Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2: Jack Armstrong is Joe Getty.
Speaker 3: Armstrong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Yetti.
Speaker 2: For the first time.
Speaker 4: The US launching a deadly air strike on a suspected
Speaker 4: drug boat in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off Central America,
Speaker 4: a major expansion of President Trump's war on the cartels.
Speaker 4: Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the vessel was involved in illicit
Speaker 4: narcotics smuggling as part of a designated terrorist organization, but
Speaker 4: did not provide evidence. He added that two people were
Speaker 4: killed this newest strike, targeting the Eastern Pacific. It's where
Speaker 4: roughly seventy percent of all the cocaine that enters the
Speaker 4: US is smuggled.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. That was a fact from ABC News. That's
Speaker 1: seventy percent of the drugs entering the United States coming
Speaker 1: from that little area there.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of it.
Speaker 1: I don't have strong opinions on this particular topic this show,
Speaker 1: for better or worse, or at least for me, for
Speaker 1: better or worse, I only get worked up about certain things.
Speaker 1: I don't get worked up about every story that comes along.
Speaker 1: And this isn't what I'm getting worked up about. But
Speaker 1: some of my actual conservative or libertarian friends are very
Speaker 1: concerned about this. Yeah, I get that. I get it too,
Speaker 1: Just you know, you can only get for me anyway.
Speaker 1: I can only really emotionally get involved in so many
Speaker 1: different stories. Here's Trump explaining blasting people, perhaps fishermen, perhaps
Speaker 1: drug dealers.
Speaker 2: Who knows out of the water.
Speaker 5: When you look at the people we're dealing with, and
Speaker 5: we know them, we know the people coming in, we
Speaker 5: know the boats, we know everything else.
Speaker 3: We're allowed to do it. It's in international waters.
Speaker 5: If we don't do it, we're going to lose hundreds
Speaker 5: of thousands of people.
Speaker 2: I gotta believe that for real.
Speaker 1: Even with all the jokes we've been making about fishermen,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't want to get into a boat and go
Speaker 1: out fishing in that area, would you.
Speaker 6: Well, I would not do it in a super powered
Speaker 6: what do they call them cigarette boat? Those those super
Speaker 6: high powered speed boats. I'd make mine look good and
Speaker 6: fishing y.
Speaker 1: You know, got a bunch of poles sticking out, got
Speaker 1: the cabin door, fentanyls worms.
Speaker 2: Right, and then you know, give the give the boat
Speaker 2: a name.
Speaker 6: Like the Heidi Ho three or something like that, an innocent,
Speaker 6: fun loving name, because all these boats look the same.
Speaker 6: They're super high powered speed boats. They do boats zooming
Speaker 6: across the Caribbean or in this case, and the news
Speaker 6: was making a big the.
Speaker 1: Trump's controsio practices have now expanded to the Eastern Pacific.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think the name of the body
Speaker 1: on the wall of water on the app is really
Speaker 1: that significant a wrinkle, right, it's how sure we are
Speaker 1: who this is? And you know what's the process for determining?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, in short, drug routes from South and Central
Speaker 1: America to the US. Some are going to be on
Speaker 1: that side of the Panama it is Smiths, some are
Speaker 1: going to be on the other, all right, David Muha,
Speaker 1: calm down. Excellent use of the word isthmus, thank you,
Speaker 1: which doesn't.
Speaker 2: Make it under the show enough. So Marco Rubio is
Speaker 2: what it is? Mus.
Speaker 1: Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, was there in the Oval
Speaker 1: Office and was asked about this and stood up for
Speaker 1: our current policy.
Speaker 7: Well, I mean the question is, bottom line, these are
Speaker 7: drug voats. If people want to stop seeing drug voats
Speaker 7: blow up, stop sending drugs to the United.
Speaker 2: States, doesn't matter in the United States.
Speaker 7: Well, these are all in international waters.
Speaker 3: The voat you is strike in the United States or.
Speaker 7: Well, that's a different man. Now you're talking about law
Speaker 7: enforcement matter. In this particular case, there are people traveling
Speaker 7: on international waters headed towards the United States with how
Speaker 7: hostilities in mind, which includes flooding our country with dangerous,
Speaker 7: deadly drugs, and they're going to be stopped. And that's
Speaker 7: what's happening. And yeah, in the case last week you
Speaker 7: saw there was a submarine. It was a submarine. It
Speaker 7: was a submersible. That's a drug boat. All the way through.
Speaker 7: We know what these boats are, the President just said it.
Speaker 2: We tracked them from the very beginning.
Speaker 7: We know who's on them, who they are, where they're
Speaker 7: coming from, what they have on them. And you know,
Speaker 7: if you're running drug boats, you're in you're in grave danger.
Speaker 2: I hope that's true. I hope we know who's on them,
Speaker 2: we know them they're drug boats. I hope it's as
Speaker 2: thorough as they're presenting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, you don't wanna get blown up, don't don't
Speaker 1: drive a drug boat through that area.
Speaker 2: That's his advice.
Speaker 1: So we're following a big breaking news story today with
Speaker 1: the NBA season starting what two days ago, thirty one
Speaker 1: people arrested, including a head coach and current player, at
Speaker 1: least one in a gambling scandal. So the FBI is
Speaker 1: going to have a big press conference today and we'll
Speaker 1: find out more about what was going on there. But
Speaker 1: like Joe said, this could be one of the biggest
Speaker 1: sports gamblings stories ever.
Speaker 6: Oh, it absolutely could be. Yeah, yeah, now you're working
Speaker 6: that desk. I'm not really following it. But have they
Speaker 6: even leaked? Is that the end of the list of
Speaker 6: players and coaches or are among the thirty one arrested?
Speaker 6: Are there more NBA figures? Are they all just mobsters
Speaker 6: and gambler?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: My guess would be that those are the two big
Speaker 1: names and the rest of the movie people.
Speaker 2: You never heard of a coach and a player, but
Speaker 2: an actual.
Speaker 1: Head coach arrested though in one of the major sports leagues. Wow, yeah, crazy, crazy,
Speaker 1: Wonder what he was doing. Uh, you know, I could
Speaker 1: do the dinosaurs now if you want. I just came
Speaker 1: across so they don't bounce.
Speaker 6: No, No, I tell you what though, if I'm an
Speaker 6: NBA GM and I've got some like some guy paid
Speaker 6: a zillion dollars to a few years ago and he's
Speaker 6: gotten fat and lazy and ineffective. Man, I'm planting evidence.
Speaker 6: I'm planting evidence in that guy's locker or something to
Speaker 6: get him out of there. That's a funny idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Plus, you can't make me pay the guy's salary
Speaker 6: if he's a damn gambler.
Speaker 2: I won't have it. Shocked shocked, I say.
Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, here it is guys, this is just
Speaker 1: for you, and I tell you what and women.
Speaker 2: If you are.
Speaker 6: Among the people who think, oh my god, that's so cool,
Speaker 6: well then you get an honorary guy card and welcome
Speaker 6: to the club.
Speaker 2: All right, here's the story.
Speaker 6: In New Jersey, for fourteen years, you have one of
Speaker 6: these quasi educational, quasi entertainment stop your car with the
Speaker 6: kids places called field Station Dinosaurs which among their their
Speaker 6: their attractions, or a bunch of big giant animatronic dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: I've stopped it.
Speaker 1: Well, I've stopped that with my kids or my parents
Speaker 1: stopped that. These sorts of things, oh many many times
Speaker 1: in my life.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's one in Arizona.
Speaker 6: We used to stop with stop at with the kids
Speaker 6: whenever we'd go see my mom and dad for years.
Speaker 1: Oh it was so good. I enjoyed it as much
Speaker 1: as they did. But so anyway, this field.
Speaker 6: Station dinosaurs shut down in November, and some employee said, hey,
Speaker 6: I bet we could sell these dinosaurs just to you know,
Speaker 6: cover some of the costs and stuff like that. And
Speaker 6: so the general manager said, yeah, okay, I suppose we
Speaker 6: could try it, and they put it online, but like
Speaker 6: put absurdly low prices, like the t Rex, which is
Speaker 6: thirty nine feet tall, was priced at twenty seven hundred
Speaker 6: dollars that, oh yeah, please put it. And this guy
Speaker 6: who's got a rural home in Connecticut sits along a
Speaker 6: busy road farms and farm stands, and he thought, wow,
Speaker 6: that'd be great.
Speaker 2: I'm going to put that on my land.
Speaker 6: He says, quote. My wife thought it was absolutely the
Speaker 6: worst idea in the world. But once word got out,
Speaker 6: it's gone viral and now they're getting all sorts of
Speaker 6: crazy offers. Although, as the GM says, everybody wants the
Speaker 6: t Rex or the triceratops. Although one guy bought a
Speaker 6: six foot velociraptor because he thought, yeah, it's six and
Speaker 6: a half feet. He thinks, yeah, I could fit that
Speaker 6: on a flatbed truck. Quote, anything larger would be a
Speaker 6: logistical nightmare. Yeah, get involving hiring a private ship. Or
Speaker 6: that's just too much effort, he said, too much effort
Speaker 6: for a gigantic t rex on your lawn.
Speaker 2: You're out of the bidding.
Speaker 1: You don't deserve that t rex, sir.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the velociraptor I could put in the living room.
Speaker 2: That'd be cool.
Speaker 1: I'll have it, thirty nine foot tall, t rep four stories.
Speaker 2: I don't know what. I don't know what rules might
Speaker 2: be in your neighborhood that allow you to have that
Speaker 2: or not. I don't know. I gotta check with my hoa.
Speaker 2: I live in one of those places.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the Triceratops is really attractive, although the stegosaurus
Speaker 1: also very attractive. Here's one guy I wanted to buy.
Speaker 1: The Stegosaurus's thirty feet long. It's only twelve hundred and
Speaker 1: sixty bucks.
Speaker 6: Wow, man, if I had land, I would, seriously I would.
Speaker 6: I couldn't, but again, I couldn't tell my wife. It
Speaker 6: would just have to show up one day, honey, there's
Speaker 6: a truck outside. Oh really, that's weird.
Speaker 2: What's with the t rex? What t rex? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh, I was gonna mention that, Yeah, I bought a
Speaker 1: forty foot tall t Rex.
Speaker 6: You remember the other night when I stayed up a
Speaker 6: little late drinking Scotch and watching concert videos. Well, anyway,
Speaker 6: oh boy, so we can put.
Speaker 2: A link to this.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure are there any for sale now, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if they're all sold out, but oh forty
Speaker 1: foot dinosaur.
Speaker 2: Please.
Speaker 1: So there was a second, I believe in last debate
Speaker 1: last night for the New York mayoral race, which in
Speaker 1: general I don't care about New York's local politics, but
Speaker 1: you got a communist running against a crook.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, this is a serious, like medical checkup for
Speaker 6: the American people, and.
Speaker 1: It got pretty hilarious, got pretty firely fire ree last night.
Speaker 1: We've got the highlights of that debate, among other things
Speaker 1: on the way.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 8: But as you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups,
Speaker 8: Damon Jones, and Terry Rozier were taking into custody today
Speaker 8: former current NBA players and coaches. What you don't know
Speaker 8: is that this is an illegal gambling operation and sports
Speaker 8: rigging operation that spanned the course of years, the FBI
Speaker 8: led a coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over
Speaker 8: thirty individuals today responsible for this case, which is very
Speaker 8: much ongoing. Not only did we crack into the fraud
Speaker 8: that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA,
Speaker 8: but we also entered and executed a system of justice
Speaker 8: against La Casinoshra to include the Banano, Gambino, Genevesi, and
Speaker 8: lu Chase crime families.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this includes some of the biggest crime families in
Speaker 1: American history. That's Cash Pattel, FBI director, just moments ago
Speaker 1: with his press conference as thirty one people have been
Speaker 1: arrested involving an NBA gambling and he said they're fixing scandal.
Speaker 2: Didn't he did? He use the word fixing.
Speaker 1: I don't recall something that the game that involved games though, rigging.
Speaker 1: He used the word rigging, sports, rigging, fair So yeah,
Speaker 1: story so uh, Because I had been reading the New
Speaker 1: York Times version of it and this is all just
Speaker 1: coming out and it sounded like a lot of poker
Speaker 1: and gambling, and I thought, Okay, is this not going
Speaker 1: to be as big a deal? But no rigging poker
Speaker 1: games Okay, rigging poker games is different than rigging NBA games.
Speaker 1: You got to figure out why are we rigging poker
Speaker 1: or rigging NBA games here? Those are different things. Anyway,
Speaker 1: here's more from Cash Betel.
Speaker 8: The charges and the arrests that were taken down across
Speaker 8: this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
Speaker 8: illegal gambling, and the fraud is mind boggling. It's not
Speaker 8: hundreds of dollars, it's not thousands of dollars. It's not
Speaker 8: tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars.
Speaker 8: We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud
Speaker 8: and theft and robbery across a multi year investigation.
Speaker 1: Okay, so wait a second, you told me sure enough.
Speaker 1: Is this a deal where cause you know, Michael Jordan,
Speaker 1: famous like big time gambler, Charles Barkley, famous big time
Speaker 1: gambler like have gambling problems, They spend crazy amounts of money.
Speaker 2: Is this just about some.
Speaker 1: Sort of illegal poker games that they were rigging that
Speaker 1: happened to be sports players and doesn't really have anything
Speaker 1: to do with NBA games.
Speaker 6: They happen to be rich guys who were somehow involved.
Speaker 1: But the excuse me, the wording is very vague. Is
Speaker 1: that on purpose to make this seem like it's attached
Speaker 1: to the NBA so far, and it seems to me
Speaker 1: like the only attachment is you got rich NBA players
Speaker 1: involved in some illegal gambling.
Speaker 2: But that's not got anything to do with the league.
Speaker 6: Let's see the case, which involves at least two criminal
Speaker 6: schemes according to people with knowledge of the matter. Uh,
Speaker 6: some people participated in both schemes. According to a person
Speaker 6: with knowledge of the matter, one involved illegal poker games
Speaker 6: that were set up by organized crime families and also
Speaker 6: involved at least one NBA coach and former player in
Speaker 6: the league. According to three law enforcement officials, the case
Speaker 6: is expected to involve more than two dozen people.
Speaker 2: I think, what's the other aspect of it? Well, let
Speaker 2: me what's the one. Let me say this and then
Speaker 2: you can tell me if I'm right or not.
Speaker 1: Cash Ptel has got a reputation of a bit of
Speaker 1: a like, likes to get headlines and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: put on a bit of a show, get a lot
Speaker 1: of attention. Is he purposely saying rigged games to confuse people?
Speaker 1: When this is about poker games and not about NBA games.
Speaker 6: Okay, I'm getting live updates. The indictments charged two different schemes.
Speaker 6: One a sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information.
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, and the other the nationwide scheme
Speaker 1: to rig poker games.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: The poker games thing is kind of interesting, but not
Speaker 1: a whatever. But if it, you know, you get into
Speaker 1: the actual sports that people bet on by the billions
Speaker 1: of dollars, and some of them were fixed this way
Speaker 1: or that.
Speaker 2: That's that's a major that's a major.
Speaker 1: Story, right, yeah, yeah, it's both.
Speaker 2: Wow. Huh.
Speaker 1: And how about those you know, if you're into mafia's stories,
Speaker 1: you know those names. Those are the big Mafia families.
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were up to much these days,
Speaker 1: although rigging games.
Speaker 2: Allegedly, huh. This is exciting.
Speaker 1: But I see my brother from the Old Country sitting
Speaker 1: in the gallery. So I'll not be testifying on the show. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I got nothing to say.
Speaker 2: You have to be a fan of the Godfather to
Speaker 2: enjoy that. What was I gonna say? It's gonna say
Speaker 2: something if you're not watch it again.
Speaker 1: The NBA and the gambling and I don't know I
Speaker 1: had some point to make about that.
Speaker 2: Well, there will be time. There will be time.
Speaker 1: The head coach is done.
Speaker 2: The head coach is done as a coach. Ye, yeah,
Speaker 2: of course he is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sorry Portland, you got junkies on the streets and crooks
Speaker 1: running your basketball team.
Speaker 2: It's a shame.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 6: A couple of things I'm excited to talk about. A
Speaker 6: think tank, a good one has re ranked universities and
Speaker 6: colleges and ranked them on free speech, the school's approach
Speaker 6: to politics on campus, how well students do after graduation,
Speaker 6: whether they've exhibited some sort of pluralism among faculty. In short,
Speaker 6: do they behave like a university supposed to behave or
Speaker 6: do they behave like an indoctrination factory for progressive thought?
Speaker 6: And the top ten are out at least, and it's
Speaker 6: not the usual suspects. If you want your kid or
Speaker 6: you're just concerned about this in general, but if you
Speaker 6: want your kid to go to university where they'll actually
Speaker 6: be challenged and learn, got the list for you coming up.
Speaker 1: Cool, And then we're going to get the highlights of
Speaker 1: the debate last night between the communists and the crook
Speaker 1: So that's fun. They got a little spicy. So I'm
Speaker 1: looking at CNN. Their headline up there is historic arrest.
Speaker 1: This is in quotes, historic arrest over years of sports rigging.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got to be more specific about the sports rigging.
Speaker 1: Are you talk about the sport of gambling or the
Speaker 1: sport of national the basketball in the National Basketball Association?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not clear to me where the one ends
Speaker 6: and the other one starts. There being fudgie on this
Speaker 6: and purpose because it's more exciting if it's NBA games
Speaker 6: than if it's we're talking about CNN. Right, yeah, right,
Speaker 6: Well but did did Cash Pttel make it a little
Speaker 6: fudgy on purpose to make it more exciting?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Make it clear to us, please Armstrong and Getty. First
Speaker 1: of all, we're trying to wrap our heads around exactly
Speaker 1: what's happening with this giant NBA gambling scandal. Is it
Speaker 1: mostly poker games? That's what all the headlines seem to be,
Speaker 1: and that's the main thing they're talking about in the
Speaker 1: press conference. There's these rigged poker games spanning eleven states,
Speaker 1: and all the crime families and NBA players, coaches and
Speaker 1: people that are involved in them. They're not talk giving
Speaker 1: any details on anything about games as of yet, NBA
Speaker 1: games just poker games, So I don't know.
Speaker 2: What's going on there. I guess we'll find out when
Speaker 2: we find out.
Speaker 1: New York Times is definitely talking about game scandals, a
Speaker 1: game fixing scandals too, but they didn't They certainly didn't
Speaker 1: lead with that, and they haven't given any details whatsoever.
Speaker 1: And if that were the bulk of us, you would
Speaker 1: lead with that. We have evidence that in an NBA
Speaker 1: game they shaved points or pulled a player or whatever,
Speaker 1: and they got it's all. It's been going on for
Speaker 1: a half an hour now, and it's like ninety nine percent.
Speaker 1: It's Operation Royal Flush, which is the name of the sting,
Speaker 1: which would lead you to believe it's mostly poker. It's
Speaker 1: not Operation you know, missed that free throw on purpose.
Speaker 1: It's Operation Royal Flush. So I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll see thirty one people arrested though, that's something uh.
Speaker 6: The attorney for the Eastern District in New York said
Speaker 6: that the sports betting scheme involved hundreds of thousands of
Speaker 6: dollars in fraudulent bets involving network of proxies or straw betters.
Speaker 6: Most of the allegedly fraudulent bets were successful. Okay, well
Speaker 6: we'll update updates come, but that's hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 6: They're talking about tens of millions of day total, so
Speaker 6: we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when people regularly decide to cross that line
Speaker 1: historically in terms of cheating in sports, that's when they've
Speaker 1: gotten themselves into gambling debt. They've gotten themselves into a
Speaker 1: real problem. It's what you throw a fight or whatever.
Speaker 1: It's because you got your gambling on other things and
Speaker 1: you got yourself in such a bad situation that you
Speaker 1: cross that line and willing to do so. Well, the
Speaker 1: mobsters come to you and say, you're never going to
Speaker 1: pay us off.
Speaker 2: So here's an idea how you can get square, and
Speaker 2: you have to take it. It's an offer you can't refuse.
Speaker 1: Look, butch I need you to go down in the
Speaker 1: third That sting you feel is pride. You got to
Speaker 1: fight that s right. That's from pulp fiction, second classic
Speaker 1: movie reference of the hour. So they had another debate
Speaker 1: last night in New York with the communist, the crook,
Speaker 1: and then that other dude, which you'll hear from all
Speaker 1: three of them.
Speaker 2: And these are some of the highlights from the debate.
Speaker 5: My opponents, who spend more time trying to convince the
Speaker 5: other to drop out than actually proposing their own policies,
Speaker 5: will speak only of the past because that's all that
Speaker 5: they know. I am the sole candidate running with a
Speaker 5: vision for the future of this city.
Speaker 3: Zoron is a great actor. He missed his calling.
Speaker 9: Since I left, homeless rate is more than double. When
Speaker 9: I left, the vacancy rate on housing was four point
Speaker 9: five percent.
Speaker 3: It's now one percent.
Speaker 9: This man never even proposed the bill.
Speaker 2: Andrew, you didn't leave. You fled from being impeached.
Speaker 1: By the Democrats of the state legislature.
Speaker 4: You fled.
Speaker 2: So that's funny.
Speaker 1: Say that's Curtis sleewa guy who we met at a
Speaker 1: couple of different things anyway, But he runs for mayor
Speaker 1: every single election and and gets on the stage and
Speaker 1: everything like that.
Speaker 2: He hates Andrew Cuomo so much in.
Speaker 1: The Cuomo family because he's been in politics in New
Speaker 1: York City and state for his whole life. He hates
Speaker 1: the Cuomo family so much. He spends all his time
Speaker 1: trying to take down the guy who ain't gonna win
Speaker 1: instead of the guy that's gonna win the communists.
Speaker 6: But that is he'll let the communist win if he
Speaker 6: can damage Cuomo. And and Curtis Lee was defense. He
Speaker 6: was a hero in New York for a long time.
Speaker 6: Got shot the mob Hello tried to murder him, shot
Speaker 6: him micing five times or something like that in a cab.
Speaker 6: And he doesn't appreciate the mobbed up Cuomo allegedly according
Speaker 6: to some sort But it's pretty funny Cuomo saying when
Speaker 6: I left, we had whatever percentage of you left. He
Speaker 6: had to resign because you're about to be put in prison.
Speaker 2: That is a pretty funny thing to say. That's hair
Speaker 2: a little more.
Speaker 5: I will be the mayor who doesn't just protect Jewish
Speaker 5: New Yorkers but also celebrates and cherishes them.
Speaker 3: Not everything is a TikTok video. You're the savior of
Speaker 3: the Jewish people.
Speaker 9: You won't denounce globalize they which means killed jus. You
Speaker 9: have never had a job, You've never accomplished anything.
Speaker 3: There's no reason to believe you have any merit or qualification.
Speaker 3: For eight and a half.
Speaker 1: Million lives, that's a good shot.
Speaker 2: It's tell your damn COMI.
Speaker 1: It's tough though hearing it from a crook, a corrupt
Speaker 1: womanizing woman secretary, touching, lying, shredding documents.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's just an awful human being.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, it's the pot calling the kettle black.
Speaker 6: It's it's it's terrible, terrible. What is the matter with
Speaker 6: our political system? No, can we keep belching up horrible
Speaker 6: candidates like this?
Speaker 2: It is amazing. A little more.
Speaker 3: Trees the rent sounds great.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it effectual about twenty five percent of the number
Speaker 9: of housing units in the City of New York.
Speaker 3: It's not a new idea.
Speaker 9: If the mayor doesn't have the power to do it anyway,
Speaker 9: the Rent Guidelines Board does, and he doesn't control the
Speaker 9: rent guide so nothing is going to happen.
Speaker 3: It's all this.
Speaker 9: It's just more political blatherer.
Speaker 1: I've heard the both of them again, fighting like kids
Speaker 1: in the schoolyard or on your resume could fit on
Speaker 1: a cocktail napkin. And Andrew, your failures could fill a
Speaker 1: public school library in New York City. We've been saying
Speaker 1: this for years. You got to get rid of crowds
Speaker 1: and debates. Just what are we doing?
Speaker 2: What are we doing?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 2: Entertainment? It's entertainment. It's a TV show. Okay, so you know.
Speaker 1: Communists, what what do you got? This is what kind
Speaker 1: of related the communist is going to win? He's still
Speaker 1: going to win? Zor run MONI donie all right.
Speaker 6: I came across this email from Charles C. W. Cook
Speaker 6: at the National Review, entitled apparently we still need to
Speaker 6: explain why communism is wrong and and this is actually
Speaker 6: I think it's a plea to subscribe or something like that.
Speaker 2: But it's very good. I love this.
Speaker 6: I don't think I've heard this before. Charles writes, I
Speaker 6: have long agreed with TS. Eliot that quote there is
Speaker 6: no such thing as a lost cause, because there is
Speaker 6: no such thing as a gained cause, the point being
Speaker 6: because human nature does not fundamentally change over time, it's
Speaker 6: incumbent upon every generation to learn anew the eternal lessons,
Speaker 6: because it'll.
Speaker 2: Go away, The good stuff will go aways.
Speaker 6: Reagan put it famously, no more than in a generation
Speaker 6: or two away from losing our liberty. We've got to
Speaker 6: teach our children how precious it is. And he says
Speaker 6: he's long believed that. But still, he writes, I must
Speaker 6: confess to having been a little shocked of late by
Speaker 6: how many topics remain open for debate. I had not,
Speaker 6: for example, expected to see the flourishing of anti Semitism
Speaker 6: to stain the United States, Britain and beyond since the
Speaker 6: attack of October seventh. I did not consider it likely
Speaker 6: that New York City would consider electing a Communist as
Speaker 6: its mayor. And I had not anticipated that the sensible
Speaker 6: and effective reforms that were ushered in by President Reagan
Speaker 6: and Prime Minister Thatcher would be at risk of being replaced.
Speaker 2: Quite this soon.
Speaker 6: I had, not, in other words, expected these battles to
Speaker 6: return to test us once more.
Speaker 1: On so compressed a timetable.
Speaker 2: So true. It's a little tiring. Honestly.
Speaker 6: It's like in Cuomo, the crook could have done a
Speaker 6: better job of explaining why rent control is such a
Speaker 6: miserable failure.
Speaker 2: But it's funny.
Speaker 6: As you attain a certain age, you're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 6: people are running this up the flagpole again. It's completely
Speaker 6: discredited over and over again, but you got to do
Speaker 6: it again. It's like doing the laundry or or you know,
Speaker 6: washing your car. You don't just do it once. It's
Speaker 6: a periodic thing. Explaining why communism sucks.
Speaker 1: Before we take a break, the press conference in the
Speaker 1: big FBI is arrested thirty one people in this gambling thing.
Speaker 1: This headline from the NYPD just came across. Players altered
Speaker 1: their performances in scheme, so that is part of it.
Speaker 1: So they altered their performance in a game in the scheme.
Speaker 1: The way I'm taking this in because this is going
Speaker 1: on while we're on the air, I think from a
Speaker 1: legal standpoint, it's mostly an illegal gambling thing that the
Speaker 1: big crime families were running from an entertainment interest. To
Speaker 1: us standpoint, it's a some of the players got themselves
Speaker 1: into trouble gambling and they got forced into altering the
Speaker 1: performances to pay off gambling thats. But that seems to
Speaker 1: be like a minor part of I mean, it's a
Speaker 1: big part of the of an NBA story, but it's
Speaker 1: a minor part of this big bust because it's tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars in the crime family gambling stuff
Speaker 1: and poker games and everything like that, because they were
Speaker 1: cheating people all across the right. So what some NBA
Speaker 1: players got caught up in it, and so that you know,
Speaker 1: it's kind of interesting. What was the name of the
Speaker 1: former mobster Michael friend Ceci what was his name.
Speaker 2: He became really.
Speaker 6: Well known ten fifteen years ago when he left the mob.
Speaker 6: He got out of prison and he went on speaking tours,
Speaker 6: especially to colleges, to explain to college athletes how the
Speaker 6: whole gambling thing works. And one of the major components
Speaker 6: of its Jack has pointed out is you have a
Speaker 6: player likes to gamble, not on his own sport, maybe
Speaker 6: it's poker for instance, gets into serious gambling debt. Only
Speaker 6: way to pay it off is they make an offer
Speaker 6: you can't refuse. You gotta shave some points or do
Speaker 6: something like that, and they tell you, look, you just
Speaker 6: do it twice in the slatest wipe clean. You do
Speaker 6: it twice, They've got you even more than they did before.
Speaker 6: They come to you and say, yeah, we need you
Speaker 6: to do it a third time. What are you gonna
Speaker 6: say no, I'm standing on principal. I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 6: We'll just turn over rock solid evidence that you've shaved
Speaker 6: points to the league and your career is over. Or
Speaker 6: you can just intentionally miss a couple of free throws tonight.
Speaker 1: Plus, if you got yourself into that kind of gambling debt,
Speaker 1: you're probably a gambling addict. So you're continuing to gamble
Speaker 1: and lose because you mostly lose when you gamble. I've
Speaker 1: never understood why people don't get that you mostly lose.
Speaker 1: So if you keep gambling, you are going to lose,
Speaker 1: and then you'll be in debt again, and then you'll
Speaker 1: have to miss another handful of free throws. It'll be
Speaker 1: interesting to see what players what games. People will go
Speaker 1: back and look at them. Okay, I wondered about that game,
Speaker 1: you know, two Novembers ago on when they played the Lakers,
Speaker 1: and you know whatever, Sure he is an eighty four
Speaker 1: percent free throw shooter, but oh we misses both of them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be fun to watch. We got a lot
Speaker 2: more on the way. Hope you can stay here.
Speaker 1: Well, guys, everyone's having fun with the six seven trend.
Speaker 2: That's everywhere right now.
Speaker 3: Even news anchors are starting to get in on the action.
Speaker 3: Watch this.
Speaker 1: You know, all the kids are doing the six seven
Speaker 1: six six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 5: Six seven six seven six seven.
Speaker 1: I still don't understand, and it's over.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I was.
Speaker 1: That was more depressing than the actual news. I watch
Speaker 1: this video yesterday about the end of pop culture or
Speaker 1: the end of culture maybe in general in the United States.
Speaker 1: This whole six seven thing would fit into it and
Speaker 1: shared experiences. We'll have to talk about that later. It's
Speaker 1: really an interesting thought. Oh okay, yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: Here's your headline of the day. How French is this
Speaker 1: surveillance camera pointed the wrong way? Allowed love heist?
Speaker 2: Go Frands. You remember when you mattered, Oh, you're supposed
Speaker 2: to have it pointed toward the window.
Speaker 6: Oh okay, Hey, I wanted to update this because this
Speaker 6: story matters much more than the race for Attorney General
Speaker 6: in Virginia. This Jay Jones, piece of garbage who openly
Speaker 6: fantasized about murdering the Republicans and their children dying in
Speaker 6: their arms, and then when he was called on it,
Speaker 6: he didn't say, Look, I was out of control.
Speaker 2: I had a couple of drinks. I was joking. No,
Speaker 2: he said, I'm serious.
Speaker 6: You have to cause people physical pain before they changed
Speaker 6: their policies. This guy is a pro political violence monster.
Speaker 6: One part of the story that we hadn't really thrown in.
Speaker 6: I hadn't thrown in just for the length of you
Speaker 6: know time, you know, the amount of time we're.
Speaker 2: Going to spend on. It is his whole drunk driving
Speaker 2: conviction story. I didn't know that one. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is part of his history.
Speaker 6: He was convicted of reckless driving after being pulled over
Speaker 6: driving one hundred and sixteen miles per hour in a
Speaker 6: seventy mile per hour.
Speaker 2: Zone in twenty twenty two. Okay.
Speaker 6: He was ordered to pay a fifteen hundred dollars fine
Speaker 6: and serve one thousand hours of community service. Now I
Speaker 6: knew the first part of this. You had the first
Speaker 6: cot and drove one hundred and twenty miles an hour.
Speaker 2: That is awful.
Speaker 6: Reckless driving. I don't think he was drunk. Oh, okay, anyway,
Speaker 6: So the New Kent County that's the county General District
Speaker 6: Court received sign certificates of completion in twenty twenty four
Speaker 6: attesting the jones that served five hundred of those community
Speaker 6: service hours for his own political action committee and then
Speaker 6: five hundred of the other ones for the Virginia chapter
Speaker 6: of the naacp okay, which is an activist leftist organization
Speaker 6: at this point, and would be more than happy to
Speaker 6: sign the paperwork even though he never darken their doorway,
Speaker 6: I'm sure.
Speaker 2: But so the fless driving.
Speaker 6: Cases come under scrutiny after the Richmond Times Dispatch exposed
Speaker 6: the conviction earlier this month, disrupting the guy's campaign for
Speaker 6: attorney general. And now a judge has said, hey, we're
Speaker 6: going to appoint a special prosecutor to look into this,
Speaker 6: because while this guy was allegedly doing ten hours a
Speaker 6: week for two different organizations, he was also working full
Speaker 6: time at his law firm and traveling the state for
Speaker 6: the Democratic Party doing politics stuff.
Speaker 2: In essence, it was completely phony. He did not do
Speaker 2: any of.
Speaker 6: His community service. And there's a special prosecutor now appointed.
Speaker 6: I hope desperately this guy loses.
Speaker 1: That's one of the big problems with the whole community
Speaker 1: service racket. Anyway, I personally have known people. You don't
Speaker 1: have to be very connected to anything at all to
Speaker 1: get out of community service. You got any friend who's
Speaker 1: like on your side, who's willing to sign your piece
Speaker 1: of paper that you volunteered over the weekend to feed whatever,
Speaker 1: and it's.
Speaker 2: Taking care of it. It's a nothing, right, right.
Speaker 6: It's more an intelligence test than a practically demand for time. Yeah,
Speaker 6: or more appropriately, a test of how connected you are.
Speaker 6: So maybe tomorrow this is two notes on the same topic.
Speaker 6: Maybe tomorrow we'll get to a great email questioning our
Speaker 6: discussion of the great feminization for the other day, and
Speaker 6: we did it this hour, so I kind of want
Speaker 6: to do the reply this hour, really good smart email
Speaker 6: questioning some of the premises that I.
Speaker 2: Want to deal with.
Speaker 6: But on a related note, the Cincinnati police chief who
Speaker 6: was in charge until very briefly and dealt with that
Speaker 6: viral downtown brawl video where the gang of black folks
Speaker 6: we're beating and kicking and just destroying a white couple.
Speaker 1: Particularly that woman. The way she goes down like a
Speaker 1: sack of hour and starts getting kicked.
Speaker 2: That's just horrible. Oh, it's horrible. Yeah.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati Police Chief Terry Siege has been placed on administrative
Speaker 6: leave pending an investigation into her leadership. A lot of
Speaker 6: this stems from how she handled the arrests and her
Speaker 6: now viral rant after the July attack, in which she
Speaker 6: scolded media for taking the fight out of context.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's the context for that? That could possibly make
Speaker 1: it okay?
Speaker 6: Well, and she was trying to make the argument that
Speaker 6: at some point during the fight, the white woman threw
Speaker 6: a punch. Therefore was partly by trying to defend herself
Speaker 6: was partly to blame for the incredible violence visited upon them,
Speaker 6: but also at this point, there are multiple male white
Speaker 6: guys in the police force saying this woman gave minority
Speaker 6: lieutenants seventy nine percent desirable aside signments. Female lieutenants got
Speaker 6: eighty nine percent desirable assignments, and males white males got
Speaker 6: forty four percent preferred assignments, as they call them. She
Speaker 6: was a DEI affirmative action keep the white man down
Speaker 6: police chief, and a woman in charge of a police
Speaker 6: the number. There are plenty of good lady cops out there,
Speaker 6: plenty of them, and some of them will probably be
Speaker 6: police chiefs, and they deserve it because they kick ass.
Speaker 6: But the disproportionate number of fire chiefs and police chiefs,
Speaker 6: particularly in Bluish areas, because they're women. It's part of
Speaker 6: the whole feminization of America thing, and they run the
Speaker 6: department in a very different way than a lot of
Speaker 6: guys would. Anyway, So she's been placed on leave, the
Speaker 6: city's investigating her various hijinks.
Speaker 1: So an how our three, we'll get back into this
Speaker 1: big NBA gambling bus that's going on the FBA arrested
Speaker 1: thirty one people, including a head coach and a player,
Speaker 1: among others. This player at least once faked an injury
Speaker 1: to leave a game as part of his rigging things,
Speaker 1: probably to try to pay off gambling debts. It's it's
Speaker 1: quite the scandal. We'll have more of that now or three.
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