May 12, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Military muscle show in Moscow & the Russia/Ukraine conflict
- Man shoots intruder... with a twist!
- 60 Minutes exposes government waste
- The new way bosses talk about workers
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong, Joe Getty.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Arm Strong and Jettie and he Armstrong and Getty. I
don't want to talk about Mother's Day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I had a little exchange yesterday which made me realize
different people have different views of what Mother's Day should be,
how it should be celebrated or honored.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And I don't know. You know, you have a tendency to.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Think that the way you see things is the way
most people see them until you meet evidence to the contrary.
Maybe I'm off base, and we'll throw that out to
you the listener later. Did you want to break from
your kids on Mother's Day or did you want to
spend time with your kids on Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It seems to be quite the diverging opinion on that
to me.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There are six to seven major news stories happening right
now with developments on like an hourly basis, which is
really quite extraordinary to me. Among the biggest things that
happened over the weekend was President she sitting next there
next to Vladimir Putin in Moscow watching the giant military
(01:26):
parade with tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers marching in
front of them there in Red Square to show the
solidarity between the Kami Chinese and the Kami slash Dictator Putin,
along with North Korea and all the other bad players
in the world. That is a frightening situation. Here's Martha
(01:47):
Rattot's reporting on it yesterday on ABC this week.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It was a massive display of military muscle. More than
eleven thousand Russian and foreign troops marching across Moscow's Red Square,
all under the gaze of Vladimir Putin and his special guest,
China's president. She tanks, artillery and missiles rolling before them,
(02:13):
and fighter jets soaring above. There are troops from all
over the world here in Red Square today, but the
largest contingent of foreign troops from.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
China, the biggest chunk of the foreign troops from freaking
China sentem a top the Moscow so they could march
in the parade. And then this weirdness which escaped most people.
I think Vladimir giving some sort of speech where.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He completely rewar wrote.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
History to credit the Chinese for taking the lead in
turning back Japan in World War two and winning that front,
just a completely made up where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Different view of away World War two ended. So now
it was it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Was Russia stopping the Nazis and it was China's stopping
the imperial Japanese.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's the way Putin presented it to the cheering crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
It's so interesting to watch everything orwell tried to teach us,
just being played out. It is so important to own history.
He who owns the past owns the present. He owns
the present, owns the future.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I always go back to that caught on Mike
or on purpose exchange between she and Putin last couple
of years, where she said to Putin the world is
about to.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Change, and we're going to drive those changes.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, he believes they believe they can end this
whole US, Western Europe led global order thing and turn
the world around and be in.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Charge a totalitarian poll, if you will, in a bipolar world.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here's a little more from that, Martha raddits report.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Russian officials will not talk about the number of Russian
soldiers who have been killed in this war. By some estimates,
some two hundred thousand Russian soldiers have been killed fighting
in Ukraine, numbers the Russians denied.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, the lower estimates are two hundred thousand dead. We
lost seventy thousand in Vietnam over between sixty and seventy five,
a long.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Period of time.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We still talk about it. It wrecked our politics for decades.
We have a giant memorial toward it. They've lost three
to maybe four or five times that many, depending on
whose numbers you use, in three years, and many.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
More than that, grievously injured and removed from the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, right, and just an astounding development there, and that
parade was just, Oh, it's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
As we're discussing last week, it's a very very different
culture Russia. They venerate dying in battle and being a
martyr for the cause, and family is drenched in honor
if you lost somebody. And actually they're they're working very
hard to bring veterans back from the front and give
them cushy government jobs, get them in the legislatures, that
(05:12):
sort of thing, because they know that the brutality and
futility of a lot of their service could embitter them
and and be a force in Russian society that would
be destabilizing.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
They say in the stability business.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So Putin said he will not agree to a cease
fire unless they have a meeting. So Trump tried to
do a little Judo on that and say, okay, fine,
there's a meeting Thursday. Is dumbled Turkey. Zelensky immediately jumped
on board and said, I'll be there waiting for you.
So Zelensky says he's going to be in Turkey and
is dumbul sitting at a boardroom table waiting for your putting.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The show up on Thursday. We'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So yeah, Zelensky said, look, there's no peace talks without
a truce. We got to stop kill on each other
before we talk. And uh and uh. Putin said no, now,
let's just get together and talk. Trump said yeah, yeah,
we gotta have talked before seas fire apparently, And so
Zelenski said, okay, that's great. I'll be in Turkey on Thursday.
Show up either I'm ready. So, uh, how this ends
(06:20):
nobody knows and how Trump interprets it and and how
he adjusts his policies because of it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So you think.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know why he I feel like he could
easily and understandably provoke Zelenski into uh an emotional outburst
that makes it look like, you know, so Putin can play. Look,
he's he's he's too he's too angry, he hates me
too much, he's too too much of a Nazi. Oh
that's the other thing they kept going on and on
(06:48):
about at the big celebration over the weekend was how
they're continuing to fight the Nazis, indeed, not sifying Ukraine
after having beaten the Nazis in World War Two?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Just he was to show you how idiotic the narrative,
the rhetoric can be around this sort of thing. Are
there some far rightists in Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah there are.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So, Well it's going to be interesting to see. So
you don't think it's going to happen the meeting. So
if the meeting doesn't happen on Thursday, what's the next step?
Trump and JD have both made it pretty clear. I
think that, Look, this is like your last chance, Putin
to show you have any interest in trying to negotiate
a peace. And that's why the European leaders got together
(07:32):
there in Kiev over the weekend. And if Putin doesn't
show up and shows no interest. There are gonna be
some hardcore sanctions coming toward Russia like this next weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Well, Putin has only made the most pathetic and inadequate
of gestures toward peace because he's not interested in peace.
He doesn't want to stop the killing. He wants to
keep killing and keep acquiring land. So no, I think
the sit down with Zelensky would expose him. He would
feel like he was maneuvered into that, and Putin doesn't
do Oh, I just got maneuvered.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It just doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well. I think Trump and the European leaders are serious
about these sanctions and everything, so that'll be interesting to
see how that plays out. I want to get into
this AI video though. If you haven't seen it, we'll
explain it to you right after this.
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Speaker 2 (09:17):
Run your game. So have you, Joe seen the.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Actual roughly forty five second video that supposedly Macrone meeting
with the leader of Germany and England and Poland.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
They sit down at a little table in a train.
I think it is unexpectedly came in.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Somebody left a baggy of cocaine on the table and
Macrone grabs it real quick, he thinks, with nobody looking
and sticks it a.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Coke spoon too, right, Yeah, and I didn't see the
spoon part, even though I've watched the video and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
They say it's a spoon. Um, he grabs a little
baggy of white powder and I'll.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just I'll read the retweeting of this.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
This is from some doctor guy who's fairly well respected.
Guy's got over a million followers on Twitter who tweeted
this version of it out developing Macron's starmer and Mertz
caught on video on the return from Kiev a bag
of white powder on the table. Macron quickly pockets it,
Mertz hides the spoon. No explanation given Zolensky, known cocaine enthusiast,
(10:26):
had just hosted them connected the dots. I thought it
was laughable. I mean it had that AI look to
it for one thing. To me, just that kind of
little herky jerky AI look that stuff has. I'm sure
soon that will be gone and you won't be able
to see that. But the number of people that responded
(10:50):
just to our re playing of it on Twitter. It
looks real to me, or I think it's real, or
that's clearly real, or I've seen it from different angles.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Hey, guys, it's real.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
A post truth world, man, we are, it's through the
looking glass. Yeah, yeah, I'm macronin Merits and Zelensky. You
are all coke monkeys.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's right. That's why they're getting together, right to do
a little blow.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Okay, that's why they get together with Zelensky was because
it's about their personal cocaine use.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean that just seems like such a ridiculous premise.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, but if you're primed to believe that and desperate's
the wrong, enthusiastic about believing anything negative. You here because
Russian propaganda, which is highly skilled, it's like it's interesting.
A engineer buddy of mine, we've discussed at for length
the fact that Russia is technically very very adept in
(11:49):
the sciences, you know, the cosmonauts blah blah blah, but
they can't manufacture. They just, for whatever reason, they've never
been able to become a manufacturing power.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
They are very, very very.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Good at propaganda, at psyops, how to design it, how
to seduce people, what constituencies within a country are most
susceptible to our talking points, how do we seduce them?
They're very skilled at that, and they've found some pretty
eager ears in the West.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So this particular doctor with a million followers that retweeted
it is one of those scientists who got fired for
speaking out about COVID stuff early on, which I was
on his side on mostly.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But regardless, that doesn't make this real.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And so what I wonder about this stuff is do
people actually believe it or is it like the flat
earthers who get kindness some sort of I don't quite
understand it. They don't fully believe it. They just get
a kick out of the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What if it was aspect of it for some reason. No,
I don't understand the psychology of it quite.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I think it's like, if you really dislike your neighbor,
you're willing to believe any story about what a bastard
they are. It's that And they're they're anti Zelenski. Do
you think they're pro booting?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So the support of Europe and all those billions of
dollars and perhaps soldiers and everything like that is all
because their personal cocain't youws.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, they're a bunch of coke monkeys.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That's why they're all increasing their military budgets, having uh
you know, bringing Finland in the NATO that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's just it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Any thoughts on that text line? Four one FFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
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and a live flat bed. American Airlines get pregnant with us.
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Wow, Wow, Wow, all right, maybe I'm an older feen.
Just sounds like a nice opportunity to grab a little
shut eye. Anyway, So I thought this was interesting Wall
Street Journal with an article about a guy's somebody's been
stealing from his lot next to his home they're building, etc.
(14:15):
So he camps out with an AR fifteen, and sure
enough somebody shows up, wakes him up, shines a lightness face,
yelling and blewey. He fires at him. The intruder runs
away bleeding. What happened next?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Jack? What happened next? Is?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
The twist shows the benefits and pitfalls of a fast
growing insurance market catering to gun owners who want to
protection if they kill or injure in self defense.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I gotta get this. There are so many people I
want to shoot.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
So wow, Probably best not to air that sentiment. Rushing
back to his house, mister Houston, that's his name, or
Hustin followed the directions on a post incident card from
the US Concealed Kerry Association, which is one of the
leaders in this insurance field. He called nine one one,
and his wife called the company's twenty four hour hotline.
(15:02):
Within an hour, a us CCA attorney called to represent him. Now, interestingly,
there's a bit of a twist. After this guy's arrested
and charged with attempted murder, he says the USCCA lawyer
told him the case was a tough one. You probably
ought to plead guilty to a lesser charge. He said,
what now, and he found a new lawyer who got
the charges dismissed. Even though USCCA also paid for the
(15:26):
new lawyer. Houston quit his membership shortly after the two
year legal saga ended.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, so that my first thought is it's you were
either legally justified in shooting them or you weren't right
right right.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Although you know, it is a lawyer's job to say
we might win but it doesn't look great. Maybe you
take this safe bet. That's what lawyers do sometimes. But
this guy says, I knew I was in a since
there was no way I was going to take a
guilty please, which is again a bit of a twist
on the story. But the number of Americans buying self
defense insurance to call it murder insurance.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Don't need another damned insurance racket.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Liability laws, you know, you don't think, so I tell
you what, I'm gonna pay a few bucks a month
and if anything ever happens, I got to put a
holes in somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But it just can't get a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I got my rowing, So it's guns and now we're
gonna then I guarantee you. Then there's going to be
a sidewalk, a special sidewalk liability long case some may
trips on your sidewalk, and a special I don't know,
kitchen liability in case you have guests over in the
kitchen and they hurt themselves.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It'll just keep going and going well.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
On My property is heavily booby trapped, as you know,
with various pungee sticks and flamethrowers, et cetera. About two
million people have signed up for this, according to the
industry executive, some of whom estimate their memberships doubled in
the last five years.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Offers.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
The insure offers a range of services, including bail and
criminal defense lawyers so also cover the cost of litigation.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I hope this is the last gasp then that pushes
us over the edge to where we finally do some
sort of tort reform in this country, where we can't
keep suing the Jesus out of everybody all the time
for everything, because.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We've gotta fix that. It just has to happen.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I feel about tort reform like I feel about losing
thirty pounds. Really important, really ought to happen, not gonna happen.
And I don't mean to sound like a quitter that
I'm not on your side or anything, because I am,
But I just it's lawyers are in charge of everything.
There's look at the legislatures. Well that's right too, local, federal, Yes,
(17:33):
that's correct. Yeah, exactly, you've finally woken up thirty. So
if you had your ideal weight, you would lose thirty
pounds roughly. Yeah, yeah, that'd be really good for me,
but so much good food and wine.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
There's a big, big, giant weight loss study came out
over the weekend. We could touch on that. It's uh,
I thought it was kind of interesting. Actual now actually.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Touch on it and I ignore it. Sounds good to me,
all sorts of big news to get to today. It
really is a wild news day. Hollywood doesn't need a
tax subsidy. In other stories, how much we got ripped
off during COVID. You gotta hear this story, Armstrong and
Getty to be honest, Elon Musk coming out and saying
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there is a huge amount of fraud.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I welcome that message completely because finally someone is actually
saying this.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Thank god, sixty Minutes did this story last night, even
though they made me so angry.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I was yelling out loud a couple of times. Thank God.
So hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
He's got the whooping cough, freaking whooping cough, which I'll
talk about later. You do not want to get whooping cough.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But this story about fraud on sixty minutes, which we're
gonna spend a fair amount of time on right here,
is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Coming up. I want to bring my whole self to work.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Has turned to the beatings will continue until the morale improves.
And boy, that didn't take long. Stay tuned for that.
But getting back to sixty minutes, I think I know
what annoyed you so much, but I will.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Tell you this.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant
share of which you're about to hear, which would tend
to reinforce a fairly trumpy, slash republican view of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Shocked by that.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Then a great story on unbelievable scientific advancements dealing with
spinal injury, and then a nice piece about Jimmy Lee
Curtis in her career, and blah blah blah. It was
not obnoxiously activistly left.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
With no very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and
this first story is so important, just roll all on
with the next clip.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There, Michael, is this woman who has been screaming about
fraud and government her whole career and getting no attention.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
I believe the government is losing between five hundred and
fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year.
We're coming up close to the one trillion amount is
lost every year a fraud.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a
trillion dollars a year of fraud.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I don't want to steal her thunder, but a lot
of the story had to do with or at least
a significant amount, with the fact that the safeguards are
pathetic and inadequate, and everybody knows it because it's just
not a priority. Yeah, you bust your ass to pay
your taxes, and yeah we take your money from you
or you go to jail. But yeah, once we have
your money, now we don't safeguarded at all.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Not really, this is a both party problem too, I mean,
oh yes, because if one party made this big deal
of this enough when they were in power, they could
do something about it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
They're trying, I think, just keep going, Michael.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
When most people think of government fraud, I imagine they're thinking,
somebody is claiming disability benefits when they're not actually eligible,
somebody collecting food stamps when they're not actually eligible.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Are those the biggest defenders?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Not at all, Not by a long shot. What we're
really talking about is nation state actors. We're talking about
organized crime rings. We're talking about using vast amounts of
stolen Americans' identities to monetize them for you know, criminal activity.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So when COVID happened, and they were throwing around trillions
of dollars like crazy and opening up all these various programs.
Lots of people jumped on. It's similar to what happened
in California with the biggest fraud in California state history,
where prisoners from other states start applying for small business
handouts and everything like that and got them to the
(21:41):
tune of gazillions and gazillions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
This well, this next little clip from her will make
you mad.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog
committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
We could tell right away, its like, oh, well, that's
all going to get stolen.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You saw it coming.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Oh yeah, I mean it was like they through money
in the air and just let people run around and
grab it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Still in favor of tax increases? Are you let that
hang there for a while.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's like they threw money up in the air and
let people run around and grab it. What is it
with lefties? I do not understand the whole. I care
about the downdraw. I get caring about the downtrodden, but
I don't get the whole I care about the downtrodden.
I'm willing to throw money at it and then not
pay the slightest bit of attention at all ever to
(22:30):
where the money goes or if it does any good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I believe this in my heart. There is a huge motivator.
Let me structure the sense like this.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Self congratulations may be the most important factor in good
old American left wing politics. I'm not talking about like
Jay Guavera Marxist politics.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm talking about we need to help the downtrodden. Let's
not blame the victims.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
We have to have programs and plays, blah blah blah,
well meaning folks, but their own self congratulations is all
they require. If they feel that emotional feeling that they're
looking for, they don't bother with any follow up. They
don't care about any follow up. In fact, follow up
(23:21):
ruins their buzz going through the accounting and realizing, oh
my god, there's waste, fraud and abuse in this program.
Holy cow. We got to roll up our sleeves, take
a deep breath, and get to work.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Because this is bad. No that kills their buzz.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
God.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
We always talk about the spending is the point because
it goes to you know, connected people, cronies, whatever, you know,
family members that are on fake boards. I'm surprised those
people don't out the fraud more like hey, you know
Biden families or whatever. It's saying, hey, hey, hey, that
million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed
(23:56):
to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
They're not drag of it.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't say that out loud, but
you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists, although they would.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Be caught in their own web.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I think so they can't a little more from Linda Miller,
righteous speaker of truth.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
The most egregious part is that a lot of the
people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So who are they?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Who are you talking about We're talking about China, We're
talking about Russia, impersonating Americans in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
We are enriching Shesi in Pang and vlad Putin and
his gutons and oligarchs even as we're opposing them.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
This FBI guy roll on.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century
that are built off of having safe haven stass meaning
their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even
if it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And then get a cut, the government's get a cut.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And then this I find this particularly fantastic because we.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
All if we hold on, sorry about the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If we have to give our social security number, we
look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we
have to kid into a pin we put our hand
over the pin pad so nobody possibly sees our social
security because the most important thing, you know, so make
sure nobody gets a hold of your social Security number.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That's from sixty minutes.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division. He says,
these digital gangs are armed with a very important weapon.
Is it true that the social security number of just
about every single American is available for sale on.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The dark web? That is a truth tape.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
All of our person identifiable information named data, birth, former addresses,
social security number is available in the dark net and
can likely be purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's chilling.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Yeah, it's very much a way of our lives so
right now and purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,
very affordable. What the hell?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or
more likely has been hacked.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And they had an example of an old couple and
who lost their home in the Palisades area of Los
Angeles and went to apply for their FEMA money, and
somebody had already grabbed it using their address, name, social
security number, all their data had already grabbed their money,
so they grabbed their money. Now they're going through the
(26:24):
I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten that
out and get the money that they're owed by these
various programs that we support because some you know, Chinese, Russian,
whoever actors stole it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well, I don't mean to drive everybody to murderous rage.
But what's especially frustrating about all of this and all
of these dollar figures is that, remember, you got to
tack on interest because we're borrowing that money.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We didn't have it. It wasn't in our wallets. We've
got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,
one more clippon, then we'll fill in some dots on
this story.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital
fraud cases in US history, in which cyber criminals from
around the world use stolen identities to pocket six billion
dollars in pandemic unemployment funds.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why is the government a target for this type of.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Fraud because of the massive amount of money that exists
in the federal government and in the state government, and.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
The utter lack of interest in protecting it in a
significant way, especially if it gets in the way of
handing out scads of money and thereby winning votes.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So, just so you have this takeaway, this Linda Miller
person who's been doing this for her career and is
so frustrated that nobody's been paying any attention, says, we're
approaching three quarters of a trillion per year that gets stolen,
mostly by foreign countries, and just from the COVID relief money.
When that was just flying around, like she said, it's
(28:03):
like they threw it up in the air and anybody
could run and grab it, she says, is probably about
a trillion of it was stolen, a trillion dollars, and
as the FBI guy said, we're never going to get
it back. There's no recovering this money, a trillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
If we had a king, the prisons would be full
of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen monarchy now.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Story, let's just call it good.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How's this not like a big enough story for an
entire party to emerge around.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I just think the other side of the coin is
so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're going
to give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,
that guy.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Said, he do you stuff my media nitpicking just to
get it out of my system?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Cecilia Vega woman right at the very beginning of the
story had to throw in Elon Musk over states how
much waste there is, doesn't he and the woman said, yeah,
he does. So they had to throw out this red
herring for their lefty viewer. Elon Musk isn't for the
(29:20):
We're not saying he's perfect or everything.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He did was good.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Before we get to the biggest story you're gonna hear
this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from the
gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Nice red herring, you had to throw in there for
some reason to satisfy your.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Lefty view I mean, what the hell was that that
makes me so angry.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I wonder if they like edited the story together and
somebody said, hey, this really comes off as supporting road
and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. We probably ought to
throw in something for our soft headed again self congratulate
Tory dumb ass viewers.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That was uncharitable, and I apologize for it. That's what
it was I got.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in
the crosswalk in my university town.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I was in my cyberbeast. She's walking in front of me,
and she looks at me and she gives me the
two thumbs down as she walks across. No disapproval.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
This privileged college girl at an expensive university in an
expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
So yeah, that's what Minutes had to do. They had
to throw in a little Elon's not perfect.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But now back to a very very big important story
that everybody should know.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
A trillion dollars got stolen, right right.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I like how they sand I'm sorry, I'm hung up
on the cars. I like how the same people who
are keying SUVs five years ago are now keying electric vehicles.
Just the important part is they're an angry activist and
a revolutionary and they're gonna fight the power, and it'll
be a different power, completely opposite in.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Five more years. Because all I want to do is
be angry and self francious. I can't think I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I wanted to roll down my window and say, you know,
I have no opinion on what you drive your whole life.
Whatever you drive, doesn't make any difference to me whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Anyway, honest, fine, make you right, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
All right, here's a little, uh, here's a little I
had a slice of key lime pie last night, and
I love key lime pie.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Here's a little dessert for you. Michael. We're gonna go
up to the uh, the rando section. Oh, this is
this is great.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Here is a dad who does a great Joe Biden
and he's he's literally working on the meat on the grill.
This is a clip fifteen Michael and his daughter comes
up to him and says.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He does do an impression of Joe Biden. Explaining the
plot to Star Wars.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
So there's a there's a galic galaxy Kirk on the
side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,
back back back when I I was working full time. Anyway,
I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter long
far far away. It was galaxy and there were robots.
(32:12):
The robots, they were not the droids. You were really
good for me.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Come on, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
So the whole bringing your whole south to work is
turned into shut up and get to work.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
In the blink of an eye. That story next.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
He yetie classes that years ago were pushed to the
side in favor of coursework, prioritizing test scores and stem
now seen as a huge opportunity. According to one survey,
sixty six percent of all high schools now off for
career education, and it's being driven by economic demand. I
have construction companies and I have other employers coming to
me wanting students right out of high school to be
(32:53):
career ready.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
We need employees.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Yeah, we had a story last week about kids being
recruited straight out of high school for like, you know,
seventy five thousand dollars a year jobs in welding and
that sort of thing. Interesting how that's turned culturally, speaking
of which, you know, it's it's partly the change, the
amount of change.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's making everybody crazy these days. It's also the pace
of change.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Like I remember, it wasn't very long ago that we
were telling the youngsters who were like bringing their whole
selves to work and taking spirit days and the rest
of it. I mean, because it seemed like employees had
all the power and.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
There was that employees get to it Monday and I'll
work half a day Tuesday and take Fridays off.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I demand fury.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Past two on Friday. Yeah, and we're trying to tell you,
trust us, this will not last. Well, it has not,
not long ago. Everybody's replaceable. As the headline the story
the new way bosses talk about workers not long ago,
bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Today with a giant.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Question mark hanging over the economy less today after the
temporary maybe you trade deal with China, But executives are
pulling punches, pulling no punches and saying employees need to
work harder, complain lesson, be glad they.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have a job.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
How work life balance is your problem, said Emma is
it's greed or Gridae or something. Emma Greed is not
a good name for this article, but she's the co
founder of the Skims shapewear company.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I should ask my dad how many times in employers
seemed concerned about his work life balance when he was
a young man out there starting his.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Work life balance is your problem, she said. Starbucks, after
cutting in more than a thousand jobs, there's a new CEO,
Brian Nichols said, remaining corporate staff need to step it
up her own and own whether or not this place grows.
Jamie Diamond, in a profanity laced internal meeting, told employees
lamenting a return to work mandate that he didn't care.
(34:54):
I've had it with this kind of stuff. I've been
working seven days a week since COVID.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I come in. Where is everybody else? Man?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
If you can concern yourself with work life balance, you
should consider yourself among the more privileged workers in the
history of work on planets Earth. If it is even
an option, that means you've got shelter and enough food,
and you can start to decide, you know how much
do I need?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Right right?
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And that's not to say it's a bad idea or
you shouldn't. You just have to keep it in perspective.
The shift in tone marks a shift in power. Now
the companies are shrinking their white collar staff with jobs
harder to find, many workers are seeing pricks disappear and
their grievance is ignored, or.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
That if you don't have the luxury of being concerned
about work life balance, that you're somehow unique in the
history of working.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Right right, yeah, Oh, let's see again.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How many of our parents ever had the ever had
it crossed their mind?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And and interestingly, they mentioned a twenty twenty three episode
where this one company told staffers leave pitty City. Well,
that comment, made in a video call, immediately went viral,
sparking days of headlines and worker backlash. The CEO quickly
apologized set her comments were insensitive.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Now it's like they're all saying it. Wow, huh. See
how long this lasts?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
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don't want to talk about Mother's Day yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I had a little exchange yesterday which made me realize
different people have different views of what Mother's Day should be,
how it should be celebrated or honored.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
And I don't know. You know, you have a tendency to.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Think that the way you see things is the way
most people see them until you meet evidence to the contrary.
Maybe I'm off base, and we'll throw that out to
you the listener later. Did you want to break from
your kids on Mother's Day or did you want to
spend time with your kids on Mother's Day?
Speaker 2 (00:57):
It seems to be quite the diverging opinion on that
to me.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
There are six to seven major news stories happening right
now with developments on like an hourly basis, which is
really quite extraordinary to me. Among the biggest things that
happened over the weekend was President she sitting next there
next to Vladimir Putin in Moscow watching the giant military
(01:26):
parade with tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers marching in
front of them there in Red Square to show the
solidarity between the Kami Chinese and the Kami slash Dictator Putin,
along with North Korea and all the other bad players
in the world. That is a frightening situation. Here's Martha
(01:47):
Rattot's reporting on it yesterday on ABC this week.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
It was a massive display of military muscle. More than
eleven thousand Russian and foreign troops marching across Moscow's Red Square,
all under the gaze of Vladimir Putin and his special guest,
China's president. She tanks, artillery and missiles rolling before them,
(02:13):
and fighter jets soaring above. There are troops from all
over the world here in Red Square today, but the
largest contingent of foreign troops from.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
China, the biggest chunk of the foreign troops from freaking
China sentem a top the Moscow so they could march
in the parade. And then this weirdness which escaped most people.
I think Vladimir giving some sort of speech where.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
He completely rewar wrote.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
History to credit the Chinese for taking the lead in
turning back Japan in World War two and winning that front,
just a completely made up where did that come from?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Different view of away World War two ended. So now
it was it.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Was Russia stopping the Nazis and it was China's stopping
the imperial Japanese.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
That's the way Putin presented it to the cheering crowd.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
It's so interesting to watch everything orwell tried to teach us,
just being played out. It is so important to own history.
He who owns the past owns the present. He owns
the present, owns the future.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And I always go back to that caught on Mike
or on purpose exchange between she and Putin last couple
of years, where she said to Putin the world is
about to.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Change, and we're going to drive those changes.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I mean, he believes they believe they can end this
whole US, Western Europe led global order thing and turn
the world around and be in.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
Charge a totalitarian poll, if you will, in a bipolar world.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Here's a little more from that, Martha raddits report.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Russian officials will not talk about the number of Russian
soldiers who have been killed in this war. By some estimates,
some two hundred thousand Russian soldiers have been killed fighting
in Ukraine, numbers the Russians denied.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, the lower estimates are two hundred thousand dead. We
lost seventy thousand in Vietnam over between sixty and seventy five,
a long.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Period of time.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
We still talk about it. It wrecked our politics for decades.
We have a giant memorial toward it. They've lost three
to maybe four or five times that many, depending on
whose numbers you use, in three years, and many.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
More than that, grievously injured and removed from the battlefield.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Yeah, right, and just an astounding development there, and that
parade was just, Oh, it's disturbing.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Man.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
As we're discussing last week, it's a very very different
culture Russia. They venerate dying in battle and being a
martyr for the cause, and family is drenched in honor
if you lost somebody. And actually they're they're working very
hard to bring veterans back from the front and give
them cushy government jobs, get them in the legislatures, that
(05:12):
sort of thing, because they know that the brutality and
futility of a lot of their service could embitter them
and and be a force in Russian society that would
be destabilizing.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
They say in the stability business.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
So Putin said he will not agree to a cease
fire unless they have a meeting. So Trump tried to
do a little Judo on that and say, okay, fine,
there's a meeting Thursday. Is dumbled Turkey. Zelensky immediately jumped
on board and said, I'll be there waiting for you.
So Zelensky says he's going to be in Turkey and
is dumbul sitting at a boardroom table waiting for your putting.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
The show up on Thursday. We'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
So yeah, Zelensky said, look, there's no peace talks without
a truce. We got to stop kill on each other
before we talk. And uh and uh. Putin said no, now,
let's just get together and talk. Trump said yeah, yeah,
we gotta have talked before seas fire apparently, And so
Zelenski said, okay, that's great. I'll be in Turkey on Thursday.
Show up either I'm ready. So, uh, how this ends
(06:20):
nobody knows and how Trump interprets it and and how
he adjusts his policies because of it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So you think.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I don't know why he I feel like he could
easily and understandably provoke Zelenski into uh an emotional outburst
that makes it look like, you know, so Putin can play. Look,
he's he's he's too he's too angry, he hates me
too much, he's too too much of a Nazi. Oh
that's the other thing they kept going on and on
(06:48):
about at the big celebration over the weekend was how
they're continuing to fight the Nazis, indeed, not sifying Ukraine
after having beaten the Nazis in World War Two?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
What the hell are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (06:59):
Just he was to show you how idiotic the narrative,
the rhetoric can be around this sort of thing. Are
there some far rightists in Ukraine?
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah there are.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So, Well it's going to be interesting to see. So
you don't think it's going to happen the meeting. So
if the meeting doesn't happen on Thursday, what's the next step?
Trump and JD have both made it pretty clear. I
think that, Look, this is like your last chance, Putin
to show you have any interest in trying to negotiate
a peace. And that's why the European leaders got together
(07:32):
there in Kiev over the weekend. And if Putin doesn't
show up and shows no interest. There are gonna be
some hardcore sanctions coming toward Russia like this next weekend.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Well, Putin has only made the most pathetic and inadequate
of gestures toward peace because he's not interested in peace.
He doesn't want to stop the killing. He wants to
keep killing and keep acquiring land. So no, I think
the sit down with Zelensky would expose him. He would
feel like he was maneuvered into that, and Putin doesn't
do Oh, I just got maneuvered.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
It just doesn't do that.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Well. I think Trump and the European leaders are serious
about these sanctions and everything, so that'll be interesting to
see how that plays out. I want to get into
this AI video though. If you haven't seen it, we'll
explain it to you right after this.
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Speaker 2 (09:17):
Run your game. So have you, Joe seen the.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
Actual roughly forty five second video that supposedly Macrone meeting
with the leader of Germany and England and Poland.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
They sit down at a little table in a train.
I think it is unexpectedly came in.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Somebody left a baggy of cocaine on the table and
Macrone grabs it real quick, he thinks, with nobody looking
and sticks it a.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Coke spoon too, right, Yeah, and I didn't see the
spoon part, even though I've watched the video and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
They say it's a spoon. Um, he grabs a little
baggy of white powder and I'll.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Just I'll read the retweeting of this.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
This is from some doctor guy who's fairly well respected.
Guy's got over a million followers on Twitter who tweeted
this version of it out developing Macron's starmer and Mertz
caught on video on the return from Kiev a bag
of white powder on the table. Macron quickly pockets it,
Mertz hides the spoon. No explanation given Zolensky, known cocaine enthusiast,
(10:26):
had just hosted them connected the dots. I thought it
was laughable. I mean it had that AI look to
it for one thing. To me, just that kind of
little herky jerky AI look that stuff has. I'm sure
soon that will be gone and you won't be able
to see that. But the number of people that responded
(10:50):
just to our re playing of it on Twitter. It
looks real to me, or I think it's real, or
that's clearly real, or I've seen it from different angles.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Hey, guys, it's real.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
A post truth world, man, we are, it's through the
looking glass. Yeah, yeah, I'm macronin Merits and Zelensky. You
are all coke monkeys.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
That's right. That's why they're getting together, right to do
a little blow.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Okay, that's why they get together with Zelensky was because
it's about their personal cocaine use.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
I mean that just seems like such a ridiculous premise.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yes, but if you're primed to believe that and desperate's
the wrong, enthusiastic about believing anything negative. You here because
Russian propaganda, which is highly skilled, it's like it's interesting.
A engineer buddy of mine, we've discussed at for length
the fact that Russia is technically very very adept in
(11:49):
the sciences, you know, the cosmonauts blah blah blah, but
they can't manufacture. They just, for whatever reason, they've never
been able to become a manufacturing power.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
They are very, very very.
Speaker 5 (12:01):
Good at propaganda, at psyops, how to design it, how
to seduce people, what constituencies within a country are most
susceptible to our talking points, how do we seduce them?
They're very skilled at that, and they've found some pretty
eager ears in the West.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
So this particular doctor with a million followers that retweeted
it is one of those scientists who got fired for
speaking out about COVID stuff early on, which I was
on his side on mostly.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
But regardless, that doesn't make this real.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
And so what I wonder about this stuff is do
people actually believe it or is it like the flat
earthers who get kindness some sort of I don't quite
understand it. They don't fully believe it. They just get
a kick out of the.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
What if it was aspect of it for some reason. No,
I don't understand the psychology of it quite.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
I think it's like, if you really dislike your neighbor,
you're willing to believe any story about what a bastard
they are. It's that And they're they're anti Zelenski. Do
you think they're pro booting?
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So the support of Europe and all those billions of
dollars and perhaps soldiers and everything like that is all
because their personal cocain't youws.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Yeah, they're a bunch of coke monkeys.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
That's why they're all increasing their military budgets, having uh
you know, bringing Finland in the NATO that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
It's just it's it's ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Any thoughts on that text line? Four one FFTC.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
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Speaker 5 (13:54):
Wow, Wow, Wow, all right, maybe I'm an older feen.
Just sounds like a nice opportunity to grab a little
shut eye. Anyway, So I thought this was interesting Wall
Street Journal with an article about a guy's somebody's been
stealing from his lot next to his home they're building, etc.
(14:15):
So he camps out with an AR fifteen, and sure
enough somebody shows up, wakes him up, shines a lightness face,
yelling and blewey. He fires at him. The intruder runs
away bleeding. What happened next?
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Jack? What happened next? Is?
Speaker 5 (14:30):
The twist shows the benefits and pitfalls of a fast
growing insurance market catering to gun owners who want to
protection if they kill or injure in self defense.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
I gotta get this. There are so many people I
want to shoot.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
So wow, Probably best not to air that sentiment. Rushing
back to his house, mister Houston, that's his name, or
Hustin followed the directions on a post incident card from
the US Concealed Kerry Association, which is one of the
leaders in this insurance field. He called nine one one,
and his wife called the company's twenty four hour hotline.
(15:02):
Within an hour, a us CCA attorney called to represent him. Now, interestingly,
there's a bit of a twist. After this guy's arrested
and charged with attempted murder, he says the USCCA lawyer
told him the case was a tough one. You probably
ought to plead guilty to a lesser charge. He said,
what now, and he found a new lawyer who got
the charges dismissed. Even though USCCA also paid for the
(15:26):
new lawyer. Houston quit his membership shortly after the two
year legal saga ended.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Yeah, so that my first thought is it's you were
either legally justified in shooting them or you weren't right
right right.
Speaker 5 (15:38):
Although you know, it is a lawyer's job to say
we might win but it doesn't look great. Maybe you
take this safe bet. That's what lawyers do sometimes. But
this guy says, I knew I was in a since
there was no way I was going to take a
guilty please, which is again a bit of a twist
on the story. But the number of Americans buying self
defense insurance to call it murder insurance.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
Don't need another damned insurance racket.
Speaker 5 (16:03):
Liability laws, you know, you don't think, so I tell
you what, I'm gonna pay a few bucks a month
and if anything ever happens, I got to put a
holes in somebody.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
But it just can't get a lawyer.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
I got my rowing, So it's guns and now we're
gonna then I guarantee you. Then there's going to be
a sidewalk, a special sidewalk liability long case some may
trips on your sidewalk, and a special I don't know,
kitchen liability in case you have guests over in the
kitchen and they hurt themselves.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
It'll just keep going and going well.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
On My property is heavily booby trapped, as you know,
with various pungee sticks and flamethrowers, et cetera. About two
million people have signed up for this, according to the
industry executive, some of whom estimate their memberships doubled in
the last five years.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Offers.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
The insure offers a range of services, including bail and
criminal defense lawyers so also cover the cost of litigation.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
I hope this is the last gasp then that pushes
us over the edge to where we finally do some
sort of tort reform in this country, where we can't
keep suing the Jesus out of everybody all the time
for everything, because.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
We've gotta fix that. It just has to happen.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
I feel about tort reform like I feel about losing
thirty pounds. Really important, really ought to happen, not gonna happen.
And I don't mean to sound like a quitter that
I'm not on your side or anything, because I am,
But I just it's lawyers are in charge of everything.
There's look at the legislatures. Well that's right too, local, federal, Yes,
(17:33):
that's correct. Yeah, exactly, you've finally woken up thirty. So
if you had your ideal weight, you would lose thirty
pounds roughly. Yeah, yeah, that'd be really good for me,
but so much good food and wine.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
There's a big, big, giant weight loss study came out
over the weekend. We could touch on that. It's uh,
I thought it was kind of interesting. Actual now actually.
Speaker 5 (17:56):
Touch on it and I ignore it. Sounds good to me,
all sorts of big news to get to today. It
really is a wild news day. Hollywood doesn't need a
tax subsidy. In other stories, how much we got ripped
off during COVID. You gotta hear this story, Armstrong and
Getty to be honest, Elon Musk coming out and saying
(18:16):
there is a huge amount of fraud.
Speaker 7 (18:18):
I welcome that message completely because finally someone is actually
saying this.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Thank god, sixty Minutes did this story last night, even
though they made me so angry.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
I was yelling out loud a couple of times. Thank God.
So hold on a second.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
He's got the whooping cough, freaking whooping cough, which I'll
talk about later. You do not want to get whooping cough.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
I don't want it.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
But this story about fraud on sixty minutes, which we're
gonna spend a fair amount of time on right here,
is absolutely amazing.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Coming up. I want to bring my whole self to work.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
Has turned to the beatings will continue until the morale improves.
And boy, that didn't take long. Stay tuned for that.
But getting back to sixty minutes, I think I know
what annoyed you so much, but I will.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Tell you this.
Speaker 5 (19:08):
They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant
share of which you're about to hear, which would tend
to reinforce a fairly trumpy, slash republican view of the world.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Shocked by that.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Then a great story on unbelievable scientific advancements dealing with
spinal injury, and then a nice piece about Jimmy Lee
Curtis in her career, and blah blah blah. It was
not obnoxiously activistly left.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
With no very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and
this first story is so important, just roll all on
with the next clip.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
There, Michael, is this woman who has been screaming about
fraud and government her whole career and getting no attention.
Speaker 7 (19:48):
I believe the government is losing between five hundred and
fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year.
We're coming up close to the one trillion amount is
lost every year a fraud.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a
trillion dollars a year of fraud.
Speaker 5 (20:13):
I don't want to steal her thunder, but a lot
of the story had to do with or at least
a significant amount, with the fact that the safeguards are
pathetic and inadequate, and everybody knows it because it's just
not a priority. Yeah, you bust your ass to pay
your taxes, and yeah we take your money from you
or you go to jail. But yeah, once we have
your money, now we don't safeguarded at all.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Not really, this is a both party problem too, I mean,
oh yes, because if one party made this big deal
of this enough when they were in power, they could
do something about it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
They're trying, I think, just keep going, Michael.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
When most people think of government fraud, I imagine they're thinking,
somebody is claiming disability benefits when they're not actually eligible,
somebody collecting food stamps when they're not actually eligible.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Are those the biggest defenders?
Speaker 7 (21:02):
Not at all, Not by a long shot. What we're
really talking about is nation state actors. We're talking about
organized crime rings. We're talking about using vast amounts of
stolen Americans' identities to monetize them for you know, criminal activity.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
So when COVID happened, and they were throwing around trillions
of dollars like crazy and opening up all these various programs.
Lots of people jumped on. It's similar to what happened
in California with the biggest fraud in California state history,
where prisoners from other states start applying for small business
handouts and everything like that and got them to the
(21:41):
tune of gazillions and gazillions of dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
This well, this next little clip from her will make
you mad.
Speaker 9 (21:47):
In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog
committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so.
Speaker 7 (21:54):
We could tell right away, its like, oh, well, that's
all going to get stolen.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
You saw it coming.
Speaker 7 (21:57):
Oh yeah, I mean it was like they through money
in the air and just let people run around and
grab it.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Still in favor of tax increases? Are you let that
hang there for a while.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's like they threw money up in the air and
let people run around and grab it. What is it
with lefties? I do not understand the whole. I care
about the downdraw. I get caring about the downtrodden, but
I don't get the whole I care about the downtrodden.
I'm willing to throw money at it and then not
pay the slightest bit of attention at all ever to
(22:30):
where the money goes or if it does any good.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
I believe this in my heart. There is a huge motivator.
Let me structure the sense like this.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Self congratulations may be the most important factor in good
old American left wing politics. I'm not talking about like
Jay Guavera Marxist politics.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
I'm talking about we need to help the downtrodden. Let's
not blame the victims.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
We have to have programs and plays, blah blah blah,
well meaning folks, but their own self congratulations is all
they require. If they feel that emotional feeling that they're
looking for, they don't bother with any follow up. They
don't care about any follow up. In fact, follow up
(23:21):
ruins their buzz going through the accounting and realizing, oh
my god, there's waste, fraud and abuse in this program.
Holy cow. We got to roll up our sleeves, take
a deep breath, and get to work.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Because this is bad. No that kills their buzz.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
God.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
We always talk about the spending is the point because
it goes to you know, connected people, cronies, whatever, you know,
family members that are on fake boards. I'm surprised those
people don't out the fraud more like hey, you know
Biden families or whatever. It's saying, hey, hey, hey, that
million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed
(23:56):
to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
They're not drag of it.
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Yeah, I mean, they wouldn't say that out loud, but
you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists, although they would.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Be caught in their own web.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
I think so they can't a little more from Linda Miller,
righteous speaker of truth.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
The most egregious part is that a lot of the
people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
So who are they?
Speaker 7 (24:21):
Who are you talking about We're talking about China, We're
talking about Russia, impersonating Americans in a lot of cases.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
We are enriching Shesi in Pang and vlad Putin and
his gutons and oligarchs even as we're opposing them.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
This FBI guy roll on.
Speaker 10 (24:37):
These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century
that are built off of having safe haven stass meaning
their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even
if it's illegal.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And then get a cut, the government's get a cut.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And then this I find this particularly fantastic because we.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
All if we hold on, sorry about the ball.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
If we have to give our social security number, we
look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we
have to kid into a pin we put our hand
over the pin pad so nobody possibly sees our social
security because the most important thing, you know, so make
sure nobody gets a hold of your social Security number.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
That's from sixty minutes.
Speaker 9 (25:19):
Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division. He says,
these digital gangs are armed with a very important weapon.
Is it true that the social security number of just
about every single American is available for sale on.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
The dark web? That is a truth tape.
Speaker 10 (25:35):
All of our person identifiable information named data, birth, former addresses,
social security number is available in the dark net and
can likely be purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:44):
That's chilling.
Speaker 10 (25:45):
Yeah, it's very much a way of our lives so
right now and purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,
very affordable. What the hell?
Speaker 5 (25:56):
If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or
more likely has been hacked.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
What the hell?
Speaker 3 (26:04):
And they had an example of an old couple and
who lost their home in the Palisades area of Los
Angeles and went to apply for their FEMA money, and
somebody had already grabbed it using their address, name, social
security number, all their data had already grabbed their money,
so they grabbed their money. Now they're going through the
(26:24):
I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten that
out and get the money that they're owed by these
various programs that we support because some you know, Chinese, Russian,
whoever actors stole it.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Well, I don't mean to drive everybody to murderous rage.
But what's especially frustrating about all of this and all
of these dollar figures is that, remember, you got to
tack on interest because we're borrowing that money.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We didn't have it. It wasn't in our wallets. We've
got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,
one more clippon, then we'll fill in some dots on
this story.
Speaker 9 (27:06):
Last year, the FBI unraveled one of the largest digital
fraud cases in US history, in which cyber criminals from
around the world use stolen identities to pocket six billion
dollars in pandemic unemployment funds.
Speaker 10 (27:20):
Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Why is the government a target for this type of.
Speaker 10 (27:26):
Fraud because of the massive amount of money that exists
in the federal government and in the state government, and.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
The utter lack of interest in protecting it in a
significant way, especially if it gets in the way of
handing out scads of money and thereby winning votes.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
So, just so you have this takeaway, this Linda Miller
person who's been doing this for her career and is
so frustrated that nobody's been paying any attention, says, we're
approaching three quarters of a trillion per year that gets stolen,
mostly by foreign countries, and just from the COVID relief money.
When that was just flying around, like she said, it's
(28:03):
like they threw it up in the air and anybody
could run and grab it, she says, is probably about
a trillion of it was stolen, a trillion dollars, and
as the FBI guy said, we're never going to get
it back. There's no recovering this money, a trillion dollars.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
If we had a king, the prisons would be full
of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen monarchy now.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Story, let's just call it good.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
How's this not like a big enough story for an
entire party to emerge around.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
I just think the other side of the coin is
so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're going
to give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,
that guy.
Speaker 3 (28:52):
Said, he do you stuff my media nitpicking just to
get it out of my system?
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Is that.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Cecilia Vega woman right at the very beginning of the
story had to throw in Elon Musk over states how
much waste there is, doesn't he and the woman said, yeah,
he does. So they had to throw out this red
herring for their lefty viewer. Elon Musk isn't for the
(29:20):
We're not saying he's perfect or everything.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
He did was good.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
Before we get to the biggest story you're gonna hear
this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from the
gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
Nice red herring, you had to throw in there for
some reason to satisfy your.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Lefty view I mean, what the hell was that that
makes me so angry.
Speaker 5 (29:45):
I wonder if they like edited the story together and
somebody said, hey, this really comes off as supporting road
and eliminating waste, fraud and abuse. We probably ought to
throw in something for our soft headed again self congratulate
Tory dumb ass viewers.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That was uncharitable, and I apologize for it. That's what
it was I got.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in
the crosswalk in my university town.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
I was in my cyberbeast. She's walking in front of me,
and she looks at me and she gives me the
two thumbs down as she walks across. No disapproval.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
This privileged college girl at an expensive university in an
expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
So yeah, that's what Minutes had to do. They had
to throw in a little Elon's not perfect.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
But now back to a very very big important story
that everybody should know.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
A trillion dollars got stolen, right right.
Speaker 5 (30:39):
I like how they sand I'm sorry, I'm hung up
on the cars. I like how the same people who
are keying SUVs five years ago are now keying electric vehicles.
Just the important part is they're an angry activist and
a revolutionary and they're gonna fight the power, and it'll
be a different power, completely opposite in.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
Five more years. Because all I want to do is
be angry and self francious. I can't think I'm stupid.
Speaker 3 (31:06):
I wanted to roll down my window and say, you know,
I have no opinion on what you drive your whole life.
Whatever you drive, doesn't make any difference to me whatsoever.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Anyway, honest, fine, make you right, I tell you what.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
All right, here's a little, uh, here's a little I
had a slice of key lime pie last night, and
I love key lime pie.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
Here's a little dessert for you. Michael. We're gonna go
up to the uh, the rando section. Oh, this is
this is great.
Speaker 5 (31:31):
Here is a dad who does a great Joe Biden
and he's he's literally working on the meat on the grill.
This is a clip fifteen Michael and his daughter comes
up to him and says.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
He does do an impression of Joe Biden. Explaining the
plot to Star Wars.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
So there's a there's a galic galaxy Kirk on the
side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,
back back back when I I was working full time. Anyway,
I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter long
far far away. It was galaxy and there were robots.
(32:12):
The robots, they were not the droids. You were really
good for me.
Speaker 2 (32:18):
Come on, that's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (32:22):
Boy.
Speaker 5 (32:22):
So the whole bringing your whole south to work is
turned into shut up and get to work.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
In the blink of an eye. That story next.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
He yetie classes that years ago were pushed to the
side in favor of coursework, prioritizing test scores and stem
now seen as a huge opportunity. According to one survey,
sixty six percent of all high schools now off for
career education, and it's being driven by economic demand. I
have construction companies and I have other employers coming to
me wanting students right out of high school to be
(32:53):
career ready.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
We need employees.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
Yeah, we had a story last week about kids being
recruited straight out of high school for like, you know,
seventy five thousand dollars a year jobs in welding and
that sort of thing. Interesting how that's turned culturally, speaking
of which, you know, it's it's partly the change, the
amount of change.
Speaker 2 (33:13):
It's making everybody crazy these days. It's also the pace
of change.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Like I remember, it wasn't very long ago that we
were telling the youngsters who were like bringing their whole
selves to work and taking spirit days and the rest
of it. I mean, because it seemed like employees had
all the power and.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
There was that employees get to it Monday and I'll
work half a day Tuesday and take Fridays off.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
I demand fury.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Past two on Friday. Yeah, and we're trying to tell you,
trust us, this will not last. Well, it has not,
not long ago. Everybody's replaceable. As the headline the story
the new way bosses talk about workers not long ago,
bosses routinely praised workers as their most prized asset.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Today with a giant.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Question mark hanging over the economy less today after the
temporary maybe you trade deal with China, But executives are
pulling punches, pulling no punches and saying employees need to
work harder, complain lesson, be glad they.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
Have a job.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
How work life balance is your problem, said Emma is
it's greed or Gridae or something. Emma Greed is not
a good name for this article, but she's the co
founder of the Skims shapewear company.
Speaker 3 (34:24):
I should ask my dad how many times in employers
seemed concerned about his work life balance when he was
a young man out there starting his.
Speaker 5 (34:34):
Work life balance is your problem, she said. Starbucks, after
cutting in more than a thousand jobs, there's a new CEO,
Brian Nichols said, remaining corporate staff need to step it
up her own and own whether or not this place grows.
Jamie Diamond, in a profanity laced internal meeting, told employees
lamenting a return to work mandate that he didn't care.
(34:54):
I've had it with this kind of stuff. I've been
working seven days a week since COVID.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I come in. Where is everybody else? Man?
Speaker 3 (35:01):
If you can concern yourself with work life balance, you
should consider yourself among the more privileged workers in the
history of work on planets Earth. If it is even
an option, that means you've got shelter and enough food,
and you can start to decide, you know how much
do I need?
Speaker 2 (35:21):
Right right?
Speaker 5 (35:22):
And that's not to say it's a bad idea or
you shouldn't. You just have to keep it in perspective.
The shift in tone marks a shift in power. Now
the companies are shrinking their white collar staff with jobs
harder to find, many workers are seeing pricks disappear and
their grievance is ignored, or.
Speaker 3 (35:38):
That if you don't have the luxury of being concerned
about work life balance, that you're somehow unique in the
history of working.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Right right, yeah, Oh, let's see again.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
How many of our parents ever had the ever had
it crossed their mind?
Speaker 5 (35:53):
And and interestingly, they mentioned a twenty twenty three episode
where this one company told staffers leave pitty City. Well,
that comment, made in a video call, immediately went viral,
sparking days of headlines and worker backlash. The CEO quickly
apologized set her comments were insensitive.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
Now it's like they're all saying it. Wow, huh. See
how long this lasts?
Speaker 3 (36:18):
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