December 18, 2024 • 36 mins
Hour 4 of A&G features...
- Venezuelan gang take over
- The media downplay of the Venezuelan gangs
- Inflated salaries at "non profit" homeless shelters in NYC
- Final Thoughts!
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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. I'm Strong
and je and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
In the days after our report aired, CNN started talking
to people in the city of hamps who told us
that his real name is in fact Salama Mohammed Salama.
He is reportedly a lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
He's accused of extorting and harassing people. And we have
now been able to corroborate the information, and it's clear
(01:00):
that far from being an ordinary guy as he presented
himself to be, he was a part of Bashar al
Assad's brutal regime who somehow found himself in prison. We
are continuing to dig, obviously, and as of this moment,
we have not been able to contact Salama himself. Stories
take unexpected turns. We continue to report them, you know,
(01:21):
without fear or favor, but it is immensely challenging in
this environment, and I think we need to be transparent
about that.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good for you, I mean the unexpected turn of you
liberated one of the worst human beings on earth.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Hey, we free to torturous monster and claimed it was
a beautiful humanitarian moment.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
These things happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm just looking at this picture. I just saw up
until the fall of Bushar al Asad's regime, no drones
were allowed to fly over Damascus's ancient city, the old
part of Damascus, which is the oldest continually inhabited city.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, and while reporting on the rebels takeover of serious,
CBS News captured rare footage, So you've got footage over
that area for the first time in fifty years maybe ever,
which is really kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I look forward to looking that. But that reminds me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So I'm reading this book about Iraq and Saddam Hussein
called the Achilles Heel or something like that. But anyway,
Saddam and Assad hated each other. They hated each other
more than they hated Jews, as both of them agreed
at one point, which is really saying something.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They hated just standard in the Middle East more than
they hated Israel.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And so the whole thing is fascinating our relationship with
the Middle East, and it's one of the reasons I'm
like in this book is just the way we've done
it in the past and the way we're likely to
do it in the future. Like, for instance, in this
particular section of the book, Donald Rumsfeld, this is nineteen
eighty two, Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, that Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq,
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sitting on a couch talking to Sadam Hussein in nineteen
eighty two, trying to convince Sadam Hussein to take our
CIA photos to help him in his war against Iran.
Sadam who doesn't trust us. He thinks we're trying to
pull the old TRICKERU or something like that. We're actually
trying to help him because we're on his side versus Iran,
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just because we hate Iran so much. But yeah, freaking
Rumsfeld sitting there having cigars with Sadam Hussein in nineteen
eighty two. I mean, man, the future they were going
to have that they didn't know about. They're horrific, bloody
war with Iran. Yeah, and we were overlooking the fact
that Sadam Hussein had already gassed the Iranians and built
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very soon the largest, most sophisticated chemical weapons facility on Earth,
better than Russia had, better than we had, better than
anybody had on the planet. Yeah, so he did have
weapons of mass destruction certainly at one point. Oh yeah,
any who has a parting gift because Sadam was like
trying to leverage more help against a sad because he
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hated a SOD so much in Syria, and we hated
Syria too, so our big enemies were we called, I
think Reagan called Syria the bad boy of the Middle East,
and we hated Iran in Syria and sat and wanted
to help on that. He gave as a parting gift
to Rumsfeld when he left a video, and it was
a poorly put together obviously edited, but tried to make
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it look like so it had pictures of Ashar al
Assad laughing and applauding, then it skipped to people strangling puppies,
and then back to a stem minute. Then you got
to give her a trigger warning or I know, I know,
but so they edited a SOD clapping and laughing people
stringing puppetisn't back to asad to try to make.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It look like he was a guy who applauded.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And laughed at strangling puppies, and Asadom apparently thought we
wouldn't catch on.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But it was an edit or something like that. I got, Lord,
it's surreal, isn't it? And incredibly trumpled.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And Rumsfeldt looked at that. I mean when they got
back then I Sayshwake, what the hell? What are we
dealing with here?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh? My lord, that is surreal. I know.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The Middle East is so crazy, always has been, may
always be.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, any region run by religious fanaticism is going to
be nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Change of tone and direction here to domestic policy. Perhaps
you heard the news. I had several people bring this
up in real life to me yesterday. Aurora, Colorado police
detained fourteen suspects Tuesday after officers responded to a report
of a home invasion with weapons.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
This happened at the edge at Loude.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
This has at one apartment complex. Remember what Martha radd
had said to JD. Vans there's one apartment complex and
Jad said exactly how many apartment complexes need to be
taken over by violent gangs before that.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is in gangs? Right?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But before your concerned, Martha, I was going to bring
that up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We should ask for the clip.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
But yeah, that was an astounding moment in media complicity
and dishonesty and unbelievable. It's only one apartment complex in
suburban Colorado that you know, a person could pause there
and consider for a minute what sort of bias and
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unwillingness to report anything that would tend to reinforce any
of your opponents, you know, policies or ideas. You'd have
to be practically fanatical well and so not self serving.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
From the Martha at its point of view, you helped
get Trump elected. Most people, a lot of people who
saw that, at least like in the echo chamber, because
they didn't watch it live, because I didn't watch your
stupid shows. That helped Trump get more votes because people
are like, what.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Are you talking about, pretending that it's not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, and seriously, I mean, anybody who listens to
the show knows I'm vehemently against the DEI, the neo
Marxist stuff, the radical gender theory, stuff like that. But
if somebody brought to my attention, or brought to our
attention actual racism, like on a college campus, do you
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think we would you know, pooh PuO it or tut
tutt or say well it's just one guy who was
beaten down or something. No, we'd say it's awful, it's despicable.
How nuts do you have to be if there's an
armed home invasion by Venezuelan illegal gangs taking over apartment complexes,
that you say it's just one complex, you're freaking nuts. Anyway,
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back to Aurora police, So, just before two thirty in
the morning, cops responded to a report of an armed
home invasion involving a stabbing and a kidnapping, ended up
arresting thirteen males from possibly three females. On this this
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horrend this crime that I believe city council member Danielle
Jurinsky describes here. I'll fill in Andy blank. She leaves sixty. Michael,
We'll go from there.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I am tired of this being portrayed as just another
gang in Aurora. This is so heinous. This is a
whole different level, and I am tired of it. I've
been called a liar, I've been told this was in
my imagination. This has been downplayed and people are suffering.
And I will not be silenced on this issue.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Roll on, Michael, this is unfortunately not something that you
want to be able to say. I told you so,
on but I told you so, and nobody wanted to
listen to me. This very much turned into political theater
leading up to the presidential election, and many people have suffered.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So the first bit of audio there was for a
press conference she did. The second was an interview with
Fox and Friends, and I will just tell you briefly.
A couple was at home in their apartment when thirteen
to sixteen gang members entered it at eight forty five
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in the evening. Investigators say the suspects moved the victims
to another apartment building on the property, where they were threatened, bound,
and assaulted. An adult male sustained a non threatening stab wound.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, don't go too fast by that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Imagine gang members show me your and moving you to
another room. You'd think you were gonna die. I get
to another apartment, it would be just, oh.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
My god, said the police chief. The victims were held
against their will. They were bound, both the male and
the female. They were pistol whipped, they were beaten, they
were victimized, they were terrorized. Other folks are using the
term torture, and of course obviously that's appropriate. During the
time they were held, the police Chief, Todd Chamberlain said,
the suspects went to the victim's apartment and burglarized and
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took over that apartment, taking items of value that belonged
to the victims. Tell you what, you can take anything
you want. Stop torturing me.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Please.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
The fact that the Tops, God bless them, say we're
going to get everybody involved, the.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Fact that these gangs think they can do that in
the United States is so troubling.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And they've got Martha Radditts and ABC News and others
trying to soft pedal it. Good lord, next clip, Michael,
back to Danielle Jerinski.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
This isn't just assault, This isn't just fistfights. This is
absolute torture what some of these people have been going through.
And once the Americans were moved out of the complex,
this is the most vulnerable population left. These are other
migrants who some of them don't even really realize where
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they are. They were simply dropped off in the middle
of the night in some cases.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And finally, sixty three Michael, yesterday.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
The police response to these two victims was huge. The
police presence in this neighborhood right now is huge.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He has made.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Clear that we will not stand for this. It is
a new day in the Aurora place to go this.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You can't import new cultures by the thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands of millions, and not have it change
your culture. Obviously, the math doesn't work on that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And our greatest strength is not diversity. That was a lie.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That was a greeting card level dopey claim. Diversity is fine,
it's a challenge and a good thing in a lot
of different ways. But our greatest strength is unity. By far,
your greatest strength is diversity. That's one of the stupidest
thing that's ever been said. And shared values are at
the heart of what I'm saying. You have to have
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shared values. And if you have young gang members brought
up in communist Venezuela where law andlorder has broken down,
you got a strong man dictator. The only way to
make it on the streets is to be tougher and
faster and more vicious than the next guy. And then
you bring them into the United States. You think they
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share your values? Do you, Martha?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Unbelievable. It's a highly troubling story.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There's a couple of stories that are going to be
giant next year. Trump tax cuts, that battle, the doge battle,
and the deportation program that is going to start like
on day one. The media is going to work really
hard to give you the most sympathetic stories to their
standpoint that they possibly can of. You know, innocent, decent,
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hardworking people being kicked out of the country.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
But it was convicted of Jaywalkie in nineteen ninety five. Right,
they'll pick out the one sympathetic case.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But if the Trump crowd can do a good job
at getting to actual criminals and boot them out of
the country, it's gonna make him pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Mm hmm. Start with scumbags. Nobody's going to object.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Right, We've got a great text on somebody who invented
a new word. I would like to get to Webster's
dictionary because I deal with it all the time, among
other things. On the way, stay here, arm Strong.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Apparently, according to a new poll, Americans are over Christmas traditions.
One tradition that a lot of people are ready to
shake up is the holiday meal, evidently, with many people
saying that this year they want burgers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Instead of turkey.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
But I got to ask, if we eat burgers on Christmas,
what are we going to eat on the fourth of July?
This just throws off the whole festive food calendar. I
can't eat burritos on our bor day. It's not just burgers.
Forty four percent of responding say they want pizza, thirty
eight percent said tacos, and thirty four percent said Chinese takeout. Yes,
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that thirty four percent also celebrates Christmas by watching a
movie and then lighting Hanukka candles.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I think that's breakdown the American family stuff. The people
don't care about traditions. But anyway, I don't want to get
caught up on that. Somebody on the text line reminded
us that Martha Raddits's phrasing to JD Vance about the Aurora,
Colorado thing was it was a handful of apartment buildings,
she said to JD. And he said, how many would
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it have to be before you'd be concerned? Which is
a good response. We got this text a word that
should be in the dictionary. I've dealt with this recently.
Packaging frustrating instead of packaging. Packaging frustration felt when trying
to open a plastic sealed product. Also response to cutting
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yourself with a box cutter, opening a plastic clamshell or
blister pack that is impossible to open, or cutting yourself
with the plastic itself, which is sharp as a nice
There needs to be a tool. I'm surprised somebody hasn't
invented a tool, like a really safe tool, like a
safety says or something that easily cuts through that stuff
so you can get out your floonnaise. The other day
is get out flownase for my allergies. The packaging was
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since on that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Because of thieves, mostly.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Because of thieves, because that tiny little bottle is like
twenty five bucks or something, so they put it in
the big, giant plastic so it's a little harder to
you know, jab it in your pants or whatever so
you can steal it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, they got to make them big as a milk jug.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Then it's going to be interesting to see how this
plays out. New York is going to do kind of
what California is doing, and that is starting to crack
down on the mentally ill or put them in some
sort facility help help them.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we'll see how it turns out. I hope you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Specifically, following a string of horrifying subway attacks, May Eric
Adams dramatically expanded the city's ability to do involuntarily commit
New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness. City workers
can now immediately hospitalize people who refuse treatment even if
they don't pose a clear and present danger to themselves
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or others. So I'm not exactly sure what kind of
judgment call goes on in there. I don't have a
problem with this, by the way, but I'm not sure
what kind of judgment call is being made by somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's probably not as sharp as you hope.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
They are, whether or not they ought to be committed
involuntarily even though they're posing no danger to themselves or
others at the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is one of those.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Things because obviously we agree it's gone way too far
in the other direction, and what you can get completely
looney tunes people and junkies running around. They can't take
care of themselves, they're a danger, et cetera, et cetera.
There is no perfect way to do this. I think
we just as a society have to say, all right, look,
we're going to scrutinize whatever programs we have all the
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time to make sure people's rights are protected. There's no
perfect way to do this, so don't look for it perfect.
This is the perfect example of the perfect being the
enemy of the good. We've got to get all these
mental ill people off the streets. You think it's doing
them a favor by letting them starve, and you robbed
and abused and be cold on this streets.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What the hell? By the way, I didn't get to
this story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll have to later the NYC homeless shelters who are
taking massive salaries for the people who run them at
taxpayer expense.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Of course, Armstrong and Getty, I love this song, but
it's a great song and it's.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You know, it's a heartbreak song that just happened to
happen around Christmas time, quite the same as the theme
of most Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, right, Yeah, I see your point. I
want to get this story, hun before we moved on
to the main thing.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm sure this is true in lots of different places,
including California, where my tax money goes to die, But
in New York City, where they're throwing lots of money
at the homeless problem, like they are all over the place. Hey,
a new report showed a whole bunch of people that
are running the homeless shelters are giving themselves massive salaries. Yeah,
top executors, executives of taxpayer funded groups running the city's
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homeless shelters gave themselves some massive salaries, and some of
the nonprofits still haven't reported their pay A new report
revealed nonprofits aheah nonprofit except for me.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Again, We've explained that before. Yes, we have a nonprofit.
Jack earns a salary of two point three million dollars.
I take Fridays off, so I earn a salary of
one point nine million dollars. But don't worry, we don't
make any profits.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
City Hall in New York is scrambling to make changes
to its provider compliance process.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, that was the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There was a mistake with the provider compliance process.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, the CPP is a little out of line. We're
working to realign our.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
CPP after what has turned out to be an embarrassing
report from the Department of Investigations exposed inflated salaries. Nepotism.
Does nepotism have to be family members? Are going to
be friends? That specifically mean family members?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Good question. I always assume means family members too. Do
not know for certain either way, it's horrifying. So you're
hiring you or your.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Kids, or your wife or whatever to also get in
on the deal and a lack of competitive bidding in
the city shelter contracting process. You morons in blue cities
and blue states who are willing to just throw money
at tear jerker problems like the homeless, or puppies or
whatever the hell it is without any follow through because
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you trust that the other people care about this as
much as you do and won't waste a dime. They're
just gonna do what's best. You're safe, stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I mean, I just I don't know how you how
you last past being eight years old.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I know they think with their hearts and their egos
and not with their heads.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It makes me insane. Thirteen of the ages because they
get my money.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Thirteen of the eighty seven shelters haven't provided their executive's compensation.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I wonder why they don't want to provide that anyway,
Actually getting to some of them. In one instance, the
chief executive of a shelter provided a provider paid himself
because it was his decision on how much he got
paid A million dollars a year. How much do you
think I ought to make? I think I've decided I'm
worth a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
You know me, I work very hard, and I have
been very impressed with my performance this year, and I'm
going to give me a raise.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Almost entirely funded by city taxes. By the way, this
report says the president and CEO of some other group
acronym you've never heard of received more than seven hundred
thousand dollars. Uh. Here's somebody who had made nine hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars two years ago. Some of the
nonprofits enhanced senior executives pay by contracting to other companies
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they own.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Wow, yeah, double dealing. Anyway, there's a bunch of examples
of this. It's it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well, yeah, those no bid contracts weren't awarded at random.
They were awarded to their friends, their cronies, and themselves obviously.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
God dang it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And when you try to do anything about this, like doge,
you know, an evil, mean capitalist is going to come
in and take away government jobs.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Or you're trying to balance the budget on the backs
of the homeless or society's most vulnerable. And why don't
you tell you what those who sip who sup at
the government trough, they're skilled at defending what they do
and putting everybody on the back foot. They're good at it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Why don't you liberals, progressives who care so much about
these things more than I do.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You're probably a better person than me for caring about
these things.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Why don't you get more upset than even me when
you find out somebody is getting a million dollars who
could certainly do that job for two hundred thousand dollars
or whatever it ought to pay, as opposed to the
money going to actually help the homeless.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You should be more upset than me.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
They find it impossible to process the world in that way.
It's just it's all about servicing their ego and being
in favor of the right things so they can wave
the flag of look at me, I'm politically correct, I'm
part of the gang. I'm part of the group. Look
at my rainbow flag. The rest of it's galling, absolutely galling.
So lost the election big time. And on that topic,
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we played some audio Van Jones earlier. He said this
big panel that the New York Times puts on, and
he said a couple of really interesting things, pointing out
that the mainstream has become fringe in the media, and
the quote unquote friends the world of proadcasting, for instance,
has become the mainstream much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Then.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
He also pointed out that Trump is not an idiot.
He's smarter than me. And you look, he beat us here,
he beat us there, he beat beat us everywhere. To
paraphrase doctor Seussan. Anyway, he goes on, Michael, we'll start
with ninety two and go from there.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yeah, there's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party. Kama Harris
promised us freedom. Well, she delivered it to us because
now we're free from having to run anything in Washington,
d C. That's not what we were signing out for us.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
What we got. I thought that was pretty funny. And
then he makes an excellent point in the next clip.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
And I hope the party take the chance to look
at the fact that we pushed all our rebels out
of this party. We had a rebellion in our party
in twenty sixteen. It was called Bernie Sanders. You had
a rebellion in your party in twenty sixteen it was
called Donald Trump, your rebel one, our rebel lost. And
then since then the rebels in our party been pushed out.
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RFK was a rebel inside of our party. He wanted
to run against Joe Biden fair and square, the DNC
wouldn't let him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Pushed him out.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
You can walk down the list.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Don't forget.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Elon Musk was a Andrew Young Democrat four years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He's out.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
You can walk down the list. Joe Rogan was very
favorable toward Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He was a Bernie guy. He's out.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
So there's something that's happened in this party where the
rebels in this party no longer feel like they have
a place, and we've got to be able to talk
about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Honestly, Wow, that's really interesting that that happened. I mean,
there's no denying that happened. But at the same time,
the old guard, the entrenched Democratic Party cater's the Bernie
wing so much that they can't win elections.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It's a weird set of contradictions. I'll tell you this though.
There are a couple of big time factors that will
determine like the next elections obviously, but one of them
absolutely in that top tier is does the Democrat Party
listen to Van Jones. If they do, they will be
in a much much better place. I suspect that they won't.
(24:27):
So another factor because he was right about all this.
But another factor, and Michael, I'm looking at the next
two clips ninety four ninety five, is that they ran
this check.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
The true test of our commitment is weather in the
face of an obstacle, do we throw up our hands
or do we roll up our sleeves and as we approach?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Wow? Wow?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
She that is a motivational speech from middle school class.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
She dropped that line. And that wasn't just like the
build up to the line. That was the line. And
she paused, She's like.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Huh, how about that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Or do we roll up our sleeves? Did you hear that?
That was some shizzle right there. That's a raw, raw
speech appropriate for twelve year olds. Wow. So she's there's more.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What is the effect when incompetent people don't know they're incompetent?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
That's what she mean in Kruger effect, That's what she is. Yeah,
she doesn't know that none of these things.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Land is brilliant to anyone else.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All right, but she's had her mediocrity reinforced for various
reasons throughout her career.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Willie. I know next clip, Michael.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
And I ask you to remember the context in which
you exist.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
As hilarious as she is inspiring Camala Harrius, Harius Harris
and then rents the writ's previous. I think he's right.
This will be the final clip, Michael.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
It's one thing for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. You know,
the entire premise of their campaign was totally rejected. Their
entire basis of their campaigns, that Trump's a threat to democracy,
Trump Trump, Trump, everything about Trump and was totally rejected.
So being out of touch is one thing. Staying out
of touch is another. And that's and that's even worse.
So all of these pardons, all this nonsense that they've
(26:39):
that they're perpetrating on the American people, it's it's it's
front and center selling the border wall, continuing to snub
the American people.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Her campaign saying yes, she lost only because of misogyny,
sexism in America. I hope they listened to her and
not Van Jones.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I am i'm uh. I guess I'm a pessimist in
that like if the team my sports team wins, I
barely can enjoy the championship before it settles in. This
is the high mark it's downhill from here. I mean,
we can't we can't continue to be this good. You know,
we'll lose play blah blah. And I'm like that. And
I feel that way about the whole Republicans versus Democrats,
(27:20):
because the Republican Party, the MAGA part of it anyway,
is as high as it's ever going to be, and
the Democrats are such a low I assume they're going
to get their act together and dig out of this.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
At this point. I mean, it's just astonishing how.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Low they're I was trying to find this graph I
came across yesterday that was just another example. It was
how many states, almost every single state Joe Biden is
in the negative in terms of approval rating, like like
all but like two states in the whole country. I mean,
they're just that party is down, down, down, and should be.
They earned it. Oh yeah, But I have to assume
(27:57):
that that the rebuild in some way with the vangel
of the world understand or not. Go ahead, Listen to Bernie,
listen to Elizabeth, make commonly your standard beer again. Put
Ac in charge, in charge, and things continue to read
Twitter all day long.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Make that your party.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Go ahead, Yeah, continue to press the radical crap in.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Our nation's schools.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Continue to run candidates who put pronouns on their name,
placard at the debate and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Just keep doing it. Knock yourself. Yeah, m.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Well, I'm old and bitter enough to have heard the
pronouncements of the death of one party or the other
multiple times. They do find a way of reassessing and retooling,
and which is gitting back into power.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Which is, for all the criticism of the two party system,
that is the way it works. They do retool, they
become different things and.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, and I think anybody with an ounce of realism
in their veins or bones, wherever you keep your realism.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Perhaps stuck between the cheek and gum, I don't know.
I use it pository well to each their owne. You're
gonna feel a little pressure.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
But anybody with any realism understands if the Republican Party
were unopposed, we became a one party country, they would
become monsters in about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, I suitcase my realism. Oh boy, sneak it in. Uhh,
when's vacation? Stunned, Michael?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Is it this Friday? Tell me it's this Friday. We
get started in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
If you're want we all finish strong. Next time strong.
We like this song so much we're gonna play it again.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
The whole droolne conversation can be summed up here in
just a few seconds here by the New Jersey Senator
Kristen Gillibrand. This is the latest from a sitting US senator.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I don't know if it's safe or not safe because.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We don't have full domain awareness. We don't know who's
the the drones are.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
We don't know whether they're adversarial or run by a
foreign entity.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
We don't know what their purpose is, we don't know
if they're spying.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So, despite all the things you've heard in the last
two weeks, in the last twenty four hours particularly, there's
a US senator, which is a big deal, and you'd think,
as a senator from New Jersey, you could get practically
anybody on the.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Phone and ask the question you want to ask.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And she says, we don't have any idea if they're
adversarial or not, if they're domestic or foreign or dangerous, or.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
We have no idea of any of that. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You know who is aware of that clip guaranteed hesiin
ping and he's being told or thinking, okay, so there
are enough drones there unless he's already involved in surveiling
our military bass, which he is, but I don't know
if it's the East Coast drone mania. But he's thinking, okay,
there's so many drones. They even US senators say we
have no idea, what's what, And he's like, hey, I
(30:51):
want ten thousand drones surveiling American military basis by the
end of the month, and they'll make it so we're
that vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Quick thing I came across yesterday that I either didn't
know ord forgotten. I like rain sound effects when I'm
trying to sleep, particularly if I'm gonna nap. YouTube there's
there are so many YouTube videos of different kinds of rain,
and they're awesome and they're there. Some of them are
(31:25):
like eight hours long if you want to have it
run all night long the video and all different kinds rain,
like heavy rain, light rain. You want rain with wind,
you want rain on a tin roof, you want rain
on the cement, you want rain on trees, whatever kind
of rain you want. So if you like those kind
of sound effects. You don't need to buy some machine,
it's just it's on your YouTube. Can they get me
purple rain rain?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't know if that would help me sleep.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Reminds me that way slow living or whatever that's popular
on YouTube where it's like an eight hour video of
just looking out the window on a train. That's sort
of stuff I've never done that. I'm too busy for that,
but sounds really load for you.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, I am, actually am or are you? I think
about that? Auten.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I remember one time when you were raising younger kids,
back when we took phone calls, you saying not having
time to you didn't have time to work out, and
some guy called in and said, you're just making excuses,
and you got so mad at him. And that's why
I feel like now I have so many days where
there is not a five minute window to fit anything
into period.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Period.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I'll put off a two minute trip to the bathroom
for an hour and a half less unless I'm gonna,
you know, have somebody else pick up my kid or
drop them off there or you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, which is fine. You could do glute crunches in
the car well you wait for you, Yeah, exactly exactly. Sure,
that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
By while, while you're helping them with their their math homework,
stand on one leg and flex your glutes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Sounds great. You're just making excuses if you're not working
out the son of a bitch and find you. I'm
gonna hunt you down. That's funny. I clicked on the
wrong dang.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
How do you like my chances of swearing off baked
goods as a new Year's resolution? I don't even I'm
not even setting the gold doing it for a year.
I'm just going to see how long I can go.
But maybe that's a bad way. That's almost like giving
in before I start. Well, this is a clear over
under situation. It's not an if, but an over under.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
How Lady Picks can can get in on us? Price
Picks should get in on this exactly. That's hilarious. I
believe in you, Jack, Thank you Ish. I'll save my
(33:52):
comment on that for the final thought. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, let's get a final thought from every one, then,
wouldn't that be gay? Let's begin with with our technical
director Michael Angelo. Michael, one week till Christmas, I got
my last gift coming in tomorrow, and I think I'm
all set, so I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
This is the earliest I've ever done. Oh nice, humble brag.
Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up? Yeah, cool story, Michael,
All right.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Wow, where do you get off? Katie Green are a
steam Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Just wanted to add to this year and review that
you guys did earlier and remind everyone that it was
in June when all the women chose a bear over
a man while hiking.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Right rather run and enjoy having your leg chewed off,
Lady Jack.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
A final thought for us, this is my most aggressive
New Year's resolution I've ever thought of.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm gonna swear off all big goods.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm talking pies, cakes, donuts, cinnamon rolls, anything that other
than like bread for sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And I don't actually know if I can do it,
but I'm pretty committed. You're a brave little man. I
congratulate you.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I finally thought i'd meant to get this early on
the show earlier, but I forgot your your router, your
Internet router is it tp links? Selling router on Amazon
has been linked to Chinese cyber attacks.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
O nice TP link. Remember like toilet paper, go check
it when you get home.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapic and another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
So many people will thanks so little time. Go to
Armstrong and giddy dot com a lot of great hot
links to pick up some a g swag.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I mean, for instance, I remember when Joe's New Year's
resolution one year was wear better pants Like that is
you know, not daunting.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We'll see you tomorrow. God bliss America. I'm strong and Getty.
How many more hours am I doing this? We're just
gonna keep playing? Are you sure of that? Dude? To me,
that would be the reasonable rational thing to do. Uh,
well down, small crack, that's ludicrous. I'm so good. You
cannot talk to me that way. So let's go with
a bug.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Tell you what you got, the old whistling scrotum. You're
gonna win some bar bets.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Huh. I'll take that bet ten dollars says you can't.
And that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong
and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm Strong
and je and he Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
In the days after our report aired, CNN started talking
to people in the city of hamps who told us
that his real name is in fact Salama Mohammed Salama.
He is reportedly a lieutenant in the Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
He's accused of extorting and harassing people. And we have
now been able to corroborate the information, and it's clear
(01:00):
that far from being an ordinary guy as he presented
himself to be, he was a part of Bashar al
Assad's brutal regime who somehow found himself in prison. We
are continuing to dig, obviously, and as of this moment,
we have not been able to contact Salama himself. Stories
take unexpected turns. We continue to report them, you know,
(01:21):
without fear or favor, but it is immensely challenging in
this environment, and I think we need to be transparent
about that.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good for you, I mean the unexpected turn of you
liberated one of the worst human beings on earth.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
Hey, we free to torturous monster and claimed it was
a beautiful humanitarian moment.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
These things happen.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I'm just looking at this picture. I just saw up
until the fall of Bushar al Asad's regime, no drones
were allowed to fly over Damascus's ancient city, the old
part of Damascus, which is the oldest continually inhabited city.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
In the world.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Yeah, and while reporting on the rebels takeover of serious,
CBS News captured rare footage, So you've got footage over
that area for the first time in fifty years maybe ever,
which is really kind of interesting.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I look forward to looking that. But that reminds me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
So I'm reading this book about Iraq and Saddam Hussein
called the Achilles Heel or something like that. But anyway,
Saddam and Assad hated each other. They hated each other
more than they hated Jews, as both of them agreed
at one point, which is really saying something.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
They hated just standard in the Middle East more than
they hated Israel.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
And so the whole thing is fascinating our relationship with
the Middle East, and it's one of the reasons I'm
like in this book is just the way we've done
it in the past and the way we're likely to
do it in the future. Like, for instance, in this
particular section of the book, Donald Rumsfeld, this is nineteen
eighty two, Donald Rumsfeld. Yeah, that Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq,
(02:53):
sitting on a couch talking to Sadam Hussein in nineteen
eighty two, trying to convince Sadam Hussein to take our
CIA photos to help him in his war against Iran.
Sadam who doesn't trust us. He thinks we're trying to
pull the old TRICKERU or something like that. We're actually
trying to help him because we're on his side versus Iran,
(03:14):
just because we hate Iran so much. But yeah, freaking
Rumsfeld sitting there having cigars with Sadam Hussein in nineteen
eighty two. I mean, man, the future they were going
to have that they didn't know about. They're horrific, bloody
war with Iran. Yeah, and we were overlooking the fact
that Sadam Hussein had already gassed the Iranians and built
(03:36):
very soon the largest, most sophisticated chemical weapons facility on Earth,
better than Russia had, better than we had, better than
anybody had on the planet. Yeah, so he did have
weapons of mass destruction certainly at one point. Oh yeah,
any who has a parting gift because Sadam was like
trying to leverage more help against a sad because he
(04:01):
hated a SOD so much in Syria, and we hated
Syria too, so our big enemies were we called, I
think Reagan called Syria the bad boy of the Middle East,
and we hated Iran in Syria and sat and wanted
to help on that. He gave as a parting gift
to Rumsfeld when he left a video, and it was
a poorly put together obviously edited, but tried to make
(04:26):
it look like so it had pictures of Ashar al
Assad laughing and applauding, then it skipped to people strangling puppies,
and then back to a stem minute. Then you got
to give her a trigger warning or I know, I know,
but so they edited a SOD clapping and laughing people
stringing puppetisn't back to asad to try to make.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
It look like he was a guy who applauded.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
And laughed at strangling puppies, and Asadom apparently thought we
wouldn't catch on.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
But it was an edit or something like that. I got, Lord,
it's surreal, isn't it? And incredibly trumpled.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
And Rumsfeldt looked at that. I mean when they got
back then I Sayshwake, what the hell? What are we
dealing with here?
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oh? My lord, that is surreal. I know.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
The Middle East is so crazy, always has been, may
always be.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Yeah, any region run by religious fanaticism is going to
be nuts.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Change of tone and direction here to domestic policy. Perhaps
you heard the news. I had several people bring this
up in real life to me yesterday. Aurora, Colorado police
detained fourteen suspects Tuesday after officers responded to a report
of a home invasion with weapons.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
This happened at the edge at Loude.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
This has at one apartment complex. Remember what Martha radd
had said to JD. Vans there's one apartment complex and
Jad said exactly how many apartment complexes need to be
taken over by violent gangs before that.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Is in gangs? Right?
Speaker 4 (06:01):
But before your concerned, Martha, I was going to bring
that up.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
We should ask for the clip.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
But yeah, that was an astounding moment in media complicity
and dishonesty and unbelievable. It's only one apartment complex in
suburban Colorado that you know, a person could pause there
and consider for a minute what sort of bias and
(06:25):
unwillingness to report anything that would tend to reinforce any
of your opponents, you know, policies or ideas. You'd have
to be practically fanatical well and so not self serving.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
From the Martha at its point of view, you helped
get Trump elected. Most people, a lot of people who
saw that, at least like in the echo chamber, because
they didn't watch it live, because I didn't watch your
stupid shows. That helped Trump get more votes because people
are like, what.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Are you talking about, pretending that it's not a big deal.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
Yeah, yeah, and seriously, I mean, anybody who listens to
the show knows I'm vehemently against the DEI, the neo
Marxist stuff, the radical gender theory, stuff like that. But
if somebody brought to my attention, or brought to our
attention actual racism, like on a college campus, do you
(07:18):
think we would you know, pooh PuO it or tut
tutt or say well it's just one guy who was
beaten down or something. No, we'd say it's awful, it's despicable.
How nuts do you have to be if there's an
armed home invasion by Venezuelan illegal gangs taking over apartment complexes,
that you say it's just one complex, you're freaking nuts. Anyway,
(07:39):
back to Aurora police, So, just before two thirty in
the morning, cops responded to a report of an armed
home invasion involving a stabbing and a kidnapping, ended up
arresting thirteen males from possibly three females. On this this
(07:59):
horrend this crime that I believe city council member Danielle
Jurinsky describes here. I'll fill in Andy blank. She leaves sixty. Michael,
We'll go from there.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
I am tired of this being portrayed as just another
gang in Aurora. This is so heinous. This is a
whole different level, and I am tired of it. I've
been called a liar, I've been told this was in
my imagination. This has been downplayed and people are suffering.
And I will not be silenced on this issue.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Roll on, Michael, this is unfortunately not something that you
want to be able to say. I told you so,
on but I told you so, and nobody wanted to
listen to me. This very much turned into political theater
leading up to the presidential election, and many people have suffered.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
So the first bit of audio there was for a
press conference she did. The second was an interview with
Fox and Friends, and I will just tell you briefly.
A couple was at home in their apartment when thirteen
to sixteen gang members entered it at eight forty five
(09:14):
in the evening. Investigators say the suspects moved the victims
to another apartment building on the property, where they were threatened, bound,
and assaulted. An adult male sustained a non threatening stab wound.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, don't go too fast by that.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Imagine gang members show me your and moving you to
another room. You'd think you were gonna die. I get
to another apartment, it would be just, oh.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
My god, said the police chief. The victims were held
against their will. They were bound, both the male and
the female. They were pistol whipped, they were beaten, they
were victimized, they were terrorized. Other folks are using the
term torture, and of course obviously that's appropriate. During the
time they were held, the police Chief, Todd Chamberlain said,
the suspects went to the victim's apartment and burglarized and
(09:57):
took over that apartment, taking items of value that belonged
to the victims. Tell you what, you can take anything
you want. Stop torturing me.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
Please.
Speaker 4 (10:04):
The fact that the Tops, God bless them, say we're
going to get everybody involved, the.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Fact that these gangs think they can do that in
the United States is so troubling.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
And they've got Martha Radditts and ABC News and others
trying to soft pedal it. Good lord, next clip, Michael,
back to Danielle Jerinski.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
This isn't just assault, This isn't just fistfights. This is
absolute torture what some of these people have been going through.
And once the Americans were moved out of the complex,
this is the most vulnerable population left. These are other
migrants who some of them don't even really realize where
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they are. They were simply dropped off in the middle
of the night in some cases.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
And finally, sixty three Michael, yesterday.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
The police response to these two victims was huge. The
police presence in this neighborhood right now is huge.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
He has made.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Clear that we will not stand for this. It is
a new day in the Aurora place to go this.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
You can't import new cultures by the thousands, tens of thousands,
hundreds of thousands of millions, and not have it change
your culture. Obviously, the math doesn't work on that.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
And our greatest strength is not diversity. That was a lie.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
That was a greeting card level dopey claim. Diversity is fine,
it's a challenge and a good thing in a lot
of different ways. But our greatest strength is unity. By far,
your greatest strength is diversity. That's one of the stupidest
thing that's ever been said. And shared values are at
the heart of what I'm saying. You have to have
(11:47):
shared values. And if you have young gang members brought
up in communist Venezuela where law andlorder has broken down,
you got a strong man dictator. The only way to
make it on the streets is to be tougher and
faster and more vicious than the next guy. And then
you bring them into the United States. You think they
(12:07):
share your values? Do you, Martha?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Unbelievable. It's a highly troubling story.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
There's a couple of stories that are going to be
giant next year. Trump tax cuts, that battle, the doge battle,
and the deportation program that is going to start like
on day one. The media is going to work really
hard to give you the most sympathetic stories to their
standpoint that they possibly can of. You know, innocent, decent,
(12:39):
hardworking people being kicked out of the country.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
But it was convicted of Jaywalkie in nineteen ninety five. Right,
they'll pick out the one sympathetic case.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
But if the Trump crowd can do a good job
at getting to actual criminals and boot them out of
the country, it's gonna make him pretty popular.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Mm hmm. Start with scumbags. Nobody's going to object.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Right, We've got a great text on somebody who invented
a new word. I would like to get to Webster's
dictionary because I deal with it all the time, among
other things. On the way, stay here, arm Strong.
Speaker 7 (13:13):
Apparently, according to a new poll, Americans are over Christmas traditions.
One tradition that a lot of people are ready to
shake up is the holiday meal, evidently, with many people
saying that this year they want burgers.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Instead of turkey.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
But I got to ask, if we eat burgers on Christmas,
what are we going to eat on the fourth of July?
This just throws off the whole festive food calendar. I
can't eat burritos on our bor day. It's not just burgers.
Forty four percent of responding say they want pizza, thirty
eight percent said tacos, and thirty four percent said Chinese takeout. Yes,
(13:46):
that thirty four percent also celebrates Christmas by watching a
movie and then lighting Hanukka candles.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I think that's breakdown the American family stuff. The people
don't care about traditions. But anyway, I don't want to get
caught up on that. Somebody on the text line reminded
us that Martha Raddits's phrasing to JD Vance about the Aurora,
Colorado thing was it was a handful of apartment buildings,
she said to JD. And he said, how many would
(14:15):
it have to be before you'd be concerned? Which is
a good response. We got this text a word that
should be in the dictionary. I've dealt with this recently.
Packaging frustrating instead of packaging. Packaging frustration felt when trying
to open a plastic sealed product. Also response to cutting
(14:37):
yourself with a box cutter, opening a plastic clamshell or
blister pack that is impossible to open, or cutting yourself
with the plastic itself, which is sharp as a nice
There needs to be a tool. I'm surprised somebody hasn't
invented a tool, like a really safe tool, like a
safety says or something that easily cuts through that stuff
so you can get out your floonnaise. The other day
is get out flownase for my allergies. The packaging was
(14:59):
since on that.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
Because of thieves, mostly.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Because of thieves, because that tiny little bottle is like
twenty five bucks or something, so they put it in
the big, giant plastic so it's a little harder to
you know, jab it in your pants or whatever so
you can steal it.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Well, they got to make them big as a milk jug.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Then it's going to be interesting to see how this
plays out. New York is going to do kind of
what California is doing, and that is starting to crack
down on the mentally ill or put them in some
sort facility help help them.
Speaker 1 (15:36):
Well, we'll see how it turns out. I hope you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Specifically, following a string of horrifying subway attacks, May Eric
Adams dramatically expanded the city's ability to do involuntarily commit
New Yorkers with chronic and untreated mental illness. City workers
can now immediately hospitalize people who refuse treatment even if
they don't pose a clear and present danger to themselves
(16:00):
or others. So I'm not exactly sure what kind of
judgment call goes on in there. I don't have a
problem with this, by the way, but I'm not sure
what kind of judgment call is being made by somebody.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
It's probably not as sharp as you hope.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
They are, whether or not they ought to be committed
involuntarily even though they're posing no danger to themselves or
others at the moment.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
This is one of those.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Things because obviously we agree it's gone way too far
in the other direction, and what you can get completely
looney tunes people and junkies running around. They can't take
care of themselves, they're a danger, et cetera, et cetera.
There is no perfect way to do this. I think
we just as a society have to say, all right, look,
we're going to scrutinize whatever programs we have all the
(16:39):
time to make sure people's rights are protected. There's no
perfect way to do this, so don't look for it perfect.
This is the perfect example of the perfect being the
enemy of the good. We've got to get all these
mental ill people off the streets. You think it's doing
them a favor by letting them starve, and you robbed
and abused and be cold on this streets.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
What the hell? By the way, I didn't get to
this story.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'll have to later the NYC homeless shelters who are
taking massive salaries for the people who run them at
taxpayer expense.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Of course, Armstrong and Getty, I love this song, but
it's a great song and it's.
Speaker 3 (17:20):
You know, it's a heartbreak song that just happened to
happen around Christmas time, quite the same as the theme
of most Christmas song.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
I don't know, right, Yeah, I see your point. I
want to get this story, hun before we moved on
to the main thing.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
I'm sure this is true in lots of different places,
including California, where my tax money goes to die, But
in New York City, where they're throwing lots of money
at the homeless problem, like they are all over the place. Hey,
a new report showed a whole bunch of people that
are running the homeless shelters are giving themselves massive salaries. Yeah,
top executors, executives of taxpayer funded groups running the city's
(18:05):
homeless shelters gave themselves some massive salaries, and some of
the nonprofits still haven't reported their pay A new report
revealed nonprofits aheah nonprofit except for me.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Again, We've explained that before. Yes, we have a nonprofit.
Jack earns a salary of two point three million dollars.
I take Fridays off, so I earn a salary of
one point nine million dollars. But don't worry, we don't
make any profits.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
City Hall in New York is scrambling to make changes
to its provider compliance process.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Oh, that was the problem.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
There was a mistake with the provider compliance process.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
Yeah, the CPP is a little out of line. We're
working to realign our.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
CPP after what has turned out to be an embarrassing
report from the Department of Investigations exposed inflated salaries. Nepotism.
Does nepotism have to be family members? Are going to
be friends? That specifically mean family members?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Good question. I always assume means family members too. Do
not know for certain either way, it's horrifying. So you're
hiring you or your.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Kids, or your wife or whatever to also get in
on the deal and a lack of competitive bidding in
the city shelter contracting process. You morons in blue cities
and blue states who are willing to just throw money
at tear jerker problems like the homeless, or puppies or
whatever the hell it is without any follow through because
(19:26):
you trust that the other people care about this as
much as you do and won't waste a dime. They're
just gonna do what's best. You're safe, stupid.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
I mean, I just I don't know how you how
you last past being eight years old.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I know they think with their hearts and their egos
and not with their heads.
Speaker 1 (19:41):
It makes me insane. Thirteen of the ages because they
get my money.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Thirteen of the eighty seven shelters haven't provided their executive's compensation.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
I wonder why.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I wonder why they don't want to provide that anyway,
Actually getting to some of them. In one instance, the
chief executive of a shelter provided a provider paid himself
because it was his decision on how much he got
paid A million dollars a year. How much do you
think I ought to make? I think I've decided I'm
worth a million dollars a year.
Speaker 4 (20:08):
You know me, I work very hard, and I have
been very impressed with my performance this year, and I'm
going to give me a raise.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Almost entirely funded by city taxes. By the way, this
report says the president and CEO of some other group
acronym you've never heard of received more than seven hundred
thousand dollars. Uh. Here's somebody who had made nine hundred
and sixteen thousand dollars two years ago. Some of the
nonprofits enhanced senior executives pay by contracting to other companies
(20:36):
they own.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Wow, yeah, double dealing. Anyway, there's a bunch of examples
of this. It's it's all the same.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
Well, yeah, those no bid contracts weren't awarded at random.
They were awarded to their friends, their cronies, and themselves obviously.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
God dang it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
And when you try to do anything about this, like doge,
you know, an evil, mean capitalist is going to come
in and take away government jobs.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Or you're trying to balance the budget on the backs
of the homeless or society's most vulnerable. And why don't
you tell you what those who sip who sup at
the government trough, they're skilled at defending what they do
and putting everybody on the back foot. They're good at it.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
Why don't you liberals, progressives who care so much about
these things more than I do.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
You're probably a better person than me for caring about
these things.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Why don't you get more upset than even me when
you find out somebody is getting a million dollars who
could certainly do that job for two hundred thousand dollars
or whatever it ought to pay, as opposed to the
money going to actually help the homeless.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
You should be more upset than me.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
They find it impossible to process the world in that way.
It's just it's all about servicing their ego and being
in favor of the right things so they can wave
the flag of look at me, I'm politically correct, I'm
part of the gang. I'm part of the group. Look
at my rainbow flag. The rest of it's galling, absolutely galling.
So lost the election big time. And on that topic,
(22:03):
we played some audio Van Jones earlier. He said this
big panel that the New York Times puts on, and
he said a couple of really interesting things, pointing out
that the mainstream has become fringe in the media, and
the quote unquote friends the world of proadcasting, for instance,
has become the mainstream much bigger.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Then.
Speaker 4 (22:19):
He also pointed out that Trump is not an idiot.
He's smarter than me. And you look, he beat us here,
he beat us there, he beat beat us everywhere. To
paraphrase doctor Seussan. Anyway, he goes on, Michael, we'll start
with ninety two and go from there.
Speaker 8 (22:33):
Yeah, there's a reckoning inside the Democratic Party. Kama Harris
promised us freedom. Well, she delivered it to us because
now we're free from having to run anything in Washington,
d C. That's not what we were signing out for us.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
What we got. I thought that was pretty funny. And
then he makes an excellent point in the next clip.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
And I hope the party take the chance to look
at the fact that we pushed all our rebels out
of this party. We had a rebellion in our party
in twenty sixteen. It was called Bernie Sanders. You had
a rebellion in your party in twenty sixteen it was
called Donald Trump, your rebel one, our rebel lost. And
then since then the rebels in our party been pushed out.
(23:11):
RFK was a rebel inside of our party. He wanted
to run against Joe Biden fair and square, the DNC
wouldn't let him.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
Pushed him out.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
You can walk down the list.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
Don't forget.
Speaker 8 (23:22):
Elon Musk was a Andrew Young Democrat four years ago.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
He's out.
Speaker 8 (23:28):
You can walk down the list. Joe Rogan was very
favorable toward Michelle Obama.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
He was a Bernie guy. He's out.
Speaker 8 (23:36):
So there's something that's happened in this party where the
rebels in this party no longer feel like they have
a place, and we've got to be able to talk
about that stuff.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Honestly, Wow, that's really interesting that that happened. I mean,
there's no denying that happened. But at the same time,
the old guard, the entrenched Democratic Party cater's the Bernie
wing so much that they can't win elections.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
I know.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
It's a weird set of contradictions. I'll tell you this though.
There are a couple of big time factors that will
determine like the next elections obviously, but one of them
absolutely in that top tier is does the Democrat Party
listen to Van Jones. If they do, they will be
in a much much better place. I suspect that they won't.
(24:27):
So another factor because he was right about all this.
But another factor, and Michael, I'm looking at the next
two clips ninety four ninety five, is that they ran
this check.
Speaker 9 (24:37):
The true test of our commitment is weather in the
face of an obstacle, do we throw up our hands
or do we roll up our sleeves and as we approach?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
Wow? Wow?
Speaker 4 (25:01):
She that is a motivational speech from middle school class.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
She dropped that line. And that wasn't just like the
build up to the line. That was the line. And
she paused, She's like.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Huh, how about that?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Or do we roll up our sleeves? Did you hear that?
That was some shizzle right there. That's a raw, raw
speech appropriate for twelve year olds. Wow. So she's there's more.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
What is the effect when incompetent people don't know they're incompetent?
Speaker 4 (25:32):
That's what she mean in Kruger effect, That's what she is. Yeah,
she doesn't know that none of these things.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Land is brilliant to anyone else.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
All right, but she's had her mediocrity reinforced for various
reasons throughout her career.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Willie. I know next clip, Michael.
Speaker 9 (25:50):
And I ask you to remember the context in which
you exist.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
As hilarious as she is inspiring Camala Harrius, Harius Harris
and then rents the writ's previous. I think he's right.
This will be the final clip, Michael.
Speaker 10 (26:17):
It's one thing for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. You know,
the entire premise of their campaign was totally rejected. Their
entire basis of their campaigns, that Trump's a threat to democracy,
Trump Trump, Trump, everything about Trump and was totally rejected.
So being out of touch is one thing. Staying out
of touch is another. And that's and that's even worse.
So all of these pardons, all this nonsense that they've
(26:39):
that they're perpetrating on the American people, it's it's it's
front and center selling the border wall, continuing to snub
the American people.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
It's astonishing.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
Her campaign saying yes, she lost only because of misogyny,
sexism in America. I hope they listened to her and
not Van Jones.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
I am i'm uh. I guess I'm a pessimist in
that like if the team my sports team wins, I
barely can enjoy the championship before it settles in. This
is the high mark it's downhill from here. I mean,
we can't we can't continue to be this good. You know,
we'll lose play blah blah. And I'm like that. And
I feel that way about the whole Republicans versus Democrats,
(27:20):
because the Republican Party, the MAGA part of it anyway,
is as high as it's ever going to be, and
the Democrats are such a low I assume they're going
to get their act together and dig out of this.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
At this point. I mean, it's just astonishing how.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
Low they're I was trying to find this graph I
came across yesterday that was just another example. It was
how many states, almost every single state Joe Biden is
in the negative in terms of approval rating, like like
all but like two states in the whole country. I mean,
they're just that party is down, down, down, and should be.
They earned it. Oh yeah, But I have to assume
(27:57):
that that the rebuild in some way with the vangel
of the world understand or not. Go ahead, Listen to Bernie,
listen to Elizabeth, make commonly your standard beer again. Put
Ac in charge, in charge, and things continue to read
Twitter all day long.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Make that your party.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
Go ahead, Yeah, continue to press the radical crap in.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Our nation's schools.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Continue to run candidates who put pronouns on their name,
placard at the debate and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Just keep doing it. Knock yourself. Yeah, m.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Well, I'm old and bitter enough to have heard the
pronouncements of the death of one party or the other
multiple times. They do find a way of reassessing and retooling,
and which is gitting back into power.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Which is, for all the criticism of the two party system,
that is the way it works. They do retool, they
become different things and.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
Well, and I think anybody with an ounce of realism
in their veins or bones, wherever you keep your realism.
Speaker 1 (28:57):
Perhaps stuck between the cheek and gum, I don't know.
I use it pository well to each their owne. You're
gonna feel a little pressure.
Speaker 4 (29:07):
But anybody with any realism understands if the Republican Party
were unopposed, we became a one party country, they would
become monsters in about five minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
Yeah, I suitcase my realism. Oh boy, sneak it in. Uhh,
when's vacation? Stunned, Michael?
Speaker 4 (29:26):
Is it this Friday? Tell me it's this Friday. We
get started in ten minutes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
If you're want we all finish strong. Next time strong.
We like this song so much we're gonna play it again.
Speaker 3 (29:42):
The whole droolne conversation can be summed up here in
just a few seconds here by the New Jersey Senator
Kristen Gillibrand. This is the latest from a sitting US senator.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
I don't know if it's safe or not safe because.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
We don't have full domain awareness. We don't know who's
the the drones are.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
We don't know whether they're adversarial or run by a
foreign entity.
Speaker 1 (30:04):
We don't know what their purpose is, we don't know
if they're spying.
Speaker 3 (30:07):
So, despite all the things you've heard in the last
two weeks, in the last twenty four hours particularly, there's
a US senator, which is a big deal, and you'd think,
as a senator from New Jersey, you could get practically
anybody on the.
Speaker 1 (30:19):
Phone and ask the question you want to ask.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
And she says, we don't have any idea if they're
adversarial or not, if they're domestic or foreign or dangerous, or.
Speaker 1 (30:27):
We have no idea of any of that. That's amazing.
Speaker 4 (30:29):
You know who is aware of that clip guaranteed hesiin
ping and he's being told or thinking, okay, so there
are enough drones there unless he's already involved in surveiling
our military bass, which he is, but I don't know
if it's the East Coast drone mania. But he's thinking, okay,
there's so many drones. They even US senators say we
have no idea, what's what, And he's like, hey, I
(30:51):
want ten thousand drones surveiling American military basis by the
end of the month, and they'll make it so we're
that vulnerable.
Speaker 1 (31:00):
That's interesting.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Quick thing I came across yesterday that I either didn't
know ord forgotten. I like rain sound effects when I'm
trying to sleep, particularly if I'm gonna nap. YouTube there's
there are so many YouTube videos of different kinds of rain,
and they're awesome and they're there. Some of them are
(31:25):
like eight hours long if you want to have it
run all night long the video and all different kinds rain,
like heavy rain, light rain. You want rain with wind,
you want rain on a tin roof, you want rain
on the cement, you want rain on trees, whatever kind
of rain you want. So if you like those kind
of sound effects. You don't need to buy some machine,
it's just it's on your YouTube. Can they get me
purple rain rain?
Speaker 1 (31:45):
I don't know if that would help me sleep.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Reminds me that way slow living or whatever that's popular
on YouTube where it's like an eight hour video of
just looking out the window on a train. That's sort
of stuff I've never done that. I'm too busy for that,
but sounds really load for you.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
No, I am, actually am or are you? I think
about that? Auten.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
I remember one time when you were raising younger kids,
back when we took phone calls, you saying not having
time to you didn't have time to work out, and
some guy called in and said, you're just making excuses,
and you got so mad at him. And that's why
I feel like now I have so many days where
there is not a five minute window to fit anything
into period.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Period.
Speaker 4 (32:29):
I'll put off a two minute trip to the bathroom
for an hour and a half less unless I'm gonna,
you know, have somebody else pick up my kid or
drop them off there or you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, which is fine. You could do glute crunches in
the car well you wait for you, Yeah, exactly exactly. Sure,
that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
By while, while you're helping them with their their math homework,
stand on one leg and flex your glutes.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
Sounds great. You're just making excuses if you're not working
out the son of a bitch and find you. I'm
gonna hunt you down. That's funny. I clicked on the
wrong dang.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
How do you like my chances of swearing off baked
goods as a new Year's resolution? I don't even I'm
not even setting the gold doing it for a year.
I'm just going to see how long I can go.
But maybe that's a bad way. That's almost like giving
in before I start. Well, this is a clear over
under situation. It's not an if, but an over under.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
How Lady Picks can can get in on us? Price
Picks should get in on this exactly. That's hilarious. I
believe in you, Jack, Thank you Ish. I'll save my
(33:52):
comment on that for the final thought. Here's your host
for final thoughts, Joe Getty.
Speaker 4 (33:56):
Well, let's get a final thought from every one, then,
wouldn't that be gay? Let's begin with with our technical
director Michael Angelo. Michael, one week till Christmas, I got
my last gift coming in tomorrow, and I think I'm
all set, so I'm pretty happy.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
This is the earliest I've ever done. Oh nice, humble brag.
Nobody wants to hear that. Shut up? Yeah, cool story, Michael,
All right.
Speaker 4 (34:16):
Wow, where do you get off? Katie Green are a
steam Newswoman. As a final thought, Katie, I.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
Just wanted to add to this year and review that
you guys did earlier and remind everyone that it was
in June when all the women chose a bear over
a man while hiking.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
Right rather run and enjoy having your leg chewed off,
Lady Jack.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
A final thought for us, this is my most aggressive
New Year's resolution I've ever thought of.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
I'm gonna swear off all big goods.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
I'm talking pies, cakes, donuts, cinnamon rolls, anything that other
than like bread for sandwiches.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
And I don't actually know if I can do it,
but I'm pretty committed. You're a brave little man. I
congratulate you.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
I finally thought i'd meant to get this early on
the show earlier, but I forgot your your router, your
Internet router is it tp links? Selling router on Amazon
has been linked to Chinese cyber attacks.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
O nice TP link. Remember like toilet paper, go check
it when you get home.
Speaker 3 (35:16):
Armstrong and Getdy wrapic and another grueling four hour workday.
Speaker 4 (35:19):
So many people will thanks so little time. Go to
Armstrong and giddy dot com a lot of great hot
links to pick up some a g swag.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
I mean, for instance, I remember when Joe's New Year's
resolution one year was wear better pants Like that is
you know, not daunting.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
We'll see you tomorrow. God bliss America. I'm strong and Getty.
How many more hours am I doing this? We're just
gonna keep playing? Are you sure of that? Dude? To me,
that would be the reasonable rational thing to do. Uh,
well down, small crack, that's ludicrous. I'm so good. You
cannot talk to me that way. So let's go with
a bug.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Tell you what you got, the old whistling scrotum. You're
gonna win some bar bets.
Speaker 1 (35:58):
Huh. I'll take that bet ten dollars says you can't.
And that high note. Thank you all very much, Armstrong
and Getty
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