WEBVTT - Do Whatever You Can To Avoid Having Diarrhea On Your 0:00:07.140 --> 0:00:10.980 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the 0:00:11.020 --> 0:00:16.050 George Washington Broadcast Center. Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong 0:00:16.110 --> 0:00:30.180 and Getty. And now, here's Armstrong and Getty. So earlier, 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:32.839 Joe brought us the story of this zoo that was 0:00:32.920 --> 0:00:38.690 advertising Child Predator Night. which is not what they meant. 0:00:38.870 --> 0:00:42.050 They would, you know, kids come and see some of 0:00:42.070 --> 0:00:46.190 the most famous predators, lions, tigers, et cetera. Child predator 0:00:46.229 --> 0:00:49.309 night sounds terrible. Got this text from somebody. Reminds me 0:00:49.330 --> 0:00:51.270 of the time I was giving a live announcement at 0:00:51.350 --> 0:00:59.350 church and said we were raising money for human trafficking. Right, right. Hey, 0:00:59.580 --> 0:01:04.660 it's an expensive endeavor. Oof. Speaking of expensive, Joe opened 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.480 the show by saying he missed the golden age of 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:12.620 fraud in America. And I regret it. I hope that's true. 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.450 I hope the golden age of fraud is over. We'll 0:01:16.490 --> 0:01:19.590 always be fighting it. There will always be fraudsters. I 0:01:19.630 --> 0:01:23.470 hope the easy, which you're about to hear about, the easy, 0:01:23.750 --> 0:01:27.470 easy money that I almost feel bad for not having 0:01:27.550 --> 0:01:31.400 grabbed some myself. I hope those days are over. 0:01:31.770 --> 0:01:34.369 You know how COVID had all sorts of weird symptoms? 0:01:34.450 --> 0:01:37.850 One of the symptoms was it turned off anybody's interest 0:01:37.950 --> 0:01:41.000 in finding out whether programs and the people who got 0:01:41.020 --> 0:01:44.979 the money were legitimate, apparently, because the last decade has 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.880 been just the golden age of fraud. 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:50.810 The story's out of California. Shocking. 0:01:50.830 --> 0:01:52.270 Surprising. 0:01:52.310 --> 0:01:52.950 From Fox News. 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:56.800 One of the alleged California fraudsters is accused of using 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.840 millions of dollars in taxpayer funds for his personal enrichment 0:02:00.890 --> 0:02:03.750 by spending it on a bunch of things, including a lounge, 0:02:03.830 --> 0:02:09.310 luxury vacations, vintage car restorations, and commercial properties completely unrelated 0:02:09.330 --> 0:02:12.410 to homeless housing. His arrest is part of the DOJ's 0:02:12.590 --> 0:02:16.370 major fraud takedown targeting schemes that stole millions of dollars 0:02:16.410 --> 0:02:20.060 from programs meant to house the homeless here in California. 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.080 Him driving an expensive sports car has nothing to do 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:28.120 with homeless housing? Are you sure? As I often say, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:33.579 how many people had to be aware of this and 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.520 keep their mouths shut? I mean, if you were working 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:38.980 with him at this agency and he's driving a Porsche, 0:02:39.180 --> 0:02:42.860 you'd think, I know what you make. What's going on here? 0:02:43.540 --> 0:02:44.440 You know, I know we have. 0:02:44.340 --> 0:02:47.660 More audio and I don't want to steal anybody's thunder, 0:02:47.710 --> 0:02:50.250 but it strikes me. I'm looking at the stuff we've assembled. 0:02:51.389 --> 0:02:57.750 That guy was getting millions of dollars fraudulently for homeless housing. 0:02:59.410 --> 0:03:04.590 I've got people stealing millions and millions of dollars on 0:03:04.990 --> 0:03:09.390 fake child care. And then there's the millions and millions 0:03:09.430 --> 0:03:13.200 and millions of dollars that Nick Shirley highlighted that was 0:03:13.740 --> 0:03:19.020 immigrant services. And I think there's like one more example. 0:03:19.630 --> 0:03:21.760 I mean, there's not a government program that exists that 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:25.220 it isn't getting millions of dollars siphoned from it. I'm 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:30.360 like hundreds of millions, billions, I'm sorry, billion. Man, if 0:03:30.380 --> 0:03:32.280 there was one thing I could do to turn the tide, 0:03:32.310 --> 0:03:34.150 it would be this, and I don't understand why it 0:03:34.190 --> 0:03:36.990 doesn't happen. You only hear about these stories out of 0:03:37.050 --> 0:03:42.870 conservative outlets. Liberal news organizations don't report this stuff. Why? 0:03:43.410 --> 0:03:47.640 You're the ones... that are advocating for the homeless and 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:52.030 say they don't have housing. This guy was stealing money 0:03:52.710 --> 0:03:55.830 from the homeless. You're the one that's... I don't want 0:03:55.870 --> 0:03:58.850 money for the homeless to start with. They're junkies. My 0:03:58.930 --> 0:04:01.650 crowd shouldn't be pointing this out. I don't want to 0:04:01.690 --> 0:04:03.730 give them any money. They screwed up their own lives. 0:04:03.770 --> 0:04:06.600 That's their fault. Let them suffer the consequences of their actions. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:11.020 You're the one who thinks they're suffering from an unfair 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.380 capitalist system and want to give them money. So don't 0:04:13.420 --> 0:04:16.580 you want them to actually get the money? I don't 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.600 get it. Directionality. 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:20.570 Well, there are a number of different diseases that might 0:04:20.610 --> 0:04:23.570 kill America, but directionality, I think, may get there first, 0:04:23.890 --> 0:04:26.770 which is the idea that, well, directionally, I want money 0:04:26.790 --> 0:04:29.670 to go to the homeless and Calling out waste and 0:04:29.690 --> 0:04:32.410 fraud and abuse sounds like I'm going in the other direction, 0:04:32.430 --> 0:04:36.820 so I'm just not going to say anything. That directionality 0:04:36.860 --> 0:04:37.760 will kill America. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.520 Here's the rest of that particular story. 0:04:41.070 --> 0:04:44.970 Three defendants were charged in separate federal cases, including 46-year-old 0:04:45.010 --> 0:04:50.590 Michael Young, who allegedly misappropriated more than $ 7. 5 million in 0:04:50.970 --> 0:04:54.089 taxpayer funds and used the money for commercial real estate 0:04:54.410 --> 0:04:57.250 and to finance the construction of a high-end nightclub in 0:04:57.390 --> 0:04:59.890 Englewood and an adjacent bingo hall. 0:05:00.930 --> 0:05:03.810 You know, at least he was investing in growing the economy. 0:05:05.470 --> 0:05:06.870 Bingo halls and nightclubs, etc. 0:05:07.470 --> 0:05:07.710 Right. 0:05:07.770 --> 0:05:10.080 You know, it's not like he wasn't just consuming it. 0:05:10.100 --> 0:05:11.860 He was, you know, an entrepreneur. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.320 So that was L.A. Let's switch to San Diego and 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:15.099 hear this story. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:21.670 These were made up fake daycares that day after day, 0:05:22.089 --> 0:05:27.029 month after month, year after year, build the taxpayer for 0:05:27.070 --> 0:05:29.120 allegedly taking care of children. 0:05:29.860 --> 0:05:32.960 An announcement from the first U.S. Assistant Attorney General for 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.480 the National Fraud Enforcement Division. Twelve people arrested, accused of 0:05:37.540 --> 0:05:42.099 running bogus daycares across San Diego. Investigators say they claimed 0:05:42.220 --> 0:05:45.050 to provide child care for dozens of children when many 0:05:45.130 --> 0:05:48.390 times the defendants themselves were not even in the country. 0:05:48.710 --> 0:05:53.010 Fifty seven days of surveillance footage. There was one day 0:05:53.350 --> 0:05:56.680 where children entered that facility and that one day happens 0:05:56.750 --> 0:06:00.150 to be the date of a random incident. unannounced state 0:06:00.190 --> 0:06:05.710 inspection how many people had to be aware of this 0:06:06.170 --> 0:06:08.810 at a bunch of different levels there had to be 0:06:09.380 --> 0:06:12.200 dozens if not a like a hundred people that know 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:13.020 this is going. 0:06:12.860 --> 0:06:16.760 On here's a charming side note on that story of 0:06:16.779 --> 0:06:22.560 the 12 people arrested for the eight figures of theft 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:26.500 of taxpayer monies more than 10 million dollars Eleven are 0:06:26.610 --> 0:06:33.490 naturalized U.S. citizens from Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan. 0:06:33.950 --> 0:06:36.010 And the 12th has a green card and a pending 0:06:36.070 --> 0:06:37.410 application for citizenship. 0:06:38.350 --> 0:06:42.070 Thanks, Joe Biden. We've got so much on this. Let's 0:06:42.110 --> 0:06:46.420 go back to William Lodgeness on Fox 72 there, Michael. 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:47.320 How easy it is. 0:06:47.850 --> 0:06:52.390 Yesterday's crackdown indictment is emblematic of the homeless crisis in 0:06:52.410 --> 0:06:57.630 Los Angeles. Easy money, inside dealing, no oversight, services and 0:06:57.690 --> 0:07:02.359 shelters promised or paid for but never provided, sham companies, kickbacks, 0:07:02.500 --> 0:07:07.339 ghost clients, so-called non-profits, pocketing millions earmarked for the poor, 0:07:07.700 --> 0:07:11.840 instead paying for vintage cars, luxury homes, designer clothes, And 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:13.560 those overseas vacations. 0:07:13.860 --> 0:07:16.430 The directionality thing you're talking about, it makes me so mad. 0:07:16.790 --> 0:07:19.630 So I'm a bad guy because I'm the hard-hearted, I 0:07:19.650 --> 0:07:22.670 don't want these programs. People are drug addicts. They screwed 0:07:22.690 --> 0:07:24.530 up their life. That's their problem. I don't want these programs. 0:07:24.930 --> 0:07:27.470 I'm a bad guy for that. You're a good person 0:07:27.930 --> 0:07:31.430 for advocating programs where the money doesn't help any of 0:07:31.510 --> 0:07:33.870 the things you're talking about. It gets stolen by crooks. 0:07:34.310 --> 0:07:37.250 Somalian criminals, yeah. But you're the good person and I'm 0:07:37.270 --> 0:07:37.870 the bad person. 0:07:38.630 --> 0:07:38.770 Right. 0:07:38.870 --> 0:07:44.250 Hilarious. You finally figured it out. That's right. It's incredible. 0:07:44.610 --> 0:07:48.070 So you get points for pretending to care because I 0:07:48.350 --> 0:07:51.330 have to think you're pretending or you'd be going crazy 0:07:51.940 --> 0:07:54.140 over the fact that this money was stolen and didn't 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:57.040 actually help the drug addicts. You know, I just read 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:02.320 something great about that. Who wrote this? I can't remember. 0:08:02.340 --> 0:08:03.610 It's talking about.... 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.980 People with various T-shirts or bumper stickers, I don't think 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.620 anybody who is not mentally damaged in some way really 0:08:10.670 --> 0:08:13.690 believes that putting a bumper sticker on their 15-year-old Subaru 0:08:13.990 --> 0:08:17.390 is going to help us free Tibet or coexist or 0:08:17.470 --> 0:08:20.090 combat climate change or whatever. But I see many, many 0:08:20.110 --> 0:08:21.770 of those stickers, and they all read the same way 0:08:21.810 --> 0:08:23.750 to me. Look at me caring about the poor and 0:08:23.770 --> 0:08:25.010 the oppressed more than you do. 0:08:25.030 --> 0:08:27.530 Right. I thought that was well put. 0:08:29.250 --> 0:08:33.410 I'd kind of like to hear the guy from HUD say, 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.599 Scott Turner, 75. 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:36.320 Michael, if you don't mind. 0:08:36.780 --> 0:08:40.860 Lhasa has continually funded a homeless industrial complex on the 0:08:40.900 --> 0:08:45.970 backs of American taxpayers while fraud has continually run rampant. 0:08:46.490 --> 0:08:50.090 No wonder their track record at Lhasa is a failing record. 0:08:50.550 --> 0:08:53.970 While homelessness funding tripled in L.A. over the past decade, 0:08:54.390 --> 0:08:58.630 homelessness has doubled. And when you dig deeper, we found 0:08:58.730 --> 0:09:02.650 out why. Lhasa, the largest recipient of homeless funding in 0:09:02.670 --> 0:09:07.140 the nation, is riddled with fraud, waste, and abuse. And 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:12.340 those days of blank checks are indeed over. Today, those 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:15.930 who broke the law are facing the ultimate consequence, law 0:09:16.170 --> 0:09:16.630 and order. 0:09:16.809 --> 0:09:20.250 If you're not cynical about all this crap, and I 0:09:20.309 --> 0:09:23.660 know plenty of people who aren't, they just... Fully embrace 0:09:23.730 --> 0:09:27.270 emotionally that, oh, I give to that program. I love 0:09:27.309 --> 0:09:29.550 it so much. If you're not cynical about all this stuff, 0:09:29.809 --> 0:09:34.550 you just aren't paying attention. Or you have childlike enthusiasm 0:09:34.670 --> 0:09:37.910 for stuff. I don't know what that is. I like dreamers. 0:09:38.030 --> 0:09:39.640 I kind of like hanging out with them. I like 0:09:39.700 --> 0:09:42.559 creating art with them. I don't want them in charge. 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.880 They don't have the capacity to be the adult in 0:09:45.900 --> 0:09:48.540 the room and make the hard decisions. Again, they're not 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.620 bad people. They're just not cut out for leadership. And 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:57.229 we're such a touchy-feely, victim-oriented society at this point. In California, well, 0:09:57.270 --> 0:09:58.530 I was going to say that's the sort of people 0:09:58.570 --> 0:09:59.610 we have in charge. That's the sort of people we 0:09:59.630 --> 0:10:03.420 have in charge. we have voting for criminals, Karen Bass, 0:10:03.460 --> 0:10:08.240 who pass themselves off as the caring dreamer type when 0:10:08.260 --> 0:10:11.870 they're actually the most cynical union hack lawyer thieves you 0:10:11.890 --> 0:10:17.719 can imagine. Don't you understand? that me not wanting to 0:10:17.760 --> 0:10:20.540 give them anything and you wanting to give them lots 0:10:20.860 --> 0:10:23.939 ends up with the same result. If it gets stolen, 0:10:26.770 --> 0:10:29.689 you're wasting years. It's actually worse than my plan. Cause 0:10:29.750 --> 0:10:33.810 in my plan, taxpayers get to keep their money. So, 0:10:34.110 --> 0:10:37.270 but it didn't harm the homeless. Any me keeping my 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.640 money because they weren't going to get it anyway. No, no. 0:10:40.900 --> 0:10:45.080 And maybe you, well, just for instance, Maybe you would 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.660 want to do something substantive to help somebody who's actually 0:10:48.700 --> 0:10:51.520 down on their luck through your church or a private charity, 0:10:51.570 --> 0:10:53.810 but know that money's been confiscated by the government so 0:10:53.830 --> 0:10:56.349 that Somali immigrants can steal it or the government itself 0:10:56.429 --> 0:11:00.070 can hand it out to their favorite thieves. So speaking 0:11:00.110 --> 0:11:03.590 of thieves, a word from our friends at Simply Save 0:11:03.630 --> 0:11:07.880 Home Security. You know, I noticed a close relative, I 0:11:07.910 --> 0:11:12.580 won't name them, has the water sensors that are part 0:11:12.620 --> 0:11:17.790 of the customizable system. SimpliSafe system everywhere that water might 0:11:17.830 --> 0:11:19.930 leak because they had a catastrophic. 0:11:19.390 --> 0:11:20.689 Leak a couple of years ago. 0:11:21.350 --> 0:11:25.210 Yeah, but most people think about SimpliSafe preventing break-ins and crime, 0:11:25.250 --> 0:11:27.850 which is they're great at that. But, man, they can 0:11:27.890 --> 0:11:32.110 protect you from whatever hazard you deem most important or multiple, obviously. 0:11:32.730 --> 0:11:37.210 AI-powered cameras detecting suspicious activity at the perimeter and alerting 0:11:37.290 --> 0:11:39.600 live U.S.-based agents or some of the stuff Joe was 0:11:39.620 --> 0:11:42.739 just talking about. They assess the threat, intervene, speak through 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.380 the camera to scare off intruders. Love that. And call 0:11:45.380 --> 0:11:48.709 911 for dispatch. That's why people keep using SimpliSafe, even 0:11:48.750 --> 0:11:51.910 without a contract. They don't alert you after the break-in 0:11:51.950 --> 0:11:54.130 like traditional systems. They do it before. 0:11:54.530 --> 0:11:57.070 Get 50% off a new SimpliSafe system right now. Go 0:11:57.090 --> 0:12:01.910 to SimpliSafe.com slash Armstrong. That's SimpliSafe.com slash Armstrong. Make sure 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.939 you tell them you heard about it from Armstrong and Getty. Remember, 0:12:04.980 --> 0:12:07.040 there's no safe like SimpliSafe. 0:12:09.380 --> 0:12:13.060 Oh, we're still on. We seem to be, yes. 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:17.880 Again, not to belabor the point, but as I scan 0:12:17.940 --> 0:12:19.540 our audio and the articles I have in front of me, 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:20.740 it's daycare. 0:12:21.070 --> 0:12:26.390 It's immigrant services. It's bums and junkies programs. You name it. 0:12:26.990 --> 0:12:30.469 I mean, please, anybody who works in retail knows how 0:12:30.929 --> 0:12:33.150 scammy the EBT cards are. 0:12:34.230 --> 0:12:35.060 It's just.... 0:12:36.900 --> 0:12:41.670 The welfare state is a fraud program. that occasionally falls 0:12:41.730 --> 0:12:43.210 victim to poor people getting help. 0:12:43.730 --> 0:12:45.990 There you go. That's too long for a T-shirt, but 0:12:46.050 --> 0:12:49.970 I like it. The New York Post is famous for 0:12:50.210 --> 0:12:52.589 outlandish headlines that get you to click on them. This 0:12:52.730 --> 0:12:56.089 is among the most outlandish headlines I've ever seen. We'll 0:12:56.110 --> 0:12:58.150 mention that among other things on the way. 0:13:00.300 --> 0:13:05.300 Armstrong and Getty. 0:13:08.300 --> 0:13:10.020 The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:13:12.910 --> 0:13:14.069 Three things I'm good at. 0:13:14.530 --> 0:13:16.929 Vulcan salute. Live long and prosper. 0:13:17.309 --> 0:13:18.230 Star Trek knowledge. 0:13:18.590 --> 0:13:22.059 Spock is my favourite character, which I think is not 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:23.500 an unpopular opinion. 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:33.450 And breaking records. Three, two, one. Live long and prosper. 0:13:33.470 --> 0:13:33.990 Live long and prosper. 0:13:34.020 --> 0:13:37.990 Happy 60th anniversary, Star Trek, where there is space for everybody. 0:13:38.550 --> 0:13:43.580 Speak English. 60th anniversary for a television show. Wow, that's 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.380 an old TV show. Star Trek, which lives on, of course, 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.620 in reruns. I saw it in reruns. I mean, that 0:13:48.660 --> 0:13:50.500 show is so old that I had to watch it 0:13:50.540 --> 0:13:53.569 in reruns. Right. Because there was a tot when it 0:13:53.610 --> 0:13:59.610 was on. Who knew he was still alive? That's Scotty, 0:14:01.010 --> 0:14:05.250 the engineer. Got no power captains. The great James Doohan, 0:14:05.350 --> 0:14:11.920 known for a variety of roles. Not really. Still alive 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.800 and living off that show from 60 years ago, leading 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.320 a Vulcan salute at the London Museum. So there you go. Fascinating. 0:14:18.940 --> 0:14:23.470 I agree, Spock. Okay. I've got some good economic news 0:14:23.510 --> 0:14:26.790 for you. The Byron York, the Washington Examiner, is saying, 0:14:26.870 --> 0:14:30.369 why isn't Trump out here touting this? But before I 0:14:30.390 --> 0:14:35.140 get to that, the... worst headline New York post maybe 0:14:35.180 --> 0:14:37.680 has ever had in terms of clickbait. I've not clicked 0:14:37.700 --> 0:14:39.359 on the story, although I've kind of seen the picture 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:44.360 and I get it. Oh boy. Oh boy. What's a 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.480 hydrox champ. That's some sort of race or running or 0:14:47.820 --> 0:14:50.370 anybody know what that is. I'm looking at it. It 0:14:50.390 --> 0:14:54.230 looks like some sort of extreme fitness, something. I don't know. Anyway, 0:14:54.810 --> 0:14:58.450 champ finally apologizes for it. Cause she's laying down on 0:14:58.490 --> 0:15:02.280 a track and then in a running uniform and then running, uh, 0:15:03.430 --> 0:15:07.770 I won't describe the picture. Hydrox champ finally apologizes for 0:15:08.410 --> 0:15:12.690 diarrhea covered face and says she learned there is more 0:15:12.750 --> 0:15:19.950 to life than racing. Now, that's a headline. First, it 0:15:20.050 --> 0:15:25.090 just seemed gratuitous. But what is the life lesson? I 0:15:25.130 --> 0:15:29.860 find myself wondering. And how was it? Gained from the 0:15:29.900 --> 0:15:36.640 aforementioned unfortunate affliction. I'd say the lesson should be, do 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:40.979 whatever you can to avoid having diarrhea on your face. Oh, 0:15:40.980 --> 0:15:44.350 you just don't have to say it out loud. Nobody 0:15:44.380 --> 0:15:50.430 wanted that. Oh, my God. What the heck's a Hydrox, Katie? 0:15:50.450 --> 0:15:53.350 Do you have any idea? It's like a running and 0:15:53.410 --> 0:15:59.990 functional workout competition. Okay. She lost it. How'd she end 0:16:00.010 --> 0:16:07.120 up with D on her F? Wind? Hydrox. 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.340 That was like a cheap alternative to Oreos when we 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:15.240 were kids. That was back when the government told us, 0:16:15.420 --> 0:16:19.380 stop eating that horrible butter. Eat this tub of trans 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:20.460 fat instead. 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:26.180 Thank you, government. Margarine. Yeah, thanks. The libertarian was born. 0:16:26.740 --> 0:16:29.700 Hassan Piker was just on Axios and confirmed that he 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:33.400 thinks America is a bigger terrorist than Al Qaeda. Please 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.640 go away. Just go away. Quit. I saw a clip 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.810 of him yesterday. And he's just saying, I hate this 0:16:39.890 --> 0:16:42.450 effing country. I hate this effing country. And I thought, 0:16:42.850 --> 0:16:48.510 you're so transparently what you are. You're like Madonna only 0:16:48.550 --> 0:16:51.540 with rhetoric. And just, hey, look at me. I'm doing 0:16:51.580 --> 0:16:53.720 something outlandish. Aren't you upset? 0:16:54.630 --> 0:16:58.170 I'm so transgressive and I'm a socialist, but I'm really 0:16:58.290 --> 0:17:00.980 rich and my parents are rich. And I hate this 0:17:01.050 --> 0:17:04.260 country as an immigrant in a country that made with 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.940 my parents and my multigenerational wealth. 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:11.500 Aren't you upset at what I just said? No, go away. 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.280 I don't want to hear the clip. And then this 0:17:13.340 --> 0:17:16.389 good economic news. That I thought was really interesting. I 0:17:16.430 --> 0:17:19.490 didn't know this. Byron York says, why isn't Trump needs 0:17:19.550 --> 0:17:22.530 to resonate with people being unhappy about the economy? We 0:17:22.570 --> 0:17:24.600 mentioned that earlier. Two thirds of people think Trump has 0:17:24.619 --> 0:17:28.900 made the economy worse. How about these numbers? The Census 0:17:28.940 --> 0:17:32.340 Bureau statistics show that the U.S. poverty rate fell to 0:17:32.380 --> 0:17:37.770 a record low in 2025. We have record low poverty 0:17:37.810 --> 0:17:42.220 in this country. Despite seeing ads about hunger, we have 0:17:42.340 --> 0:17:45.100 less of it than we've ever had. And if you do, 0:17:45.220 --> 0:17:47.740 if you are hungry, then you're not Googling or something. 0:17:47.780 --> 0:17:49.760 There are plenty of programs. There's no reason for you 0:17:49.780 --> 0:17:53.199 to be hungry. And hey, eat something. That would be 0:17:53.260 --> 0:17:58.280 my advice. And the real median household income in 2025 0:17:58.280 --> 0:18:02.520 was the highest on record dating back to 1967. 0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:02.760 Yes. 0:18:03.100 --> 0:18:06.199 Our poor people are richer than the middle class of 0:18:06.619 --> 0:18:07.820 our entire history as a nation. 0:18:11.260 --> 0:18:13.100 That needs to be sold more, not just Trump and 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.520 for the midterms, just in general for capitalism as a theory, 0:18:16.780 --> 0:18:21.200 free market as a theory. Wow. Those are some good stats. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.800 What enabled all of that? The United States Navy. Just 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.570 reading about that, super interesting. Plus, the guy duct taped 0:18:28.609 --> 0:18:29.990 on a plane is broken to silence. 0:18:30.450 --> 0:18:36.950 Armstrong and Getty. The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:18:39.740 --> 0:18:43.240 Apparently, Costco has become a major social hub where shoppers 0:18:43.260 --> 0:18:45.860 go to meet friends, date and build community. 0:18:47.060 --> 0:18:48.800 Listen, if you could land a date with a dollar 0:18:48.820 --> 0:18:53.740 fifty hot dog breath, God bless you. Costco seems like 0:18:53.780 --> 0:18:55.820 a good place, actually, for that sort of thing to me. 0:18:57.340 --> 0:19:00.180 If you're a certain sort of person. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:01.900 I'm out of the game. 0:19:02.550 --> 0:19:05.600 So this segment will be devoted to what we often 0:19:05.630 --> 0:19:08.720 refer to as bingo, banga, bongo, a number of unrelated stories, 0:19:08.740 --> 0:19:13.100 all worth considering at least very briefly. First of all, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.480 we ran the data on trans teen suicide panic and 0:19:17.540 --> 0:19:19.860 found the claims are completely misleading. 0:19:20.080 --> 0:19:22.510 No way. Not surprisingly. 0:19:22.530 --> 0:19:25.530 You know, I don't want to get in the habit 0:19:25.570 --> 0:19:28.990 of declaring this the biggest this or the most grotesque 0:19:29.070 --> 0:19:31.470 that or the most serious this all the time, but 0:19:32.580 --> 0:19:35.560 You can choose between a live son or a dead daughter. 0:19:36.300 --> 0:19:42.090 Maybe the most insidiously perverse and wrong thing ever delivered 0:19:43.330 --> 0:19:44.450 by a medical professional. 0:19:44.690 --> 0:19:47.700 Moral blackmail, they call it. uh yeah it was pretty 0:19:47.740 --> 0:19:52.179 horrible countless parents yeah and and how do you not 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:55.060 feel for parents who confronted with this who'd ever even 0:19:55.200 --> 0:19:58.629 thought of this in their lives situation and a doctor 0:19:58.910 --> 0:20:01.790 who you have respect for or psychiatrist or whoever tells 0:20:01.830 --> 0:20:04.169 you look here's your situation either go along with this 0:20:04.190 --> 0:20:05.629 so they're going to kill themselves and that'll be on 0:20:05.650 --> 0:20:06.389 your hands. 0:20:06.830 --> 0:20:09.760 Exactly yeah You can choose between a live son or 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:13.379 a dead daughter. A psychologist is nodding her head as 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:17.090 the social worker or teacher is telling the parents the 0:20:17.130 --> 0:20:20.129 same thing. They ought to be jailed for it for decades. Anyway, 0:20:20.710 --> 0:20:23.530 countless parents have heard some variation of these words from physicians, 0:20:23.570 --> 0:20:28.030 medical associations, media outlets, online activists. If children believe they're 0:20:28.050 --> 0:20:30.429 born in the wrong body and can't get sex change treatments, 0:20:30.450 --> 0:20:33.530 the argument goes they're at high risk of committing suicide. 0:20:33.850 --> 0:20:34.470 No claim. 0:20:35.050 --> 0:20:37.870 Has swayed more parents to let their kids get puberty blockers, 0:20:37.950 --> 0:20:41.810 cross-sex hormones, and even surgeries, struck fear into the heart 0:20:41.850 --> 0:20:45.770 of lawmakers considering restrictions on such treatments. But as they 0:20:45.790 --> 0:20:48.270 show in a new report, and man, this is thorough, 0:20:48.350 --> 0:20:53.090 the suicide threat isn't true. Protecting children from transgender treatments 0:20:53.130 --> 0:20:56.670 does not increase suicide rates, and their data proves it. Now, 0:20:57.020 --> 0:20:59.280 and this is what I've been saying for a long time, 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.120 but it has nothing to do with me being right. 0:21:01.609 --> 0:21:04.990 There's no question that suicide is higher among children who 0:21:05.010 --> 0:21:11.230 believe they're transgender. And that's absolutely heartbreaking. And it absolutely 0:21:11.270 --> 0:21:14.909 demands intervention. But kids who assert they're born in the 0:21:14.950 --> 0:21:19.090 wrong body typically suffer from serious mental health issues, including 0:21:19.190 --> 0:21:23.030 depression and anxiety, autism, and a couple other things, notably. 0:21:23.570 --> 0:21:26.070 That those are the suicide risk. 0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:30.910 And then if you sell them a handful of magic 0:21:31.030 --> 0:21:34.410 beans that this is going to solve your problems, your 0:21:34.810 --> 0:21:38.909 deep emotional misery, these magic beans will solve your misery. 0:21:39.290 --> 0:21:44.020 And then they don't because they won't. Then you've got 0:21:44.060 --> 0:21:48.140 a suicide risk. And they go into the data and everything, but. 0:21:50.730 --> 0:21:53.190 Activists and allies continue to say the real issue is 0:21:53.210 --> 0:21:56.830 the failure to medically affirm these children's chosen gender identity. 0:21:56.930 --> 0:21:58.470 Listen to the kids, they say. 0:21:59.450 --> 0:21:59.930 Wow. 0:22:01.750 --> 0:22:03.290 I could talk about this for an hour and a half. 0:22:03.330 --> 0:22:05.340 Is that ever a good idea to listen to the kids? 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:09.940 I'm hungry. Maybe if one of them says I'm hungry. 0:22:09.960 --> 0:22:13.560 A dog is biting me. There's probably a dog biting them. 0:22:14.220 --> 0:22:18.420 But I'm actually a girl. No, you're clearly a boy. 0:22:18.500 --> 0:22:19.939 Be any kind of boy you want. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.360 Or climate change is the biggest problem in America. 0:22:22.380 --> 0:22:23.520 Or whatever. 0:22:24.340 --> 0:22:27.530 Children have a special view of the world that is 0:22:27.609 --> 0:22:30.730 untarnished by blah, blah, blah. Yeah, they're children. Shut up. 0:22:32.170 --> 0:22:33.950 I want to get to the whole Great Barrier Reef 0:22:34.010 --> 0:22:36.010 is growing faster than ever story at some point. 0:22:36.050 --> 0:22:37.190 It's an okay barrier reef. 0:22:37.710 --> 0:22:44.810 Again, again, you with your bad-mouthing that barrier reef. Um, anyway, 0:22:44.850 --> 0:22:48.810 let's move on in one of those traditions or transitions that, uh, 0:22:49.030 --> 0:22:50.190 I'm sorry, I blew that line. 0:22:50.230 --> 0:22:50.760 It's terrible. 0:22:51.150 --> 0:22:52.980 I would like to apologize to the guy I stole 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.800 it from the great Frank Zappa, who I once heard 0:22:55.859 --> 0:22:59.020 say now in one of those jarring transitions that have 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.730 endeared us to dozens stolen that line a hundred times, 0:23:03.090 --> 0:23:06.530 rest in peace, Frank. Of course, he would say, I'm dead. 0:23:06.550 --> 0:23:09.210 There's no afterlife. You're an idiot. So, you know, whatever. 0:23:10.750 --> 0:23:15.909 Samsung fans are mocking you again, Apple people. Go ahead. 0:23:16.210 --> 0:23:23.179 And you probably deserve it. Blue bubble don't care. Am 0:23:23.260 --> 0:23:29.780 I wrong? So, as usual, you know. 0:23:31.310 --> 0:23:33.889 Apple fans are saying, wow, now I get why you 0:23:33.910 --> 0:23:36.270 want a foldable, why you have a foldable phone. And 0:23:36.690 --> 0:23:38.629 all the Samsung people are welcome. 0:23:38.970 --> 0:23:39.530 I love this line. 0:23:39.770 --> 0:23:42.010 Welcome to a day in the life of Samsung nation 0:23:42.030 --> 0:23:45.500 where the indignities never end. The company and its followers 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.080 have long chafed at their second class status. And last 0:23:49.119 --> 0:23:53.760 week's iPhone unveiling reignited the resentments. So far, so same, 0:23:54.010 --> 0:23:56.570 said one of the social media accounts. Fans tired of 0:23:56.609 --> 0:24:01.830