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Speaker 2: the Sherry.
Speaker 4: Peppini that's out there, it's not me.
Speaker 2: She's not real.
Speaker 4: It's just this version of me that has been created
Speaker 4: to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened.
Speaker 3: Oh dang, Sherry Peppini is a victim of the media.
Speaker 2: I was afraid of the media.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you remember the Sherry Peppini story.
Speaker 3: We're gonna gonna lay that out for you again. We
Speaker 3: talked about it a lot when had happened here in
Speaker 3: the Armstrong and Getty Show. For one reason, because when
Speaker 3: she was found it was like a mile from my
Speaker 3: house on County Road seventeen north of Woodland, California near
Speaker 3: I five.
Speaker 2: I mean it was really close to me.
Speaker 3: So it was like, what, this abducted woman got dropped
Speaker 3: off by my house, held by castickers for.
Speaker 2: Four days or however long it was, including two Hispanic women.
Speaker 3: So let's hear a little more. There's I guess there's
Speaker 3: a documentary coming out. I'm guessing the documentary does not
Speaker 3: treat her well. This is the documentarian and Sherry Peppini.
Speaker 5: The ID series Sherry Peppini caught in the line the
Speaker 5: so called supermom sharing another version of that for mis
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen kidnapping hoax that captivated the country.
Speaker 4: The story that the world thinks they know is that
Speaker 4: I am a master manipulator who's fooled everyone.
Speaker 2: That's my magic one.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm gonna do ridiculous things because some of this
Speaker 4: is ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Okay, we're listening to a crazy person, Yeah, gesticulating for
Speaker 3: the camera and like being over dramatic, then admitting she
Speaker 3: was faking it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, we don't think you're a master manipulator. We
Speaker 2: think you're a pinhead who thought she could get away
Speaker 2: with something dumb, like.
Speaker 3: Within moments of you showing up in the ditch near
Speaker 3: my house. The story came out with the details and everybody,
Speaker 3: but that don't sound right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the cops were like, wait a minute, so called
Speaker 2: super mom, she's married with two kids. Uh, let's roll on.
Speaker 5: In April of twenty two, Puppinie pleading guilty to lying
Speaker 5: to federal investigators about her disappearance. She's done a plea deal,
Speaker 5: saying she knowingly planned and participated in her own hoax kidnapping.
Speaker 5: Now Peppini changing her story yet again, claiming she really
Speaker 5: was abducted and assaulted by James Rayes.
Speaker 4: There was no master plan, there was no hoax kidnapping.
Speaker 4: There was a cover up of what happened, and I
Speaker 4: participated in.
Speaker 2: The cover up.
Speaker 5: Rayes had previously told investigators the Peppini caused her own
Speaker 5: injuries and that, at her request, he branded her with
Speaker 5: a wood burning tool. Investigators say he passed a polygraph
Speaker 5: test and was duped by Peppini.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't know this story and the details
Speaker 3: are being filled in, and I'll get to a little, uh,
Speaker 3: some of the background here in a segment. Yeah, she
Speaker 3: she her hair was cut, she'd been branded. Was she
Speaker 3: did herself or she's claiming this guy did or whatever
Speaker 3: at her request. I mean, that's some that's some commitment
Speaker 3: to your hoax branding yourself. Mum, you gotta admire that, huh?
Speaker 2: Do I do? I? She didn't just go halfway on
Speaker 2: her made up story. She went all the way and
Speaker 2: then a pretty decent question, why would we believe you?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: I was gonna just for the plot that that's her
Speaker 2: ex boyfriend who she went to spend a couple of
Speaker 2: days with because she was tired of being wife and
Speaker 2: mom supermom right, and he let her in because it
Speaker 2: was his hot ex girlfriend. He was thinking, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know, maybe she's back or not, you know,
Speaker 2: but yeah, but now she's saying, no, maybe she's back.
Speaker 2: She's kind of crazy, but yeah, I'm a little lonely.
Speaker 2: So uh, what the hell? It was pretty good when
Speaker 2: it last, did uh? And now two years however, many
Speaker 2: years later, she's saying no, no, no, no, Wait a minute,
Speaker 2: wait a minute, Now here's the real truth. He a
Speaker 2: dead man. Damn. Wow. Wow, let's hear her explain herself.
Speaker 2: You're a convicted liar, So tell me why we should
Speaker 2: believe you.
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 2: Haven't you ever lied? Have you ever lied in your
Speaker 2: history of existence.
Speaker 6: And then has that lie been blown up and broadcasted.
Speaker 2: Around the world. It's so much more complex.
Speaker 4: Than just pointing the finger and saying you're a liar.
Speaker 6: And I wish, I wish more than anything, I could
Speaker 6: have been more truthful.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it was worth it.
Speaker 3: It was worth it bringing it up, bringing this up,
Speaker 3: to play that clip. I gotta play that for my
Speaker 3: kids at home. Whenever you get I cut up with
Speaker 3: a chick who sounds like this, that's your takeaway.
Speaker 2: It's a good takeaway. Oh my god, Wow, wow, a
Speaker 2: hot mess. So yeah, no kiddingdwich. Well that's another one.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 2: So I'm guessing she got some money out of this
Speaker 2: or was convinced by these filmmakers that this is your
Speaker 2: chance to set the record straight, because that's how you
Speaker 2: dupe somebody into doing this. But from the department of
Speaker 2: stop digging, right, yet another round with this guy. She's
Speaker 2: crazy though, she's It's like the Olympics. Every four years
Speaker 2: she comes around and entertains us with her her craziness.
Speaker 2: She's like the Olympics. Every four years we get an update.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I like gymnastics.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: The Sherry Peppini story. The real story is I wasn't
Speaker 2: This is you know, dateline twenty twenty nine. I was
Speaker 2: not abducted by my ex boyfriend. It was space aliens
Speaker 2: and they probed my anus. That'll be the hook, all right, So.
Speaker 3: Let me read a little from the Wikipedia. Sherry's husband,
Speaker 3: Keith Peppini, first became concerned when he returned from his
Speaker 3: job at Best Buy.
Speaker 2: Poor son of a gun and his kids. Let's not
Speaker 2: forget that two kids.
Speaker 3: I'mber second twenty sixteen, so this is shortly before Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: which plays a role in this, and could not find
Speaker 3: his wife at home. He eventually used define my iPhone
Speaker 3: application to locate her cell phone and earbuds at the
Speaker 3: intersection of Sunrise Driving Old Organ Trail, about a mile
Speaker 3: from their home. Okay, that's up by reading California if
Speaker 3: you know where that is, which is like a two
Speaker 3: and a half hour drive from where she ended up,
Speaker 3: according to Shasta County Sheriff. In interviews, Peppini said she
Speaker 3: was helped by two Hispanic women who took steps to
Speaker 3: keep their faces hidden from her, either by wearing masks
Speaker 3: or keeping Peppini's head covered. Peppini was branded on her
Speaker 3: right shoulder during her purported captivity with the word Exodus.
Speaker 3: When investigators questioned Sherry at a later date, she claimed
Speaker 3: that it looked like a verse from the Book of Exodus.
Speaker 3: According to a statement by her husband, Sherry was physically
Speaker 3: abused during their captivity, had her nose broken and her
Speaker 3: hair cut off, and weighed eighty seven pounds when.
Speaker 2: She was released. Well, she was only gone for four days.
Speaker 2: How much weight can you look? Was in four days?
Speaker 2: Was it just four days? Wasn't that long? Was it
Speaker 2: was Thanksgiving? Maybe it was longer? Okay, all cepried even
Speaker 2: that's something.
Speaker 3: At the time, the sheriff said it was still an
Speaker 3: active investigation and authorities were looking for a dark colored
Speaker 3: suv with two Hispanic females armed with a handgun.
Speaker 2: I remember when we were talking about this all the time.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
Speaker 3: Detectives had authored close to twenty search warrants, including some
Speaker 3: in Michigan, and said they were examining cell phone records,
Speaker 3: bank accounts, e mails, social media profiles. The FBI was involved.
Speaker 3: Peppinie was found with both male and female DNA on
Speaker 3: her neither of which matched her or her husband. The
Speaker 3: FBI ran the samples blah blah blah. In March, the
Speaker 3: oh the DNA found on her clothing they eventually figured
Speaker 3: out matched her ex boyfriend, James Reese, who she now
Speaker 3: says is the guy that branded her and held her,
Speaker 3: who confirmed that Peppini stayed with him at his residence
Speaker 3: in southern California during the time she was allegedly kidnapped.
Speaker 3: Have we heard much from him about what that was
Speaker 3: like the the week or so that they spent together.
Speaker 3: Was that just you know, loving bliss with sex, holding
Speaker 3: hands and watching Netflix? Or was she as crazy as
Speaker 3: she seems to be that whole time and he was like,
Speaker 3: how do I get her out of here?
Speaker 2: I'm guessing the second, because everybody said they did not
Speaker 2: have sex at the time. Wow, what did they do
Speaker 2: there the whole time? Netflix? Anyway.
Speaker 3: In March of twenty twenty two, she was arrested by
Speaker 3: the FBI, accused of lying to fade her allegiance, faking
Speaker 3: her kidnapping to spend time with her ex boyfriend away
Speaker 3: from her husband and family. Which makes you a very
Speaker 3: very bad person. Although I think she is completely crazy.
Speaker 3: Got thirty three counts of male fraud and all kinds
Speaker 3: of different things because of the way the law works.
Speaker 3: In September twenty second, this is probably all in the documentary.
Speaker 3: She apologized and accepted full responsibility at her sentencing hearing.
Speaker 3: Accept full responsibility as opposed to who else? Really, you're
Speaker 3: taking responsibility for the whole disappearing on your family, cutting
Speaker 3: your hair, branding yourself, claiming some Hispanic women abducted you.
Speaker 2: You're taking using the good name of Hispanic women everywhere,
Speaker 2: you monster. Did we ever believe this had happened? Or
Speaker 2: were we at first? Yeah? But as soon as the
Speaker 2: facts of her abduction came out, it was like, come on,
Speaker 2: Which is how that poor couple of Pedaluma, so many
Speaker 2: people suspected them. If you remember this case in Pedaluma, California,
Speaker 2: who were alleging this bizarre, utterly illogical, really stupid kidnapping,
Speaker 2: And it turns out it was a mentally ill former
Speaker 2: marine who did all the exactly what the claim he did.
Speaker 2: But it was so stupid and illogical it sounded like
Speaker 2: the Sherry Peppini thing. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: At the time of her kidnapping, her disappearance was featured
Speaker 3: extensively in national news true crime programs. Front cover of
Speaker 3: People magazine. The outlets continue to cover the story after
Speaker 3: the hoax was confirmed, including multiple true crime documentaries, News
Speaker 3: Magazine and News Magazine episode Whooping Cough, and podcasts. There
Speaker 3: have been Lifetime shows, there have been Netflix shows. There've
Speaker 3: been this crazy.
Speaker 2: Biach is a cottage industry.
Speaker 3: Who Who's a limited documentary series Perfect Wife, The mysterious
Speaker 3: disappearance of Sherry Peppini, not that mysterious. Eminem references the
Speaker 3: kidnapping hoax and his song Houdini, That's funny. I heard
Speaker 3: that on the radio just the other day, and I
Speaker 3: heard that, and I thought, I wonder how many people
Speaker 3: get that line with the line caught sleeping and see
Speaker 3: the kidnapping never did happen, like Sherry Peppini, Harry Houdini,
Speaker 3: I vanished in the thin air as I'm leaving me.
Speaker 2: So I heard that just the other day, and I thought,
Speaker 2: how many people get that? I understand we have a
Speaker 2: new cut. That's the husband in an interview from last year,
Speaker 2: when he first saw her at the hospital.
Speaker 5: When you first encountered her in the hospital, was your
Speaker 5: first instinct?
Speaker 2: I saw the look in her eyes.
Speaker 7: I felt in that moment that she was lying and
Speaker 7: It wasn't until when I really got close and I
Speaker 7: could just see the amount of injuries, bruises, burns to
Speaker 7: her body, and it was a shock to me. And
Speaker 7: I remember thinking, how horrible of me to even think
Speaker 7: that she could have done this to herself.
Speaker 3: Well, I wonder how quickly he got to reality and
Speaker 3: then if he was ever in like a period of
Speaker 3: jealous anger over the fact that she went to see
Speaker 3: an ex boyfriend, or if he just immediately was able
Speaker 3: to go to she's completely mentally ill. I can't be
Speaker 3: angry at a mentally ill person. She's completely crazy.
Speaker 2: I mean, to.
Speaker 3: Brand yourself, give yourself bruises, I mean, you're completely crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't you're making a bigger deal of the
Speaker 2: branding yourself because somebody likes that. I mean, you press
Speaker 2: something hot to yourself, it will scar you immediately and
Speaker 2: it'll hurt. But I mean, it's not like it's a
Speaker 2: sizzling cattle brand or something. Now, you know, Joe soft peddling.
Speaker 2: Self branding is a well the work of nut jobs,
Speaker 2: and I think it's I think it could have been
Speaker 2: harder for this guy because I mean, as you said,
Speaker 2: she's completely crazy. Now she's not a babbling psychotic. She's
Speaker 2: a manipulative narcissist. And that's a slower road to travel
Speaker 2: than Oh my god, my wife has lost a grip
Speaker 2: on reality because she hasn't. She's not psychotic, she's just
Speaker 2: you know, back in the day they call it, would
Speaker 2: have called her extremely neurotic. She's some borderline personality disorder.
Speaker 3: Again, I'm gonna play that one clip for my kids.
Speaker 3: If you ever meet a woman who sounds anything like this, none, No,
Speaker 3: what if she's hot? Dad doesn't?
Speaker 2: Matt in facts extra No, yes, yes, run run run,
Speaker 2: give us, just get us thirty five again, Michael, to
Speaker 2: wrap it.
Speaker 6: Up and we'll go to break the sherry peppini that's
Speaker 6: out there.
Speaker 2: It's not me, she's not real.
Speaker 4: It's just this version of me that has been created
Speaker 4: to fit the narrative for the media's version of what happened?
Speaker 1: All right, Cuckoo, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getti The Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty Show, The arm.
Speaker 2: Strong and Getty Show I mentioned earlier.
Speaker 3: My neighbors are making me feel bad about myself and
Speaker 3: super super nice people in this new neighborhood that I
Speaker 3: live in, But my picture of them from my driveway is.
Speaker 3: I've only had a couple of conversations with them. A
Speaker 3: few conversations been their kids, that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Really nice.
Speaker 3: But my picture of them for my driveway, it's like
Speaker 3: seeing their Facebook page with all the achievements and everything
Speaker 3: that all the time, they're always up earlier than me
Speaker 3: my kids. They're always out exercising, like with the kids,
Speaker 3: bike rides and all this different sort of stuff. On
Speaker 3: Sundays they're up early and the kids are all dressed
Speaker 3: up and they get to church. Every time I go
Speaker 3: to the gym, he's there. It's like, are there two
Speaker 3: of you? How do you do this? I don't understand
Speaker 3: how you do this? Washing their cars in the drive
Speaker 3: It's just like they're constantly doing productive things and and
Speaker 3: like being just soproductive and happy. And it's just it's
Speaker 3: I need to move somewhere where the people are like
Speaker 3: just laying around.
Speaker 2: They're in super fit. I need I need to I
Speaker 2: need to live. I need to live.
Speaker 3: Next to people who are like oh bees, laying around
Speaker 3: and even crap, their cars are.
Speaker 2: Dirty, their kids looking right. Yeah, yeah, okay, well you
Speaker 2: have you have three choices to me, all right. Number one,
Speaker 2: there's that choice very attractive. Number two. Number two, you
Speaker 2: could up your game and be as good or better
Speaker 2: than your neighbors. Let's just put that one aside. Right,
Speaker 2: Let's able that, at best third undermine their efforts. Now
Speaker 2: here's the option. I'm interested in exploring. What can you
Speaker 2: do to undermine that family their good habits and their happiness? Right,
Speaker 2: that's just the best offense is a good defense. You
Speaker 2: know that. Watching the NCAA tournament, Jack.
Speaker 3: God to admit, I'm looking for some downside to make
Speaker 3: myself feel better. It's like, there's gotta be something going
Speaker 3: on over there that's not perfect because it looks perfect. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I feel like they're doing it just to mock me.
Speaker 3: That's their main motivation. Well, let's yeah, that's the key
Speaker 3: is to take it personally.
Speaker 2: Yes, it only makes sense their excellence is an insult
Speaker 2: to you. Yeah, it's a very productive, a great attitude
Speaker 2: to have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when I when I walk out and I see
Speaker 3: them with their kids all dressed up headed to Sunday school.
Speaker 2: And I think my kids are still in bed, and
Speaker 2: I just got up myself. Oh my good. Right, you've
Speaker 2: got to resent them for that.
Speaker 3: You're gonna come home from church and then wash your
Speaker 3: cars and then you're going to the gym.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's not exactly what my plan is. Wow, well
Speaker 2: have you read He'll Be Elegy? You really should, or
Speaker 2: we're gonna read it. We're gonna eat too much bad
Speaker 2: food and go back to sleep. It's sort of our plan,
Speaker 2: but SATs their own exactly.
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Speaker 2: Why Armstrong and Geeddy on demand? We're not boring. A
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Speaker 2: Congress, Congress'll give me a break.
Speaker 5: Did you see her?
Speaker 2: She was out of control?
Speaker 3: Those days are over?
Speaker 2: The days are the days are who?
Speaker 6: No I did?
Speaker 7: The days of.
Speaker 2: Woke are over.
Speaker 3: That woman I don't I have no idea who she
Speaker 3: is that woman was out of control.
Speaker 2: She was shoving federal agents, she was out of control.
Speaker 2: The days of that crap are over in this country.
Speaker 5: We're gonna have law and order. You know.
Speaker 3: That reminds me. I can't let go of this topic.
Speaker 3: I will in a second. But we got a text
Speaker 3: from somebody. How come you guys gloss over Trump's obvious decline?
Speaker 3: Why aren't you talking about that? You know that was
Speaker 3: one of the big pushbacks during the whole Biden thing.
Speaker 3: Look at Trump's rambling or when he gets things wrong,
Speaker 3: which he does, and he does ramble and versus the thing,
Speaker 3: but you just heard him that they're not even in
Speaker 3: the same ballpark of mental decline. It's apples and volkswagons
Speaker 3: in terms.
Speaker 2: Of mental decline.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and if you but if you actually believe that,
Speaker 3: that's the why I want to bring this up.
Speaker 2: If you actually believe that you.
Speaker 3: Have the same level of lying to yourself delusion that
Speaker 3: allowed all this to happen because you're so wrong, because.
Speaker 2: You want it so badly to be true. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: take a long look at yourself. I don't know what
Speaker 2: else to suggest. Always say about looking in the mirror.
Speaker 2: If you don't know what introspection is, take a long,
Speaker 2: hard look at yourself. That was Trump commenting on the
Speaker 2: arrest of Democratic New Jersey congress gal Monica mc ivor
Speaker 2: what story, assaulted cops and ice officials and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: then tried to hide behind race and whatever else. The lunatic. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the charges against me are purely political. You're a hack,
Speaker 2: you're a liar, you assaulted a cop. Enjoy the criminal
Speaker 2: justice process. I hope it's long in our all.
Speaker 3: In the name of protecting illegal criminals.
Speaker 2: What Yeah, Well, keep going. Good look in that next election.
Speaker 2: So a slightly different topic, but oddly connected. There's a
Speaker 2: great piece by Will Swain in the National Review, who's
Speaker 2: been following California politics and Gavin Newsom's absurdities and the
Speaker 2: rest of that. He's also the president of the California
Speaker 2: Policy Center and is California and Will does great work.
Speaker 2: We ought to talk to him someday. I don't think
Speaker 2: we have. But so he's talking about as so many
Speaker 2: people have. The California Globe has done a good job
Speaker 2: on this too. Gavin Newsom's just shameless gas lighting on
Speaker 2: the homeless crisis, or shameless dodge on the homeless price
Speaker 2: crisis is Will Swain puts it, and how Gavy boy
Speaker 2: had the audacity and just I mean, you almost have
Speaker 2: to have a sense of humor to try to say
Speaker 2: the real problem that caused California's homeless crisis as it
Speaker 2: exists right now is Trump's tariffs. Wow. I mean, like, wow, wow.
Speaker 2: The guy's been governor and you know, a vice governor
Speaker 2: or whatever since was it twenty thirteen, twenty twelve. It
Speaker 2: sits in here somewhere. It's quite a while. And Trump's
Speaker 2: just I mean, I can't even it's not worth the
Speaker 2: time to shoot that down. It's inpetently ridiculous. But I mean,
Speaker 2: he's just trying so hard to come off as a moderate.
Speaker 2: As he said the other day, I've been always a
Speaker 2: hard headed pragmatist, he told reporters. The hard headed pragmatist
Speaker 2: did not mention that he has increased the state's budget
Speaker 2: by fifty percent since twenty eighteen. I didn't know that
Speaker 2: funding an array of boutique progressive programs. His green energy
Speaker 2: initiatives have killed the state's oil industry, wall jacking up
Speaker 2: the price gasol into the heist in the nation. He
Speaker 2: remains the state's cheerleader for a high speed rail project that,
Speaker 2: five years after it was supposed to be done, hasn't
Speaker 2: laid a foot of track, but has burned through at
Speaker 2: least thirty three billion dollars and probably more. Nothing screams
Speaker 2: pragmatists like the high speed rail, and most recently, he
Speaker 2: spent a budget busting ten billion dollars to extend medicaid
Speaker 2: benefits to illegal immigrants. He has also spent and this
Speaker 2: brings us to our main topic, twenty four billion dollars
Speaker 2: more than the annual budget of twenty two states, in
Speaker 2: a feckless effort to solve California's worse than the nation
Speaker 2: homeless crisis. That is where Amy Bublack comes in. Amy
Speaker 2: is the mayor of Turlock, California, which is not terribly
Speaker 2: far from the radio ranch. And we and the crew
Speaker 2: are very very well acquainted with Turlockians and spent many
Speaker 2: fine hours there and have many listeners there, and we
Speaker 2: greet you and thank you for listening. But she's the
Speaker 2: mayor of Turlock, which nobody has heard of around the country.
Speaker 2: But in the hours leading up to his horrific budget performance,
Speaker 2: which was when he was talking to reporters and said
Speaker 2: I'm a hard headed pragmatist, quoting a swam Here, Newsom
Speaker 2: seems to have had a kind of nineteenth nervous breakdown.
Speaker 2: Attempting to explain his whop high profile failure to eliminate
Speaker 2: homelessness despite spending billions, he blamed local officials as a taxpayer,
Speaker 2: not just governor. I'm not interested in funding failure anymore.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: I won't time to do your job. This is so rich.
Speaker 2: Californians are vomiting even as they listen. People are dying
Speaker 2: on their watch, dying on their way. I don't know
Speaker 2: how do these people get re elected? Oh wow, wow,
Speaker 2: Look at these encampments. They're a disgrace. They've been there
Speaker 2: for years and years and years. I've heard that same
Speaker 2: rhetoric for years. People are dying, kids are being born.
Speaker 2: They have been there for years and years. While you've
Speaker 2: been governor for years and years. Right, as Red State
Speaker 2: reporter pointed out, it's almost if he hadn't been either
Speaker 2: governor or lieutenant governor since twenty twelve. Mm. But here's
Speaker 2: the crazy part. Newsom decides that somebody needs a kicking,
Speaker 2: and it's going to be amy Bou Black of beautiful Turlock, California,
Speaker 2: Central Valley. He reserved his most lethlamo for Boo Black
Speaker 2: in a letter that his office leaked to reporters. She
Speaker 2: first learned of the governor's letter from a political reporter
Speaker 2: thirty or forty minutes before I got it in my email.
Speaker 2: Once she read it, I thought, quote, this is crazy.
Speaker 2: This man knows nothing about homelessness. Homelessness. He's going to
Speaker 2: talk to me, of all people, Newsom said to Boo
Speaker 2: Black in the letter, it is imperative that the city
Speaker 2: of reconsiderates priorities and demonstrate the kind of collaborative, accountable,
Speaker 2: and solution oriented leadership that this crisis demands. Enough, do
Speaker 2: your job. Here's what brought that on. The mayor's sin
Speaker 2: and the action that brought her to Gavy Boy's attention,
Speaker 2: her refusal to spend the symbolic sum of one dollar
Speaker 2: that would have unlocked a county homelessness homelessness grant of
Speaker 2: two hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars in state money. Now. Reporters,
Speaker 2: of course, dutifully conveyor belted the governor's letter into the
Speaker 2: state's largest news outlets, and Newsome then promoted their stories
Speaker 2: on x truly a lack of ridiculous, lack of local leadership,
Speaker 2: on absolute moral failure, he declared, throwing the amy bublacks
Speaker 2: of the state under the bus for his policies. California
Speaker 2: has invested billions to combat homelessness in Turlocke. Their only
Speaker 2: shelter is at risk over a single dollar. The state
Speaker 2: has done its part. Local leaders need to step up.
Speaker 2: So why would this monstrous woman not spend a dollar? Well,
Speaker 2: she explained that two hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars
Speaker 2: of California taxpayer money laundered through the county and then
Speaker 2: to we Care a homeless shelter in Turlock would have
Speaker 2: come with no accountability. People who live in the homes
Speaker 2: near the center have complained for months about the shelter's residents,
Speaker 2: who are not supposed to be in the facility during
Speaker 2: the day. They pee and poop and shoot up in
Speaker 2: the neighborhood. They steal from people, garages, the rest of it.
Speaker 2: And so the mayor says quote, Turlock City Council requested
Speaker 2: a simple reasonable condition that we we Care expand access
Speaker 2: to bathrooms twenty four hours a day, despite multiple discussions
Speaker 2: where we Care appeared amenable to this condition, they refused
Speaker 2: to make the commitment. Instead, they chose to attend two
Speaker 2: council meetings and publicly attack the council majority, believing public
Speaker 2: pressure and threats would overrize the override thoughtful decision makings.
Speaker 2: And we respect their efforts in addressing homelessness, but it's
Speaker 2: clear that the change in direction was needed. We could
Speaker 2: not in good conscience support a grant that did not
Speaker 2: address core community concerns or deliver greater accountability. In other words,
Speaker 2: no more unaccountable quarters of a million dollars. These people
Speaker 2: don't listen, They're not accountable. This is obscene and it's
Speaker 2: not helping the homeless people quote unquote who actually need help.
Speaker 2: I'm blowing the whistle on this.
Speaker 3: Well find out for that, Kevin knew some attacked or
Speaker 3: as we found out last year, tens and tens and
Speaker 3: ten of gazillions of dollars have been spent all over
Speaker 3: the state without anybody paying any attention to whether it
Speaker 3: did any good or not.
Speaker 2: There wasn't even a mechanism for it. That's right. When
Speaker 2: they tried to figure out whether there had been any
Speaker 2: results Gavin Newsom had to admit, no, we don't even
Speaker 2: have a way to figure that out. Yeah, and Amy said, no,
Speaker 2: we're not going to continue down the same path that's
Speaker 2: ruining our town. I'm calling this out and for that, Gavey,
Speaker 2: who's naked lust for the Oval office is just embarrassing,
Speaker 2: decided to go ahead and punch way down to stomp
Speaker 2: Amy Boublack to support his presidential aspirations.
Speaker 3: Man, he's in a tough place given state of California
Speaker 3: over the last several years.
Speaker 2: I don't know how. I don't know how he runs
Speaker 2: away from it. I don't think he can so. No,
Speaker 2: He's a clever son of a gun for sure, and
Speaker 2: he will try very hard. But I just think there's
Speaker 2: too much weight, you know. I tweeted a great picture
Speaker 2: of a bunch of junkies laying in their own filth
Speaker 2: and garbage everywhere, with the California state capital in the
Speaker 2: in the background. It was taken on Capitol Avenue, Capitol Street, kemdil.
Speaker 2: Very easy to do, Oh yeah yeah, and I captioned it.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, Gavin Newsom for president in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight. All fifty states can live the California dream.
Speaker 2: There's no way he can run away from his record.
Speaker 2: He'll try, but he will feel miserably and it will
Speaker 2: be a bitterly enjoyable to watch. I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 2: I hope the Good Lord grants me enough years that
Speaker 2: I witness it personally. Why are you trying to eighty
Speaker 2: six forty eight? So did the Secret Service actually go
Speaker 2: see James Comy?
Speaker 6: I don't know.
Speaker 2: He didn't interview this morning. Was there anything interesting Hanson there? Comy?
Speaker 3: I feel like that really revealed the Kmy being even
Speaker 3: more of a dips than I thought.
Speaker 2: What'd you do that for?
Speaker 6: You?
Speaker 2: Moron?
Speaker 8: Wow?
Speaker 2: You have no judgment whatsoever.
Speaker 3: I always thought his judgment was poor, but it's incredibly poor.
Speaker 2: I think if Komy thought he could get away with it,
Speaker 2: he would go around in a crown in a long
Speaker 2: purple road trimmed in white and black ermines.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna read this tweet I came across, and if
Speaker 3: you're you have to be a certain sort of person
Speaker 3: even get it.
Speaker 2: But it's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Tapper's book is like All the President's Men if it
Speaker 3: didn't name any of the men and was written by
Speaker 3: John Erlikhman.
Speaker 2: That is pretty good. If you know you that, that's
Speaker 2: really good.
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Speaker 1: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty, The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: Back to the Big Beautiful Bill. I have announced my departure,
Speaker 2: not only from the Republican Party but all politics. I've
Speaker 2: given up, thrown up my hands. I will be moving
Speaker 2: to Uruguay or Paraguay. I can never remember which one,
Speaker 2: right because I have forgotten. Yeah, well, because I've given up.
Speaker 2: But I found this very very interesting. Part of my
Speaker 2: despair is that the Republican Party has abandoned any pretense
Speaker 2: at taming the budget, reducing the deficit, reducing the debt,
Speaker 2: reigning in wildly out of control entitlement programs. And so
Speaker 2: you know, I've got no home. I'm a homeless man.
Speaker 2: I have no port in which to pull my little
Speaker 2: boat to safety. But I found this really, really interesting,
Speaker 2: and this is the reason why you know you ought
Speaker 2: to be on my side. The Trump administration recently promised
Speaker 2: that it will not cut Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to quote Phil Gram, the Great Philgram,
Speaker 2: Well I was quoting last week, Fiscal conservative slash saying
Speaker 2: of the past. Anyway, the determination not to reform retirement
Speaker 2: benefit entitlements is politically understandable. Third rail blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: But there is no reason to include Medicaid, the nation's
Speaker 2: most abused welfare program, in that pledge means tested welfare
Speaker 2: or welfare tied to a person's income level or means
Speaker 2: is the main driver of the budget deficit. It is
Speaker 2: not Social Security, which is almost ninety percent self funded
Speaker 2: by its dedicated payroll tax interest ninety percent self funded,
Speaker 2: or Medicare, which is fifty percent funded by premiums and
Speaker 2: payroll taxes. Spending on Medicaid IRS, cash welfare payments, and
Speaker 2: supplemental the SNAP program food stamps has grown in inflation
Speaker 2: adjusted dollars. Those three things. Spending on Medicaid, cash welfare
Speaker 2: payments that the fundable tax credits and SNAP have grown
Speaker 2: inflation adjusted by six hundred and seventy one percent, fourteen
Speaker 2: hundred and sixty three percent, and two hundred and ninety percent,
Speaker 2: respectively since nineteen ninety. By contrast, total real Medicare, Social Security,
Speaker 2: and Defense expenditures have grown by three hundred and eighty,
Speaker 2: three hundred and eighty six percent and thirty eight percent, respectively.
Speaker 2: Medicaid numbers, yeah they are actually, but Medicaid absorbs seven
Speaker 2: times as much general revenue as Social Security. Wow, more
Speaker 2: than Social Security and medicare combined. I did not know that.
Speaker 2: I know nobody's talking about this. Medicaid is this gigantic monster.
Speaker 2: It's like Frankenstein if it was the side of Godzilla,
Speaker 2: you know, just stomping across the countryside, crushing entire villages.
Speaker 3: So when we talk about people, you know, able bodied
Speaker 3: people leeching off us taxpayers, this is the program where
Speaker 3: they're doing a lot of it.
Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, correct, And it has to do. And you know,
Speaker 2: part of me wishes we had time. Part of me
Speaker 2: is glad that we don't uh to explain the bizarre
Speaker 2: states intentionally tax hospitals and doctors so then they can
Speaker 2: spend more than they can build a federal government more
Speaker 2: for Medicaid. Then the federal government gives them more money
Speaker 2: for Medicaid, which they then give back to the doctors
Speaker 2: and hospitals, and the stupid, stupid federal taxpayer pays for
Speaker 2: all of it. It's just this giant scam slash scheme.
Speaker 3: We actually have the great Craig Gottwalals on tomorrow to
Speaker 3: probably explain some of this.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah he did. Yeah, he's a perfect I'd ask
Speaker 2: about this. But it all has to do with Obamacare
Speaker 2: and the Medicaid expansion. Do you remember that? And a
Speaker 2: lot of Red states said no, we don't want this money,
Speaker 2: and they were criticized, how dare you deny medical care
Speaker 2: to pay? And the Blue states accepted it. Well. Now,
Speaker 2: as has been discussed at least somewhat lately, federal tax
Speaker 2: pay for ninety percent of the bills of healthy, working
Speaker 2: age men who get Medicaid, poor pregnant ladies get I
Speaker 2: think it's a third. It's so perverse and upside down.
Speaker 2: One final point, and this is actually the main point
Speaker 2: of Phil Graham's article, which I found really interesting. The
Speaker 2: title is the Census defines the poverty rate Up and Jack,
Speaker 2: this is something you have hit many times through the years.
Speaker 2: But during the War on Poverty, the government adopted a
Speaker 2: common sense definition of poverty having resources that are not
Speaker 2: enough to meet basic needs. The problem is they didn't
Speaker 2: scale a lot of this to inflation. Some of it
Speaker 2: they did, but they've begun not counting government transfers. Eighty
Speaker 2: eight percent of government transfers that poor quote unquote poor
Speaker 2: people get are not counted. When you ask, all right,
Speaker 2: is this person poor? Do they need mo more stuff,
Speaker 2: more aid, that sort of thing, they pretend that all
Speaker 2: the rest of the government aid hadn't happened.
Speaker 3: Right, So if you're living on using my finger was
Speaker 3: living on twenty eight thousand dollars a year, somehow they
Speaker 3: only count that for political purposes when they're making arguments.
Speaker 3: They don't count the maybe another eighty thousand dollars you
Speaker 3: might be getting in all kinds of transfer payments, all
Speaker 3: kinds of different stuff, housing subsidies, food help, medical help,
Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: Doesn't count it, and adjusted for inflation. Now those classified
Speaker 2: as poor have almost twenty times the purchasing power they
Speaker 2: had when the War on Poverty began, Yet they're still
Speaker 2: called poor people for the purposes of growing these programs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have talked about this. Forer is that needs
Speaker 3: to be straightened out. That would be a huge change
Speaker 3: in our politics. We could let more people know that
Speaker 3: are strong.
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