Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: Forty five year old Mohammed Sambri Solomon now facing sixteen
Speaker 3: charges of attempted murder as well as federal hate crime charges.
Speaker 3: Authority say the suspect dressed as a gardener to avoid
Speaker 3: looking suspicious Sunday when he yelled Free Palestine and tossed
Speaker 3: two Molotov cocktails into a crowd. Authority saying the suspect
Speaker 3: allegedly learned how to make them on YouTube.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, there's not a lot to make in a
Speaker 4: Molotov cocktail.
Speaker 2: You can learn it pretty quickly on YouTube.
Speaker 4: That's one of the good or bad things about Molotov cocktails,
Speaker 4: depending on.
Speaker 2: You look at it.
Speaker 4: Talking about the terrorist crazy person in Boulder Colarade trying
Speaker 4: to set a bunch of people on fire, nobody is
Speaker 4: dead yet, luckily, but a whole bunch of people with
Speaker 4: some really bad burns.
Speaker 2: Let's go on with a little more information about this dude.
Speaker 5: What I came to see was an erratic man, which
Speaker 5: was the attacker pacing back and forth with the two
Speaker 5: Molotov cocktails in his hands. The attacker was yelling things
Speaker 5: like U fing Zionists, kill my people. I kill you
Speaker 5: in puty, different people, saying you're a killer, You're a killer,
Speaker 5: making eye contact with me, telling me that I was
Speaker 5: a killer and he'll kill us.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he seems pretty crazy. But yes, Katie, no, how
Speaker 4: is that not terrorism? Well, yeah, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: Only in Boulder, Colorado, which is like Berkeley or Davis
Speaker 4: or yeah, you know Nate, Columbia, name your big college town.
Speaker 4: Boulder is like that. I mean, the FBI immediately was
Speaker 4: onto it being terrorism. So was the governor who's a Democrat.
Speaker 4: So was the state attorney general who's a democrat. Called
Speaker 4: a terrorists right off the bat, because the guy made
Speaker 4: it clear what he was doing. He was attacking people
Speaker 4: for political reasons to try to affect a political outcome,
Speaker 4: which is a definition of terrorism. Here's John Miller, former
Speaker 4: FBI on CNN yesterday.
Speaker 6: The idea that he planned this for all this time,
Speaker 6: knowing he's got a wife, five children at home, and
Speaker 6: that he intended to stay and get caught. That's a
Speaker 6: remarkable shift from what we've seen where people spontaneously do
Speaker 6: these things by throwing it together in a week or
Speaker 6: planning to die at the scene or flee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is interesting.
Speaker 4: So both this guy yelling free Palestine and the dude
Speaker 4: two weeks ago who killed that young couple that was
Speaker 4: going to get married in cold blood, they both were
Speaker 4: perfectly happy to be arrested. Both you know, voluntarily laid
Speaker 4: down on the ground to get cuffed, both of them.
Speaker 4: So that was part of their plan, not to go
Speaker 4: out and hail the bullets or whatever.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know if they feel like they're going to
Speaker 4: be martyrs in jail or what that is. And by
Speaker 4: the way, the guy yesterday in the courtroom said, yeah,
Speaker 4: I did it. I did it to kill Jews and
Speaker 4: I will do it again if.
Speaker 2: You let me out.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's not hiding it, and I'm sure his
Speaker 4: lawyer was like, hey, he shut up, but he's not
Speaker 4: hiding it at all.
Speaker 7: God, the amount of hate you harbor to have five
Speaker 7: kids at home and just say, f it, this is
Speaker 7: what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4: Well, according to the story, he went to try to
Speaker 4: buy guns. He got turned down because he's an illegal.
Speaker 4: Now we don't have a system in place. Apparently, where
Speaker 4: the one federal database that find that tells the gun
Speaker 4: owner or the gun shop this guy's illegal, so she
Speaker 4: can't sell him a gun doesn't meet up with the
Speaker 4: other database that says we got an illegal here trying
Speaker 4: to buy a gun, and you put him together and
Speaker 4: you arrest the guy or kick him out, or.
Speaker 7: You're getting a little ahead of yourself. It's only twenty
Speaker 7: twenty five, jack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll get there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So he tries to my gun, He can't do that,
Speaker 4: so it goes on line learns how to make Molotov cocktails.
Speaker 4: He had had five kids. He waited till the last
Speaker 4: one got out of high school. That's what he was
Speaker 4: waiting for. He'd been waiting for the last year and
Speaker 4: a half planning this thing. Wanted to make sure his
Speaker 4: last kid got out of high school. And then he
Speaker 4: goes and commits SUSCRIB and he'll be in prison for
Speaker 4: the rest.
Speaker 2: Of his life.
Speaker 7: What kind of mental damage is that going to do
Speaker 7: to his daughter that just graduated that he was waiting for.
Speaker 4: Well, he didn't care about that obviously. So now we
Speaker 4: got Tom Holman, who is our borders are wondering how
Speaker 4: many people like this have we led into the country.
Speaker 8: They created the biggest national security vulnerability this country's ever seen.
Speaker 8: Now only the two mayn known got aways. Two million
Speaker 8: people across the border. We don't know who they are,
Speaker 8: where they came from, We don't know where they are now.
Speaker 8: On top of that, even through the legal process, the
Speaker 8: Biden administration were bringing people unvetted, hand him out, handing
Speaker 8: out work for the selector candy while they sat here
Speaker 8: and planned something bad. We are going to be dealing
Speaker 8: with this for the next ten years because of the
Speaker 8: chaos they created. In four years, two million people paid
Speaker 8: more to get away. They didn't want to be vetted.
Speaker 8: They didn't want to be fingerprinted. Why there scares the
Speaker 8: hell out of me. I've been doing this for forty years.
Speaker 8: They should have scared the hell out of every American.
Speaker 8: What the Bider administration did. There's two men known godaways.
Speaker 8: Scares the hell out of me. So I'm convinced something's
Speaker 8: coming unless we can find them.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just math.
Speaker 4: You don't need a very high percentage of two million
Speaker 4: who came into this country when the border was basically
Speaker 4: wide open. Who want to do US harm to have
Speaker 4: thousands of people in this country that came here specifically
Speaker 4: to do harm of one kind of another, whether it's
Speaker 4: Chinese spies or Islamo fascists of one breed or another,
Speaker 4: or or part of the various cartels down in Mexico
Speaker 4: or whatever it is. Like I said, you don't need
Speaker 4: a very big percentage of two million to get two thousands.
Speaker 4: And that's what Holman said. He keeps him up at
Speaker 4: night where is the hell out of him? More than
Speaker 4: anything in forty years. And this guy was in an
Speaker 4: Egyptian that came in here and overstate his visa like
Speaker 4: three hundred and thirteen thousand other.
Speaker 2: People did in the year twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: That's how many people overstayed their visas and got to
Speaker 4: just hang out.
Speaker 2: And again quite a few the vast majority, like practically all.
Speaker 4: Of them, I'm sure, meaning no harm to the United
Speaker 4: States other than perhaps living off the taxpayer, But doesn't
Speaker 4: take very many. When you got the numbers, that big,
Speaker 4: horrifying situation. And right what you said, Katie, the amount
Speaker 4: the hate that you would have to have, yeah, to
Speaker 4: one be willing to spend the rest of your life
Speaker 4: in jail, leave your family behind and everything like that.
Speaker 4: How about the guy in DC who that woman he
Speaker 4: shot the guy and the woman.
Speaker 2: Soon to be fiance.
Speaker 4: The male is dead, the soon to be bride crawling
Speaker 4: away for her life, and he walks up behind her
Speaker 4: and executes her there on the sidewalk.
Speaker 2: How would you create in your.
Speaker 4: Mind such a hatred where you discount that person's life
Speaker 4: so much that you could do that. Most people couldn't
Speaker 4: shoot a dog, let alone a human being in a
Speaker 4: situation like that. Well, and that's what.
Speaker 7: Makes these universities even scarier, I think, because it's like
Speaker 7: being bred into these people.
Speaker 2: And that's the big question is how much.
Speaker 4: Of the zeitgeist, the the you know, the feeling in
Speaker 4: the air of it's okay to say things like free
Speaker 4: Palestine from the River to the sea, which is basically
Speaker 4: saying Jews need to go or die. You know, how
Speaker 4: much is that does have an effect on the radicals
Speaker 4: or the crazies. I hope we don't find out, But
Speaker 4: there have been two deadly occurrences in the last two
Speaker 4: weeks of free Palestine. In the last two months three
Speaker 4: if you include the guy who tried to burn down
Speaker 4: Governor Shapiro's mansion with his whole family in it, and
Speaker 4: luckily nobody was hurt. But that was a free Palestine
Speaker 4: guy too. This story's not over by a long shot,
Speaker 4: no doubt about that. We got a lot more on
Speaker 4: the way. I want to get to a couple of
Speaker 4: different topics, including do I want to get to this
Speaker 4: without Joe here this whole? Is there a crisis of
Speaker 4: men being able to make friends? Maybe I'll bring that
Speaker 4: up briefly and we'll get into it Morgan tomorrow, among
Speaker 4: other things on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here, arm.
Speaker 4: Strong, and yetty.
Speaker 9: I never wish your child was a full blown liberal
Speaker 9: idiot desperate to turn them into a Jew hating extremist
Speaker 9: who'd rather burn a flag than think for themselves. Well,
Speaker 9: Harvard University has the answer for the low, low price
Speaker 9: of half a million dollars will transform your kid into
Speaker 9: the kind of zealot who sets bags of shit on
Speaker 9: fire in the street screaming about whatever CNN's whining about today.
Speaker 9: Our elite program guarantees they'll swap reason for rage and
Speaker 9: facts for feelings faster than you can say protest permit.
Speaker 2: But wait, there's more.
Speaker 9: Our tuition doesn't cover the essentials. Blue hair dye, nose piercings,
Speaker 9: and a weak clascid body are sold separately, and don't
Speaker 9: forget parents. You'll be footing the bill for these, plus
Speaker 9: financially supporting your adult child for the rest of their
Speaker 9: life because they'll never become productive members of society.
Speaker 2: Why work when you can protest.
Speaker 4: Results not guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Side effects include chronic virtue signaling, allergic reactions to logic,
Speaker 1: and an obsession with trending hashtags. Harvard University is not
Speaker 1: liable for arrests, property damage, or your kid's newfound hatred
Speaker 1: of you. Consult your bank account before enrolling.
Speaker 2: Weak flaccid bodies sold separately.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know someone, well, actually I know several people,
Speaker 4: but one very well who's child came back from college
Speaker 4: lecturing them about their attitudes.
Speaker 2: Which, yay, sure, glad I've paid for that.
Speaker 10: Woo.
Speaker 4: Could have got a new car and you wouldn't be
Speaker 4: hating me right now, But instead, I'm driving my old
Speaker 4: car so I can pay for you to go to
Speaker 4: that college and come back and lecture me.
Speaker 9: Woo.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to get deep into this story right
Speaker 4: now because I think I want to save it for
Speaker 4: when Joe is here. He had to cut out early
Speaker 4: today in the New York Times. I've heard this come
Speaker 4: up a number of times recently. I don't know that
Speaker 4: I would have noticed it unless somebody pointed it out,
Speaker 4: that it's difficult for adult males to make friends in
Speaker 4: the modern era.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this has always been true.
Speaker 4: I don't even know if it's like I said, I
Speaker 4: wouldn't have noticed if it's somebody had point not. Do
Speaker 4: you since that with your husband, Katie? No, First of all,
Speaker 4: I think i'd have to define what's a friend. Define
Speaker 4: friend for me somebody, Michael, what's a friend? I'd say,
Speaker 4: somebody that you talked to on a regular basis.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4: Maybe somebody that you well.
Speaker 2: Define friends for me.
Speaker 4: Katie, I would say, Michael's on the right track.
Speaker 7: Somebody you talk to on a regular basis and that
Speaker 7: you have some form of trust and respect for.
Speaker 4: I don't have a single other male that I talked
Speaker 4: to on a regular basis in my life. If that's
Speaker 4: the basis, many people that I respect. But is that
Speaker 4: a crisis? I talked to both my kids. They're males.
Speaker 4: You talk to antson michaelangeloin work.
Speaker 2: Doesn't count, does it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think it does. Absolutely, I think he counts. Oh,
Speaker 4: that's a sad excuse for friends if you're counting your
Speaker 4: work friends.
Speaker 7: Hey, I met my husband at work, so I'm all.
Speaker 7: I think great relationships start at work because you already share.
Speaker 4: Something in common. Does a HR know this? I don't
Speaker 4: care at this point, I suppose you're in the clear cares.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I have to go to bring this
Speaker 4: up when when Joe's here tomorrow is see if he
Speaker 4: thinks that's true that there's some sort of crisis with
Speaker 4: adult males making friends. Yes, Michael, No, I've met my
Speaker 4: wife at work, so we Wow. Both Katie and I
Speaker 4: are in trouble. Do you not take the company HR tutorials?
Speaker 4: You're not supposed to ask people loud or it taught
Speaker 4: us how to do it.
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Wow, hooking up with coworkers not cool for the One
Speaker 4: More Thing podcast we do later today. This is a tease,
Speaker 4: And if you don't listen to the One More Thing podcast.
Speaker 2: You should. Katie, who's a workout fiend.
Speaker 4: You go to the gym all the time, partially driven
Speaker 4: there by health problems, right, But that keeps you motivated.
Speaker 4: A health problem will keep a person motivated at the gym,
Speaker 4: which is Yeah, got some stuff about how long you
Speaker 4: should be able to be able to do a plank
Speaker 4: at different ages. Oh, and then I have some other
Speaker 4: questions about a couple other things. So were we going
Speaker 4: to have a plank off?
Speaker 2: We'll get into it. Well, that's a big question. And
Speaker 2: I also have a question.
Speaker 4: About exercises for the gluteus maximus because I've been working
Speaker 4: on my ass and I'm not having any luck so
Speaker 4: much thrusting. So on a more serious note, I think
Speaker 4: I don't know. I actually I haven't heard this. So
Speaker 4: you know, the people that escaped from prison down there
Speaker 4: in New Orleans.
Speaker 2: They've now arrested what a dozen people something like that
Speaker 2: that that helped in some way and them escaping from
Speaker 2: that prison.
Speaker 4: Originally it was just the one janitor, but now it's
Speaker 4: like a dozen or more that were involved in helping
Speaker 4: these people let get get get out for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: So that's a problem with your prison.
Speaker 4: Try to hire people that are on the side of
Speaker 4: the state or the county and not on the side
Speaker 4: of the prisoner.
Speaker 2: AnyWho.
Speaker 4: One of the dudes that got out and then they caught.
Speaker 4: Have they caught them all now or is there still somebody.
Speaker 2: On the lose.
Speaker 4: There's one still, think there's one lesson. But one of
Speaker 4: the guys they caught did a video appealing to Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: And I haven't heard this yet. Can you play that
Speaker 4: for me, Michael, clip number ten. I'm sorry, it's clip
Speaker 4: number eleven?
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Eleven? I didn't.
Speaker 9: I was let out.
Speaker 11: My name was a mess. So please for help, young boy.
Speaker 11: Meat meals people of LDL. And I'm saying people that
Speaker 11: been through the system that Lewis come up, Lil Wayne,
Speaker 11: I don't please.
Speaker 2: I'm asking for help.
Speaker 12: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: When I get back and could see I'm asking y'all
Speaker 11: keeps to come help.
Speaker 4: You don't say I'm asking the world.
Speaker 1: Tell let y'all know.
Speaker 4: I'm not a raper man.
Speaker 1: I'm not none of that, none of that.
Speaker 11: I'm a good person of a father that won't appeal
Speaker 11: in my shoes.
Speaker 4: Oh well, if you're a father, you can't be a
Speaker 4: bad person. A little hard to hear there, but he
Speaker 4: was saying he didn't. He didn't break out. He was
Speaker 4: let out by people who understand that the system is
Speaker 4: all screwed up, and he's appealing to Donald Trump for
Speaker 4: a pardon, which could work.
Speaker 11: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Trump's kind of all over the place with some of
Speaker 2: his pardons.
Speaker 4: It's interesting that that has become a thing with young
Speaker 4: black men appealing to Donald Trump thinking they can get out.
Speaker 4: I saw once again today that Rappa should night talking
Speaker 4: about it doesn't matter if Diddy gets convicted, Trump will
Speaker 4: pardon him.
Speaker 2: No way, Trump's pardonering.
Speaker 4: Not a chance. No, No, that wouldn't be a good one.
Speaker 4: There's did he trial today? You had one little update
Speaker 4: for us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, the security guard that was at the hotel the
Speaker 7: night that did he beat Cassie up and we all
Speaker 7: saw that video footage from the surveillance man that is awful.
Speaker 4: Apparently he did.
Speaker 7: He try to bribe him first of all by saying, hey,
Speaker 7: if you wipe that footage, I'll take care of you.
Speaker 7: Were the words that he used. And then the security
Speaker 7: guard started to cover for Diddy. So he actually has
Speaker 7: testified that he initially lied to the cops because he
Speaker 7: didn't want anything to do with this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that you know, you should always be honest, and
Speaker 4: I think I would, especially if I saw a guy
Speaker 4: beating up a woman? Yeah, but he had to be
Speaker 4: at least somewhat concerned about did he and his people
Speaker 4: coming after him without a doubt, And if he didn't,
Speaker 4: he should have, he should have been worried about it.
Speaker 2: So, but did he went with the old Pablo Escobar?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Does he get credit for inventing this the h silver
Speaker 4: or lead as in, I can pay you, or leads
Speaker 4: in a bullet So do you want to which do
Speaker 4: you want?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 4: Did he offered him money right off the bat to
Speaker 4: erase the videotape which obviously didn't. I'll take care of you, right,
Speaker 4: which obviously didn't happen because we've all seen the videotape.
Speaker 4: And so that security guard was on the stand admitting
Speaker 4: that he's on the stand now, he's still up there. Okay,
Speaker 4: So he actually witnessed this. He was probably sitting in
Speaker 4: his office where he's supposed to do there and was
Speaker 4: watching the live video as it happened. Saw a young
Speaker 4: guy beating up a girl in the hallway. God, that's horrible,
Speaker 4: it's amazing. So did he walked out of there that night?
Speaker 4: He wasn't arrested or anything. Yeah, nothing came of it
Speaker 4: that night. God, do you think you beat up a
Speaker 4: woman like that in the hallway of a hotel and
Speaker 4: it's on videotape and a security guard seat. You'd be
Speaker 4: going to jail, but not if you're Sean Diddy Combs.
Speaker 4: We got more on the way. I hope you can
Speaker 4: stay here, armstrong and getty.
Speaker 13: And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about
Speaker 13: your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.
Speaker 13: You can see that I'm mentally and comfortent and I
Speaker 13: can't walk, and I can beat the.
Speaker 2: Hell out of both of them.
Speaker 13: Do you want to reply to any of those reports?
Speaker 13: And also to the fact that there are some Democrats
Speaker 13: who are now questioning whether you should have run for
Speaker 13: reelection in the first place, that you never beating it?
Speaker 13: Do you have any regrets?
Speaker 8: So?
Speaker 4: Wow, when was that Hanson? When was that question ask
Speaker 4: of him? It was obviously post getting out of the race.
Speaker 4: It was just a couple of days ago. Oh my god,
Speaker 4: play that first part again.
Speaker 13: And there's also been a lot of discussion recently about
Speaker 13: your mental and physical capabilities while you were in office.
Speaker 13: You can see that I'm mentally incompetent and I can't
Speaker 13: walk and I can beat the hell out of both
Speaker 13: of them.
Speaker 4: Okay, turn you out there. So he's being sarcastic. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: you can see that. I'm I can't walk and I'm
Speaker 4: mentally incompetent. Yeah, you can't walk and you are mentally incompetent.
Speaker 4: That is every indication we've had, not only from watching you,
Speaker 4: but from the books and everything else. Does he is
Speaker 4: he still well, he's got dementia. See he can't ask
Speaker 4: the guy with dementia? Or is he just so programmed
Speaker 4: as a liar after being a politician his whole life?
Speaker 11: Or what?
Speaker 4: How is he still living in a world where he
Speaker 4: thinks he physically is okay even if he believes his
Speaker 4: mind is okay.
Speaker 2: He does He's the one that.
Speaker 4: Started wearing velcrow shoes and using that lower ramp because
Speaker 4: he couldn't walk.
Speaker 10: Wow, who does he think he's fooling at this point?
Speaker 10: That's wild. I can't I don't even I can't even
Speaker 10: that was a couple of days ago. He's still trying
Speaker 10: to pull it off.
Speaker 4: Gosh, he sounds mean to Oh, yeah, you watch me,
Speaker 4: I'm mentally incompetent and I can't walk. Correct, take out
Speaker 4: the sarcasm and make those statements and you are correct.
Speaker 4: You are mentally incompetent.
Speaker 2: And you can't walk.
Speaker 7: Wow gosh, he sounds like one of the really pissed
Speaker 7: off old guys. I used to serve at the bar
Speaker 7: at like eight o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: Eight think I can't eight in the morning.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I worked at a bar at eight in the morning.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I worked at six am to ten am,
Speaker 7: and there were people there when I got there.
Speaker 2: Third shifters or derelict alcoholics.
Speaker 4: Derelict starting the day, got to get rid of the shakes.
Speaker 4: That's funny because I know a there's a bar here
Speaker 4: in Sacramentos at the Zebra Club as a big sign
Speaker 4: out front open opens at six am, and people say, well,
Speaker 4: third shift. You know, you worked the late shift and
Speaker 4: you want to go in. It's like your happy hour.
Speaker 4: But in my experience, it's mostly alcoholicues who need to
Speaker 4: get there really really early, like before they go to work.
Speaker 4: That's been my experience.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I worked that shift for six months, not a
Speaker 7: long time, but did not get one third shift.
Speaker 2: Oh really, Yeah, so that's a complete ruse. Bars that
Speaker 2: are open those hours.
Speaker 4: That's for people who need a drink before they go
Speaker 4: to work, or just to sit there in the bar
Speaker 4: stool all day long. Yeah, they needed their Irish coffee
Speaker 4: to get themselves going. Is what's what that is? Wow,
Speaker 4: that's interesting. I was never a morning drinker. I drank
Speaker 4: a lot, but I was never a morning drinker. I
Speaker 4: never could handle that. But I've known people that had
Speaker 4: to put on the suit and tie or you know,
Speaker 4: the female garb, whatever you're wearing, and hit a place
Speaker 4: like that for a big stiff one before you get
Speaker 4: to work. Yeah, then throughout the day. Uh, you can
Speaker 4: only pull that off for so long. Usually has an
Speaker 4: interesting little nugget. I wasn't expecting Katie So to describe
Speaker 4: the typical person age. Look probably at the bar at
Speaker 4: seven am. Yeah, usually this a Nancy placer, like a
Speaker 4: dive bar. Oh divy, okay, good and divy.
Speaker 7: Uh, early seventies to early eighties, usually in pajamas, some
Speaker 7: kind of a windbreaker jacket.
Speaker 4: Still pulling it off in your seventies or eighties. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: and sounding kind of like Joe Biden. Oh and I
Speaker 4: had one.
Speaker 7: Guy that just used to get pissed if I did
Speaker 7: not have that Cadillac margarita already made and on the
Speaker 7: bar by the time he got there at six fifteen.
Speaker 4: You know what, I Drake pressure precisely, sir.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: And then did you have to stand there and make
Speaker 4: conversation with him as a young, cute blonde.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, it was always yeah, yeah, And you know what,
Speaker 7: they were fun to talk to. They you know, they
Speaker 7: get the old guy pass at that.
Speaker 4: Point, sure, exactly. Yeah, they're no, they're no real threat.
Speaker 4: And they know they're no real threat. Yeah, oh do
Speaker 4: they and they will say whatever comes to mind.
Speaker 2: Wow, an interesting glimpse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, back to Joe Biden in the cover up Bill
Speaker 4: or Peter Doucy doing a story for Fox and Friends.
Speaker 2: I haven't actually heard all of this.
Speaker 4: It has to do with the pardons that Joe Biden unleashed,
Speaker 4: remember the very last day, on the.
Speaker 14: Morning of Inauguration Day. The Biden family pardons were a
Speaker 14: surprise to us. But were they also a surprise to
Speaker 14: Joe Biden. That's what officials here want to know. The
Speaker 14: new scrutiny is on Biden era parton, So that would
Speaker 14: include preemptive partons for his sister Valerie, his brother Frank,
Speaker 14: his brother James, and his wife Sarah and then also
Speaker 14: for Trump critics like Mark Millie, Anthony Fauci, and Liz Cheney.
Speaker 14: This is coming today from a Reuter's report where it
Speaker 14: says Ed Martin, the Justice Department's pardon attorney, wrote in
Speaker 14: an email scene by Reuters that the investigation involves whether
Speaker 14: Biden was competent and whether others were taking advantage of
Speaker 14: him through use of autopen or other means.
Speaker 4: The whole pardon thing is completely out of control, as
Speaker 4: we all know, and it's gotten worse and worse pretty
Speaker 4: much administration by administration.
Speaker 2: Something needs to be rained.
Speaker 4: In on that, but the pardoning everybody at the last
Speaker 4: second wild Trump's given the speech.
Speaker 2: Anyway, There's a little more here from Peter Doocy.
Speaker 14: Just minutes after President Trump got back to the Oval office.
Speaker 14: I asked him if this came up during the ride
Speaker 14: with Biden to the Capitol in the beast.
Speaker 2: Unification of our country.
Speaker 10: You know, I didn't know that he gave me pardon
Speaker 10: to his family, because he did it during my speech.
Speaker 2: She didn't tell you the famal and he didn't tell me.
Speaker 14: No, No, he did it.
Speaker 5: They released it during my.
Speaker 14: Speech, and we're hoping to get details at some point
Speaker 14: this morning about which Justice Department officials are going to
Speaker 14: be looking into this, which laws they think might have
Speaker 14: been broken, and whether or not if these pardons are
Speaker 14: found to be illegitimate somehow the Justice Department wants to
Speaker 14: prosecute some bidence.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think the pardons are going to be
Speaker 4: illegitimate because the partning power is so incredibly broad, which
Speaker 4: is one of the problems with it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, pardoning his family when.
Speaker 4: He specifically in multiple interviews said he would not do that,
Speaker 4: and doing it while Trump's giving his speech is weak
Speaker 4: sauce man, But you know, what price is he going
Speaker 4: to pay? And ultimately, given the fact that history is
Speaker 4: going to remember him as a guy who shouldn't have
Speaker 4: been president all wasn't capable of being president, couldn't have
Speaker 4: the job, was being run by other people. You know,
Speaker 4: the whole pardon thing is a minor issue compared to that,
Speaker 4: So not much of a scandal there. But wow, that's incredible.
Speaker 4: Got Elon Musk in an interviewed talking about his different
Speaker 4: businesses and what he's going to be doing now, which
Speaker 4: I found kind of interesting.
Speaker 2: A couple other things to finish up with. We will
Speaker 2: Finish Strong coming up next?
Speaker 13: Are Strong?
Speaker 4: Are all of your businesses related in some way?
Speaker 12: Well, I guess you can think of the businesses as
Speaker 12: things that improve the probable trajectory of civilization. So, uh
Speaker 12: for making life multiplanetary or extending life to Mars.
Speaker 4: The idea there is to.
Speaker 12: Ensure the long term survival of life and consciousness as
Speaker 12: we know it.
Speaker 4: I'm so excited that Elon is back more or less
Speaker 4: full time to SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, the other things that
Speaker 4: he runs. I don't know about Twitter, but I think
Speaker 4: man kindly be better off he spend less time on Twitter.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I'm very excited that he's doing that stuff again.
Speaker 4: So in the modern world, where we all do so
Speaker 4: much online shopping, the ability to return something has become
Speaker 4: a much bigger deal.
Speaker 2: I was looking at the statistics.
Speaker 4: Vast majority of US will only do business with an
Speaker 4: online retailer if it's got a pretty good return policy.
Speaker 2: That makes sense to me. I'm big on that.
Speaker 4: I'm returning to a pair of shoes, a couple of
Speaker 4: pairs of shoes right now that I ordered, and I
Speaker 4: like the looks of them online, but when I got them,
Speaker 4: I did not like them, and the return policy is
Speaker 4: super easy. I'm gonna send them back. It's got the
Speaker 4: return label in the box, Slap it on the box,
Speaker 4: set it outside, off it goes.
Speaker 2: Love that love that too.
Speaker 4: The ones that make it more complicated, where I got
Speaker 4: to like come up with my own box and my
Speaker 4: own label.
Speaker 5: Eh.
Speaker 4: I put them in a pile for things that I
Speaker 4: mean to get to, and then when I finally check again,
Speaker 4: the date is passed, and now I own a pair
Speaker 4: of shoes that don't fit, or pair of pants I hate,
Speaker 4: or whatever that I paid for, and that really makes
Speaker 4: me mad. Now you have to drive to good Will, right, yeah,
Speaker 4: and give away something perfectly good that I spent, you know,
Speaker 4: my own money on. Yeah, But returns are such a
Speaker 4: big deal. They're now nine hundred billion, nine hundred billion
Speaker 4: dollars with the returns last year nine tenths of a
Speaker 4: trillion dollars. Seventeen percent of all sales by retailers are
Speaker 4: returned now, so it's just way more common than it
Speaker 4: used to be for a variety of reasons. Now, two
Speaker 4: thirds of shoppers say negative return experience would effect whether
Speaker 4: they'd go back to that retailer. Yeah, I'm way more
Speaker 4: likely to use the place that will let you, that
Speaker 4: has the label in there, and all I gotta do
Speaker 4: is slap it on the box and send it back out.
Speaker 2: Then if I gotta they make you jump through hoops
Speaker 2: or whatever. But listen to this.
Speaker 4: In a survey of many many shoppers in the United States,
Speaker 4: over two thirds say they believe retailers make it easy
Speaker 4: to abuse flexible return policies. That's an interesting complaint, or
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's a complaint, maybe it's just
Speaker 4: a fact. But about a half admitted to abusing policies
Speaker 4: in the past year. And I realized I had I'm
Speaker 4: a generally very honest person, but I had a pair
Speaker 4: of shoes I had worn outside. But because it seemed
Speaker 4: to me that you couldn't tell and I didn't like them,
Speaker 4: I did return them. So it's technically breaking the rules,
Speaker 4: although there's no way they could tell I were them.
Speaker 4: You're a terrible person.
Speaker 2: How do you sleep at night? That's what I was thinking.
Speaker 4: I just don't even want to associate with it.
Speaker 2: So if that's the limit of.
Speaker 4: My you know, sins, I suppose them in pretty good shape,
Speaker 4: but zero morals. I don't go as far as some
Speaker 4: of these people, Another thirty percent said they use the
Speaker 4: policies to avoid paying full price.
Speaker 2: I don't know quite what that means.
Speaker 4: Say they use and return expensive wardrobe items that they
Speaker 4: otherwise couldn't afford. So you order like a shirt or
Speaker 4: a dress or pants or whatever, you know, in other words, clothes,
Speaker 4: You order something, you wear it to the party or
Speaker 4: the date or the graduation, and then you send it back.
Speaker 2: That ain't cool. I've not done that.
Speaker 4: Had somebody do that at my wedding?
Speaker 2: Really? Yeah?
Speaker 7: The dress that one of the women wore, she was like,
Speaker 7: I still have the tag on this because I'm only
Speaker 7: wearing it today.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, wow, that's classy.
Speaker 2: I guess wow yeah.
Speaker 4: Yick yeah, well yick because somebody else is going to
Speaker 4: get that that was worn for an entire day sweating,
Speaker 4: doing the cube and shuffle.
Speaker 2: No thirty percent say they've done that.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. I have not and haven't even considered it.
Speaker 4: It's half for younger customers. So for the younger crowd,
Speaker 4: half of people are doing that. Wow, where'd they get that?
Speaker 11: Is that?
Speaker 4: Is that something you know, like the last generation was
Speaker 4: doing and I, hey, check this out.
Speaker 2: That's a good question.
Speaker 4: Do we just have lower moral Why the why does
Speaker 4: the younger crowd have lower morals about that sort of thing?
Speaker 2: I wonder if it's just.
Speaker 4: They never lived in the retail world, or you walk
Speaker 4: into a store and you look somebody in the face.
Speaker 4: Everything's just anonymous. It's a it's a company, it's not
Speaker 4: a human being. I still have kind of the leftover.
Speaker 4: You talk to somebody at sears. You don't want to
Speaker 4: lie to the old lady.
Speaker 2: You hate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't want to look grandma on the eye
Speaker 4: and say, no, I didn't like the way this fit
Speaker 4: when you wore it to the wedding.
Speaker 2: All day long?
Speaker 4: Where's the young crowd? They've never dealt with the human beings,
Speaker 4: so it's just all yes, Michael.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I'm just sitting here disgusting.
Speaker 4: So half the younger people where the get the clothes
Speaker 4: for one occasion then send it back. More than half
Speaker 4: fifty eight percent said they open up multiple accounts to
Speaker 4: take advantage of promotions. You know how when you go
Speaker 4: to buy something, do you have a promo code? If
Speaker 4: you open up another account, maybe you get the ten
Speaker 4: percent off of the fifteen.
Speaker 2: I don't I've never gone to that much work.
Speaker 7: I will tell you I do this every time I
Speaker 7: online shop for something, I will go to the search
Speaker 7: bar and I will type in the website that I'm on,
Speaker 7: followed by the words promo code. And I cannot tell
Speaker 7: you how many times that has worked.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 4: Yeah, where there's a promo.
Speaker 7: Code, I don't know about the pops up, click on it,
Speaker 7: put it, copy paste, and bam, ten bucks off or whatever.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I didn't do that. Just yesterday I was ordering some
Speaker 4: clothes somewhere in promo code and I thought, man, I
Speaker 4: wish I had one.
Speaker 5: So what do you do?
Speaker 7: Just whatever website, let's say we're on, you know, buy
Speaker 7: in a Republic Banana Republic, Okay, So then you would
Speaker 7: go up to the search bar Banana Republic promo code,
Speaker 7: And there's all these websites.
Speaker 4: That compile lists from different deals and you can copy
Speaker 4: and paste from there and next thing you know, it's
Speaker 4: a percentage off or whatever. Yeah, well that's not a
Speaker 4: I don't think that's uncool or a crime or anything
Speaker 4: like that. They have those promo codes out there. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's out there. If you find it, finders keepers, go
Speaker 4: for it. It's not like wearing a pair of cool
Speaker 4: argyle socks and then sending them back.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: So here's the here's the long and short of all
Speaker 4: of this is that retailers have ended up in a
Speaker 4: situation where they know they're some cases getting ripped off
Speaker 4: losing money, and so they have a desire to want
Speaker 4: to clamp down on the return policies to make it
Speaker 4: more difficult. But then they lose the honest people. They're
Speaker 4: gonna lose people like me. I want a really generous
Speaker 4: return policy because I'm going to be honest, but I
Speaker 4: want to be able to return it really easily. So
Speaker 4: they've got a balance between the mostly young people or
Speaker 4: a ripping them off and causing them to lose money.
Speaker 4: Because how they get the dress back and they can
Speaker 4: smell that it was worm whatever, it's got a stain
Speaker 4: on it. Yeah, you know, they've done the walk of
Speaker 4: shame in it and you can just tell by looking
Speaker 4: at it. And then but if you tighten up your
Speaker 4: return rules too much, then you lose a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of the older customers are spending money.
Speaker 2: So that's got to be a tough balance.
Speaker 4: And we all know that like Walmart and Costco, a
Speaker 4: number of places that had a blanket you can return
Speaker 4: anything any time. Policy have had to tighten those up
Speaker 4: because scumbags started abusing them.
Speaker 2: I don't know who you are that does that.
Speaker 4: People were renting TVs at one point basically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember that for like Super Bowl week and
Speaker 2: stuff like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because you got a return policy where you can
Speaker 4: get the big screen TV to watch the Big Game
Speaker 4: or Game of Thrones finale or whatever you're going to do,
Speaker 4: and then return it with them thirty days.
Speaker 2: But don't you realize you ruin it for everybody. You
Speaker 2: run it for yourself.
Speaker 4: You run it for yourself because in the return policies
Speaker 4: don't exist anymore.
Speaker 2: Ah by a thought, Yeah.
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