Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Speaker 1: Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe, Katty Armstrong.
Speaker 2: And Getty and he Armstrong and Yetty.
Speaker 3: They are going and then got bulls down, but Montomery
Speaker 3: is able to pick up.
Speaker 2: The first down.
Speaker 1: So got bulls down is he's making the handoff and
Speaker 1: they should seal it.
Speaker 2: They'll run the clock down ball game.
Speaker 1: The Lions on fourth down and made the fourth down
Speaker 1: and decided that we're not gonna just play for the
Speaker 1: tie and going overtime.
Speaker 2: We're either gonna win or lose it. Here we go.
Speaker 2: I love it when teams do that.
Speaker 1: The players were so fired up that the coach made
Speaker 1: that decision. The two teams that if you're an NFL fan,
Speaker 1: how do you not root for the Detroit Lions and
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: That would be a great super Bowl.
Speaker 1: They're just a fun teams with cool coaches and cool players,
Speaker 1: and their fan base has been awesome, even though they've
Speaker 1: sucked my entire life. Well, certainly one of them has
Speaker 1: to lose is the only downside. Yeah, And I was
Speaker 1: at the Chiefs game last Friday, my Chiefs fan. But
Speaker 1: because I'm from Kansas, but it's become clear to me
Speaker 1: that unless you are a Chiefs fan, they are like
Speaker 1: the Patriots used to be. Everybody hates them. If I
Speaker 1: mentioned the Chiefs anybody, it's like, booh, you suck. So
Speaker 1: I realized that. But so last night, after the game,
Speaker 1: Lions win and stay twelve and one, two teams that
Speaker 1: have one loss, and that's Chiefs and the Lines.
Speaker 2: But anyway, you don't care about that.
Speaker 1: The coach gives this super fired up speech afterwards in
Speaker 1: the locker room.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I told you you'd never forget this game. You
Speaker 4: will never forget this game. We don't have to talk
Speaker 4: about how tough we are. We don't have to talk
Speaker 4: about how resilient we are. We live it, man, We've
Speaker 4: been living it.
Speaker 5: It's where's our defense side. That's the way to step up, man,
Speaker 5: that's the way to step up. Are you going skip?
Speaker 5: Keep throwing up whatever you're.
Speaker 4: Going up.
Speaker 1: On the wire, So the alignment is over in the corner,
Speaker 1: vomiting here.
Speaker 6: You go, skip, keep throwing up. Wait a pike, buddy,
Speaker 6: Dan Campbell, love.
Speaker 2: Him, laughing, live it. That's great. God.
Speaker 1: The way the team reacted on that fourth down was cool.
Speaker 1: It's like they were, you know, because fans and announces.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't know if that was a good
Speaker 1: idea done most coaches when the players were.
Speaker 2: Like, that's done. Why not done? They're gonna win or not? Yes,
Speaker 2: I didn't see it. I gotta watch it on the
Speaker 2: very Dang, it's very cool. Thrown up, Skip, that's that.
Speaker 2: Keep vomiting the boy. Tell you what, when somebody needs
Speaker 2: up chuck Skip steps up. If you look around, he pukes.
Speaker 2: I was like, that's all pukes. Take you figured him out.
Speaker 2: Oh it's beautiful.
Speaker 1: We have some breaking news court cases. We have to
Speaker 1: get a couple of biggies. Yeah, yeah, number one. Well,
Speaker 1: in terms of significance, this might be number one. Let's
Speaker 1: see that a federal appeals court rule that TikTok can
Speaker 1: be banned in the US over national security concerns, upholding
Speaker 1: a federal law requiring the popular social media to shed
Speaker 1: its Chinese ownership to keep operating. That's a three judge
Speaker 1: panel US court Fields District of Columbia said Congress has
Speaker 1: that power to protect US national security interests. The ruling
Speaker 1: rejected a First Amendment challenge brought by the app and
Speaker 1: several of its star users. Blah blah blah, the app
Speaker 1: which is run by the Chinese Communist.
Speaker 6: Party for this specific purpose of undermining the United States
Speaker 6: of America. Well, yeah, guys, but I get restaurant.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but what part did you not hear?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: How about we can't to promote my art on Oh
Speaker 2: my god.
Speaker 1: But did you see the blonde college sitting in her
Speaker 1: car yelling about Palestine?
Speaker 2: Did you see that? That's good stuff? Yeah? Oh my god,
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: It's one of the craziest things we've done in America
Speaker 1: is let the Chinese Communist Party educate all of our
Speaker 1: young people on why America country?
Speaker 2: Partly? Yeah, yeah, and I don't remember the particulars.
Speaker 6: But there's a big probe TikTok guy who's in Trump's
Speaker 6: inner circle now, So it will be really really interesting
Speaker 6: to see how that plays out. Because Trump famously was
Speaker 6: the guy, to his eternal credit, who woke the US
Speaker 6: out of our naive slumber about the communist Chinese Party
Speaker 6: in China what it's trying to do. So the idea
Speaker 6: that he would hear the case that, well, the commedis
Speaker 6: are using this to undermine your country sir, and that
Speaker 6: he'd say, well, that's all right.
Speaker 2: I don't think that'll happen.
Speaker 6: So it'll be super interesting to watch a second big
Speaker 6: time court case. And this is beautiful. A federal judge
Speaker 6: has rejected Boeing's guilty plea deal on those multiple Boeing
Speaker 6: through seven thirty seven MAX crashes that happened in the
Speaker 6: third Third World. You remember that at least one or
Speaker 6: maybe both in Africa. I don't remember the specifics, but
Speaker 6: the judge rejected the plea deal over the in part
Speaker 6: because the deal's diversity, equity and Inclusion provision would have
Speaker 6: suggest subjected an independent monitor of Boeing's operations to DEI requirements.
Speaker 6: So part of the deal was, you've got to have
Speaker 6: an independent monitor making sure you're really following your own
Speaker 6: safety rules and rags and that of the federal government.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 6: But by the way, that monitor has to have full
Speaker 6: DEI programs, and has to have quota hiring, and has
Speaker 6: to have sensitivity workshops, and has to tell all the
Speaker 6: white people are bad and the rest of it. The
Speaker 6: DOJ said in the deal it would honor its commitment
Speaker 6: into diverse and inclusion when selecting a monitor, a provision
Speaker 6: about which US District Judge Riat O'Connor has to be
Speaker 6: brief by the agency in October.
Speaker 2: In his ruling, Judge o'counter.
Speaker 6: Cited concerns with THEE twenty one Biden administration order that
Speaker 6: would seemingly encourage consideration of race and hiring at federal agencies. Quote,
Speaker 6: in a case of this magnitude, it is in the
Speaker 6: utmost interest of justice that the public is confident this
Speaker 6: monitor selection is done based solely on competency, the judge wrote.
Speaker 6: And since it's not, the agreement is not in the
Speaker 6: public interest. Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 2: Why could we.
Speaker 6: Not extrapolate from that ruling in that common sense a
Speaker 6: similar modus operandi for everything human beings do where there's
Speaker 6: anything at stake competence, skill, excellence. If you don't think
Speaker 6: there are enough black people who are like great engineers,
Speaker 6: go start a program for little black kids to get
Speaker 6: involved in engineering. Don't solve it at the back end
Speaker 6: hiring people who are not competent just so you reach
Speaker 6: a number. That's horrible and it's un American.
Speaker 2: Couple of things.
Speaker 1: First, we got to get the audio from the fiery
Speaker 1: hearing yesterday with the Secret Service and all that sort
Speaker 1: of stuff. Kind of interesting. We caught a little bit
Speaker 1: of it yesterday, so we got to get to that.
Speaker 6: Also, well, there's been an accusation of bigfooting Jack, and
Speaker 6: we need to get to the bottom of that.
Speaker 2: It's a term I've just become familiar with.
Speaker 1: And the TikTok ruling you mentioned, I didn't realize this.
Speaker 1: So the defeat inches the app closer to a us band,
Speaker 1: which will take effeck to January nineteenth, unless there's another
Speaker 1: court ruling at a higher level.
Speaker 2: That's pretty soon. Yeah, wow, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: I love this if for no other reason that it
Speaker 6: really draws people's attention to our relationship with the Dirty Comedies.
Speaker 2: But I gotta big a question. I gotta ask.
Speaker 1: I did keep forgetting to ask it im and meaning
Speaker 1: to ask all we canna.
Speaker 6: Ask it right after this, Michael, make it so that
Speaker 6: mister Armstrong remembers the big question. Okay, a quick quarter
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Speaker 1: So we've talked about the political story now being reported
Speaker 1: multiple outlets that the Biden White House is really wrestling
Speaker 1: with the idea of blanket pardons for people that have
Speaker 1: never been charged with anything or whatever because of the
Speaker 1: evil Trump administration is going to go after Adam Schiff
Speaker 1: and Mark Milly and Liz Cheney and what's the other one?
Speaker 1: Don't matter, and then Sauci Fauci right, oh cheez, who
Speaker 1: is guilty of millions of deaths? Anyway, Not to get
Speaker 1: away from the main point, anyway, I've heard a couple
Speaker 1: of people respond differently than me, and I just I
Speaker 1: don't think you. I don't know if you've answered this
Speaker 1: question specifically, if you were president of the United States,
Speaker 1: would you let your and your son committed crimes like
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden did? Hunter Biden committed crimes, he pled guilty
Speaker 1: to crimes he signed, He made a deal. He wrote
Speaker 1: about it in his book. He's as guilty as guilty
Speaker 1: can be over a couple of things. Would you let
Speaker 1: your kid go to jail for not that long, probably
Speaker 1: to serve out the sentence he agreed to, or would
Speaker 1: you pardon him? What would you do? Joe Getty.
Speaker 6: Paul, Yeah, It so depends on the circumstances and his
Speaker 6: life trajectory. I think I would be at the very
Speaker 6: least extremely tempted to pardon him for the specific offenses
Speaker 6: for which he was convicted, or commute the sentences or
Speaker 6: something like that and say, look, I'm a daddy, straightened
Speaker 6: himself out.
Speaker 2: I love him.
Speaker 6: I can't leave office. I've got a magic wand I'm
Speaker 6: going to use it. I don't The answer is, I
Speaker 6: don't know, but I'm not eliminating that I would never, ever, ever,
Speaker 6: ever issue a blanket pardon for anything he might conceivably
Speaker 6: have done during an eleven year period. I find that obscene.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess the argument would be, you you think
Speaker 1: the Trump administration is evil and into law fair and
Speaker 1: they're going to ruin him financially and be nitpicking at
Speaker 1: him for years to come.
Speaker 6: And but yeah, I get that, you know, at the
Speaker 6: risk of repeating my screitive earlier, but to put to
Speaker 6: give a license for lawlessness over a long period of
Speaker 6: time to any human being is utterly on American It's unthinkable.
Speaker 2: I was surprised.
Speaker 1: I was listening to a couple of podcasts where several
Speaker 1: moms and dad said Vice President I would not pardon
Speaker 1: my son he committed those crimes. I'm the president of
Speaker 1: the United States. I have to set a standard of
Speaker 1: you know, you do the crime, you do the time.
Speaker 1: No one's above the law.
Speaker 2: It's part.
Speaker 1: It comes with the territory. Sure it sucks for my kid,
Speaker 1: and I could get him out, but that's the more
Speaker 1: important thing. Is a country. You took the oath of office.
Speaker 1: You're president of the damn United States. You know the
Speaker 1: buck stops here.
Speaker 2: Show it. I get that argument.
Speaker 1: It gets me kind of fucked up, except for if
Speaker 1: I was actually sitting there on January nineteenth, then my
Speaker 1: son was about to go to prison.
Speaker 6: Yeah, as a conservative talk show host saying that boldly
Speaker 6: and confidently is a better move on the air or
Speaker 6: on a podcast, I believe it. Oh yeah, oh yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm not. I'm not claiming that that's the only reason
Speaker 6: somebody would say that. I get it in principle. But
Speaker 6: if I think about my own kid having screwed up
Speaker 6: and I'm leaving office, I've got to admit I would
Speaker 6: at least think about it. But I would and listen.
Speaker 6: I if I perceived that there was some sort of
Speaker 6: injustice at work, I would not only for political cover,
Speaker 6: but because it's morally right, I would say, and therefore
Speaker 6: I am advocating the passage of the Justice for the
Speaker 6: Unjustly Convicted Act, or a program to help people in
Speaker 6: a similar spot or something like that. Just single out
Speaker 6: my son and say no, he gets a get out
Speaker 6: of jail free pass.
Speaker 2: The rest of you scumbags don't. That's just that's terrible.
Speaker 1: Quite the heated argument in Congress yesterday with a Republican
Speaker 1: congressman yelling at a Secret Service dute got hot, you
Speaker 1: play that for you?
Speaker 2: Among other things on the way stay here.
Speaker 1: We caught the tail end of this yesterday while we
Speaker 1: were on the air, and it just happened. They're having
Speaker 1: a grilling in Congress about the assassination near successes with
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and grilling secret Service people. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out how to make it better, although most hearings
Speaker 1: aren't about making things better, they're about getting on TV
Speaker 1: in your local district.
Speaker 2: They were not Grill and Jack. They were not chilling
Speaker 2: during the grilling. They were not.
Speaker 6: There was more yelling than when Janet walked it.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of people he bellowing at each other.
Speaker 1: So this is a Texas Texas, Texas Republican congress person
Speaker 1: ripping into a secret.
Speaker 2: Service the acting head of the Secret Service representative there
Speaker 2: at the ring. And here's how it sounded, special agent
Speaker 2: in charge of the detail.
Speaker 7: Were you the special agent in charge of the detail
Speaker 7: that day? Actually, let me address this? Could you please staff?
Speaker 8: Leave?
Speaker 7: No leave that went up with the circle around me?
Speaker 7: Thank you? So, Actually, congressman, what you're not seeing is
Speaker 7: the sack of the detail off out of the pictures view.
Speaker 7: And that is the day where we remember the more
Speaker 7: than three thousand people that have died on nine to eleven.
Speaker 7: I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going
Speaker 7: through the ashes of the World Trade Center. I was
Speaker 7: there at fresh Kills.
Speaker 3: I'm not asking you that agenthow respect die? I do
Speaker 3: not know that you're trying to be do that invoke
Speaker 3: nine eleven for political purposes? Not I'm invoking this war, sir,
Speaker 3: ask him?
Speaker 4: And don't mean.
Speaker 3: I'm luckive member of Congress and I'm asking you a
Speaker 3: serious question, and you were I am a public servant
Speaker 3: who has served this nation. And you won't time questions
Speaker 3: on our day, on our country dorklessness. Committee will commit
Speaker 3: will come to or asking you serious questions for the
Speaker 3: American people, and they're very simple, they're not true questions.
Speaker 3: Were you the special agent in charge that I wasn't?
Speaker 3: I was there representing mister not effect protective?
Speaker 2: What you were in the expired because you want.
Speaker 3: To be visible, because you aren't listening for this for
Speaker 3: a fond member of this agency, you Fressman, vice President Life,
Speaker 3: because you are putting you put those agents out of position,
Speaker 3: mister radio, mister ball, what happened, sir?
Speaker 7: And you were out of line?
Speaker 2: That's pretty jesz. Good lord, that's pretty jesz.
Speaker 1: How did they end up barking about nine to eleven
Speaker 1: over whether or not Trump got his head blown off?
Speaker 6: And this is why I'm just not that into this.
Speaker 6: Although it was a fine example of two men at each.
Speaker 2: Other, it was a very good example of that if
Speaker 2: you're a fan of the genre.
Speaker 6: The congressman was accusing Ronald Rowe, who was the acting
Speaker 6: head of the Social Security, of big service Secret Service. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, Secret Services, the other ss, well, the other
Speaker 6: other sss, of big footing, which is a term only
Speaker 6: people in Washington, DC use, of getting his way into
Speaker 6: the picture with the really powerful people for political purposes.
Speaker 6: He's auditioning for the permanent job as head of the
Speaker 6: Secret Service, and that somehow him forcing his way into
Speaker 6: that small group by the president decreased the security around
Speaker 6: the president because maybe he took the place of an
Speaker 6: actual working Secret Service agent because he really wanted to
Speaker 6: be in the picture and the other guy and the
Speaker 6: Secret Service guy. And if I'm wrong on this, I'm wrong,
Speaker 6: and I'll admit it. My simp these lie with him.
Speaker 6: He's saying, no, I was there representing the Secret Service
Speaker 6: at the nine to eleven memorial because a bunch of
Speaker 6: guys died on nine to eleven.
Speaker 2: That's why I was there.
Speaker 6: You were big footing, you were auditioning.
Speaker 2: For the job.
Speaker 1: So the congressman's trying to make the argument that you
Speaker 1: should never rise up or be in charge of the
Speaker 1: Secret Service because you've already demonstrated that you're more concerned
Speaker 1: with the politics of things than the protecting the protect Indeed,
Speaker 1: that was his Yeah, the greater point ycually got a
Speaker 1: scream it you can't say it well.
Speaker 6: And this is the new guy who came on after
Speaker 6: the debicle of the assassination attempt.
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
Speaker 6: I just again, really good grown men bellowing at each other.
Speaker 6: But in terms of significance, I just don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I got us any closer to
Speaker 1: figuring out how the hell somebody ends up on a
Speaker 1: roof with a rifle pointed at the president that close
Speaker 1: and ironically, everybody was at the hearing says until that
Speaker 1: moment it was actually very productive by partisan God dang it,
Speaker 1: that kind of derailed it, right, and then that's the
Speaker 1: only thing anybody hears about the hearing.
Speaker 2: Correct.
Speaker 1: Oh, we got to play maybe one of our clips
Speaker 1: of the year. We haven't played it for a while.
Speaker 1: We've gotta play that. That's coming up, Stay to.
Speaker 2: Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 9: Spotify is releasing its annual Wrapped playlists, where they recap
Speaker 9: your streaming habits for the year, and once again, the
Speaker 9: number one most streamed artist globally was Taylor Swift's.
Speaker 2: No, no, that's no surprise.
Speaker 9: There's no surprise She's topping every list at this point.
Speaker 9: She was just named number one kitchen tile installer in
Speaker 9: the Tri State area.
Speaker 2: Taylor's version. Yeah, those.
Speaker 1: What I would like to know is her being the
Speaker 1: number one streamer on Spotify. How much money that actually
Speaker 1: put in her pocket because it'd be a shockingly small
Speaker 1: amount of money.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, where you've got to achieve super duper stardom to
Speaker 6: really make anything.
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if you can according to various
Speaker 1: stars that I like talking about how I had a
Speaker 1: million plays last month and made a dollar and a half,
Speaker 1: you know that sort of thing. It's it's quite amazing.
Speaker 1: We do have some breaking news. The jury in the
Speaker 1: trial of Daniel Penny told the judge they could not
Speaker 1: come to unanimous decision on the top charge of manslaughter.
Speaker 1: Are you you're up to date on this more or
Speaker 1: less on many? Okay, So maybe we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: in a little bit. I want to get this clip on.
Speaker 1: Wanted to get it on every hour. I think this
Speaker 1: should be in the finalist for Clip of the Year,
Speaker 1: even though it's not funny or the kind of stuff
Speaker 1: we usually do, just because I think it's important. This
Speaker 1: is the Speaker of the House, third in line to
Speaker 1: the President yesterday.
Speaker 8: Government uh is too big, it does too many things,
Speaker 8: and it does almost nothing well, and the taxpayers deserve better.
Speaker 1: It's short, it's pithy, but what's the last time you
Speaker 1: heard somebody at that level say that play it again, Michael.
Speaker 8: Government is too big, it does too many things, and
Speaker 8: it does almost nothing well and rock taxpayers deserve better.
Speaker 6: Right, Let's just start from there. You have different priorities
Speaker 6: than me. Okay, let's talk about it. But let's all
Speaker 6: never forget what we have just heard because it is undeniable.
Speaker 6: And I know we talked about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: But the way to sell it to the left is
Speaker 1: you want your programs for the trans bathrooms, are the
Speaker 1: homeless or whatever. This is where you get your money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by not wasting it on other crapper dup, we'll get.
Speaker 6: Programs or whatever or stuff that was started forty years ago,
Speaker 6: didn't work as an intended never has worked, but just
Speaker 6: keeps growing its budget for some reason.
Speaker 2: Get rid of that stuff. You got plenty of money.
Speaker 2: A couple other little things before we get to the trial.
Speaker 1: Josh crush Hour, writing in Axios yesterday, I thought this
Speaker 1: was interesting. Behind the curtain Biden's haunting Twin Sins Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: age eighty one, will limp away from the limelight. Widely
Speaker 1: disliked by the public and now loathed by many Democrats
Speaker 1: who blame him for the twin sins of selfishness, running
Speaker 1: again and then pardoning Hunter after saying you wouldn't right.
Speaker 1: Biden's going to limp away from the White House, disliked
Speaker 1: by everyone, including top Democrats. Yip, I would like to
Speaker 1: go back to twenty nineteen.
Speaker 6: I guess it would be when it was looking like
Speaker 6: Joe Biden might be the nominee and we were talking
Speaker 6: about who he is, his political weakness, his character, his
Speaker 6: history of lies and exaggerations and the rest of it,
Speaker 6: and how he's always been kind of a mediocrity and
Speaker 6: a hack and a backslapper. I don't think anything that's
Speaker 6: happened in the last four to five years has changed
Speaker 6: a syllable of that in my head.
Speaker 2: I might be more adamant about it, but he was
Speaker 2: what he's always been.
Speaker 6: He was the adult in the room, the man of character,
Speaker 6: the wise elder statesman, the steady hand.
Speaker 2: That was all invented. He ought to be on that
Speaker 2: Mount Rushmore. That was a crazy invention.
Speaker 6: My word as a Biden, right, your word's worth nothing,
Speaker 6: you lie constantly, you're half a nutcase.
Speaker 2: Then go meanwhile a mobster.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, in the Middle East, did you see the statue
Speaker 1: of old man a sad come down in Hama, Syria.
Speaker 2: That was something.
Speaker 1: So the current dictator, evil devil, human being, Asad his dad.
Speaker 1: This is the way it works in dictator ships or
Speaker 1: kingdom sometimes was also the dictator and a horribly violent man,
Speaker 1: and once went into this village of Hama and slaughtered
Speaker 1: most people, believe forty thousand people, mostly fighting age males,
Speaker 1: because the city had rose up risen up against him.
Speaker 1: Slaughtered forty thousand people in like the most brutal Middle
Speaker 1: Ages sort of way you possibly can. Well, enough of
Speaker 1: the rebels have taken over enough of Syria. Now they
Speaker 1: went into that very town and took down that guy's statue.
Speaker 1: But that had to be a feeling for them. Doesn't
Speaker 1: mean they're gonna win.
Speaker 2: The day you got to start for her, that they should.
Speaker 6: It's all about Sheites and Sunnies and Alloites. It's all
Speaker 6: sect sectarian divisions and who's going to be in charge
Speaker 6: and which of the powers Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, US
Speaker 6: who backs home.
Speaker 1: So Taylor Lorenz is no longer a columnist for The
Speaker 1: New York Times or the Washington Post, but she once
Speaker 1: was for two of the most important newspapers in the world,
Speaker 1: and The kind of person she is has been laid
Speaker 1: out in the last several days. She's the one who
Speaker 1: said raw dogging the air and got all up said
Speaker 1: about COVID protocols in a weird way. But she's big
Speaker 1: on the whole CEO of United Healthcare getting gunned down,
Speaker 1: and she put out a Corota column yesterday. Yes we
Speaker 1: want insurance executives dead. Wow, she said, No, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a
Speaker 1: loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal
Speaker 1: to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.
Speaker 1: Happy to see the CEO of United Healthcare gunned down
Speaker 1: in the street.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know this is.
Speaker 6: And I wanted to talk about this and I can't
Speaker 6: believe we've gotten this far without it coming up. The
Speaker 6: more you dig into and I haven't read the book.
Speaker 6: That is the basis or really the reflection of a
Speaker 6: saying a slogan that people who look into this, study, this,
Speaker 6: fight this are fully aware of. That's delay, deny, defend,
Speaker 6: that's the way the healthcare companies, the insurance companies save money,
Speaker 6: including in my opinion and those of many others, perfectly
Speaker 6: legitimate claims. If you have a thousand legitimate claims and
Speaker 6: you deny, say five hundred of them, and then you
Speaker 6: delay until people get tired of they get other treatment,
Speaker 6: or they pay for themselves, or they forget about, or
Speaker 6: they die, and then when it goes sideways, you defend
Speaker 6: those few cases that you will save money even though
Speaker 6: you have put people through hell trying to get what
Speaker 6: they have been paying for. That if it results in
Speaker 6: the death of a loved one, would fill you with
Speaker 6: murderous rage.
Speaker 2: Most people don't know this. I didn't know this.
Speaker 1: Until our friend Craig, the healthcare genius, let me know.
Speaker 2: If you will me.
Speaker 6: Say this, just very briefly, but that doesn't mean you
Speaker 6: get to murder anybody. You have to find another way.
Speaker 1: That should go without saying, but I'm glad you said it. Well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't go without saying. In Taylor Lorenz world, apparently,
Speaker 1: if you get turned down, if you work for a
Speaker 1: big company and you get turned down, it wasn't the
Speaker 1: insurance company that turned you down. It was the company
Speaker 1: that you work for. The company that you work for,
Speaker 1: if you work for a big company, is the one
Speaker 1: that calls the shots. They hide it behind the healthcare
Speaker 1: company because the health care companies are giant and impossible
Speaker 1: to take on and they're used to being hated. Your
Speaker 1: company doesn't want you to hate them if you work
Speaker 1: for a really big company.
Speaker 2: But they're the ones that make the decisions. And I
Speaker 2: didn't know that.
Speaker 1: And Craig says, most people have no idea that that's
Speaker 1: who they're talking to, their own company that they work
Speaker 1: for a lot of the times. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's your situation where you are, but it's very possible.
Speaker 2: He is. A lot of it is self insurance.
Speaker 6: They use the healthcare provider, yeah, because they have the
Speaker 6: the mechaiic work to process stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, but the decisions on that stuff is
Speaker 1: being made by your own company. And so that's pretty
Speaker 1: interesting aspect of the whole thing.
Speaker 2: That very few people are aware of.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and again, you can't murder people the laws of
Speaker 6: God and man forbid it. Decency forbids it. But I
Speaker 6: have a very strong feeling when the facts of this
Speaker 6: perpetrator situation come out, there is going to be a
Speaker 6: lot of sympathy. I saw it interestingly on Twitter, which
Speaker 6: is so interesting.
Speaker 2: It is all these things at once.
Speaker 6: Is it is great source for breaking news, really interesting perspectives.
Speaker 6: You get information you never would have found on your own,
Speaker 6: and it's a cesspool of hate and.
Speaker 2: Division and lies.
Speaker 6: People being sympathetic towards the shooter saying good the guy
Speaker 6: got what he wanted. Was being portrayed as a right
Speaker 6: versus left thing, which I thought was interesting and I
Speaker 6: don't think really fits. But our healthcare system, insurance system,
Speaker 6: everything in the US is so screwed up. It is
Speaker 6: so monumentally unjust and expensive and abusive and stupid. It's
Speaker 6: I don't even want to talk about it.
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you about the Daniel Penny
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Speaker 1: Joe got fired up during the commercials on some breaking
Speaker 1: news around the Daniel Penny trial the other day.
Speaker 2: I haven't been following, but it's the.
Speaker 1: Guy who you know, there was a scary a scary
Speaker 1: guy in the subway and he wrestled the guy to
Speaker 1: the ground and.
Speaker 2: The guy died.
Speaker 1: And now he's being charged with, you know, all kinds
Speaker 1: of horrible crimes and could go to prison.
Speaker 2: And what's that going to do to.
Speaker 1: Decent citizens ever coming to someone's aid all across America
Speaker 1: if he ends up going to prison, right right? And
Speaker 1: the breaking news around the jury saying they can't come
Speaker 1: to a conclusion. So we've got some more on that.
Speaker 2: Stay here.
Speaker 1: So I'm out in the sales area the other day
Speaker 1: here at the radio station, and we got on the
Speaker 1: topic of buying stuff for Christmas, and somebody mentioned the
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Speaker 1: you get him a good gift. Then there's people that
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Speaker 6: us in real life for the workplace with this crap
Speaker 6: that the postmodern lunatics are trying to shove down their throats.
Speaker 1: Cut the crap so that during the Daniel Penny trial
Speaker 1: came out and said they can't come to an agreement,
Speaker 1: a unanimous agreement on the biggest charge of manslaughter.
Speaker 2: You were fired up.
Speaker 1: I've heard a bunch of people fired up over the prosecution.
Speaker 2: Of this thing. Is what is going on here?
Speaker 6: Well, it's, first of all, it's Salvin Bragg's super progressive
Speaker 6: prosecutor's office in the gal who's heading up the prosecution
Speaker 6: of this case is a way left wing activist kook.
Speaker 6: And the fact that this is a white guy who
Speaker 6: was involved in the death of a black man is
Speaker 6: like the whole impetus for the case because in it's
Speaker 6: just there's not much there at all. The decedent that's
Speaker 6: the dead guy has dozens of arrests, many of them
Speaker 6: for assaulting people on subway. Oh my God, and Daniel
Speaker 6: Penny says, yeah, I stopped this guy from hurting people.
Speaker 6: And when I've let go, when the cops got there,
Speaker 6: he was dead.
Speaker 2: I didn't mean to. I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 2: he died of.
Speaker 1: If you're following this at all, I mean Penny laying
Speaker 1: on his back, holding him like in a headlock, trying
Speaker 1: to restrain the guy because he was obviously dangerous. And
Speaker 1: you know the difference between straining a guy and them
Speaker 1: dying would be difficult to tell in the midst of
Speaker 1: a fight.
Speaker 6: Right, So anyway, the jury says, no, we can't come
Speaker 6: to a verdict, So the judge is probably going to
Speaker 6: give him what's known as the uh what's the the
Speaker 6: the Allan charge, the Allan order, Allan charge, Yes, urging
Speaker 6: them to reach a unanimous verdict.
Speaker 2: It's important as you reach your verdict, and they'll.
Speaker 6: Go back in the room and say, I still think
Speaker 6: what I thought before he yelled at us, how about you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too?
Speaker 1: But so were their efforts to make it seem like
Speaker 1: it was a white guy killing a black guy because
Speaker 1: he's a racist.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: There's all sorts of stuff, and the family is out
Speaker 6: there claiming that and all sorts of black people were
Speaker 6: on the subway car thanking Daniel Paddy for apprehending this
Speaker 6: guy and helping him restrain him.
Speaker 2: And the rest of it is it's it is a DEI.
Speaker 6: Blacks Lives matter fake whipping up racial hatred over well
Speaker 6: in a place where it does not belong.
Speaker 1: That was evident within the first couple of days of
Speaker 1: this happening, and that's what bothered me so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: the people in the subway car, including lots of black people,
Speaker 1: were like, thank god he was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's really troubling. Yeah.
Speaker 6: The only good news is that it appears that he
Speaker 6: will not be convicted anytime soon of manslaughter. This The
Speaker 6: next charge down is reckless homicide or something like that,
Speaker 6: negligent homicide, yeah, but criminally anyway, I suspect that the
Speaker 6: jury will remain hung as opposed to hanged. You can't
Speaker 6: hang a jury. The jury will remain hung, and the
Speaker 6: prosecutor's office BB being lefty radicals, may try to try
Speaker 6: him again.
Speaker 2: I hope not fout out.
Speaker 1: The New York Times editorial Board wrote a piece yesterday
Speaker 1: the Daniel Penny Penny trial. Alvin Bragg is a menace
Speaker 1: to our society and must go.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, the people of New York apparently don't feel
Speaker 2: the same way. Do you remember Susan Smith, the woman
Speaker 2: who killed her kids? You remember that. I don't want
Speaker 2: to get him into a lake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that ages ago. She was denied parole.
Speaker 1: The other day I got a lot of attention. This
Speaker 1: just came out.
Speaker 2: Kill her mom.
Speaker 1: Susan Smith was hoping to go on Dancing with the
Speaker 1: Stars if she was paroled this week, and his devastated
Speaker 1: that it didn't work out.
Speaker 2: Wow, well that would have been something.
Speaker 6: Oh speaking of famous women or infamous there are developments
Speaker 6: in the story of the excuse me hawk twug girl.
Speaker 1: See, I still don't know the story. I haven't looked
Speaker 1: into it. I feel like I don't want to know.
Speaker 2: Well, we've talked to but I've never watched the video
Speaker 2: where I just have never It won't gratify you in
Speaker 2: any way. That's what I thought. Don't bother, Okay, and
Speaker 2: I haven't.
Speaker 6: But so this girl is some webcast dude asks her
Speaker 6: a question about a sex act, and she simulates spitting
Speaker 6: on a man's anatomy, and it simulates the sound of it.
Speaker 6: And it catches on.
Speaker 1: My son anyway, my son wanted to dresses her for
Speaker 1: Halloween because his friends would have thought it was so funny.
Speaker 2: And I said, yes, they would have that's correct. And
Speaker 2: I said, no, you ain't.
Speaker 6: All right, let me go through this real quickly because
Speaker 6: I've got to get to the punchline. So the Internet
Speaker 6: loves a good meme, and when Hailey Welch, better known
Speaker 6: as the Haktua Girl, became in her own night sensation,
Speaker 6: no one could predict how far her meme would go.
Speaker 6: But as with many Internet phenomena, the journey from meme
Speaker 6: to meme coin was both swift and surprising. So her
Speaker 6: fame began with a simple, candid moment on a video
Speaker 6: which I have described celebrities. Everybody was talking about it,
Speaker 6: parodying it, laughing about it within moments, As the Internet does, so,
Speaker 6: Hailey Welch wasted no time turning her viral fame into
Speaker 6: a thriving business. She earned an impressive sixty five thousand
Speaker 6: dollars through a partnership with a clothing line she did not.
Speaker 2: Yes, she did.
Speaker 6: She also started accepting exclusive party invitations, raking it up
Speaker 6: to thirty thousand per night.
Speaker 2: Just to make an appearance at parties.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, you better go to eight parties that week
Speaker 1: because this is not gonna last long.
Speaker 2: She also signed with a music management company.
Speaker 1: See I'm horrified and understand the same. If I'm a
Speaker 1: rich guy and this is two days after she's gone
Speaker 1: viral and I'm having a party on a Friday night.
Speaker 1: What is more hilarious than ladies and gentlemen? The Hawk
Speaker 1: to a girl? I have not gotten to the good part.
Speaker 1: Her rise to internet fame.
Speaker 6: Has brought high profile collaborations, including with Jake Paul, who
Speaker 6: is promoting her brand to a large audience. N he
Speaker 6: was somewhat involved in crypto. Even Mark Cuban, a big
Speaker 6: name in the cryptocurrency world, got involved with her meme
Speaker 6: coin project.
Speaker 2: So she now has a.
Speaker 6: Like a cryptocurrency.
Speaker 2: Now the hawkt a coin or what's it called? I
Speaker 2: can't find it here, So it's like Trump shoes, it's
Speaker 2: a hawk to a coin.
Speaker 6: Well, she's trying to get a cryptocurrency, going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh my god.
Speaker 6: But what happened next was pure chaos. Taking the hype
Speaker 6: and drama to her new level. The hawk coin launched
Speaker 6: and rapidly hit a five hundred million dollar market cap
Speaker 6: within minutes, only to crash and lose ninety five percent
Speaker 6: of its value in the next five minutes.
Speaker 1: So the whole thing lasted like seven minutes.
Speaker 6: Yes, I hope you didn't lose your family fortune in
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