Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2: Arm Strong and Getty, I know he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2: Some business news.
Speaker 3: Game Style just reported their highest profit ever by selling
Speaker 3: Action figures.
Speaker 2: And Pokemon cards.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and if you wink at the cashier weed.
Speaker 4: I think I got stolen from by a by some
Speaker 4: sort of scam artist. I don't know that I've ever
Speaker 4: been stolen from. I probably have been, don't know of it.
Speaker 2: I got a.
Speaker 4: Letter, an email allegedly from the d m V saying
Speaker 4: how much I owed on my to register for something
Speaker 4: that I had some vehicle that we don't use that
Speaker 4: had lapsed or something anyway, owed some money, And I thought,
Speaker 4: is this a scam thing? Or because I went to
Speaker 4: the DMV website and I couldn't come up with it
Speaker 4: anywhere there.
Speaker 2: But it's very hard to use that.
Speaker 4: Website and it's not user friendly at all, and so
Speaker 4: it doesn't necessarily mean that any who. It had the
Speaker 4: last five numbers of my vin so I thought, that's
Speaker 4: a pretty good indication that this is real.
Speaker 2: I would I have the last fit but.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I paid it and I didn't get any confirmation
Speaker 4: email from the DMV like you usually do.
Speaker 2: I can't come up with anything anywhere. I think.
Speaker 4: I think I just paid somebody because about that made
Speaker 4: me think that this has happened. Is I got another
Speaker 4: one today for a larger amount.
Speaker 2: Oh, oh boy, I just got it, got a live one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they thought, okay, we got an idiot here.
Speaker 4: You owed twenty four hundred and fifty dollars for this vehicle,
Speaker 4: you know, and all our informations floating around out there
Speaker 4: sign on to Incogniti as we been talking about.
Speaker 2: Probably my vin from who knows what?
Speaker 4: Uh, it's floating around for somewhere because your insurance company
Speaker 4: has it or who knows.
Speaker 1: Who has it? Well, your car dealer has it. Car
Speaker 1: dealer has it, and I don't think there's any agreement
Speaker 1: that that's private, probably right.
Speaker 4: Or maybe I got the windshield replaced once and one
Speaker 4: of those window replacement places has it, or.
Speaker 2: Who knows who?
Speaker 4: Lots of people do, and everybody sells your info because
Speaker 4: there's money in it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, god dang it, that's mad ton. How much
Speaker 2: do you get you for? Uh, twelve hundred dollars?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Nothing?
Speaker 1: Oh man, I don't leave a mark oof m moron
Speaker 1: and this everywhere, everywhere, all the time. These scams. Never
Speaker 1: pay your bills, that's the only defense. Pay nothing.
Speaker 2: Mortgage?
Speaker 1: What mortgage? I don't know about any mortgage. You moved
Speaker 1: in your house, right, you didn't pay cash for.
Speaker 2: The whole thing. Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe what's your points? I've never heard of you. We've
Speaker 1: been your bank for twenty years, Harry. I've been trying
Speaker 1: to me the other day with the bill collector.
Speaker 2: Who was wrong?
Speaker 4: I had paid the bill, but he called me up
Speaker 4: and said, is this says my name? I said, who's this?
Speaker 4: Who's this? He asks me, like, how dare you ask
Speaker 4: me that question? I said, in an even louder voice,
Speaker 4: who's this?
Speaker 2: Oh you win? I'm with so and so company? Who
Speaker 2: are you? And I said, maybe you are, maybe you aren't.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to give you.
Speaker 4: But he asked for amillion, my address and a whole
Speaker 4: bunch of different stuff. I said, I don't know who
Speaker 4: you are. I'm who I said, I was. Okay, Well
Speaker 4: then oh wow, that settles it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 4: But you enda with that standoff all the time. It
Speaker 4: says it's really hard to mail down what's real and
Speaker 4: what's not. I'll bet that there is.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, well, I'll finish my sentence then disagreement
Speaker 1: with myself. I'll bet there is some AI generated encryption
Speaker 1: slash ID.
Speaker 2: System coming.
Speaker 1: I hope, so, I hope so, But then I realized, well,
Speaker 1: the bad guys will harness the very same powers somehow
Speaker 1: to overcome it.
Speaker 2: And screw it up in the rest of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's getting harder and harder. Uh so we've
Speaker 1: we've spent. It's worse than that, and amusingly most of
Speaker 1: this segment. Yes, it's worse than that now that I
Speaker 1: think about it.
Speaker 4: To pay the bill, I clicked on the link in
Speaker 4: the perhaps fake d MV email, So not only did
Speaker 4: I pay that bill, but clicking on a link they
Speaker 4: could be into my phone all kinds of different ways.
Speaker 1: It's possible. Yeah, they didn't have you download the app,
Speaker 1: did they or anything like that?
Speaker 4: No, And I used Apple Pay, so at least it's
Speaker 4: not straight into my bank account.
Speaker 2: But AnyWho, I have finally fallen for one of these.
Speaker 1: Michael Cliff number sixteen in another story.
Speaker 2: He doesn't have a sixteen. Joe made that.
Speaker 1: Up a question for the the whole Armstrong and getting
Speaker 1: through you miss you misspoke my eyes. As you know,
Speaker 1: I have progressive glasses. I don't know right things I
Speaker 1: progressed to you say, Wow, don't you call them progressive.
Speaker 2: They're Marxists. They're Marxist glasses.
Speaker 1: You don't have the healthcare In another story. Second, that's
Speaker 1: the sound of a Bulgarian man being attacked by a bear.
Speaker 2: Well, al Andy, apparently there was.
Speaker 1: Some other video going on and there is in the
Speaker 1: background be set by a bear.
Speaker 2: I'm confused. It's a rough day.
Speaker 4: Why is the guy yelling in the background and the
Speaker 4: guy the loud guy who's getting.
Speaker 2: Attacked by the bear, the loud in the background, the
Speaker 2: guy in the background shrieking for his latch. So he's
Speaker 2: on the phone with some dude.
Speaker 4: Who then some sort of videotaping or something. They're like
Speaker 4: zoom call and then somebody gets attacked by her get right.
Speaker 2: In the background. Yeah, yeah, one second, one second.
Speaker 4: I have the detailed I have the details, Hanson, just
Speaker 4: give me. It's two dudes in a car, they see
Speaker 4: a bear, they stop, one guy.
Speaker 2: Gets out, he gets attacked by the bear. Wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, really make you reconsider the hole getting out and
Speaker 1: looking at the bear thing.
Speaker 2: Well, so that guy and I should get together.
Speaker 4: Don't click on a d m V link without and
Speaker 4: don't get out of your car to say hello to
Speaker 4: the bear.
Speaker 1: Boris, Boris, I have idea, So we stay in car
Speaker 1: to watch bear.
Speaker 2: Stay in car, Boris, come back. I'm told. I'm told
Speaker 2: that's not quite right. The bear climbed into the window
Speaker 2: and attacked him. Okay, so the bear climbed into the window.
Speaker 1: What the car window, Boris, roll window up again quickly.
Speaker 4: I'm being told it was a high speed chase. The
Speaker 4: bear overtook them in his own car. Okay. We will
Speaker 4: straighten us all out and have more for you coming
Speaker 4: up next. I just got an email from the DMV
Speaker 4: that says scam alerts for DMV click on here to
Speaker 4: be alerted how to find a scam, which is probably
Speaker 4: a scam from that same company.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent of scam.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, I wonder if they heard you saying I
Speaker 1: just got scammed.
Speaker 2: Oh no.
Speaker 1: So here's what we were going to talk about last
Speaker 1: segment before the show got derailed by DMV scams in
Speaker 1: Romanian bear attacks. We're going to start with the serious
Speaker 1: stuff and then the kind of funny stuff. Here's my premise,
Speaker 1: and I have absolutely zero fear of being contradicted. Islamism
Speaker 1: is coming to the United States, the Islamic form of government,
Speaker 1: fundamentalist Islam. It's already done enormous damage to Great Britain
Speaker 1: and France, and it's coming here. It's in the person
Speaker 1: of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and others who would
Speaker 1: put the Quran before the constitution.
Speaker 2: You mean certain towns or counties or no, just that
Speaker 2: their philosophy need them.
Speaker 4: The way you stated it sounds like it is going
Speaker 4: to take over. It's not gonna take over the country.
Speaker 1: Uh No, but it will know that it starts in
Speaker 1: small places and metastasizes outward. And just for the sake
Speaker 1: of the argument, if you're thinking, well, I'm a Christian
Speaker 1: and I put Christ at the top of my list
Speaker 1: even before country, the fundamental difference that you have to
Speaker 1: understand is not only does Christianity have the concept of
Speaker 1: the secular, but Christianity is the soul of the idea
Speaker 1: that every human being has worth and that there's the
Speaker 1: spiritual kingdom and then there's the physical kingdom, and that
Speaker 1: the two are unrelated. Islam ignores both of those things,
Speaker 1: and it's fundamentally different to put Islam before the Constitution
Speaker 1: than Christianity. Anyway, This Adam Hamaway won the primary in
Speaker 1: Michigan to become a congressman. This is the guy you
Speaker 1: may have heard of who testified on behalf of the
Speaker 1: mastermind of the nineteen ninety three World Trade Center bombing,
Speaker 1: the Blind Shake. He's a plastic surgeon, retired Army doctor.
Speaker 1: He won a crowded primary I'm sorry for New Jerseys
Speaker 1: safely blue twelfth Congressional district and is expected to win
Speaker 1: the seat in November.
Speaker 4: And it was known as people were voting that he
Speaker 4: was a character witnessed for a terrorist.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's correct. And Andy McCarthy Andrew McCarthy in the
Speaker 1: National Reviews written a terrific article.
Speaker 2: I'm going to quote some of it.
Speaker 1: The Democratic for a House seat in New Jersey was
Speaker 1: a sympathizer of the Blind Shak, who inspired the first
Speaker 1: World Trade Center bombing. Goes into Adam Hamaway, who testified
Speaker 1: at the trial in ninety five. Andy says, I'm not
Speaker 1: surprised to last for reasons I explained last month here,
Speaker 1: and we could get into that, but he said to recap.
Speaker 1: The Blind Shak was already a notorious figure in global
Speaker 1: jihadist circles when he was permitted to relocate to the
Speaker 1: US in nineteen ninety. Astonishingly, federal immigration authorities first admitted
Speaker 1: him on a tourist visa, then issued him a green card,
Speaker 1: rationalizing that he was a religious worker. He had publicly
Speaker 1: taken credit for issuing the fatwah that greenlighted the murder
Speaker 1: of Egyptian President on Mar Sadat. He was in a
Speaker 1: position to give such directives and to lead recruit and
Speaker 1: raise funds return networks because he was a renowned scholar
Speaker 1: of Islamic jurist prudens at a university in Cairo, the
Speaker 1: seat of Sunni Islamic learning for more than a millennium.
Speaker 1: He figured prominently, along with Osama Laden and others in
Speaker 1: the formation of al Qaeda during the Jahad in Afghanistan
Speaker 1: against the Soviets, and after the Soviets, Withdrew b and
Speaker 1: Lauden decided to take the jihad global. But anyway, this
Speaker 1: Hamoway character was a friend and aid to the Blind Shake,
Speaker 1: which is why he voluntarily appeared as a witness for him.
Speaker 1: What he's testifying about was a trip to Detroit in
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one, and a government informative testified that during
Speaker 1: the trip, when the informant was discussing his time in
Speaker 1: the Egyptian Army, the blind Shak asked him, why didn't
Speaker 1: you turn your gun on Mubarik, who succeeded Saddat after
Speaker 1: Saddat was wiped out by fundamentalist Muslims. Hamoway claimed, not
Speaker 1: very convincingly, that he hadn't heard that conversation. The blind
Speaker 1: Shak didn't ask me that. But the evidence that abdal Raman,
Speaker 1: the blind Shak, inspired to murder Barak and repeatedly called
Speaker 1: for his association was overwhelming. Everybody heard him say it,
Speaker 1: and the jury convicted him of conspiracy and incitement and
Speaker 1: connection with Mubarik, as well as seditious conspiracy to levy
Speaker 1: war against the United States, among other terrorism related charges.
Speaker 1: Hamway conceded on cross examination that although the economics was
Speaker 1: the supposed subject of the Detroit conference they went to,
Speaker 1: Abdul Raman used the occasion to urge violent jihad against
Speaker 1: the United States and Israel. And in fact, this Hamaway
Speaker 1: guy who is about to be a congressman, said, of
Speaker 1: course that's what he always talked about. He talked about jihad.
Speaker 1: You know, so this guy, good old buddy of a
Speaker 1: global leader in Islamist terrorism, is about to become a congressman,
Speaker 1: and he will push gently at first, and then more
Speaker 1: and more firmly for you know, I'll call it Palestinian rights,
Speaker 1: or the ability for people to live according to their
Speaker 1: own beliefs. In America, you have freedom of religion, so
Speaker 1: we want to have Sharia courts decide divorce and child
Speaker 1: abuse cases.
Speaker 2: And you ever one more hoof inside the tent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly true, exactly true. And this is not the
Speaker 1: only guy. I want to talk about Qatar's influenced buying
Speaker 1: in America, but I don't know that was serious enough.
Speaker 2: So I'll go with this.
Speaker 1: As it fights anti Semitism lawsuits from the federal government,
Speaker 1: Harvard University says that federal funding cuts are threatening its
Speaker 1: life saving research and so the Feds need to call
Speaker 1: off the dogs. But at the same time, the university's
Speaker 1: Divinity School is putting resources, admittedly not a ton, but
Speaker 1: resources behind a new publication devoted to queerness and Palestinian
Speaker 1: liberation that's named after a Canaanite Goddess again. This is
Speaker 1: the Harvard Divinity School where he studied, get a.
Speaker 2: PhD in religion or whatever.
Speaker 1: The first issue of Asherah, a Harvard Divinity School journal,
Speaker 1: is a project of anti Israel Jewish studies. Professor Shaol
Speaker 1: Magid writes Aristol in the Free Beacon, it's really something
Speaker 1: to behold, even by the provocative and sophomore e standards
Speaker 1: of student publications. It includes statement from the student editors
Speaker 1: to women, naturally, who write that they are not scholars
Speaker 1: of the ancient texts, did not go to Yeshiva, are
Speaker 1: not rabbis in quotes for some reason, but are instead
Speaker 1: coming and I'm quoting now, coming from the sidelines of
Speaker 1: mainstream Jewish life, largely because of our queerness or anti racism,
Speaker 1: our support for Palestinian liberation. They also note that this
Speaker 1: publication finds itself at a moment encumbered by war, by
Speaker 1: fascism and genocide, by religious and ethno nationalism, by reckoning,
Speaker 1: with the rapid development of AI, to which you're like, wait.
Speaker 2: A minute, Wait a minute, wait a minute.
Speaker 1: We're covering a lot of ground here and its impact
Speaker 1: on planet and people, by climate collapse, ah, by pandemics,
Speaker 1: and by the pervasive presence of disconnection and loneliness.
Speaker 2: So what a great tutorial.
Speaker 1: And you've got to use all those terms queerness, anti racism,
Speaker 1: Palestinian liberation. You throw in war or fascism, genocide, global warming.
Speaker 1: AI should have mentioned that flesh eating worm pandemics the
Speaker 1: screw worm, right exactly. It's the the eternal omni cause,
Speaker 1: which is neomarxism. Everybody with any gripe get together and
Speaker 1: overthrow Western civilization.
Speaker 2: But here we go. Later on the issue includes some
Speaker 2: erotic poetry.
Speaker 1: Oh, here we go. Settle in everybody as Uncle Joe
Speaker 1: reads you. Erotic poetry from the Harvard Divinity School Journal Queerness,
Speaker 1: Palestinian Climate Change, AI pandemic screwworm magazine. We fell asleep, laughing,
Speaker 1: blanketed in heavy tonguing prayer temple worshippers also called trans bedmakers.
Speaker 1: I have never sexted so well, stomach thigh. I wonder
Speaker 1: if God hears bed prayer in two different ears, consummating
Speaker 1: interfaith with fingers, and then Iristoll writes to clear up
Speaker 1: any confusion. The latter verse was not written by a
Speaker 1: Graham Platner, although he may take inspiration from it. Oh
Speaker 1: my lord, anti Israel students and professors producing a queer
Speaker 1: erotic poetry magazine named after a Canaanite goddess with the
Speaker 1: university's financial support.
Speaker 4: That's havd hey speaking of the whole uh not funding
Speaker 4: universities whatever. I heard somebody make this argument a while back,
Speaker 4: Remember when DOGE was really going and then they were
Speaker 4: cutting funding for various things, and people were screaming, We're
Speaker 4: this close to curing cancer and you've pulled our funding.
Speaker 4: And I heard somebody make the argument the other day,
Speaker 4: you've got a fifty billion dollar endowment. Yeah, so if
Speaker 4: you're close to curing cancer, how about you take a
Speaker 4: little bit of that money. Since if this eighty thousand
Speaker 4: dollars or the varieties of amounts of money that were
Speaker 4: being cut, is the difference between cre and cancer or not,
Speaker 4: how about take some of that fifty billion.
Speaker 1: Dollars you're sitting on and spend the month it starts
Speaker 1: flowing again.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think if it's important, maybe you would. Anyway,
Speaker 4: more on the way Stater, Armstrong and.
Speaker 3: Getty CBS just fired longtime sixty minutes. Correspondent Scott Pelly, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the story gets more bizarre because today CBS and Now
Speaker 3: is they were placing Scott Pelley.
Speaker 2: With Byron Allen.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: In the last few months, sixty minutes has lost multiple
Speaker 3: producers and correspondence. You can tell that they got rid
Speaker 3: of a lot of people because the show is now
Speaker 3: called sixty seconds.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's beneath him. Wow. Um uh crowd boom. You
Speaker 2: could joke for eight year old.
Speaker 4: Crowd booing to the firing of Scott Pelly. Pompous ass
Speaker 4: hat Scott Pelly. I'm telling you, if you want the
Speaker 4: definition of pompous, go back three weeks and watch his
Speaker 4: interview with Senator Ben Sas, who's dying of cancer. That
Speaker 4: is the most pompous display of all time. I mean,
Speaker 4: it is something else.
Speaker 1: You highlighted one particular gesture of his and I came
Speaker 1: across this on the Twitter.
Speaker 2: Brandy Cruz wrote this.
Speaker 1: I was an intern at CBS News when Pelly would
Speaker 1: fill in for Katie Kirk on the Evening News. I
Speaker 1: watched in the control room one day as he directed
Speaker 1: them to slowly put the shot, push the shot in
Speaker 1: on him as he took his glasses off. It was
Speaker 1: so fake. I've remembered it for fifteen years carefully Orchid Trade,
Speaker 1: and then Cheryl Atkinson wants a good friend of the
Speaker 1: Armstrong and Getty show said. Perhaps David Bloom put it
Speaker 1: best quote. When Scott Pelly gets in line at Starbucks
Speaker 1: and orders coffee, he doesn't order what he really wants.
Speaker 1: He orders what he wants. People behind him to hear
Speaker 1: him order.
Speaker 2: That's really good. Oh boy.
Speaker 4: So though I don't know what's going on here, So
Speaker 4: Scott Pelly is a pompous asset despite the fact that
Speaker 4: I'm a sixty minutes fan. What do we want first?
Speaker 4: We want to pushback or be reminded of what he's like.
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll do that first. So Scott Pelly from last year,
Speaker 4: I guess he gave a commencement address.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, jo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his claim being that the new management dared to
Speaker 1: interject politics into their pure hearted reporting and now outrageous
Speaker 1: that was because they're straight down the middle journalists.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but in this go ahead, But.
Speaker 5: In this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule
Speaker 5: of law is underattack, is it? Journalism is under attack,
Speaker 5: Universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack,
Speaker 5: and insidious fear.
Speaker 2: Is reaching through our schools.
Speaker 5: Our businesses, our homes, and into our private thoughts.
Speaker 2: Who the fear to speak in America.
Speaker 5: Power can rewrite history with grotesque, false narratives. They can
Speaker 5: make criminals heroes and heroes criminals. That power can change
Speaker 5: the definition of the words we use to describe reality.
Speaker 2: People are twisting.
Speaker 5: The diversity is now described as illegal, equity is to
Speaker 5: be shunned, inclusion is.
Speaker 1: A he were.
Speaker 5: This is an old playbook, my friends.
Speaker 2: There's nothing new.
Speaker 1: In this wow to summarize. Progressives are not allowed to
Speaker 1: speak their minds on college campuses, and DEI is being
Speaker 1: demonized even though those words we all know what those
Speaker 1: words are. Good Lord, I don't think he's a dedicated
Speaker 1: neo Marxist.
Speaker 2: I don't think so either. He's a dupe.
Speaker 4: He actually believes that his crowd using diversity, equity, inclusion.
Speaker 4: They're using it in a completely honest way.
Speaker 1: That's what DEI programs are after. And the whole reaching
Speaker 1: into your thoughts. What is that all about?
Speaker 2: AnyWho?
Speaker 4: I don't know how you get that far off track
Speaker 4: where you think. I mean, I have a side I
Speaker 4: like better than the other side, but I would never
Speaker 4: in a million years claim that my side doesn't lie
Speaker 4: and cheat and twist and everything that goes on in
Speaker 4: the world of trying to win arguments that's more included.
Speaker 1: To include fraudsters and poultroys. Like Candace Owens is in
Speaker 1: Moscow right now, toubting how wonderful Russia is?
Speaker 2: Is she really what a joke?
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm kind of confused by this part of it.
Speaker 4: So if you've been following this story at all, or
Speaker 4: listen to us. So Scott Pelly got fired the other day.
Speaker 4: It sounds like, at least according to Barry Weiss, who
Speaker 4: runs the news organization, and then that guy under him
Speaker 4: who runs sixty minutes, I forget under her who runs
Speaker 4: sixty minutes.
Speaker 2: Forget his name? Is that here might be here built
Speaker 2: in nick Builton. So they have this meeting.
Speaker 4: But they knew they were going to have this meeting
Speaker 4: with the sixty minute people, and they knew Scott Pelly
Speaker 4: was going to be a bit of an obstacle because
Speaker 4: he'd been out there saying some controversial things.
Speaker 2: So they got a hold of him. They called him.
Speaker 4: They tried to head this off and say, hey, can
Speaker 4: we come to some sort of agreement or meet before
Speaker 4: hand before the big meeting in Scott Pelly didn't want to.
Speaker 4: And then they walk into the meeting in Scott Pelly
Speaker 4: immediately hits him with a why are you here? Knowing
Speaker 4: nobody wants you here, and everybody cheered, and dude Nick
Speaker 4: Bilton says, you're not gonna intimidate me in front of
Speaker 4: this crowd, and Scott Pelly goes on about Barry Weiss
Speaker 4: is unqualified and trying to murder this program. And so
Speaker 4: he gets up and says, enjoy your bagels and walks out,
Speaker 4: and Nick Bilton does AnyWho. Scott Pelly says it didn't
Speaker 4: happen that way at all. He put out a letter yesterday.
Speaker 4: I'm saddened to see the transcript of the CBS News
Speaker 4: Morning editorial meeting. Barry Weiss knows what she said is
Speaker 4: not true. And the meeting on Tuesday in which I
Speaker 4: was effectively fired, there is no effort effort of any
Speaker 4: kind to find a way back. As Weiss said in
Speaker 4: the editorial meeting, at no point did anyone in the
Speaker 4: Tuesday meeting suggest that there gonna be steps taken by
Speaker 4: either side that would lead to a resolution. Weiss and
Speaker 4: this other dude were openly hostile from the start. Firing
Speaker 4: was raised them in the first fifteen seconds. No CBIs
Speaker 4: executive at any time, suggested a way back, and then
Speaker 4: he goes through specific things. In fact, Weiss, the Sabrowski,
Speaker 4: and Nick Bilton refused to answer my questions. I asked
Speaker 4: WWI a number of questions about why she fired the
Speaker 4: entire staff a few days before and without cause. I'm
Speaker 4: not answering that question, she said. I asked why did
Speaker 4: she not come to the sixty minutes officers to explain
Speaker 4: her actions.
Speaker 2: I'm not answering that question. Anyway.
Speaker 4: He goes through all this stuff. He's disputing there accounting
Speaker 4: of what happened in the meeting, that meeting in beforehand, so.
Speaker 2: He's pretty specific. Also, So what do you think that's
Speaker 2: going on there? I don't know. He's such an a hole.
Speaker 2: I assume he's lying.
Speaker 1: So you had the big meeting where there was the
Speaker 1: blow up, and then they got him to show up
Speaker 1: to a small meeting with the people you mentioned in
Speaker 1: private to see if they could find a way forward,
Speaker 1: and they're claiming he was completely intransigent, and he's saying no,
Speaker 1: they opened up with hostility mentioned and firing me and
Speaker 1: never gave me a chance and wouldn't answer my questions.
Speaker 1: They had no chance, intention of a pathway forward, he said,
Speaker 1: She said go away, go you want me to go? Yes, go.
Speaker 4: I am pained that the staff I want to actually
Speaker 4: read it at his pace because we have time limits.
Speaker 4: I am pained that the staff of CBS News was
Speaker 4: misled in the conference call. These executives cannot gain the
Speaker 4: trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to
Speaker 4: everything we stand for and reveals contempt for what journalists do.
Speaker 2: And Michael, the fact that it would happen here in America,
Speaker 2: it's even worse.
Speaker 1: They pervert language diversity is those.
Speaker 4: It's possible, having been in the real world for a
Speaker 4: long time, in particularly media, possible that they had decided
Speaker 4: to fire him and there was no keeping his job.
Speaker 4: And because we've seen that, we've seen that. Oh, I see,
Speaker 4: they had a plan and they act like, you know,
Speaker 4: there are other options on the table, but they had
Speaker 4: a plan, usually around cutbacks, usually around financial cutbacks. That
Speaker 4: so we have to get rid of these people. We're
Speaker 4: getting rid of these people. We're gonna act like there's
Speaker 4: a dialogue involved or anything like that. They do that
Speaker 4: I've seen it, so that's possible that that's what happened
Speaker 4: at CBS's and Pelly's just angry that they pretended there
Speaker 4: was an option for.
Speaker 2: Him to stay. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Nobody's debating that he gave the speech he gave at
Speaker 1: the meeting and told Nick Bilton he wasn't welcome, Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss was completely unqualified and trying to murder the program.
Speaker 1: I mean, everybody agrees that happened.
Speaker 4: Right, I'm just saying it could be possible that there
Speaker 4: was no path for him to stay, that they had
Speaker 4: decided he had to go, and we're just looking for
Speaker 4: the smoothest way to enact that because.
Speaker 2: I think he had to go.
Speaker 4: He's expensive, and he doesn't fit in with what they're
Speaker 4: trying to do. They want to bring sixty minutes back
Speaker 4: to something that is more respectable journalism, and there's no
Speaker 4: way he was going to be part of that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't agree that that's true necessarily, just because Barry
Speaker 1: Weiss and Nick what's his name reached out multiple times
Speaker 1: before the big meeting where here he tried Pelly tried
Speaker 1: to stage the coup to say, hey, can we get together,
Speaker 1: can we have dinner.
Speaker 2: Can we talk about the future too, he refused. Every time.
Speaker 4: They're more optimistic than I would have been, though. I mean,
Speaker 4: so if he's calling what they want to do distortions
Speaker 4: and lies because he feels like what he was doing
Speaker 4: was the straight down the middle of the honest truth, right,
Speaker 4: give me a break to twist it if you have one,
Speaker 4: you're on social media at all. There's all kinds of
Speaker 4: clips going around from Sixty Minutes episodes over the last
Speaker 4: several years of Scott Pelly completely allowing, for instance, FBI
Speaker 4: director Andrew McKay go on and on on about about
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of crap about the Russian collusion thing
Speaker 4: that was not true, and everybody knew it wasn't true,
Speaker 4: but Scott Pelly with his glasses off.
Speaker 2: And one stem in his mouth, looking off in the distance. Hm,
Speaker 2: and we didn't play this yesterday.
Speaker 1: But then there was the sixty Minutes extra in which
Speaker 1: he and the producer got together and talked about how
Speaker 1: incredibly sound a source mackab was, how he's completely unimpeachable
Speaker 1: as a source. Just before he did just lied up
Speaker 1: and down to Congress and others got this note from
Speaker 1: Frankie and Georgia. I just wanted to reach out to
Speaker 1: you during these difficult times and say that I'm concerned
Speaker 1: about Scott Pelly, not for him personally, but for the
Speaker 1: future of your Scott Pelly impressions.
Speaker 2: You've almost perfected them.
Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders' clips and your impressions of him always cracked
Speaker 1: me up, but those have slowly dwindled away. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure I can handle losing another one.
Speaker 7: In America, we need to cut down the millionares and
Speaker 7: billion ass We need to cut down the millionaires and billionaires.
Speaker 2: Need to cut them down. Cut them down there, Frankie,
Speaker 2: I hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: Scott Pelly is the perfect example of mistaking fame for importance.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, in his own head. Oh where do
Speaker 4: you think we ought to eat tonight?
Speaker 2: Scott?
Speaker 4: He got any ideas? Where would I like, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: eat with someone else. I'm gonna door dash. Never mind, Okay,
Speaker 4: we will finished strong next In America.
Speaker 2: Did you do an eighth grade graduation when you were
Speaker 2: a kid? No, I have no memory of it.
Speaker 4: I think we did, which I did. I don't remember
Speaker 4: thinking about much at the time, but in retrospect, it's
Speaker 4: what the heck is that? And then they've added in
Speaker 4: kindergarten graduations. I've seen these online. We did one, my
Speaker 4: kids did one, but it was just a certificate and
Speaker 4: juice boxes, I think, but I saw one.
Speaker 2: Do they call him completion ceremonies.
Speaker 4: I don't know people in their ceremonies, but I saw
Speaker 4: one the other day where they had actually had caps
Speaker 4: and gowns for these kindergarteners. You know why, because it
Speaker 4: looks adorable. That's why these things exist. Like you've always
Speaker 4: talked about with the sports things, the uniforms, you don't
Speaker 4: need to have a full baseball uniform as a five
Speaker 4: year old, but you shouldn't be on a field at all.
Speaker 4: You sure look cute in it, so there you go.
Speaker 4: But anyway, a different topic is my son gets done
Speaker 4: with his sophomore year today, and this will be the
Speaker 4: first year since his kindergarten year that I don't pick
Speaker 4: him up from his school.
Speaker 2: He drives now.
Speaker 4: Plus he's going out with friends afterwards and they're going
Speaker 4: to go just do stuff, which is what you should
Speaker 4: do when you're sixteen years old.
Speaker 2: You're dead probably, but it'll be the.
Speaker 4: First year I don't pick him up jamming schools out
Speaker 4: for summer out the windows of my truck in the
Speaker 4: parking lot when he gets it Alice Cooper school forever.
Speaker 2: Which is not except it's not.
Speaker 4: It's out for a measly ten weeks in the modern
Speaker 4: world before school starts back up again. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's all of the stuff with kids getting older, especially
Speaker 4: when they get older. I had a friend who was
Speaker 4: talking the other day about their nephew graduated from high
Speaker 4: school and they'd been picking them up from school to
Speaker 4: help out with the family for years and that that
Speaker 4: era was over and they're really sad about it. Well,
Speaker 4: at the same time, you know, the alternative is no good,
Speaker 4: what them staying at home forever or staying in school
Speaker 4: forever or whatever. But you know, the whole bittersweetness of
Speaker 4: the whole thing. I mean, I'm glad my son is
Speaker 4: to the age of he drives himself and he hangs
Speaker 4: out with friends as opposed to being with his mom
Speaker 4: and dad, But you know, I'm not excited about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that last day of school feeling.
Speaker 1: Boy, if they could put that in a pill, everybody'd
Speaker 1: be addicted. There'd be even more junkies laying around on
Speaker 1: the sidewalks of America.
Speaker 2: Kidding.
Speaker 4: I hated school so much. I mean, so it was
Speaker 4: even more for me than the average person. I hated school,
Speaker 4: and so it being over for a little while, and
Speaker 4: you know, when you're a kid, summer seems like forever.
Speaker 4: So it was like schools out forever, because oh my god,
Speaker 4: schools out so far off when it starts to get
Speaker 4: I don't even need to think about it.
Speaker 2: Wishing an adult.
Speaker 4: He goes by that, Oh yeah, yeah, uh but.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a high schooler, when you first start to
Speaker 1: get summer jobs and or you're required to get a
Speaker 1: summer job, and every day you don't have one, you
Speaker 1: hear about it.
Speaker 2: I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that changes the complexion of the summertime a bit.
Speaker 2: True.
Speaker 4: This is going to be his first year summer where
Speaker 4: he's working, as opposed to just you know, woafing with
Speaker 4: his friends.
Speaker 2: That's a different thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was different because I worked a hard job
Speaker 4: during the summer starting.
Speaker 2: When I was fifteen, I guess, well fourteen.
Speaker 4: And so when schooliers started it was a few I
Speaker 4: get to take a little break for a while.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I still remember the feeling of gladys I
Speaker 1: think I was like a was after my freshman or
Speaker 1: maybe sophomore year of high school and a couple of
Speaker 1: my friends were a couple of years older than me,
Speaker 1: and we had for summer after summer played whiffleball until
Speaker 1: our throwing arms were hanging from our shoulders. We couldn't
Speaker 1: even lift them because we just played and played and played.
Speaker 1: And I remember the first time I gave him a call,
Speaker 1: I guess and said, hey, you want to whiffle this afternoon.
Speaker 2: He's like, no, I gotta work, Like wait what? Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's funny.
Speaker 4: That's That's exactly what happened with my son, because the
Speaker 4: weekends have started to become like that one of them's
Speaker 4: got a job or this or that or whatever, and
Speaker 4: it's a lot harder to get.
Speaker 2: Together than it used to be.
Speaker 1: Two points. Number one, childhood had come to a close.
Speaker 1: Number two, Yes, we used whiffle as a verb.
Speaker 2: The Thoughts Final Final.
Speaker 4: Here's your host for final Thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 1: Let's get a final thought from everybody on the crew
Speaker 1: to wrap ups show for the day.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't that be delightful? Michael Angelow lead us off.
Speaker 6: Which final thought the closest I ever got to getting
Speaker 6: scammed was when I was younger. I got the I
Speaker 6: R S call and they wanted to collect on my
Speaker 6: tax debt. And I thought it was legit, and I
Speaker 6: got about halfway through and then something said this isn't right,
Speaker 6: and I just quickly hung up.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, yeah, good call. Good call. Your instinct serve you well,
Speaker 1: young men. Jack A final thought for us, that.
Speaker 4: Feeling of school being out and you walk out that door.
Speaker 4: It's just what comes Is there anything that comes close
Speaker 4: to that that that same feeling?
Speaker 2: No, there isn't. You would think there would be, but
Speaker 2: I don't think there is. I can't come up with it.
Speaker 1: Hey, that Friday afternoon when you walk out of work
Speaker 1: and it's vacation, you're taking a week off or whatever.
Speaker 4: That's like, Yeah, I wonder if we haven't retired, So
Speaker 4: maybe when you retire you get that feeling.
Speaker 2: I have no idea.
Speaker 1: Perhaps, yes, Gosh, my final thought is I don't really
Speaker 1: have one. Don't have a final thought.
Speaker 2: Wow, No more thoughts.
Speaker 1: Used up all your thoughts, Eat a balance, diet, take
Speaker 1: care of yourself.
Speaker 2: Suddliness is next to godliness. Used up all your thoughts today.
Speaker 1: If you're in Romania and you see a bear stay
Speaker 1: in your car and multiple thoughts.
Speaker 4: Armstrung and getty wrapping up another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 1: So many people to thanks, so a little time, pick
Speaker 1: up some ange swag? Would you a cool T shirt
Speaker 1: or hat or hoodie? Did these enforce the law? T
Speaker 1: shirt flying off the shelves?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Those are very very cool. I wish I could grow
Speaker 4: mustache like Timothy shallow may. I just saw him on
Speaker 4: the TV.
Speaker 1: How many talents does this boy have? Acting, singing, mustache growing?
Speaker 2: We will see tomorrow.
Speaker 4: God bless America.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and getchet show Heyo Tani.
Speaker 4: He's gotta be like the equivalent of Europeans eight foot tall,
Speaker 4: doesn't he?
Speaker 1: They gotta fear him like Godzilla, I mean man.
Speaker 4: When he comes back to Tokyo, he's probably walking through
Speaker 4: the streets and.
Speaker 2: They got airplanes flying around and try to stop him.
Speaker 2: Makes those noises. I've never heard it makes that noise.
Speaker 2: But he might be on shun Ain't jetty so arshrong
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