Speaker 1: Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
Speaker 1: George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Show, Katty Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Jetty and keep arms all.
Speaker 2: Live.
Speaker 1: It's from Studio C. See senor dimly let her excuse me.
Speaker 1: Oh golly, oh boy man.
Speaker 3: I warmed up in my car all the way to
Speaker 3: work thinking today I'm gonna start without spraying flem.
Speaker 1: All over everyone, good lord, but I was not successful.
Speaker 3: Uh deep within the bowels of the Armstrong and Getty
Speaker 3: Communications compound. Today we're into the tutelage of art and
Speaker 3: it's frye. We're under the toutelage of our general manager.
Speaker 1: I'm torn. I'm torn.
Speaker 3: The interview have gone well, but we have multiple general
Speaker 3: managers candidates. Do you have any especially excited about Jack today?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm feeling very Christmas. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: my Christmas at on please.
Speaker 3: Nothing better than that. The Christmas season. Let's remember it's
Speaker 3: about joy, togetherness and not get stressed out, not get
Speaker 3: too stressed out, not get so stressed out you commit
Speaker 3: a crime. Well, just let's set the bar there, go
Speaker 3: and try to leap that bar.
Speaker 1: Here's something I've learned. We used to talk about this.
Speaker 3: Going way back to the beginning of our knowing each other,
Speaker 3: we both had the fortune of like enjoying Christmas time
Speaker 3: and it was always a good thing, and hearing people
Speaker 3: complain about Thanksgiving and Christmas always seemed weird to us.
Speaker 1: We always seemed weird to me. It's like, what freaking
Speaker 1: love it? It's awesome.
Speaker 3: But that was because my families everybody got along, and
Speaker 3: families weren't tact as a divorced family, and then trying
Speaker 3: to put everything together everything like that, It's a lot
Speaker 3: of stress and annoyance and things that you'd rather not
Speaker 3: deal with. So a lot of the I love Christmas
Speaker 3: Thanksgiving is you should be thankful.
Speaker 1: For your situation. That's oh yeah, I mean attitude.
Speaker 3: Attitude definitely, that definitely plays a difference in well, everything
Speaker 3: in life. But it was easier to enjoy the Christmas
Speaker 3: season when I wasn't trying to manage this whole deal. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I have follow up questions, obviously, but I'll let you
Speaker 3: figure out how far you want to go down that road.
Speaker 1: I will just tell you this.
Speaker 3: At our mega Thanksgiving gathering several days ago, in which
Speaker 3: folks converged from both coasts and all over the place,
Speaker 3: and multiple generations. It was a semi frequent topic of conversation.
Speaker 3: You know how fortunate it is to be in a
Speaker 3: family where everybody get The worst thing that happens is
Speaker 3: somebody is a little goofy and there's an eye roll
Speaker 3: and you move on.
Speaker 1: It's fine. But yeah, it's a blessing. It's an incredible blessing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my nuclear family, it's just me and my brothers,
Speaker 3: my mom and dad, the same five I started with
Speaker 3: as a child. We all get together for all this
Speaker 3: tum and it's fantastic. Well, I want to hear go ahead,
Speaker 3: I was gonna mention. My niece sent pictures of her
Speaker 3: hand with a ring on it the other day. My
Speaker 3: oldest niece, she's getting married and she's so excited. Good
Speaker 3: for her. I hope she's very happy. You want to
Speaker 3: hear something. It's funny. Communing with my in particular my
Speaker 3: youngest daughter's friends, has given me a lot more perspective
Speaker 3: about the world of families. I mean, I've known plenty
Speaker 3: of people and observed plenty of things throughout my life,
Speaker 3: but for instance, this one's unbelievable. I'll leave names out.
Speaker 3: One of her law school buddies. Several of them came
Speaker 3: and we had a great time. And actually it was
Speaker 3: some non law school buddies too. But we're playing a
Speaker 3: game and one of the girls, one of the young
Speaker 3: women I will refer to her as Jenny. Jenny made
Speaker 3: a real nice throw in the game and I said,
Speaker 3: great throw, Jenny, Yes, And she spent the rest of
Speaker 3: the day thinking about it because this was passed on
Speaker 3: to me. That was the first time in her life
Speaker 3: a father figure had encouraged her.
Speaker 1: Wow. Wow, I know, I know it was heartbreaking. That
Speaker 1: is something yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Anyway, so those of us who've been so blessed by fate,
Speaker 3: genetics and the Lord above or whatever, you want to
Speaker 3: attribute it to your own great character, you know, with
Speaker 3: happy families. What's that line from Kara Maza from Dostoevsky.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry the other Russian guy too. Many Russian authors
Speaker 3: got a limit. All happy families are alike. Unhappy families
Speaker 3: are all unhappy in their own way. I think that's
Speaker 3: the beginning of and Coronna.
Speaker 1: Yes, but that seems to be true.
Speaker 3: The happy family is just everybody's nice to everybody and
Speaker 3: respects everybody.
Speaker 1: The end. I mean, it's not real.
Speaker 3: Complicated, yeah, but do you get into the unhappy ones,
Speaker 3: and there's all kinds of oh boy, it gets very
Speaker 3: complicated very fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, happy Holidays, very Christmas. So I guess
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 3: To portray this would be I have grown and I
Speaker 3: have more sympathy for people who find this time a
Speaker 3: year stressful as a opposed to only joyous. I still
Speaker 3: find it mostly joyous and enjoy it and everything like that.
Speaker 3: And I'm looking forward to My son's birthday is two
Speaker 3: days before Christmas, always a wrenching things. I'm hoping he
Speaker 3: reaches the age at some point where he agrees to
Speaker 3: what lots of people suggest, doing the half birthday in
Speaker 3: the middle of the summer so it's not so closed
Speaker 3: to Christmas, and everybody seems to benefit from that. But
Speaker 3: as a kid, he doesn't dig that, which I can understand,
Speaker 3: because when you're a kid, six months might as well
Speaker 3: be five years, right right, I think, And I've studied
Speaker 3: entitlements in government long enough to know this will probably work.
Speaker 3: You give him the full on birthday this year in
Speaker 3: a few days, and then you give him the full
Speaker 3: on birthday in the summertime now, granted, come next year
Speaker 3: and then come next Christmas. Let's see if that works.
Speaker 3: You remember that summer when we did it. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I just kind of feel like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my actual birthday. Doesn't heally care
Speaker 1: about me? Oh boy, oh boy? Something?
Speaker 3: We might have Katie's dad on later. We haven't nailed
Speaker 3: that down yet. To talk a little bit about the
Speaker 3: dude that murdered Charlie Kirk. The scumbag has been in
Speaker 3: court the last couple of days and some of the
Speaker 3: things they've decided to do in the courtroom, like cameras
Speaker 3: in the courtroom. Katie's father, who was a judge for
Speaker 3: very long time, has some comments on and I'd like
Speaker 3: to talk about that. It's so interesting because many legal
Speaker 3: experts are not big fans of cameras in the courtroom,
Speaker 3: but Charlie Kirk's widow, Erica, is staunchly.
Speaker 1: In favor of it. That's interesting.
Speaker 3: It explains why fairly eloquently and powerfully.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll have to get to that a little bit later.
Speaker 3: I'm against courts and cameras in all cour courtrooms, and
Speaker 3: it runs counter to everything most people believe about transparency
Speaker 3: in this and that and getting involved. We've all seen
Speaker 3: how what the reality of it is. Anybody old enough
Speaker 3: to have watched OJ has Yeah. Yeah, Well, let's start
Speaker 3: the show officially on a Friday. I'm Jack Armstrong, He's
Speaker 3: Joe Getty on this It is Friday, December twelfth, the
Speaker 3: year twenty twenty five, Armstrong and getting we approve of
Speaker 3: this program? Did Christopher Darden never pull on a glove
Speaker 3: that was wet and it had been kind of crumpled
Speaker 3: in his whole life?
Speaker 1: Ever, how do you make that mistake?
Speaker 3: All right, let's begin the show officially now, how Mark,
Speaker 3: Now that's a throwback. Yeah, goddamn liberal probably gotten around
Speaker 3: them all day.
Speaker 4: We do.
Speaker 1: And that's calling on Tara. That's uh, you don't have balls.
Speaker 1: You're throwing cold contact the part tripping it back to
Speaker 1: the box Top thirty one too. That's a little hard
Speaker 1: to understand. That was a pilot saying what Katie?
Speaker 2: He was leaving, uh, San Jose and he was just saying,
Speaker 2: you bunch of liberal fs. Wow, they're probably all out
Speaker 2: there driving their f and Hyundais and you're not. You
Speaker 2: don't have balls unless you're rolling coal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I find that humorous.
Speaker 3: But I just don't know if I want my pilot
Speaker 3: to ever be that angry about anything ever. Wow, that
Speaker 3: was the Rootinus Tutinist pilot on Southwest Airlines.
Speaker 1: Apparently that was a few years ago. That is, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want com pilots.
Speaker 3: I want like kind of wearing the life like a
Speaker 3: loose fit suit of clothes, as Jesus says, I, I
Speaker 3: don't want you uptied about anything up there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Just sounded like, you know, one of the great awful
Speaker 3: stupid trends of kind of the last phase of the
Speaker 3: idiotic modern world. This is not as hot as it
Speaker 3: was initially, but people acting as if private conversations between buddies,
Speaker 3: between friends, between spouses, whatever were exactly the same as
Speaker 3: a speech you would give to the nation in prime time,
Speaker 3: and that everything you cracked wise about to your buddies
Speaker 3: ought to be seen as the same level as an
Speaker 3: official pronounce.
Speaker 1: We might get to wrestle with this as humanity.
Speaker 3: I was talking about this with my kids the other day,
Speaker 3: and that's around that experiment that's being done. It's really
Speaker 3: to help people that have body brain problems they get
Speaker 3: further every single day, and the ability to like use
Speaker 3: a computer with just your mind or type out words
Speaker 3: with just your mind. But the most recent, the most
Speaker 3: recent one they had where a guy was able to
Speaker 3: type out words with his mind.
Speaker 1: They were having.
Speaker 3: Trouble with the computer knowing, well, is this just a
Speaker 3: thought or is this something he wants to say?
Speaker 1: How interesting?
Speaker 3: So if all of our thoughts at some point are
Speaker 3: hearable or come out, then we're gonna have to wrestle
Speaker 3: with as humankind, which would be actually pretty fascinating. Has
Speaker 3: anybody ever writ it and written a book about this
Speaker 3: or made a movie maybe to have but where human
Speaker 3: beings just had to wrestle with the fact that, Wow,
Speaker 3: we all obviously say and think.
Speaker 1: Horrific things, I mean, just horrific things about people we
Speaker 1: love and things we don't mean at all, and just
Speaker 1: just random thoughts.
Speaker 3: It's just the way we are built. Sometimes I think
Speaker 3: it's healthy. It's like the rain running off the roof
Speaker 3: into the gutter. You think it, you express it to yourself,
Speaker 3: you let it go because that impulse, that animal impulse.
Speaker 1: Is not something you want to hang on to. So
Speaker 1: it's incredibly healthy, it's necessary.
Speaker 3: Well, clearly human nature because we all do it well,
Speaker 3: and I think we've gotten a little better at my
Speaker 3: original point too, understanding, Yeah, people crack wise, they make jokes,
Speaker 3: they try to shock their friends. That's not an official
Speaker 3: pronouncement of their view of humanity. So we get to
Speaker 3: persecute them because we love to persecute people, because that
Speaker 3: makes us feel better and more important and more moral
Speaker 3: and more powerful. Oh, I despised that trend, which reminds me.
Speaker 3: I never got to the trans woman who was put
Speaker 3: under for surgery but secretly recorded the doctor's conversation and
Speaker 3: the things she heard in the way she reacted. Never
Speaker 3: got to that story yesterday. It's pretty interesting. It's way
Speaker 3: into what you were just describing people's private case. Did no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it didn't even come close. I just did a little
Speaker 3: bit of it and teased that later we would get
Speaker 3: the rest, and we never got to the rest.
Speaker 1: So oh, we'll do that today. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: fun conversation.
Speaker 3: We antaalize. We got Katie's headlines on the way and
Speaker 3: lots of good stuff. So stay here, how y'all doing.
Speaker 3: I've got a bunch of news to catch you up
Speaker 3: on and a lot of the political news I find incredibly,
Speaker 3: incredibly annoying, and I wonder why anybody pays any attention
Speaker 3: to it. So I don't know if I'm the best
Speaker 3: person to ask about any of it. Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: feel like like eighty percent of political stories I hear.
Speaker 3: My first thought is you realize there's better things to
Speaker 3: do in life than talk about this.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wednesday, during the show, I was actually applying for other work.
Speaker 3: During the show, I was quiet quitting. I left my
Speaker 3: resume on the cop here I got busted. That's a
Speaker 3: fairy old school reference. Well, that's a great thing about
Speaker 3: our situation. Nobody's making us talk about any of those things.
Speaker 3: All right here, here, let's figure out who's talking about what.
Speaker 3: It's the lead story with Katie Green.
Speaker 1: Katie hit it well prepared to be annoyed.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, oh oh.
Speaker 2: Top headline on a few of the websites. NBC White
Speaker 2: House says US intends to seize oil from tanker captured
Speaker 2: near Venezuela. ABC satellite images suggest sees tanker deliberately deliberately
Speaker 2: manipulated location data, and Reuters US preparing to seize more
Speaker 2: tankers off of Venezuela's.
Speaker 3: Coast after the first ship taken. Yeah, I find that interesting.
Speaker 3: That's the first of many tankers we're going to start grabbing,
Speaker 3: which will have an impact on the whole illegal oil
Speaker 3: supply that I guess has been a thing forever. Well
Speaker 3: in every regime, including Democratic ones, depend on money flowing
Speaker 3: out of the treasury to keep the scam going. And
Speaker 3: if Maduro can't be paying off people, his his hold
Speaker 3: on the regime is weakened significantly.
Speaker 2: From the Washington Post, Senate blocks Democrats bill to extend
Speaker 2: expiring Obamacare subsidies.
Speaker 3: Well, so neither the Republican's idea or the Democrats idea
Speaker 3: going to pass, and then we'll be starting from scratch.
Speaker 1: I guess at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: From CBS luxury cars and private villas, how Minnesota fraudsters
Speaker 2: spent millions intended for hungry kids.
Speaker 1: Wow, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's becoming more and more clear how importantly you're
Speaker 3: a racist accusation was when anybody tried to look into
Speaker 3: all of this. In Minnesota, the land of George Floyd especially,
Speaker 3: everybody was terrified of being called a racist. You could
Speaker 3: get a you could you know, shoot somebody in front
Speaker 3: of a cop and call them a racist, and they'd
Speaker 3: pull back.
Speaker 1: In Minneapolis in that period if they said, I think
Speaker 1: you killed somebody.
Speaker 3: They had a period there in America where you had
Speaker 3: good reason to be terrified because you were going to
Speaker 3: lose your career.
Speaker 1: From the New York Times.
Speaker 2: From chips to security, China is getting much of it
Speaker 2: of what it wants from the United States who wrote
Speaker 2: that New York Times. From the Wall Street Journal, AI
Speaker 2: gadgets are bad right now, but their promise is huge.
Speaker 3: Which gadgets are they saying is bad, like the dolls
Speaker 3: and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 2: And no, they're talking about the wearable ones like the metaglasses,
Speaker 2: wrisk Ai and whatnot.
Speaker 3: I know a few people who really likes the metaglasses.
Speaker 3: This scal who's terrific. I can't remember her name, but
Speaker 3: she has tried all of these things and written about them.
Speaker 3: It's entertaining and interesting. But yeah, they're all not quite ready,
Speaker 3: I guess. But you've met some glasses fans.
Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay.
Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit yesterday during Local
Speaker 2: from the New York Post. Dynamic pricing used to raise
Speaker 2: costs of everything from food and uber rides to museum visits.
Speaker 3: I've gotta believe that is a future. We got to
Speaker 3: talk about that more later. That's clearly coming from study fines.
Speaker 2: Pop music has grown darker and more stressed over the
Speaker 2: last fifty years, tracking with America's.
Speaker 1: Rising distress, no doubt.
Speaker 3: I think about that a lot, thinking to listening to
Speaker 3: young people's music, like Through I mean, I really feel
Speaker 3: like it took off in the nineties, the angst and
Speaker 3: then I mean, angst has always been in rock world,
Speaker 3: but it really got angsty in the nineties and then in.
Speaker 1: The two thousands. It's just some of the music my kids.
Speaker 3: It's just there's so much my life sucks, the world sucks,
Speaker 3: and so hard to be a human sorts of songs.
Speaker 2: And finally from the Babylon Bee Hospital adds wing for
Speaker 2: patients to recover after seeing their bill.
Speaker 3: Ah to the music thing, that makes sense though, art
Speaker 3: generally reflects life going on at the time, right, whether
Speaker 3: whether it's paintings or music or writing or whatever. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: which is leading? Which I feel like there's a suggestion
Speaker 3: there that the music is leading the kids. I think
Speaker 3: it's a reflection of the kids. Don't you think that's right?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree absolutely that which catches on reflects
Speaker 3: what they are thinking and feeling. Sure, yeah, maybe we'll
Speaker 3: talk about that too. That's a pretty interesting topic. We
Speaker 3: got clips of the week, We got some serious news
Speaker 3: we need to get into. There are more spending numbers
Speaker 3: out of each continuing to spend. We gotta spend to
Speaker 3: keep the economy going, even though your own personal economy
Speaker 3: might be damaged. Do the right thing for America and
Speaker 3: max out your credit card.
Speaker 1: I guess if you missed seg get the podcast Armstrong
Speaker 1: and Getty on.
Speaker 2: Demand Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3: Barry Weiss, who Tucker Carlson on Tucker Carlson was on
Speaker 3: THEO Vaughan's podcast.
Speaker 1: That's an interesting thing, but he called Barry Weiss unimpressive. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I disagree.
Speaker 3: Barry Weiss, who's running CBS News now and it's one
Speaker 3: of the more impressive journalists ever, has a follow up
Speaker 3: on the fraud Minnesota thing.
Speaker 1: That's pretty interesting. We'll get to that in a little bit. Mm. Excellent.
Speaker 1: That's a story that keeps on giving. Oh god, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: It is such a great indicator off so many things
Speaker 3: were getting wrong. I'd say, yeah, Okay, let's take a
Speaker 3: fun look back at the week that was. It's the
Speaker 3: beloved Friday tradition. It's col clips of the week.
Speaker 1: We've deported millions so far.
Speaker 4: Fal if I had to say, like, there's only one
Speaker 4: thing you can ever have for the rest of time,
Speaker 4: which admitally would be a bit monotonous, but it would
Speaker 4: probably be a.
Speaker 3: Cheeseburger, So I wrote, it's not a terrible theory and
Speaker 3: context of me back he killed my dad?
Speaker 1: My god, Oh, women are annoying if you ever had sex? No,
Speaker 1: absolutely not, Wow, says the guy who's never got light.
Speaker 2: I think Islam as uniquely indigestible or a secular mindset.
Speaker 1: And another moment with one of these humanoid robots, this
Speaker 1: time kicking its CEO.
Speaker 3: It has simulated face off in China, the robot landing
Speaker 3: a forceful strike.
Speaker 2: And shows you how to take lise.
Speaker 1: So Travis Kelsey Bought is teaching a fifteen year old
Speaker 1: to do Coohan.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't feel good about being white every day
Speaker 3: for a lot of reasons, because it's a point.
Speaker 1: Of privilege, scrape in the ass end and education. You
Speaker 1: can't even spell as assend. What has happened to you?
Speaker 1: Did you have a stroke? The new word is affordability.
Speaker 3: I wonder what grade you would give A plus A
Speaker 3: plus A plus plus plus plus plus. This deal, if
Speaker 3: it is allowed to move forward, will actually be the
Speaker 3: death of the theatrical movie business in Hollywood.
Speaker 1: We're sitting here today trying to save it. We're the
Speaker 1: United States of American, That's who we are. Lucia has bols.
Speaker 1: We're back to Europe and.
Speaker 3: If you must be prepared for the skill of our
Speaker 3: grandparents and great grandparents and Georgia. The binary Justice Department
Speaker 3: called it the largest COVID fraud scheme in the country.
Speaker 1: This also has an impact on somalis. Do you think
Speaker 1: that the video should be released in full to the
Speaker 1: American public? Yeah, but whatever they have we certainly released
Speaker 1: no problem. This video was profoundly shaking. I didn't find
Speaker 1: it distressing or disturbing. It looks like any number of
Speaker 1: dozens of strikes we've seen. Senator, have you seen the video?
Speaker 1: I have seen the video. You have seen the classified video.
Speaker 2: No, I've not seen the actual video, and I guess
Speaker 2: it's clips of the week.
Speaker 1: What a week, as every week is in the modern world.
Speaker 1: Too much stuff.
Speaker 3: Trump has promised yesterday on the Armstrong and Getty Show
Speaker 3: sign in an executive order around AI to try to
Speaker 3: keep fifty different states from having fifty different sets of
Speaker 3: rules making it impossible for AI to try to come
Speaker 3: about in a way that we can compete against China.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that a little bit later. That's pretty interesting.
Speaker 3: And now it's just a very odd thing to try
Speaker 3: to do to something Internet related in the United States
Speaker 3: of America. Yeah yeah, And I see in California, it's
Speaker 3: gotta be Gavin running this. He's going to try to
Speaker 3: fight that. Donald Trump is going to allow this wild
Speaker 3: out of control technology to blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And well, we're not going to allow that to happen.
Speaker 1: So that's going to become a wedge thing there.
Speaker 3: So goff Gav with Silicon Valley, the only productive sector
Speaker 3: practically of California, is now going to choke it out. Okay,
Speaker 3: all right, good. So all those people up in Minnesota
Speaker 3: stole all that money.
Speaker 1: A billion dollars in one not very big state.
Speaker 3: Yeah, got stolen. And again this is near as biggest
Speaker 3: story as it probably should be. Why because Donald Trump
Speaker 3: blamed Somali's so the mainstream media feels like it's evil
Speaker 3: and they got to.
Speaker 1: Stay away from the story. I guess this is pretty
Speaker 1: interesting anyway.
Speaker 3: Barry Weiss, who runs CBS News and is a real
Speaker 3: journalist and covers things that are interesting regardless of what
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: Sacred cows, they touch.
Speaker 3: Luxury cars, private villas, and overseas wire transfers. CBS News
Speaker 3: has obtained dozens of files and photos that reveal how
Speaker 3: Minnesota fraudsters blew through hundreds of millions of dollars in
Speaker 3: taxpayer dollars as part of one of the biggest COVID
Speaker 3: era fraud schemes in the entire country. Again, Minnesota's It's
Speaker 3: not like it's California or New York or Texas. A
Speaker 3: billion dollars in Minnesota. The files document a spending spree
Speaker 3: in which defendants, many of Somali descent.
Speaker 1: Good for you, Berry Weiss, throwing that in there to.
Speaker 3: Taxpayer money meant to feed hungry children and used it
Speaker 3: to buy cars, property and jewel. Video show them popping
Speaker 3: champagne at an opulent Maldives resort. In a text message,
Speaker 3: one defendant boast You're gonna be the richest twenty five
Speaker 3: year old in Shalla.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Is that a term? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if Ala is willing. Oh, okay, I got you. That's
Speaker 1: what that's. Oh, that's what that means. Okay. Uh, well
Speaker 1: that's nice. That's fantastic.
Speaker 3: The documents feature exhibits from a recent federal trial, many
Speaker 3: of which are being made public by CBS News for
Speaker 3: the first time. The exhibits include a confirmation email first
Speaker 3: stay in an overwater villa with a private pool at
Speaker 3: the Radisson Blue Resort in Maldives, lakefront property in Minnesota,
Speaker 3: RECEIAT showing wire transfers to China and East Africa.
Speaker 1: Oh awesome, so.
Speaker 3: People here, people here from China sending money back to China.
Speaker 3: That's fantastic. Soling from the taxpayer, that's absolutely just great.
Speaker 3: Beautiful first class tickets to Istanbul and Amsterdam. Well, if
Speaker 3: you're gonna fly now, you might as well fly first
Speaker 3: class now that you're living off the taxpayer. Certainly, somebody
Speaker 3: bought a Porsche stacks to stretch out over the Atlantic relax,
Speaker 3: stacks of cash. Somebody bought a Porse Porsche where others
Speaker 3: saw a crisis and rush to help. You saw money
Speaker 3: and rush to steal, said the US district judge, trying
Speaker 3: to make these people feel bad, and they probably don't.
Speaker 3: They feel bad that they got caught. I doubt that
Speaker 3: they feel bad that they did it. One person those
Speaker 3: sentenced to ten years in prison. That's a long time
Speaker 3: in order to pay nearly forty eight million dollars in
Speaker 3: restitution for roll in the frost brow. Yeah, so how
Speaker 3: does that work out when you're told to pay back
Speaker 3: forty eight million dollars And I'm guessing this is just
Speaker 3: a regular person that makes a regular living.
Speaker 1: That's a great question. I've never had to enforce that
Speaker 1: sort of order.
Speaker 3: I think essentially for the rest of your life, a
Speaker 3: portion of what you make so you have to go
Speaker 3: to a restitution.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess. And I have no idea
Speaker 1: what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: You can text her email, but I'll bet you're allowed
Speaker 3: enough to live on a pretty meager life and everything
Speaker 3: above that goes to pay off your debt for the
Speaker 3: rest of your life, which sounds awesome.
Speaker 1: That seems like a perfect penalty.
Speaker 3: Oh you're greedy. Now you're sentenced to life life of
Speaker 3: barely getting by. Nice scheme, you know, it's almost this
Speaker 3: whole thing, this whole Somali's Minneapolis ripoff scandal. It's like
Speaker 3: Satan designer. Maybe God would to open our eyes, but
Speaker 3: Satan was sitting around with his henchman, rubbing his goatee
Speaker 3: and gin. Everybody knows Satan has a goateea. My sister
Speaker 3: once said to me, Joe, your go team makes you
Speaker 3: look like Satan. Really yeah, really yeah, I'm back when
Speaker 3: it was much darker. Anyway, I don't remember. We're Matt,
Speaker 3: We were friendly, we used to hang out together. I
Speaker 3: was never a dad to his island. Yes, I don't
Speaker 3: remember your Satan period, and I look at you every day.
Speaker 3: But well, the greatest trick the devil ever played was
Speaker 3: convincing the world he didn't exist.
Speaker 1: So Satan's involvement in all of this.
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Speaker 3: at checkout is Armstrong. So I picture Satan rubbing his
Speaker 3: joke eddies goatee, and so you're saying to himself, we
Speaker 3: need to design the perfect debacle. We need to combine
Speaker 3: rampant unchet immigration. And one of his henchmen would say,
Speaker 3: make sure it's from a place that's hostile to the
Speaker 3: principles of the United States. Ah, an excellent idea, bl zibob.
Speaker 3: So rampant immigration from a hostile place. How about an
Speaker 3: insulated community that does not assimilate from a culture where
Speaker 3: corruption is routine. Can we sprinkle that with some of
Speaker 3: the bloated American welfare states utter lack of interest in
Speaker 3: any protecting taxpayer's money. They just just spray it like
Speaker 3: like the fire hose. And how about the little political
Speaker 3: correctness in there?
Speaker 1: Yes, a little.
Speaker 3: Wokeness can be leven little wokeness spice into this delicious recipe.
Speaker 3: To be fair, I think you need to throw in
Speaker 3: a very large dash of the public doesn't care enough
Speaker 3: about where taxpayer money goes. Wow, yeah, okay, So a
Speaker 3: little bit of narrow the tax pace so that the
Speaker 3: average taxpayer doesn't care. And that's this situation ion Hersan Ali,
Speaker 3: who is the absolutely brilliant Somali immigrant to.
Speaker 1: She's I think in the UK at this point.
Speaker 3: She's married to the great Neil Ferguson and has dropped
Speaker 3: out of Islam, which has earned her you know, the
Speaker 3: Fatwah writing about the dynamics, the specifically Somali dynamics of
Speaker 3: this scandal, which are definitely worth touching on at some point.
Speaker 1: But it's true, it's not racism. Point out that.
Speaker 3: Fraud and theft in that part of the world is
Speaker 3: absolutely rampant because legitimate interaction with the government and its
Speaker 3: programs or business or whatever, they practically don't exist. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's interesting and I am I am more than willing
Speaker 3: to talk about that. And we do need to do
Speaker 3: something about letting people into this country that have no
Speaker 3: respect for it or the taxpayer or even like the country.
Speaker 3: But you know, one of the biggest frauds of all
Speaker 3: the COVID Minnesota billion dollars bigger fraud in California by
Speaker 3: mostly people born here. It's amazing how many people are
Speaker 3: willing to steal I just like I would never ever
Speaker 3: consider doing that, and I don't even exactly know why.
Speaker 3: But I just wouldn't take borls millions of dollars from
Speaker 3: the taxpayer, and certainly then think, you know what I'm
Speaker 3: gonna do is go fly first class or whatever. But
Speaker 3: if you're from another country and you don't like the country,
Speaker 3: I just picturing like if I ended up in China
Speaker 3: and I don't like the Chinese government obviously, and somehow
Speaker 3: I end up in a situation where I could steal
Speaker 3: a million dollars of CCP money.
Speaker 1: I don't care I live in China. That's their problem.
Speaker 1: If I thought I could get away.
Speaker 3: With it, I don't think my morals would come into
Speaker 3: play there, which is interesting, so that you know, that's
Speaker 3: a double layer for the people from countries that don't
Speaker 3: even like us, all right, That's why there are so many,
Speaker 3: like I was pointing out aspects of this that need
Speaker 3: to be addressed at some point. To your point, the
Speaker 3: bank that just every night they forget to lock the vault.
Speaker 3: They can bitch all they want about the dishonest townspeople
Speaker 3: who come and help themselves to the loot, but at
Speaker 3: some point, hey, you've got a responsibility here too.
Speaker 1: Can we put a fencer on that thing or something?
Speaker 1: Hire a night Watchman. Yeah, I don't know. That's that's
Speaker 1: an interesting question.
Speaker 3: I think I'd be perfectly willing to steal money from
Speaker 3: the Chinese government if I lived in China and thought
Speaker 3: I could get away with it.
Speaker 1: So where are then, Well, right, yeah, I mean right,
Speaker 1: we have an array of problems here. Yeah, no kidding.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so you bring in people who don't like
Speaker 3: the country, and then you add in the fact that
Speaker 3: there's plenty of people willing to steal no matter what,
Speaker 3: and you have a culture where if I call the
Speaker 3: Chinese authorities who came to my house racists and they're.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, oh sorry, sorry, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, come on, yeah, you're only after me because I'm white,
Speaker 3: I say, in China, that wouldn't work, and they'd retreat quickly.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, I don't want anybody to yell at
Speaker 3: me please. I mean, if you were described as to
Speaker 3: a space alien, they would think, no, there's no country
Speaker 3: like that. We've got mail bag on the way and
Speaker 3: lots of good stuff to get to. I just came
Speaker 3: up with a long list of bad jokes that I
Speaker 3: feel like, if you have them all in a row,
Speaker 3: they're funny.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll do that later. It's Friday for Grind Out Loud,
Speaker 1: Stay here Wall Street Journal. Today, Trump says Ukraine is
Speaker 1: losing the war.
Speaker 3: That gives you a little cling as to why he
Speaker 3: feels the way he feels about the current peace process.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get into that a little later. He thinks
Speaker 1: Ukraine is losing.
Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, the I happen to see that article, the
Speaker 3: point of which is that the Ukrainian military disagrees strongly.
Speaker 1: So interesting. Here's your freedom loving quote of today.
Speaker 3: Following up yesterday, Will Durant said, a great civilization is
Speaker 3: not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
Speaker 3: Let's follow up with something absolutely fabulous from the great
Speaker 3: Thomas Sowell. Just as any moron can destroy a priceless
Speaker 3: ming vase, so the shallow and ill educated people who
Speaker 3: run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a
Speaker 3: great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create
Speaker 3: and maintain.
Speaker 1: Well, that's troubling, wolf Wow mail bag.
Speaker 3: Pretty good description of our perverse government schools as well.
Speaker 3: Jared Missouri writing to our mail bag at Armstrongygeddy dot com.
Speaker 1: That's the email address. Mail bag at Armstrong Yetdy dot com.
Speaker 3: Progressives will say natural things like the family or social constructs,
Speaker 3: while calling social constructs like transgenderism natural.
Speaker 1: It's odd. Yeah, it's a good point shared. Huh.
Speaker 3: Doctor Brian writes, I can't believe I would ever side
Speaker 3: with Jack Armstrong. Joe, your euphemisms for hot dogs make
Speaker 3: me never want to eat water or a sausage ever. Again,
Speaker 3: I can't believe I'm agreeing with Jack.
Speaker 1: This is all on you.
Speaker 3: Your made your bed, now sleep in it. At least
Speaker 3: my comforters try. Hot dog euphemisms are disgusting. I agree
Speaker 3: Joe takes one of the great pleasures in life, the
Speaker 3: hot dog, and ruins it with disgusting terms for it. Finally,
Speaker 3: one more sentence. If you want back the number one slot,
Speaker 3: you better try harder. Until then, I'm on tiem Armstrong,
Speaker 3: Well go to help, doctor Brian.
Speaker 1: I would submit to you that tube steak you is?
Speaker 1: Why is that in you? And it's clearly a.
Speaker 3: Tube and it's calling it a steak, which elevates the
Speaker 3: humble hot dog. Yeah, Katie's make it a face too.
Speaker 3: None of us are finding that appealing. Yes, something about it,
Speaker 3: it's just bad. Yes, it's not appeal If I'm sitting
Speaker 3: there on the couch. Anybody want a hot dog?
Speaker 1: Yes? Anybody want a tube steak?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Oh well, sensitive little children tube steaks for everyone. Moving along,
Speaker 3: you're gonna veer from topic to topic here, Mark, uh
Speaker 3: uh uh oh no, see you can't do that.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. We'll have to do that another time.
Speaker 3: If you want to be anonymous, make it clear at
Speaker 3: the outset, not in some tiny eight point font thing
Speaker 3: at the very end. I really want to read that email,
Speaker 3: but later you protect sources I do. I have never
Speaker 3: gotten anybody in trouble. You're the Bob Woodward of morning
Speaker 3: radio email A.
Speaker 1: Lot like that.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Marina from San Diego frequently the source of some fascinating thoughts.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: The whole experiment on children on social media and devices
Speaker 3: unsupervised as a tragedy. However, it's how America does things
Speaker 3: almost from the beginning. Our freedom allows us to invent
Speaker 3: anything and everything balls to the walls, and then it's
Speaker 3: just unleashed with no regulation or testing, not until we
Speaker 3: see the damage it causes to begin to make corrections.
Speaker 3: Some things take longer than others, take seat belts, cigarettes,
Speaker 3: lawn darts, or metabol life The reality is enough people
Speaker 3: and children have to die or be severely injured before
Speaker 3: change happens. There's a great show on the History Channel
Speaker 3: called Hazardous History with Henry Winkler the Fawns. It's about
Speaker 3: the crazy s that people have invented that we're either
Speaker 3: dangerous or deadly. The idea that we used to allow
Speaker 3: them in this country is insane. Someday we'll look back
Speaker 3: and think the same stupid does hurt It hurts us all.
Speaker 3: My only gripe with that email, which I find excellent,
Speaker 3: is lawn darts. If you don't know enough to stay
Speaker 3: out of the way of the lawn dart hurtling through
Speaker 3: the air, you deserve a puncture one. Joe Getty's America
Speaker 3: isn't quite so soft as Marina say. Yeah, not knowing
Speaker 3: cigarettes to kill you isn't. You can be excused for
Speaker 3: not knowing a lawn dart could do what a lawn
Speaker 3: dart can do. The hell it's a weighted spike throat
Speaker 3: flying through the air. Think about it. Let's see we
Speaker 3: got thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Guys.
Speaker 3: I've heard that if Republicans don't extend the Obamacare subsidies,
Speaker 3: thousands will die. Gee, how many people's died of starvation
Speaker 3: when the Somali stole a billion dollars designating to feed
Speaker 3: the food insecure.
Speaker 1: What a bunch of bolshizzle starve the lazy. Thank give
Speaker 1: her that.
Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to Katie's dad, who was a judge
Speaker 3: about the trial that started up the killer of Charlie
Speaker 3: Kirk in hour two.
Speaker 1: If you don't get a good podcast, Armstrong and Getty