December 13, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- The fake rape allegations against the Duke lacrosse team
- Bingo, Bango, Bongo
- Man who went to Syria on pilgrimage is rescued
- Liberals rather skip holidays with family than face Trump supporters
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I'm strong and Jack Katy and he Armstrong and Yatty.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Took eighteen years. By the way, it was a huge
story back in two thousand and six when Crystal Mangum
falsely accused three Duke Lacrosse players of raping her while
she was performing as a stripper at a teen party
in March of that year. And now, like I said,
more than eighteen years later, she is finally admitting that
she lied about it all along, saying this quote. I
testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me
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when they didn't, and that was wrong, and I betrayed
the trust of a lot of other people who believed
in me. I made up a story that wasn't true
because I wanted validation from people and not from gone.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
All right, you're a crazy person, and you sure put
the Duke Lacrosse players threw some hell there for about
a year.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It took about a year to clear this up.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I'm glad you got religion, but what you did
was truly evil.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So it was back in two thousand and six. We
were doing the same job in the same room for
the same company.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Quite dead end. Nothing in our lives change.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's two thousand and six and we were talking about
this and one of the reasons it took off the
way it did.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There a number of reasons.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Actually, she got this young black woman claiming she was
raped by some entitled, rich white kids at Duke. I mean,
it fits a vision a lot of us have in
our heads of.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A possibility.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, and it's the sort of narrative that the media
obviously can get wildly excited about, right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It happened in the spring of two thousand and six.
It didn't get cleared up until the spring of two
thousand and seven, but the media went crazy on just
running with the narrative just as I laid it out,
and really nothing else for a very long time, in
spite of all evidence. And the most disappointing thing, of course,
is that the local prosecutor there in Durham, North Carolina
(02:12):
did exactly the same thing and as a crazy person,
and he ended up resigning and even spent a little
time in jail, ignoring facts, making up facts, just all kinds.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, it was I.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hate the term perfect storm because it's right. But it
was a perfect storm of bad intentions coming together. I mean,
you had the wrong kind of person as a prosecutor,
the wrong media environment, the wrong person in this stripper
girl who showed up to the party not only drunk
but on tranquilizers to strip for these guys at their
lacrosse party that they were celebrating because they were told
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they had to stay on campus during spring break, and
we're mad about it. So they threw a big party
and hired some strippers to come over in an escort service.
And the party was wild and crazy and boos and
drugs are flowing around. But they did not rape this
girl ultimately, by the way, and I had forgotten this
if I ever knew it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They each got twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
From the university, that's right, because of the university's complicity
and ruining their lives and drug drum drumming them out
of not only lacrosse, but their academic status and all
decent society.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's right, the administrators.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And now it's funny looking back at how woke and
sick our universities are. The early signs of it. Well,
this was a great example of one of the early
signs of it, that whoa, whoa, whoa. Why is the
university rushing to judgment in such a way on such
a flimsy allegation. Well, now we know they were desperate
(03:50):
to get going the Black Lives Matter, post modern neo
Marxist thing that they're now in full bloom do it.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That's why I think in retrospect it was a turning point,
inflection point of a bunch of different things that have
come to dominate society, with wokeness and activist journalism and
hating non white men no matter what despite the facts,
and just lots of stuff that apparently, like you said,
(04:20):
was burbling there in the elite universities and college towns
and was really going to rear its head years later,
as we all know, highly troubling. Let's hear from is
her real name, Crystal Magnum? Is that her real name?
I think Mangum, okay Mangum. Anyway, she does an interview
(04:43):
for the first time. Let's hear a little bit of that.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Regrets. I don't have any regrets. Everything happens to get
everybody to the point where they are, and it's off
to show Goslo and his forgiveness, race and his mercy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Thank you, all right. I think she's just really, really stupid. Yeah,
I think that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
She was drunk on tranquilizers and she's dumb as a
box of hair.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The pro had to be clear to some extent very quickly. Investigators, Yes,
the prosecutor, the university.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
If you add, if you didn't have a head of
steam for we got rich white boys being accused by
a downtrodden black woman of rape, this is a great
story for us. If you weren't so enthused by that,
I think you would have talked to her, found out
she was stupid. The facts that she laid out never
lined up ever, and you would have been more skeptical
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of this whether and we haven't mentioned rolling Stone. Rolling
Stone went huge on this story, which is really what
brought it to everybody's attention.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This is just horrifying all the way around.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Let's hear a little more of the next slip there,
Michael from the Fox Report.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The forty six year old also apologized to the three
Duke players, who later sued the university after their charges
were dropped at or dismissed in two thousand and seven.
They each received a twenty million dollar settlement from the
school and the prosecutor on the case, Mike Knifon, was
later disbarred for lying in court and withholding DNA evidence,
which ultimately absolved the young men. At the time, Mangum
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was not prosecuted for perjury due to questions about her
mental health. But like you said, she is currently behind
bars serving time after a jury convicted her of second
degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend in
twenty thirteen. And even though Mangum now admits she is lying,
she can't face perjury charges anymore due to the statue
of limitation.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh yeah, by the way, so now she's in jail
now for a crime she committed. After the rape, she
claimed that never happened. She had tried to run over
a cop once in her life.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Before you has happened.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You'd have thought there'd have been at least some effort
to really make sure she was telling the truth with
her sketchy background, before you ruin some innocent people's lives.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's why I'm saying this looks so familiar in retrospect,
because if you, you know, you do what we do
for a living. You take an astonishing, mind boggling and
numbing amounts of news and the pattern of all, right,
here is somebody downtrodden, usually of color, but not always.
Maybe they're a transgender or gay or whatever. Something bad
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happens to them. Then the usual suspects, the forces we're
talking about, including universities and media, build this narrative that
the powers that be evilly attack this person and we
all must rebel against it. And it usually fails because
the person tried to take the CoP's gun, or they're
a five time felon, or in this case, they were
(07:58):
a drugged up, murderous dope. But they try to build
that narrative. And that's why when George Floyd came along
and everybody watched that video and was so horrified by it,
they all that machinery was ready to build a narrative.
Stoke up the anger, get to the streets, burn it
all down, throw the whitey out of power and the
(08:20):
powers that bah blah blah blah. But the neo Marxists
have been rehearsing this over and over and over again,
and they just wait for a hot one a good one.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well has been has been said a thousand times. The
problem with this way of going about things, those of
you on I don't know if it's fair to call
the left, the activist world or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You do more harm than good when.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
You get caught, because the next time an actual rape
victim comes forward with similar structural evidence, you know, downtrodden, rich, black, white, whatever,
they're not believed, right, So that's the harm you do.
That's so reading this description of the whole thing. Investigation
(09:04):
and resolution of the case sparked public discussion of racism,
sexual violence, media bias, and due process on campuses, as
you said, all of those things that would grow to
be huge issues in the coming years and still are
right now. The former lead prosecutor, as you heard there,
Mike Nifong, ultimately resigned. He actually hid DNA evidence that
(09:25):
would have cleared these guys because he was so excited
about the narrative of a poor black.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Woman being raped by rich white guys.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean that makes you insane or an activist. I
don't know that much, or I don't remember that much
about the guy. It could be he was one of
those early activist plans. I'll bet he has a history
of writing about social justice and oh yeah, yeah, all
that crap.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, he is a gascone. He was just the first
one of those that we became aware of. The Attorney
General of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, and he was attorney
general at the time, dropped all charges, declaring the three
lacrosse players innocent and victims of a tragic rush to accuse.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And then, of course, as we have said, a knifong, the.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Guy prosecuting thing was disbarred and spent a little time
in jail. I mean, god, he should be in jail
forever for that. Not only do the damage he did
to those lacrosse players who were innocent, though they ended
up with twenty million dollars each, which will smooth over
a lot of problems, but the damage it did to
the country, Oh my god, horrifying. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm scrolling through this guy's Wikipedia page. Although Wikipedia is
so captured by the left at this point, it's a
fraction of the resource that it used to be. Just
wondering if there are some early telltale signs that he
was one of these activists das well. Anyway, we all
recognize the type now, and that's the important part.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
But yeah, it was one of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The earliest flowers to bloom in this movement towards radical leftists,
colleges and prosecuted.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, it's got the early inklings of activist journalism, activist das,
the me too movement going too far. All white men
are evil, just so many of the things that we're
dealing with. Now we're there, and we didn't completely know
it at the time.
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Speaker 4 (12:29):
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in the league, and maybe every other football player down
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other news to catch up on, some of the views
about the economy that Trump's about to own. It's easier
to complain about it when you're not in office. Once
(13:21):
you're in office, you get to the credit or the
blame for whatever it's going on.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They're a handful of big, ugly birds that will come
home to roost on his watch, like it or not.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yep, A bunch of stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I got a question for you, Katie. Maybe you could
look this up. All Joe's telling us about things. Why
is Slutty Vegan named Slutty Vegan the restaurant chain it's
very popular and Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake and Tyler
Perry and everybody raving about and investing in the chain
that is Slutty Vegan. But I get the Vegan part.
I know what that means. I know it slutty means.
But why combined for the name.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Of a restaurant. If you can figure that out, let
us know, Katie. Thank you strikes me as trying a
bit too hard. The name.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, A couple of quick stories for you that bear mentioned.
Then moving on, MSNBC is in a ratings free fall
and they couldn't really afford it. Rachel Modeaux, MSNBC's twenty
five million dollars a year top star, has lost forty
three percent of her audience since election day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The forty three percent.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I think it's the same thing that happened to a
certain number of Fox viewers back in twenty twelve. You
told me during this whole election. Ooah, wait till election day.
Oh boy, you just wait. That's when Mitt Romney's gonna
say that the polls are wrong. MSNBC ran that act
with Kamala Harris ignoring reality, and then when reality hit,
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they're like.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Listening to you wires anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right in the hole. He's Hitler, He's Hitlerry. We're gonna
go have lunch with him? Then come on, maybe I'll
take it too, Slutty Vegan. Oh, speaking of the transition,
great stuff. On how unprecedented it is that the elect
president elect would be functioning as the president so clearly
and obviously, and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Everybody's in favor of it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I mean, you got a couple of Democrats who are
whining about it, but gonna quote Peggy Noonan about that,
and a very very funny joke as well about the transition.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Stay with this place.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I've been ignoring the Hannah Kobayashi disappeared Hawaiian hot chick thing.
I mean, she it was obvious from moment one she
just decided to go to Mexico. And I'm thinking, I
don't care if you go to Mexico or to Hell
or to the grocery store to pick up a quart
of milk.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I'm miss saying, Wama, No, She's obviously well. It turns
out the story is kind of interesting. It's now known
why she flaked from her flight at Lax and went
to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
She was not on that flight by herself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
She was on her way to New York alongside her
new fake green card husband, Argentine native Ellen Kakaise, in
a bid to hoodwink immigration officials into believing their marriage
was genuine. On that same flight, her ex boyfriend joined
them with his own green card wife, Marian, who happens
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to be mister Kakaise's girlfriend Aweso.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So it's not a thriple thing or a love quadrangle
or anything. They're just people who are trying to beat
the system for immigration status.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So the MESSI love square all on the plane together
was only possible because Cakease had given Kobyashi fifteen grand
with the promise of another fifteen grand once the documents
came through. They actually tied the knot in October. But
I guess this Kobyashi woman told all her friends what
they were doing, but her fake husband decided it would
(16:56):
look more authentic for immigration officials to like pose in
front of the Statue of Liberty, like we travel around
together a lot, so that's why they were going to
New York. Then for some reason, she decides, I don't
want to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Quickly, Katie, can you tell us why it's called slutty Vegan.
It is solely to make people ask questions. That was it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It has nothing to do with anything sexual, just to
catch you name. It was just to get people's attention.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But they do have things on the men you like
the menage TOI shrimp Berger, vegan shrimpberger and hooker fries.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Ooh so they got right. Yeah, they get the sexual
undertones on the menu too.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oo.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So if your head is as pliable as a fresh
loaf of white bread. Then you'll be excited to go
eat there and tell your friends about it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Have you been to slutty vegan? It's amazing. That's the
word you have to use. If you get an a
floody vegan.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You're kidding me. I just do you enjoy being manipulated? People?
Don't you see what's happening here?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I know some people are insulted by the attempt, and
some people just buy incompletely.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Coming up, young progressives vow they'll skip the holidays rather
than spend them with right wing relatives, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Information is coming in piecemeal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
The latest that we just heard is that, yes, an
American was found who'd been traveling in the region on some.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Sort of pilgrimage.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He was in a small house packed with rebels, aid
workers and journalists, and there on the floor was Travis
Timmerman from Missouri.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Was it in seven months? You've been here?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I was in prisoned for seven months.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
If if Timmerman says he crossed into Syria from Lebanon
without a visa.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Timmerman was freed on Monday.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
He was found walking barefoot and alone. Now a free
man after his religious journey met the harsh reality of
the modern Middle East.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yeah, that's a very nice way to say it. Richard
angele A, Yes, I appreciate that a man, those of
you who are willing to go to North Korea wor
Syria to try to spread the good news.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, walking into Syria, just walking across the border into
one of the worst places on Earth where the most
likely thing that happens to you is ends up in
a dungeon and tortured to death.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So you can tell people about Jesus. This is interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I appreciate the effort. Well, I don't want to say
anything harsh about the guy. He's just he's obviously got
a screw loose. There's hmm. If this is one of
the worst things I've ever said in my life, and
that's saying something if he were to have ten kids, say,
do you think the herd would be stronger or weaker?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Even while I'm saying that and believing it. The missionaries,
for instance, the Spanish missionaries that came up from Mexico,
Spain had been running Mexico for one hundred years, one
hundred and fifty years. When they are coming up to
California for instance, I'm building all those missions. That's a
pretty harsh climate to go into. Yes, the Indians were
you know, Native Americans, the first people, so whatever you
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want to call them, they're pretty likely to get captured
and immutilated or tortured to death.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Also, similar sort of thing spread the words I suppose.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I suppose so many of the early saints of
the church went where they weren't wanted and.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Suffered terribly for it. So you do you, friend, I'll
just leave it there. Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, maybe he wasn't. Yeah, what an interesting topic. Is
he insane or just that dedicated?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Huh? I'm going with insane, but that's just me. Yeah.
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Trump is going to be the president of January twentieth,
barring the unforeseen and uh and a.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Couple of things.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Number one, he's got some big giant birds that are
coming home to roost economically speaking, which I want to
get to in a moment or two. Foreign policy wise,
oh boy, you know, please forgive me for saying what
I'm to say. The Middle East is really unstable right now,
I know, but the situation with Iran will change drastically
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in the next two years.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
In my opinion, it has to.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They are cornered, they are desperate, They are as weak
as they have ever been there, as evil as they
have ever been. Is now the time they are toppled
and freedom restored to the good people of the Iranian
land mass? There many of whom yearn for freedom? Or
do they lash out like a cornered beast with a
nuclear bomb? Oh, it looks like they're further ahead of
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schedule than we thought. Or what how does this end?
That's coming home to roost.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm all for toppling the regime in Iran. I think
I was listening to a podcast about that. I think
Iraq was a horrible idea. I think we should take
out Iran. Iran vows has been vowing for forty years
to attack us. They hate us, they're the number one
export of terror on planet Earth, and they're close to
a bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why wouldn't we take our chance now when they're the
weak as they've ever been?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It just don't know something different to quibble slightly.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Taking out Saddam was a very questionable idea with an
horrifically inept implementation.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Mostly anyway, we won't relitigate that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But anyway, I'm reminded of Harold McMillan when he was
the Prime Minister of the UK back in like the
fifties and sixties. A reporter asked him essentially, what's going
to you know, what to what are you going to
do with your administration? What is what is going to
determine it? And he replied to the reporter, events, my
dear boy, events. And sure enough they're big giant events
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that Trump is going to have to deal with of,
you know, foreign policy and economic import But the fact
that he's already the president's or might as well be
right now is so wildly completely nuts and unprecedented. Everybody's
a mazed by it, and except for like a couple
of hardcore Democrats, everybody's fine with it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah. I think it's a measure of Trump's confidence. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Peggy Noonan wrote and quite accurately, as usual, that he's
one of those rare guys who said, you know, if
I had a chance to do it all again, and
he gets that chance. So he's got the confidence, he's
got the wind behind him, he has specific ideas for
what he wants to accomplish and how he wants to
accomplish it, and the incumbent is such a weak, mummified
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old relic that everybody's so.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Done with him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Nobody cares that Trump has asserted himself like he has,
meeting with all sorts of foreign leaders and then British
Royalty and such.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Trump talks.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm gonna quote Peggy Noonan now, Trump talks of new
tariffs on Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rushes down to
mar A Lago after their meeting. Mister Trump refers to
him on untruth social as the governor of the Great
State of Canada. That's which is unbelievable. Oh my god,
tell you what, love Trumper?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hate him.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
He thumbs his nose at so many of the really
silly conventions of foreign policy in a way that's really
really refreshing. Sometimes sometimes not, but I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
By the way, the Babylon b headline about that meeting
is brilliant. Trump tells Trudeau he won't annex Canada if
they admit their bacon is just ham.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And then the government of Sirius suddenly falls and Trump
truths out, this is not our fight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Don't get involved.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The next day, Joe Biden characterizes the moment as one of.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Risk and uncertainty for the region.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And nun and ice, was there ever a moment that
wasn't one of risk and uncertainty for the region. Then
he's being assertive with the Ukraine thing and and the
rest of it's really it's really something.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, maybe I should put this here.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Trump truth this out last night, Like I liked all
that stuff you just said, I don't like this, Oh Trump.
Last night, just finished a meeting with the International Longshoreman's
Association and it's president Harold Daggett remember him from a
couple of weeks ago. Long Sherman went on striking everything
like that. He's saying all these sounding like a mobster
threatening things. There's been a lot of discussion having to
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do with automation on United States docs. I've studied automation
and know just about everything there is to know about it, says.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Trump in classic Trump's style, very trump y.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, the amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress,
hurt and harm it causes for American workers in this
case are longshoremen, and goes on how we need to
not automate and we need to just have human beings
writing down license plates, numbers and running equipment that computers
can easily now do as they.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Do in foreign ports all around the world, and are
kicking our ass.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
This is one of the worst things he has done
and continues to do. His proposed Secretary of Labor is
a union hack, a teacher's union hack of all things,
and he's obviously just doing whatever he can to get
loyalty from the union.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
He won the Zell America. That's terrible. He won the election.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I understand if he's saying making these kind of noises
before the election.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You won the election. You won. This is your last term.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Trump is so frustrating. I'll tell you this without fear
of contradiction. If a tough guy kisses his ass, Trump
will do anything for him.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Part of his message was this foreign companies have made
a fortune in the US by giving them access to
our markets. They shouldn't be looking for every last penny,
knowing how families are hurt. They've got record profits, and
I'd rather see these foreign companies spend it on the
great men and women. Are docks, then machinery which is
expensive and will constantly have to be replaced and break down.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, come on, that is a weak argument. We have
the defficient ports in the world.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, and and he's criticizing foreign companies and countries for
taking advantage of us.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
By automating and particularly that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Is really not I mean, because Trump is usually like
a hard eyed realist about things.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
That is the opposite.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, he's a hard eyed realist about if he wants
the union support going forward to do some of the
other things he wants to do, he's got to trade this.
I almost used a word that rhymes with bostitute. But
he's going to trade off this issue, I guess frustrating.
(27:41):
I tell you what, if he ends up in bed
with the teachers' union, Oh boy, that would be that
I cannot forgive.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
That would be too far. Surely not.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
His His secretary of labor Chick is best buddies with
Randy Weingart, has tried to obliterate workers' rights. It wants
to obliterate them in every state in the union, every
red state that stood up to their employee unions who
are bankrupting state after state after state, the public employee unions, every.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
State that stood up against them.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
She wants to bring them down and make federal law
forbid them from making those reforms.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
She is awful, She is evil, She is.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Bad for America, and Trump's embracing her because of this
loss to have the unions on his side. It's troubling.
How much of a trade is too much being a dollar?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well to keep our eye on that one, but he's
above fifty percent on practically every topic that could possibly
exist around an incoming president.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
For now, honeymoon a couple of economic stories of note
number one. I mentioned this briefly before. If you're talking
about the lower core tile of American consumers, that's your
poorest twenty five percent, big fat red warning lights are
flashing at all of the retailers, like the dollar stores
(28:57):
or Walmart. Who tracks shoppers and what they do that
those folks have really.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Really cut back their spending. They're hurting. So yeah, there
are long lines everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh, speaking of Walmart, my wife's there at the Walmart
History and they had like a third as many registers
open as they needed to. Huge long lines, I mean,
like the airport security long lines. And everybody's pretty frustrated,
and the guy behind her starts saying, Walmart, you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Gotta get your act together. You got to open more
registers you can't abuse this this way.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I agree, And everything was like, damn right, brother, yeah, yeah, yeah.
About ten seconds later he said, come on, Walmart, it's
the matter with you. We got place to be.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
About ten seconds after that, Walmart, what's the matter with you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We gotta get through these lines.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
By the sixth time he unleash this ran to the
crowd had turned oh really yeah, and everybody's like, and
Judy described its we I'll describe it to you in
my own way. But it was like, all right, dude,
you're adding to our stress. You're not relieving it. Please
stop yelling. We heard you, They heard you, Everyone heard you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I've seen it work before.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I've seen that work waiting in the store before it
gets attention in people's they get they jump on the.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Phone high were gonna need another checker in Aisle three.
Things are starting to get ugly.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We've got a code seven, Code seven, angry dude repetitively
yelling about the number of venges it anyway, So another
economic story I thought was interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Good news and bad news.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The bad news is your homeowner's insurance is going to
keep going up. The good news is I got you
to listen to that by telling you there would be
good news.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, there's no good news. That's kind of what I
was expecting. Yeah, and you know what it is, Hal Hale.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
There is so much building going on in some of
the like the southeast and the south central states, like Texas,
for instance, Wall Street Journal reporting on this boom area
north of Dallas where they're building house as fast as
they can. People are loving Texas, They're moving to Texas.
Hale's horrendous, horrendous thunderstorms there like for a lot of
(31:12):
the year. And so if it wasn't the wildfires, and
it's not the hurricanes driving up claims for insurance companies,
now it's hail. Some of the mass on how climate
change works into that really interesting. We'll get to that
maybe after the break.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Okay, over Christmas, we got into a car insurance discussion
all of us because everybody's car insurance is so much higher.
Was it like thirty percent higher than last year And
it's been a couple of years in a row between
homeowners insurance and car insurance. I don't know how people
are expected to live. I don't know how you're supposed
to afford to live, and the price of food. Yeah right,
Trump is inheriting all that, and we'll see how long. Well,
(31:48):
people already have a negative attitude about the economy. We'll
see if you can turn that around. Okay, all that
stuff on the way and other Yeah you're pointing out
we were taking a break. Cool good stuff on the way,
stay right here.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Finally, the dean of a Massachusetts high school was arrested
recently for allegedly operating a drug trafficking ring that sold
large amounts of cocaine. On the bright side, their track
team dominated at state.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Wow, I know, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Coming up, young progressives vow they'll skip the holidays rather
than spend time with their reactionary white supremacist family members.
America reacts by saying, you'll be missed in theory. Man, Yeah,
I know too much. Ah, grow up, everybody, Grow the
hell up. Some people disagree with you and see the
world differently. Get over it. So getting back to the insurance.
(32:41):
Sorry from the Wall Street Journal and Jack Day to
your previous point. The One Galley interview says, everywhere I go,
everybody I talk to this comes up homeowner's insurance. Yeah
that's true. Heck, that's true in my life too. It's amazing.
And the insurance industry, which if you've never thought about it,
they are all about math, actuarial tables, likelihoods, that's the
(33:06):
whole deal. And so they've analyzed what's causing their costs
and claims to go up so much. And insured losses
from US storms have grown eight percent a year for
more than a decade, according to one of their big
umbrella organizations, a significantly faster and economic growth. Climate change
(33:26):
accounted for around an eighth of that increase. And we've
got to get away from you know, climate change. The
climate is changing. The climate always changes, it goes through
cycles and that sort of thing. But the left got
everybody to think climate change means climate change caused by
mankind that can be stopped. Therefore, we must funnel trillions
(33:47):
of dollars into questionable green programs anytime you say climate change.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But that's not what we mean at all.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But anyway, Yeah, change in the climate they figured accounted
for about one eighth of that increase.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Inflation made more than a third.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Of the annual rise in Yeah, and development in climate
prone areas much of the rest. Whether it's the hail
and the thunderstorms in the midwestern part of the country
which is growing rapidly, or hurricanes in the southeast, or
wildfires in the west, just higher.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Claims as a development sprawls.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, why did car insurance go up so much at
the same time that homeowners insurance went up so much?
So a third of it would also be inflation, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Lord knows, I'm no expert, but a lot of it
had to do with the supply chain disruptions and parts
and scarcity.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
And how I know is between those two things, it's
expensive to be a human.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's brutal, brutal.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean, I really really feel for people who are
at the point in their lives that we were years ago,
where at the end of the month, if you can
stick twenty bucks in the bank, that's a good month.
Of course, suggested for inflation that twenty dollars is worth
about three.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I know, why are we still making pennies? I think
about various denominations of money since inflation, They're like, a
dollar is not really worth anything, right right?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
A guy asked me the other day, do you have
any ones to break up this five? I'm like, why
would I carry one dollar bills to accomplish. What am
I in a low rent strip club?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
I know. I mean there's a thing I'm a part
of where people would put a dollar in the basket
to help pay for things, and they announced that, can we.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Start putting more than a dollar in everybody? Because everybody's
just in the habit of that. Yeah, and because a
dollar's worth so little now, Yeah, you're right though a
penny is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It's in defensive Yes, it's a tiny fraction of an
amount of money that could be worth anything.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Why don't we come up with the hay penny, which
is the halfpenny or maybe a tenth of a penny,
I mean, round up or down or whatever. I don't care.
Put them on train tracks so they get flattened. Just
stop making well.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
And the best part of it is it costs three
cents to make up penny. That's the best part of it.
We'll get to some of that other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Stay tuned, Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:23):
Took eighteen years. By the way, it was a huge
story back in two thousand and six when Crystal Mangum
falsely accused three Duke Lacrosse players of raping her while
she was performing as a stripper at a teen party
in March of that year. And now, like I said,
more than eighteen years later, she is finally admitting that
she lied about it all along, saying this quote. I
testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me
(00:45):
when they didn't, and that was wrong, and I betrayed
the trust of a lot of other people who believed
in me. I made up a story that wasn't true
because I wanted validation from people and not from gone.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
All right, you're a crazy person, and you sure put
the Duke Lacrosse players threw some hell there for about
a year.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
It took about a year to clear this up.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, I'm glad you got religion, but what you did
was truly evil.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
So it was back in two thousand and six. We
were doing the same job in the same room for
the same company.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Quite dead end. Nothing in our lives change.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
It's two thousand and six and we were talking about
this and one of the reasons it took off the
way it did.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
There a number of reasons.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Actually, she got this young black woman claiming she was
raped by some entitled, rich white kids at Duke. I mean,
it fits a vision a lot of us have in
our heads of.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
A possibility.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Well, and it's the sort of narrative that the media
obviously can get wildly excited about, right.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
It happened in the spring of two thousand and six.
It didn't get cleared up until the spring of two
thousand and seven, but the media went crazy on just
running with the narrative just as I laid it out,
and really nothing else for a very long time, in
spite of all evidence. And the most disappointing thing, of course,
is that the local prosecutor there in Durham, North Carolina
(02:12):
did exactly the same thing and as a crazy person,
and he ended up resigning and even spent a little
time in jail, ignoring facts, making up facts, just all kinds.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, it was I.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Hate the term perfect storm because it's right. But it
was a perfect storm of bad intentions coming together. I mean,
you had the wrong kind of person as a prosecutor,
the wrong media environment, the wrong person in this stripper
girl who showed up to the party not only drunk
but on tranquilizers to strip for these guys at their
lacrosse party that they were celebrating because they were told
(02:50):
they had to stay on campus during spring break, and
we're mad about it. So they threw a big party
and hired some strippers to come over in an escort service.
And the party was wild and crazy and boos and
drugs are flowing around. But they did not rape this
girl ultimately, by the way, and I had forgotten this
if I ever knew it.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They each got twenty million dollars.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
From the university, that's right, because of the university's complicity
and ruining their lives and drug drum drumming them out
of not only lacrosse, but their academic status and all
decent society.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
That's right, the administrators.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
And now it's funny looking back at how woke and
sick our universities are. The early signs of it. Well,
this was a great example of one of the early
signs of it, that whoa, whoa, whoa. Why is the
university rushing to judgment in such a way on such
a flimsy allegation. Well, now we know they were desperate
(03:50):
to get going the Black Lives Matter, post modern neo
Marxist thing that they're now in full bloom do it.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
That's why I think in retrospect it was a turning point,
inflection point of a bunch of different things that have
come to dominate society, with wokeness and activist journalism and
hating non white men no matter what despite the facts,
and just lots of stuff that apparently, like you said,
(04:20):
was burbling there in the elite universities and college towns
and was really going to rear its head years later,
as we all know, highly troubling. Let's hear from is
her real name, Crystal Magnum? Is that her real name?
I think Mangum, okay Mangum. Anyway, she does an interview
(04:43):
for the first time. Let's hear a little bit of that.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Regrets. I don't have any regrets. Everything happens to get
everybody to the point where they are, and it's off
to show Goslo and his forgiveness, race and his mercy.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Thank you, all right. I think she's just really, really stupid. Yeah,
I think that's the problem.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
She was drunk on tranquilizers and she's dumb as a
box of hair.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
The pro had to be clear to some extent very quickly. Investigators, Yes,
the prosecutor, the university.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
If you add, if you didn't have a head of
steam for we got rich white boys being accused by
a downtrodden black woman of rape, this is a great
story for us. If you weren't so enthused by that,
I think you would have talked to her, found out
she was stupid. The facts that she laid out never
lined up ever, and you would have been more skeptical
(05:52):
of this whether and we haven't mentioned rolling Stone. Rolling
Stone went huge on this story, which is really what
brought it to everybody's attention.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
This is just horrifying all the way around.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
Let's hear a little more of the next slip there,
Michael from the Fox Report.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
The forty six year old also apologized to the three
Duke players, who later sued the university after their charges
were dropped at or dismissed in two thousand and seven.
They each received a twenty million dollar settlement from the
school and the prosecutor on the case, Mike Knifon, was
later disbarred for lying in court and withholding DNA evidence,
which ultimately absolved the young men. At the time, Mangum
(06:27):
was not prosecuted for perjury due to questions about her
mental health. But like you said, she is currently behind
bars serving time after a jury convicted her of second
degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend in
twenty thirteen. And even though Mangum now admits she is lying,
she can't face perjury charges anymore due to the statue
of limitation.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Oh yeah, by the way, so now she's in jail
now for a crime she committed. After the rape, she
claimed that never happened. She had tried to run over
a cop once in her life.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Before you has happened.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
You'd have thought there'd have been at least some effort
to really make sure she was telling the truth with
her sketchy background, before you ruin some innocent people's lives.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
That's why I'm saying this looks so familiar in retrospect,
because if you, you know, you do what we do
for a living. You take an astonishing, mind boggling and
numbing amounts of news and the pattern of all, right,
here is somebody downtrodden, usually of color, but not always.
Maybe they're a transgender or gay or whatever. Something bad
(07:36):
happens to them. Then the usual suspects, the forces we're
talking about, including universities and media, build this narrative that
the powers that be evilly attack this person and we
all must rebel against it. And it usually fails because
the person tried to take the CoP's gun, or they're
a five time felon, or in this case, they were
(07:58):
a drugged up, murderous dope. But they try to build
that narrative. And that's why when George Floyd came along
and everybody watched that video and was so horrified by it,
they all that machinery was ready to build a narrative.
Stoke up the anger, get to the streets, burn it
all down, throw the whitey out of power and the
(08:20):
powers that bah blah blah blah. But the neo Marxists
have been rehearsing this over and over and over again,
and they just wait for a hot one a good one.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
Well has been has been said a thousand times. The
problem with this way of going about things, those of
you on I don't know if it's fair to call
the left, the activist world or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You do more harm than good when.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
You get caught, because the next time an actual rape
victim comes forward with similar structural evidence, you know, downtrodden, rich, black, white, whatever,
they're not believed, right, So that's the harm you do.
That's so reading this description of the whole thing. Investigation
(09:04):
and resolution of the case sparked public discussion of racism,
sexual violence, media bias, and due process on campuses, as
you said, all of those things that would grow to
be huge issues in the coming years and still are
right now. The former lead prosecutor, as you heard there,
Mike Nifong, ultimately resigned. He actually hid DNA evidence that
(09:25):
would have cleared these guys because he was so excited
about the narrative of a poor black.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Woman being raped by rich white guys.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I mean that makes you insane or an activist. I
don't know that much, or I don't remember that much
about the guy. It could be he was one of
those early activist plans. I'll bet he has a history
of writing about social justice and oh yeah, yeah, all
that crap.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Yeah, he is a gascone. He was just the first
one of those that we became aware of. The Attorney
General of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, and he was attorney
general at the time, dropped all charges, declaring the three
lacrosse players innocent and victims of a tragic rush to accuse.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
And then, of course, as we have said, a knifong, the.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
Guy prosecuting thing was disbarred and spent a little time
in jail. I mean, god, he should be in jail
forever for that. Not only do the damage he did
to those lacrosse players who were innocent, though they ended
up with twenty million dollars each, which will smooth over
a lot of problems, but the damage it did to
the country, Oh my god, horrifying. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
I'm scrolling through this guy's Wikipedia page. Although Wikipedia is
so captured by the left at this point, it's a
fraction of the resource that it used to be. Just
wondering if there are some early telltale signs that he
was one of these activists das well. Anyway, we all
recognize the type now, and that's the important part.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
But yeah, it was one of.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
The earliest flowers to bloom in this movement towards radical leftists,
colleges and prosecuted.
Speaker 4 (11:03):
Well, it's got the early inklings of activist journalism, activist das,
the me too movement going too far. All white men
are evil, just so many of the things that we're
dealing with. Now we're there, and we didn't completely know
it at the time.
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Last night, in the Thursday night football defending Super Bowl
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All Pro player third quarter asked to go in sais
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I don't remember that ever happening. I got to believe
that makes you persona non grata among every other player
in the league, and maybe every other football player down
(12:51):
to ten year olds.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
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I think the general manager, John Lynch probably said SFOs
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I don't know if you saw to play a million dollars,
that millions of dollars would make you angry. We got
other news to catch up on, some of the views
about the economy that Trump's about to own. It's easier
to complain about it when you're not in office. Once
(13:21):
you're in office, you get to the credit or the
blame for whatever it's going on.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
They're a handful of big, ugly birds that will come
home to roost on his watch, like it or not.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yep, A bunch of stuff on the way. Stay here.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I got a question for you, Katie. Maybe you could
look this up. All Joe's telling us about things. Why
is Slutty Vegan named Slutty Vegan the restaurant chain it's
very popular and Snoop Dogg and Justin Timberlake and Tyler
Perry and everybody raving about and investing in the chain
that is Slutty Vegan. But I get the Vegan part.
I know what that means. I know it slutty means.
But why combined for the name.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
Of a restaurant. If you can figure that out, let
us know, Katie. Thank you strikes me as trying a
bit too hard. The name.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, A couple of quick stories for you that bear mentioned.
Then moving on, MSNBC is in a ratings free fall
and they couldn't really afford it. Rachel Modeaux, MSNBC's twenty
five million dollars a year top star, has lost forty
three percent of her audience since election day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
The forty three percent.
Speaker 4 (14:30):
I think it's the same thing that happened to a
certain number of Fox viewers back in twenty twelve. You
told me during this whole election. Ooah, wait till election day.
Oh boy, you just wait. That's when Mitt Romney's gonna
say that the polls are wrong. MSNBC ran that act
with Kamala Harris ignoring reality, and then when reality hit,
(14:50):
they're like.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
Listening to you wires anymore?
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Right in the hole. He's Hitler, He's Hitlerry. We're gonna
go have lunch with him? Then come on, maybe I'll
take it too, Slutty Vegan. Oh, speaking of the transition,
great stuff. On how unprecedented it is that the elect
president elect would be functioning as the president so clearly
and obviously, and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Everybody's in favor of it.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
I mean, you got a couple of Democrats who are
whining about it, but gonna quote Peggy Noonan about that,
and a very very funny joke as well about the transition.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
Stay with this place.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I've been ignoring the Hannah Kobayashi disappeared Hawaiian hot chick thing.
I mean, she it was obvious from moment one she
just decided to go to Mexico. And I'm thinking, I
don't care if you go to Mexico or to Hell
or to the grocery store to pick up a quart
of milk.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
I'm miss saying, Wama, No, She's obviously well. It turns
out the story is kind of interesting. It's now known
why she flaked from her flight at Lax and went
to Mexico.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
She was not on that flight by herself.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
She was on her way to New York alongside her
new fake green card husband, Argentine native Ellen Kakaise, in
a bid to hoodwink immigration officials into believing their marriage
was genuine. On that same flight, her ex boyfriend joined
them with his own green card wife, Marian, who happens
(16:22):
to be mister Kakaise's girlfriend Aweso.
Speaker 4 (16:25):
So it's not a thriple thing or a love quadrangle
or anything. They're just people who are trying to beat
the system for immigration status.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
So the MESSI love square all on the plane together
was only possible because Cakease had given Kobyashi fifteen grand
with the promise of another fifteen grand once the documents
came through. They actually tied the knot in October. But
I guess this Kobyashi woman told all her friends what
they were doing, but her fake husband decided it would
(16:56):
look more authentic for immigration officials to like pose in
front of the Statue of Liberty, like we travel around
together a lot, so that's why they were going to
New York. Then for some reason, she decides, I don't
want to do that.
Speaker 4 (17:08):
Quickly, Katie, can you tell us why it's called slutty Vegan.
It is solely to make people ask questions. That was it.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
It has nothing to do with anything sexual, just to
catch you name. It was just to get people's attention.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
But they do have things on the men you like
the menage TOI shrimp Berger, vegan shrimpberger and hooker fries.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
Ooh so they got right. Yeah, they get the sexual
undertones on the menu too.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Oo.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
So if your head is as pliable as a fresh
loaf of white bread. Then you'll be excited to go
eat there and tell your friends about it.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Have you been to slutty vegan? It's amazing. That's the
word you have to use. If you get an a
floody vegan.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
You're kidding me. I just do you enjoy being manipulated? People?
Don't you see what's happening here?
Speaker 4 (17:53):
I know some people are insulted by the attempt, and
some people just buy incompletely.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Coming up, young progressives vow they'll skip the holidays rather
than spend them with right wing relatives, Armstrong and getty.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Information is coming in piecemeal.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
The latest that we just heard is that, yes, an
American was found who'd been traveling in the region on some.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Sort of pilgrimage.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
He was in a small house packed with rebels, aid
workers and journalists, and there on the floor was Travis
Timmerman from Missouri.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Was it in seven months? You've been here?
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:30):
I was in prisoned for seven months.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
If if Timmerman says he crossed into Syria from Lebanon
without a visa.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Timmerman was freed on Monday.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
He was found walking barefoot and alone. Now a free
man after his religious journey met the harsh reality of
the modern Middle East.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Yeah, that's a very nice way to say it. Richard
angele A, Yes, I appreciate that a man, those of
you who are willing to go to North Korea wor
Syria to try to spread the good news.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, walking into Syria, just walking across the border into
one of the worst places on Earth where the most
likely thing that happens to you is ends up in
a dungeon and tortured to death.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
So you can tell people about Jesus. This is interesting.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I appreciate the effort. Well, I don't want to say
anything harsh about the guy. He's just he's obviously got
a screw loose. There's hmm. If this is one of
the worst things I've ever said in my life, and
that's saying something if he were to have ten kids, say,
do you think the herd would be stronger or weaker?
Speaker 4 (19:46):
Even while I'm saying that and believing it. The missionaries,
for instance, the Spanish missionaries that came up from Mexico,
Spain had been running Mexico for one hundred years, one
hundred and fifty years. When they are coming up to
California for instance, I'm building all those missions. That's a
pretty harsh climate to go into. Yes, the Indians were
you know, Native Americans, the first people, so whatever you
(20:08):
want to call them, they're pretty likely to get captured
and immutilated or tortured to death.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Also, similar sort of thing spread the words I suppose.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
So I suppose so many of the early saints of
the church went where they weren't wanted and.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Suffered terribly for it. So you do you, friend, I'll
just leave it there. Huh.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah, maybe he wasn't. Yeah, what an interesting topic. Is
he insane or just that dedicated?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Huh? I'm going with insane, but that's just me. Yeah.
Donald J.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Trump is going to be the president of January twentieth,
barring the unforeseen and uh and a.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Couple of things.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Number one, he's got some big giant birds that are
coming home to roost economically speaking, which I want to
get to in a moment or two. Foreign policy wise,
oh boy, you know, please forgive me for saying what
I'm to say. The Middle East is really unstable right now,
I know, but the situation with Iran will change drastically
(21:09):
in the next two years.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
In my opinion, it has to.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
They are cornered, they are desperate, They are as weak
as they have ever been there, as evil as they
have ever been. Is now the time they are toppled
and freedom restored to the good people of the Iranian
land mass? There many of whom yearn for freedom? Or
do they lash out like a cornered beast with a
nuclear bomb? Oh, it looks like they're further ahead of
(21:36):
schedule than we thought. Or what how does this end?
That's coming home to roost.
Speaker 4 (21:40):
I'm all for toppling the regime in Iran. I think
I was listening to a podcast about that. I think
Iraq was a horrible idea. I think we should take
out Iran. Iran vows has been vowing for forty years
to attack us. They hate us, they're the number one
export of terror on planet Earth, and they're close to
a bomb.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Why wouldn't we take our chance now when they're the
weak as they've ever been?
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Right?
Speaker 2 (22:02):
It just don't know something different to quibble slightly.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
Taking out Saddam was a very questionable idea with an
horrifically inept implementation.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Mostly anyway, we won't relitigate that.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
But anyway, I'm reminded of Harold McMillan when he was
the Prime Minister of the UK back in like the
fifties and sixties. A reporter asked him essentially, what's going
to you know, what to what are you going to
do with your administration? What is what is going to
determine it? And he replied to the reporter, events, my
dear boy, events. And sure enough they're big giant events
(22:40):
that Trump is going to have to deal with of,
you know, foreign policy and economic import But the fact
that he's already the president's or might as well be
right now is so wildly completely nuts and unprecedented. Everybody's
a mazed by it, and except for like a couple
of hardcore Democrats, everybody's fine with it.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah. I think it's a measure of Trump's confidence. You know.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Peggy Noonan wrote and quite accurately, as usual, that he's
one of those rare guys who said, you know, if
I had a chance to do it all again, and
he gets that chance. So he's got the confidence, he's
got the wind behind him, he has specific ideas for
what he wants to accomplish and how he wants to
accomplish it, and the incumbent is such a weak, mummified
(23:28):
old relic that everybody's so.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Done with him.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Nobody cares that Trump has asserted himself like he has,
meeting with all sorts of foreign leaders and then British
Royalty and such.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
Trump talks.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
I'm gonna quote Peggy Noonan now, Trump talks of new
tariffs on Canada. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rushes down to
mar A Lago after their meeting. Mister Trump refers to
him on untruth social as the governor of the Great
State of Canada. That's which is unbelievable. Oh my god,
tell you what, love Trumper?
Speaker 2 (24:04):
Hate him.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
He thumbs his nose at so many of the really
silly conventions of foreign policy in a way that's really
really refreshing. Sometimes sometimes not, but I love that.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
By the way, the Babylon b headline about that meeting
is brilliant. Trump tells Trudeau he won't annex Canada if
they admit their bacon is just ham.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh that's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
And then the government of Sirius suddenly falls and Trump
truths out, this is not our fight.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Don't get involved.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
The next day, Joe Biden characterizes the moment as one of.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Risk and uncertainty for the region.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
And nun and ice, was there ever a moment that
wasn't one of risk and uncertainty for the region. Then
he's being assertive with the Ukraine thing and and the
rest of it's really it's really something.
Speaker 2 (25:04):
Well, maybe I should put this here.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Trump truth this out last night, Like I liked all
that stuff you just said, I don't like this, Oh Trump.
Last night, just finished a meeting with the International Longshoreman's
Association and it's president Harold Daggett remember him from a
couple of weeks ago. Long Sherman went on striking everything
like that. He's saying all these sounding like a mobster
threatening things. There's been a lot of discussion having to
(25:29):
do with automation on United States docs. I've studied automation
and know just about everything there is to know about it, says.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
Trump in classic Trump's style, very trump y.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
Yes, the amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress,
hurt and harm it causes for American workers in this
case are longshoremen, and goes on how we need to
not automate and we need to just have human beings
writing down license plates, numbers and running equipment that computers
can easily now do as they.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Do in foreign ports all around the world, and are
kicking our ass.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
This is one of the worst things he has done
and continues to do. His proposed Secretary of Labor is
a union hack, a teacher's union hack of all things,
and he's obviously just doing whatever he can to get
loyalty from the union.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
He won the Zell America. That's terrible. He won the election.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
I understand if he's saying making these kind of noises
before the election.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You won the election. You won. This is your last term.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Trump is so frustrating. I'll tell you this without fear
of contradiction. If a tough guy kisses his ass, Trump
will do anything for him.
Speaker 4 (26:36):
Part of his message was this foreign companies have made
a fortune in the US by giving them access to
our markets. They shouldn't be looking for every last penny,
knowing how families are hurt. They've got record profits, and
I'd rather see these foreign companies spend it on the
great men and women. Are docks, then machinery which is
expensive and will constantly have to be replaced and break down.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh, come on, that is a weak argument. We have
the defficient ports in the world.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
Yeah, and and he's criticizing foreign companies and countries for
taking advantage of us.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
By automating and particularly that.
Speaker 4 (27:12):
Is really not I mean, because Trump is usually like
a hard eyed realist about things.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
That is the opposite.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
Well, he's a hard eyed realist about if he wants
the union support going forward to do some of the
other things he wants to do, he's got to trade this.
I almost used a word that rhymes with bostitute. But
he's going to trade off this issue, I guess frustrating.
(27:41):
I tell you what, if he ends up in bed
with the teachers' union, Oh boy, that would be that
I cannot forgive.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
That would be too far. Surely not.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
His His secretary of labor Chick is best buddies with
Randy Weingart, has tried to obliterate workers' rights. It wants
to obliterate them in every state in the union, every
red state that stood up to their employee unions who
are bankrupting state after state after state, the public employee unions, every.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
State that stood up against them.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
She wants to bring them down and make federal law
forbid them from making those reforms.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
She is awful, She is evil, She is.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
Bad for America, and Trump's embracing her because of this
loss to have the unions on his side. It's troubling.
How much of a trade is too much being a dollar?
Speaker 4 (28:30):
Well to keep our eye on that one, but he's
above fifty percent on practically every topic that could possibly
exist around an incoming president.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
For now, honeymoon a couple of economic stories of note
number one. I mentioned this briefly before. If you're talking
about the lower core tile of American consumers, that's your
poorest twenty five percent, big fat red warning lights are
flashing at all of the retailers, like the dollar stores
(28:57):
or Walmart. Who tracks shoppers and what they do that
those folks have really.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Really cut back their spending. They're hurting. So yeah, there
are long lines everywhere.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
Oh, speaking of Walmart, my wife's there at the Walmart
History and they had like a third as many registers
open as they needed to. Huge long lines, I mean,
like the airport security long lines. And everybody's pretty frustrated,
and the guy behind her starts saying, Walmart, you.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Gotta get your act together. You got to open more
registers you can't abuse this this way.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I agree, And everything was like, damn right, brother, yeah, yeah, yeah.
About ten seconds later he said, come on, Walmart, it's
the matter with you. We got place to be.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
About ten seconds after that, Walmart, what's the matter with you.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
We gotta get through these lines.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
By the sixth time he unleash this ran to the
crowd had turned oh really yeah, and everybody's like, and
Judy described its we I'll describe it to you in
my own way. But it was like, all right, dude,
you're adding to our stress. You're not relieving it. Please
stop yelling. We heard you, They heard you, Everyone heard you.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
I've seen it work before.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
I've seen that work waiting in the store before it
gets attention in people's they get they jump on the.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
Phone high were gonna need another checker in Aisle three.
Things are starting to get ugly.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
We've got a code seven, Code seven, angry dude repetitively
yelling about the number of venges it anyway, So another
economic story I thought was interesting.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Good news and bad news.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
The bad news is your homeowner's insurance is going to
keep going up. The good news is I got you
to listen to that by telling you there would be
good news.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, there's no good news. That's kind of what I
was expecting. Yeah, and you know what it is, Hal Hale.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
There is so much building going on in some of
the like the southeast and the south central states, like Texas,
for instance, Wall Street Journal reporting on this boom area
north of Dallas where they're building house as fast as
they can. People are loving Texas, They're moving to Texas.
Hale's horrendous, horrendous thunderstorms there like for a lot of
(31:12):
the year. And so if it wasn't the wildfires, and
it's not the hurricanes driving up claims for insurance companies,
now it's hail. Some of the mass on how climate
change works into that really interesting. We'll get to that
maybe after the break.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Okay, over Christmas, we got into a car insurance discussion
all of us because everybody's car insurance is so much higher.
Was it like thirty percent higher than last year And
it's been a couple of years in a row between
homeowners insurance and car insurance. I don't know how people
are expected to live. I don't know how you're supposed
to afford to live, and the price of food. Yeah right,
Trump is inheriting all that, and we'll see how long. Well,
(31:48):
people already have a negative attitude about the economy. We'll
see if you can turn that around. Okay, all that
stuff on the way and other Yeah you're pointing out
we were taking a break. Cool good stuff on the way,
stay right here.
Speaker 7 (32:02):
Finally, the dean of a Massachusetts high school was arrested
recently for allegedly operating a drug trafficking ring that sold
large amounts of cocaine. On the bright side, their track
team dominated at state.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
Wow, I know, wow.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Coming up, young progressives vow they'll skip the holidays rather
than spend time with their reactionary white supremacist family members.
America reacts by saying, you'll be missed in theory. Man, Yeah,
I know too much. Ah, grow up, everybody, Grow the
hell up. Some people disagree with you and see the
world differently. Get over it. So getting back to the insurance.
(32:41):
Sorry from the Wall Street Journal and Jack Day to
your previous point. The One Galley interview says, everywhere I go,
everybody I talk to this comes up homeowner's insurance. Yeah
that's true. Heck, that's true in my life too. It's amazing.
And the insurance industry, which if you've never thought about it,
they are all about math, actuarial tables, likelihoods, that's the
(33:06):
whole deal. And so they've analyzed what's causing their costs
and claims to go up so much. And insured losses
from US storms have grown eight percent a year for
more than a decade, according to one of their big
umbrella organizations, a significantly faster and economic growth. Climate change
(33:26):
accounted for around an eighth of that increase. And we've
got to get away from you know, climate change. The
climate is changing. The climate always changes, it goes through
cycles and that sort of thing. But the left got
everybody to think climate change means climate change caused by
mankind that can be stopped. Therefore, we must funnel trillions
(33:47):
of dollars into questionable green programs anytime you say climate change.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
But that's not what we mean at all.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
But anyway, Yeah, change in the climate they figured accounted
for about one eighth of that increase.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
Inflation made more than a third.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Of the annual rise in Yeah, and development in climate
prone areas much of the rest. Whether it's the hail
and the thunderstorms in the midwestern part of the country
which is growing rapidly, or hurricanes in the southeast, or
wildfires in the west, just higher.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
Claims as a development sprawls.
Speaker 4 (34:24):
Well, why did car insurance go up so much at
the same time that homeowners insurance went up so much?
So a third of it would also be inflation, Yes, and.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Lord knows, I'm no expert, but a lot of it
had to do with the supply chain disruptions and parts
and scarcity.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
And how I know is between those two things, it's
expensive to be a human.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, it's brutal, brutal.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
I mean, I really really feel for people who are
at the point in their lives that we were years ago,
where at the end of the month, if you can
stick twenty bucks in the bank, that's a good month.
Of course, suggested for inflation that twenty dollars is worth
about three.
Speaker 4 (35:05):
I know, why are we still making pennies? I think
about various denominations of money since inflation, They're like, a
dollar is not really worth anything, right right?
Speaker 1 (35:14):
A guy asked me the other day, do you have
any ones to break up this five? I'm like, why
would I carry one dollar bills to accomplish. What am
I in a low rent strip club?
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (35:27):
I know. I mean there's a thing I'm a part
of where people would put a dollar in the basket
to help pay for things, and they announced that, can we.
Speaker 2 (35:36):
Start putting more than a dollar in everybody? Because everybody's
just in the habit of that. Yeah, and because a
dollar's worth so little now, Yeah, you're right though a
penny is ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
It's in defensive Yes, it's a tiny fraction of an
amount of money that could be worth anything.
Speaker 1 (35:50):
Why don't we come up with the hay penny, which
is the halfpenny or maybe a tenth of a penny,
I mean, round up or down or whatever. I don't care.
Put them on train tracks so they get flattened. Just
stop making well.
Speaker 4 (36:03):
And the best part of it is it costs three
cents to make up penny. That's the best part of it.
We'll get to some of that other stuff on the way.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
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