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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Russia wants to see you during sixty hundred to do list.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Putting the radio on is the first thing today.
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George said, steal me Stem. You have a day at
least for work.
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When the sun comes up, drops a kid too scood
in your mind anyway, Joe.
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Has everything, A dreamer all the treasure said.
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It needs.
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No one that Joe's smith.
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He only as be Joe.
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Thank you for letting me be of service to you.
This morning, I be and every morning here along the
top media network from our flagship. Here in one of
the most interesting areas in America. It is home to
America and America Version two, as Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow
Wilson claim home here. Ella Jefferson doesn't have a presidential library.
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I think Monticello is pretty and if you've ever been,
the visitors center at Monticello is incredible. And it's interesting
because there's really quite this little competition between all the
president's homes here in the Commonwealth of Virginia. They're all
trying to outdo Mount Vernon. And I said, you never
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tell a marketer a bit. There are some headwinds that
they're just not going to be able to clear and
you know, because they don't want to hear it. And
that's that's why they do what they do. They're out
there trying to get more people to come to Monticello
than Mount Vernon, or at least get to an equilibrium.
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And I said to him, I said, yeah, but you're
a long way away from Washington, d C. Is Oh,
that shouldn't matter. It's you know, they'll come down here.
I'm like, no, not, well, not as easy. You know,
a lot a lot of people visiting Washington, d C.
Who you have a little free time, and they say, hey,
you want to go see well, George Washington live nearby here,
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and uh, and so you wind up with more people
visiting Mount Vernon. But there's quite a competition between all
the president's homes Montpelier here, and there's the like I mentioned,
the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and White Sheet Cleaner. No,
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they don't. I honestly, I somebody told me that every
now and then they will have an exhibit about birth
of a nation. But they really try to downplay that
whole bit of the dixie Crat technocrat. Let's let's not
let this black population get out of control too much here.
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So all developing America two point zero, which we're living
our lives through and trying to chronicle the travails of same.
For this morning on a program where we tell you
what happened, and we'll tell you what we think about
what went happened, But most importantly, we want to hear
how it's impacting you where you are. So we begin
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with our first things this morning. You heard the little
clip of President Trump during the press conference with Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski yesterday at Mari Lago. He did say
that he felt like the two sides in the war
between the two nations is closer than ever before to peace,
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but he did warn that it could break down. He
said it was an excellent two and a half hour
conversation while the meeting was going on with Russian President
Vladimir Putin. He said Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed
and that it would be offering things like energy at
low cost to the reconstruction effort. Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz's
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office is pushing back against the fraud allegations, saying through
a Space oakesperson that the governor has been cracking down
on fraud strengthening oversight, and some of those facilities have
already been closed. Meanwhile, the FBI has deployed personnel to
investigate resources in Minnesota to quote dismantle the large scale
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fraud schemes exploiting federal programs. China's military on Monday dispatched air, navy,
and rocket troops to conduct joint military drills around the
island of Taiwan, move Beijing called stern warnings against separatists
and external interference forces. Silicon Valley's wealthiest residents are facing
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a wealth tax, one time five percent tax on assets
of California residents worth more than one billion dollars. The
measure would be going to a referendum in November. The
Trump administration has started investigations into the use of diversity,
equity and inclusion initiatives in hiring at major US companies.
(05:07):
Wall Street Journals saying Sunday that Google and Verizon are
among the list of companies that have received DOJ demands
for documents and information about their DEI programs. Actress Bridgitte
Bardou passed away Sunday at the age of ninety one.
Rocketed to stardom at the age of twenty two in
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the film God Created Woman, then retired from the public
spotlight in the eighties and focused on animal treatment and protection.
The families of victims of the Sydney massacre that targeted
a Jewish Hanukkah festival released an open letter calling for
more federal action to investigate anti sentematism and security failures
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behind the mass shooting. The letter, sent to Prime Minister Albanize,
said that the increase and anti Semitism is not being
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Bruh, that's buzzed.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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All right? Who broke it? Who broke the thing? Who
broke the thing? And what is what do you mean?
You don't know? You would? You mean nothing is running?
Something is running, and therefore nothing else will run. All right,
work on it Monday mornings. You know, this is what
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happens when people start packing boxes. We've got to vacate
twenty twenty five here in a couple of days. We
you know, move into our new digs in twenty twenty six.
And everyone's got all this And this is one of
the things I dislike societally about these landmark things. You know,
everyone's expecting a year in review. Oh, let's do a
(13:58):
year in review. I just did the year in review.
We did it live, Q bill, O'Reilly? We did it
as it happened. Do we need to go over it again?
And so everyone gets focused in on you know, Christmas
parties or you know, Hanukah celebrations, kwansa, whatever your your
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flavor are, you know, and you were focused on that
and we forget all the other stuff. And it's so
maddening when you're trying to get answers to business questions
and things like, oh yeah, I'm I'm out of the
office until January seventh, and it's December fifth. Man, can
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I don't know about you. I can't take a month
and just mail it in. Rent's got to be paid
and electric bills got to be the electric company doesn't say,
you know what, you don't need to bay us for
the next month. Holy moly, God bless the businesses that
are out there that stand with us. And you know
(15:01):
I've made those plays. I know, I know you're looking
at the radio center. You should have thought of that
in advance, Joe, I just wait till December to start
talking about some of this stuff. Well, I mean we
have been you know what I've discovered. For the amount
of technology you and I use, most technology companies have
no interest in advertising to you. And I find that
(15:25):
to be an interesting abstract. And let's stick a pin
in this because I want to get into some other
stuff at this point. But we're heading to the Consumer
Electronics Show, whether they like it or not, not next
week but the week after. No, Actually, what am I saying?
Not this week but next week? So next Monday we'll
be live from Lost Wages for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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And they all want to show you their stuff. When
you say, hey, we're doing you know, national radio program
cities San Antonio and Norfolk and send you know a
Sacramento in Chicago and all these places, like, yeah, we
don't do uh, you know, we don't do consumer marketing.
(16:10):
What kind of marketing you do? Oh, we're mostly business
to business, I said, I believe business owners listen to us.
We do direct marketing to businesses and they'll incorporate our technology.
So well, you're a cybersecurity company. Yeah, yeah, we get
downloaded into programs and we don't we don't ask it.
And maybe that's eighty percent of the problem of the
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consumer of the digital world is none of them are
asking you do you want this security function? You're just
getting it. Oh, you've got an app and that's got
a security thing already woven into it. It's almost like
money laundering, you know, or you know, because if a
government agency did this, oh faster than you can say,
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Tim Waltz, people would be on it like white on
rice for collusion and you know, but business to business,
we'll find some sponsors for our broadcasts. You know, there
are some people out there who do sell technology directly
to the consumer. Most of them, though, seem more interested
in selling it to each other. Seems a little incestuous,
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but that's just me. And we may just have to
take it on the chin and pay for it ourselves,
because I think it's important stuff and we're not. Like
I said about the New Year's Best ofs or Urine review,
I'm sorry, they actually take more time away than they're
(17:35):
useful for. And several folks have said, well, you're not
going to stop talking about the news just to talk
about high Texas. Hell no, hell no. You know, we
may go over and see what Cisco is doing, or
Crisco or Crisco or whatever companies are uploading the down
links from the Mumford tee, firefly suck it from the
(17:57):
sky down link antennae, things like that. But we're not
going to stop telling you what's going on in between
Russia and Ukraine. And there we slide over to yesterday's
press conference. One of the things I wanted to play
for you is a clip of President Trump. Have you
resolved the issue with the thing, all right? So this
(18:21):
is President Trump yesterday. Do you know you rebooted it?
Way to go it? President? He was very generous, and
it was very toward Ukraine, very generous in his feelings
towards Ukraine. Russia wants Ukraine to succeed. How can that
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be true, Joe, hasn't he spent the last four years
conducting a war that wasn't supposed to take more than
two weeks? Well, now you're just being means spared. You
must be be with CNN because CNN's reporter kept insisting,
mister President, didn't you I promise to end this war
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in twenty four hours? Yeah? Like Putin promised to have
it done in two weeks too. I grew up with
Ukrainian Americans and I'm gonna tell you they are no joke.
And if if things go pear shaped and let's say
an establishment of beverage consumption, you want friends who are Ukrainian. Right,
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So what does the president mean when you say Russia?
Russia wants Ukraine to succeed? How can that be true?
Why would he have been invading them for so long?
Because he wants he wants Ukraine to succeed as part
of Russia. That's how it convened. True, Russia is going
to be helping.
Speaker 17 (19:53):
Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a
little strange, but I was explaining to the president Putin
was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding as.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Part of Russia. That's the part that Vlad the Invader
didn't mention, And that's the whole premise of the whole thing,
is that Putin hates these agreements that Yeltsin signed into
back at the end of the Cold War. I saw
an interesting clip. I don't know, I'm not even sure
(20:28):
why because it's had no bardon me, connection to the date.
It had nothing connected to anything else except that my
son and I were having a conversation and he mentioned
Richard Nixon. So mysteriously in my newsfeed came up a
flashback to the day Richard Nixon died, which, if you're
(20:52):
checking your calendar, is nowhere near the end of December
in nineteen ninety was it six ninety four? Clinton? They
had Clinton talking in the Rose Guard and so it
must be. But they brought up something that Nixon, like
Nigel Farage now, but Nixon in nineteen ninety two called
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both Bush and Clinton and said, you need to be
addressing reforms in the now fallen Soviet Union. You need
to be reaching out to the Russian Republic to help
them back up on their feet. And it appears that
neither of them listened to Nixon when he said that.
(21:39):
But it was interesting to me because I know that
Nijol Farage, Captain Brexit, and the guy who's probably going
to be the next Prime Minister of England has been
saying this for years. Is that NATO, insisting that Russia
was still the reason they existed, had to keep treating
them like an enemy, not like somebody fallen who needed help.
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reducing inflammation is a key component to our overall health.
The Mayo Clinic found that kurcumin can decrease swelling and inflammation,
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I'm Andrew Saul, Commission of Self Security. I'm here to
warn you about telephone scammers pretending to be government employees.
Some of these scammers may say threatening things like you
will be arrested if you don't make payments or provide
personal information. Do not fall for these tricks. These calls
are not from US. Real solid security employees will never
(25:25):
threaten you for information or money. If you receive a
call like this, hang up. Never give the call of
your personal information like your social Security number or bank account,
or send money in any form cash, gift cards, wire transfers,
or prepaid debit cards. Report the call to our law
(25:46):
enforcement on the Office of the Inspector General at OIG
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Oh, Brad's buzzed.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
Speaker 12 (26:02):
I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
art and brain.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Who's with me?
Speaker 11 (26:08):
Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
brain is saying when it's time to go home. Somebody
call me a ride.
Speaker 13 (26:15):
Love that guy, me too.
Speaker 14 (26:16):
Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
it's time to go home.
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Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Did you know that more than half our household energy
costs go to heating and cooling. Energy efficiency isn't just
good for the environment, It means lower utility bills too.
One way to reduce your energy waste is a home
energy assessment. Your utility company can help or you can
learn how to do it yourself at energysavers dot gov.
(26:43):
That's energysavers dot gov. You'll learn to look for air
leaks around windows and doors, check ducks for holes, and
improve your insulation. Another time to cut energy costs is
when you shop for a new appliance. Look for the
energy star logo and read the energy guide label. And
there are day to day things you can do. Lower
your thermostat in winter and raise it in the summer,
(27:06):
close fireplace stampers when they're not in use, and keep
air filters clean. For more tips on saving money by
reducing your energy waste, check out FTC dot gov slash green,
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protection agency.
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Bruton, which is very generous and it's very toward you're
crat The first thing today by Joe Thomas on the
Talk Media Network.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
I'm afraid of the Russians.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
I can't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm so afraid of the Russians.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Afraid we've got.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't know where it comes from, but I was
raised with the belief that if you define yourself simply
by what you're against, you're going to have problems because
that that changes and you have to do the harder
work of figure out what it is you are for,
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and then you can live a whole, realistic and in
proactive life there. And so I think what the Western
world had done was during the course of the Cold War,
so angry were they at the what you would call
a traitorous act by the Russians after World War Two
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when they decided, you know what, we're not leaving in
East Germany that they couldn't when when the Soviet Union
finally fell which was what Milton Friedman and so many
other people had said, don't don't arrest communists. Mister McCarthy,
mister senator, this was why Nixon, this is what stuck
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out is hold it the same Dick Nixon who with
along with Roy Kohne. Yeah, that's same Roy Cone, you know,
advised Joe McCarthy on his hearings. Now, from what I'm told,
Nixon was the one who went and found all the
communists in the government. It was McCarthy that figured the
best thing to do was just send the FBI in
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and arrest them and throw them all in prison, because
somehow that would make them stop being communists. When after
the fact, Reagan showed us and his advisor said, no,
you drag communism out into the sunlight and let everyone
see what it actually does, because it's rhetoric as much
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as the CNN anchors and all that. Well, you you
you ended in twenty four hours. Yeah, and Putin said
he'd have it done in two weeks too, so shop.
But Reagan said, if you drag communism out into full
view and show everyone what it is that communism does,
then people won't want to do it. And it's sort
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of been the business model of this program since we
launched twenty odd years ago, is that, you know, we
want to drag this stuff out into the light so
that you all can see it, and then and then
we can go from there. We got a lot going on, folks,
hanging on the line at four, three, four eight eight,
two four two one seven, though, First thing today, Sports
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director Mac McDonald tell us what you're working on in
sports this morning.
Speaker 22 (31:20):
Mack, Good morning, Joe, Welcome to Monday. Here are the
stories we are tracking today. The Ravens lived to see
another postseason possibility. Cleveland topp the Steelers Sunday thirteen six,
shutting out Pittsburgh in three corners. With the loss, the
steel City in Baltimore will decide the AFC North next week.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Head coach Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 23 (31:39):
I didn't think we played poorly. We just didn't make
enough plays. I thought they played well. I thought the
game was kind of unfolding in the way that you
would anticipate, but we never made that signature play that
kind of got us over the hump. That generally is
the deciding factor in games like this, and we generally
make them. We didn't make them.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Tall He'll be back at seven point thirty. It open
his reporter's notebook for us in and now it's time
to take a look at what's going on in business
before we get to the green bags. Silver's rolled back
a little bit, buying opportunity if you think, perhaps down
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to seventy five dollars and now it's of silver. It
was close to seventy nine on Friday. Gold is trading
at forty four sixty and sixteen cents. Asian shares got
low this morning as China stage drills near Taiwan. US
stocks drift into more records in the shortened holiday. Student
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How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 24 (33:51):
So still got this call thing, but I'll get past it.
So Dragon communism into the Sun.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Let's do that for a minute. And that's so be
hang on because Dragon made me think of because there's
maoist communism, which which played on the fact that China
never had any economic freedom. So what would their what
would their peasants know about economic freedom? All they know
is they got better clothes and a chance to vote
for the warlord instead of just accepting whoever it was.
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So that's a kind of a different kind of communism.
The outcome is the same, but mal reworked marks a
lot to make it sellable to peasants that never knew freedom.
You know, Lenin had to figure out a way to
get free people to sign off and sign away their
liberty there in Russia, whatever it may have looked like
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Speaker 24 (34:48):
So what the Epstein thing. We were definitely misled into
wanting to know the client list rather than focus on
who sponsored it. Right, And with the Somali fraud in Minnesota, now, Joe,
it's a little racist that we're just focusing on the
(35:09):
Somali aspect of this. They did. I mean, apparently they
have lined bread for generations so they could isolate the
theft genes. But we've got a group in this country
that has been here for quite a bit longer than
the Somalis that are much more adept at theft. And Joe,
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what do you get when you mix peanut butter and chocolate.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
A reci's cup.
Speaker 24 (35:38):
This is a reche cup of fraud. There's no way
that the Somalis set this up and defrauded to the
tune of nine billion plus without the.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Knowledge and facilitation.
Speaker 24 (35:57):
Of the bureaucratic agencies in the elect Goopolas. There's also
no way this is Democrat state. Minnesota is a Democrat state, right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Uh yeah, I mean I think it's Capital D Democrat state. Yeah,
the Farmer's Democratic Party of Minnesota or whatever it's called.
Speaker 24 (36:17):
There's no way those Democrats allowed there to be nine
billion dollars in fraud and they did not get a
substantial cut.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh yeah, absolutely not. I mean this is these programs
were around, I think before the Somalis even have started
emigrating here.
Speaker 24 (36:36):
Yes, there's no way that the Democrats that run Minnesota
did not profit at least as well. Oh yeah, as
the Somalis that are the front men.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Well, what's the point of being a grifter if there's
not a little veig at the end? Ooh yeah, I mean,
come on, let's be serial here.
Speaker 24 (36:58):
Every time I see a story on this, it's about
the Samalogs defrauded.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, well they may have turned it up to eleven.
They may have turned it up to eleven and and
having ilhan Omar And again, be careful, you know, again
of defining yourself by who you're against, because someday ilhan
Omar is probably going to be gone, and you know,
the fraud is still going to be there. Tim Wallace's
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spokesperson over the weekend, No, no, Governor Walls has already
fixed a lot of this, And I'd love to talk
to some of the folks who spent the weekend trying
to debunk Nick Shirley's videos, saying, oh, no, he's wrong
about those, He just went there on the wrong days.
Tim Walls, his own spokesperson, said yeah, we've already closed
a bunch of those daycare centers. Which is it? Is it?
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Is it that we were wrong that they were really
righteous daycare centers, because Tim Wall seems to say that
he is already taken care of all that and he's
already closed them.
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Speaker 1 (44:22):
To cycle liberty, prosperity, apathy, decline, and then tyranny Washern's repeat.
Luckily for us, we have technology on our side. Now
that's my that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
We have the opportunity, unlike many of the previous generations,
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to know what's happening, so maybe we can do something
about it. We were talking about the you know, Governor
Waltz claiming that he's not the one making it purple
rain up in Minnesota there, uh, and that the fraud.
Oh no, Governor Walls is cracking down on it all.
He's already closed some of those daycare centers. Maybe he
(45:04):
close the leering center there, doctor Clark.
Speaker 24 (45:08):
We just need to pay more attention to where the
real fraud is in this deal.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Well, whenever there's a bag of other people's money, there's
going to be fraud because the people who and this
is the problem with the bureaucratic idea of aid to
the homeless or the helpless or the sapless, is that
you're asking someone whose money it is not to oversee it.
(45:35):
This is why the government does a bad job of
investing in things, because the person who makes the final
decision isn't a shark tank billionaire who's out there saying, hmm,
I wonder if I can make a profit off of this.
It's some bureaucrat saying, hey, am I going to get
yelled at, you know, at the next monthly meeting? Or
(45:55):
can I do something that will get me a gold star?
And that's the best case scenario. Then you start to
get the drifters, and the drifters in there with with
their hands out or the hands into the bag saying Okay,
I'm going to give you ten of these dollars. I'm
keeping two of them for myself. Don't tell anyone, you
know what I'm saying. Yes, so we fix it by
(46:17):
stopping this lunacy and allowing the money to stay in
the hands of the people. And you know what, if
the government wants to run public service announcements saying hey,
there are Somali refugees in this area and here's the
phone number to go help them out, I have no
problem with that. You know what do they call it?
The ad Council was the was the organization that used
(46:38):
to run all those PSAs. I think they're still around, right, probably,
so well, feel better, doctor Clark, and and we'll talk
to you again in the morning.
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A man, take care.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
President Trump said the very same thing to the UN
uh this weekend. He's like, listen, we're going to give
you some money for humanitarian aid, but you better start
flying because this and UN is whining. Oh, this is
lower than it's ever been before. Everyone should see this documentary.
And I fell in love with this documentary a few
(47:12):
years ago. I saw it during the Anthem Film Festival,
which is adjunct to the Scouson's great event, Freedom Fest.
I think we're going back to Freedom Fest. My wife
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be for the next four or five years, and it's
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the filmmakers actually set out to make a documentary about
all these Greade eight organizations that were doing all this
great work and helping all these great people. What they
found was a bunch of people who were really getting
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is this so anthem film festival? Freedom Fest perhaps one
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libertarian free marketeers, and in Aspen amongst you know, the
Paul Newman crowd, the Robert Redford crowd. So so the
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granola crunching snow bunnies loved the movie as much as
the uber libertarians in the desert, because it's it's it's
inquestionable that you know, all the do gooders are just
making themselves wealthy while the people who need the help
get shaft and are told to be grateful that they
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got a shaft. Joel's on the line with us at
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Speaker 26 (49:20):
I'm praying I have a position. So yeah, I'm there.
I thought you were talking about the movie Shaft.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Well there's a several versions of that one there, and
you want to talk about a new position into twenty
twenty six. That's often been my New Year's resolution, is
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any event, what's on your mind.
Speaker 26 (49:44):
So the civialians got caught and it's big time, and
it's supposedly the largest in the United States history as
far as the fraud and graft. But let's go to
New York City. Let's get a let's go to the
president former president and the United States with lllc'sle which
(50:04):
which are shell companies. Let's go to New York City
where there's fake storefronts and they're selling counterfeit goods. And
most of the police in the area know that these
these places are people on the street are selling counterfeit goods.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
They go, oh, well, it's.
Speaker 26 (50:19):
Only a small group of people. But let's say you
take New York City with about what is it four
point six million people or more, I don't know, but
let's say maybe a thousand of those people are selling
goods on the street different corners, maybe Houston and and
Broadway and all kinds of places like that. They go, oh,
(50:39):
it's only a couple hundred dollars, but pennies add up.
And just like with with a Hunter uh, you know,
doing all his things and and people.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
I'm trying to follow, you know, because because you're definitely
hitting two different types of fraud. And I mean that
goes back, I mean my childhood. And you know how
how is Gucci spelled? Is Gucci spelled with two seas
or three seas? That is that a roll a or
a role axe? You know, I mean that that's you know, knockoff,
ripoff stuff is almost you know, part of the cottage
(51:14):
industry of uh downtown New York, and it has been
since gosh, I was a kid there. But you know,
when you talk about industrialized grift like Hunter Biden uh
and what the Biden family was doing, you're you're talking
about the exact reason you wind up with the Somalis, who,
to be fair, they were caught because ilhan Omar can't
(51:36):
keep her pie hole shot or whatever it is she eats,
you know, and so you know, she kept sticking her
neck out. So people are like, well, let's go, oh,
hold on. She's a big advocate for this group. Let's
investigate them with a microscope. And that's how you wind
up with this fraud because there's lots of other fraud
going on because it's other people's money.
Speaker 26 (51:56):
Wasn't there somebody in Virginia recently that are you mention that?
It was like, I know, she's working for local government
and she kept taking out like for it was like
twenty years or thirty years or something, and this has
ended up take you know, like one hundred dollars here
and a dollar here, and from different taxpayers and it
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added up to like three hundred or five hundred thousand
dollars over.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Well, there's a couple of stories. I think you're mixing
a couple of the most recent ones. Somebody who was
using the government credit card to buy herself Christmas presents
and lunches and get her car repaired, and you know,
not necessarily flashy things like buying herself a house. But
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Bruh, that's buzzed.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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All right? Who broke it? Who broke the thing? Who
broke the thing? And what is what do you mean?
You don't know? You would? You mean nothing is running?
Something is running, and therefore nothing else will run. All right,
work on it Monday mornings. You know, this is what
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happens when people start packing boxes. We've got to vacate
twenty twenty five here in a couple of days. We
you know, move into our new digs in twenty twenty six.
And everyone's got all this And this is one of
the things I dislike societally about these landmark things. You know,
everyone's expecting a year in review. Oh, let's do a
(13:58):
year in review. I just did the year in review.
We did it live, Q bill, O'Reilly? We did it
as it happened. Do we need to go over it again?
And so everyone gets focused in on you know, Christmas
parties or you know, Hanukah celebrations, kwansa, whatever your your
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flavor are, you know, and you were focused on that
and we forget all the other stuff. And it's so
maddening when you're trying to get answers to business questions
and things like, oh yeah, I'm I'm out of the
office until January seventh, and it's December fifth. Man, can
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I don't know about you. I can't take a month
and just mail it in. Rent's got to be paid
and electric bills got to be the electric company doesn't say,
you know what, you don't need to bay us for
the next month. Holy moly, God bless the businesses that
are out there that stand with us. And you know
(15:01):
I've made those plays. I know, I know you're looking
at the radio center. You should have thought of that
in advance, Joe, I just wait till December to start
talking about some of this stuff. Well, I mean we
have been you know what I've discovered. For the amount
of technology you and I use, most technology companies have
no interest in advertising to you. And I find that
(15:25):
to be an interesting abstract. And let's stick a pin
in this because I want to get into some other
stuff at this point. But we're heading to the Consumer
Electronics Show, whether they like it or not, not next
week but the week after. No, Actually, what am I saying?
Not this week but next week? So next Monday we'll
be live from Lost Wages for the Consumer Electronics Show.
(15:49):
And they all want to show you their stuff. When
you say, hey, we're doing you know, national radio program
cities San Antonio and Norfolk and send you know a
Sacramento in Chicago and all these places, like, yeah, we
don't do uh, you know, we don't do consumer marketing.
(16:10):
What kind of marketing you do? Oh, we're mostly business
to business, I said, I believe business owners listen to us.
We do direct marketing to businesses and they'll incorporate our technology.
So well, you're a cybersecurity company. Yeah, yeah, we get
downloaded into programs and we don't we don't ask it.
And maybe that's eighty percent of the problem of the
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consumer of the digital world is none of them are
asking you do you want this security function? You're just
getting it. Oh, you've got an app and that's got
a security thing already woven into it. It's almost like
money laundering, you know, or you know, because if a
government agency did this, oh faster than you can say,
(16:52):
Tim Waltz, people would be on it like white on
rice for collusion and you know, but business to business,
we'll find some sponsors for our broadcasts. You know, there
are some people out there who do sell technology directly
to the consumer. Most of them, though, seem more interested
in selling it to each other. Seems a little incestuous,
(17:15):
but that's just me. And we may just have to
take it on the chin and pay for it ourselves,
because I think it's important stuff and we're not. Like
I said about the New Year's Best ofs or Urine review,
I'm sorry, they actually take more time away than they're
(17:35):
useful for. And several folks have said, well, you're not
going to stop talking about the news just to talk
about high Texas. Hell no, hell no. You know, we
may go over and see what Cisco is doing, or
Crisco or Crisco or whatever companies are uploading the down
links from the Mumford tee, firefly suck it from the
(17:57):
sky down link antennae, things like that. But we're not
going to stop telling you what's going on in between
Russia and Ukraine. And there we slide over to yesterday's
press conference. One of the things I wanted to play
for you is a clip of President Trump. Have you
resolved the issue with the thing, all right? So this
(18:21):
is President Trump yesterday. Do you know you rebooted it?
Way to go it? President? He was very generous, and
it was very toward Ukraine, very generous in his feelings
towards Ukraine. Russia wants Ukraine to succeed. How can that
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be true, Joe, hasn't he spent the last four years
conducting a war that wasn't supposed to take more than
two weeks? Well, now you're just being means spared. You
must be be with CNN because CNN's reporter kept insisting,
mister President, didn't you I promise to end this war
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in twenty four hours? Yeah? Like Putin promised to have
it done in two weeks too. I grew up with
Ukrainian Americans and I'm gonna tell you they are no joke.
And if if things go pear shaped and let's say
an establishment of beverage consumption, you want friends who are Ukrainian. Right,
(19:33):
So what does the president mean when you say Russia?
Russia wants Ukraine to succeed? How can that be true?
Why would he have been invading them for so long?
Because he wants he wants Ukraine to succeed as part
of Russia. That's how it convened. True, Russia is going
to be helping.
Speaker 17 (19:53):
Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed once. It sounds a
little strange, but I was explaining to the president Putin
was very generous in his feeling towards Ukraine succeeding as.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Part of Russia. That's the part that Vlad the Invader
didn't mention, And that's the whole premise of the whole thing,
is that Putin hates these agreements that Yeltsin signed into
back at the end of the Cold War. I saw
an interesting clip. I don't know, I'm not even sure
(20:28):
why because it's had no bardon me, connection to the date.
It had nothing connected to anything else except that my
son and I were having a conversation and he mentioned
Richard Nixon. So mysteriously in my newsfeed came up a
flashback to the day Richard Nixon died, which, if you're
(20:52):
checking your calendar, is nowhere near the end of December
in nineteen ninety was it six ninety four? Clinton? They
had Clinton talking in the Rose Guard and so it
must be. But they brought up something that Nixon, like
Nigel Farage now, but Nixon in nineteen ninety two called
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both Bush and Clinton and said, you need to be
addressing reforms in the now fallen Soviet Union. You need
to be reaching out to the Russian Republic to help
them back up on their feet. And it appears that
neither of them listened to Nixon when he said that.
(21:39):
But it was interesting to me because I know that
Nijol Farage, Captain Brexit, and the guy who's probably going
to be the next Prime Minister of England has been
saying this for years. Is that NATO, insisting that Russia
was still the reason they existed, had to keep treating
them like an enemy, not like somebody fallen who needed help.
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Oh, Brad's buzzed.
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Oh yeah, yeah, he's starting with the woots.
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And now a speech.
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I just want to say that friendship is about heart,
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Who's with me?
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Good thing is he knows when he's buzzed, and my
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call me a ride.
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Love that guy, me too.
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Know your buzzed warning signs call for a ride when
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Buzz driving is drunk driving.
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Bruton, which is very generous and it's very toward you're
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Talk Media Network.
Speaker 12 (28:27):
I'm afraid of the Russians.
Speaker 5 (28:30):
I can't sleep at night.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I'm so afraid of the Russians.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
Afraid we've got.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't know where it comes from, but I was
raised with the belief that if you define yourself simply
by what you're against, you're going to have problems because
that that changes and you have to do the harder
work of figure out what it is you are for,
(28:58):
and then you can live a whole, realistic and in
proactive life there. And so I think what the Western
world had done was during the course of the Cold War,
so angry were they at the what you would call
a traitorous act by the Russians after World War Two
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when they decided, you know what, we're not leaving in
East Germany that they couldn't when when the Soviet Union
finally fell which was what Milton Friedman and so many
other people had said, don't don't arrest communists. Mister McCarthy,
mister senator, this was why Nixon, this is what stuck
(29:46):
out is hold it the same Dick Nixon who with
along with Roy Kohne. Yeah, that's same Roy Cone, you know,
advised Joe McCarthy on his hearings. Now, from what I'm told,
Nixon was the one who went and found all the
communists in the government. It was McCarthy that figured the
best thing to do was just send the FBI in
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and arrest them and throw them all in prison, because
somehow that would make them stop being communists. When after
the fact, Reagan showed us and his advisor said, no,
you drag communism out into the sunlight and let everyone
see what it actually does, because it's rhetoric as much
(30:30):
as the CNN anchors and all that. Well, you you
you ended in twenty four hours. Yeah, and Putin said
he'd have it done in two weeks too, so shop.
But Reagan said, if you drag communism out into full
view and show everyone what it is that communism does,
then people won't want to do it. And it's sort
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of been the business model of this program since we
launched twenty odd years ago, is that, you know, we
want to drag this stuff out into the light so
that you all can see it, and then and then
we can go from there. We got a lot going on, folks,
hanging on the line at four, three, four eight eight,
two four two one seven, though, First thing today, Sports
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director Mac McDonald tell us what you're working on in
sports this morning.
Speaker 22 (31:20):
Mack, Good morning, Joe, Welcome to Monday. Here are the
stories we are tracking today. The Ravens lived to see
another postseason possibility. Cleveland topp the Steelers Sunday thirteen six,
shutting out Pittsburgh in three corners. With the loss, the
steel City in Baltimore will decide the AFC North next week.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Head coach Mike Tomlin.
Speaker 23 (31:39):
I didn't think we played poorly. We just didn't make
enough plays. I thought they played well. I thought the
game was kind of unfolding in the way that you
would anticipate, but we never made that signature play that
kind of got us over the hump. That generally is
the deciding factor in games like this, and we generally
make them. We didn't make them.
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Tall He'll be back at seven point thirty. It open
his reporter's notebook for us in and now it's time
to take a look at what's going on in business
before we get to the green bags. Silver's rolled back
a little bit, buying opportunity if you think, perhaps down
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to seventy five dollars and now it's of silver. It
was close to seventy nine on Friday. Gold is trading
at forty four sixty and sixteen cents. Asian shares got
low this morning as China stage drills near Taiwan. US
stocks drift into more records in the shortened holiday. Student
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are some of the business news this morning. Doctor Clark
is hanging on line with us at four three four
eight eight two four two one seven. Good morning, Doc.
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How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 24 (33:51):
So still got this call thing, but I'll get past it.
So Dragon communism into the Sun.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
Let's do that for a minute. And that's so be
hang on because Dragon made me think of because there's
maoist communism, which which played on the fact that China
never had any economic freedom. So what would their what
would their peasants know about economic freedom? All they know
is they got better clothes and a chance to vote
for the warlord instead of just accepting whoever it was.
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So that's a kind of a different kind of communism.
The outcome is the same, but mal reworked marks a
lot to make it sellable to peasants that never knew freedom.
You know, Lenin had to figure out a way to
get free people to sign off and sign away their
liberty there in Russia, whatever it may have looked like
under the Tzar. Anyway, continue I'm sorry. It's one of
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the kind of nuance.
Speaker 24 (34:48):
So what the Epstein thing. We were definitely misled into
wanting to know the client list rather than focus on
who sponsored it. Right, And with the Somali fraud in Minnesota, now, Joe,
it's a little racist that we're just focusing on the
(35:09):
Somali aspect of this. They did. I mean, apparently they
have lined bread for generations so they could isolate the
theft genes. But we've got a group in this country
that has been here for quite a bit longer than
the Somalis that are much more adept at theft. And Joe,
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what do you get when you mix peanut butter and chocolate.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
A reci's cup.
Speaker 24 (35:38):
This is a reche cup of fraud. There's no way
that the Somalis set this up and defrauded to the
tune of nine billion plus without the.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Knowledge and facilitation.
Speaker 24 (35:57):
Of the bureaucratic agencies in the elect Goopolas. There's also
no way this is Democrat state. Minnesota is a Democrat state, right, Joe.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Uh yeah, I mean I think it's Capital D Democrat state. Yeah,
the Farmer's Democratic Party of Minnesota or whatever it's called.
Speaker 24 (36:17):
There's no way those Democrats allowed there to be nine
billion dollars in fraud and they did not get a
substantial cut.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Oh yeah, absolutely not. I mean this is these programs
were around, I think before the Somalis even have started
emigrating here.
Speaker 24 (36:36):
Yes, there's no way that the Democrats that run Minnesota
did not profit at least as well. Oh yeah, as
the Somalis that are the front men.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
Well, what's the point of being a grifter if there's
not a little veig at the end? Ooh yeah, I mean,
come on, let's be serial here.
Speaker 24 (36:58):
Every time I see a story on this, it's about
the Samalogs defrauded.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Okay, well they may have turned it up to eleven.
They may have turned it up to eleven and and
having ilhan Omar And again, be careful, you know, again
of defining yourself by who you're against, because someday ilhan
Omar is probably going to be gone, and you know,
the fraud is still going to be there. Tim Wallace's
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spokesperson over the weekend, No, no, Governor Walls has already
fixed a lot of this, And I'd love to talk
to some of the folks who spent the weekend trying
to debunk Nick Shirley's videos, saying, oh, no, he's wrong
about those, He just went there on the wrong days.
Tim Walls, his own spokesperson, said yeah, we've already closed
a bunch of those daycare centers. Which is it? Is it?
(37:49):
Is it that we were wrong that they were really
righteous daycare centers, because Tim Wall seems to say that
he is already taken care of all that and he's
already closed them.
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First thing, today by Joe Thomas on the Chunk Media Network.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
To cycle liberty, prosperity, apathy, decline, and then tyranny Washern's repeat.
Luckily for us, we have technology on our side. Now
that's my that's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
We have the opportunity, unlike many of the previous generations,
(44:44):
to know what's happening, so maybe we can do something
about it. We were talking about the you know, Governor
Waltz claiming that he's not the one making it purple
rain up in Minnesota there, uh, and that the fraud.
Oh no, Governor Walls is cracking down on it all.
He's already closed some of those daycare centers. Maybe he
(45:04):
close the leering center there, doctor Clark.
Speaker 24 (45:08):
We just need to pay more attention to where the
real fraud is in this deal.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Well, whenever there's a bag of other people's money, there's
going to be fraud because the people who and this
is the problem with the bureaucratic idea of aid to
the homeless or the helpless or the sapless, is that
you're asking someone whose money it is not to oversee it.
(45:35):
This is why the government does a bad job of
investing in things, because the person who makes the final
decision isn't a shark tank billionaire who's out there saying, hmm,
I wonder if I can make a profit off of this.
It's some bureaucrat saying, hey, am I going to get
yelled at, you know, at the next monthly meeting? Or
(45:55):
can I do something that will get me a gold star?
And that's the best case scenario. Then you start to
get the drifters, and the drifters in there with with
their hands out or the hands into the bag saying Okay,
I'm going to give you ten of these dollars. I'm
keeping two of them for myself. Don't tell anyone, you
know what I'm saying. Yes, so we fix it by
(46:17):
stopping this lunacy and allowing the money to stay in
the hands of the people. And you know what, if
the government wants to run public service announcements saying hey,
there are Somali refugees in this area and here's the
phone number to go help them out, I have no
problem with that. You know what do they call it?
The ad Council was the was the organization that used
(46:38):
to run all those PSAs. I think they're still around, right, probably,
so well, feel better, doctor Clark, and and we'll talk
to you again in the morning.
Speaker 24 (46:49):
A man, take care.
Speaker 1 (46:51):
President Trump said the very same thing to the UN
uh this weekend. He's like, listen, we're going to give
you some money for humanitarian aid, but you better start
flying because this and UN is whining. Oh, this is
lower than it's ever been before. Everyone should see this documentary.
And I fell in love with this documentary a few
(47:12):
years ago. I saw it during the Anthem Film Festival,
which is adjunct to the Scouson's great event, Freedom Fest.
I think we're going back to Freedom Fest. My wife
is such not a Las Vegas person, and to be fair,
neither am I. I think the mountains around Las Vegas
are beautiful, but it's where Freedom Fest is going to
(47:33):
be for the next four or five years, and it's
a great event. And I saw this movie when I
was there. It was a documentary called Poverty, Inc. And
the filmmakers actually set out to make a documentary about
all these Greade eight organizations that were doing all this
great work and helping all these great people. What they
found was a bunch of people who were really getting
(47:54):
screwed over by an industry that's really driven by those
drifters and grifters who are keeping you know, themselves fat
and happy, including the Clinton Family Foundation, and and not
actually helping the people on the street. So so dynamic
(48:17):
is this so anthem film festival? Freedom Fest perhaps one
of them is certainly most economically libertarian, uh free market
based events out there took best of show amongst the
libertarian free marketeers, and in Aspen amongst you know, the
Paul Newman crowd, the Robert Redford crowd. So so the
(48:42):
granola crunching snow bunnies loved the movie as much as
the uber libertarians in the desert, because it's it's it's
inquestionable that you know, all the do gooders are just
making themselves wealthy while the people who need the help
get shaft and are told to be grateful that they
(49:04):
got a shaft. Joel's on the line with us at
four three four eight eight two four two one seven
this Monday morning. Good morning at Joel. You're ready to
move out of twenty twenty five. You got your boxes packed,
ready to move into our new digs in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 26 (49:20):
I'm praying I have a position. So yeah, I'm there.
I thought you were talking about the movie Shaft.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
Well there's a several versions of that one there, and
you want to talk about a new position into twenty
twenty six. That's often been my New Year's resolution, is
to not find myself in a new position. But in
any event, what's on your mind.
Speaker 26 (49:44):
So the civialians got caught and it's big time, and
it's supposedly the largest in the United States history as
far as the fraud and graft. But let's go to
New York City. Let's get a let's go to the
president former president and the United States with lllc'sle which
(50:04):
which are shell companies. Let's go to New York City
where there's fake storefronts and they're selling counterfeit goods. And
most of the police in the area know that these
these places are people on the street are selling counterfeit goods.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
They go, oh, well, it's.
Speaker 26 (50:19):
Only a small group of people. But let's say you
take New York City with about what is it four
point six million people or more, I don't know, but
let's say maybe a thousand of those people are selling
goods on the street different corners, maybe Houston and and
Broadway and all kinds of places like that. They go, oh,
(50:39):
it's only a couple hundred dollars, but pennies add up.
And just like with with a Hunter uh, you know,
doing all his things and and people.
Speaker 1 (50:52):
I'm trying to follow, you know, because because you're definitely
hitting two different types of fraud. And I mean that
goes back, I mean my childhood. And you know how
how is Gucci spelled? Is Gucci spelled with two seas
or three seas? That is that a roll a or
a role axe? You know, I mean that that's you know, knockoff,
ripoff stuff is almost you know, part of the cottage
(51:14):
industry of uh downtown New York, and it has been
since gosh, I was a kid there. But you know,
when you talk about industrialized grift like Hunter Biden uh
and what the Biden family was doing, you're you're talking
about the exact reason you wind up with the Somalis, who,
to be fair, they were caught because ilhan Omar can't
(51:36):
keep her pie hole shot or whatever it is she eats,
you know, and so you know, she kept sticking her
neck out. So people are like, well, let's go, oh,
hold on. She's a big advocate for this group. Let's
investigate them with a microscope. And that's how you wind
up with this fraud because there's lots of other fraud
going on because it's other people's money.
Speaker 26 (51:56):
Wasn't there somebody in Virginia recently that are you mention that?
It was like, I know, she's working for local government
and she kept taking out like for it was like
twenty years or thirty years or something, and this has
ended up take you know, like one hundred dollars here
and a dollar here, and from different taxpayers and it
(52:17):
added up to like three hundred or five hundred thousand
dollars over.
Speaker 1 (52:21):
Well, there's a couple of stories. I think you're mixing
a couple of the most recent ones. Somebody who was
using the government credit card to buy herself Christmas presents
and lunches and get her car repaired, and you know,
not necessarily flashy things like buying herself a house. But
it wasn't her money to be spending it on. She
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