Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong and
Speaker 1: Jetty Enough he Armsronget Lie from studio scene. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: we're in a dimly lit room deep with from the
Speaker 1: bowels of the Armstrong and Getty Communications compound. Today Tuesday,
Speaker 1: we're under the tutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 2: The pardon herd around the world. Oh are you telling
Speaker 2: me there's still reverberations?
Speaker 1: Oh please, it's server verberating like a crazy server vibrator.
Speaker 1: I almost went with the real Joe Biden because his
Speaker 1: latest episode is completely typical of Joe Biden. The idea
Speaker 1: that it's a shock, it's a surprise old Scranton show
Speaker 1: that was an entirely media created the fake image. So
Speaker 1: how you doing. Welcome to the show. We have the
Speaker 1: news of the rage. Thanks for outraged, I tell you,
Speaker 1: as you can hear from the sound of Joe's voice,
Speaker 1: he is outraged. I uh stepped on the scale and
Speaker 1: got punched in the face again. The struggle is real.
Speaker 1: So that will continue to be a big part of
Speaker 1: my life view that there is more to me to love. Yes,
Speaker 1: the struggle against the real colonial oppressor gravity. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I just heard this as I walked in the door.
Speaker 1: I was very happy to hear this. Sometimes the government
Speaker 1: does things, I like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, whatever
Speaker 1: that is. I'm sure they have a budget of eighteen
Speaker 1: trillion dollars is I'm like, uh, we're gonna get new
Speaker 1: rules in the United States for the way they share
Speaker 1: your data. Finally, and it should really really put a
Speaker 1: dent in the every time you buy something, it means
Speaker 1: they sell all your data and now you get texts
Speaker 1: and emails from fifty different companies you've never done business with.
Speaker 1: That'd be like an account of each and every datum. Personally,
Speaker 1: is that that's the singular of data, right datum? Don't
Speaker 1: ask me. I et latino. I don't speak that. I
Speaker 1: don't know that sounds fantastic, but I would love if
Speaker 1: that happened. And the other news story I saw just
Speaker 1: as I was walking through the door. Did you see
Speaker 1: sixty minutes on Sunday night? I did not, Oh man.
Speaker 1: The first story about Notre Dame was really good because
Speaker 1: they've unveiled the remaking of the cathedral there in part
Speaker 1: oh after that horrible fire years ago two thousand. Artisans
Speaker 1: who like still have the old timey specialty of certain
Speaker 1: kinds of woodworking and metal forging and stuff like that
Speaker 1: at you know, like kind of people you see at
Speaker 1: the Fair of blacksmith that sort of sure still has
Speaker 1: those skills doing stuff in the old timey way, and
Speaker 1: they real beat the whole thing and it looks absolutely amazing.
Speaker 1: It's good to go for many many more centuries now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I saw Twitter thread on it the other day, and
Speaker 1: I agree it was astounding. Unfortunately, those old timey craftsmen
Speaker 1: will be boring friends and relatives with the tales of
Speaker 1: their grade moment for the rest of their natural lives.
Speaker 2: Finally, somebody wanted my skill.
Speaker 1: The phone rang. Do you know who it was? It was? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the Assistant Minister of Antiquities. You've told me
Speaker 1: the story like five times. It was the Assistant Minister
Speaker 1: of Antiquities, and he said, we need an ivery smith.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. Ah. I I laying in bed last
Speaker 1: night watching John Stewart on The Daily Show, Tara part
Speaker 1: Joe Biden for that pardoner you're still outraged about.
Speaker 2: It was really good stuff.
Speaker 1: It was mostly visual Unfortunately we can't play it on
Speaker 1: the air because it was just so much visually. But
Speaker 1: it was really really good and it was uh, it
Speaker 1: was what most of America is feeling about.
Speaker 2: The whole thing is just Okay, we get it.
Speaker 1: So you're rich and powerful, you get to do things,
Speaker 1: you get to you get to complain about all this stuff,
Speaker 1: but it happens to you. You have to get around
Speaker 1: the world, and you lied for years about I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna pardon my son, and then you do just al whatever.
Speaker 1: And now people are coming out and saying, yeah, we
Speaker 1: had a meeting about it, and we said we're gonna
Speaker 1: claim he's not going to, but then he's going to,
Speaker 1: and don't don't be a little KJP continues to deny.
Speaker 1: This is as you're you know, indicating this is one
Speaker 1: of those news stories that does not confuse or distort
Speaker 1: or cloud people's understanding. This is clarity, folks, This is
Speaker 1: the way it really is. Fox and Friends was saying
Speaker 1: KJP should have resigned yesterday and said, I'm not going
Speaker 1: out there and defending this. I went out there. I've
Speaker 1: actually got the list. Put out the list yesterday somebody
Speaker 1: did of all the dates that Joe Biden. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: said The Hill, which is a liberal newspaper website, put
Speaker 1: out all the dates that they officially made the statement
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden wouldn't pardon Hunter. And it's a lot
Speaker 1: of them and KGP should have resigned and said you can't,
Speaker 1: you can't. I can't. I went out there fifteen times
Speaker 1: with my own mouth and said you weren't gonna Borro,
Speaker 1: and now I can't go out there and explain why
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're changing your mind unless you're
Speaker 1: gonna give me something better to say.
Speaker 2: That would have been an honorable thing to do, I think.
Speaker 1: And but you know, well, if your boss repeatedly makes
Speaker 1: you look like a jackass, the only reason you don't
Speaker 1: resign is because you are indeed a jackass, And so
Speaker 1: why would you John Stuart plag maybe we had this
Speaker 1: clip yesterday, but it was one when Joe Biden was
Speaker 1: asked by David Muir on ABC News. He was more
Speaker 1: specific and because David Muir said, have you made a decision,
Speaker 1: and he said, yes, I have, and I'm not going
Speaker 1: to pardon my son. So he specifically said, you know,
Speaker 1: I've thought it over, made the decision and this is
Speaker 1: what I've decided, right right well, And you know, there's
Speaker 1: part of me that feels like there's no point in
Speaker 1: trying to point out the dishonesty of it and squaring
Speaker 1: his statements with the result. But it's probably worth going
Speaker 1: through at least a little bit in that he said
Speaker 1: he made the decision and then apparently he changed his mind,
Speaker 1: But he didn't say, Look, I changed my mind out
Speaker 1: of an outpouring of love for my son, and I
Speaker 1: know people won't disapprove. No, he he strung together this
Speaker 1: utterly ridiculous, condemned on all sides, just unforgivably fanciful account
Speaker 1: of how his own justice department singled out his boy
Speaker 1: and because of the pressure of the Republicans that persecuted him.
Speaker 2: They how did him like I get escaped convict.
Speaker 1: When everybody but he knows it was exactly the opposite.
Speaker 1: You've got iris whistleblowers coming out and saying and risking
Speaker 1: their entire lives and careers, saying, Hey, this guy committed
Speaker 1: all sorts of crimes and we're letting them get away
Speaker 1: with it. What's happening here? Yes, Brenton, Joe, die or
Speaker 1: resign or go away? Yeah, Sir. John Stewart on The
Speaker 1: Daily Show had a different point about that, but I
Speaker 1: think that will be in our opening clips. So let's
Speaker 1: start the show officially. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's Joe Getty
Speaker 1: on this It is Tuesday, December third, there, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Life will not be a born twenty four. It certainly hasn't.
Speaker 1: And we are Armstrong, You Getti. We approved of this program.
Speaker 1: All right, let's begin then officially according to f SEC
Speaker 1: rules of regulations, here we go at Mark Shaid, I
Speaker 1: ad buy by the jury decision.
Speaker 3: I'll do that and I'll not.
Speaker 1: Partner, letting the world know that he will not wipe
Speaker 1: away the decision of twelve of his son's peers. Was
Speaker 1: asked directly, and he has said he wouldn't pardon his
Speaker 1: son if he gets convicted. Let's see what happens if
Speaker 1: he loveses. Yeah, but I mean, but he said it.
Speaker 1: He's going to get pardoned by his dad. There's no
Speaker 1: question about that. The President has ruled out pardoning his son.
Speaker 1: Major commitment from the President accepting the outcome of the
Speaker 1: trial and also pledging not to pardon his son. We
Speaker 1: are nine minutes of talking heads and commentators saying, this
Speaker 1: man has made it clear that he's not going to
Speaker 1: this question should stop coming. He's a man of honor,
Speaker 1: he's old Scranton Joe. Well. The thing John Stewart is
Speaker 1: most outraged about. He had a montage of Democrats during
Speaker 1: the campaign talking about the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Speaker 2: We believe the courts, we accept the results.
Speaker 1: Even our president with his own son, has said he
Speaker 1: will accept the results and will not pardon him because
Speaker 1: we believe in the And John Stewart's thing was, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're a dad, you decide to partner your kid.
Speaker 2: Lots of us would have done that. We can all
Speaker 2: understand that.
Speaker 1: But you sent all those people out there to say
Speaker 1: this when you were planning to do this all along.
Speaker 2: That not good at all.
Speaker 1: No, they're they're liars. They are lying liars. They have
Speaker 1: no principles. All they do they use principles as weapons.
Speaker 1: They don't actually own those principles. They don't internalize them.
Speaker 1: They put them on and take them off like a jacket.
Speaker 1: Then go, yeah, we talked about the tax stuff yesterday,
Speaker 1: so you're the party of when will the rich pay
Speaker 1: their fair share? And then here's a rich guy who
Speaker 1: wasn't paying anything, let alone his fair share, and feloniously
Speaker 1: lying about it and covering it up. Yes, but the
Speaker 1: gun part, I was watching zoom thing with Spicer, Trump's
Speaker 1: former White House spokesperson say it. The Democrats are done.
Speaker 1: They can't ever talk about guns again. They're always talking
Speaker 1: about background checks and registration and wanting more registration. Here
Speaker 1: and there you got Hunter Biden who didn't register, lied
Speaker 1: on registration, took the gun through it and threw it
Speaker 1: in the bushes near a school, right and you're gonna
Speaker 1: and he gets off, and combine, please, with coast to coast,
Speaker 1: you have Democrat das who refuse to add gun enhancements
Speaker 1: to prosecutions. For instance, they refuse to prosecute people for
Speaker 1: gun offenses at all if those people happen to be
Speaker 1: more tan than me. So please quit with your phony,
Speaker 1: phony principles. So mostly, of course it all gets covered
Speaker 1: as one side's up, one sides down, our side against
Speaker 1: your side. This makes you look bad, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But sure, ultimately the thirty thousand foot view, which bothers me,
Speaker 1: is just more cynicism, just more nobody believes anything, nobody
Speaker 1: trusts any of it, nobody takes any of it seriously.
Speaker 1: That is not good. That is not good. As we
Speaker 1: reach I don't know. I thought we have reached peak
Speaker 1: cynicism many times, but we keep going further.
Speaker 2: How would you blame us?
Speaker 1: How would you blame us for feeling this way? We
Speaker 1: the public? You know, I wish I had the AI
Speaker 1: at work. I could do you a quick illustration in
Speaker 1: Twitter so you can see what I'm thinking, what I
Speaker 1: see in my mind. But what I'm seeing is a
Speaker 1: big field. It's like a spectrum of naivete. And then
Speaker 1: over here there's bitter cynicism, a big it's probably dark purple.
Speaker 1: But right there in the middle is like a narrow
Speaker 1: band of realism. Somewhere between delusional naivete and being scammed
Speaker 1: by these politicians ridiculous promises and then being so pissed
Speaker 1: off you can't you don't even care anymore. Somewhere is
Speaker 1: the sweet spot of being skeptical yet caring. That's what
Speaker 1: I would like to lead you all to. Somehow I
Speaker 1: will fail at this, but it keeps me busy during
Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, they don't make it easy. Gives me
Speaker 1: off those streets how about Trump saying, and then we'll
Speaker 1: take our break. How about Trump saying to Trudeau yesterday
Speaker 1: Trudeau was saying, our economy would collapse, Our economy would
Speaker 1: collapse with those tarraffs, and Trump says, you can't survive
Speaker 1: with those with those tariffs. Well, then why don't you
Speaker 1: become our fifty first state and you can be the governor?
Speaker 1: Hilarious and and Trudeau laughed uneasily. What I'm to say
Speaker 1: to a foreign leader? Anyway?
Speaker 2: How does mailbag look? It's it's quite good.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it text line four one, five, two
Speaker 1: nine five k FTZ players. By the way, we'll get
Speaker 1: back to it later in the show. But there is
Speaker 1: some reporting and a couple of different news places about
Speaker 1: how the pardon decision was made and how Jill was
Speaker 1: pushing it and how they came to that conclusion over
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving and everything. And we'll talk about that later. Just
Speaker 1: as long as the Biden family's out of politics and gone,
Speaker 1: please go away, go away, mummy. Here's your freedom loving
Speaker 1: quote of the day. It's from Jay William Fulbright. Perhaps
Speaker 1: you've heard of him. The Scholarship, et cetera. Continuing our
Speaker 1: series on law is the essential foundation of stability and order,
Speaker 1: both within societies and in international relations. I would point
Speaker 1: out that a society or in international relationship, if you
Speaker 1: have no sanctions that will be enforced and are sufficient
Speaker 1: to discourage the undesired behavior, then you don't have law.
Speaker 1: International law is mostly a joke, and I would argue
Speaker 1: that the postmodernist, neo Marxist Democratic Party has turned domestic
Speaker 1: lawn into a bit of a joke too. But we'll
Speaker 1: see whether Donald Jay and his troops can overcome that mailbag.
Speaker 1: You who Matthew, Idaho farmhand right? Oh, it's mail bag
Speaker 1: at Armstrong in getty dot com. Drop us a note
Speaker 1: sometimes continue, good to have you back. You're missed, but
Speaker 1: it's great to have the refreshed perspective and added verve
Speaker 1: that you bring back from vacation. All the verve I'm
Speaker 1: afraid of underver But anyway, thank you. He's gonna remind
Speaker 1: me to bet on politics because I predict these things,
Speaker 1: and I never lay any money down because I just
Speaker 1: don't think of it. But anyway, and then he says,
Speaker 1: on the rush of gay marriages and preparations for Trump's
Speaker 1: certain crackdown, it reminds me reminds one of Obama's on sets,
Speaker 1: A certain crowd rushed to by firearms dead off is
Speaker 1: his expected dismantling of the Second Amendment. Come on, American,
Speaker 1: why must we veer from guardrail to guardrail? Steady? Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah that's true. Yeah, that's true. Here's a certain personality
Speaker 1: that enjoys the crisis. Oh absolutely, yeah. Yeah, to get
Speaker 1: fired up, to be afraid, to be under threat, to
Speaker 1: join together to fight the evil to it's a good feeling.
Speaker 1: I think it's part of us as human beings. You
Speaker 1: just gotta be careful where you direct it. Anyway. One
Speaker 1: of my favorite notes of the day and the week
Speaker 1: probably from Mary in the Hoe more than guys on
Speaker 1: the We agree thankfully that the Black Friday craze seems
Speaker 1: to be over, but for some reason, people are still
Speaker 1: looking back all wistfully on that nonsense like it was
Speaker 1: awesome and being all remember when we'd wake up super
Speaker 1: early and it would be pitch black and crowded and freezing. Ma'am,
Speaker 1: you're describing being a coal miner in eighteen thirty six.
Speaker 1: Resist me much, Mary in the Hoe. Thank you, Mary,
Speaker 1: that's very funny.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: Eric in Beautiful Astoria Oregon, guys, on your excellent program Monday,
Speaker 1: in vote to General Che's Chicken in the same vein
Speaker 1: as the Chinese Communist Party. I'm sorry the Chinese Communist
Speaker 1: Horde Sacre Blue. As you well know, General Cho's Chicken
Speaker 1: was created by the personal chef to none other than
Speaker 1: Generallyssiumo Chang Kai Shek, whose anti communist credentials against Chaikom
Speaker 1: tyranny are incontrovertible. I expect a full public retraction. Consider
Speaker 1: it retracted. And I'd happen to know your nickname is
Speaker 1: not stir Fries, so don't sign your emails like that.
Speaker 1: See what's up, stir Fry. Here's a Tommy in Texas.
Speaker 1: Let's see on the topic of Hunter. Sorry, guys, if
Speaker 1: my fifty four year old son was in this much trouble,
Speaker 1: I'd let him rot in jail. I'd feel sorry, I
Speaker 1: might be ashamed I didn't raise him correctly, but I'd
Speaker 1: let him face the consequences. It's not like he's an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old punk. He's fifty four. Well, he's been
Speaker 1: set out sober for five years. And if you believed
Speaker 1: he's you know, turned it around, Yeah, well then why
Speaker 1: didn't he say, hey, when I was wasted, I didn't
Speaker 1: pay my taxes. I need to get this right. No,
Speaker 1: he lied and perjured and covered up when he was
Speaker 1: so he was busy becoming a painter. All right. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Tommy goes on to say, Hunter's a scumbag. Do you
Speaker 1: think it's possible he went to Dad and said, pardon me,
Speaker 1: or I'll write a book about us, or go to
Speaker 1: the press and tell him something about our sideline business
Speaker 1: hosing down governments for profit. I think it was probably
Speaker 1: an unspoken understanding, Tommy, But you're on the right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: more on that to come. Obviously a lot of people
Speaker 1: wanted to weigh in. Yeah, that's a good one. So uh,
Speaker 1: we didn't mention what's going on around the world much yesterday.
Speaker 1: And what's good? How about Syria? Wow?
Speaker 2: Did that explode over the last couple of days.
Speaker 1: And Russia and Iran's involved in that whole bunch of
Speaker 1: different stuff we can talk about to day.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 4: We are seeing the woman who managed to sneak past
Speaker 4: airport workers and onto an international delta flight from JFK
Speaker 4: to Paris. According to sources, the woman was so unruly
Speaker 4: she had to be removed and she remains in France.
Speaker 4: The TSA says the woman bypassed the ID check podium,
Speaker 4: went through security, then slipped past a Delta gate agent.
Speaker 4: The crew and passengers noticing the woman would never sit down.
Speaker 2: During the flight.
Speaker 1: She was seen moving from one laboratory to another, never
Speaker 1: actually going to a passenger seat.
Speaker 4: French officials telling ABC News the suspected stowaway passenger is
Speaker 4: a Russian national and a legal resident of the US.
Speaker 1: And I wasn't paying attention to beginning she got on
Speaker 1: it JFK. Is that what I remember? Yeah, so, and oh,
Speaker 1: there'd never be any terrorism at JFK. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to come off as uh, you know, because you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't be one hundred percent right on a TSA.
Speaker 1: They're never going to get it, all right. But the
Speaker 1: pat down of my son that lasted a ridiculously long time,
Speaker 1: got pulled out a line and like going up the
Speaker 1: crotch and around the back and under his hat and
Speaker 1: then looked behind his ears because his hair is long,
Speaker 1: and just like they might have grenades back there. Since
Speaker 1: no white teenagers have ever done anything ever in the
Speaker 1: history of airfare, but this woman just walks in and gets.
Speaker 2: On a plane. I just I just feel like I
Speaker 2: don't know what.
Speaker 1: Are you doing? Yeah, there need to be more whistleblowers
Speaker 1: from the TSA, more of the blue shirts. You come
Speaker 1: forward and say, hey, here's what they make us do,
Speaker 1: and we got to check a box and show we
Speaker 1: did this number of that. Well, when they need to
Speaker 1: have a vote, when we'll raise our hands in somebody
Speaker 1: way up. I can count all across America the raising
Speaker 1: of the hands, how many people would be okay with?
Speaker 1: How about you don't pull out randomly people so it
Speaker 1: makes looky look like you look makes it look like
Speaker 1: you check young women, babies, and white kids the same
Speaker 1: amount as you check islam Muslim men from Africa who
Speaker 1: are twenty five years old. How about we don't worry
Speaker 1: you're chanting angrily under their breast.
Speaker 2: How we don't worry about that?
Speaker 1: And they just go with like their gut feeling who
Speaker 1: they think might be somebody to worry about. You have
Speaker 1: so diagnosed it. Yeah, there it is, k there it
Speaker 1: is yeah, I know. Speaking of law and order, Well,
Speaker 1: this is just a lovely, lovely development. There are so
Speaker 1: many people getting their packages porch pirated that you can
Speaker 1: now get insurance on your delivery. Nearly half of shoppers
Speaker 1: expect to have at least one delivery get snatched up
Speaker 1: during this holiday season.
Speaker 2: WHOA, I've never had that hat.
Speaker 1: Well, I guess I have a very minor I left
Speaker 1: my pallette of water sitting outside that the door dash
Speaker 1: delivered way too long and somebody took it. I think
Speaker 1: that's like a whole pallette of pallette. But I get
Speaker 1: them by the twenty four pack of the bottles. Oh okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just didn't bring it in. Yeah. Thieves who grab
Speaker 1: packages off the front porch would become so common that
Speaker 1: shoppers now spend hundreds of dollars to protect themselves. Ah
Speaker 1: to tur the porch pirates, Americans are shelling out for
Speaker 1: such high gadgets as doorbell cameras four hundred dollars, lock boxes,
Speaker 1: self service locker rental. Interesting. I'll bet that's gonna become
Speaker 1: a thing everybody will have, like a little locked like
Speaker 1: the trunk sitting by the door. It'll just be part
Speaker 1: of every house and delivery box. Well, I would agree,
Speaker 1: and it'll be sunk into the concrete and impossible to move.
Speaker 1: And that sort of thing, depending on the quality you get.
Speaker 1: Also to deter the the scumbag thieves. I almost hate
Speaker 1: to call them porch pirates because it brings to mind
Speaker 1: Johnny Depp and are in good times. No, they're they're
Speaker 1: I almost used an unfortunate word on the air. That's
Speaker 1: imagine the kids and how shocked they would have been.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I didn't. But they're blanken thieves. They're scumbags.
Speaker 1: To deter them, oh said that already. Now, there's also
Speaker 1: insurance porch Pals, a subscription based startup that launches nationwide yesterday,
Speaker 1: I guess says it will cover the cost of your
Speaker 1: stolen packages one hundred and twenty bucks a year, covers
Speaker 1: up to two thousand dollars worth of deliveries or up
Speaker 1: take three claims in this case, which is your case,
Speaker 1: is probably the way it works. You having tried to
Speaker 1: collect on a ups thing in a variety of other
Speaker 1: insurance policies I've purchased before, it is, but not in
Speaker 1: this case except in high crime areas. Yeah, exactly, which
Speaker 1: they will declare the day that you get your things stolen? Right?
Speaker 1: Did you request a special signed for personal fingerprinted delivery.
Speaker 1: What now, sorry, oh right, reec. Yeah, which is a
Speaker 1: pain in the ass. And except for really really expensive
Speaker 1: stuff I'm never going to do because I'm not home. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I will concede that a portion of the lawlessness of
Speaker 1: porch piratry is just opportunity, because I mean, back in
Speaker 1: the day, you just didn't have nearly you didn't have
Speaker 1: a fraction of the stuff sitting on your front porches
Speaker 1: as people do these days. On the other end, part
Speaker 1: of it's just another example of the current of lawlessness,
Speaker 1: the feeling that minor and medium and sometimes major offenses
Speaker 1: are ignored in this postmodern neo Marxist the justice regime
Speaker 1: that the George Gascones of the world, and you know
Speaker 1: the list, Kim Fox, all these people. Well, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: it brought us, as you mentioned last week or a
Speaker 1: week before that, in a lot of neighborhoods my neighborhood,
Speaker 1: your neighborhood, there's a FedEx or Amazon or ups van
Speaker 1: constantly coming and going.
Speaker 2: I mean it's constant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And because so many people get so many things
Speaker 1: or door dash or the target delivery, which I do,
Speaker 1: and I live in a neighborhood where it's unlikely that
Speaker 1: you know, anything's gonna get stolen, so I don't worry
Speaker 1: about it much. But I'll bet we do come up
Speaker 1: with a fix for this, and that makes sense to me.
Speaker 1: Every home will have some sort of lock box thingy,
Speaker 1: or you could execute porch pirates like we did horse
Speaker 1: thieves hangings. I don't know. I'm just thinking out of
Speaker 1: the box here, so to speak. Current lawlessness is a
Speaker 1: big part of this, so much of it as culture,
Speaker 1: and I think about this a lot. I find it fascinating.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you can do about it. But
Speaker 1: I grew up in cultures my whole life where it
Speaker 1: left your door open and your keys in your car.
Speaker 1: Everybody did and it wasn't a problem ever. And you
Speaker 1: remember the movie Bowling for Columbine way back in the day,
Speaker 1: Michael Moore was up in Canada and going around and
Speaker 1: amused that he could go through this neighborhood and just
Speaker 1: walk up and open people's doors. Their doors are unlocked.
Speaker 1: You can have a culture where that is the thing.
Speaker 1: How do you hold on to that, I don't know,
Speaker 1: or how do you get it back? Part of it
Speaker 1: is what you were saying, you have to punish people
Speaker 1: who violated. Yeah, but that's not what was going on
Speaker 1: any of the places I lived.
Speaker 2: It just didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Well, right, Part of that was a sense of community
Speaker 1: and all that implies a a common set of values,
Speaker 1: which is incredibly important and which we have to a
Speaker 1: large extent given away in the name of diversity and
Speaker 1: immigration and such in the United States. And there are
Speaker 1: absolutely pluses and minuses to everything. I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: entirely one or the other. You have that a loss
Speaker 1: of common cultural values, loss of repercussions, and we just
Speaker 1: don't know, oh our neighbors. It used to be the
Speaker 1: humiliation of being branded a scumbag was enough to keep
Speaker 1: people in line. You'd be born, you'd grow up, you
Speaker 1: might croak in the same town, John Mellencamp style, and
Speaker 1: so no, you didn't, dare run a foul of your
Speaker 1: community's standards.
Speaker 2: This is a very Burkian notion.
Speaker 1: But the culture thing is so much bigger than we
Speaker 1: give it credit, and impossible to understand how you create
Speaker 1: it or get it back or mold it right. Once
Speaker 1: it's off track. To the point that you're aware it's
Speaker 1: off track, you've got a hell of a task and
Speaker 1: well you might have centuries to change out. I don't
Speaker 1: have that all right, So yeah, another great example of
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Speaker 1: headline is so great from the Free Press, Olivia Reinold.
Speaker 1: No wonder he's smiling. He's gotten away with it so
Speaker 1: many times. It's a story about this TDA the trendy
Speaker 1: Aragua Venezuelan gang immigrant gang member robbed a Manhattan prosecutor
Speaker 1: inside her own home last month. Jeeze, man, if somebody
Speaker 1: came into my home to rob me, I would think
Speaker 1: I'm going to die. Well, here's the deal. It's worse
Speaker 1: than that. It was quite later, as after midnight, and
Speaker 1: a thirty eight year old woman, Yes, I would definitely
Speaker 1: think I was going to die. Oh yeah. A thirty
Speaker 1: eight year old woman is getting home in Hell's Kitchen
Speaker 1: near Times Square, New York City. Man followed her through
Speaker 1: the front door of her building. He demanded cash and
Speaker 1: motioned that he might have a gun in his pocket,
Speaker 1: so she tossed him her phone, ID in credit card,
Speaker 1: but then he cornered her and masturbated in front of
Speaker 1: her for several moments. According to prosecutor, you, well, the
Speaker 1: woman stood terrified, cowering in the corner of her Stairwe
Speaker 1: you this this young model citizen. Well, no, he's not
Speaker 1: a model anything. And he's not a citizen. Twenty five
Speaker 1: year old Brandon Simosa Venezuelan. Why are people saying migrant
Speaker 1: these days? Immigrant with links to TDA? And the woman
Speaker 1: he robbed was no ordinary victim. She's a New York
Speaker 1: City prosecutor who works to put scumbags like this guy
Speaker 1: behind bars. But the victim works for Alvin Bragg, the
Speaker 1: infamous Manhattan District Attorney. The very sort of guy was
Speaker 1: just talking about who has skipped across that there is
Speaker 1: downgraded sixty percent of felony cases the lesser charges, while
Speaker 1: declining to prosecute fourteen percent of all arrests last year.
Speaker 1: The anointed one, according to Lawrence O'Donnell, for going after
Speaker 1: Donald Trump for those ridiculed ills falsifying business records. Is
Speaker 1: better known for his track record of freeing criminals like
Speaker 1: and there's a long, long list But so anyway, this
Speaker 1: Samosa guy, that was his seventh arrest since June, and
Speaker 1: the New York authorities just kept turning him loose on
Speaker 1: the streets. What kind of society, getting back to our
Speaker 1: discussion of the way it used to be here is
Speaker 1: still this is a place? What sort of society do you
Speaker 1: think you're gonna end up with if a guy can
Speaker 1: get arrested seven times in When did this happen November?
Speaker 1: In six months barely with no repercussions? Good lord, I
Speaker 1: feel like the world has lost its mind. Right. That's well.
Speaker 1: We started the show talking about how the Hunter Biden
Speaker 1: pardon makes, you know, adds to cynicism. How about this, Well,
Speaker 1: the good news is we can't do anything about Hunter
Speaker 1: Biden unless there's some sort of major restructuring of the
Speaker 1: pardon power to the presidency. But voting for DA's, voting
Speaker 1: for county attorneys for the people who appoint them or
Speaker 1: run that sort of stuff. Man, that's got to become
Speaker 1: part of your political consciousness. I don't know, it is
Speaker 1: so crazy, and thank god it hasn't happened to me,
Speaker 1: although kind of practically did and got a similar reaction.
Speaker 1: But that woman might be pretty hard bitten being a
Speaker 1: prosecutor in New York City. But just for the average person,
Speaker 1: you basically get a gun stuck in your face, run
Speaker 1: rob a gunpoint, worried you're gonna die. Then the guy's
Speaker 1: masturbating in front of youst tonight, you think you're going
Speaker 1: to be raped. You would never be the same after
Speaker 1: that ever again in your life. You will never ever
Speaker 1: walk down a street at night into a room by
Speaker 1: yourself ever without thinking about that again in your life.
Speaker 1: And then when you find out the guy's been arrested
Speaker 1: seven times in the last six months and let go,
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you deal with that?
Speaker 2: With that going nuts?
Speaker 1: So I want to reapproach this next hour because obviously
Speaker 1: this is a problem in and of it self. But
Speaker 1: here's the deal. This Samosa scumbag is one of nearly
Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen thousand immigrants the city is absorbed
Speaker 1: in just the last two years. And the word has
Speaker 1: gotten into Central America that a great, crazy, profitable place
Speaker 1: to do crimes is the United States of America, particularly
Speaker 1: this list of cities. So these guys are not well.
Speaker 1: I almost said they're not coming for a better life,
Speaker 1: but they are in a way. It's not the classic
Speaker 1: immigrant story. They're like, hey, you four, Jose Pedro whatever.
Speaker 1: We need you guys to get to New York City.
Speaker 1: You need to set up a crime syndicate and send
Speaker 1: the profits back to the main line. It's essentially opening
Speaker 1: field offices. Don't worry these criminal gangs, and don't worry
Speaker 1: if you get caught, to let you out again. Precisely
Speaker 1: yet on this guy and how it all works. Next hour,
Speaker 1: stay with us. We got Katie's headlines on the way.
Speaker 1: Stay here, Michael.
Speaker 2: I apologize. I just door dashed donuts to the radio station.
Speaker 1: Why well, I needed to door dash my cream because I'm
Speaker 1: out of my cream for my coffee and I gotta
Speaker 1: have my special cream. And I thought I get donuts
Speaker 1: because people bring donuts all time. I never bring anything.
Speaker 1: I'm a taker. Oh, I thought I was going to
Speaker 1: accuse you of KJP style rambling bull crap to just no,
Speaker 1: that's I'm buying that. That's good people bringing big goods
Speaker 1: all the time. I never bring anything. So I ordered some.
Speaker 1: But I could have gotten like bagels and cream, cheese
Speaker 1: or something healthy or what's that new healthy thing beans.
Speaker 1: I should have eaten some beans. Nice bean salad. It's
Speaker 1: good for you.
Speaker 2: A bean salad in the lunch room, Jack order it.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Let's figure out who's reporting what perhaps about beans.
Speaker 1: It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 2: Katie, Well, thank you guys.
Speaker 3: Starting with the NBC News Hunter Biden pardon fuels Trump's
Speaker 3: weaponization arguments.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, I mean bobs.
Speaker 1: The big other shoe to drop is it does Biden
Speaker 1: pardon his brother or any of the other people involved
Speaker 1: in this whole thing? And then it just becomes completely
Speaker 1: obvious when it's all about it's entirely possible. James Biden
Speaker 1: is sood am old it might not matter. But yeah,
Speaker 1: since he's not like up for being sentenced for anything, right,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden can wait till you know, the last hour
Speaker 1: in office, like presidents generally do, including Trump.
Speaker 3: From the New York Times, Cash Patel has a plan
Speaker 3: to remake the FBI into a tool of Trump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pluses and minus says we can talk more about
Speaker 1: that down the road.
Speaker 3: And international news from CNN Deadley. Israeli strikes hit southern
Speaker 3: Lebanon after Hesbula attacks, testing.
Speaker 1: A shaky ceasefire agreement. Well, when they haven't ceased firing.
Speaker 1: I'd say it's a shaky ceasefire. Donald Jay yesterday the
Speaker 1: day before said give us the American hostages back by
Speaker 1: the time I get inaugurated, or we're going to hit
Speaker 1: you like you've never been it before. Where has that
Speaker 1: been an American foreign policy hal lujah.
Speaker 3: From NPR, US will send Ukraine seven hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: five million more dollars in arms and land.
Speaker 2: Mines Russia case.
Speaker 1: Russia has taken more territory in the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks than at any point since the whole thing started. Wow, crazy,
Speaker 1: crazy Trump might be defunding in PR. There's certainly a
Speaker 1: move in that direction. Boy, would I'd love to see it.
Speaker 3: From ABC News, missing Hawaiian woman crossed freely into Mexico,
Speaker 3: according to Los Angeles police.
Speaker 1: I haven't been following that story, but I saw that
Speaker 1: update yesterday. What the hell?
Speaker 3: So this woman went missing, She apparently didn't board her
Speaker 3: flight on purpose, and her family's been searching for her
Speaker 3: to the point where her father committed suicide. What because
Speaker 3: this has been so hard on their family, and now
Speaker 3: they're saying they have footage of her crossing freely into Mexic.
Speaker 2: A councils alive? What's she up to?
Speaker 1: Mental illness? Thing? Is she meeting that dude from Wisconsin
Speaker 1: who made his way to Eastern Europe? What's happening here? Jack?
Speaker 3: This one's for you because you need to step up
Speaker 3: your inflatable decor game. And my post Long Island couple
Speaker 3: wants to make Christmas great again with a giant forty
Speaker 3: two foot three thousand dollars inflatable.
Speaker 1: Lawn Santa forty two foot a four story Santa building
Speaker 1: all of a sudden shows up in your neighborhood. Wow,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to moor that thing to the ground
Speaker 1: like it's a radio tower or something.
Speaker 2: Wow. Planes will hit it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And finally from the Babylon Bee Hunter, Biden asks.
Speaker 2: If he can get his baggy of cocaine back from
Speaker 2: the White House.
Speaker 1: Now, come on, boy, I get it. Some of the
Speaker 1: reporting out today, I think is in the New York
Speaker 1: Times is that Joe is really worried that a sentencing
Speaker 1: would cause his son to go back to using drugs,
Speaker 1: that it endangers his sobriety really factored into his decision
Speaker 1: making a sweeping pardon for any crime that could conceivably
Speaker 1: have been committed in an eleven year period. That is
Speaker 1: more sweeping than Richard Nixon's Pardon to Heal the Nation
Speaker 1: given by Gerald Ford. It is astounding. Yeah, we got
Speaker 1: a lot more on that an hour too. If you
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