July 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour 2 of A&G features...
- Joe Getty's "Glass Half Full!"
- The serial butt sniffer
- The situation in Gaza & where the aid is going
- Decision making types
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Getty enough.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dramatic new video shows Good samaritans confronting an alleged knife
wielding suspect outside of Michigan Walmart, just moments after police
say he went on a stabbing spree, targeting people at random.
Police identifying the suspect as forty two year old Bradford
James Gilly, saying he entered the store in Traverse City
just before five pm on Saturday and began attacking people,
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starting near the checkout area with his folding knife that
has a three.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And a half inch blade. Gilly now facing terrorism charges.
I have that very knife. He's a job.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Bobby stabbed a bunch of people. But for people who
lean right and pro Second Amendment, it bothered many of
us that the stories didn't include that a good guy
with a gun was yelling drop the knife, throw it away,
drop the knife, throw it away. Just he wasn't just
like randomly apprehended by people yelling at him to put
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away his knife. See, he had stabbed eleven people and
was trying to stab more. You wouldn't have been able
to yell at him to get him to throw away.
Then he threw away the knife because a dude, a
good dude, a former marine who happened to have a gun,
was pointing at it and telling him drop the knife.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm gonna shoot you.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I was shocked that ABC News actually did talk about
that and even had a quote from the sheriff saying,
those folks did everything absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can't praise them in them.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Really, I didn't see any reports that included that a
guy had a gun and did the right thing with it,
not one.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Like I say. My mouth was a gape. I couldn't
believe it. That's a good thing, among other good things
that are happening.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's Joe Getty's the glasses half full.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Halfway through that sentence, I decided it needed a name,
The glasses half full.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
One of glasses half full?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Story is I just saw one hundred and seventy million
people in the country are under a heat watch. That's
half the population. How about the other half? Where I live,
it's extraordinarily cool. It's like the coolest it's been in
thirty years. That's the glasses half full.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
We're loving climate change over here now, Michael, you are
quick on the draw with the theme song there, even
though I decided on it mid sentence. Do you have
the life threatening heat dome song?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I forgot to handle. I'm still searching for that. We're
searching for how much wide program, Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
We went to all the work to get a life
threatening heat dome jingle and we don't have it.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
The heat dome will be over before we ever get
to use it. We had Elton John and Tim Rice
write it. We had the uh Disney orchestra that does
all their movies record it for us. It costs four
hundred thousand dollars. No, all right, you'll find it anyway.
So it struck me in preparing the program today that
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there are a lot of things that made me happy,
which is extraordinarily rare, as most of it's misery and frustration.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But I've mentioned this a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Ohio has just joined the rising flat tax revolution since
the middle of twenty one, and I did not know this,
I think because the media is loath to admit it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yes, you're using a term that I'm not sure everybody
knows what it is and are excited about it. What
is a flat tax? Yeah, it actually comes out in
the next sense or two.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But so they're the sixth state to revise their tax
go to adopt a flat tax. That because in Ohio
became the fifteenth state total to abandon graduated or progressive
income taxes in favor of the flat rate model. Meaning,
for instance, in Ohio, a two point seventy five percent
of your income as income tax doesn't matter if you
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make a little money or a ton of money, because,
if you know anything about percentages, the more you make,
the more you pay. It's just the same percentage as
everybody else. Now why does this matter, Well, it matters
for a number of reasons. A flat tax levies the
same income tax rate on every household in business, regardless
of income. Progressive income tax structures, by contrast, tax different
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income levels at different rates, getting higher and higher as
your earnings get higher and higher.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The graduated progressive.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Model, which is popular among liberals and progressives, creates disincentives
to earn more, since every dollar gets taxed at a
higher rate at certain thresholds, and it gets worse. Progressive
income tax systems like the federal one encourage taxpayers, lobbyists,
accounting firms, policymakers to push for loopholes, carve outs exceptions
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to offset the progressively higher tax rates. And of course
those loopholes favor the these masses and the powerless.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They favor the well connected, and they deem some government
favorite businesses more equal than others to quote orwell, creating
economic winners and losers.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Across the tax code. It's just who lobbies the best.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, and the ultra rich are the ones that can
take advantage of that. Other people can't. You're just stuck
right right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And because flat tax systems do not impose marginal tax increases,
they encourage economic activity, investment, higher earnings. The growth generates
more wealth and more savings. Fixed flat tax rates are
simple and predictable, so you know without an accountant or
a tax attorney what you're going to be paying.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can fight.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's the for verbial figuring out your taxes on a postcard.
I'm surprised fifteen states have adopted this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That you that the other side couldn't demogogue it because
it's so easy to demagogue.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well, yes, I mean it has been, but it's easy
to counter demagogue too.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Hey, if I make ten times as much, I will
pay ten times as much.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I've got all sorts.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Of statistics I was going to bring about with the
new tax laws and stuff, the disproportionate amount of income
the top, say twenty percent has or ten percent or
one percent, but they pay even more proportionally in income
tax and so number one. Of course, they benefit more
from taxers reform. But to the idea that the rich
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aren't paying their fair share is just absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think it's pretty easy to counter demagogue.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Finally, flat taxes are harder for state legislatures to raise
without voter approval because voting taxpayers know exactly what percentage
of their earnings will be siphoned off to the public offers,
and legislators want to raise that percentage will need to
justify and explain it to all taxpayers. I've advocated for
the flat tax or the fair tax, which is just
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a small variation on it for years and years and years,
and will continue to do so anyway. More good stuff.
Read a great analysis of the Trump administration's deal with
Columbia University, trying to clean up the university system and
it's really good and a really good framework. They essentially said,
you're paying fines for violating the law all these years,
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coming to a settlement, and we're going to keep an
eye on you. So you got to follow the law
about racial discrimination and the rest of it going forward.
Even as Harvard's former president Larry Summers, who was willing
to concede, this was the best possible.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Deal Columbia could have hoped to score.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It's academic autonomy is preserved, the funny string funding streams restored, and.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All it had to do is stop breaking the law.
So you go, Donald J. You go with the university full.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I think some of the negotiations, as Trump's, are unnecessarily abusive,
but as long as we get to the good stuff.
And speaking of the good stuff, this also got practically
zero reporting.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Happened at the end of last week. Donald J.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Trump signed an executive order to empower state and local
governments to remove bums and junkies from the nation's streets.
The order ending crime and Disorder on America's streets because
it has.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
To then disorder is a good word. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It directs the Attorney General to quote reverse judicial precedents
and end consent decrees that have hindered local government's ability
to commit individuals on the streets who are risked themselves
and others per White House fact sheet.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
According to document, the order issues a number of other directives,
including redirecting funding to make sure vagrants causing public disorder
or who are seriously mentally ill are moved into treatment facilities.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Gow.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
There was a guy yesterday. We were waiting to get
into this diner to get pancakes. Who is this guy
out on the street? Clearly a danger to himself for others.
Everybody was just hoping they didn't catch his eye, and
he came our direction. What kind of way is that
to live? I was telling my kids, this stuff makes
me so angry. It's tell my kids my entire life
on earth, I never saw one human being like that,
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not one until like fifteen years ago. Now I see
them every day all day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
How is that possible?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
So it might have caught your ear the phrase to
reverse judicial precedents and and consent decrees. How do you
reverse a judicial precedent? Exactly? Well, according to the document,
it issues a bunch of directives. The order requires the
AG to work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of
Transportation to prioritize grants for states and municipalities to enforce
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prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering,
urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders. It's
the old government purse strings, incentives and disincentives. I don't
love it, but you know, both sides use it. The
Order redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on the
streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from
serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers,
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assisted outpatient treatment and other facilities. Orders discretionary grants for
substance use disorder prevention, treatment recovery that do not fund
drug injection sites or I list of drug use. And
the Order stops sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from
being housed with children, allows programs to exclusively house women
and children.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Fantastic. Yeah, I love it. So oh, we've got to
get to later this hour.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You said you got some stuff on straightening out, which
appears to be one of the big stories of the day.
As I look at my bank of television's starvation in Gaza.
What's true and what's not true around that?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yes, including one photo I guarantee you've seen highly misleading.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, I heard about that one. But we've got to
get to the Burbank butt sniffer. That's a big story,
and thank god he has been apprehended. What a weird
story that's on the way next to here, arm Strong, Hey.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeie, a crime alert tonight from Burbank Police. They've arrested
a serial sex offender again and they fear many more
women may have been victimized by this man. His previous
victims tonight are furious the man keeps being arrested and
being released.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, that's really the key to the story. But I
don't want to take all the fun out of it.
Well we'll do that at the end.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's what we do. We take the fun out of
fun stories. So you got this.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You're just trying to enjoy yourself at the Nordstrom rack
on a beautiful day in Burbank and get a good
deal on a named brand good and you turn around
as a woman and there's somebody crouched bining you smelling
your buttocks. What's going on there? He's been doing this
for a while. Thank god for TikTok.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
It's a twenty twenty three TikTok that went viral.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was so freaked out when I turned around and
saw him literally under me.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble
for getting uncomfortably close seeming to sniff her. What it is?
That's mikaela whitter. She posted the video frustrated after watching
him walk around targeting other women. It turns out that
man Chalice Crowder is a registered sex offender with a
rap sheet that includes burglary and peeping into people's homes
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with kids inside.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, the TikTok video got him in the big trouble
because you had video evidence of him crouching down behind
a woman at a Barnes and Noble. He said he
was trying to tie his shoe. I'll fill any details
we don't have here. Here's a police and then a victim.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
He eventually worked his way into the women's section, found
a lone shopper and started hipping some of the same behavior,
getting close to her uncomfortably close, crouching down as if
he was trying to buy something or check something out
or look at something.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
So I've heard up to twenty women, you know, and
what's happened to them, and they're all scared, and I
know the feeling.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I don't want to suck the fun out of it either.
I'll let you do that at the appropriate time. But yeah,
the obvious point here is guys like this are not
dangerous until they.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Are well right, and you aren't going to Apparently you're
not going to fix him. I mean, he gets out
of jail for doing this and he goes right back
to it. I mean, he's got so many parts of
his brain that don't work right. Even if you've got
this irresistible urge, I would think to do it the
sensible part of your brain to think.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Look, I already spent time in jail.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
It's really going to be hard to get a decent job,
create a good life, find a woman, mary, have kids,
settle down. If I do this again, you know, with
a rap sheet already for this. So I'm going to
as much as i'd like to, I'm not going to
go to the north sort track, crawling my hands and
knees up behind some woman looking at some shoes.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And start smelling her.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Because of You know, I've already seen the consequences of
my actions. Fund I came across a scientific study about
that sort of person.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
More on that to come. But he does it anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
He just it's so uncontrollable, or he doesn't get understand
the consequences or how the whole thing works or whatever.
And so he was at he was at the nordstromb
rat there in Burbank, and some woman yelled at him
or something like that. When the police get there, he
had moved across the parking lot to the Walmart. Was
in the Walmart with a more bargain minded shoppers. But
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I don't know if they have the same set. That'd
be the question to ask him. You know, it's a
difference in smell between Nordstrom shoppers and Walmart shoppers. Can
we put this guy on a leash at the airport
and I haven't looked for bombs or sometimes sniff out bombs,
or put him at the border, put him to work
for the DA. Put him on a leash at the airport.
Do not pet the butt sniff right, combining two things.
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He gets put the little vest on him, do not pet.
He gets to sniff people, which is his wont but
he stays out of trouble, earns a living right when
when on that Katie, you have come in this absolutely not.
How do you not get his teeth kicked in when
you turn around and there's some dude there, That's my
first thought as he is getting a roundhouse right to
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the side of the head. If I turned around and
saw that we're not doing this yelling videoing, no, I'm
just violence. Put him on a leash at the airport,
have him earn his keep, Convince him that bombs smell
like hot women's buttocks is or something, whatever you got
to do to motivate him.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Wow, I'm not sure if that would work. But you're
thinking outside the box. Are we gonna play the Last Clipper?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is that? Did we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
So yeah, it's the age old story, specifically in New York, LA, Chicago,
places like that, where people get arrested over and over
and over again for the same behavior and you let
them out because like the email we had last hour,
because you think capitalism is making them do this, or
some bullets.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Having witnessed the passing of the three strikes, you're out
laws in kel Unicornia.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Then the rescinding of them. More or less.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
The left never argues honestly about a guy like this.
They'll always say he's going to jail for life, for.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thirty years or whatever it was for stealing a pack
of gum.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
No, it's for violating the law over and over and
over again and proving there is no chance that person
will become a non dangerous, law abiding citizen. We don't
have to let people commit fifty crimes as a society.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We don't. It's okay to pass laws that say, once
you've made it clear you will not follow the law,
you don't get to be in society anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
The butt sniffer has been arrested forty times forty forty
four zero. How many times does someone have to demonstrate
that they're not willing to be a functional part of
society or remove them from society. That's insane. And like
Joe said, he'll hurt somebody at some point.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, somebody will confront him or try to stop him,
and he will commit an act of violence, and then
everybody will be like, oh, he should probably go to jail.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Put him on a leash at the airport. Joe solved
it armstrong and getty.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
In an abrupt reversal, Israel cleared the way from more
aid to Gaza. The military air dropped food and supplies,
but those palettes are a fraction of what's needed. The
bulk of the aid is on trucks waiting to go,
and in what could be a game changer, Israel says
it will establish secure roots through the war zone, so
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the trucks will no longer be shot at or looted.
Gaza's misery has shocked the world, and international medical agencies
says children, especially the poorest and those with special needs,
are suffering from acute malnutrition.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah, there were some ugly pictures and videos coming out
of that story over the weekend. You're paying attention to
it at all if you're older and you've been following
the news for a long time. Though, God, I've seen
those videos and pictures my whole life, oftentimes finding out
that they're phony or exaggerated or from five years ago.
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I don't know what's going on in this case, but
I have been misled so many times over the years,
and I thought it was interesting. I was listening to
NPR today and they for the I've been saying this
for months now, the first time I hear a story
that even hints that Hamas might be bad guys will
be the first time. On NPA, I mean, they just
know Israel horrible, horrible human beings. They never say anything
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negative about Hamas ever. But on NPR today they actually
allowed a spokesman for Israel on saying Israel claims that
this is not what's happening, that they're trying to distribute
aid and Hamas won't let them or steals it or
shoots at them or whatever. And NPR did say we
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cannot confirm this report, but they allowed it on there,
which actually makes me think that it's more likely to
be true. The fact that they allowed it on there
at all.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Right hilarious that they would use the phrase we cannot
confirm this report, having breathlessly reported virtually everything that Hamas
has led them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
For several point years.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So there have been a couple of developments lately in
which Israel said it would pause military activity in some
densely populated parts of the strip for a chunk of
the day till further notice to establish safe roots for
humanitarian a they're trying to get more aid in.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
But that all did little to quiet the charges.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
That Israel has inflicted a famine on Gaza.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Wow, I'm looking at I've seen so many of these videos.
I'm looking at the video right now from Gaza. No
matter what, whether it's Israel's shooting at him or and
I don't think it is, or Hama shooting at him,
or whatever it's causing the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It looks like hell on earth to be in Gaza.
Just a great awful, a great god.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
If you took in any media or social media over
the weekend, there's a very very good chance you saw
the haunting image of a mother in a hyjab holding
a skeletal child, an eighteen month old boy wearing only
a diaper, with the spine and his ribs clearly visible
in his gaunt frame, during the story about how the
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cruel Israelis are starving the people of Gaza. By the way,
on social media, often the image was accompanied side by
side with the black and white photograph of a Jewish
child on the brink of death in one of Hitler's
death camps. The message clear, of course, the Palestinian boys
a symbol for mass starvation gripping the people of Gaza.
The only problem is that the boy and they know
his name, who appeared on the front page of Britain's
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Daily Express on Wednesday and then on that of the
New York Times on Friday, was picked up by the BBC, CNN,
Sky News and countless others. In fact, suffers from a
muscle disorder and other grave genetic conditions unrelated to starvation.
And that's according to CNN and the independent investigative journalist
David Collier. But of course that information will never reach
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the countless people who saw and shared the image, nor
will the fact that Mohammad's brother, that's the little fellow,
the God bless his soul.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I mean, I'm not making you know, the glossing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Over the fact that this poor little lad is clearly
barely cleaning the life. But anyway, his brothers cropped out
of the widely circulated image appears healthy, as does his mother.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And you might remember a story from I don't think
we talked about it as a month or so ago.
All the headlines everywhere were experts predict I forget what
it was, fifteen thousand dead in the next forty eight
hours from mass stars starvation, and it just never occurred.
So just somebody got that story out there, everybody reported it,
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and that never happened. Not that it doesn't look like
hell on Earth. Like I said, what's your fix for this?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
What are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I mean it is apples take charge again. It is
absolutely awful. But what are what what do you do
with this situation?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Do various measures that will feed the people more adequately,
even if it strengthens Hamas would be the answer from
the left, and you know intelligence he around the world.
It's it's as simple as that. I'm gonna be let
me quote a little bit. Matti Friedman wrote a great
piece for the Free Press, very even handed, and he
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mentions that genuine misery can be put to use by
practitioners of information warfare. And he makes it clear that
this is a war. But the truth still matters amid
the brajualize told by Hamas and its allies.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
How are we to know what is true? As Maddie writes.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
In a Bliss of ideological fiction, how are sane citizens
in Israel or anywhere else supposed to know what's true
and to do the right thing. It's not an exaggeration
to say we're seeing right now, as we're seeing right
now that the answer to this question can be a
matter of life and death.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Man, this has always been a story about the Palestinians
and Israel about it was hard to know what's true.
But now in the current information age, and it just
occurred to me that what it leads me to do
is ignore it, which is the danger for all these stories,
I mean, not life and death ones, but just political
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story in general. When you can't you don't know what
to believe, you just go, eh, well, I don't know
it's true or not, so you just go on to
something else, which.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
As an aside, has long been the goal of Soviet
than Russian disinformation, not to convince us of anything in particular,
but to make Americans so cynical about knowing the.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Truth we don't even ask what it is anymore. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
More on that another time, But so Maddie's piece for
the Free Press. He points out a couple of major
incidents in this conflict, including the infamous Israeli clearly an
Israeli rocket attack on the hospital at least five hundred dead.
The New York Times headline reported that furious protests erupted,
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a mob burned a synagonue in Tunisia story, completely fake,
misfired Palestinian rocket landed near a hospital, practically no casualties.
And then he goes into several other examples of that
sort of misinformation, skipping ahead to the key point.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Very little of what is reported here, in other words,
is what it seems.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This is nothing new, and then he goes over a
bunch of more examples. The transformation of truth telling institutions
into ideological megaphones has had a high price for citizens
and liberal societies and for the institutions themselves, as we're
seeing at places like Harvard and NPR. The feeling of
being unmoored from objective reality, of rowing a boat through
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a choppy sea of lies in propagandas is very much
a feature of the present moment, not only in Israel,
but one of the most awful prices was made clear
this past week with reports of acute hunger in Blaza
in a blizzard of ideological fiction. How are sane citizens
supposed to know what's actually happening? And what he did
in this essay which I wish it wasn't quite so long,
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I just read it to you, But he called a
bunch of different colleagues who he trusts as human beings.
Veteran journalists, including Israelis involved in covering what was going
on there, and not like Netan Yahoo loving conservatives.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're just concerned with humans.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
It was clear in speaking to them that our polite
is journalists is only marginally better than that of the
average citizen. The consensus was that there are nearly no
trustworthy sources regarding reality in Gaza. Certainly not the quote
unquote Gaza Health Ministry which answers to Hamas, or Palestinian
reporters intimidated by Hamas, or the international organizations like the
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UN Refugee Agency UNRAW embroiled in various forms of collaboration
with Ams. All of the above are engaged in a
successful information campaign that uses Palestinian suffering, reel and imagine
to catalyze international anger and tie Israel's hands. And the
international press isn't the answer, he says. During my years
as a reporter and editor for the AP, I saw
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coverage altered by Hamas threats to our staff, which the
AP concealed from our readers. I know firsthand no information
coming from Gaza can be taken a face value.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Wow, and if you have a lot of reporters, because
a lot of journalists lean anti Israel anyway, if they're
if they're predisposed to lean away from Israel anyway, Sure
you'd go with the threat, and that just for credibility's sake,
my words, not his. Maddie points out that neither can
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we Israelis trust our own government, which has regularly misled
the public about the war's progress, as governments do. Speaker
Johnson responded to the whole starvation and gaza thing yesterday
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Speaker 4 (28:17):
As interesting, So I lean way toward Israel's a good
guy and Gaza slash the Palestinians or the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I lean way that direction.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
But if I was there and saw, you know, Israeli
ze Israeli soldiers shooting at people trying to get food
or something, I'd be more than willing to report it.
But it's interesting that that person said it's hard if
you're on the ground there to figure out what's true
and what's not here. I don't know where speaker Mike
Johnson's getting his information, but this is what he said
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about efforts by Israel, with the help of the United
States and others, to get food to these people.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Israel since this war began has supplied over ninety four
thousand truckloads full of food. It's enough food to feed
two million people for two years trying to get that
into Gaza. But Hamas has stolen the food a huge amount.
In fact, in twenty twenty four, the numbers are that
Hammas profited over five hundred million dollars in stolen food
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aid that was supposed to go to these poor people
who needed it. That's half of their budget. So this
is a broken system. The UN needs to work with
Israel to make sure that the food is getting to
the people that need it most.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So for what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
The New York Times last week had a story that
cited two Israeli military officials, didn't specify who they were,
what rank they were, whatever, saying we have no evidence
that Hamas steals eight and they went front page with
that on the New York Times. Wow, most other officials
in the country would contradict that and say, what the
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f are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But that's the situation.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
We're in people are desperate to get the sort of
information that backs their pre existing point of view.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
But in this case, you've got an actor in Hamas
who's demonstrated what they do for decades.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So I mean, it would be.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Shocking if all of a sudden they've decided, Well, I
know in the past, we've stolen aid and that's how
we became billionaires. And why all our fighters are, you know, healthy, comfortable,
of normal weight. They have plenty of ammunition, blah blah blah,
and lots of money, and everybody around us is starving.
I know that's what we've done for decades, but we
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decided in this particular instance in this war to go
ahead and distribute food and not steal it.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, that would be a shocking development, right right.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
So Friedman goes on to write, after saying pointing out
a bunch of examples where the Israeli military misled the media,
he says he's he's trying desperately to figure out what's
going on, and he's talking to Palestinian and journalists who
talked to Palestinians. One such journalists Ohadhimo, the Palestinian affairs
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reporter for Channel twelfth News, the country's most widely watched
news program, whose report last Wednesday and there's a link,
was shared widely. Food warehouses serving Hamas fighters are still full,
he reported, and the crisis wasn't only Israel's fault. So
it's a complex situation.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And I don't doubt that Israeli soldiers have done things
that shouldn't be done in a what is becoming near
total war. But Hamas has been using hospitals and mosques
as their bases for years. Again, it would be in
fitting with what they've demonstrated over decades to steal the food.
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It would be completely new behavior to not be stealing
the food.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
All of this according to every journalist and politician on
all sides of the question up until very very recently.
It is you know, I would never gloss over the
suffering of people, particularly children, the innocent.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But I think what we're seeing.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Is an awful, murderous uh Islamist regime which tried to
slaughter its Jewish neighbor now must be defeated completely, and
in doing that, innocent people are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That is a history of warfare.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
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Speaker 7 (32:23):
Armstrong and Yetti witter Piel's he never should have gotten
a chance to victimize anyone else. Court documents show he
was out on parole. With the history of convictions for
lude conduct dating back to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
It's crazy to think that someone like this, who is
constantly stalking and boleating these people, is allowed to be
out and about.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
We took those concerns to police asking why he wasn't
behind bars.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it's frustrating, but we do what we.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Need to do.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
This is the burbank but sniffer who crawls up behind
women and sniffs them. He has done this in the
ended up in jail, was let out of jail. Immediately
he's at the northsomb rack down low behind a woman
claiming he was tying his shoes and apparently trying to
catch the aroma of her hind end.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Oh boy, yeah, I could have left that on set anyway.
So this guy gets arrested and turned loose, over and
over and over again. It's in a funny coincidence. I
had just come across a study about why some people
keep making bad decisions even after they're punished. And this,
this global study that's involved a hell of a lot
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of people identified three distinct decision making types. Sensitive individuals
who learn from punishment that's normal people. Unaware individuals who
need explicit instruction, and compulsive individuals who persist and harmful behavior.
Despite both, I don't deny that we needed a study,
but this guy's clearly number three. Yes, some people fail
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to connect actions with their consequences, while others understand the
risks but can't change their behavior.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Wow. So either this guy's got a screw loose.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
And again, I think that we, as human beings make
a mistake over and over again.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
The longer I live, the more I more firmly I
believe this.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
We make the mistake over and over again, believing that
other people, all other people see the world as we
do and process information in the way we process it.
Like I would like to talk to some ultra progressive,
you know, Berkeley eight types, Madison, wisconsint professors who are
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completely convinced of the progressive boy of the world, and
I'd just like to get inside their heads and see,
you know, what color is the sky in your world?
As the old saying goes, But how does that so?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
So some of yours like stealing from grocery stores, Your
Madison professor would say, well, capitalism has caused these people
to struggle blah blah blah. So what's your angle on
somebody who won't stop getting on their knees and snipping
women's butts. If you put them in jail, you let
them out, they do it again. That can't be capitalism
causing that, can it?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No jerarchy?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
No, So the write up I mean, because it doesn't
make any sense if capitalism were just completely at fault
in an evil system instituted by the evil doers above me,
blah blah blah. But in executing a certain behavior, I
just had terrible consequences over and over again. I would
stop unless I thought I was righting wrong. But anyway,
this big write up mentions this research challenges common assumptions
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about human decision making and reveals that punishment resisted behaviors
stem from specific cognitive deficits, often rather than exclusively moral
failings or lack of will power.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Again, I say the study needs to be He was
at the Nord sim Rak and Burbank, then when he
got caughty, ran the Walmart and did it. I want
him to explain, is there a difference between Nordstrom Drack
women and Walmart women that he knowed?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
My lord, maybe we can get back into this an
hour four or something like that, because part of me
suspects that this is progressive do gooders seeking to avoid
the idea of people taking a responsibility for their actions,
because that seems to be a big part of the left.
But even if they're right, what do we do about
as a society?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What a nutjob Armstrong and Getty
Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio of the
George Washington Broadcast Center.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. I'm strong and Getty enough.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He Armstrong and Getty.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Dramatic new video shows Good samaritans confronting an alleged knife
wielding suspect outside of Michigan Walmart, just moments after police
say he went on a stabbing spree, targeting people at random.
Police identifying the suspect as forty two year old Bradford
James Gilly, saying he entered the store in Traverse City
just before five pm on Saturday and began attacking people,
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starting near the checkout area with his folding knife that
has a three.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
And a half inch blade. Gilly now facing terrorism charges.
I have that very knife. He's a job.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Bobby stabbed a bunch of people. But for people who
lean right and pro Second Amendment, it bothered many of
us that the stories didn't include that a good guy
with a gun was yelling drop the knife, throw it away,
drop the knife, throw it away. Just he wasn't just
like randomly apprehended by people yelling at him to put
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away his knife. See, he had stabbed eleven people and
was trying to stab more. You wouldn't have been able
to yell at him to get him to throw away.
Then he threw away the knife because a dude, a
good dude, a former marine who happened to have a gun,
was pointing at it and telling him drop the knife.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
I'm gonna shoot you.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
I was shocked that ABC News actually did talk about
that and even had a quote from the sheriff saying,
those folks did everything absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I can't praise them in them.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Really, I didn't see any reports that included that a
guy had a gun and did the right thing with it,
not one.
Speaker 5 (01:53):
Like I say. My mouth was a gape. I couldn't
believe it. That's a good thing, among other good things
that are happening.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
It's Joe Getty's the glasses half full.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Halfway through that sentence, I decided it needed a name,
The glasses half full.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
One of glasses half full?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Story is I just saw one hundred and seventy million
people in the country are under a heat watch. That's
half the population. How about the other half? Where I live,
it's extraordinarily cool. It's like the coolest it's been in
thirty years. That's the glasses half full.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
We're loving climate change over here now, Michael, you are
quick on the draw with the theme song there, even
though I decided on it mid sentence. Do you have
the life threatening heat dome song?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I forgot to handle. I'm still searching for that. We're
searching for how much wide program, Mike.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
We went to all the work to get a life
threatening heat dome jingle and we don't have it.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
The heat dome will be over before we ever get
to use it. We had Elton John and Tim Rice
write it. We had the uh Disney orchestra that does
all their movies record it for us. It costs four
hundred thousand dollars. No, all right, you'll find it anyway.
So it struck me in preparing the program today that
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there are a lot of things that made me happy,
which is extraordinarily rare, as most of it's misery and frustration.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
But I've mentioned this a couple of times.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Ohio has just joined the rising flat tax revolution since
the middle of twenty one, and I did not know this,
I think because the media is loath to admit it.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Yes, you're using a term that I'm not sure everybody
knows what it is and are excited about it. What
is a flat tax? Yeah, it actually comes out in
the next sense or two.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
But so they're the sixth state to revise their tax
go to adopt a flat tax. That because in Ohio
became the fifteenth state total to abandon graduated or progressive
income taxes in favor of the flat rate model. Meaning,
for instance, in Ohio, a two point seventy five percent
of your income as income tax doesn't matter if you
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make a little money or a ton of money, because,
if you know anything about percentages, the more you make,
the more you pay. It's just the same percentage as
everybody else. Now why does this matter, Well, it matters
for a number of reasons. A flat tax levies the
same income tax rate on every household in business, regardless
of income. Progressive income tax structures, by contrast, tax different
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income levels at different rates, getting higher and higher as
your earnings get higher and higher.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
The graduated progressive.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
Model, which is popular among liberals and progressives, creates disincentives
to earn more, since every dollar gets taxed at a
higher rate at certain thresholds, and it gets worse. Progressive
income tax systems like the federal one encourage taxpayers, lobbyists,
accounting firms, policymakers to push for loopholes, carve outs exceptions
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to offset the progressively higher tax rates. And of course
those loopholes favor the these masses and the powerless.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
No, of course not.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
They favor the well connected, and they deem some government
favorite businesses more equal than others to quote orwell, creating
economic winners and losers.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Across the tax code. It's just who lobbies the best.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yeah, and the ultra rich are the ones that can
take advantage of that. Other people can't. You're just stuck
right right.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
And because flat tax systems do not impose marginal tax increases,
they encourage economic activity, investment, higher earnings. The growth generates
more wealth and more savings. Fixed flat tax rates are
simple and predictable, so you know without an accountant or
a tax attorney what you're going to be paying.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
You can fight.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
It's the for verbial figuring out your taxes on a postcard.
I'm surprised fifteen states have adopted this.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
That you that the other side couldn't demogogue it because
it's so easy to demagogue.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
Well, yes, I mean it has been, but it's easy
to counter demagogue too.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Hey, if I make ten times as much, I will
pay ten times as much.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I've got all sorts.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Of statistics I was going to bring about with the
new tax laws and stuff, the disproportionate amount of income
the top, say twenty percent has or ten percent or
one percent, but they pay even more proportionally in income
tax and so number one. Of course, they benefit more
from taxers reform. But to the idea that the rich
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aren't paying their fair share is just absolutely hilarious.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
I think it's pretty easy to counter demagogue.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Finally, flat taxes are harder for state legislatures to raise
without voter approval because voting taxpayers know exactly what percentage
of their earnings will be siphoned off to the public offers,
and legislators want to raise that percentage will need to
justify and explain it to all taxpayers. I've advocated for
the flat tax or the fair tax, which is just
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a small variation on it for years and years and years,
and will continue to do so anyway. More good stuff.
Read a great analysis of the Trump administration's deal with
Columbia University, trying to clean up the university system and
it's really good and a really good framework. They essentially said,
you're paying fines for violating the law all these years,
(07:23):
coming to a settlement, and we're going to keep an
eye on you. So you got to follow the law
about racial discrimination and the rest of it going forward.
Even as Harvard's former president Larry Summers, who was willing
to concede, this was the best possible.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Deal Columbia could have hoped to score.
Speaker 4 (07:39):
It's academic autonomy is preserved, the funny string funding streams restored, and.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
All it had to do is stop breaking the law.
So you go, Donald J. You go with the university full.
Speaker 5 (07:58):
I think some of the negotiations, as Trump's, are unnecessarily abusive,
but as long as we get to the good stuff.
And speaking of the good stuff, this also got practically
zero reporting.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Happened at the end of last week. Donald J.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
Trump signed an executive order to empower state and local
governments to remove bums and junkies from the nation's streets.
The order ending crime and Disorder on America's streets because
it has.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
To then disorder is a good word. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:29):
It directs the Attorney General to quote reverse judicial precedents
and end consent decrees that have hindered local government's ability
to commit individuals on the streets who are risked themselves
and others per White House fact sheet.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
According to document, the order issues a number of other directives,
including redirecting funding to make sure vagrants causing public disorder
or who are seriously mentally ill are moved into treatment facilities.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Gow.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
There was a guy yesterday. We were waiting to get
into this diner to get pancakes. Who is this guy
out on the street? Clearly a danger to himself for others.
Everybody was just hoping they didn't catch his eye, and
he came our direction. What kind of way is that
to live? I was telling my kids, this stuff makes
me so angry. It's tell my kids my entire life
on earth, I never saw one human being like that,
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not one until like fifteen years ago. Now I see
them every day all day.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
How is that possible?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
So it might have caught your ear the phrase to
reverse judicial precedents and and consent decrees. How do you
reverse a judicial precedent? Exactly? Well, according to the document,
it issues a bunch of directives. The order requires the
AG to work with the Secretary of Health and Human Services,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and the Secretary of
Transportation to prioritize grants for states and municipalities to enforce
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prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping and loitering,
urban squatting, and track the location of sex offenders. It's
the old government purse strings, incentives and disincentives. I don't
love it, but you know, both sides use it. The
Order redirects funding to ensure that individuals camping on the
streets and causing public disorder and that are suffering from
serious mental illness or addiction are moved into treatment centers,
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assisted outpatient treatment and other facilities. Orders discretionary grants for
substance use disorder prevention, treatment recovery that do not fund
drug injection sites or I list of drug use. And
the Order stops sex offenders who receive homelessness assistance from
being housed with children, allows programs to exclusively house women
and children.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Fantastic. Yeah, I love it. So oh, we've got to
get to later this hour.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
You said you got some stuff on straightening out, which
appears to be one of the big stories of the day.
As I look at my bank of television's starvation in Gaza.
What's true and what's not true around that?
Speaker 5 (10:50):
Yes, including one photo I guarantee you've seen highly misleading.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Yeah, I heard about that one. But we've got to
get to the Burbank butt sniffer. That's a big story,
and thank god he has been apprehended. What a weird
story that's on the way next to here, arm Strong, Hey.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Yeie, a crime alert tonight from Burbank Police. They've arrested
a serial sex offender again and they fear many more
women may have been victimized by this man. His previous
victims tonight are furious the man keeps being arrested and
being released.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Well, that's really the key to the story. But I
don't want to take all the fun out of it.
Well we'll do that at the end.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
That's what we do. We take the fun out of
fun stories. So you got this.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
You're just trying to enjoy yourself at the Nordstrom rack
on a beautiful day in Burbank and get a good
deal on a named brand good and you turn around
as a woman and there's somebody crouched bining you smelling
your buttocks. What's going on there? He's been doing this
for a while. Thank god for TikTok.
Speaker 7 (11:48):
It's a twenty twenty three TikTok that went viral.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was so freaked out when I turned around and
saw him literally under me.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
A woman confronts a man at a Barnes and Noble
for getting uncomfortably close seeming to sniff her. What it is?
That's mikaela whitter. She posted the video frustrated after watching
him walk around targeting other women. It turns out that
man Chalice Crowder is a registered sex offender with a
rap sheet that includes burglary and peeping into people's homes
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with kids inside.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Yeah, the TikTok video got him in the big trouble
because you had video evidence of him crouching down behind
a woman at a Barnes and Noble. He said he
was trying to tie his shoe. I'll fill any details
we don't have here. Here's a police and then a victim.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
He eventually worked his way into the women's section, found
a lone shopper and started hipping some of the same behavior,
getting close to her uncomfortably close, crouching down as if
he was trying to buy something or check something out
or look at something.
Speaker 9 (12:48):
So I've heard up to twenty women, you know, and
what's happened to them, and they're all scared, and I
know the feeling.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
I don't want to suck the fun out of it either.
I'll let you do that at the appropriate time. But yeah,
the obvious point here is guys like this are not
dangerous until they.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Are well right, and you aren't going to Apparently you're
not going to fix him. I mean, he gets out
of jail for doing this and he goes right back
to it. I mean, he's got so many parts of
his brain that don't work right. Even if you've got
this irresistible urge, I would think to do it the
sensible part of your brain to think.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Look, I already spent time in jail.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
It's really going to be hard to get a decent job,
create a good life, find a woman, mary, have kids,
settle down. If I do this again, you know, with
a rap sheet already for this. So I'm going to
as much as i'd like to, I'm not going to
go to the north sort track, crawling my hands and
knees up behind some woman looking at some shoes.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
And start smelling her.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Because of You know, I've already seen the consequences of
my actions. Fund I came across a scientific study about
that sort of person.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
More on that to come. But he does it anyway.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
He just it's so uncontrollable, or he doesn't get understand
the consequences or how the whole thing works or whatever.
And so he was at he was at the nordstromb
rat there in Burbank, and some woman yelled at him
or something like that. When the police get there, he
had moved across the parking lot to the Walmart. Was
in the Walmart with a more bargain minded shoppers. But
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I don't know if they have the same set. That'd
be the question to ask him. You know, it's a
difference in smell between Nordstrom shoppers and Walmart shoppers. Can
we put this guy on a leash at the airport
and I haven't looked for bombs or sometimes sniff out bombs,
or put him at the border, put him to work
for the DA. Put him on a leash at the airport.
Do not pet the butt sniff right, combining two things.
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He gets put the little vest on him, do not pet.
He gets to sniff people, which is his wont but
he stays out of trouble, earns a living right when
when on that Katie, you have come in this absolutely not.
How do you not get his teeth kicked in when
you turn around and there's some dude there, That's my
first thought as he is getting a roundhouse right to
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the side of the head. If I turned around and
saw that we're not doing this yelling videoing, no, I'm
just violence. Put him on a leash at the airport,
have him earn his keep, Convince him that bombs smell
like hot women's buttocks is or something, whatever you got
to do to motivate him.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Wow, I'm not sure if that would work. But you're
thinking outside the box. Are we gonna play the Last Clipper?
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Or no?
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Is that? Did we? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
So yeah, it's the age old story, specifically in New York, LA, Chicago,
places like that, where people get arrested over and over
and over again for the same behavior and you let
them out because like the email we had last hour,
because you think capitalism is making them do this, or
some bullets.
Speaker 5 (16:01):
Having witnessed the passing of the three strikes, you're out
laws in kel Unicornia.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Then the rescinding of them. More or less.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
The left never argues honestly about a guy like this.
They'll always say he's going to jail for life, for.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
Thirty years or whatever it was for stealing a pack
of gum.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
No, it's for violating the law over and over and
over again and proving there is no chance that person
will become a non dangerous, law abiding citizen. We don't
have to let people commit fifty crimes as a society.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
We don't. It's okay to pass laws that say, once
you've made it clear you will not follow the law,
you don't get to be in society anymore.
Speaker 4 (16:44):
The butt sniffer has been arrested forty times forty forty
four zero. How many times does someone have to demonstrate
that they're not willing to be a functional part of
society or remove them from society. That's insane. And like
Joe said, he'll hurt somebody at some point.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Yeah, somebody will confront him or try to stop him,
and he will commit an act of violence, and then
everybody will be like, oh, he should probably go to jail.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Put him on a leash at the airport. Joe solved
it armstrong and getty.
Speaker 10 (17:20):
In an abrupt reversal, Israel cleared the way from more
aid to Gaza. The military air dropped food and supplies,
but those palettes are a fraction of what's needed. The
bulk of the aid is on trucks waiting to go,
and in what could be a game changer, Israel says
it will establish secure roots through the war zone, so
(17:40):
the trucks will no longer be shot at or looted.
Gaza's misery has shocked the world, and international medical agencies
says children, especially the poorest and those with special needs,
are suffering from acute malnutrition.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Yeah, there were some ugly pictures and videos coming out
of that story over the weekend. You're paying attention to
it at all if you're older and you've been following
the news for a long time. Though, God, I've seen
those videos and pictures my whole life, oftentimes finding out
that they're phony or exaggerated or from five years ago.
(18:19):
I don't know what's going on in this case, but
I have been misled so many times over the years,
and I thought it was interesting. I was listening to
NPR today and they for the I've been saying this
for months now, the first time I hear a story
that even hints that Hamas might be bad guys will
be the first time. On NPA, I mean, they just
know Israel horrible, horrible human beings. They never say anything
(18:42):
negative about Hamas ever. But on NPR today they actually
allowed a spokesman for Israel on saying Israel claims that
this is not what's happening, that they're trying to distribute
aid and Hamas won't let them or steals it or
shoots at them or whatever. And NPR did say we
(19:05):
cannot confirm this report, but they allowed it on there,
which actually makes me think that it's more likely to
be true. The fact that they allowed it on there
at all.
Speaker 5 (19:16):
Right hilarious that they would use the phrase we cannot
confirm this report, having breathlessly reported virtually everything that Hamas
has led them.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
For several point years.
Speaker 5 (19:27):
So there have been a couple of developments lately in
which Israel said it would pause military activity in some
densely populated parts of the strip for a chunk of
the day till further notice to establish safe roots for
humanitarian a they're trying to get more aid in.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
But that all did little to quiet the charges.
Speaker 5 (19:45):
That Israel has inflicted a famine on Gaza.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Wow, I'm looking at I've seen so many of these videos.
I'm looking at the video right now from Gaza. No
matter what, whether it's Israel's shooting at him or and
I don't think it is, or Hama shooting at him,
or whatever it's causing the problem.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
It looks like hell on earth to be in Gaza.
Just a great awful, a great god.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
If you took in any media or social media over
the weekend, there's a very very good chance you saw
the haunting image of a mother in a hyjab holding
a skeletal child, an eighteen month old boy wearing only
a diaper, with the spine and his ribs clearly visible
in his gaunt frame, during the story about how the
(20:31):
cruel Israelis are starving the people of Gaza. By the way,
on social media, often the image was accompanied side by
side with the black and white photograph of a Jewish
child on the brink of death in one of Hitler's
death camps. The message clear, of course, the Palestinian boys
a symbol for mass starvation gripping the people of Gaza.
The only problem is that the boy and they know
his name, who appeared on the front page of Britain's
(20:54):
Daily Express on Wednesday and then on that of the
New York Times on Friday, was picked up by the BBC, CNN,
Sky News and countless others. In fact, suffers from a
muscle disorder and other grave genetic conditions unrelated to starvation.
And that's according to CNN and the independent investigative journalist
David Collier. But of course that information will never reach
(21:14):
the countless people who saw and shared the image, nor
will the fact that Mohammad's brother, that's the little fellow,
the God bless his soul.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
I mean, I'm not making you know, the glossing.
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Over the fact that this poor little lad is clearly
barely cleaning the life. But anyway, his brothers cropped out
of the widely circulated image appears healthy, as does his mother.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Right.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
And you might remember a story from I don't think
we talked about it as a month or so ago.
All the headlines everywhere were experts predict I forget what
it was, fifteen thousand dead in the next forty eight
hours from mass stars starvation, and it just never occurred.
So just somebody got that story out there, everybody reported it,
(22:01):
and that never happened. Not that it doesn't look like
hell on Earth. Like I said, what's your fix for this?
Speaker 2 (22:09):
What are you gonna?
Speaker 4 (22:10):
I mean it is apples take charge again. It is
absolutely awful. But what are what what do you do
with this situation?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Do various measures that will feed the people more adequately,
even if it strengthens Hamas would be the answer from
the left, and you know intelligence he around the world.
It's it's as simple as that. I'm gonna be let
me quote a little bit. Matti Friedman wrote a great
piece for the Free Press, very even handed, and he
(22:41):
mentions that genuine misery can be put to use by
practitioners of information warfare. And he makes it clear that
this is a war. But the truth still matters amid
the brajualize told by Hamas and its allies.
Speaker 2 (22:56):
How are we to know what is true? As Maddie writes.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
In a Bliss of ideological fiction, how are sane citizens
in Israel or anywhere else supposed to know what's true
and to do the right thing. It's not an exaggeration
to say we're seeing right now, as we're seeing right
now that the answer to this question can be a
matter of life and death.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
Man, this has always been a story about the Palestinians
and Israel about it was hard to know what's true.
But now in the current information age, and it just
occurred to me that what it leads me to do
is ignore it, which is the danger for all these stories,
I mean, not life and death ones, but just political
(23:34):
story in general. When you can't you don't know what
to believe, you just go, eh, well, I don't know
it's true or not, so you just go on to
something else, which.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
As an aside, has long been the goal of Soviet
than Russian disinformation, not to convince us of anything in particular,
but to make Americans so cynical about knowing the.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
Truth we don't even ask what it is anymore. Anyway.
Speaker 5 (23:54):
More on that another time, But so Maddie's piece for
the Free Press. He points out a couple of major
incidents in this conflict, including the infamous Israeli clearly an
Israeli rocket attack on the hospital at least five hundred dead.
The New York Times headline reported that furious protests erupted,
(24:14):
a mob burned a synagonue in Tunisia story, completely fake,
misfired Palestinian rocket landed near a hospital, practically no casualties.
And then he goes into several other examples of that
sort of misinformation, skipping ahead to the key point.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Very little of what is reported here, in other words,
is what it seems.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
This is nothing new, and then he goes over a
bunch of more examples. The transformation of truth telling institutions
into ideological megaphones has had a high price for citizens
and liberal societies and for the institutions themselves, as we're
seeing at places like Harvard and NPR. The feeling of
being unmoored from objective reality, of rowing a boat through
(24:56):
a choppy sea of lies in propagandas is very much
a feature of the present moment, not only in Israel,
but one of the most awful prices was made clear
this past week with reports of acute hunger in Blaza
in a blizzard of ideological fiction. How are sane citizens
supposed to know what's actually happening? And what he did
in this essay which I wish it wasn't quite so long,
(25:17):
I just read it to you, But he called a
bunch of different colleagues who he trusts as human beings.
Veteran journalists, including Israelis involved in covering what was going
on there, and not like Netan Yahoo loving conservatives.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
They're just concerned with humans.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
It was clear in speaking to them that our polite
is journalists is only marginally better than that of the
average citizen. The consensus was that there are nearly no
trustworthy sources regarding reality in Gaza. Certainly not the quote
unquote Gaza Health Ministry which answers to Hamas, or Palestinian
reporters intimidated by Hamas, or the international organizations like the
(25:59):
UN Refugee Agency UNRAW embroiled in various forms of collaboration
with Ams. All of the above are engaged in a
successful information campaign that uses Palestinian suffering, reel and imagine
to catalyze international anger and tie Israel's hands. And the
international press isn't the answer, he says. During my years
as a reporter and editor for the AP, I saw
(26:21):
coverage altered by Hamas threats to our staff, which the
AP concealed from our readers. I know firsthand no information
coming from Gaza can be taken a face value.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
Wow, and if you have a lot of reporters, because
a lot of journalists lean anti Israel anyway, if they're
if they're predisposed to lean away from Israel anyway, Sure
you'd go with the threat, and that just for credibility's sake,
my words, not his. Maddie points out that neither can
(26:53):
we Israelis trust our own government, which has regularly misled
the public about the war's progress, as governments do. Speaker
Johnson responded to the whole starvation and gaza thing yesterday
and meet the press.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
We'll get to that right after this.
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Speaker 4 (28:17):
As interesting, So I lean way toward Israel's a good
guy and Gaza slash the Palestinians or the bad guys.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
I lean way that direction.
Speaker 4 (28:26):
But if I was there and saw, you know, Israeli
ze Israeli soldiers shooting at people trying to get food
or something, I'd be more than willing to report it.
But it's interesting that that person said it's hard if
you're on the ground there to figure out what's true
and what's not here. I don't know where speaker Mike
Johnson's getting his information, but this is what he said
(28:48):
about efforts by Israel, with the help of the United
States and others, to get food to these people.
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Israel since this war began has supplied over ninety four
thousand truckloads full of food. It's enough food to feed
two million people for two years trying to get that
into Gaza. But Hamas has stolen the food a huge amount.
In fact, in twenty twenty four, the numbers are that
Hammas profited over five hundred million dollars in stolen food
(29:16):
aid that was supposed to go to these poor people
who needed it. That's half of their budget. So this
is a broken system. The UN needs to work with
Israel to make sure that the food is getting to
the people that need it most.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
So for what it's worth.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
The New York Times last week had a story that
cited two Israeli military officials, didn't specify who they were,
what rank they were, whatever, saying we have no evidence
that Hamas steals eight and they went front page with
that on the New York Times. Wow, most other officials
in the country would contradict that and say, what the
(29:49):
f are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (29:51):
But that's the situation.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
We're in people are desperate to get the sort of
information that backs their pre existing point of view.
Speaker 4 (29:56):
But in this case, you've got an actor in Hamas
who's demonstrated what they do for decades.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
So I mean, it would be.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
Shocking if all of a sudden they've decided, Well, I
know in the past, we've stolen aid and that's how
we became billionaires. And why all our fighters are, you know, healthy, comfortable,
of normal weight. They have plenty of ammunition, blah blah blah,
and lots of money, and everybody around us is starving.
I know that's what we've done for decades, but we
(30:30):
decided in this particular instance in this war to go
ahead and distribute food and not steal it.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
I mean, that would be a shocking development, right right.
Speaker 5 (30:42):
So Friedman goes on to write, after saying pointing out
a bunch of examples where the Israeli military misled the media,
he says he's he's trying desperately to figure out what's
going on, and he's talking to Palestinian and journalists who
talked to Palestinians. One such journalists Ohadhimo, the Palestinian affairs
(31:02):
reporter for Channel twelfth News, the country's most widely watched
news program, whose report last Wednesday and there's a link,
was shared widely. Food warehouses serving Hamas fighters are still full,
he reported, and the crisis wasn't only Israel's fault. So
it's a complex situation.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Oh, I'm sure it is.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
And I don't doubt that Israeli soldiers have done things
that shouldn't be done in a what is becoming near
total war. But Hamas has been using hospitals and mosques
as their bases for years. Again, it would be in
fitting with what they've demonstrated over decades to steal the food.
(31:42):
It would be completely new behavior to not be stealing
the food.
Speaker 5 (31:47):
All of this according to every journalist and politician on
all sides of the question up until very very recently.
It is you know, I would never gloss over the
suffering of people, particularly children, the innocent.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
But I think what we're seeing.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Is an awful, murderous uh Islamist regime which tried to
slaughter its Jewish neighbor now must be defeated completely, and
in doing that, innocent people are going to suffer.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
That is a history of warfare.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
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Speaker 7 (32:23):
Armstrong and Yetti witter Piel's he never should have gotten
a chance to victimize anyone else. Court documents show he
was out on parole. With the history of convictions for
lude conduct dating back to twenty twenty one.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
It's crazy to think that someone like this, who is
constantly stalking and boleating these people, is allowed to be
out and about.
Speaker 7 (32:46):
We took those concerns to police asking why he wasn't
behind bars.
Speaker 8 (32:50):
Yeah, I mean, obviously it's frustrating, but we do what we.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Need to do.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
This is the burbank but sniffer who crawls up behind
women and sniffs them. He has done this in the
ended up in jail, was let out of jail. Immediately
he's at the northsomb rack down low behind a woman
claiming he was tying his shoes and apparently trying to
catch the aroma of her hind end.
Speaker 5 (33:14):
Oh boy, yeah, I could have left that on set anyway.
So this guy gets arrested and turned loose, over and
over and over again. It's in a funny coincidence. I
had just come across a study about why some people
keep making bad decisions even after they're punished. And this,
this global study that's involved a hell of a lot
(33:34):
of people identified three distinct decision making types. Sensitive individuals
who learn from punishment that's normal people. Unaware individuals who
need explicit instruction, and compulsive individuals who persist and harmful behavior.
Despite both, I don't deny that we needed a study,
but this guy's clearly number three. Yes, some people fail
(33:57):
to connect actions with their consequences, while others understand the
risks but can't change their behavior.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Wow. So either this guy's got a screw loose.
Speaker 5 (34:10):
And again, I think that we, as human beings make
a mistake over and over again.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
The longer I live, the more I more firmly I
believe this.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
We make the mistake over and over again, believing that
other people, all other people see the world as we
do and process information in the way we process it.
Like I would like to talk to some ultra progressive,
you know, Berkeley eight types, Madison, wisconsint professors who are
(34:41):
completely convinced of the progressive boy of the world, and
I'd just like to get inside their heads and see,
you know, what color is the sky in your world?
As the old saying goes, But how does that so?
Speaker 4 (34:50):
So some of yours like stealing from grocery stores, Your
Madison professor would say, well, capitalism has caused these people
to struggle blah blah blah. So what's your angle on
somebody who won't stop getting on their knees and snipping
women's butts. If you put them in jail, you let
them out, they do it again. That can't be capitalism
causing that, can it?
Speaker 2 (35:12):
No jerarchy?
Speaker 5 (35:14):
No, So the write up I mean, because it doesn't
make any sense if capitalism were just completely at fault
in an evil system instituted by the evil doers above me,
blah blah blah. But in executing a certain behavior, I
just had terrible consequences over and over again. I would
stop unless I thought I was righting wrong. But anyway,
this big write up mentions this research challenges common assumptions
(35:37):
about human decision making and reveals that punishment resisted behaviors
stem from specific cognitive deficits, often rather than exclusively moral
failings or lack of will power.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Again, I say the study needs to be He was
at the Nord sim Rak and Burbank, then when he
got caughty, ran the Walmart and did it. I want
him to explain, is there a difference between Nordstrom Drack
women and Walmart women that he knowed?
Speaker 5 (36:06):
My lord, maybe we can get back into this an
hour four or something like that, because part of me
suspects that this is progressive do gooders seeking to avoid
the idea of people taking a responsibility for their actions,
because that seems to be a big part of the left.
But even if they're right, what do we do about
as a society?
Speaker 2 (36:26):
What a nutjob Armstrong and Getty
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