May 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 3 of the Friday, May 23,2025 A&G Replay contains:
- Joe's Bitterness-Elections Are Auctions of Stolen Goods
- Sexual Emojis
- 60 Minutes Government Fraud
- A Hot Accessory- Cross Necklaces
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George
Washington Broadcast Center, Jack arms Strong, Joe Caddy.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Arm Strong and Jetty and now he Armstrong and Catty
Strong and Coruple loves these these rich Arab guys.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
They set up a mobile McDonald's. There a little different
over there, the McDonald's. The happy meal toy is a
little bone.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Saw made me laugh? Did you write them that joke?
Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the
Saturday Night Live Open with the guy who does Trump.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He was talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Anyway abidabbi abi dabbi abi dabbi do like the late
great friends Flintstone. I thought that was so funny, eh boy,
the late great Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news
yesterday that they were going to have a voting session
on the Big Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night,
(01:21):
And because it's the weekend and I'm a normal human being,
I didn't like take a second to look into that,
because I thought, what the hell kind of a procedural
deal is a Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But
I just did see that the four holdouts went along
with whatever, and it passed.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So there you go. Yeah, the four holdouts went along
with whatever is a pretty good description of it. I
will be a bit more detailed. And this is the
reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is the most sausagey
of sausage making. If you're familiar with the old reference
to politics, here's your headline from the I'm going to
(02:00):
read you just a little bit because it's kind of
revealing of at least a couple of things. Trump's tax
and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to
the House Budget Committee, passed a massive tax and immigration
package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from
hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned
(02:25):
with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their
vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that
package to be recommended favorably to the House by a
vote of seventeen to sixteen. But there hesitance to vote
for the one Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee
(02:45):
is a reminder that the far right flank of the
Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where you're
going here.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Now, it could just be your typical wah PO journalistic bias,
although the wa poe has improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway,
I think it's unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable
with that there are only a handful of like lunatic
hard liners who are against the following headlines. This is
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from the Richard Ruben wrighting in the Wall Street Journal.
The stark math on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut
the deficit. It grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with
both Houses of Congress and the White House, are going
to grow the deficit. It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review,
Republicans should stay the course on reducing medicaid spending. They're
(03:38):
not going to. They're running in the other direction, partly
because the incredibly smart calculating what is he up to?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Josh Cawley of Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
shumering Schumer, saying that the the party's Wall Street wing,
a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to slash health
insurance for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the
Republicans need to back off cutting medicare.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are
a hidden tax on working poor people. This is and
he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for able
bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit to
the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort of
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hidden tax on working poor people.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
party of the working class, and they feel like they
got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that
they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and
writing checks to people to win their votes.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah. I was going to say that it's interesting they
call these people ultra conservative of right wing when not
very many years ago you would have been the center
of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been
I mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was,
it was, it was a term you would have used
to define the party.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
In fact, it was so intrinsic to the Republican Party
you'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeated. Right,
no need fisically conservative.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But I suppose in reality, given where most of the
party is, they are ultra a right wing or ultra
conservative because the bulk of the party doesn't care apparently
and apparently not voters.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well all right, Well this story got repeated a lot
over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of
our credit scores by one of the major organizations that
does that sort of thing, and U over the weekend
it kind of got put out there that it was
like a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It
was basically around the fact that our debt is just
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so high. It's just like would happen to you if
you go to the bank and they take a look
at your well you've got with your car payments. Now
you bought like eight cars and two houses and you're
just overmaxed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills
and you only make ninety a year.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right, right, So these dong grady because you just spend
more than you make. That's what happened that didn't happen
just in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've
been building this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And the final reason I am completely embittered about the
Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life
on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two
part horror show, Part number one is that there are
a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states
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California and New York most notably, who are not only
trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction, the
state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it
from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars
and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in
a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all
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of those incredibly high taxes you're paying you can deduct
from your federal tax return. So the other states will
subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California.
So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes
because I live in California. That makes sense. Yeah, you
get a giant subsidy from the other states, you pay
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a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending on how
much money you make than folks in fiscally responsible states,
and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible as for Republican reason,
not the party, but the idea of we have a
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federal system than states, and the states can do what
they want, and they should what they want. You're fine,
if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty five percent income tax,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm not living there, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states
is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican,
he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness,
the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party.
I'm done. It's it's hard to swallow.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I mean, you know, it would help Joe and I
if this happens financially, but it's awful, absolutely awful.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
I am horrified. I don't care how much it would
benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's really
held me back in life Jack too. I just I'm done.
I'm done. Yeah, it's well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like I said last week, Sarah Asger of The Dispatch,
I heard her on a podcast, They're having this discussion
about party and she said, there are no political parties.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
What are we talking about here? Yeah? I need to
seek that out because I think she nailed.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Absolutely one hundred percent. There are no political parties. There's
just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle, and
then whatever they believe, the party goes along with.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And it's through on both sides.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
we need to all move past.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That. From my hero hl Menken, every election is a
sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That's always
been true. There was a time when a certain party
had certain principles that I admired. Do you have times passed?
You know what my high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my
(09:51):
wife of forty years is. When she's not turning tricks,
she's killing people for the mob. Okay, she's not the one,
And I felt that this is by the way, fictional
illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride, Judith.
She's not the person she was. You can forget it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's over, So move on, Get up, get an AI.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bond or
something I girlfriend like a normal person.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Face Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yet another one of these? Do they run this quarterly?
Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone
using this smiley face emoji to older people, not gen Z.
A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy, Yeah,
but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm
(10:56):
or irony. And then it has the inevitable twenty three
year old employee who says, at first I thought my
coarchers were being culled and sarcastic to me, And then
I realized when they send a thumbs up, they really
mean thumbs up, because he is it sarcastically and the
tone of the article is always Therefore, you you older
people really ought to be careful and they should.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Switch to the way we do it as opposed to
the other way around. Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one year old intern.
Excuse me, I run this place. I own this place.
People like me run the world. So you figured it out.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming
down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times.
It seems to mean something different to freshmen in high
school than all the other adults who ever send me
the emoji with tear streaming down the face? Yes, ka, Katie,
you're not old and bitter. Well, don't go that better.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But several of my younger friends send me that, which
usually would mean like you're crying legitimately fry, like you were.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Really touched by something, or you know my dog just died,
or I heard about your mom or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're laughing.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So okay, that's what I kind of picked up on.
I thought, this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're
laughing to well? Yeah, I cracked.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You have a laughing till you're crying, right they do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and
I sent her that, and she sent me one of
those back, and I was like, did something just happen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What's wrong? Like, that's exactly that what I have, And
I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, that exact same thing came over me. I was like,
what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Now are we talking about the tears streaming? See? We
used that my family a lot. Like I didn't get
the wordle.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So upset. Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being
sarcastic about how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but
it's kind of the opposite meaning for my son. Okay,
now I get it. I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying
and though they've got one of those already.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
My favorite texting story of all time and it will
be for the rest of my life, was the woman
who said, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you.
My mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol,
thinking it meant lots of love to me. They no
longer speak.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And I'm l O welling now is the ironic sorry?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So to get back like this, I feel like LOL
is like charity laugh or you know what is that
term where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple
sympathy laugh at this point and I and then I
don't know how to respond with a that actually is
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freaking funny.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, I will. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because
I'm a grown up. I usually write out, I actually
laughed out loud at that.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That was very funny, like that much if it's something real.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Long and tedious, you're such a boomer, or you just
send the word funny with zero punctuations so you can't
tell if you're being serious or not.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I have done that. I will frequently respond ha, because
I was laughing lots of oz. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So, but there's more.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Linguists studying emojis emoji, I think I'm supposed to say,
I'm not Japanese, all right. Have also pointed out that
the symbols new meetings can often emerge from slang that
older users might not be aware of. For example, older
social media users might see the skull emoji as a
literal symbol of death or a sign that someone is
figuratively dead. Isn't dead, tired or dead to me whatever,
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But for the younger users, the skull is used to
say I'm dead, which means that they found something hilarious
and have died laughing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm
gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people
i'd hit with that today. It would be very confused.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about
how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm.
But here's the part I found really interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So I like, I send to like. If somebody says, hey,
I got that promotion at work, I respond with an
eggplant and then sprays of water.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Is that the proper thing? Good Lord?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yes, yes, do that? Yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Oh my god. Or if you give a thumbs up
and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, which is again,
we run the world. We old people run the world.
You adapt us. But is your youngster texting about cannabis,
for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana, the shamrock,
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the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, the watermelon,
the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, the candy,
the cake, the ice cream cone, and the cookie can
all be references.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
To cannabis, understand it. The egg plant is the traditional
vegetable of success, and so if somebody has some good news.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Keep believing that jack and use it frequently.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship,
a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake.
They're all sorts of drugs, sexting, the peach, which looks
like God forgive me a woman's hindhand, or the eggplant,
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the water you mentioned, or cherries. Let's see.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got
a text message from a friend that said kiss my
and then there was a peach emoji, and.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm going, this is my peach?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I saw somebody with a cherries tattoo on them? What
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You, Katie? Is that a girl? What's that mean?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Cherries were trendy.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Late nineties early two thousands, but I don't know if
that is meaning.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What was a message?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I had a delicious fruit.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was just a cute package. Okay, So okay, it
didn't mean anything. All right, that's fine, doesn't need to
We're looking it up. Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence and use.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, according to an Instagram post.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's a stupid tattoo. Don't get that and if you haven't,
get it removed.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Arm Strong and Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
To be honest.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Elon Musk coming out and saying there is a huge
amount of fraud. I welcome that message completely because finally
someone is actually saying this.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank god. Sixty Minutes did this story last night, even
though they made me so angry. I was telling out
loud a couple of times. This story about fraud on
sixty Minutes, which we're going to spend a fair amount
of time on right here, is absolutely amazing. Coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I want to bring my whole self to work 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 tell you this.
They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant
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share of which you're about to hear, which would tend
to reinforce a fairly trumpy slash republican view of the world.
Shocked by that, 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 wing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and this
first story is so important, just roll on with the
next clip. There, Michael, is this woman who has been
screaming about fraud and government her whole career and getting
no attention.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I believe the government is losing between five hundred and
fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We're coming up.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Close to the one trillion dollar amount is lost every
year a fraud.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a
trillion dollars a year of fraud.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
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. Not really.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
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, or they could do
something about it, I think just keep going, Michael.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
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 6 (20:18):
Are those the biggest defenders. 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 criminal activity.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That and got them.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's the tune of gazillions and gills millions of dollars.
This well, this next little clip from her will make
you mad.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog
committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
We could tell right away it's like, oh, well, that's
all gonna get stolen.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You saw it coming.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Oh yeah, I mean it was like they threw money
in the air and just let people run around and
grab it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Still in favorite tax increases, are you what that hang
there for a while. 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 down trow. 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
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and then not pay the slightest bit of attention at
all ever to where the money goes or if it
does any good. I believe this in my heart. There
is a huge.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Motivator. Let me structure the sense like this self congratulations
may be the most important factor in good old American
left wing politics. I'm not talking about like Jade Guavera
Marxist politics. I'm talking about, you need to help the downtrodden.
Let's not blame the victims. We have to have programs
and plays, blah blah blah, well meaning folks, but their
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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 ruins their buzz going through the
accounting and realizing, oh my god, there's waste, fraud and
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abuse in this program. Holy cow, we got to roll
up our sleeves, take a deep breath and get to
work because this is bad.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, that kills their buzz.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
God.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
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 say hey, hey, hey, that
million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed
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to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.
They're not keeping track of it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, I mean they wouldn't say that out loud, but
you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists. Although they would,
they would be caught in their own web. I think,
so they can't a little more from Linda Miller, righteous
speaker of truth.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
The most egregious part is that a lot of the
people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So who are they? Who are you talking.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
About We're talking about China, we're talking about Russia, impersonating
Americans in a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Of cases, that's right. We are enriching shji In Pang
and vlad Putin and his goons and oligarchs even as
we're opposing them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
This FBI guy roll on.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century
that are built off of having safe haven stas meating
their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even
if it's illegal, and.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Then get a cut. The government's get a cut.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And then this I find this a particularly fantastic because
we all we hold on.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Sorry about the ball.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If we have to give our social Security number, we
look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we
have to kee it into a pin, we put our
hand over the pin pad, so nobody possibly sees our
soci secrety. Because the most important thing you do, so
make sure nobody gets a hold of your social security number.
That's from sixty minutes.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He says, these digital.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
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 the dark web?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
That is a truth tape.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
All of our personal identifiable information, name data, birth, former addresses,
social security number is available in the dark netting can
likely be purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's chilling.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Yep, it's very much away of our lives so right now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And purchased I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,
very affordable. What the hell?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or
more likely has been hacked. What the hell?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
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 couldn't get their money. Now they're going through
the I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten
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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 3 (26:00):
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 (26:12):
We didn't have it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It wasn't in our wallets.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
We've got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,
one more clip and then we'll fill in some dots.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
On this story.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
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 8 (26:37):
Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Why is the government a target for this type of fraud?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Because of the massive amount of money that exists in
the federal government and in the state government.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And the utter lack of interest in protecting it in
a significant way, especially if it gets in the way
of handing out steads of money and thereby winning votes.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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
(27:21):
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 3 (27:42):
If we had a king, the prisons would be full
of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen. Monarchy. Now,
how is this story, let's just call it good?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
How's this not like a big enough story for an
entire party to emerge around.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I just think the other side of the coin is
so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're gonna
give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,
that guy said he do you stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
My media nitpicking just to get it out of my system?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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
(28:38):
We're not saying he's perfect or everything he.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Did was good.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Before we get to the biggest story you're going to
hear this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from
the gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Nice red herring. You had to throw in there for
some reason to satisfy your lefty view What the hell
was that? That makes me so angry?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
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 congratulatory
dumb ass viewers. So that was uncharitable, and I apologize
for it. That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in
the crosswalk in my university town. 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 and
she walks across. No disapproval. This privileged college girl at
an expensive university in an expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.
(29:44):
So yeah, that's what had to do. They had to
throw in a little Elon's not perfect. But now back
to a very very big important story that everybody should know.
A trillion dollars got stolen.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right right. 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 going to fight
the power, and it'll be a different.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Power, completely opposite in five more years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because all I want to do is be angry is
self franchus. I can't think I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
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. Anyway, Fine,
make you right, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, Here's here's a little I had a slice
of key lime pie last night, and I love key
lime pie. Here's a little dessert for you. Michael, We're
going to go up to the rando section. Oh, this
is this is great. Here is a dad who does
a great Joe Biden and he's literally working on the
meat on the grill. This is clip fifteen. Michael and
(30:59):
his daughter come up to him and says he does
do an impression of Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Explaining the plot to Star Wars.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
So there's a there's a galicy galaxy park on the
side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,
back back back when I was working full time. Anyway,
I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter. Uh long,
far far away. There was galaxy and there were robots,
(31:30):
the robuts, they were not the droids.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
You're really good for me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
arm Strong and Geeddy Show.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Oh, this is gonna be my let me count one
hundred and thirty third jihad this topic.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Wow, I'm really gonna have to use AI to schedule it. Uh,
you know, rantings and ravings.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Why did I come across with AI yesterday?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Something AI that was just phenomenal around video stuff. Again,
that's where AI is clearly making a mark. I don't
know if it's going to take over the world in
a lot of the other ways that they've been claiming,
but man, the stuff it can do with video with
just you know, a couple of prompts is stunning, mind blowing.
(32:33):
So this is getting some mockery. Oh it was good.
There's an article in the New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
(32:54):
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
for across necklace at some point. So the idea that
the New York Times is acting like this is some
interesting intersection of faith and culture that has occurred is
just an example of how out of touch they are
with the giant chunk of America that, for instance, has
voted for Trump twice.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
New York is.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A fascinating place in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I am pro New York, but New Yorker's self regard
has annoyed me since I was eleven years old, right,
no kidding. The rest of us are quite happy and
fascinated by life, and have many opportunities for art, culture,
the outdoors, et cetera. Whatever we prefer. We're fine. We're
not lesser being well. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there, their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet. We're trying, we just haven't been successful enough
to live there, and you know there, And that's fine.
(34:03):
I belove New York and Los Angeles, but everybody doesn't
want to live there. There are some people, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I was listening to Joonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side.
You know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing you grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
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people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
York, right right, I'll and it's universal. I mean, we've
talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount. You
live in Kansas, they talk about how stupid Missourians, sure whatever,
And you're in France they say Belgians or morons. Just
everybody likes to, you know, say human foible. But I'll
never forget. I was having a conversation with a friend
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in the San Francisco Bay area years ago, and at
the conclusion of a long conversation about his brutal commute
and it's awful taxes and is incomprehensible mortgage payments and
the rest of it. A town outside the Bay area
came up, and he was like, oh, poor bastards, right,
(35:22):
if only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
One thing about moving my whole life and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from,
and I wish just more people would understand. You like
where you're from. That's perfectly fine. You don't need to
hate on other places. You like where you're from because
it's what you're familiar with, your people, your friends, your stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
But you don't have to pretend that you have to
hate all the other places.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But everybody does. It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're
all Americans except for legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're not get out except.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Twenty million illegal immigrants.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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They set up a mobile McDonald's. There a little different
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little bone.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Saw made me laugh? Did you write them that joke?
Here's the funniest thing I thought that happened on the
Saturday Night Live Open with the guy who does Trump.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He was talking about.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Anyway abidabbi abi dabbi abi dabbi do like the late
great friends Flintstone. I thought that was so funny, eh boy,
the late great Fred Flintstone. So I saw then news
yesterday that they were going to have a voting session
on the Big Beautiful Bill at ten o'clock Sunday night,
(01:21):
And because it's the weekend and I'm a normal human being,
I didn't like take a second to look into that,
because I thought, what the hell kind of a procedural
deal is a Sunday night at ten o'clock thingy? But
I just did see that the four holdouts went along
with whatever, and it passed.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
So there you go. Yeah, the four holdouts went along
with whatever is a pretty good description of it. I
will be a bit more detailed. And this is the
reason I'm disgusted and embittered. This is the most sausagey
of sausage making. If you're familiar with the old reference
to politics, here's your headline from the I'm going to
(02:00):
read you just a little bit because it's kind of
revealing of at least a couple of things. Trump's tax
and immigration bill clears Hurtle after late night vote to
the House Budget Committee, passed a massive tax and immigration
package central President Trump's agenda late Sunday, overcoming opposition from
hardline conservatives, overspending four fiscal conservatives, all deficit hawks aligned
(02:25):
with the old truck conservative House Freedom Caucus, changed their
vote to present, allowing the legislative monstrosity. I injected that
package to be recommended favorably to the House by a
vote of seventeen to sixteen. But there hesitance to vote
for the one Big Beautiful Bill Act out of committee
(02:45):
is a reminder that the far right flank of the
Republican Conference remains skeptical. I think I see where you're
going here.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Now, it could just be your typical wah PO journalistic bias,
although the wa poe has improved somewhat lately a little bit. Anyway,
I think it's unfortunately closer to true that I'm comfortable
with that there are only a handful of like lunatic
hard liners who are against the following headlines. This is
(03:17):
from the Richard Ruben wrighting in the Wall Street Journal.
The stark math on the GOP tax planet doesn't cut
the deficit. It grows the deficit. The Republican Party, with
both Houses of Congress and the White House, are going
to grow the deficit. It's undeniable. Next headline, National Review,
Republicans should stay the course on reducing medicaid spending. They're
(03:38):
not going to. They're running in the other direction, partly
because the incredibly smart calculating what is he up to?
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Josh Cawley of Missouri.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Is all of a sudden, this is the guy now
who led the charge to repeal Obamacare. He's now out
shumering Schumer, saying that the the party's Wall Street wing,
a noisy contingent of corporist Republicans want to slash health
insurance for the working poor. Yeah, we mentioned that.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
On Friday, he wrote that op ed piece that the
Republicans need to back off cutting medicare.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Any Well, it's a reform of Medicaid. Any reforms are
a hidden tax on working poor people. This is and
he's referring to a thirty five dollars copay for able
bodied adults covered by Obamacare Medicaid for a visit to
the doctor. Thirty five dollars copay is some sort of
(04:37):
hidden tax on working poor people.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
And that's just the calculation that Republicans are now the
party of the working class, and they feel like they
got enough a working class that are on Medicaid that
they Josh Holley at least doesn't want to mess with it.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
And a yeah, now the party of pandering to and
writing checks to people to win their votes.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Yeah. I was going to say that it's interesting they
call these people ultra conservative of right wing when not
very many years ago you would have been the center
of the Republican Party. I mean that would have been
I mean as like what the Republican Party was. It was,
it was, it was a term you would have used
to define the party.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
In fact, it was so intrinsic to the Republican Party
you'd feel silly even repeating what you just repeated. Right,
no need fisically conservative.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
But I suppose in reality, given where most of the
party is, they are ultra a right wing or ultra
conservative because the bulk of the party doesn't care apparently
and apparently not voters.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
So spending your children, grandchildren into tax and spend oblivion.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well all right, Well this story got repeated a lot
over the weekend that we got downgraded on one of
our credit scores by one of the major organizations that
does that sort of thing, and U over the weekend
it kind of got put out there that it was
like a Trump thing because of tariffs or whatever. It
was basically around the fact that our debt is just
(06:03):
so high. It's just like would happen to you if
you go to the bank and they take a look
at your well you've got with your car payments. Now
you bought like eight cars and two houses and you're
just overmaxed.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
So you have eighty thousand dollars in credit card bills
and you only make ninety a year.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Right, right, So these dong grady because you just spend
more than you make. That's what happened that didn't happen
just in the last one hundred days under Trump. We've
been building this for a long time.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
And the final reason I am completely embittered about the
Republican Party in politics and America and democracy and life
on Earth is the fact that, and it's a two
part horror show, Part number one is that there are
a bunch of swing district Republicans from big blue states
(06:52):
California and New York most notably, who are not only
trying to defend the idea of the salt deduction, the
state and local tax deduction, they want to raise it
from ten thousand dollars to at least thirty thousand dollars
and maybe fifty thousand dollars. Meaning if you live in
a tax and spend lunatic state like say California, all
(07:14):
of those incredibly high taxes you're paying you can deduct
from your federal tax return. So the other states will
subsidize the tax and spend lunacy of New York and California.
So my brothers in Kansas pay some of my taxes
because I live in California. That makes sense. Yeah, you
get a giant subsidy from the other states, you pay
(07:35):
a lower federal tax rate, significantly lower depending on how
much money you make than folks in fiscally responsible states,
and is indefensible morally. It's indefensible as for Republican reason,
not the party, but the idea of we have a
(07:56):
federal system than states, and the states can do what
they want, and they should what they want. You're fine,
if Massachusetts wants to have a sixty five percent income tax,
go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'm not living there, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
But then to transfer that profligacy to the other states
is it's a horror. And as a conservative slash Republican,
he says, trying not to vomit because of my embitteredness,
the idea that that is a plank of the Republican Party.
I'm done. It's it's hard to swallow.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I mean, you know, it would help Joe and I
if this happens financially, but it's awful, absolutely awful.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
I believe you can't defend it. No, it's it's it's
I am horrified. I don't care how much it would
benefit me. God bless me. I have principles. It's really
held me back in life Jack too. I just I'm done.
I'm done. Yeah, it's well.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Like I said last week, Sarah Asger of The Dispatch,
I heard her on a podcast, They're having this discussion
about party and she said, there are no political parties.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
What are we talking about here? Yeah? I need to
seek that out because I think she nailed.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Absolutely one hundred percent. There are no political parties. There's
just whoever emerges as the candidate, cycle by cycle, and
then whatever they believe, the party goes along with.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
And it's through on both sides.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
So the idea that there are parties that stand for something,
we need to all move past.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
That. From my hero hl Menken, every election is a
sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. That's always
been true. There was a time when a certain party
had certain principles that I admired. Do you have times passed?
You know what my high school sweetheart, college sweetheart, my
(09:51):
wife of forty years is. When she's not turning tricks,
she's killing people for the mob. Okay, she's not the one,
And I felt that this is by the way, fictional
illustration has nothing to do with my beloved bride, Judith.
She's not the person she was. You can forget it.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's over, So move on, Get up, get an AI.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Girlfriend like a normal person and a love bond or
something I girlfriend like a normal person.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Face Jack Armstrong and Joe Gretty The Armstrong and Getty Show,
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty The Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yet another one of these? Do they run this quarterly?
Is it some sort of requirement warning issue to anyone
using this smiley face emoji to older people, not gen Z.
A smile face means you're conveying that you're happy, Yeah,
but gen Z takes this grinning face to convey sarcasm
(10:56):
or irony. And then it has the inevitable twenty three
year old employee who says, at first I thought my
coarchers were being culled and sarcastic to me, And then
I realized when they send a thumbs up, they really
mean thumbs up, because he is it sarcastically and the
tone of the article is always Therefore, you you older
people really ought to be careful and they should.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Switch to the way we do it as opposed to
the other way around. Yes, I would.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Say to Hovey's at BESHI, twenty one year old intern.
Excuse me, I run this place. I own this place.
People like me run the world. So you figured it out.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
My son sends me the emoji with the tears streaming
down the face. Yes, at what seemed to me inappropriate times.
It seems to mean something different to freshmen in high
school than all the other adults who ever send me
the emoji with tear streaming down the face? Yes, ka, Katie,
you're not old and bitter. Well, don't go that better.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
But several of my younger friends send me that, which
usually would mean like you're crying legitimately fry, like you were.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Really touched by something, or you know my dog just died,
or I heard about your mom or whatever.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Yeah, it means something's hilarious now, like you're crying, you're laughing.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
So okay, that's what I kind of picked up on.
I thought, this is highly inappropriate. Does this mean you're
laughing to well? Yeah, I cracked.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
You have a laughing till you're crying, right they do. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
I cracked a joke to one of my girlfriends and
I sent her that, and she sent me one of
those back, and I was like, did something just happen.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
What's wrong? Like, that's exactly that what I have, And
I thought, oh, geez, I hurt somebody's feelings.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
Yeah, that exact same thing came over me. I was like,
what did I do? No, that's just their laughing face.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Now are we talking about the tears streaming? See? We
used that my family a lot. Like I didn't get
the wordle.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
So upset. Yeah, but you're you're you're you're you're being
sarcastic about how upset you are. Yes, exaggerating, Yeah, but
it's kind of the opposite meaning for my son. Okay,
now I get it. I'm laughing so hard, I'm crying
and though they've got one of those already.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
My favorite texting story of all time and it will
be for the rest of my life, was the woman
who said, I'm sorry I didn't get back to you.
My mom just passed away, and her friend replied lol,
thinking it meant lots of love to me. They no
longer speak.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
And I'm l O welling now is the ironic sorry?
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Anyway?
Speaker 2 (13:23):
So to get back like this, I feel like LOL
is like charity laugh or you know what is that
term where you you laugh? You know, somebody says simple
sympathy laugh at this point and I and then I
don't know how to respond with a that actually is
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freaking funny.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Yeah, yeah, I will. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
I usually write out because I don't use emojis, because
I'm a grown up. I usually write out, I actually
laughed out loud at that.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
That was very funny, like that much if it's something real.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Long and tedious, you're such a boomer, or you just
send the word funny with zero punctuations so you can't
tell if you're being serious or not.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
I have done that. I will frequently respond ha, because
I was laughing lots of oz. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
So, but there's more.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Linguists studying emojis emoji, I think I'm supposed to say,
I'm not Japanese, all right. Have also pointed out that
the symbols new meetings can often emerge from slang that
older users might not be aware of. For example, older
social media users might see the skull emoji as a
literal symbol of death or a sign that someone is
figuratively dead. Isn't dead, tired or dead to me whatever,
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But for the younger users, the skull is used to
say I'm dead, which means that they found something hilarious
and have died laughing.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Oh okay, the skull is that was really funny. I'm
gonna hit somebody I can. I can think of people
i'd hit with that today. It would be very confused.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
While the sparkle emoji is frequently someone being sarcastic about
how something, how good something is, and too much sarcasm.
But here's the part I found really interesting.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
So I like, I send to like. If somebody says, hey,
I got that promotion at work, I respond with an
eggplant and then sprays of water.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Is that the proper thing? Good Lord?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yes, yes, do that? Yeah, that's perfect.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Oh my god. Or if you give a thumbs up
and a sparkle, they'll think you're mocking them, which is again,
we run the world. We old people run the world.
You adapt us. But is your youngster texting about cannabis,
for instance, sometimes known as pot or marijuana, the shamrock,
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the leaf, the maple leaf, the lemon, the grape, the watermelon,
the strawberry, the cherry, the pineapple, the dog face, the candy,
the cake, the ice cream cone, and the cookie can
all be references.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
To cannabis, understand it. The egg plant is the traditional
vegetable of success, and so if somebody has some good news.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Keep believing that jack and use it frequently.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Jack.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
These emoji can be references to cocaine, a rocket ship,
a fish, a gas pump, a snowman or a snowflake.
They're all sorts of drugs, sexting, the peach, which looks
like God forgive me a woman's hindhand, or the eggplant,
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the water you mentioned, or cherries. Let's see.
Speaker 5 (16:43):
I was embarrassingly baffled the other day when I got
a text message from a friend that said kiss my
and then there was a peach emoji, and.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
I'm going, this is my peach?
Speaker 3 (16:52):
What do you mean?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
I saw somebody with a cherries tattoo on them? What
does that mean?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
You, Katie? Is that a girl? What's that mean?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Cherries were trendy.
Speaker 5 (17:03):
Late nineties early two thousands, but I don't know if
that is meaning.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
What was a message?
Speaker 2 (17:10):
I had a delicious fruit.
Speaker 3 (17:12):
It was just a cute package. Okay, So okay, it
didn't mean anything. All right, that's fine, doesn't need to
We're looking it up. Oh.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Often associated with sensuality, feminine power, innocence and use.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, according to an Instagram post.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
That's a stupid tattoo. Don't get that and if you haven't,
get it removed.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Arm Strong and Getty, the Armstrong and Getty Show.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
To be honest.
Speaker 6 (17:46):
Elon Musk coming out and saying there is a huge
amount of fraud. I welcome that message completely because finally
someone is actually saying this.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Thank god. Sixty Minutes did this story last night, even
though they made me so angry. I was telling out
loud a couple of times. This story about fraud on
sixty Minutes, which we're going to spend a fair amount
of time on right here, is absolutely amazing. Coming up.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I want to bring my whole self to work 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 tell you this.
They did a story on enormous government fraud, a significant
(18:31):
share of which you're about to hear, which would tend
to reinforce a fairly trumpy slash republican view of the world.
Shocked by that, 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 wing.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, very classic sixty minutes last night. Yeah, and this
first story is so important, just roll on with the
next clip. There, Michael, is this woman who has been
screaming about fraud and government her whole career and getting
no attention.
Speaker 6 (19:06):
I believe the government is losing between five hundred and
fifty billion and about seven hundred and fifty billion a year.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
We're coming up.
Speaker 6 (19:16):
Close to the one trillion dollar amount is lost every
year a fraud.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
A year, a trillion dollars. We're coming up on a
trillion dollars a year of fraud.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
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. Not really.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
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, or they could do
something about it, I think just keep going, Michael.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
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 6 (20:18):
Are those the biggest defenders. 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 criminal activity.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
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. 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.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
That and got them.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
It's the tune of gazillions and gills millions of dollars.
This well, this next little clip from her will make
you mad.
Speaker 7 (21:04):
In twenty twenty, Miller was appointed to an independent watchdog
committee that tracked how COVID relief money was spent, so.
Speaker 6 (21:11):
We could tell right away it's like, oh, well, that's
all gonna get stolen.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
You saw it coming.
Speaker 6 (21:15):
Oh yeah, I mean it was like they threw money
in the air and just let people run around and
grab it.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Still in favorite tax increases, are you what that hang
there for a while. 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 down trow. 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
(21:42):
and then not pay the slightest bit of attention at
all ever to where the money goes or if it
does any good. I believe this in my heart. There
is a huge.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Motivator. Let me structure the sense like this self congratulations
may be the most important factor in good old American
left wing politics. I'm not talking about like Jade Guavera
Marxist politics. I'm talking about, you need to help the downtrodden.
Let's not blame the victims. We have to have programs
and plays, blah blah blah, well meaning folks, but their
(22:23):
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 ruins their buzz going through the
accounting and realizing, oh my god, there's waste, fraud and
(22:44):
abuse in this program. Holy cow, we got to roll
up our sleeves, take a deep breath and get to
work because this is bad.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
No, that kills their buzz.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
God.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
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 say hey, hey, hey, that
million dollars went to some criminal in China. It's supposed
(23:13):
to go to my uncle who's on this fake board.
They're not keeping track of it.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, I mean they wouldn't say that out loud, but
you'd think, yeah, they'd become anti waste activists. Although they would,
they would be caught in their own web. I think,
so they can't a little more from Linda Miller, righteous
speaker of truth.
Speaker 6 (23:32):
The most egregious part is that a lot of the
people who stole that money were foreign adversarial nation states.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
So who are they? Who are you talking.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
About We're talking about China, we're talking about Russia, impersonating
Americans in a lot.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Of cases, that's right. We are enriching shji In Pang
and vlad Putin and his goons and oligarchs even as
we're opposing them.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
This FBI guy roll on.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
These are arguably digital gangs in the twenty first century
that are built off of having safe haven stas meating
their governments are not going to interrupt their activity even
if it's illegal, and.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Then get a cut. The government's get a cut.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
And then this I find this a particularly fantastic because
we all we hold on.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Sorry about the ball.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
If we have to give our social Security number, we
look around, we make sure nobody hears it. If we
have to kee it into a pin, we put our
hand over the pin pad, so nobody possibly sees our
soci secrety. Because the most important thing you do, so
make sure nobody gets a hold of your social security number.
That's from sixty minutes.
Speaker 7 (24:37):
Brian Vorandrin is head of the FBI's Cyber Division.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
He says, these digital.
Speaker 7 (24:41):
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 the dark web?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
That is a truth tape.
Speaker 8 (24:53):
All of our personal identifiable information, name data, birth, former addresses,
social security number is available in the dark netting can
likely be purchased.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
That's chilling.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
Yep, it's very much away of our lives so right now.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
And purchased I hear for as little as two bucks apiece. Yep,
very affordable. What the hell?
Speaker 3 (25:14):
If it can be hacked, it will be hacked, or
more likely has been hacked. What the hell?
Speaker 2 (25:22):
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 couldn't get their money. Now they're going through
the I can't imagine paperwork headache of trying to straighten
(25:47):
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 3 (26:00):
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 (26:12):
We didn't have it.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
It wasn't in our wallets.
Speaker 2 (26:16):
We've got to run to the bank and borrow it. Now,
one more clip and then we'll fill in some dots.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
On this story.
Speaker 7 (26:23):
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 8 (26:37):
Six billion dollars is an enormous, enormous amount of money.
Speaker 7 (26:41):
Why is the government a target for this type of fraud?
Speaker 8 (26:44):
Because of the massive amount of money that exists in
the federal government and in the state government.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
And the utter lack of interest in protecting it in
a significant way, especially if it gets in the way
of handing out steads of money and thereby winning votes.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
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
(27:21):
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 3 (27:42):
If we had a king, the prisons would be full
of the bureaucrats who allowed this to happen. Monarchy. Now,
how is this story, let's just call it good?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
How's this not like a big enough story for an
entire party to emerge around.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
I just think the other side of the coin is
so attractive to people, particularly low information voters. We're gonna
give you stuff. That's the party for me. Right there,
that guy said he do you stuff.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
My media nitpicking just to get it out of my system?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Is that.
Speaker 2 (28:18):
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
(28:38):
We're not saying he's perfect or everything he.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Did was good.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
Before we get to the biggest story you're going to
hear this weekend that a trillion dollars was stolen from
the gun of Elon Musk's numbers are fast and loose.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
On the other hand, this story that's really barely related.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Nice red herring. You had to throw in there for
some reason to satisfy your lefty view What the hell
was that? That makes me so angry?
Speaker 3 (29:03):
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 congratulatory
dumb ass viewers. So that was uncharitable, and I apologize
for it. That's what it was.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I got the thumbs down Friday from a girl in
the crosswalk in my university town. 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 and
she walks across. No disapproval. This privileged college girl at
an expensive university in an expensive town unhappy with Elon Musk.
(29:44):
So yeah, that's what had to do. They had to
throw in a little Elon's not perfect. But now back
to a very very big important story that everybody should know.
A trillion dollars got stolen.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Right right. 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 going to fight
the power, and it'll be a different.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Power, completely opposite in five more years.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Because all I want to do is be angry is
self franchus. I can't think I'm stupid.
Speaker 2 (30:24):
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. Anyway, Fine,
make you right, I tell you what.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
All right, Here's here's a little I had a slice
of key lime pie last night, and I love key
lime pie. Here's a little dessert for you. Michael, We're
going to go up to the rando section. Oh, this
is this is great. Here is a dad who does
a great Joe Biden and he's literally working on the
meat on the grill. This is clip fifteen. Michael and
(30:59):
his daughter come up to him and says he does
do an impression of Joe Biden.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
Explaining the plot to Star Wars.
Speaker 9 (31:08):
So there's a there's a galicy galaxy park on the
side of that. No, no, A long long time ago,
back back back when I was working full time. Anyway,
I was ahead of the embassy. It doesn't matter. Uh long,
far far away. There was galaxy and there were robots,
(31:30):
the robuts, they were not the droids.
Speaker 6 (31:33):
You're really good for me.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Come on, that's pretty good.
Speaker 1 (31:39):
Boy.
Speaker 4 (31:41):
Jack Armstrong and Joe, The Armstrong and Getty Show, The
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Speaker 3 (31:53):
Oh, this is gonna be my let me count one
hundred and thirty third jihad this topic.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Wow, I'm really gonna have to use AI to schedule it. Uh,
you know, rantings and ravings.
Speaker 3 (32:07):
Why did I come across with AI yesterday?
Speaker 2 (32:10):
Something AI that was just phenomenal around video stuff. Again,
that's where AI is clearly making a mark. I don't
know if it's going to take over the world in
a lot of the other ways that they've been claiming,
but man, the stuff it can do with video with
just you know, a couple of prompts is stunning, mind blowing.
(32:33):
So this is getting some mockery. Oh it was good.
There's an article in the New York Times, a hot
accessory at the intersection of faith and culture seen on influencers,
pop stars and White House staff. Cross necklaces are popping
up everywhere, and it's getting mockery from the parts of
the country where people been wearing cross necklaces forever. Like
(32:54):
I think every girl I've ever dated in my life
for across necklace at some point. So the idea that
the New York Times is acting like this is some
interesting intersection of faith and culture that has occurred is
just an example of how out of touch they are
with the giant chunk of America that, for instance, has
voted for Trump twice.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
New York is.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
A fascinating place in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
I am pro New York, but New Yorker's self regard
has annoyed me since I was eleven years old, right,
no kidding. The rest of us are quite happy and
fascinated by life, and have many opportunities for art, culture,
the outdoors, et cetera. Whatever we prefer. We're fine. We're
not lesser being well. Right.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
The thing that annoys me about New York and to
a certain extent, LA and lots of big cities really,
but in particular New York and LA is the people
who live there, their assumption that we all want to
be there. We just haven't figured out how to get
there yet. We're trying, we just haven't been successful enough
to live there, and you know there, And that's fine.
(34:03):
I belove New York and Los Angeles, but everybody doesn't
want to live there. There are some people, I know.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
That's funny.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
I was listening to Joonah Goldberg the other day on
a podcast, and he grew up on the Upper West Side.
You know, right next to Central Park. That's the way
he grew up. And he was saying some things that
I and he was just so wrong about. I wish
I could have had a conversation, like a loving conversation
with him, saying, dude, you just and I don't blame
you for not knowing you grew up with a completely
different lifestyle than I did. But I know plenty of
(34:31):
people who might kill themselves if they had to live
in New York. They would contemplate suicide if they had
to live in New.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
York, right right, I'll and it's universal. I mean, we've
talked about this, having moved around the country, Fairmount. You
live in Kansas, they talk about how stupid Missourians, sure whatever,
And you're in France they say Belgians or morons. Just
everybody likes to, you know, say human foible. But I'll
never forget. I was having a conversation with a friend
(35:02):
in the San Francisco Bay area years ago, and at
the conclusion of a long conversation about his brutal commute
and it's awful taxes and is incomprehensible mortgage payments and
the rest of it. A town outside the Bay area
came up, and he was like, oh, poor bastards, right,
(35:22):
if only they could live in the Bay Area. I'm like, wow, okay,
never mind. Anyway.
Speaker 2 (35:29):
One thing about moving my whole life and then as
an adult also is realizing that everybody loves where they're from,
and I wish just more people would understand. You like
where you're from. That's perfectly fine. You don't need to
hate on other places. You like where you're from because
it's what you're familiar with, your people, your friends, your stuff.
Speaker 3 (35:48):
That's perfectly all right.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
But you don't have to pretend that you have to
hate all the other places.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
But everybody does. It's human nature, apparently, especially because we're
all Americans except for legal immigrants.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're not get out except.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Twenty million illegal immigrants.
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