Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Shoe Ketty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Attention Walmart shoppers. Instead of rolling back prices, America's biggest
Speaker 3: retailer just announced they're raising them and they're blaming Trump's tariffs.
Speaker 3: How many more stories are going to have to follow
Speaker 3: Walmart's lead?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that story broke while we're on there yesterday. I
Speaker 2: should have mentioned it. I just wasn't in the.
Speaker 4: Mood, but probably should have been a big deal. Walmart
Speaker 4: saying they're going to raise prices because of tariffs. For
Speaker 4: one thing, they're the biggest retailer in the world. Like
Speaker 4: Jake said, there, lion, Lion, Jake Tapper.
Speaker 1: And I was just gonna say, the list of voices
Speaker 1: I can hear on our show that don't immediately sound
Speaker 1: me to what they're saying is shrinking. David Muir of
Speaker 1: ABC News, Please, I know if I need to know
Speaker 1: what time of day it wasn't he had a watch.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't ask him because I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: his stinking voice. And Jake Tapper, I'm sorry he says, sorry, Jake,
Speaker 1: the great Sherlock Holmes style of solver of mysteries who
Speaker 1: figured out that Biden was senile?
Speaker 4: Please more on that a.
Speaker 2: Little bit later.
Speaker 4: I'll tell you what it is personal between Mark Alprin,
Speaker 4: who's got a new TV show that's on YouTube every night.
Speaker 2: It's on YouTube and somewhere else. It's really good.
Speaker 4: I mean it looks like a TV show. He's sitting
Speaker 4: there in a suit and tie with a TV storater background.
Speaker 2: Has guests.
Speaker 4: But man, he is killing Jake Tapper and then with
Speaker 4: receipts every single night.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'll get into that while we're on it. Why
Speaker 2: the hell not? Why not? Uh?
Speaker 4: So, Tapper has got this book coming out next week
Speaker 4: right where he's gonna try to be the hero of
Speaker 4: the story and bring you all these behind the scenes
Speaker 4: details of what was going on with the cover up,
Speaker 4: and practically everybody's well not true. I was gonna say
Speaker 4: everybody's reaction, but no. The New York Times and The
Speaker 4: Washington Post and CNN's own media person have reviewed the
Speaker 4: book like, oh my god, Jake Tapper has uncovered some
Speaker 4: secrets that are oh wait till you hear this.
Speaker 1: Okay, why don't we just say everyone who's not guilty
Speaker 1: of precisely the same crimes as Jake Tapper have reacted
Speaker 1: this way to jack Jake Tapper's book.
Speaker 2: Right, And.
Speaker 4: So Jake Tapper, as we mentioned yesterday, I hired some
Speaker 4: pr firm when it became fairly obvious that some people
Speaker 4: are like, oh, give me a break. You can't set
Speaker 4: the fire, put out the fire, and then take credit
Speaker 4: for taking you know, putting out the fire and act
Speaker 4: like you didn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, we're just putting up with this.
Speaker 4: And so Mark Hauprin, whose main thing is as a
Speaker 4: news guy, I think he's got two things.
Speaker 2: Going for him.
Speaker 4: One, he got driven out of the industry when he
Speaker 4: got me tooed around what two thousand in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 4: somewhere in there. And I think a lot of people
Speaker 4: he's like, you didn't come to my defense, screw you.
Speaker 4: So I don't think he cares if he hurts any
Speaker 4: feelings here with Colin out.
Speaker 2: We're one of the first shows to have him back on.
Speaker 1: By the way, you know, I'm not sensing a lot
Speaker 1: of gratitude, but anyway.
Speaker 4: And the other end of it is he really is
Speaker 4: concerned about the state of media, and if people don't
Speaker 4: believe the media, we can't hold any presidents accountable.
Speaker 2: He said, you can't hold Trump accountable because he lost.
Speaker 4: All of your credibility with Biden, and you know, vice versa.
Speaker 4: So just the media can't do its job and we're
Speaker 4: doomed if the media can't hold either party accountable, which
Speaker 4: is obviously a problem. He regularly calls this, and he's
Speaker 4: absolutely correct, the biggest media failure in US history. It
Speaker 4: absolutely is. What would compare to pretending that the president
Speaker 4: is fine for all those years?
Speaker 2: Anyway? So I think we did.
Speaker 4: First of all, I can't just look at the list quickly,
Speaker 4: handsome that clip I sent you.
Speaker 2: To get Okay, here it is here, it is.
Speaker 4: I want you to play forty and let me set
Speaker 4: this up real quick. So back toward this was before
Speaker 4: the election. Wall Street Journal does a not even really
Speaker 4: strong piece about how Biden's brain doesn't work anymore, and
Speaker 4: it made such waves in.
Speaker 2: The world of media. The Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4: Says the president isn't fit mental that he'd be to
Speaker 4: be in office, and he certainly to be president for
Speaker 4: another four years.
Speaker 1: I remember presenting it to the good folks on our
Speaker 1: show where we decided, yeah, this is good solid, a
Speaker 1: good solid accounting of that which all of us can
Speaker 1: see with our own eyes.
Speaker 2: But man, somebody serious pushback.
Speaker 4: That's when Joe Scarborough on MSNBC went nuts and said, hey,
Speaker 4: look at the camera a few if you don't believe
Speaker 4: this is the best version of Joe Biden. I mean
Speaker 4: people pushed back hard, including Jake Tapper, who had on
Speaker 4: various guests to counter the Wall Street Journal narrative and
Speaker 4: let them say their piece completely unchallenged on his showback
Speaker 4: at the time yesterday, he has the gall in trying
Speaker 4: to rewrite history to have these Wall Street Journal reporters
Speaker 4: on and called them heroes.
Speaker 2: Here it is clip forty. They're with me now.
Speaker 3: Two of the heroic reporters were covering this intensely during
Speaker 3: the Biden years. Any Lensky and Shavon Hughes. There they
Speaker 3: are with the Wall Street Journal. They reported in decline
Speaker 3: of Biden's mental acuity back in June of last year.
Speaker 3: The piece then quotes behind closed doors, Biden show signs
Speaker 3: of slipping participants in meetings. The eighty one year old
Speaker 3: president performed poorly at times. The White House said Biden
Speaker 3: is sharp and his critics are playing partisan politics unquote.
Speaker 3: This is not the first time you guys have been on.
Speaker 3: I said it last year before the election, and I'll
Speaker 3: say it again. The journalism you did was vital and
Speaker 3: the smear campaign by Democrats against you two is disgraceful.
Speaker 4: Which you participated in the smear campaign by Democrats against
Speaker 4: the Wall Street Journal reporters at the time, he helped
Speaker 4: along and again getting to the whole Mark Alprin thing
Speaker 4: his TV show last night.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's been dedicating so much time to this.
Speaker 4: He had a segment where the next day or the
Speaker 4: day of the Wall Street Journal piece, Tapper had on
Speaker 4: Kons Senator Kuons, Big Biden advocate and surrogate and on
Speaker 4: there and just tore into the Wall Street Journal and says,
Speaker 4: where's the Wall Street Journal criticizing Trump for what he
Speaker 4: gets a name wrong? And Tapper let him say his
Speaker 4: giant piece, no pushback whatsoever.
Speaker 2: So he participated and.
Speaker 4: The Democrats tear down the Wall Street Journal, then has
Speaker 4: the balls to have them on yesterday and call them heroes.
Speaker 4: I mean, that is another level.
Speaker 1: And to make the point repeatedly in his introduction that
Speaker 1: I've been on this story the whole time. I'd said
Speaker 1: this last to eight year. I'm saying it now, along
Speaker 1: with that other stuff I said all through the Biden
Speaker 1: years that I'm sure everybody remembers. Jake Tapper cannot hear
Speaker 1: the Cosmos screaming at him, saying, Jake, you can't defend you.
Speaker 1: This is not working. You're just reminding people of what
Speaker 1: a liar you are. You cannot be your main advocate
Speaker 1: because you got no credibility.
Speaker 4: Chum. I don't know if it's gonna matter, because it's
Speaker 4: people in the usual circles. If you read the Washington
Speaker 4: Post in the New York Times, you're they're taking in.
Speaker 2: This book like, oh my god, did you hear?
Speaker 4: And and Fox and everybody leaning right who already knew
Speaker 4: Joe Biden.
Speaker 2: Was in the situation he is. Know are laughing at
Speaker 2: this book.
Speaker 4: But he must, he must be worried to do what
Speaker 4: he did yesterday. This was yesterday he had the Wall
Speaker 4: Street Journal reporters on and called them heroes. I mean,
Speaker 4: how do you sit there and do that.
Speaker 1: It's pathetic. It's desperation, and it's so clearly desperation. That's
Speaker 1: what that's what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, I would be embarrassed.
Speaker 1: I would be embarrassed to go that far. Yes, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny. I just had the feeling wash
Speaker 1: over me.
Speaker 4: That. Uh.
Speaker 1: The utter dishonesty of the mainstream media has been recognized
Speaker 1: by the vast, vast majority of the American people. They're
Speaker 1: less popular or less trusted than any institution but Congress,
Speaker 1: which should make you shudder as a fan of the Constitution.
Speaker 1: And and they're they're their punishment's already been exacted upon them.
Speaker 2: They're laughing stocks.
Speaker 4: Here's the problem, though, it hurts us. If it if
Speaker 4: it only hurt them, I'd be fine with that. I
Speaker 4: don't care.
Speaker 2: But it's not. This is Halpern's point. It's bad for
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 4: So you're they've been punished, they've gotten what they deserved,
Speaker 4: but with having an eight percent approval rating. But that's
Speaker 4: a terrible place for us to be as a country.
Speaker 4: And they're not great, and they're not trying to dig
Speaker 4: themselves out of it, they're making it worse. Well, I'll
Speaker 4: read from Mark Alprin's Today. He ques, I'm not against it,
Speaker 4: I'm having lots of fun. He quotes Politico Today in
Speaker 4: his newsletter this is Politico Today. It was what happened
Speaker 4: in that debate was a shock to me, Jake Sullivan
Speaker 4: told Playbooks Jack Blanchard at Politico's Security summerd on Thursday.
Speaker 2: I think it was a shock to everybody.
Speaker 4: So Jake Sullivan saying this week that it was a
Speaker 4: shock to everyone around Joe Biden when he showed up,
Speaker 4: that they acted that.
Speaker 2: Way house ridiculous.
Speaker 4: Helpin writes, No one can legitimately say they were shocked
Speaker 4: by what happened in the debate because Biden exhibited all
Speaker 4: the same behaviors in public four years and goes on
Speaker 4: to say, oh my god, reporters need to stop asking Democrats,
Speaker 4: were you surprised by the debate? Or should Biden have
Speaker 4: run for reelection? Or did you see signs of decline
Speaker 4: in private? The correct question at this point is, given
Speaker 4: Joe Biden's obvious mental decline in public, why didn't you
Speaker 4: speak up? That should be the only question every single time, right, right,
Speaker 4: And if you're going to talk to reporters, it should
Speaker 4: be But the reporter, given his obvious decline, why weren't
Speaker 4: you reporting on that?
Speaker 1: There are only two possible well, yeah, for the politicos
Speaker 1: that one question, reporters another. But the only possible answer
Speaker 1: for politicos would be I place my party above my country. Well,
Speaker 1: the second answer might be, look, I go along to
Speaker 1: get along.
Speaker 2: That's what politicians do.
Speaker 1: Third answer, and if they were going to be honest,
Speaker 1: they would say this, Kamala Harris is an effing idiot.
Speaker 1: Figured we were better off with old man Biden his
Speaker 1: inner circle than that half wit from California and her
Speaker 1: band of renegade dopes.
Speaker 4: The why to that is, and this is what Alpern
Speaker 4: points out all the time, is that they hated Trump
Speaker 4: so much they just didn't want him to win. Whatever
Speaker 4: kept him from winning. Yeah, that's answer for right, yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And but.
Speaker 4: To go so far to bring in those Wall Street
Speaker 4: journal reporters, they should have called him out there on
Speaker 4: the show you're calling a well, I wish one of
Speaker 4: them would have said, you're calling me a hero. You
Speaker 4: had guest after guest on to terrace apart at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's weird, Jake. I was an idiot last year.
Speaker 1: Now I'm a hero.
Speaker 4: Huh. That's hero heroic coverage because they were able to
Speaker 4: report what everybody.
Speaker 2: Already knew this is.
Speaker 4: Well. I keep quoting Mark Cowperny said last night, We're
Speaker 4: through the looking glass. I don't even know what to
Speaker 4: say anymore. Well, right, yeah, yeah, what's your next?
Speaker 2: Your book? Jake Nixon was a little paranoid.
Speaker 1: You got a book about Carter, he's a well meaning fellow,
Speaker 1: but didn't do it very well. You got any more
Speaker 1: crazy revelations nobody saw God? I mean, can he can
Speaker 1: Jake Tapper go any farther than this calling them heroes. Well,
Speaker 1: the harder he tries, the more sad and pathetic it is,
Speaker 1: which is what I was trying to say about the cosmos.
Speaker 2: I mean, Jake, you just gotta let it lie.
Speaker 1: Dude, you are the last person who ought to be
Speaker 1: saying these things.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Do you think he's just completely self unaware?
Speaker 2: That's what I wonder.
Speaker 4: I have been self delusional about things before, and then
Speaker 4: when it becomes evident to me how wrong I was,
Speaker 4: I'm amazed.
Speaker 2: It's like, wow, the.
Speaker 4: Human brain can do that, or my human brain did this,
Speaker 4: or but he doesn't seem to want to have that.
Speaker 4: How interesting would that be if he did, If he'd
Speaker 4: be willing to come on the air and say I
Speaker 4: was so against Trump winning and so just very deep
Speaker 4: in the idea of not helping him that I ignored
Speaker 4: the obvious.
Speaker 2: That would be interesting, It would be more interesting, it
Speaker 2: would be more believable. Right, Yeah, you raised an interesting pointer,
Speaker 2: Michael did at the end.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 1: You've never had any brain but the one you've had.
Speaker 1: You know, all of us obviously can say that. I
Speaker 1: wonder if there are people who are just way, way,
Speaker 1: way more pliable to that sort of group think than
Speaker 1: I can imagine being.
Speaker 2: It's got to be true.
Speaker 4: Wow, any thoughts text line four one five two nine
Speaker 4: five KFTC.
Speaker 6: This week, over one two hundred Starbucks employees have gone
Speaker 6: on strike to protest the company's new dress code. It
Speaker 6: was strange all the employees walked out and the line moved.
Speaker 2: Justice found.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Starbucks workers are upset about the dress code. Meanwhile,
Speaker 6: over at Duncan, you're allowed to wear an apron with
Speaker 6: nothing underneath.
Speaker 4: That sow you know, that reminds me.
Speaker 1: I just saw it was a Twitter thread that AI
Speaker 1: has just gone too far now, And it was an
Speaker 1: AI video of a McDonald a McDonald's run entirely by
Speaker 1: cats and they were doing all the jobs doing the fries,
Speaker 1: cooking the burgers, manning the register. And it was utterly convincing.
Speaker 1: I mean not like I was convinced there's a cat.
Speaker 4: McDonalds briefly were concerned that there's a feline entirely feline
Speaker 4: run McDonald somewhere.
Speaker 2: What of the fur and my drink? Gross? No, it's
Speaker 2: just it's amazing. It wasn't babies this time. It was
Speaker 2: cats to the Starbucks thing.
Speaker 4: Just just this came up because it was a news
Speaker 4: story hit. My kids were listening, and I just threw
Speaker 4: up my usual dad sort of advice. If your boss
Speaker 4: tells you got to wear a black shirt, wear a
Speaker 4: freaking black shirt. I want to wear my rainbow Black
Speaker 4: Lives Matter shirt because I want to bring my whole
Speaker 4: self to work at Starbucks.
Speaker 1: You make coffee, do your work, and shut up. That's
Speaker 1: been the history of all the history of mankind can
Speaker 1: be summed up with the sentence show up and shut up.
Speaker 1: All right, even this job oddly enough. So anyway, now
Speaker 1: I've got a trio of stories about crime. Maybe we
Speaker 1: can squeeze in the next hour, including Chinese money launderers, flooding,
Speaker 1: particularly southern California, with hundreds of thousands of dollars of
Speaker 1: cartel cash and the challenge that is posing for both
Speaker 1: banks and law enforcement authorities. We are, you know, like
Speaker 1: Trump made that trip to the Middle East and was
Speaker 1: getting trillions of dollars of investments out of the various
Speaker 1: oil sheiks, some good enough, some of evil. The cartels
Speaker 1: look at the US that same way. We are the
Speaker 1: trillions of dollars land of gold because we loves their drugs.
Speaker 4: Another story I'd like to get to. This is an
Speaker 4: exclusive in the Wall Street Journal today. I am we
Speaker 4: have been downplaying this fear of flying thing for several years.
Speaker 4: I think this is gonna happen. There is going to
Speaker 4: be a mid air collision that kills hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 4: and hundreds of people. Really, I think so at some
Speaker 4: point the air traffic controller averted a mid air collision.
Speaker 4: Now he's speaking out interviewing the Wall Street Journal guy
Speaker 4: who walked off the job at Newark after a couple
Speaker 4: of weeks ago when he barely caught a couple of
Speaker 4: planes that were going to crash.
Speaker 2: Into each other.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, okay, we can talk about that. I'm not
Speaker 4: afraid to fly, but I think at some point, just
Speaker 4: you know it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think it is absolutely righteous that the current Secretary
Speaker 1: of Transportation and the Trump administration are trying to update
Speaker 1: modern eyes make more efficient and safeire air traffic control system.
Speaker 2: I think it's a great thing they're doing. Yeah, we need,
Speaker 2: absolutely We've got a lot on the way. I hope
Speaker 2: you can stick around Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 7: The frightening scene in Silver Spring, Maryland. A toddler has
Speaker 7: survived a fifteen story fall from an apartment building. First
Speaker 7: Responders believe the two year old boy fell from a
Speaker 7: balcony and survived by landing on the bushes below. Authorities
Speaker 7: are now investigating the fall again. The boy is expected
Speaker 7: to survive.
Speaker 2: This holy crap.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'm reminded of that ride along we did
Speaker 1: with the Charlotte Fire Department. This is probably like in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety four, thirty.
Speaker 2: Plus years ago. Good Lord.
Speaker 1: And the guys, we actually responded to a call where
Speaker 1: somebody fell out of a seventh floor window and landed
Speaker 1: in the bushes and sustained the broken arm I think
Speaker 1: was the most serious injury. In talking to some of
Speaker 1: the firefighters, they talked about, you know, they've gone to
Speaker 1: cases where somebody tripped walking off a curb, hit their
Speaker 1: head and died.
Speaker 2: Friend of mine did last year, like sixty years old. Akes. Yikes,
Speaker 2: here your two year old falls off the balcony in
Speaker 2: the fifteenth floor. You have no expectation whatsoever of a
Speaker 2: good outcome.
Speaker 1: Oh my yeah, I don't know what the takeaway is
Speaker 1: here other than try not to fall off the balconies
Speaker 1: or trip going over curbs. But it's amazing, you know
Speaker 1: what the outcomes can be.
Speaker 2: Life is completely unpredictable. So be very very afraid.
Speaker 1: Exactly, yes, yes, don't do anything ever. Live your day amazement,
Speaker 1: amazing fear. I mean, just paralyzing fear.
Speaker 4: All day every day. Great idea or avengeful God. Maybe
Speaker 4: you go for avengeful God.
Speaker 1: All right, all right, So what do we want to
Speaker 1: talk about? Do you want to do the pricest thing?
Speaker 1: Or I've got my crime stories.
Speaker 2: I can hit you with this inflation thing real quick.
Speaker 4: We meant to talk about this, Joe got so sidetracked
Speaker 4: by his hatred for Jake Tapper we ended up talking
Speaker 4: about him and his book instead of the way but
Speaker 4: that Walmart announced yesterday that they're raising prices. They say,
Speaker 4: specifically because of the Trump tariffs, which as the biggest
Speaker 4: retailer in the world, that gives a lot of other
Speaker 4: stores cover if they were thinking, God, we need to
Speaker 4: raise prices too, but our people are going to you know,
Speaker 4: gives them a little political cover or cultural cover. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I thought this was interesting. On the way this was
Speaker 4: covered two different ways, let me find it for it.
Speaker 4: On one hand, the Wall Street General writes this, so
Speaker 4: far Trump's tariffs have had a muted effect on inflation.
Speaker 4: Walmart's announcement suggests that a dam is breaking and that
Speaker 4: a flood of higher prices could soon follow. But Axios
Speaker 4: put it this way. With major indicators from April, the
Speaker 4: month of peak tariff uncertainty now in none show the
Speaker 4: kind of a recessionary or inflationary conditions implied by business
Speaker 4: and consumers surveys. So they went with a very positive
Speaker 4: spin on we went through the worst month of it
Speaker 4: and things are fine.
Speaker 2: So clear skies.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they arrived at that conclusion since
Speaker 1: the tariffs hadn't actually hit, I don't think. And the
Speaker 1: ones that are in place are not like crazy high,
Speaker 1: but they're higher than they were.
Speaker 2: Well, the analysis of these two stories were you're smarter
Speaker 2: than I am. If you have any idea which of
Speaker 2: these is correct?
Speaker 4: If like enough damage was done that we are going
Speaker 4: to have inflation, or we pulled out of the nose
Speaker 4: dive in time so we're gonna.
Speaker 2: Be okay, I have no idea. Wow, all right.
Speaker 1: Walmart's CEO r CFO John David Rainey said the speed
Speaker 1: and magnitude at which these prices are coming to us
Speaker 1: is somewhat unprecedented in history.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: Trade War's full impact on consumers as yet to come.
Speaker 1: Any businesses stockpiled goods before the tariff's hit in Some
Speaker 1: businesses have absorbed the initial costs rather than passing them along,
Speaker 1: while Mart's announcements suggest that some businesses are running out
Speaker 1: of options for putting off price increases, economists said, which
Speaker 1: would seem to unless that's just wrong.
Speaker 2: Counter the axios claim, Yeah.
Speaker 4: I keep hearing these stories of people are cutting back
Speaker 4: on travel, leading out variety of things for summer.
Speaker 1: I will see, Yeah, yeah, we will. I think it'll
Speaker 1: all be pretty clear within a month or two. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: So a handful of crime related stories I found very interesting.
Speaker 1: First of all, bags of cash from drug cartels or
Speaker 1: flooding teller windows at US banks, and they tell the
Speaker 1: story of this undercover. Well, undercover cops were watching a
Speaker 1: Chinese national by the name of jillong Yu steps out
Speaker 1: of a range drover and a strip mall parking lot,
Speaker 1: walks into a Chase bank with a black leather backpack
Speaker 1: full of cash in southern California.
Speaker 4: So at the teller window he puts up these stacks.
Speaker 4: I've complained a lot about, Like if I want to
Speaker 4: take out ten thousand dollars to go buy a used car,
Speaker 4: the bank makes me tell them what I'm going to
Speaker 4: do with it, and I hate that. Sex my money,
Speaker 4: I'll do whatever the hell I want with it. On
Speaker 4: the other hand, a guy rolls in a range over
Speaker 4: with a backpack full of cash, I feel like that's
Speaker 4: worth a look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you. So how do I present this exactly?
Speaker 1: This is a story about some of the most important
Speaker 1: criminal organizations, certainly in our hemisphere, the big cartels in
Speaker 1: Mexico and Chinese money laundering operations that are, you know,
Speaker 1: run in cooperation with the Chinese Communist Party. So that
Speaker 1: would suggest to you a fair degree of sophistication, right.
Speaker 2: Well, listen to this part now.
Speaker 1: So at the teller window, you pulled out stacks of
Speaker 1: bills and waited all A woman fed them into the
Speaker 1: cash counting machine. After you left, an off start asked
Speaker 1: to tell her if he had deposited more than ten
Speaker 1: thousand dollars the threshold acquiring banks banks to flag transactions,
Speaker 1: blah blah blah, more like one hundred thousand.
Speaker 2: The teller said, wow.
Speaker 1: By then, you was already on his way to Chase
Speaker 1: and Bank of America branches in Claremont Claremont, California, about
Speaker 1: thirty five miles away.
Speaker 2: With more cash to put in. Yes, wow, how they
Speaker 2: carrying in that ranger over?
Speaker 1: Well, they don't say that specifically, but federal authorities allege
Speaker 1: you worked for an underground banking network that bought dollars
Speaker 1: at a discount from Mexico's Sineloa drug cartel.
Speaker 4: Did Jason did Jason Bateman ever think of doing it
Speaker 4: this way where he doesn't have to like deal with
Speaker 4: those inbred hick people, know, as he's trying to launder
Speaker 4: the money on Ozark.
Speaker 1: Well, right, run a riverboat casino with his angsty wife
Speaker 1: and angsty children.
Speaker 2: Right, I don't know but so you buy, you.
Speaker 1: Know, one hundred thousan dollars cash from a cartel for
Speaker 1: eighty thousand dollars, and then you attempt to launder it.
Speaker 1: You attempt to, you know, to obscure the origin of
Speaker 1: it until it can be used again. The network allegedly
Speaker 1: handled some fifty million dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking
Speaker 1: over four years, depositing a portion of the tainted cash
Speaker 1: and ATMs and teller windows at major banks, including City Bank,
Speaker 1: in cities around La County, according to federal prosecutors, and
Speaker 1: similar money laundering operations operate in plain sight around the US,
Speaker 1: hiding the staggering returns which are the reason cross border
Speaker 1: cartels smuggle fentanyl, meth, coke, and other drugs used by
Speaker 1: millions of Americans.
Speaker 4: So that guy might have had half million million dollars
Speaker 4: he's driving around on that range over with man, that's
Speaker 4: that's somebody connected to some bad people.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, interesting, wow. I suggested that you know,
Speaker 1: there's like a twenty percent discount or something like that.
Speaker 1: But Chinese money laundering operatives in some cases open dozens
Speaker 1: of bank accounts at multiple banks using counterfeit passports to
Speaker 1: disguise their identity or recruiting local business owners and students.
Speaker 1: They charge one to two percent on the dollar, undercutting
Speaker 1: competitors who had traditionally charged more for money laundering services. Man,
Speaker 1: you're you're doing how much? Start committing federal You're gonna
Speaker 1: start start asking, So it's Chinese laundry. Oh jeez. Uh,
Speaker 1: but what was I gonna say? Oh, so you're you're
Speaker 1: doing like widespread, fairly easy to track, you know, federal
Speaker 1: offence money laundering for one to two percent.
Speaker 2: Man, if I'm a bank teller in that person leaves,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 4: I just brushed up against the closest I've ever been to,
Speaker 4: the kind of people that will cut your head off.
Speaker 2: Yes, and I don't like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now these are more like higher lings and Lackey. You're
Speaker 2: like one degree of separation from the head choppers. Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: If yeah, I would be at least slightly concerned that
Speaker 1: if I became a major figure in the uncovering by accident, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's.
Speaker 2: At least conceivable.
Speaker 1: So uh, this copper they talked to assembled the team
Speaker 1: that watched you deposit this six figure cash hall at
Speaker 1: the Chase Bank on loan from the DA. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's a big thing these days, all right, moving on
Speaker 1: all different crime and there it is. Oh, we mentioned
Speaker 1: this briefly the other day, and I really didn't know
Speaker 1: anything about it, but officials with the FBI are growing
Speaker 1: more concerned about an online network called seven six' four
Speaker 1: that targets and extorts young. People the predators Behind i'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry they befriend teenagers on online, platforms then push them
Speaker 1: into behavior including creating and sharing, porn harming, pets good,
Speaker 1: lord cutting, themselves and sue side god dang. It so
Speaker 1: these predators demand their victims share images and videos of
Speaker 1: the behavior so they can share it with other seven
Speaker 1: sixty four. Followers they also use the contact for the
Speaker 1: content rather for. Extortion some of the predators even host
Speaker 1: watch parties for others to watch them torment victims live,
Speaker 1: online authorting To according to, authorities.
Speaker 4: Maybe the story here should be why do we have
Speaker 4: so many young people that are easy pickings for this
Speaker 4: sort of? THING i can't believe that that was true
Speaker 4: thirty forty years, Ago but there's no means to do,
Speaker 4: it so nobody could ever figure it, OUT i, Know but,
Speaker 4: WELL i, mean we all know the number of kids
Speaker 4: that are on anxiety medicine or kill themselves or decide they're.
Speaker 2: The wrong gender or. Whatever, yeah there were more messed
Speaker 2: up young people.
Speaker 4: TODAY i just don't think there were that many people
Speaker 4: like in my high school class that even if the
Speaker 4: technology had, existed you could have gotten to that would
Speaker 4: cut themselves or. SOMETHING i, mean what the hell?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Right, yeah both are probably. True but getting back to
Speaker 1: these just, monsters these. Sociopaths they host watch parties for
Speaker 1: others to watch them torment victims live. Online according to
Speaker 1: authorities and investigators, say the darker and more violent the
Speaker 1: images or videos a member can coerce a minor to
Speaker 1: produce helps them climb the ladder of standing in the.
Speaker 1: Network so the more horrible thing you can compel some
Speaker 1: impressionable tween or team to, do the more a cachet
Speaker 1: you get in the. Network now they've arrested a couple
Speaker 1: of leaders of the group and charging them with operating
Speaker 1: an international child exploitation. Enterprise one was An american citizen
Speaker 1: who lives In greece and the other lives in High,
Speaker 1: Point North. Carolina and this one, Guy Prasan hall of High,
Speaker 1: Point North carolina reportedly in instructed other members of seven
Speaker 1: sixty four on how to groom and extort, Victims the outlet.
Speaker 1: Said nepaul allegedly, wrote quote extortion is a form of
Speaker 1: discipline to little girls who might not have a father at.
Speaker 2: Home it's a good. Thing.
Speaker 1: Yikes The internet is the worst neighborhood in your, town
Speaker 1: the worst neighborhood in your. State AND i would think
Speaker 1: seriously about whether letting your kids wander around and it
Speaker 1: is a good.
Speaker 2: IDEA i only think about it every single.
Speaker 1: Day and then, finally best job In america Or switzerland,
Speaker 1: anyway work For Swiss bank and then blow the whistle
Speaker 1: when they're helping people evade taxes according to the laws
Speaker 1: and rewards if you blow the whistle, on for, Instance Credit,
Speaker 1: suisse who wasn't living up to the promises they'd made
Speaker 1: to courts to stop Helping americans evade taxes by stashing
Speaker 1: cash and assets overseas, well several employees, Said, hey we're
Speaker 1: doing exactly what the banks score in these court papers.
Speaker 2: That we wouldn't do.
Speaker 1: Anymore look at all these, accounts four hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 1: Accounts The Credit suisse should have known we're tied To,
Speaker 1: americans they held around four billion.
Speaker 2: Dollars this handful of whistleblowers blew the, whistle as whistleblowers.
Speaker 1: Will and the former bank employees are going to make
Speaker 1: up to one hundred and fifty million dollars each.
Speaker 2: For the reward you.
Speaker 1: Get between fifteen and thirty percent from The Justice.
Speaker 2: Department. Cool good work if you can get. It one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty million.
Speaker 4: Dollars, Woo i'll we're.
Speaker 2: Ad anybody out for. That just so you, KNOW.
Speaker 4: I have a nominee for the most annoying person In.
Speaker 4: America he goes by The, moniker The. Boss he leads
Speaker 4: THE E Street. Band, oh last night as he kicked
Speaker 4: off his world, tour we'll play a little bit of
Speaker 4: what he had to. Say, ah shut, Up bruce that
Speaker 4: among other things on the, WAY i should have looked
Speaker 4: up the actual name Of bruce's. Tour maybe you can
Speaker 4: look that, Up. Katie Bruce springsteen is Big New World.
Speaker 4: Tour it's some sort of pretentious saving the world from.
Speaker 4: AUTHORITARIANISM i think he says it right at the, beginning doesn't.
Speaker 4: It maybe he, does but that this is from last
Speaker 4: night In, england and this is at the very beginning
Speaker 4: he does this like throughout the. CONCERT i, MEAN i
Speaker 4: saw a long YouTube montage of and we're all used to,
Speaker 4: musicians you, know they're all left winger and hippie, progressives
Speaker 4: and we have to put up with their craft to
Speaker 4: listen their.
Speaker 2: MUSIC i thought this was over the. Top, yes what is?
Speaker 5: This it Called katie The land Of hopes And Dreams,
Speaker 5: tour and thank you for.
Speaker 2: That here you, Go.
Speaker 8: Bruce, right The Mighty East Street band is here tonight
Speaker 8: to call upon the righteous power of, art of, music
Speaker 8: of rock and roll in dangerous times in my, home
Speaker 8: The AMERICA i, love The America i've.
Speaker 9: Written about that has been a beacon of hope and
Speaker 9: liberty for two hundred and fifty years is currently in
Speaker 9: the hands of a, corrupt incompetent and treason this.
Speaker 2: Administration that's. Fine CAN i get a surprise with?
Speaker 4: That play the?
Speaker 2: Song and why are my hearing this in this? Setting guitar?
Speaker 4: Playing? MAN i feel like that was a new level
Speaker 4: of that sort of thing THAT i don't know If
Speaker 4: i'd have been able to sit there and then listen
Speaker 4: to the, CONCERT i might have gone out to the
Speaker 4: parking lot and sat in the. Car, Yeah i'll drive
Speaker 4: you home, Afterwards, HOWEVER i went With i'm not gonna
Speaker 4: let him lecture me and act like we're all with, you,
Speaker 4: right and then shut.
Speaker 5: Up The West coast version Of Bruce springsteen Is Billy
Speaker 5: joe From Green.
Speaker 2: DAY I.
Speaker 5: LOVE i have Loved Green day my entire. Life i've
Speaker 5: seen him live multiple times a lot to, like went
Speaker 5: there multiple shows in a. Row he goes on like
Speaker 5: a fifteen to twenty minute political, tirade and you're just
Speaker 5: sitting there going, like this is not WHAT i paid.
Speaker 2: FOR i want to be An american.
Speaker 4: Idiot, Yeah So, bruce at one point during the concert last,
Speaker 4: night he comes.
Speaker 2: Out he's so old, NOW i, mean he walks like
Speaker 2: an old, man very.
Speaker 4: Stiffly he's got the piano player doing his little, thing
Speaker 4: and he sits down on the.
Speaker 2: STAGE i need to talk to, you good.
Speaker 4: People we're just one generation from authoritarianism taking over the
Speaker 4: world and all we can.
Speaker 2: Do AND i just, said, oh freaking give me a.
Speaker 4: Break first of, All first of, all always the same
Speaker 4: direction and we all.
Speaker 2: Gonna put up. With BUT i don't even, like even without.
Speaker 4: The directional attitude of the, politics how did you all
Speaker 4: become so convinced that rock and roll is going to solve.
Speaker 2: Anything it's not gonna.
Speaker 4: Solve a thing other than entertaining. Me it's gonna solve
Speaker 4: my boredom for the next two.
Speaker 2: Hours. RIGHT i like.
Speaker 1: Music it makes me. Happy that's Why i'm. Here that's
Speaker 1: the only Reason i'm.
Speaker 4: Here there's self importance of feeling like they're, actually you,
Speaker 4: know striking a blow for their politics in some way
Speaker 4: by going out there and playing their hits that everybody
Speaker 4: remembers from high.
Speaker 2: SCHOOL i mean.
Speaker 1: Whatever, well and If Brucey boy Or Billy Joe armstronger convinced, that,
Speaker 1: Look i've made enough money and this is really important to.
Speaker 1: Me and IF i alienate half my, audience, fine you know,
Speaker 1: WHAT i can almost respect. That but you haven't alienated. Me,
Speaker 1: goodbye F you'.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah it works both.
Speaker 5: Ways one of my favorite things about this is that
Speaker 5: the punk rock machine used to be against the.
Speaker 4: Machine well the machine's.
Speaker 2: The left, now so oh, yeah it's like the whole
Speaker 2: script is.
Speaker 1: Flipped, yeah, exactly like the man, said you have the,
Speaker 1: media you have the, universities you have a lot of the,
Speaker 1: government and you're fighting the.
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