WEBVTT - The A&G Replay Friday Hour Three 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.200 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:18.240 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong, Joe Caddy. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:25.280 Arm Strong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Catty 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:32.400 Strong and Coruple loves these these rich Arab guys. 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:38.680 They set up a mobile McDonald's. There a little different 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:41.839 over there, the McDonald's. The happy meal toy is a 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:42.760 little bone. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:52.160 Saw made me laugh? Did you write them that joke? 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.400 Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:57.240 Saturday Night Live Open with the guy who does Trump. 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.080 He was talking about. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.680 Anyway abidabbi abi dabbi abi dabbi do like the late 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:10.880 great friends Flintstone. I thought that was so funny, eh boy, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.640 the late great Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.160 yesterday that they were going to have a voting session 0:01:18.280 --> 0:01:21.000 on the Big Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night, 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.319 And because it's the weekend and I'm a normal human being, 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:26.840 I didn't like take a second to look into that, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.080 because I thought, what the hell kind of a procedural 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.520 deal is a Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:36.959 I just did see that the four holdouts went along 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.759 with whatever, and it passed. 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:43.280 So there you go. Yeah, the four holdouts went along 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.039 with whatever is a pretty good description of it. I 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.720 will be a bit more detailed. And this is the 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.520 reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is the most sausagey 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:56.200 of sausage making. If you're familiar with the old reference 0:01:56.240 --> 0:02:00.640 to politics, here's your headline from the I'm going to 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:02.640 read you just a little bit because it's kind of 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:07.800 revealing of at least a couple of things. Trump's tax 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.040 and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.840 the House Budget Committee, passed a massive tax and immigration 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:18.519 package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from 0:02:18.639 --> 0:02:25.200 hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:29.040 with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:34.320 vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.920 package to be recommended favorably to the House by a 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:43.120 vote of seventeen to sixteen. But there hesitance to vote 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.560 for the one Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.400 is a reminder that the far right flank of the 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:52.359 Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where you're 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:52.880 going here. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:54.800 Yeah. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.680 Now, it could just be your typical wah PO journalistic bias, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.200 although the wa poe has improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway, 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:08.400 I think it's unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.359 with that there are only a handful of like lunatic 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:17.920 hard liners who are against the following headlines. This is 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:21.519 from the Richard Ruben wrighting in the Wall Street Journal. 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.639 The stark math on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:28.160 the deficit. It grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.519 both Houses of Congress and the White House, are going 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.160 to grow the deficit. It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review, 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:38.960 Republicans should stay the course on reducing medicaid spending. They're 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.120 not going to. They're running in the other direction, partly 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.960 because the incredibly smart calculating what is he up to? 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.600 Josh Cawley of Missouri. 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.320 Is all of a sudden, this is the guy now 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:56.600 who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:02.360 shumering Schumer, saying that the the party's Wall Street wing, 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.880 a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to slash health 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:09.960 insurance for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that. 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:11.840 On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.960 Republicans need to back off cutting medicare. 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.599 Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.880 a hidden tax on working poor people. This is and 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:28.839 he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for able 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:33.719 bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit to 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.440 the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort of 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.599 hidden tax on working poor people. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.240 And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.120 party of the working class, and they feel like they 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.080 got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.839 they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:53.880 And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.839 writing checks to people to win their votes. 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.080 Yeah. I was going to say that it's interesting they 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.760 call these people ultra conservative of right wing when not 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.120 very many years ago you would have been the center 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.479 of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:11.039 I mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was, 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:12.680 it was, it was a term you would have used 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.160 to define the party. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.920 In fact, it was so intrinsic to the Republican Party 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.800 you'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeated. Right, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:23.880 no need fisically conservative. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:28.280 But I suppose in reality, given where most of the 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:31.800 party is, they are ultra a right wing or ultra 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.520 conservative because the bulk of the party doesn't care apparently 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.000 and apparently not voters. 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:41.799 So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion. 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:43.960 Well all right, Well this story got repeated a lot 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:45.960 over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.320 our credit scores by one of the major organizations that 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:54.120 does that sort of thing, and U over the weekend 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.560 it kind of got put out there that it was 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.760 like a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:03.360 was basically around the fact that our debt is just 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:05.880 so high. It's just like would happen to you if 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.480 you go to the bank and they take a look 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:11.039 at your well you've got with your car payments. Now 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:14.240 you bought like eight cars and two houses and you're 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.440 just overmaxed. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.599 So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.840 and you only make ninety a year. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.279 Right, right, So these dong grady because you just spend 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:26.440 more than you make. That's what happened that didn't happen 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.839 just in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.359 been building this for a long time. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.680 And the final reason I am completely embittered about the 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:38.640 Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:44.120 on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:48.560 part horror show, Part number one is that there are 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:52.880 a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.600 California and New York most notably, who are not only 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:59.680 trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction, the 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.479 state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:06.120 from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:10.520 and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.800 a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.480 of those incredibly high taxes you're paying you can deduct 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.960 from your federal tax return. So the other states will 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.760 subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:29.000 So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.880 because I live in California. That makes sense. Yeah, you 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.760 get a giant subsidy from the other states, you pay 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:39.440 a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending on how 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:45.600 much money you make than folks in fiscally responsible states, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:52.880 and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible as for Republican reason, 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:56.080 not the party, but the idea of we have a 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.320 federal system than states, and the states can do what 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.320 they want, and they should what they want. You're fine, 0:08:02.000 --> 0:08:06.480 if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty five percent income tax, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:07.840 go ahead. 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:09.760 I'm not living there, but go ahead. 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.360 But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:19.600 is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:23.520 he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness, 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.440 the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.360 I'm done. It's it's hard to swallow. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:34.800 I mean, you know, it would help Joe and I 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:39.640 if this happens financially, but it's awful, absolutely awful. 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:43.800 I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.720 I am horrified. I don't care how much it would 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:51.800 benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's really 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:56.040 held me back in life Jack too. I just I'm done. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.880 I'm done. Yeah, it's well. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:01.560 Like I said last week, Sarah Asger of The Dispatch, 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:03.720 I heard her on a podcast, They're having this discussion 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.560 about party and she said, there are no political parties. 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.200 What are we talking about here? Yeah? I need to 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.400 seek that out because I think she nailed. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.800 Absolutely one hundred percent. There are no political parties. There's 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:19.360 just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle, and 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.760 then whatever they believe, the party goes along with. 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.319 And it's through on both sides. 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.199 So the idea that there are parties that stand for something, 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:27.480 we need to all move past. 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:32.480 That. From my hero hl Menken, every election is a 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:37.400 sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That's always 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.520 been true. There was a time when a certain party 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.960 had certain principles that I admired. Do you have times passed? 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:51.080 You know what my high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:55.560 wife of forty years is. When she's not turning tricks, 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.960 she's killing people for the mob. Okay, she's not the one, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:02.080 And I felt that this is by the way, fictional 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.079 illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride, Judith. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.680 She's not the person she was. You can forget it. 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.720 It's over, So move on, Get up, get an AI. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.040 Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bond or 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.720 something I girlfriend like a normal person. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:26.400 Face Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty The Armstrong and Getty Show, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.600 Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.680 Yet another one of these? Do they run this quarterly? 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.840 Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:47.600 using this smiley face emoji to older people, not gen Z. 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:52.320 A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy, Yeah, 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:56.320 but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.160 or irony. And then it has the inevitable twenty three 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.679 year old employee who says, at first I thought my 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.960 coarchers were being culled and sarcastic to me, And then 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 I realized when they send a thumbs up, they really 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:12.560 mean thumbs up, because he is it sarcastically and the 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.320 tone of the article is always Therefore, you you older 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:19.080 people really ought to be careful and they should. 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.360 Switch to the way we do it as opposed to 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:22.479 the other way around. Yes, I would. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.280 Say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one year old intern. 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:29.920 Excuse me, I run this place. I own this place. 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:34.120 People like me run the world. So you figured it out. 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:39.600 My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:43.920 down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times. 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:46.600 It seems to mean something different to freshmen in high 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:49.000 school than all the other adults who ever send me 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:52.400 the emoji with tear streaming down the face? Yes, ka, Katie, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.559 you're not old and bitter. Well, don't go that better. 0:11:55.640 --> 0:12:00.280 But several of my younger friends send me that, which 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:03.800 usually would mean like you're crying legitimately fry, like you were. 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:06.520 Really touched by something, or you know my dog just died, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.240 or I heard about your mom or whatever. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:12.600 Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're laughing. 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:14.800 So okay, that's what I kind of picked up on. 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.679 I thought, this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:19.839 laughing to well? Yeah, I cracked. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:23.280 You have a laughing till you're crying, right they do. Yeah. 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.079 I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:26.960 I sent her that, and she sent me one of 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.000 those back, and I was like, did something just happen. 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.400 What's wrong? Like, that's exactly that what I have, And 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:33.280 I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.080 Yeah, that exact same thing came over me. I was like, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.720 what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.120 Now are we talking about the tears streaming? See? We 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:44.560 used that my family a lot. Like I didn't get 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:45.440 the wordle. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:50.520 So upset. Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:54.880 sarcastic about how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.840 it's kind of the opposite meaning for my son. Okay, 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.840 now I get it. I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.400 and though they've got one of those already. 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.240 My favorite texting story of all time and it will 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.679 be for the rest of my life, was the woman 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.360 who said, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you. 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.920 My mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol, 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.800 thinking it meant lots of love to me. They no 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:17.800 longer speak. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:22.520 And I'm l O welling now is the ironic sorry? 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:23.120 Anyway? 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:27.320 So to get back like this, I feel like LOL 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:36.880 is like charity laugh or you know what is that 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:39.400 term where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.680 sympathy laugh at this point and I and then I 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.520 don't know how to respond with a that actually is 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:45.480 freaking funny. 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:50.640 Yeah, yeah, I will. I don't know. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.720 I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.079 I'm a grown up. I usually write out, I actually 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:57.360 laughed out loud at that. 0:13:57.360 --> 0:14:00.520 That was very funny, like that much if it's something real. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.120 Long and tedious, you're such a boomer, or you just 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.960 send the word funny with zero punctuations so you can't 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:07.200 tell if you're being serious or not. 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:12.120 I have done that. I will frequently respond ha, because 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.560 I was laughing lots of oz. Yeah. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:16.920 So, but there's more. 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:22.440 Linguists studying emojis emoji, I think I'm supposed to say, 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.240 I'm not Japanese, all right. Have also pointed out that 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.320 the symbols new meetings can often emerge from slang that 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:31.440 older users might not be aware of. For example, older 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.600 social media users might see the skull emoji as a 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.880 literal symbol of death or a sign that someone is 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.840 figuratively dead. Isn't dead, tired or dead to me whatever, 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.160 But for the younger users, the skull is used to 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.360 say I'm dead, which means that they found something hilarious 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:47.240 and have died laughing. 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.720 Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.520 gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:56.560 i'd hit with that today. It would be very confused. 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:01.320 While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:04.880 how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm. 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.000 But here's the part I found really interesting. 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.520 So I like, I send to like. If somebody says, hey, 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.760 I got that promotion at work, I respond with an 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:15.640 eggplant and then sprays of water. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.320 Is that the proper thing? Good Lord? 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.880 Yes, yes, do that? Yeah, that's perfect. 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:27.440 Oh my god. Or if you give a thumbs up 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:30.120 and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, which is again, 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.040 we run the world. We old people run the world. 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:37.120 You adapt us. But is your youngster texting about cannabis, 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:43.320 for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana, the shamrock, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:49.040 the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, the watermelon, 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:53.480 the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, the candy, 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.560 the cake, the ice cream cone, and the cookie can 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.320 all be references. 0:15:57.760 --> 0:16:02.240 To cannabis, understand it. The egg plant is the traditional 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:06.120 vegetable of success, and so if somebody has some good news. 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:09.600 Keep believing that jack and use it frequently. 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:10.720 Jack. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:15.440 These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship, 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:20.000 a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake. 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:30.000 They're all sorts of drugs, sexting, the peach, which looks 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:37.520 like God forgive me a woman's hindhand, or the eggplant, 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:42.760 the water you mentioned, or cherries. Let's see. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:45.400 I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.440 a text message from a friend that said kiss my 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.000 and then there was a peach emoji, and. 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.400 I'm going, this is my peach? 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:52.800 What do you mean? 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.120 I saw somebody with a cherries tattoo on them? What 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:56.800 does that mean? 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.520 You, Katie? Is that a girl? What's that mean? 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.840 Cherries were trendy. 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:06.760 Late nineties early two thousands, but I don't know if 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:07.639 that is meaning. 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:09.040 What was a message? 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:11.560 I had a delicious fruit. 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:14.760 It was just a cute package. Okay, So okay, it 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.480 didn't mean anything. All right, that's fine, doesn't need to 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:20.480 We're looking it up. Oh. 0:17:20.720 --> 0:17:25.240 Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence and use. 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:27.600 Okay, according to an Instagram post. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.000 That's a stupid tattoo. Don't get that and if you haven't, 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:30.760 get it removed. 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:40.920 Arm Strong and Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:46.159 To be honest. 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:49.200 Elon Musk coming out and saying there is a huge 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:52.840 amount of fraud. I welcome that message completely because finally 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:54.159 someone is actually saying this. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.680 Thank god. Sixty Minutes did this story last night, even 0:17:57.720 --> 0:18:00.640 though they made me so angry. I was telling out 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.840 loud a couple of times. This story about fraud on 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.879 sixty Minutes, which we're going to spend a fair amount 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.440 of time on right here, is absolutely amazing. Coming up. 0:18:09.720 --> 0:18:12.600 I want to bring my whole self to work has 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:16.640 turned to the beatings will continue until the morale improves. 0:18:16.920 --> 0:18:19.480 And boy, that didn't take long. Stay tuned for that. 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.320 But getting back to sixty minutes, I think I know 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.360 what annoyed you so much, but I will tell you this. 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:31.240 They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.000 share of which you're about to hear, which would tend 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:37.919 to reinforce a fairly trumpy slash republican view of the world. 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:42.359 Shocked by that, then a great story on unbelievable scientific 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:46.200 advancements dealing with spinal injury, and then a nice piece 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.040 about Jimmy Lee Curtis in her career and blah blah blah. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:53.359 It was not obnoxiously activistly left wing. 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.080 No, very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and this 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.920 first story is so important, just roll on with the 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.680 next clip. There, Michael, is this woman who has been 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:05.240 screaming about fraud and government her whole career and getting 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:05.760 no attention. 0:19:06.160 --> 0:19:11.399 I believe the government is losing between five hundred and 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:15.080 fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:16.480 We're coming up. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:19.840 Close to the one trillion dollar amount is lost every 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:20.760 year a fraud. 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:25.159 A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:29.440 trillion dollars a year of fraud. 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.360 I don't want to steal her thunder, but a lot 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:35.200 of the story had to do with, or at least 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:38.199 a significant amount with the fact that the safeguards are 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.639 pathetic and inadequate, and everybody knows it because it's just 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.440 not a priority. Yeah, you bust your ass to pay 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.040 your taxes, and yeah, we take your money from you, 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.320 or you go to jail. But yeah, once we have 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.760 your money, now we don't safeguarded at all. Not really. 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.639 This is a both party problem too, I mean, oh yes, 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.719 because if one party made this big deal of this 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:00.919 enough when they were in power, or they could do 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:04.480 something about it, I think just keep going, Michael. 0:20:04.800 --> 0:20:08.680 When most people think of government fraud, I imagine they're thinking, 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:13.800 somebody is claiming disability benefits when they're not actually eligible, 0:20:13.920 --> 0:20:17.520 somebody collecting food stamps when they're not actually eligible. 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.520 Are those the biggest defenders. Not at all, Not by 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.160 a long shot. What we're really talking about is nation 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:29.240 state actors. We're talking about organized crime rings. We're talking 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:34.240 about using vast amounts of stolen Americans' identities to monetize 0:20:34.280 --> 0:20:37.760 them for criminal activity. 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.920 So when COVID happened and they were throwing around trillions 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:44.679 of dollars like crazy and opening up all these various programs, 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.960 lots of people jumped on it. It's similar to what 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:51.359 happened in California with the biggest fraud in California state history, 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:55.720 where prisoners from other states start applying for small business 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:56.920 handouts and everything like. 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:57.600 That and got them. 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:00.840 It's the tune of gazillions and gills millions of dollars. 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.800 This well, this next little clip from her will make 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:04.120 you mad. 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.159 In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog 0:21:08.200 --> 0:21:11.720 committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so. 0:21:11.680 --> 0:21:13.560 We could tell right away it's like, oh, well, that's 0:21:13.600 --> 0:21:14.479 all gonna get stolen. 0:21:14.520 --> 0:21:15.200 You saw it coming. 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.040 Oh yeah, I mean it was like they threw money 0:21:18.040 --> 0:21:19.760 in the air and just let people run around and 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:21.399 grab it. 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:24.680 Still in favorite tax increases, are you what that hang 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:26.919 there for a while. It's like they threw money up 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:29.159 in the air and let people run around and grab it. 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:34.439 What is it with lefties? I do not understand the whole. 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:37.160 I care about the down trow. I get caring about 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.159 the downtrodden, but I don't get the whole. I care 0:21:39.200 --> 0:21:41.840 about the downtrodden, I'm willing to throw money at it 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:46.400 and then not pay the slightest bit of attention at 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:49.119 all ever to where the money goes or if it 0:21:49.160 --> 0:21:56.439 does any good. I believe this in my heart. There 0:21:56.520 --> 0:21:57.760 is a huge. 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:04.560 Motivator. Let me structure the sense like this self congratulations 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:09.840 may be the most important factor in good old American 0:22:09.920 --> 0:22:13.080 left wing politics. I'm not talking about like Jade Guavera 0:22:13.160 --> 0:22:16.800 Marxist politics. I'm talking about, you need to help the downtrodden. 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:19.080 Let's not blame the victims. We have to have programs 0:22:19.119 --> 0:22:23.120 and plays, blah blah blah, well meaning folks, but their 0:22:23.200 --> 0:22:29.560 own self congratulations is all they require. If they feel 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:34.359 that emotional feeling that they're looking for, they don't bother 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:36.679 with any follow up. They don't care about any follow up. 0:22:36.720 --> 0:22:41.679 In fact, follow up ruins their buzz going through the 0:22:41.680 --> 0:22:43.879 accounting and realizing, oh my god, there's waste, fraud and 0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.879 abuse in this program. Holy cow, we got to roll 0:22:46.960 --> 0:22:48.520 up our sleeves, take a deep breath and get to 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:49.600