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Jack Armstrong
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Joe Getty
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Jack Armstrong
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Jack Armstrong
The Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.
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Unknown Speaker 4
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Armstrong and Getty.
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Jack Armstrong
And now here's Armstrong and Getty.
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Unknown Speaker 4
Where are my fellow weaklings at? Because that's what Trump called us yesterday, right? He also, during a press conference, said that we were stupid for still caring about the Epstein files. So I think now we're, we're arriving at the important question here, which is who is Trump protecting? Because he's clearly protecting someone. Is it himself? Is it someone in his family?
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Unknown Speaker 2
That's Candace Owens. She's part of the hardcore mega rights online, Twitter, online commentosphere, her and Tucker and others. And so she's. Who's Trump where I'm call me a weakling. Who are you trying to protect, Trump? So Wall Street Journal with a big giant blockbuster exclusive that came out today around Epstein that Trump spent the week trying to keep the Wall Street Journal from printing. He was on the phone with people at the Wall Street Journal. He even called up Murdoch and said, if you print this, I, Joe Getty, will tell us what it is.
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Jack Armstrong
It's not that big a deal, I don't think. Wow.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Who are you protecting?
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Jack Armstrong
All right, finally you've caught me. I'm going to admit it all now. He in. Back in 2003, old Ghislaine Maxwell. Ghislaine. Ghislaine Maxwell was preparing a special gift for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th. She turned Epstein's family and friends to write him happy birthday wishes. She's going to compile them into a book for him. And one of them appears to be from Donald J. Trump. The letter bearing Trump's name is bawdy, like others in the album Jack. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the women woman's breasts. And the future president's signature is a squiggly Donald Bl. Her waist mimicking perhaps her hair down there.
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Unknown Speaker 2
New Trump says, oh, I'm sorry.
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Jack Armstrong
And it's several lines, but it ends with the very odd.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Oh, yeah, this is the big part.
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Jack Armstrong
Happy birthday. And may every day be another wonderful secret. What now? He's kind of infamous for his wonderful secrets in quotes right now. And it's like sexing up teenage girls if you so.
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Unknown Speaker 2
So Trump denies this. He says, that ain't me. I've never drawn a quote.
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Jack Armstrong
This is not me. This is a fake thing. It's a fake Wall Street Journal story. I never wrote a picture in my Life. I don't draw pictures of women. It's not my language. It's not my words.
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Unknown Speaker 2
See, I could say that, too, and be certain that I was right. I've never squiggled out a naked woman on a birthday card in my life. I'm positive of it. Um, whether Trump did or not, I don't know. But, like, if you got some sort of shady, maybe even illegal thing, like between you and a friend on the birthday card, do you sign sure. Cool. That you could get me all those drugs. Happy birthday. You know what? Would you do that? Would you hint at it even with the have another good secret day? I mean, would you?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, have a sticky day. Have a green day, as Green Day would put it. No. Well, I don't know. You wouldn't think so if it was the really illicit stuff. And you know what's funny about this is I can so easily picture Ms. Maxwell hitting Donald J. Up through his people or directly or whatever, and him tasking somebody with dealing with it. Then he signed it, and he probably looked at and thought, that's kind of clever. It looks almost like a cartoon out of Playboy or something. Whatever. And never thought about it again his entire life. The other day, I ran into one of our beloved listeners who. Who rethinked us for doing a video for, I think it was their wife's birthday. And it was, like, really elaborate, and I totally forgotten about it completely. I barely had a shred of a memory of doing it. And it took us several minutes because it kind of came trip trickling back to me.
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Unknown Speaker 2
So you're saying perhaps I have signed a birthday card where I sketched a naked woman and wrote have a beautiful secret day or whatever the hell that is?
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Jack Armstrong
Well, no, I'm saying all Donald J. Did was sign it.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Do you think he wrote the have a good secret day or another great secret day or whatever that phrase is?
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Jack Armstrong
No idea. May every day be another wonderful secret.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I just can't imagine. I mean. Cause if the claim is Trump's in on hiding this just giant global secret sex ring Mossad thing, would you hint at it in the birthday card? It just seems so crazy to me.
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Jack Armstrong
Uh, let's see. Among those who submitted li letters were billionaire Leslie Wexner, who's at the center of a lot of theories about this attorney Alan Dershowitz album also contained a letter from now deceased Harvard economist one of Epstein's report cards from Twain Junior High School in Brooklyn, a note from a former assistant that included an acrostic with his name and all sorts of dopey birthday cardi stuff.
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Unknown Speaker 2
So to my mind, the best political journalist in America is Mark Halperin. He's been on a bunch of shows this week talking about this whole thing and specifically talking about this big exclusive Wall Street Journal piece. So on the Democratic side, it's a little complicated. I'll get to it. I'll just say I think the significance of the Journal story is if the letter's true, the president's lied about it. But more significantly, it speaks to a relationship which we still don't really understand. Still don't really understand the contours that the extent these two guys were pals, this letter suggests a very intimate relationship. And that's, I think the significance is that it may cause other people to go look at that question. Not sure where that might lead, but, but there are a lot of unanswered questions there. That's kind of interesting. Regardless the, the phrase in the picture, it would suggest a fairly close relationship, probably that Trump has denied the. Well, one of the biggest mystery to me in the whole Epstein thing always has been, and this is long before anybody ever said a word about trafficking children in the Mossad, he had in his home, the biggest home in Manhattan, New York. Have you been in that? Manhattan, New York, there's a lot of giant homes and a lot of really, really rich people. And Epstein had the biggest home on the entire island. And when you walked in the door, you were greeted with a giant painting of Bill Clinton in a dress and he pointing at you. What the hell is that? And I think it's, it's been mysterious since the first time I've ever heard it. Isn't it more mysterious now? I mean, what the hell is that? Yeah, it sure adds to the side that there's something major going on in terms of him having sway over a lot of powerful people, which I heard a couple.
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Jack Armstrong
Go ahead, will you go?
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Unknown Speaker 2
Because my thing is long.
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Jack Armstrong
I was just going to say I heard a couple of New Yorkers talking about how incredibly big he was on the social scene for a very long time and how he would say to a Katie Couric, hey, do you want to come to a dinner? Bill Gates and his wife are going to be there. And so and so and Katie'd say, yeah, of course. And he'd say to Bill Gates, you know, Katie Couric's going to be there. And he'd have super famous musicians and Wall street legends and the scientist of node of the day and have these incredible gatherings of the Heavyweights. And so the fact that Trump would know him, and I'm not defending Trump in this, I'm just following my nose, as I usually do. The idea that Trump would know him, hang with him, and want to be friendly with him is. Is if the opposite were true, that would be surprising.
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Unknown Speaker 2
He would had to go out of his way to not be in Epstein's orbit. It would have been almost.
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Jack Armstrong
They were like, automatically in the same circles.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah, because Manhattan's not that big. So Tucker Carlson put out a podcast last night. He'd been teasing it all week long. It aired live at 8 o', clock, and I jumped on it and listened. It was three hours long. I listened to an hour of it. I got sucked into it and couldn't stop. He had on that Daniel Cooper dude who. Who Tucker claims is the best historian.
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Jack Armstrong
In America, America's most honest historian, who.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I'd never heard of in my life, and I'm a history freak. But Tucker would say, that's because you're taking in all the mainstream lying historians, and this Daniel Cooper is the only one telling the truth. He's the guy that was not a.
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Jack Armstrong
Historian by any description. He's just a guy who has an affinity for reading history and talking about it.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Well, Tucker calls him a historian, but I agree with you. And he says he's not a historian himself. When he got challenged about his whole riff about Winston Churchill being the cause of World War II, he said, well, I'm not a historian. But Tucker calls him America's most important historian and had him on for three hours doing a deep dive on Epstein. And one of the reasons I kept listening was how far afield. I mean, like, every event of the last 30 years got somehow tied into Epstein. I finally turned it off when I was 15 minutes into his involvement in Iran Contra. Yeah, yeah. Epstein deeply tied into iran contra. And 15 minutes of dates and names of things that, you know, it would take me a week to verify or falsify whether that were true or not.
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Jack Armstrong
Iran Contra was Bush 1. Right end of Reagan and Bush 1.
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Unknown Speaker 2
And who was in charge of that? George H.W. bush. And Tucker would go, oh, yeah, George H.W. bush. So you remember his big scandal was Iran Contra. So Epstein's lawyer who worked for Bush's chief of staff. I mean, it's just all stuff like that, Right. And that might all even be true. Some of it may not, or it might all be true. It doesn't. I don't know that it proves anything. Part of the thing with, well, what you were just saying about the powerful. The world of the powerful is very, very small. And it's disturbingly small. And I'm amazed how often it will turn out that like, you know, the former Secretary of State wants his name. Who was it under? Blinken. Blinken worked with whoever and then they're tied to whoever and it's just, it's always like. And they went to school that. They both went to college together. No, they were, those two were roommate. I mean, just how.
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Jack Armstrong
And both of them are married to the heads of two networks.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And how small that world is is disturbing. And it really helps with this whole Epstein thing. So the guy that hired Epstein is a 20 year old math teacher with no resume at one of the most exclusive schools, private schools in Manhattan. His last name is Barr. Bill Barr's dad. Yes. The Attorney General's dad is the guy that hired Epstein to be the math teacher. Bill Barr ends up being the Attorney General and being the guy who was in charge of the Justice Department when Epstein died in prison, for instance.
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Jack Armstrong
Do the math.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I mean, so there's just like 100 of those. And, and, and I don't, well, I don't think that it proves anything, but it's, it's easy to lay that out. And they just kept going. There's three hours that I, like I said, I took in one hour and I was, I'd had enough. But that's, you know, that's how conspiracies work. And I've, I've gotten into them before. It's kind of fun as they continue to connect dots or at least lay out dots that can be connected. It's kind of fun. I've done it with like the Kennedy assassination and a variety of things, but at the end of the day, there's no proof of anything. Of course you would say, some of you would say there's no proof because Trump and others are working very hard to keep it from us.
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Jack Armstrong
I'm reminded of six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yes.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Do we want to talk about the whole Tucker, Darrell Cooper thing? We'll have an off air meeting.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah, we could. I do want to talk about Colbert losing his show. Is that political or not? If it's not, the timing is certainly suspect. So there you go. We got a lot of stuff we got to get to. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
Armstrong and Getty.
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- [17:15]
Joe Getty
As a parent, you wear many hats. At dinner, you're the chef. When your kids play, you're the ref. And let's face it, you're basically a full time chauffeur. Fortunately, when it's time to wear your teacher hat, Abeka makes things easy. Our proven flexible homeschool curriculum is designed to let your kids retain and build on the knowledge they acquire, setting them up for success later in life. Abeka Learning for life begins with the right homeschool education.
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Unknown Speaker 1
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- [18:48]
Unknown Speaker 3
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- [19:18]
David Fromm
Across the country, everyday Americans are standing up to expand freedom and opportunity not just for themselves, but for their neighbors and communities. There's small business owners, parents, farmers and local leaders, people who are pushing back against government overreach and showing what's possible when liberty is protected and individuals get involved. I'm David Fromm, host of the American Potential podcast where we bring these stories to life. We don't just talk about policy solutions. Each week we share the impact of how these solutions benefit everyday Americans. Because behind every issue is an individual, a family, or a community that's been impacted. Reminding us that policy becomes personal. So whether you're passionate about keeping more of your hard earned money, expanding school choice, or cutting red tape, you'll hear from the people making a difference as they share their stories. Listen now to American Potential on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcast.
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- [21:20]
Joe Getty
As a parent, you wear many hats. At dinner, you're the chef. When your kids play, you're the ref. And let's face it, you're basically a full time chauffeur. Fortunately, when it's time to wear your teacher hat, Abeka makes things easy. Our proven flexible homeschool curriculum is designed to let your kids retain and build on the knowledge they acquire, setting them up for success later in life. Abeka Learning for Life begins with the right homeschool education.
- [21:46]
Unknown Speaker 1
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Unknown Speaker 3
A treasure trove of bananas has been stolen and it's up to Donkey Kong and his buddy Pauline to get them back. This unlikely duo is going on a world smashing adventure using using DK's destructive abilities to explore an underground world and the power of Pauline singing to activate wild transformations. Donkey Kong Bonanza available now. Rated everyone 10 and up only on Nintendo Switch 2 game and systems sold separately.
- [23:23]
David Fromm
Across the country, everyday Americans are standing up to expand freedom and opportunity not just for themselves, but for their neighbors and communities, their small business owners, owners, parents, farmers and local leaders. People who are pushing back against government overreach and showing what's possible when liberty is protected and individuals get involved. I'm David Fromm, host of the American Potential Podcast where we bring these stories to life. We don't just talk about policy solutions. Each week we share the impact of how these solutions benefit everyday Americans. Because behind every issue is an individual, a family or a community that's been impacted reminding us that policy becomes personal. So whether you're passionate about keeping more of your hard earned money, expanding school choice or cutting red tape, you'll hear from the people making a difference as they share their stories. Listen now to American Potential on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcast.
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Jack Armstrong
Move on from asking about the Epstein files. In fact, he's so tired of talking about it, he started singing about it.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Really?
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Jack Armstrong
Take a look. Let it go.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Let it go. I really don't want to talk about it anymore. Okay. I don't care about all of the things that they will tweet and the fake news keeps going on and on and on. That list never bothered me anyway. I never even heard of this guy. But that's okay, sir. Jimmy Fallon on the the Tonight show is going to have one less competitor soon because Stephen Colbert's show is going away. And is it political that Stephen Colbert got fired or not? So let's get into that. Here's what Stephen Colbert said last night when he came out on his show.
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Jack Armstrong
Next year will be our last season. The network will be ending the Late show in May. And yeah, I share. Share your feelings. It's not just the end of our show, but it's the end of the.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Late show on cbs.
- [25:33]
Jack Armstrong
I'm not being replaced. This is all just going away.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah. So lay out the timeline of this, what cnn, msnbc, NPR are talking about in terms of it being political. How's it political? Bernie Sanders lays it out in a tweet. CBS billionaire owners pay Trump $16 million to settle a bogus lawsuit while trying to sell the network to Skydance. Stephen Colbert, an extraordinary talent and the most popular late night host slams the deal. He did. Stephen Colbert on the air, like went really hard at CBS and Paramount said it was a bribe. Pathetic. He's embarrassed, blah, blah, blah. Days later, he's fired. Bernie tweets. Do I think this is a coincidence? No, this is Bernie. CBS says it's merely a, a financial thing. It's a cost cutting thing. Now the Atlantic has got a piece out today. CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert is financial. But the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt. They write in the Atlantic and they go through the timeline and think it's political. Also, if it's not political, and I, I tend to think it's financial. And the nature of all media has changed and these shows have a tiny percentage of the audience that they used to have and all different sort of stuff. But the timing is really bad. I mean, if you come out and badmouth your bosses really hard on Monday and you get fired on Wednesday, I'm supposed to overlook that.
- [27:09]
Jack Armstrong
And I must point out that sometimes a humble straw can cause serious spinal injuries to a camel, if you know what I'm saying. It's a combination of things, like everything. This is, the timing is terrible, absolutely terrible. If you want to say no, no, no, it's not at all political.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I think it's exactly what you said. We've been kind of involved in these sorts of things before. If there's a big financial deal about to be made, and there is, I mean this company that's trying to buy cbs, Paramount, that's crazy, insane money. You don't want any snags whatsoever. And Colbert's out there bad mouthing the company. No, that's a snag. And you were thinking his show was kind of a little too expensive anyway. Again, straw that broke the camel's back.
- [27:51]
Jack Armstrong
Yeah, yeah. If you're dealing with tens of billions of dollars, show that clears. I don't know what their, their revenue picture is, but if it clears a few million dollars a year, even $30 million a year, please. That's a fraction.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah, I don't think the math works on those big late night shows anymore. I'll bet they're all going to go away eventually.
- [28:08]
Jack Armstrong
They're the scourge of the lake. They're being banned. We'll tell you about it. Armstrong and Gettys.
- [28:16]
Unknown Speaker 4
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- [29:15]
Joe Getty
As a parent, you wear many hats. At dinner, you're the chef. When your kids play, you're the ref. And let's face it, you're basically a full time chauffeur. Fortunately, when it's time to wear your teacher hat, Abeka makes things easy. Our proven flexible homeschool curriculum is designed to let your kids retain and build on the knowledge they acquire, setting them up for success later in life. Abeka Learning for Life begins with the right homeschool education.
- [29:41]
Unknown Speaker 1
Learn more@abekahomeschool.com Unlock smarter learning with Lenovo AI powered PCs powered by Intel Core Ultra processors. Head to Lenovo.com and choose from multiple devices to fit your passions. If you're a gamer, you can spend less time stressing about GPUs and CPUs and more time dominating with your AI enabled smart engine which optimizes your game performance in real time. Or maybe you're a scientist on the verge of a groundbreaking discovery and need a device with a longer battery life and AI enhanced tools to give you extra time to finish your research. Or you're a musician preparing for your biggest break and need better, faster AI tools to make digital art a breeze, like creating band posters and T shirt designs. Or you're a soon to be graduate needing to catch a recruiter's eye to land that dream job. So you need cutting edge skills, smart tools to build your portfolio from scratch. That's the power of Lenovo with Intel inside. Plus college students and teachers get 5% off with an education account on Lenovo.com a better future is waiting and it needs you.
- [30:49]
Unknown Speaker 3
A treasure trove of bananas has been stolen and it's up to Donkey Kong and his buddy Pauline to get them back. This this unlikely duo is going on a world smashing adventure using DK's destructive abilities to explore an underground world and the power of Pauline singing to activate wild transformations. Donkey Kong Bonanza available now. Rated everyone 10 and up only on Nintendo Switch 2 game and systems sold separately.
- [31:18]
David Fromm
Across the country, everyday Americans are standing up to expand freedom and opportunity not just for themselves, but for their neighbors and communities. They're small business owners, parents, farmers and local leaders, people who are pushing back against government overreach and showing what's possible when liberty is protected and individuals get involved. I'm David Fromm, host of the American Potential podcast where we bring these stories to life. We don't just talk about policy solutions. Each week we share the impact of how these solutions benefit everyone, everyday Americans. Because behind every issue is an individual, a family or a community that's been impacted reminding us that policy becomes personal. So whether you're passionate about keeping more of your hard earned money, expanding school choice or cutting red tape, you'll hear from the people making a difference as they share their stories. Listen now to American Potential on Spotify, Apple, podcasts, YouTube or wherever you get your podcast.
- [32:16]
Unknown Speaker 2
Guys, I'm having trouble getting into real news today, but do want to get to the latest and I think final assessment of how much damage we did to the Iranian nuclear program. And it's good News if you're wanting to blast the hell out of their nuclear program from the New York Times, so stay tuned.
- [32:34]
Jack Armstrong
All right, Debbie Downer. I'm into having fun. It's the Armstrong and Getty Weekend Report. Hit the theme. Oh, boy. They cut our theme music budget. Practically nothing.
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Unknown Speaker 2
So this is the Weekend Report is what this is.
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Jack Armstrong
Is that what I called it? The Armstrong and Getty Weekend Report. Oh, wait a minute. How about Armstrong and Getty on the weekend? No, I don't know. Anyway, I thought this was interesting because I'm familiar with this and I've actually watched people do it. I haven't done it myself. Super crazy controversial. Getting banned on lakes all across America. It's the wakeboarding boats, speedboats that are designed to produce a wave so tall that you can surf behind the boat without a rope.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I didn't, I didn't know that you use special boats for that. Didn't know that.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. I don't know if it's always been that way because I saw it done years and years and years ago.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Quick, quick tangent that reminds me briefly while we're in Miami south beach, and we're like looking at various things to do around there and it's a very touristy area and stuff like that. They had, what do you call the thing where you, you got like a kite on your head and they pull you and then you go float up.
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Jack Armstrong
In the air parasailing you behind a boat.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah.
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Jack Armstrong
Do you have to be able to.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Water ski to do that? No, I don't think so. Anyway.
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Jack Armstrong
No.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Henry, my youngest, briefly, was really wanting to do that. Like really wanting to do it bad. And so I looked into it and how much it was going to cost. And for his age, we do it together. We'd do a dual one and everything. Like, I wasn't really digging the idea of it. I mean, I, I would do it. I'm not scared. I just, I'm past the age of needing to do anything that's thrilling. I just don't need to.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, I think they actually, they, they put the shootout then release you from the boat up into the air.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yeah, I think you're right.
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Jack Armstrong
Then they lower you back down.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Anyway, I watched a lot of people do it. You go pretty high over the water and everything. Like, it would be, it would be thrilling. Anyway, I just, I finally talked about him because I thought, there's no way you're going to be able to do this. We're going to get out there, it's going to be time to start and you're going to say no, I just know this is going to happen. Oh boy, he finally changed his mind. But so this one is the one. I get these all mixed up. This one you're like on a ski. Or is this one where you're sitting on a seat that's on a ski.
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Jack Armstrong
Either way, you can be on or like a surfboard or whatever, but it creates a wave behind the boat that's high enough that you can surf on it, essentially. But you can picture the problem. This is a boat. And some these things can cost well over a hundred thousand dollars. These boats, which are sometimes called the monster trucks of lake life, they intentionally create enormous wakes which if you're a kayaker or you're a bunch of 60 pluses on a pontoon boat enjoying a glass of wine or, or you know, actually they, they erode shorelines and damage lake bottoms too, allegedly. But so they become extremely controversial and they're getting banned all over the place. In Wisconsin, around 60 municipalities, including Lando Lakes have banned the boats from using their full wake enhancing mode.
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Unknown Speaker 2
And that's because people on other boats don't want a giant wake. Or the jet ski people probably like it because you get to jump the, the waves, which is what you do on a jet ski.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, probably so. But like everybody else doing everything else, I mean, it's violent wakes that smack you up and down and spill everything or, or terrify and overturn kayakers or what have you.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I'm surprised there aren't more deaths on lakes.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh yeah.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I mean, whenever, you know, you hear in the news horrible stories, almost always of a somebody dying in a boat or getting hit on jet ski or whatever. I'm surprised it doesn't happen every weekend, every lake. I mean, at least in my experience. I know this isn't true for everybody, but my experience, when I was young, everybody was hammered. I mean, everybody was absolutely Hamm driving around a boat, hammered, water skiing, jet skiing, everything like that. And you know, there are no rules to the road, there are no lanes. Everybody's just going every direction at the same time. I'm amazed there aren't more injuries.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, they crack down a lot more than they used to on drunken boating, just like they did with drunken driving, which was way, way more acceptable way back in the day, quote, unquote acceptable. So anyway, I spent a fair amount of time for a number of years bass fishing with Craig the healthcare guru, as a matter of fact, and, and a lot of bass fishermen refer to the jet ski people as Lake lice or your. Your pleasure boaters zooming back and forth. So the bass fishermen hate those boaters. The kayakers hate every. The pontoon people hate these wake borders. All right, do what you like. And then speaking of recreation, with my.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Floaties on, just trying to get a tan. I hate y'. All.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. Right. All oiled up with Crisco. Mmm. Smelling like a piece of fried chicken. This is a headline from the Wall Street Journal that I found oddly weirdly amusing. But Jack, you. I want to hear your take One man's quest to break a record for birthday freebies. Competitive freeloaders plan for months to cash in on as many offers as they can on the big day. Says the subject of this article. I like to push myself.
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Unknown Speaker 2
That's kind of funny. I've known people that like, have a, like a circuit they do on their birthday and it's just kind of a joke of they get their free taco at Taco Bell. You go through Starbucks. That's a quick one. You get your free drink. You know, just a variety of places.
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Jack Armstrong
It's funny. I'll go ahead and get to the punchline. I can't decide if this is a great example of a human being trying to overcome a challenge to plan to blah, blah, blah, or if this is a jackass wasting his time. He's in la. Clint, Shout out, brother. I'll bet you're a fun guy to hang out with. But the night before his birthday, Clint was up late worrying about whether everything would go to plan. His schedule was packed with stops all over LA.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I think it's starting at 6am I think that's hilarious. You map out a route where you can hit the most places on your birthday. Get my appetizer to Applebee's course.
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Jack Armstrong
Wait, no, no, no, no. Don't. Don't throw out your imagined list. Wait for the real one.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Okay.
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Jack Armstrong
He was getting. He anticipated eating a lot of sweets, receiving a bunch of gifts, and returning home exhausted. The 38 year old aquatics manager. Hell, aquatics aren't going to manage themselves. No.
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Unknown Speaker 2
You don't want them completely unorganized or unmanaged.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, he's part of a proud breed of competitive birthday freeloaders. Each year they celebrate the big day by trying to get one over retail. It requires hours of meticulous planning, careful strategizing, and stamina for sugar crashes. This year. Savato Clint was hoping to break his record of 35 freebies set last year.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Wow.
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Jack Armstrong
I was stressed about it. How am I going to get it done? He said. But once I started with Starbucks first and got my quad shot coffee, it was adrenaline for the first half of the day. That's not adrenaline. That's caffeine, Clint. Yeah, but the real work starts months before the big day. He spent about 15 hours sifting through emails, reinstalling loyalty apps, racking his brain for logins and passwords, reading through the dreaded terms and conditions of rewards to make sure he's made any necessary purchases to qualify. Then he builds a spreadsheet with meticulous notes to map out the route he's going to take. He prioritizes rewards with the highest monetary value, tries to include shopping centers because they're a jackpot. Jackpot. Multiple opportunities for rewards in one location. The shopping center. Then he looks for the Then he prioritizes true freebies and avoids buy one, get one deals or anything that requires him to spend more than $10 to get his freebie. He knows his energy 11 flow, so he schedules free coffees at intervals. He also brings his four children along for parts of the day, even though his teenagers think it's a little embarrassing. Sometimes they slow him down by wanting to stop in stores that have no freebies. But they make up for it by helping him devour the sweet treats so he can stave off a sugar crash. Anyway, there's the actual list. Arby's, Annie Ann's, Baja Fresh, Baskin Robbins, Ben and Jerry's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger King, Cheesecake Factory, Chick Fil, A Chipotle, Cinnabon, Cold Stone Creamery. Oh, Corner Bakery, Crumble, Firehouse Subs, Habit Burger. That's a fine burger. Hot dog on a Stick, Jack in the Box, Jamba juice, Jersey Mike's, McKenna Coffee, McDonald's, nothing, bunt cakes, Panda Express, Panera, Pete's Coffee, Popeyes, Portillo's, Red Robin, Regal, San Fernando Coffee Company, Sbarro, Shara Tea, Sharkies, Starbucks, Subway, Taco Bel, Wendy's, Wetzel's Pretzels, and finally, Yogurt Land.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Oh my God, I can't believe you can do both of the different kinds of cinnamon roll, fast food things and a crumble in the same day along with some of those others. Oh, that makes me want to vomit.
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Jack Armstrong
Yes. So many sweets. And again, I can't decide whether I should be mocking this guy or holding him up as a testament to human something, or.
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Unknown Speaker 2
By the end of the day, he's got to be thinking, I don't know if I can eat an Annie Ann's Cinnamon Roll right now, but I get one more cup of free coffee.
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Jack Armstrong
Oh Clint, we salute you.
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Unknown Speaker 2
That's fantastic. This report on Iran. We'll make it brief, but it's good news. If you're hoping it was successful, it was. Stay here.
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Jack Armstrong
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Unknown Speaker 3
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David Fromm
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- [47:18]
Jack Armstrong
The New York Times editorial claims defunding NPR and PBS is like defunding the police. It's true. Think of all the times you've been violently assaulted and thought, man, if only the cast of Downton Abbey were here.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Um, man, do I have a day tomorrow I want to talk about. But I'll do it after this. New York Times reporting on how much damage we did to the nuclear facility in Iran. And remember, somebody leaked a negative report early that turned out to be incredibly misleading. And then every report since then has been much more positive in terms of our success. So I don't know who that was, but they're, they're not patriots to this country, I'll tell you that. Um, Iran's deeply buried nuclear enrichment plant at Forda was badly damaged and potentially destroyed by the 12 massive bombs that the US Air Force B2 bombers dropped on it last month, according to new American intelligence assessments. This is from the New York Times. Two other nuclear sites targeted in the attacks were not as badly damaged, but facilities at the sites that would likely be key to fabricating a nuclear weapon were destroyed and could take years to rebuild. According to the latest story, a senior Israeli official said last week that the strikes most likely did not eliminate the stockpile of the uranium bomb grade uranium. Uranium. But without the facilities to manufacture a weapon, the fuel would be of little use. Even if the Iranians can dig it out of the rubble, which they probably can't, the new assessment helps create a clearer picture of what combined strikes between US and Israeli achieved, probably crippling Iran's ability to make nuclear fuel for years to come. Well, that's a much more good news report than we were initially told by whoever wanted to badmouth the Trump administration or whatever they're trying to accomplish.
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Jack Armstrong
Right. That need to quickly announce something critical and negative. Yeah, like you say, that they're no patriots.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Absolutely not. So my son comes back from his week long Boy Scout camp tomorrow and I go pick him up. I got a text yesterday that the wagon, one of the adult scouts had pulled a wagon. You have to hike from the lake for two miles I think to the camp spot up steep hill and they had a wagon carrying the tents and a bunch of other stuff. The wagon broke and they like a.
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Jack Armstrong
Conestoga wagon with a horse team. Or have you ever seen these heavy duty one you pull?
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Unknown Speaker 2
We had these at the farm. You can get these really heavy duty Home Depot. You can haul 900 pounds on them depending on which wagon you bought. Wagons. They look like a kid's wagon but they're very, very sturdy. Anyway, their wagon broke and they wanted to know because I was just going to drive up there, pick up kids there at the base and drive home. It's going to be five hours of driving but pretty simple deal. Now yesterday I had to go buy a wagon. Now I'm going to drive there, get there very early, hike up there pulling the wagon, meet them all there, load it all up, then hike back down with the rest of them, then drive home. So it's going to end up being like a 10 to 12 hour day probably. But you know, you do what you got to do. That'll be my exercise.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, some nice exercise and nice physical exertion in, in nature.
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Unknown Speaker 2
What I need is proper footwear. If you'll remember this story. Gladys, can you tell us remember I told this story well but the last time I hiked and I'm not much of a hiker. I get a lot of exercise but I'm not much of a hiker and mostly just because I don't, I don't know. I don't know why I don't. I like hiking. Whenever I do it. I'm pro hiking. But last time I hiked with my kids, I fell down. I wore slippery shoes. There are boots, but they had a very flat, slippery bottom on them. And it was a dry time of the year where all the weeds were laid flat and it was like ice. And I fell because the kids started counting. I fell on this hike nine times, which is a lot. Wow, that's a lot of times to fall completely to the ground.
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Jack Armstrong
That is, as the kids would say at least a few years ago, a complete fail.
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Unknown Speaker 2
If you fell twice on a hike, because generally you fall zero. If you fell twice in a hike, that would seem like a lot. Then if you doubled that, it would seem crazy. You're at four. Then you double that again to eight and then one in extra on the way down. Nine times. I fell completely to the ground on that hike. Oh, my. They still mocked me to this day for that.
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Jack Armstrong
I would be asking, does he have some sort of neurological condition or what?
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Unknown Speaker 2
Right. You would.
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Jack Armstrong
Inner ear problem.
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Unknown Speaker 2
They had to be thinking, should dad be doing this? Do we have cell phone service here? Are we gonna need to call a helicopter to have him carried out of here?
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah, you'd have been better stripping off your boots and walking barefoot like the native peoples.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Wow. I should have thought of it.
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Jack Armstrong
I think wore some sort of shoes anyway.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Became almost a game. I mean, when I got to like six or seven, like, how many times am I gonna land on my Completely on my back. Whose face?
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Jack Armstrong
And you say they still mock you.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Yes. Yeah. It's hard to imagine.
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Jack Armstrong
Sorry to hear that. It's disrespectful.
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Unknown Speaker 2
I'll let you know how it goes.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Hiking boots are kind of the antithesis of what you're describing.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Completely flat on the surface. Like, designed to make you fall.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. Really? The one thing they try to do is grip. Grand grip. Grip.
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Unknown Speaker 2
At least it's going to be good and hot. I quick pre prediction is, are we done? Are we done with the E word next week? It's over. Gotta be, right? Gotta be. Has to be.
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Jack Armstrong
That's a great question. I don't know. I'm torn. I. I've heard some people I respect say, yeah, it's. It's got to taper off. But then Wall Street Journal today, that's.
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Unknown Speaker 2
That's a pretty big piece.
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Jack Armstrong
Yeah. And then. And the Trump administration is under pressure legitimately, to release more. Come somewhere close to living up to your promises, Pam. Bondi, Cash Patel, Dan Bongino. And you know what we haven't really talked about much is the shouting match between Bongino and Bondi at the Justice Department last week where Bongino didn't even show up for work Friday. He was so off.
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Unknown Speaker 2
Here's one of the pieces from Tucker Carlson's three hour piece last night about the whole Epstein thing. So the first rich person that comes to Epstein that helps launch him into crazy wealth, last name Khashoggi. Yep. Father of the Khashoggi that got bone sawed and that Khashoggi was somehow tied into the Mossad and just blah blah blah. I mean so yeah, yeah, if, if, if it's all true. I mean the, the tentacles of the thing are just insane.
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Jack Armstrong
Be shorter to list people who aren't involved. Next hour is going to be a blockbuster. What you don't get next hour, just subscribe to our podcast Armstrong and Getty on Demand. Armstrong and Getty. This is an iHeart podcast.