Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong, Joe Caddy.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Catty
Speaker 2: Strong and Coruple loves these these rich Arab guys.
Speaker 3: They set up a mobile McDonald's. There a little different
Speaker 3: over there, the McDonald's. The happy meal toy is a
Speaker 3: little bone.
Speaker 2: Saw made me laugh? Did you write them that joke?
Speaker 2: Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the
Speaker 2: Saturday Night Live Open with the guy who does Trump.
Speaker 3: He was talking about.
Speaker 2: Anyway abidabbi abi dabbi abi dabbi do like the late
Speaker 2: great friends Flintstone. I thought that was so funny, eh boy,
Speaker 2: the late great Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news
Speaker 2: yesterday that they were going to have a voting session
Speaker 2: on the Big Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night,
Speaker 2: And because it's the weekend and I'm a normal human being,
Speaker 2: I didn't like take a second to look into that,
Speaker 2: because I thought, what the hell kind of a procedural
Speaker 2: deal is a Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But
Speaker 2: I just did see that the four holdouts went along
Speaker 2: with whatever, and it passed.
Speaker 3: So there you go. Yeah, the four holdouts went along
Speaker 3: with whatever is a pretty good description of it. I
Speaker 3: will be a bit more detailed. And this is the
Speaker 3: reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is the most sausagey
Speaker 3: of sausage making. If you're familiar with the old reference
Speaker 3: to politics, here's your headline from the I'm going to
Speaker 3: read you just a little bit because it's kind of
Speaker 3: revealing of at least a couple of things. Trump's tax
Speaker 3: and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to
Speaker 3: the House Budget Committee, passed a massive tax and immigration
Speaker 3: package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from
Speaker 3: hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned
Speaker 3: with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their
Speaker 3: vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that
Speaker 3: package to be recommended favorably to the House by a
Speaker 3: vote of seventeen to sixteen. But there hesitance to vote
Speaker 3: for the one Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee
Speaker 3: is a reminder that the far right flank of the
Speaker 3: Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where you're
Speaker 3: going here.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, it could just be your typical wah PO journalistic bias,
Speaker 3: although the wa poe has improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I think it's unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable
Speaker 3: with that there are only a handful of like lunatic
Speaker 3: hard liners who are against the following headlines. This is
Speaker 3: from the Richard Ruben wrighting in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 3: The stark math on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut
Speaker 3: the deficit. It grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with
Speaker 3: both Houses of Congress and the White House, are going
Speaker 3: to grow the deficit. It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review,
Speaker 3: Republicans should stay the course on reducing medicaid spending. They're
Speaker 3: not going to. They're running in the other direction, partly
Speaker 3: because the incredibly smart calculating what is he up to?
Speaker 2: Josh Cawley of Missouri.
Speaker 3: Is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
Speaker 3: who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
Speaker 3: shumering Schumer, saying that the the party's Wall Street wing,
Speaker 3: a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to slash health
Speaker 3: insurance for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that.
Speaker 2: On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the
Speaker 2: Republicans need to back off cutting medicare.
Speaker 3: Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are
Speaker 3: a hidden tax on working poor people. This is and
Speaker 3: he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for able
Speaker 3: bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit to
Speaker 3: the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort of
Speaker 3: hidden tax on working poor people.
Speaker 2: And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
Speaker 2: party of the working class, and they feel like they
Speaker 2: got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that
Speaker 2: they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it.
Speaker 3: And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and
Speaker 3: writing checks to people to win their votes.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say that it's interesting they
Speaker 2: call these people ultra conservative of right wing when not
Speaker 2: very many years ago you would have been the center
Speaker 2: of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been
Speaker 2: I mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was,
Speaker 2: it was, it was a term you would have used
Speaker 2: to define the party.
Speaker 3: In fact, it was so intrinsic to the Republican Party
Speaker 3: you'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeated. Right,
Speaker 3: no need fisically conservative.
Speaker 2: But I suppose in reality, given where most of the
Speaker 2: party is, they are ultra a right wing or ultra
Speaker 2: conservative because the bulk of the party doesn't care apparently
Speaker 2: and apparently not voters.
Speaker 3: So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion.
Speaker 2: Well all right, Well this story got repeated a lot
Speaker 2: over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of
Speaker 2: our credit scores by one of the major organizations that
Speaker 2: does that sort of thing, and U over the weekend
Speaker 2: it kind of got put out there that it was
Speaker 2: like a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It
Speaker 2: was basically around the fact that our debt is just
Speaker 2: so high. It's just like would happen to you if
Speaker 2: you go to the bank and they take a look
Speaker 2: at your well you've got with your car payments. Now
Speaker 2: you bought like eight cars and two houses and you're
Speaker 2: just overmaxed.
Speaker 3: So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills
Speaker 3: and you only make ninety a year.
Speaker 2: Right, right, So these dong grady because you just spend
Speaker 2: more than you make. That's what happened that didn't happen
Speaker 2: just in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've
Speaker 2: been building this for a long time.
Speaker 3: And the final reason I am completely embittered about the
Speaker 3: Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life
Speaker 3: on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two
Speaker 3: part horror show, Part number one is that there are
Speaker 3: a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states
Speaker 3: California and New York most notably, who are not only
Speaker 3: trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction, the
Speaker 3: state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it
Speaker 3: from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars
Speaker 3: and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in
Speaker 3: a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all
Speaker 3: of those incredibly high taxes you're paying you can deduct
Speaker 3: from your federal tax return. So the other states will
Speaker 3: subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California.
Speaker 3: So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes
Speaker 3: because I live in California. That makes sense. Yeah, you
Speaker 3: get a giant subsidy from the other states, you pay
Speaker 3: a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending on how
Speaker 3: much money you make than folks in fiscally responsible states,
Speaker 3: and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible as for Republican reason,
Speaker 3: not the party, but the idea of we have a
Speaker 3: federal system than states, and the states can do what
Speaker 3: they want, and they should what they want. You're fine,
Speaker 3: if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty five percent income tax,
Speaker 3: go ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm not living there, but go ahead.
Speaker 3: But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states
Speaker 3: is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican,
Speaker 3: he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness,
Speaker 3: the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party.
Speaker 3: I'm done. It's it's hard to swallow.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it would help Joe and I
Speaker 2: if this happens financially, but it's awful, absolutely awful.
Speaker 3: I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
Speaker 3: I am horrified. I don't care how much it would
Speaker 3: benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's really
Speaker 3: held me back in life Jack too. I just I'm done.
Speaker 3: I'm done. Yeah, it's well.
Speaker 2: Like I said last week, Sarah Asger of The Dispatch,
Speaker 2: I heard her on a podcast, They're having this discussion
Speaker 2: about party and she said, there are no political parties.
Speaker 3: What are we talking about here? Yeah? I need to
Speaker 3: seek that out because I think she nailed.
Speaker 2: Absolutely one hundred percent. There are no political parties. There's
Speaker 2: just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle, and
Speaker 2: then whatever they believe, the party goes along with.
Speaker 3: And it's through on both sides.
Speaker 2: So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
Speaker 2: we need to all move past.
Speaker 3: That. From my hero hl Menken, every election is a
Speaker 3: sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That's always
Speaker 3: been true. There was a time when a certain party
Speaker 3: had certain principles that I admired. Do you have times passed?
Speaker 3: You know what my high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my
Speaker 3: wife of forty years is. When she's not turning tricks,
Speaker 3: she's killing people for the mob. Okay, she's not the one,
Speaker 3: And I felt that this is by the way, fictional
Speaker 3: illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride, Judith.
Speaker 3: She's not the person she was. You can forget it.
Speaker 2: It's over, So move on, Get up, get an AI.
Speaker 3: Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bond or
Speaker 3: something I girlfriend like a normal person.
Speaker 4: Face Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Speaker 4: Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3: Yet another one of these? Do they run this quarterly?
Speaker 3: Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone
Speaker 3: using this smiley face emoji to older people, not gen Z.
Speaker 3: A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy, Yeah,
Speaker 3: but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm
Speaker 3: or irony. And then it has the inevitable twenty three
Speaker 3: year old employee who says, at first I thought my
Speaker 3: coarchers were being culled and sarcastic to me, And then
Speaker 3: I realized when they send a thumbs up, they really
Speaker 3: mean thumbs up, because he is it sarcastically and the
Speaker 3: tone of the article is always Therefore, you you older
Speaker 3: people really ought to be careful and they should.
Speaker 2: Switch to the way we do it as opposed to
Speaker 2: the other way around. Yes, I would.
Speaker 3: Say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one year old intern.
Speaker 3: Excuse me, I run this place. I own this place.
Speaker 3: People like me run the world. So you figured it out.
Speaker 2: My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming
Speaker 2: down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times.
Speaker 2: It seems to mean something different to freshmen in high
Speaker 2: school than all the other adults who ever send me
Speaker 2: the emoji with tear streaming down the face? Yes, ka, Katie,
Speaker 2: you're not old and bitter. Well, don't go that better.
Speaker 5: But several of my younger friends send me that, which
Speaker 5: usually would mean like you're crying legitimately fry, like you were.
Speaker 2: Really touched by something, or you know my dog just died,
Speaker 2: or I heard about your mom or whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're laughing.
Speaker 2: So okay, that's what I kind of picked up on.
Speaker 2: I thought, this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're
Speaker 2: laughing to well? Yeah, I cracked.
Speaker 3: You have a laughing till you're crying, right they do. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and
Speaker 5: I sent her that, and she sent me one of
Speaker 5: those back, and I was like, did something just happen.
Speaker 2: What's wrong? Like, that's exactly that what I have, And
Speaker 2: I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that exact same thing came over me. I was like,
Speaker 5: what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face.
Speaker 3: Now are we talking about the tears streaming? See? We
Speaker 3: used that my family a lot. Like I didn't get
Speaker 3: the wordle.
Speaker 2: So upset. Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being
Speaker 2: sarcastic about how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but
Speaker 2: it's kind of the opposite meaning for my son. Okay,
Speaker 2: now I get it. I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying
Speaker 2: and though they've got one of those already.
Speaker 3: My favorite texting story of all time and it will
Speaker 3: be for the rest of my life, was the woman
Speaker 3: who said, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you.
Speaker 3: My mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol,
Speaker 3: thinking it meant lots of love to me. They no
Speaker 3: longer speak.
Speaker 2: And I'm l O welling now is the ironic sorry?
Speaker 3: Anyway?
Speaker 2: So to get back like this, I feel like LOL
Speaker 2: is like charity laugh or you know what is that
Speaker 2: term where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple
Speaker 2: sympathy laugh at this point and I and then I
Speaker 2: don't know how to respond with a that actually is
Speaker 2: freaking funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I will. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because
Speaker 2: I'm a grown up. I usually write out, I actually
Speaker 2: laughed out loud at that.
Speaker 3: That was very funny, like that much if it's something real.
Speaker 5: Long and tedious, you're such a boomer, or you just
Speaker 5: send the word funny with zero punctuations so you can't
Speaker 5: tell if you're being serious or not.
Speaker 3: I have done that. I will frequently respond ha, because
Speaker 3: I was laughing lots of oz. Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, but there's more.
Speaker 3: Linguists studying emojis emoji, I think I'm supposed to say,
Speaker 3: I'm not Japanese, all right. Have also pointed out that
Speaker 3: the symbols new meetings can often emerge from slang that
Speaker 3: older users might not be aware of. For example, older
Speaker 3: social media users might see the skull emoji as a
Speaker 3: literal symbol of death or a sign that someone is
Speaker 3: figuratively dead. Isn't dead, tired or dead to me whatever,
Speaker 3: But for the younger users, the skull is used to
Speaker 3: say I'm dead, which means that they found something hilarious
Speaker 3: and have died laughing.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people
Speaker 2: i'd hit with that today. It would be very confused.
Speaker 3: While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about
Speaker 3: how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm.
Speaker 3: But here's the part I found really interesting.
Speaker 2: So I like, I send to like. If somebody says, hey,
Speaker 2: I got that promotion at work, I respond with an
Speaker 2: eggplant and then sprays of water.
Speaker 3: Is that the proper thing? Good Lord?
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, do that? Yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Or if you give a thumbs up
Speaker 3: and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, which is again,
Speaker 3: we run the world. We old people run the world.
Speaker 3: You adapt us. But is your youngster texting about cannabis,
Speaker 3: for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana, the shamrock,
Speaker 3: the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, the watermelon,
Speaker 3: the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, the candy,
Speaker 3: the cake, the ice cream cone, and the cookie can
Speaker 3: all be references.
Speaker 2: To cannabis, understand it. The egg plant is the traditional
Speaker 2: vegetable of success, and so if somebody has some good news.
Speaker 5: Keep believing that jack and use it frequently.
Speaker 2: Jack.
Speaker 3: These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship,
Speaker 3: a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake.
Speaker 3: They're all sorts of drugs, sexting, the peach, which looks
Speaker 3: like God forgive me a woman's hindhand, or the eggplant,
Speaker 3: the water you mentioned, or cherries. Let's see.
Speaker 5: I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got
Speaker 5: a text message from a friend that said kiss my
Speaker 5: and then there was a peach emoji, and.
Speaker 2: I'm going, this is my peach?
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 2: I saw somebody with a cherries tattoo on them? What
Speaker 2: does that mean?
Speaker 3: You, Katie? Is that a girl? What's that mean?
Speaker 2: Cherries were trendy.
Speaker 5: Late nineties early two thousands, but I don't know if
Speaker 5: that is meaning.
Speaker 3: What was a message?
Speaker 2: I had a delicious fruit.
Speaker 3: It was just a cute package. Okay, So okay, it
Speaker 3: didn't mean anything. All right, that's fine, doesn't need to
Speaker 3: We're looking it up. Oh.
Speaker 5: Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence and use.
Speaker 2: Okay, according to an Instagram post.
Speaker 3: That's a stupid tattoo. Don't get that and if you haven't,
Speaker 3: get it removed.
Speaker 4: Arm Strong and Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2: To be honest.
Speaker 6: Elon Musk coming out and saying there is a huge
Speaker 6: amount of fraud. I welcome that message completely because finally
Speaker 6: someone is actually saying this.
Speaker 2: Thank god. Sixty Minutes did this story last night, even
Speaker 2: though they made me so angry. I was telling out
Speaker 2: loud a couple of times. This story about fraud on
Speaker 2: sixty Minutes, which we're going to spend a fair amount
Speaker 2: of time on right here, is absolutely amazing. Coming up.
Speaker 3: I want to bring my whole self to work has
Speaker 3: turned to the beatings will continue until the morale improves.
Speaker 3: And boy, that didn't take long. Stay tuned for that.
Speaker 3: But getting back to sixty minutes, I think I know
Speaker 3: what annoyed you so much, but I will tell you this.
Speaker 3: They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant
Speaker 3: share of which you're about to hear, which would tend
Speaker 3: to reinforce a fairly trumpy slash republican view of the world.
Speaker 3: Shocked by that, then a great story on unbelievable scientific
Speaker 3: advancements dealing with spinal injury, and then a nice piece
Speaker 3: about Jimmy Lee Curtis in her career and blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: It was not obnoxiously activistly left wing.
Speaker 2: No, very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and this
Speaker 2: first story is so important, just roll on with the
Speaker 2: next clip. There, Michael, is this woman who has been
Speaker 2: screaming about fraud and government her whole career and getting
Speaker 2: no attention.
Speaker 6: I believe the government is losing between five hundred and
Speaker 6: fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year.
Speaker 2: We're coming up.
Speaker 6: Close to the one trillion dollar amount is lost every
Speaker 6: year a fraud.
Speaker 2: A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a
Speaker 2: trillion dollars a year of fraud.
Speaker 3: I don't want to steal her thunder, but a lot
Speaker 3: of the story had to do with, or at least
Speaker 3: a significant amount with the fact that the safeguards are
Speaker 3: pathetic and inadequate, and everybody knows it because it's just
Speaker 3: not a priority. Yeah, you bust your ass to pay
Speaker 3: your taxes, and yeah, we take your money from you,
Speaker 3: or you go to jail. But yeah, once we have
Speaker 3: your money, now we don't safeguarded at all. Not really.
Speaker 2: This is a both party problem too, I mean, oh yes,
Speaker 2: because if one party made this big deal of this
Speaker 2: enough when they were in power, or they could do
Speaker 2: something about it, I think just keep going, Michael.
Speaker 7: When most people think of government fraud, I imagine they're thinking,
Speaker 7: somebody is claiming disability benefits when they're not actually eligible,
Speaker 7: somebody collecting food stamps when they're not actually eligible.
Speaker 6: Are those the biggest defenders. Not at all, Not by
Speaker 6: a long shot. What we're really talking about is nation
Speaker 6: state actors. We're talking about organized crime rings. We're talking
Speaker 6: about using vast amounts of stolen Americans' identities to monetize
Speaker 6: them for criminal activity.
Speaker 2: So when COVID happened and they were throwing around trillions
Speaker 2: of dollars like crazy and opening up all these various programs,
Speaker 2: lots of people jumped on it. It's similar to what
Speaker 2: happened in California with the biggest fraud in California state history,
Speaker 2: where prisoners from other states start applying for small business
Speaker 2: handouts and everything like.
Speaker 3: That and got them.
Speaker 2: It's the tune of gazillions and gills millions of dollars.
Speaker 2: This well, this next little clip from her will make
Speaker 2: you mad.
Speaker 7: In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog
Speaker 7: committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so.
Speaker 6: We could tell right away it's like, oh, well, that's
Speaker 6: all gonna get stolen.
Speaker 2: You saw it coming.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I mean it was like they threw money
Speaker 6: in the air and just let people run around and
Speaker 6: grab it.
Speaker 2: Still in favorite tax increases, are you what that hang
Speaker 2: there for a while. It's like they threw money up
Speaker 2: in the air and let people run around and grab it.
Speaker 2: What is it with lefties? I do not understand the whole.
Speaker 2: I care about the down trow. I get caring about
Speaker 2: the downtrodden, but I don't get the whole. I care
Speaker 2: about the downtrodden, I'm willing to throw money at it
Speaker 2: and then not pay the slightest bit of attention at
Speaker 2: all ever to where the money goes or if it
Speaker 2: does any good. I believe this in my heart. There
Speaker 2: is a huge.
Speaker 3: Motivator. Let me structure the sense like this self congratulations
Speaker 3: may be the most important factor in good old American
Speaker 3: left wing politics. I'm not talking about like Jade Guavera
Speaker 3: Marxist politics. I'm talking about, you need to help the downtrodden.
Speaker 3: Let's not blame the victims. We have to have programs
Speaker 3: and plays, blah blah blah, well meaning folks, but their
Speaker 3: own self congratulations is all they require. If they feel
Speaker 3: that emotional feeling that they're looking for, they don't bother
Speaker 3: with any follow up. They don't care about any follow up.
Speaker 3: In fact, follow up ruins their buzz going through the
Speaker 3: accounting and realizing, oh my god, there's waste, fraud and
Speaker 3: abuse in this program. Holy cow, we got to roll
Speaker 3: up our sleeves, take a deep breath and get to
Speaker 3: work because this is bad.
Speaker 2: No, that kills their buzz.
Speaker 5: God.
Speaker 2: We always talk about the spending is the point because
Speaker 2: it goes to you know, connected people, cronies whatever, you know,
Speaker 2: family members that are on fake boards. I'm surprised those
Speaker 2: people don't out the fraud more like hey, you know
Speaker 2: Biden families or whatever. It's say hey, hey, hey, that
Speaker 2: million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed
Speaker 2: to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.
Speaker 2: They're not keeping track of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they wouldn't say that out loud, but
Speaker 3: you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists. Although they would,
Speaker 3: they would be caught in their own web. I think,
Speaker 3: so they can't a little more from Linda Miller, righteous
Speaker 3: speaker of truth.
Speaker 6: The most egregious part is that a lot of the
Speaker 6: people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.
Speaker 2: So who are they? Who are you talking.
Speaker 6: About We're talking about China, we're talking about Russia, impersonating
Speaker 6: Americans in a lot.
Speaker 3: Of cases, that's right. We are enriching shji In Pang
Speaker 3: and vlad Putin and his goons and oligarchs even as
Speaker 3: we're opposing them.
Speaker 2: This FBI guy roll on.
Speaker 8: These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century
Speaker 8: that are built off of having safe haven stas meating
Speaker 8: their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even
Speaker 8: if it's illegal, and.
Speaker 3: Then get a cut. The government's get a cut.
Speaker 2: And then this I find this a particularly fantastic because
Speaker 2: we all we hold on.
Speaker 3: Sorry about the ball.
Speaker 2: If we have to give our social Security number, we
Speaker 2: look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we
Speaker 2: have to kee it into a pin, we put our
Speaker 2: hand over the pin pad, so nobody possibly sees our
Speaker 2: soci secrety. Because the most important thing you do, so
Speaker 2: make sure nobody gets a hold of your social security number.
Speaker 2: That's from sixty minutes.
Speaker 7: Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division.
Speaker 2: He says, these digital.
Speaker 7: Gangs are armed with a very important weapon. Is it
Speaker 7: true that the social security number of just about every
Speaker 7: single American is available for sale on the dark web?
Speaker 3: That is a truth tape.
Speaker 8: All of our personal identifiable information, name data, birth, former addresses,
Speaker 8: social security number is available in the dark netting can
Speaker 8: likely be purchased.
Speaker 2: That's chilling.
Speaker 8: Yep, it's very much away of our lives so right now.
Speaker 2: And purchased I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,
Speaker 2: very affordable. What the hell?
Speaker 3: If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or
Speaker 3: more likely has been hacked. What the hell?
Speaker 2: And they had an example of an old couple and
Speaker 2: who lost their home in the Palisades area of Los
Speaker 2: Angeles and went to apply for their FEMA money, and
Speaker 2: somebody had already grabbed it using their address, name, social
Speaker 2: security number, all their data had already grabbed their money.
Speaker 2: So they couldn't get their money. Now they're going through
Speaker 2: the I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten
Speaker 2: that out and get the money that they're owed by
Speaker 2: these various programs that we support because some you know, Chinese, Russian,
Speaker 2: whoever actors stole it.
Speaker 3: Well. I don't mean to drive everybody to murderous rage.
Speaker 3: But what's especially frustrating about all of this and all
Speaker 3: of these dollar figures is that, remember, you got to
Speaker 3: tack on interest because we're borrowing that money.
Speaker 2: We didn't have it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't in our wallets.
Speaker 2: We've got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,
Speaker 2: one more clip and then we'll fill in some dots.
Speaker 3: On this story.
Speaker 7: Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital
Speaker 7: fraud cases in US history, in which cyber criminals from
Speaker 7: around the world use stolen identities to pocket six billion
Speaker 7: dollars in pandemic unemployment funds.
Speaker 8: Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.
Speaker 7: Why is the government a target for this type of fraud?
Speaker 8: Because of the massive amount of money that exists in
Speaker 8: the federal government and in the state government.
Speaker 3: And the utter lack of interest in protecting it in
Speaker 3: a significant way, especially if it gets in the way
Speaker 3: of handing out steads of money and thereby winning votes.
Speaker 2: So, just so you have this takeaway, this Linda Miller
Speaker 2: person who's been doing this for her career and is
Speaker 2: so frustrated that nobody's been paying any attention, says, we're
Speaker 2: approaching three quarters of a trillion per year that gets stolen,
Speaker 2: mostly by foreign countries, and just from the COVID relief money.
Speaker 2: When that was just flying around, like she said, it's
Speaker 2: like they threw it up in the air and anybody
Speaker 2: could run and grab it, she says, is probably about
Speaker 2: a trillion of it was stolen a trillion dollars, and
Speaker 2: as the FBI guy said, we're never going to get
Speaker 2: it back. There's no recovering this money, a trillion dollars.
Speaker 3: If we had a king, the prisons would be full
Speaker 3: of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen. Monarchy. Now,
Speaker 3: how is this story, let's just call it good?
Speaker 2: How's this not like a big enough story for an
Speaker 2: entire party to emerge around.
Speaker 3: I just think the other side of the coin is
Speaker 3: so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're gonna
Speaker 3: give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,
Speaker 3: that guy said he do you stuff.
Speaker 2: My media nitpicking just to get it out of my system?
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 2: Cecilia Vega woman right at the very beginning of the
Speaker 2: story had to throw in Elon Musk over states how
Speaker 2: much waste there is, doesn't he And the woman said, yeah,
Speaker 2: he does. So they had to throw out this red
Speaker 2: herring for their lefty viewer. Elon Musk isn't for the
Speaker 2: We're not saying he's perfect or everything he.
Speaker 3: Did was good.
Speaker 2: Before we get to the biggest story you're going to
Speaker 2: hear this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from
Speaker 2: the gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.
Speaker 3: On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.
Speaker 2: Nice red herring. You had to throw in there for
Speaker 2: some reason to satisfy your lefty view What the hell
Speaker 2: was that? That makes me so angry?
Speaker 3: I wonder if they like edited the story together and
Speaker 3: somebody said, hey, this really comes off as supporting road
Speaker 3: and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. We probably ought to
Speaker 3: throw in something for our soft headed again self congratulatory
Speaker 3: dumb ass viewers. So that was uncharitable, and I apologize
Speaker 3: for it. That's what it was.
Speaker 2: I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in
Speaker 2: the crosswalk in my university town. I was in my cyberbeast.
Speaker 2: She's walking in front of me and she looks at
Speaker 2: me and she gives me the two thumbs down and
Speaker 2: she walks across. No disapproval. This privileged college girl at
Speaker 2: an expensive university in an expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's what had to do. They had to
Speaker 2: throw in a little Elon's not perfect. But now back
Speaker 2: to a very very big important story that everybody should know.
Speaker 2: A trillion dollars got stolen.
Speaker 3: Right right. I like how they sand I'm sorry, I'm
Speaker 3: hung up on the cars. I like how the same
Speaker 3: people who are keying SUVs five years ago are now
Speaker 3: keying electric vehicles. Just the important part is they're an
Speaker 3: angry activist and a revolutionary and they're going to fight
Speaker 3: the power, and it'll be a different.
Speaker 2: Power, completely opposite in five more years.
Speaker 3: Because all I want to do is be angry is
Speaker 3: self franchus. I can't think I'm stupid.
Speaker 2: I wanted to roll down my window and say. You know,
Speaker 2: I have no opinion on what you drive your whole life.
Speaker 2: Whatever you drive doesn't make any difference to me whatsoever. Anyway, Fine,
Speaker 2: make you right, I tell you what.
Speaker 3: All right, Here's here's a little I had a slice
Speaker 3: of key lime pie last night, and I love key
Speaker 3: lime pie. Here's a little dessert for you. Michael, We're
Speaker 3: going to go up to the rando section. Oh, this
Speaker 3: is this is great. Here is a dad who does
Speaker 3: a great Joe Biden and he's literally working on the
Speaker 3: meat on the grill. This is clip fifteen. Michael and
Speaker 3: his daughter come up to him and says he does
Speaker 3: do an impression of Joe Biden.
Speaker 7: Explaining the plot to Star Wars.
Speaker 9: So there's a there's a galicy galaxy park on the
Speaker 9: side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,
Speaker 9: back back back when I was working full time. Anyway,
Speaker 9: I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter. Uh long,
Speaker 9: far far away. There was galaxy and there were robots,
Speaker 9: the robuts, they were not the droids.
Speaker 6: You're really good for me.
Speaker 3: Come on, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1: Boy.
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Speaker 3: Oh, this is gonna be my let me count one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty third jihad this topic.
Speaker 2: Wow, I'm really gonna have to use AI to schedule it. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know, rantings and ravings.
Speaker 3: Why did I come across with AI yesterday?
Speaker 2: Something AI that was just phenomenal around video stuff. Again,
Speaker 2: that's where AI is clearly making a mark. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it's going to take over the world in
Speaker 2: a lot of the other ways that they've been claiming,
Speaker 2: but man, the stuff it can do with video with
Speaker 2: just you know, a couple of prompts is stunning, mind blowing.
Speaker 2: So this is getting some mockery. Oh it was good.
Speaker 2: There's an article in the New York Times, a hot
Speaker 2: accessory at the intersection of faith and culture seen on influencers,
Speaker 2: pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
Speaker 2: up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
Speaker 2: the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
Speaker 2: I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
Speaker 2: for across necklace at some point. So the idea that
Speaker 2: the New York Times is acting like this is some
Speaker 2: interesting intersection of faith and culture that has occurred is
Speaker 2: just an example of how out of touch they are
Speaker 2: with the giant chunk of America that, for instance, has
Speaker 2: voted for Trump twice.
Speaker 3: New York is.
Speaker 2: A fascinating place in so many ways.
Speaker 3: I am pro New York, but New Yorker's self regard
Speaker 3: has annoyed me since I was eleven years old, right,
Speaker 3: no kidding. The rest of us are quite happy and
Speaker 3: fascinated by life, and have many opportunities for art, culture,
Speaker 3: the outdoors, et cetera. Whatever we prefer. We're fine. We're
Speaker 3: not lesser being well. Right.
Speaker 2: The thing that annoys me about New York and to
Speaker 2: a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
Speaker 2: but in particular New York and LA is the people
Speaker 2: who live there, their assumption that we all want to
Speaker 2: be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
Speaker 2: there yet. We're trying, we just haven't been successful enough
Speaker 2: to live there, and you know there, And that's fine.
Speaker 2: I belove New York and Los Angeles, but everybody doesn't
Speaker 2: want to live there. There are some people, I know.
Speaker 3: That's funny.
Speaker 2: I was listening to Joonah Goldberg the other day on
Speaker 2: a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side.
Speaker 2: You know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
Speaker 2: he grew up. And he was saying some things that
Speaker 2: I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
Speaker 2: I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
Speaker 2: with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
Speaker 2: you for not knowing you grew up with a completely
Speaker 2: different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
Speaker 2: people who might kill themselves if they had to live
Speaker 2: in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
Speaker 2: to live in New.
Speaker 3: York, right right, I'll and it's universal. I mean, we've
Speaker 3: talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount. You
Speaker 3: live in Kansas, they talk about how stupid Missourians, sure whatever,
Speaker 3: And you're in France they say Belgians or morons. Just
Speaker 3: everybody likes to, you know, say human foible. But I'll
Speaker 3: never forget. I was having a conversation with a friend
Speaker 3: in the San Francisco Bay area years ago, and at
Speaker 3: the conclusion of a long conversation about his brutal commute
Speaker 3: and it's awful taxes and is incomprehensible mortgage payments and
Speaker 3: the rest of it. A town outside the Bay area
Speaker 3: came up, and he was like, oh, poor bastards, right,
Speaker 3: if only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
Speaker 3: never mind. Anyway.
Speaker 2: One thing about moving my whole life and then as
Speaker 2: an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from,
Speaker 2: and I wish just more people would understand. You like
Speaker 2: where you're from. That's perfectly fine. You don't need to
Speaker 2: hate on other places. You like where you're from because
Speaker 2: it's what you're familiar with, your people, your friends, your stuff.
Speaker 3: That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 2: But you don't have to pretend that you have to
Speaker 2: hate all the other places.
Speaker 3: But everybody does. It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're
Speaker 3: all Americans except for legal immigrants.
Speaker 2: You're not get out except.
Speaker 3: Twenty million illegal immigrants.
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