surprise by this story, Google Calendar like dominates every
(15:19):
waking moment for the current generation. Like that's in college.
Google calendar. Yeah, that their whole day. They need their
whole day spelled out via Google Calendar, what time they
go to sleep, what time they eat, if they're going
on a five minute walk, if they want to grab
lunch with you at one of the dining halls on
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campus that day. And in fact, this one guy sent
a Google Calendar invite come over to my dorm. Oh no,
this was a friend just just wanted to hang out,
but sent a Google calendar invite, and this other guy
sent this girl who he fancied in his class. He
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fancied an event set for eleven thirty pm Friday night.
The event was titled hook Up question Mark, and she
responded yes, and the rest is history. He said. They
saw each other for the rest of the semester, though
the romance fizzled out after that.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Hm, I don't know if I know anybody in this
age group that I think would be doing this Google
calendar thing.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, it's just And I saw another piece I think
it was at the Free Press. A Youngish woman was
writing about Katie. Maybe he can help me with this,
how why my generation is terrible at partying? And it
was that invite app oh or yeah, evite. It's an evite.
It's different, it's like a newer Hipper one, but it's
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the same in that you can see who is invited,
who's said yes, who hasn't said yes yet, and it
becomes this whole storm and drong, this whole stressful thing
for that generation. Everything's very premeditated, very carefully done.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Fits in with the whole planning activities things, their whole lives.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Gotcha Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
I don't I don't know if I can remember a
story we've ever done in thirty years of doing this
that I understand less than the Epstein story. But we
have breaking Epstein news, breaking Epstein news, ah Void. The
Vice President jd Vance is hosting an Epstein strategy dinner
tonight with Pambondi, Cash Patel and others. A strategy dinner
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led by the Vice President of the United States about
the Epstein story to me, leads me to believe they
think this is a big deal, that they.
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Got a dealing from the top down approved leak or
is that an unapproved leak?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
ABC News and variety of other It just came out
in the last hour. Jd Vance on what tonight is
expected to host a group of top administration officials at
his residence for a strategy session.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Dinner, table events. It's right, Mett, thank you. Sources familiar
with the matter told ABC News.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
They obviously think this is I don't know what they
think it is. Again, I don't have any idea. I
don't know if they are as flum mixed as anybody else,
but they're just trying to figure out how to massage
some of their core voters, or if there's.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Some choice of words given Epstein's modus operandi, but go on.
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Or if there's something real to strategize about, like there's
actual I don't know evidence that's going to come out
about something, or I have no.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Idea it would have come out by now the vice president,
the attorney general, the head of the FBI, and others. Right, wow, ill,
But Trump said, look, you're got to figure out how
to put out this fire quick. All right, I'm sure
they'll be reporting on that tomorrow. I. Yeah, yeah. If
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I'm on that committee, I'm very tempted to say, let
it lie, let it lie, but I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
And just hope that it's overcome by events which I
thought had already happened. I thought, what was it? What
were you talking about over the weekend that got all
the attention? Remember it led to Sunday shows and I
say things that, oh yeah. I even claimed that it
might have been orchestrated to bump Epstein off the map,
and I thought, maybe it had worked.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
This is the way, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
It's not like it's a month from it's not like
two years from this past Saturday.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
It's Wednesday.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
I don't remember what the lead story was on almost
Sunday talk shows.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Oh, him firing the budget.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Woman, Oh, the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Quien seemed like, why did we ever talk about that? Anyway?
Speaker 4 (20:04):
That was the only story all weekend long in the news,
and I thought they've killed the Epstein story. He's been
killed again. It's over, but it's back. Yeah, yeah, wow, Okay,
Well we'll all.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Eagerly away to news of JD Vance's conspiratorial dinner party.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Oh anyway, unless there's something real for them to discuss,
but well, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Complete change topic. There are a bunch of lefty lunatics
running four mayors of big cities, and because the media
is in New York, they focused on Mam Damie the
kami Uh, mostly to the exclusion of a couple other
really well formed nut jobs.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Mark Hauprin has put the latest odds at eighty five
percent that Mumdanni wins because his sense is that the
New York Times has decided that's their guy. They were
kind of against him early on, but they've decided he's
the guy. So with the New York Times help, he's
going to be almost impossible to beat. It's going to
be something for refer Republicans to run on. Give me
(21:03):
a little mum, Dommy eighty one there, Michael, this is a.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Dark moment to be a stranger in our city, to
be a stranger in our country. An authoritarian government in Washington,
d C. Is dispatching massed agents to abduct immigrants from
our streets. That is not justice, It is cruelty, and
it is criminal.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Okay, you got him. I give you one. Katie Wilson,
who is the left candidate in Seattle in our vision
of future, a city with social housing experience, I didn't
(22:03):
understand socialized housing, free, efficient, fast, public transit, childcare paid
for by the government, or she may have said affordable.
I don't recall, and no one has to sleep unsheltered.
I believe the crowd loves the free childcare.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
How many of those people have children. I don't believe
you're writing the mass transit. You like the theory of
a mass transit for other people. That's the problem with
mass transit. Everybody thinks it's a good idea for other people.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yes, I'm far too busy. And then Omar Fatah, who's
not getting nearly enough attention. It's running for the giant
City of Minneapolis mayor. He's the leader. He just got
the endorsement of the Minnesota Farm and Labor Party, which
is their Democratic party, over the far left incumbent Fry
(22:54):
by name, who is like totally into defunding the police
and like the maximalist view of the George Floyd riots
and need to just shut everything down during COVID and
totally on the side of the teachers union. But he
is getting beat on his left by this fatah guy.
Hit us with eighty two Michael.
Speaker 5 (23:14):
One build in Minneapolis that working people can afford to
call home. Two protect our city from a hostile White house,
and three diversify our city's public safety response.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Give us the other one.
Speaker 5 (23:27):
Protecting all of our communities from Donald Trump and is
not letting mpity interacted ice, whether it's for an immigration
rate or not. Our residents deserve a mayor that will
stand up to Donald Trump and say no, not in
our community.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
So this guy's a Somali immigrant.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
Well, I realize these people are running from area and
they're little areas, and this might work for him, but man,
the ability to paint that is like what all Democrats are.
For the Republicans, it's pretty handy worth it.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
It's not where most people are. Let's see. He would
enact race based housing policies, prevent evictions from rental properties,
and codify public financing for the state's annual trans Equity Summit,
among other stances. The old trans Equity Summit. Yeah yeah,
(24:22):
I ought to be paid for by the tax payer.
He's vound to quote ensure that events like the trans
Equity Summit are fully funded and prioritized. It's hard.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
It's hard for me to think like people who think
the way they think. I mean, I just I'm not
a progressive.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Well, married couple with children, when they were deciding what
city to make their home base, they looked up recycling
programs and they moved to the city that had the
best recycling programs.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
In America and set up shop there. That was their
one criteria. Well, slap my ass and call me Sally.
Thing I've ever heard that's so crazy to me? Yeah yeah, wow.
So and on that topic, I got this suggestion for
the freedom loving quote of the day at the beginning
of the show from Gail. It's a fellow by the
(25:16):
name of Jason. I don't know his work, but the
essence of conservatism is gratitude for what you have and
especially for what you've been given. The essence of leftism
is outrage over the gap between reality and your utopian dreams.
That's pretty good. I don't think he's off base there,
And it's funny. This came across my radar screen just
a couple hours after I became aware of this Twitter
(25:37):
thread by a gal who is a mom. And I'll
bet some of y'all can can relate to this. I
can to some extent. I have a conservative child and
a liberal child, she writes. A conservative child works hard.
He's been steadily employed since graduating from college ecology. He
bought his first home not too long ago. He is adulting.
(25:58):
We're very proud of him. He never wants to have
to ask for help and wants to make it on
his own. As a matter of fact, he's offered to
pay us back the standard amount it takes to raise
a child. We told him, no, of course, not just
that's not how it works. That's a little much the
first part.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
I like that. That's going a little far. I did this,
but he's always I can eat it.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
But he's always been motivated to do better and be better.
My liberal child recently told me that capitalism is evil.
It's not right to have to spend your childhood going
to school then have to get a job. Do you
just work all the time and never get to have
fun to have a life. Give me your phone and
go to your room. Trust me when I say this
conversation did not end well. I don't think she means
(26:39):
literally a child. I think this person has grown. They're
both grown. Probably still Give me your phone and go
to your room. Our relationship is a roller coaster, to
say the least. She is disgusted with us for being
pro tramp Maga expresses their disdain for me, especially daily.
She also told us she didn't ask to be born,
so since we decided to have her, we're on the
(27:01):
hook for life to support her. She has a college
degree as well. Tried once to make it in her
chosen profession. It didn't bring instant success, so she gave up.
She is a creative writer. She wrote a novel, got
it published, but stopped there. There's so much more she
needed to do, but didn't want to do it.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
The I need to take care of you forever. Well,
I get a say in that also, so perhaps I won't, right.
I guess they grew up in the same household.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
One, her conservative child chose a small, private, Christian based university,
and her daughter chose a big liberal arts college, and
she attributes the difference to that. I don't know if
that's accurate, but she said she grew Yeah.
Speaker 4 (27:43):
That's probably. I was thinking that she must have tripped
and dropped that kid on the head, her head when
she was little er. I mean to be that far
off base.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Yeah, I disagree. That's yeah, It's just it happens. But
I think the college thing probably has a lot to
do with it. She writes. They grew up in the
same household. Both saw our struggles and triumphs. My husband
and I both worked, We were both very involved in
their childhoods. One appreciates everything and so grateful to have
as as parents, always thanking us, et cetera. The other
(28:12):
blames us for everything wrong in her life and expects
us to continually compensate her for it. She is liberal
to the extremists, caused great conflict in our family. What
would you do in that situation? I mean, I should
I don't.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
I think it's really unlikely I'm going to end up
in that situation based on where my kids currently are politically, But.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
You never know.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, nothing would be more horrible to
me than being estranged from any of my kids. But man,
on that one might have to tough love it for
a while and hope they come back. I ain't paying
for all this, Oh, while you criticize everything I've ever done.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
For you, she says. The reason I'm posting all of this.
I guess this is say liberal indoctrination and ideologies, in
my opinion, ruining us as a society, destroying the foundation valuables, principles, morals,
and beliefs of our great country. They've turned to one
of my children into a stranger. I don't know if
I'll ever get her back. Sounds dramatic, but true. She
(29:14):
expects us to be accepting, intolerant to her views, but
we simply have no right to ours. That's a good way.
That sound familiar, That is a good way to put it.
She's been programmed, and there's no way to break through
the fanatical muck. I. I have a friend who's in
a close to this situation. Uh, I scream close to
(29:34):
the situation with my kids, and there are interesting and
extenuating circumstances, but they're not They're not like angry, hateful.
But you know, I've got a kid in the Seattle
Tacoma area, and Seattle got off the hook, you know, Portlandia.
If Fred Armison had been from Seattle, the show would
(29:57):
have been Seattle, Stan, I think, because it's every is
Looney's Portlands, no doubt. Yeah, but it's just you go
through an indoctrination in college that most parents have no
ideas happening, except if the kid shows up at Thanksgiving
dinner lecturing everybody about how capitalism is evil. But I'm
(30:17):
thankful and grateful that I have a very respectful relationship
with my kids. And if they say something I think
is looney to and I tell them, you know, there
is another point of view probably worth considering, and here
it is, and I lay it out and it generally
goes pretty well.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, I've got a friend who has to refer in
certain pronouns oh golly, and they play along. But yeah,
that's an indigretably difficult position.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
The hole my kid decided that the reason she's unhappy
is she's a dude. Actually, yeah, that's brutal, brutal.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Yeah, we will finish strong next.
Speaker 7 (30:59):
Videos have gained online that appeared to show a humanoid
robot trying on sneakers at New York Hookus store. Well,
I knew they were going to replace workers. I didn't
know they were going to replace fifty year old white dads.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
The story that jd. Vance is having a meeting in
his house tonight to strategize around Epstein with the Attorney General,
the leader of the FBI, and others is being reported
everywhere now, so everywhere sees that as a juicy store
to cover.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Yeah. The Democrats Barnes storming around the country saying we
demand transparency, having provided none when they had power.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Well, they probably provided as much as was needed, since
I'm not sure there's anything to know, right, Yeah, yeah,
so that's kind of interesting. I'm reading the back to
Epstein again. I'm reading the New York Times story from yesterday.
We never got to inside Epstein's house. A journalist actually
went in there, took a bunch of pictures of the
home and reporting on it. Twenty one thousand square foot
(32:07):
home right on Central Park. I wish i'd have looked
up the address when I was at Central Park. I
would I like to have looked at it from the outside.
He knew freaking everybody, freaking everybody, and cameras, video cameras
and every danged room.
Speaker 1 (32:25):
Among other things.
Speaker 4 (32:28):
They would have you'd be there, And so it might
be MBS from Saudi Arabia and Bill Gates and Elon
Musk and you know name other biggest names of Pope
John Paul the second might be other biggest names in
the world, super duper star athlete. Sure, but the meals
were always very basic. They said, Chinese takeout on fancy
(32:53):
trays or burgers works for me. It works for me too,
love Chinese. Kind of funny that he's kidding me.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
Yeah. Uh. The person walking around the house.
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Saw that he had a framed first edition copy of Lolita.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
In his bedroom. M Little on the nose, little too much,
isn't it Lolita?
Speaker 4 (33:15):
If you don't know, it's a story about a grown
man having sex with a twelve year old humbered. Humbered
that's a little yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Did you just have a seizure or is that the
name of the character.
Speaker 4 (33:29):
That's the name of the character that's driving around in
a car with the twelve year old girl humbered.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
Yes, check it out, pretty pretty, pretty gaudy house. Looking
at the picture lots he had a stuffed poodle on
his piano. Weird lots of weird art. I'm strong, strong, Ready.
(34:01):
Here's yours for final thoughts, Joe ol Getty. Let's get
a final tough from everybody on the crew to wrapp
up the show. Why not Michael Angelo in the control room,
would you lead us off? Michael? Yeah, Well, tonight, I'm
in charge of dinner and my wife's tired of always
eating cheese dip every time I make dinner because it's
the only thing I could make. So I'm gonna try
pork chops and I have some side dishes and hopefully
nobody gets sick.
Speaker 4 (34:21):
I'd like to have a dinner at cheese dip tonight.
That sounds fantastic, of course, you found. I'll just get
some of those scoop chips and sit there and eat cheese.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Dip like a bear. Katie Green are esteemed newswoman has
a final thought, Katie, so hear me out. We always
like to add new merch to the Armstrong Getty Show store.
Ang Marital aids that can be thrown onto the court
at WNBA Games, all with our logo on them. I'm saying,
ang brandedtle doze. Now that's some thinking, Katie, wait to.
Speaker 4 (34:51):
Go, don't know Jack final thought for us, Yes, I
don't know how I feel about that. Speaking of sex,
watched the first episode of the new King of the
Hill of the Hills made a comeback where Hank and
his wife are old and Bobby is a grown up
chef any who way more extreme sexy than the original was.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Wasn't prepared for that with my thirteen year old Yeah
do boy? Just know that? Wow? Is Luanne still on
the show? I haven't seen her yet. That's what you're old?
Were hot? Luen?
Speaker 4 (35:23):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
My final thought is considerably more serious than that. If
you look at all of these civilians who died in
the Pacific Theater World War Two, most of vast majority
of them were slaughtered by Imperial Japan. The dead from
the atomic bombing related folks, it's less than two percent
of the civilian deaths, less than two percent.
Speaker 4 (35:46):
Armstrong and Getty, you're wrapping up out other grueling four
hour workday, so.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
Many people, thanks a little time, A good Armstrong in
Getty dot com maanor babies, Uncle Hank, we will see tomorrow.
God bless America. I'm strong and Getty. You followed it,
say to the armstrong, and so tune in again for
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I weep for your colon. My colon high fives me. Yeah,
I have some good show.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
It says, wow, having a little time processing it, a
little tough time getting it out of here, but colon abuse.
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