Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong and Joe Getty arm
Speaker 1: Strong and Jetty and now he.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Nick Lee, a fan just ran on the floor wants
Speaker 3: to take a selfie. Security quickly takes him away.
Speaker 2: Rod gives him the appropriate girl. You saw the security
Speaker 2: guard in pursuit.
Speaker 3: Michel Robinson like, what's this dude doing, Scott Farster, You're
Speaker 3: gonna come over and.
Speaker 2: Explain it to us.
Speaker 4: So I thought, wow, somebody could actually get clear to
Speaker 4: the middle of the court to a player before a
Speaker 4: security guard stops him.
Speaker 2: How do you have access like that? What are you
Speaker 2: gonna do? Build a fence walls?
Speaker 4: But you'd have to be either had to have a
Speaker 4: really really expensive ticket or the immediate person or something.
Speaker 2: I guess yea, although I have a.
Speaker 4: Friend she she went to like a final four NCAA
Speaker 4: game because the school she went to, Yukon, made it
Speaker 4: to the final four that year and she wanted to go,
Speaker 4: so she made she got a lanyard and made with
Speaker 4: the pool of plastic thing a thing that said press
Speaker 4: with her picture on it, and she just walked in
Speaker 4: and sat.
Speaker 2: Like right there under the basket with a camera. Wow. Really,
Speaker 2: that wasn't even that many years ago. Yeah. Man, I've
Speaker 2: been grilled at smaller vents than that. That's crazy, I know.
Speaker 4: So I would talk about the lanyard and the laminated picture.
Speaker 4: If you have a laminad picture of yourself, you can
Speaker 4: go pretty much anywhere.
Speaker 2: Nobody could do that on their own right. I'm going
Speaker 2: to begin the following discussion with the quote one of
Speaker 2: my favorites from James Lindsay Mars Take two. If you
Speaker 2: screw up the first word, I mean, by god, that
Speaker 2: is just a bad sign. You started to a long story.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, kids, before we leave the dinner table, I've
Speaker 4: got a story very important. Yeah, this is one of
Speaker 4: the most important things that ever happened in my life.
Speaker 2: Blige got ah crap, damn it all. Right, here we go,
Speaker 2: Stay two. Marxists just lie. They lie so overtly and
Speaker 2: blatantly that people begin to question their own perceptions. It
Speaker 2: works because no one expects another person to lie so overtly.
Speaker 2: They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons.
Speaker 2: Until you learn to keep this in mind during every interaction,
Speaker 2: you will continue to get played. They rely on you implicitly,
Speaker 2: assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming at
Speaker 2: shared truth, and so dialogue can be productive. That's a
Speaker 2: deception for Marxists. Dialogue is not a way of obtaining truth.
Speaker 2: It is a forum for manipulation. Having said that, we
Speaker 2: have all those of us concerned with the whole transgender
Speaker 2: craze amongst adolescents and the terrible medical experiments that were
Speaker 2: done to these poor confused kids, many of them autistic
Speaker 2: or abused or whatever. We've all been acutely aware of
Speaker 2: the famous, famous study that was authored by researchers from
Speaker 2: the Trevor Project that said, if your kid is not
Speaker 2: affirmed in their gender change, they will kill themselves. And
Speaker 2: that horrible threat was repeated so many times to so
Speaker 2: many poor confused parents who thought, well, would you rather
Speaker 2: have a dead son or a live daughter? They were
Speaker 2: asked over and over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's tough, especially in the early going of
Speaker 4: this story when not as much was known. If you
Speaker 4: were told, look, there's been a study done, experts have proven,
Speaker 4: they would say that your child is a high.
Speaker 2: Risk to commit suicide unless you go through with this.
Speaker 2: That's a tough position to put a parent in well researchers.
Speaker 2: Researchers have gotten hold of the study and the raw
Speaker 2: data attached to it, and have finally been able to
Speaker 2: take this quote unquote study apart, and what it was
Speaker 2: studying was rates of self reported suicide attempts. We're talking
Speaker 2: to thirteen to seventeen year olds from before and after
Speaker 2: so called anti transgender laws were passed in respondent states,
Speaker 2: and pre legislation it zero point five to four per whatever,
Speaker 2: one hundred thousand. Researchers set specific time periods following the
Speaker 2: implementation of laws in treatment states to track the estimated
Speaker 2: increase in reported suicide attempts that could be linked to
Speaker 2: said laws. I'm going to skip some of the technical stuff,
Speaker 2: but they noted the Trevor Project researchers and there ought
Speaker 2: to be quotes around that. Their activists noted in a
Speaker 2: approximately seventy two percent rise in attempted suicide attempts average
Speaker 2: suicide attempts from point five to four to point ninety three. This,
Speaker 2: in turn, appears to have driven the group's public messaging
Speaker 2: regarding a large statistical increase in suicides among transgender and
Speaker 2: non very binary use. If there was an unless there
Speaker 2: was an affirmation only approach. Blah blah blah quote. Enacting
Speaker 2: state level anti transgender laws increased incidents of past year
Speaker 2: suicide attempts among TGNB young people by seven to seventy
Speaker 2: two percent. Our findings highlight the need to consider the
Speaker 2: mental health impact of recent anti transgender laws and to
Speaker 2: advance protective policies meaning affirming only. And they use this
Speaker 2: like a cudgel now for years. If you get into
Speaker 2: the actual data, virtually the entire increase in suicides was
Speaker 2: in Idaho, using an extremely small sample size that statistically,
Speaker 2: if you go from two to three, that's a fifty
Speaker 2: percent rise. It's a shocking rise. And what's even crazier
Speaker 2: about leaning on Idaho and those numbers was that there
Speaker 2: were only two laws in Idaho even remotely related to
Speaker 2: transgender status, including HB five hundred, banned males from participating
Speaker 2: in female sports and HB five h nine, a law
Speaker 2: concerning how sex is recorded on birth certificates. Neither of
Speaker 2: these laws banned or even addressed procedures or treatments for
Speaker 2: gender dysphoric youth. So you've got a tiny sample size
Speaker 2: of one state correlation not causation, and it was such
Speaker 2: a small number. It might have just been the phenomenon
Speaker 2: which has just established psychological science at this point. Teen
Speaker 2: suicides tend to run in clusters and so there's absolutely
Speaker 2: correlization correlation, but no causation here, and then they compare
Speaker 2: to apples to oranges or it was just it's absolutely scientifically,
Speaker 2: completely invalid. It's to get back to the James Lindsay quote,
Speaker 2: it's lies dressed up as science. It's unsupportable scientifically. But
Speaker 2: that launched a god, maybe not a thousand, but damn
Speaker 2: close to it, a thousand sets of terrified parents who
Speaker 2: didn't dare say, wait a minute, my kids alienated and
Speaker 2: confused and autistic in all. But oh, you don't think
Speaker 2: it's to the bottom of the I think it's a thousand, ah,
Speaker 2: but it's well more than that. It could be fifty thousand.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I really don't know. But the Trevor
Speaker 2: Project's claim has been cited hundreds of times in defense
Speaker 2: of looser restrictions on so called gender affirming treatments for
Speaker 2: youth patients, in legislatures, in the press all over the place.
Speaker 4: If you can come up with us stat to back
Speaker 4: your argument. Nobody checks where that came from or the
Speaker 4: validity of it, and you can get a lot done.
Speaker 4: And certainly in the years that we've been doing this
Speaker 4: radio show, we've seen that over and over again, whether
Speaker 4: it's the nine year old kid and the straws with
Speaker 4: the turtle right where states banned straw it's because of that.
Speaker 4: I mean, all you need is a stat It doesn't
Speaker 4: you might as well just make it up on a
Speaker 4: thin air. I mean, it's barely more ridiculous than a
Speaker 4: nine year old term paper or a you know, an
Speaker 4: instance of a couple of people in Idaho, right, Why
Speaker 4: you even go through the trouble of having it be
Speaker 4: that real?
Speaker 2: And if, as James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose and Peter
Speaker 2: Bagoshian so hilariously illustrated with their fake studies for your
Speaker 2: grievance studies papers, if you dress it up to look
Speaker 2: like a legitimate scientific study or paper or something like that,
Speaker 2: then nobody questions it. And what's really shocking about this
Speaker 2: fake study is that it made it to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 2: The plaintiffs last year in that United States Versus Skurmetti,
Speaker 2: which ultimately upheld Tennessee's law banning puberty blockers and hormone
Speaker 2: therapy for minors. The plaintiffs cited the Trevor Project's peer
Speaker 2: reviewed study and it's seventy two percent statistic right there
Speaker 2: at the Supreme Court. A scientific joke of a study
Speaker 2: that's frustrating. It is it lets you know, which is
Speaker 2: why I started with the quote I did, let's know
Speaker 2: what you're up against. These people are cultists in their
Speaker 2: utter lack of desire to examine their own precepts and claims. Anyway,
Speaker 2: nuff said.
Speaker 4: Got some kind of breaking news. The likely new Attorney General,
Speaker 4: Todd blanche As named by President Trump, has announced a
Speaker 4: massive crackdown on fraud, all kinds of indictments, defendants many
Speaker 4: many millions of dollars. This is something that's long overdue
Speaker 4: at every level of government across the country.
Speaker 2: We can touch on that story and a whole bunch
Speaker 2: of other stuff. Stay here.
Speaker 5: This bizarre incident unfolding just after nine pm on Saturday,
Speaker 5: but a suspect showing up in a TSA checkpoint at
Speaker 5: the Sacramento Airport Authority say Kamani Jones, was wearing a
Speaker 5: scarf covering his face and latex gloves. When they checked
Speaker 5: jones To carry on bag, they say they allegedly discovered
Speaker 5: this explosive device, a lighter, as well as a knife, scissors,
Speaker 5: more blades, and zip ties. According to the TSA, if
Speaker 5: the explosive device had detonated next to a window, it
Speaker 5: could have caused significant damage and a loss of cabin pressure.
Speaker 5: If convicted, Jones faces a maximum five years in prison.
Speaker 5: If BI says Jones has a history.
Speaker 2: Of paranoia, oh okay, it's a complete nut job.
Speaker 4: I mean you show up with a scarf around your
Speaker 4: face and rubber gloves on to go through TSA.
Speaker 2: So you're not exactly with it with all your tools
Speaker 2: of hijack or damage. Yeah, if your mayhem won a
Speaker 2: one kit in your bag labeled still in the package.
Speaker 4: But as Noah Rothman told us yesterday, author of Blood
Speaker 4: and Progress, when I recorded a podcast about left wing violence,
Speaker 4: I don't know what this guy's violence was. I think
Speaker 4: it was probably just crazy person violence. But uh, crazy
Speaker 4: people have changed history. So yeah, doesn't matter where you're
Speaker 4: crazy or not. If you take out a president or
Speaker 4: whatever whatever, that changes history. All these big wigs in
Speaker 4: the Justice Department, in the Trump administration having a press
Speaker 4: conference right now, big crackdown on fraud. We're going to
Speaker 4: talk about that next segment a little bit. Some of
Speaker 4: the things they said. And I got a great piece
Speaker 4: from the California Post about nonprofits. It's time to completely
Speaker 4: unmask the whole nonprofit charade and non governmental organizations and geos.
Speaker 2: Different topic, though, I am making an effort to open
Speaker 2: my mind about modern art. I've been on this. I've
Speaker 2: been on this for a week or so.
Speaker 4: Now I don't I don't remember what got me started
Speaker 4: on it exactly, so I have Are you familiar with
Speaker 4: the frame? There might be other companies that make it,
Speaker 4: but Samsung makes one it.
Speaker 2: Called the Frame. I thought it best by the first time,
Speaker 2: and I thought, what a great idea.
Speaker 4: It's a tiny, very very thin television. But you can
Speaker 4: mount it on your wall. It looks like a picture.
Speaker 4: And then there's a subscription thing you sign up for
Speaker 4: and you pick out different art and it looks like
Speaker 4: you got framed art on your wall, and then you
Speaker 4: can change it up. Is what I like so much.
Speaker 4: As opposed to being invested in one thing on that wall,
Speaker 4: I can keep changing it into different stuff. That's what
Speaker 4: I like and I've always gone with like real art
Speaker 4: in my opinion. But I was me and Hitler. The
Speaker 4: only thing we have in common is we both hate
Speaker 4: modern art. I think it's a charade. But I've been
Speaker 4: trying to I've been watching I know what it was.
Speaker 4: I just got randomly fed a video on YouTube because
Speaker 4: it figured out my algorithm or whatever. Steve Martin and
Speaker 4: the comedian, is one of the great correct collectors of
Speaker 4: art in the world. He's got they got like one
Speaker 4: hundred million dollars with of art.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's a tremendous collection. They display it at various
Speaker 4: art museums around the world where they'll have the Steve
Speaker 4: Martin collection being on display at any given time.
Speaker 2: He's super into it.
Speaker 4: But anyway, he had a it was a YouTube video
Speaker 4: of him explaining modern art with somebody, an art teacher
Speaker 4: and discussing what this and that and everything.
Speaker 2: You know. I had to try to learn more about this,
Speaker 2: so I'm attempting to.
Speaker 4: But what I can't tell is how you tell the
Speaker 4: difference between something that's just crap and something it is meaningful.
Speaker 2: I'm not there yet, not even close. Yeah. I do
Speaker 2: like a lot of abstract art, and maybe modern art.
Speaker 2: The problem is I find the permission structure a bit
Speaker 2: too wright too broad for modern art. Bananas tape to walls,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Exactly.
Speaker 4: The famous do camp is that the guy with the
Speaker 4: toilet way back one hundred years ago kind of kicked
Speaker 4: off this whole craze with that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, abstract art, modern art. I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know how you tell the difference. I don't
Speaker 4: I don't know how you get your brain to work
Speaker 4: in such a way that you are just amazed by
Speaker 4: what you see versus the common expression that everybody says.
Speaker 4: I think there are books with this title. My kid
Speaker 4: could do that, because it often looks like you're what's
Speaker 4: the difference. In fact, there was one study where they
Speaker 4: took a bunch of people's like kindergarten kid's art, and
Speaker 4: then actual artists art and gave it to art professionals
Speaker 4: and how often they could tell the difference.
Speaker 2: And they usually could tell the difference, but not always,
Speaker 2: And I feel like it should be closer to always.
Speaker 2: All right, everybody has to come up with a modern
Speaker 2: art idea. Here's mine, real quick. It's a vacuum cleaner
Speaker 2: with a pile of dirt on top of the vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 2: And it's entitled now what. That's a good way. It
Speaker 2: makes you think about time and space and vacuum cleaners.
Speaker 2: I haven't finished the description.
Speaker 4: Henry had a big cardboard box with nothing in it
Speaker 4: that he there was going to be his art. He
Speaker 4: tried to sell it on e Bay. He didn't get
Speaker 4: any takers but Philistines And it was just the idea of,
Speaker 4: you know, wondering, what's in the box could be anything,
Speaker 4: and all the different things it could be in the box.
Speaker 2: And that's I like it. Yeah, I tell you got
Speaker 2: one for us.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do a young child staring straight at a television
Speaker 2: and the title is a boy's obsession. It's just a
Speaker 2: kid just staring away. Wow.
Speaker 4: Makes you stop and saying I only have one title
Speaker 4: and then you can apply it to whatever you want
Speaker 4: it to be. I've always had the same title. Yeah,
Speaker 4: Man's in Humanity Demand. I always liked that title.
Speaker 2: Just freezing a bunch of a bunch of unassembled bicycle
Speaker 2: parts of a pile. Man's in Humanity Demand? Perfect? Yeah,
Speaker 2: banana taped to a Mango tape to the wall. Man's
Speaker 2: in humanity to man. Of course. The one piece of
Speaker 2: modern art that I'll never forget. I was at the
Speaker 2: San Francisco MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art, the giant
Speaker 2: porcelain Michael Jackson with a chimp, right, sure, Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was enormous. It was right in the middle of the room. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's on display in a Los Angeles whichever museum. May
Speaker 2: You don't want to give me credit for anything. I
Speaker 2: just did ye freak.
Speaker 4: But like I was listening to somebody explain how Jackson Pollock,
Speaker 4: the famous splatter painter, You know, those were very deliberate.
Speaker 4: That wasn't just haphazard.
Speaker 2: It was all kinds of and I've watched videos of
Speaker 2: him doing it, and it sure looks haphazard. Do it
Speaker 2: look like he's putting a lot of thought into it
Speaker 2: as he runs around splatter and paint. That's how good
Speaker 2: he was. He made it look effortless. Apparently if you
Speaker 2: had any culture, you'd appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Trying to do something about fraud, good luck, But at
Speaker 4: least they're trying stay.
Speaker 1: Tuned, armstrong and getdy.
Speaker 2: I am not a fraudster. I got yelled at by
Speaker 2: a bill collector the other day who was wrong. He
Speaker 2: was just wrong. When did they call you back and
Speaker 2: apologize and say sorry for using that tone of voice
Speaker 2: where I acted like you were some sort of scumbag
Speaker 2: when it turns out where wrong. I realized.
Speaker 4: They deal with scumbags all the time, so they probably
Speaker 4: get a certain attitude. But sometimes you're wrong. Sometimes you
Speaker 4: call people and that bill is.
Speaker 2: Paid, and then I, you know, got him back and
Speaker 2: say here's the information, here's the day it was paid,
Speaker 2: here's the receipt. Right.
Speaker 4: There's no sorry for yelling at you like that anyway.
Speaker 4: The medical stuff, that's the tough one is all the
Speaker 4: medical bills floating around and you don't and sometimes, at
Speaker 4: least as I've been told, if you don't pay it
Speaker 4: right away, because they try to get you to pay
Speaker 4: it before the insurance pays it. And sometimes if you
Speaker 4: don't pay it right away, then the insurance pays it.
Speaker 4: That whole game is complicated. Then you pay the big chunk,
Speaker 4: but then there's another eighty dollars with some other entity
Speaker 4: somewhere that exists.
Speaker 2: Right, and you're thinking, I pay this already, or you never.
Speaker 4: Heard of the company before, So you get a text
Speaker 4: saying you are eighty two dollars for the Okay, is
Speaker 4: this a is this real? Or is this one of
Speaker 4: the eight million fraudulent using cogny you know, bill collector
Speaker 4: fraud schemes or whatever. It's anyway in the modern world,
Speaker 4: it's stuff to tell. Big press conference they just had
Speaker 4: right now with the new acting Attorney General who might
Speaker 4: end up being the Attorney general. Trump announced him Todd
Speaker 4: Blanche as his pick to be Attorney general. On uh,
Speaker 4: They're gonna crack down on fraud and make this really
Speaker 4: big thing. So they went out there and he was there,
Speaker 4: and Cash Pateel was there, and he announced the ten
Speaker 4: most wanted fraudsters in America, which I'm gonna hit you
Speaker 4: with a couple of those here in.
Speaker 2: Just a second or whatever. But doctor Oz was there
Speaker 2: and had one particular example of fraud.
Speaker 6: I was visiting a facility called the LaBelle Home Health
Speaker 6: is run by women, the Jumi Tatsing. You may not
Speaker 6: see her here today because he's in jail. And she
Speaker 6: went to jail because she was accused and convicted of
Speaker 6: taking building practices to a level we had not seen before.
Speaker 6: She was building for people who had deceased. Building for
Speaker 6: dead people is a bad looking court, and it showed
Speaker 6: at her conviction when she was accused and appropriately taken
Speaker 6: out for doing things that we find reprehensible. Now she
Speaker 6: was the only one we wouldn't be here in force. Unfortunately,
Speaker 6: this area around Columbus is responsible in Franklin County for
Speaker 6: one third of all of the one and a half
Speaker 6: billion dollars spent on home healthcare in Ohio.
Speaker 4: Home healthcare is a huge one. This just breaking on
Speaker 4: CBS News. Federal authorities have busted what they say is
Speaker 4: a thirty million dollar are fraud conspiracy involving billing for
Speaker 4: children's behavioral health services. What a gold mine that is
Speaker 4: for fraud or counseling. Yep, oh my god.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And there are aspects of state and federal laws.
Speaker 2: I usually don't bring the stories to you because they're
Speaker 2: fairly dry and I don't want to discourage everybody to death.
Speaker 2: But some of the legal according to the letter of
Speaker 2: the law, exploitations of the public teat running to the
Speaker 2: hundreds of millions of dollars and are never at all
Speaker 2: what Congress or the state legislature intended. As I said,
Speaker 2: I came up with this about six months ago. America's
Speaker 2: what would you call it the welfare state is a
Speaker 2: giant fraud network that occasionally helps out the needy. Yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 4: I wish everybody could get on board with that. As
Speaker 4: I've been saying for years, I don't understand why progressives
Speaker 4: don't want to crack down on fraud just as much
Speaker 4: as physical conservatives, so that that money can actually be
Speaker 4: used for the things that you care about more than
Speaker 4: I care about. You're the ones that care about the downtrodden.
Speaker 4: I would think you would want the money to be
Speaker 4: spent on the downtrodden and not stolen. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 4: the left is fine or has never been as animated
Speaker 4: about trying to root this stuff out.
Speaker 2: Doesn't make sense. I want to keep my money.
Speaker 4: I don't care about the downtrodden that much. I want
Speaker 4: my money to stay with me, ironed and I went
Speaker 4: to work.
Speaker 2: You're the one who cares about all these different people,
Speaker 2: so I would think you would want the money to
Speaker 2: get to them. I just think they believe that at
Speaker 2: pointing out fraud or admitting fraud is to indict the
Speaker 2: program in general, and so they just pretend it's humming
Speaker 2: with your wrang. It makes no sense. It's immoral, it's disgusting.
Speaker 4: So on this one, there's different kinds of fraud. It's
Speaker 4: all bad, but man, some of them are extra bad,
Speaker 4: like this one, the one with the children's behavioral health
Speaker 4: services for defendants busted in an investigation fourteen vehicles, including
Speaker 4: a Maserati and Mercedes, a Bentley and McLaren. So these
Speaker 4: scumbags are not only stealing money from you, but they're
Speaker 4: living just a ridiculous What are you doing driving a
Speaker 4: Bentley and a McLaren when you're stealing from parents who
Speaker 4: sent your kids there attending summer camps, church groups, wrec
Speaker 4: programs and everything like that for all kinds of different
Speaker 4: psychotherapy around autism or OCD or anxiety or depression or
Speaker 4: all these problems that a lot of us have with
Speaker 4: our kids.
Speaker 2: And you're freaking stealing from these poor.
Speaker 4: Parents and these poor kids and driving around in a Masarati.
Speaker 2: You should be executed. Thanks you taking the money.
Speaker 4: I want capital punishment for those people. You are the
Speaker 4: scummiest of scumbags.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And where there is third party payment, there
Speaker 2: is theft and fraud. And the government's a third party.
Speaker 2: Everybody knows that it's discouraging. I love that. This is
Speaker 2: one of my favorite things that Trump administration has done. Yeah,
Speaker 2: go crazy, take take this all the way to the wall.
Speaker 2: See how much you can get done.
Speaker 4: So Cash Pattel was up there, and first of all,
Speaker 4: just one of my little legie hods have been doing
Speaker 4: for years. Hey, government people, this whoever invented this idea
Speaker 4: of you have a press conference and you spend the
Speaker 4: first fifteen minutes congratulating each other? Stop you want to
Speaker 4: do that behind closed doors, or you want to do
Speaker 4: that at the end, go ahead, But those of us
Speaker 4: who pay your salaries and are paying your organization want
Speaker 4: to know what's going on. Tell us that do the
Speaker 4: congratulations in the backslap and later hate that cash Ptel
Speaker 4: and they all they went on for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 2: I also like to thank the assistant director is doing
Speaker 2: a really good job. Okay whatever.
Speaker 4: It finally got around to the information, so the FBI
Speaker 4: announced the top ten fraudsters out there. They always have
Speaker 4: a list going. It's kind of like the ten most wanted,
Speaker 4: but this is particularly around fraud. I just clicked good,
Speaker 4: I just clicked on a at random just to see
Speaker 4: what they were. Here's this woman young attractive woman, Elaine
Speaker 4: Esco who's disappeared. She's wanted for obtaining over thirty two
Speaker 4: million dollars in federal COVID.
Speaker 2: Nineteen relief funds. Wow.
Speaker 4: She and a couple other people submitted more than ninety
Speaker 4: fraudulent applications for funds from the paycheck Protection program.
Speaker 2: That's funny.
Speaker 4: I got a friend with an actual business who actually
Speaker 4: needed protection and had to jump through all kinds of
Speaker 4: hoops and made it almost impossible for him to get
Speaker 4: the money. Anyway, this woman and her four friends stole
Speaker 4: thirty two million dollars that they didn't deserve or need
Speaker 4: at all. These people have disappeared. These fraudsters that are
Speaker 4: on the list. This guy, Christopher Burns, he defrauded victims
Speaker 4: out of ten million dollars and he disappeared in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2: Last he was seen.
Speaker 4: He left his home in twenty twenty, the day before
Speaker 4: he was supposed to turn over documents to the SEC.
Speaker 2: And has never been seen again. At six and a
Speaker 2: half years ago, so you'll never see him again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's living a wonderful life in some other part of
Speaker 2: the world, I'm guessing. Anyway, his scheme was he allegedly
Speaker 2: falsely told victims he was investing their money in a
Speaker 2: peer to peer lending program and the loans are backed
Speaker 2: by collateral. Apparently he did not have the collateral and
Speaker 2: all he was doing was stealing their money. But how
Speaker 2: do you do that to the tune of ten million dollars?
Speaker 2: That's really quite amazing. So okay, this is so they're
Speaker 2: taking on private fraud as well as fraudulently bilking taxpayer programs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: all kinds of God, all kinds of But I wanted
Speaker 2: to love it. I wanted to get to this. Uh,
Speaker 2: I'll find it here. The nonprofit state.
Speaker 4: This was from the California Post they put out last
Speaker 4: night about how California leads the America, like we do
Speaker 4: in so many different things. Sometimes we lead America by
Speaker 4: being the worst in America, for instance, that business climate.
Speaker 2: The nonprofit state.
Speaker 4: The fraudsters have perfected nonprofits in the state of California,
Speaker 4: and a whole bunch of them are getting cracked down on. Finally,
Speaker 4: there are in San Francisco, particularly the mayor of San Francisco,
Speaker 4: the guy that helped clean up the streets and get
Speaker 4: so many the homeless people off the streets. And all
Speaker 4: that sort of stuff, and and change the direction when
Speaker 4: people got finally up.
Speaker 2: Fed up is trying to.
Speaker 4: Crack down on all these different nonprofits that they've got
Speaker 4: going on that are are our crap, mayor Lurie trying
Speaker 4: to trim the city budget. Hundreds of nonprofit organizations across
Speaker 4: San Francisco breaking one point six three billion dollars annually.
Speaker 4: That's just city, just in San Francisco, one point sixty
Speaker 4: three billion dollars for things like, as it says here
Speaker 4: in the California Post, hosting street fairs next to open
Speaker 4: drug markets in the Tenderloin, giving free money to undocumented immigrants.
Speaker 2: Repairing historic harms is one of them.
Speaker 4: Is one you want to profit, I'd be great at
Speaker 4: that one point seven billion dollars for all these different nonprofits.
Speaker 4: And then it goes through some of the expenses of
Speaker 4: these nonprofits. A lot of the nonprofit money goes to staff.
Speaker 4: That's where a ton of this goes. And some nonprofits
Speaker 4: almost all the money goes to staff. Using my finger,
Speaker 4: the dream Keeper initiative, for example, that is supposed to
Speaker 4: have that sounds good. How could you be against something
Speaker 4: called the dream Keeper Initiative? And everybody that works for
Speaker 4: the nonprofit, they're not in it for profit. They're in
Speaker 4: a here to help black residents of San Francisco. They
Speaker 4: spent six million dollars on other things like a trip
Speaker 4: to Martha's Vineyard for everybody, spa days for exect, a
Speaker 4: bulkholder of employees' children books.
Speaker 2: So one of them wrote a book then ordered gazillion
Speaker 2: copies of it at the money of the nonprofit.
Speaker 4: Anyway, there's all kinds of examples of that. I'm hoping
Speaker 4: the whole nonprofit world is finally being exposed for what
Speaker 4: it is. And you have to be an actual nonprofit
Speaker 4: with a lot of scrutiny on you to survive this
Speaker 4: wave of nonprofit. You don't get to just say that anymore,
Speaker 4: and I automatically assume.
Speaker 2: You're doing good stuff. Please. The salaries are the profit,
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Speaker 4: Man, if my inn conscience didn't get in the way
Speaker 4: of this sort of thing, I wish I would have
Speaker 4: several years ago tried the whole nonprofit thing or one
Speaker 4: of those frauds just to see to pull it off
Speaker 4: as like a hobby, you know, you come up with
Speaker 4: a name like George Costanzis Human Fund or something like that,
Speaker 4: and you have a one sheet about all the good
Speaker 4: things you're gonna do, and then you apply to something,
Speaker 4: or you go to speak at a rotary club or
Speaker 4: whatever the hell you do to get these things going.
Speaker 4: Money starts flowing your way and you drive around in
Speaker 4: a nice.
Speaker 2: Caring I'm the CEO of this nonprofit. Get I want.
Speaker 2: I'm supposed to walk placeless. I gotta have a car.
Speaker 4: It just happens to be a McLaren and I need
Speaker 4: to travel to various places to talk to other groups
Speaker 4: that do similar work as me. How am I supposed
Speaker 4: to walk there? Of course I need to fly and
Speaker 4: and I got long legs. I need to sit in
Speaker 4: first class, and I need a nice bed so I
Speaker 4: get a good night's sleep to go to the conference.
Speaker 4: So I'm staying in a nice hotel, and I'm managing
Speaker 4: a hell of a lot of money. So of course
Speaker 4: I make four hundred K a year on top of
Speaker 4: the rest of the stuff.
Speaker 2: I was lucky. I guess that. I think I'm pretty
Speaker 2: sure it was my dad who explained to me when
Speaker 2: excuse me, I guess I was a teenager growing up
Speaker 2: in Chicago, Land. How the whole nonprofit thing works. That
Speaker 2: the government takes taxpayers, it hands the money, taxpayers money
Speaker 2: hands it to the cronies. The cronies then do just
Speaker 2: enough work to barely justify their existence, but then they
Speaker 2: keep the money and in return, they turn out the
Speaker 2: vote every single time, so the machine stays in power.
Speaker 2: And so heck, from before I like kissed a girl,
Speaker 2: you know, effectively, I knew what that looked like, which
Speaker 2: which unfortunately puts me in a very very small minority
Speaker 2: of people, because I think the nonprofit is one of
Speaker 2: those scams. It's like socialism. You have to knock get
Speaker 2: back every single generation because it seems attractive on its face,
Speaker 2: and nobody goes beyond that. Nobody digs anything.
Speaker 4: People throw that term around as if it is a
Speaker 4: solid stamp of goodness.
Speaker 2: What's a nonprofit? Oh okay, yeah, yeah, all right? Oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 4: At one point seven billion dollars going out to nonprofits
Speaker 4: just in San Francisco, how much of that is legitimate
Speaker 4: making the world a better place?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: People not drawing exorbitant salaries are getting a car or
Speaker 4: all the stuff we were just talking about.
Speaker 2: Remember when Gavin Newsom admitted that they didn't even have
Speaker 2: a mechanism for weighing the effectiveness on of so called
Speaker 2: homeless programs. That wasn't an oversight, folks, that was intentionally
Speaker 2: laugh I laughed.
Speaker 4: An NBA player just got busted for gambling. I meant
Speaker 4: to talk about that because some of the ads they
Speaker 4: had for gambling during the Finals game last night.
Speaker 2: Anyway, lots to talk about. Stay here.
Speaker 3: It's now twelve consecutive wins for the next as they
Speaker 3: take came one of the NBA Finals their seventh consecutive
Speaker 3: road game. A lot of the great playoff runs in
Speaker 3: NBA history is still alive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say twelve straight. What's interesting is how much
Speaker 4: how loud that crowd was. Usually you went on an
Speaker 4: opponent's court and it's like a library in there. There's
Speaker 4: a lot of Knicks fans in that crowd in San
Speaker 4: Antonio that made the trip, apparently, including Timothy Shallomey. I
Speaker 4: didn't want to mention a sports thing about this is
Speaker 4: just a gambling thing. So I just saw a headline
Speaker 4: some NBA player I'd never heard of it's gonna have
Speaker 4: to forfeit his entire salary from last year to million
Speaker 4: dollars or something like that because he was involved in
Speaker 4: some sort of gambling ring.
Speaker 2: Any who. It used to be.
Speaker 4: It was just such a great separation between any sort
Speaker 4: of gambling and sports broadcasts because they didn't want them
Speaker 4: to touch in any way whatsoever, because it would taint
Speaker 4: the product or possibly in people's minds think blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: And obviously, as we all know, it's gone the other
Speaker 4: direction now. It's amazed to how many times during the
Speaker 4: finals of the NBA last night, they you know, give
Speaker 4: a guy's stats and say, let's take a look at
Speaker 4: the Draftking project projections. All they had wemby ten rebounds
Speaker 4: for the game, and he's already halfway there, so that
Speaker 4: would be a good you know bet.
Speaker 2: I mean it's during the game. They're promoting gambling on
Speaker 2: it as it's happening, I believe, given the riveting excitement
Speaker 2: of televised golf. But yeah, they do the same thing
Speaker 2: in golf. You know, Jones is two back right now,
Speaker 2: he's plus four hundred and thirty two. You know whatever,
Speaker 2: Caesar's whatever the hell, fairly regular updates during the telecast.
Speaker 2: How did it change that much money? Money?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think the leagues are reckoning with uh oh, that's
Speaker 2: why we used to keep the h How could I
Speaker 2: possibly forget this? I refer to it on a weekly basis.
Speaker 2: Chesterton's fence. Whose fence was it? Chesterton? Yeah? Many expenses,
Speaker 2: but that is that fence. That's the most relevant one
Speaker 2: of this discussions. Certainly they've realized why Chesterton's fence was there.
Speaker 2: If you let gambling get anywhere close to these sports leagues,
Speaker 2: it's almost like, you know, it's just well I did.
Speaker 2: It'd take too long to spell out the metaphor, but
Speaker 2: it should be an entirely neutral zone, a demilitarized zone
Speaker 2: where there's no human beings allowed, because once you allow
Speaker 2: two to three to four sorts of human beings to
Speaker 2: you allowed in that zone, you can no longer immediately recognize, well,
Speaker 2: there's a human being in the zone. And that's the
Speaker 2: way it was for gambling in sports. And now, oh man,
Speaker 2: do they have problems one more sports? You note the highway.
Speaker 2: We know what this guy was doing point shaving, I
Speaker 2: don't know whatever.
Speaker 4: Now the highest paid athlete in the world show Heyo
Speaker 4: Tani for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He hits and pitches
Speaker 4: at Hall of Fame level. Six more scoreless innings last night.
Speaker 4: He has a point seventy four er at this point
Speaker 4: in the season. Ten starts, third lowest ra this far
Speaker 4: in a season since nineteen thirteen. Wow, as a guy
Speaker 4: who's hitting over three hundred wows.
Speaker 2: In nineteen thirteen was the raccoon guts ball era or
Speaker 2: the ball there were not many home runs? Oh boy,
Speaker 2: can't wait to talk about the new What do they
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Speaker 2: Divinity School project. Okay that's devoted to queerness and Palestinian liberation,
Speaker 2: among other things, at the Divinity School, Harvard's Divinity School. Yes, okay,
Speaker 2: I will read you at least one of the poems
Speaker 2: I like better. Rhyme, rhyming.
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